![]() Find podcast links, past columns and his Twitter feed at /goldstein. Jonathan Goldstein is the host of WireTap on CBC Radio One, airing Saturday at 3:30 p.m. And when it does I will not take it for granted. And I am confident, too, that my whistling will return. Quentin Tarantino films have more signatures to them than the Declaration of Independence. Yet I am confident my snapping will return. Published It might be famous from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, but the simple yet ominous whistle first struck a chord with audiences decades earlier. I walk along humming “Whistle While You Work.” I try to accompany myself with a little percussive snapping, but my fingers are too greasy with bacon to do so properly. Watching him shuffle by in his hard hat, you’d never have known he possessed the breath of an angel.ġ1:01 a.m. He looked like a regular guy in every way, yet he possessed such an extraordinary gift, able to whistle like a song bird, hitting all kinds of notes that were clear, piercing and soulful. The best whistler I ever saw was an old Italian construction worker. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone walking down the street whistling a tune. ![]() Do people still whistle? Perhaps I’ve lost the ability because the species is evolving out of it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. When was the last day I could whistle? And what was I using my lips for instead? Kissing a casual acquaintance on the cheek? Sucking back a bottle of beer? Mouthing the words “salad dressing on the side” to a waitress? Can one feel melancholic over the loss of something they have not used in years? No more bomb-dropping sound effects when a loved one makes an unfunny joke.ġ0:58 a.m. No more being able to whistle when I hear how much a friend paid for a cold-brewed coffee. Have I somehow lost my embouchure?ġ0:57 a.m. When I was a teenager, I had a friend who got braces and could no longer whistle. I stop into a store and buy a club soda with which to wet my whistle. Have my lips changed? Has my heart? Do I simply not have what to whistle about?ġ0:55 a.m. Is this a temporary outage? Can one be too full to whistle?ġ0:50 a.m. ![]() I haven’t whistled in ages but, like most people, I was always confident that, should I need it, my whistle would be there for me.
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