Mel Blanc's vocal cords

Here is a video stroboscopy of Mel Blanc's vocal cords as "the man of a thousand voices" does Bugs Bunny, Barney Rubble, Pepé Le Pew, and other favorites. (Thanks, Tara McGinley!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Falcon_Seven

How about Peter North’s epididymis?
blatantdisregard

@ Anon #15: This is real. Having never worked in a gastroenterologist’s office, it’s possible to talk with an endoscope down your throat, when it’s ran through your nose smartguy. It’s even easy to purse one’s lips.
Anonymous

My first thought was “Ok, so?”, but that was oddly entertaining. Kept expecting Bugs Bunny to come crawling past the vocal chords or something.
Anonymous

This is absolutely terrifying.
jahknow

The video, while I like it in theory, was too graphic for me… but wow, what a find! Averting my eyes, I really enjoyed listening the audio portion. He was one of a kind!
Anonymous

This is fake. Having worked in a gastroenterologist’s office, it’s impossible to talk while an endoscope is down your throat. It’s not even easy to purse one’s lips.
Anonymous

Is anyone else turned on by this?
rebdav

My wifes grandmother dated him, but turned down a proposal as she did not want to move to California. The bank examiner she ended up married to lost his job in the depression and guess where she ended up moving? Staying friendly my in-laws still have a bunch of rare cells he sent to the kids back when the things were thrown in the trash.
Brainspore

Neat! Can we have a video of Stephen Hawking’s frontal lobe in action next?
David Pescovitz

BRAINSPORE @3, You find it and I’ll post it! :)
rebdav

Oops, wife says it was Harry Love that proposed to her, Mel Blank was her grandfathers old friend and peanuckle(sp?) buddy at the old Portland JCC.
yiftach

Rebdav:
It’s Blanc (with a C) and pinochle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinochle), although the 8-year-old boy in me likes your spelling better.

I love the image of Mel Blanc and your grandpa playing pinochle at the J.
rebdav

Yiftach, the wikipedia article was what messed my spelling up in my head. Portland, what a fun quirky Jewish community, even now.
Anonymous

Like a bad scene from Naked Lunch… yikes
Anonymous

Re: Naked Lunch. Exactly!

“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard.”
mermaid

seen it
Stefan Jones

Hmph! I would have thought they’d be funnier-looking.