Noises that remind you of things

[Brother Ragnarok]

Do things you run across in everyday use make sounds that remind you of stuff from movies?  A couple of examples:
I was brushing my teeth the other night
and leaned over the sink to spit.  As I did this,
I leaned on the faucet without noticing, so just
as I spit some water trickled out.  The sound it
made as it hit the sink simultaneously with my
spittle was reminiscent of acid burning through
an object.  And just for a split second, I
imagined I had evolved xenomorphic acid spit.
When I discovered I hadn't, I was sad.  

Also, the printer in the library at college makes a sound exactly like the ants from "Them."

Brother R

[Ellie]

How true! The cooler at work..the beer cooler sounds like the music on Terminator 2. I mentioned to my supervisor..he just looked at me like I was crazy. It's hard to put into words,the motor sounds like it revs up an down. When I first heard it that movie popped in my mind. Now I think about it every time I walk by.

[Uncle Fester]

When my ex talks too me it sounds like Chewbacca moaning and groaning!

[Eirik]

There's an application on my computer system at work that makes the Steve Austin 6-Million Dollar Man bionic action sound effect when you start it up.  I am not sure whether this was deliberate or just a coincidence, but whenever someone starts that program up and other people are around, everyone over the age of 31 starts pretending to run or lift stuff in slow motion.  31 years old seems to be the cutoff.  The 31 year old gets the joke, the 30 year old doesn't.  All the people 30 and under think we're nuts...  Poor cultureless fools.

[Flangepart]

Any steel wire on a pole. One good wack, and as Ben Burt found out, i makes a groovy "Thwack" sound. Add a gunshot sound, and you got an Imperial blaster!

[raj]

Growing up, I lived in a 200 year old farm house in the country, with steam radiators.  Naturally, the weirdest noises saved themselves for when I was home alone, late at night, especially after watching a scary movie.

[Conrad]

Sirens.  If I hear that noise in any context other than a film, it makes my skin crawl.  For example, I was listening to the Orb's "UFORB" in the kitchen and those damned sirens came on.  All happy thoughts fly out of head, to be replaced by the horrors ...

This one will go completely over the heads of anyone under 40 who doesn't live in the UK: the 1960's theme for "Grandstand".  Grandstand was a Saturday afternoon TV programme devoted to sport, football (or "soccer") mostly.  However, immediately after it came - Doctor Who!  So hearing the Grandstand theme meant I had mere minutes to get a cushion and hide behind it ...

[Susan]

There's a copier at work that whenever someone makes their some odd 4000+ copies on it it makes this squealing noise like squeaky wheels or a hamster wheel going around..but it reminds me of a noise i've heard in a horror movie and I can't place it.

of course it doesn't help that someone who sits near me has their phone ringer set on the exorcist theme

[Goon]

If you stand on the front deck of a ferry boat, the engines sound very similar to kodo drums.

You know those little spring style mounted doorstops?  The kind that are a little brass coil of wire mounted in the wall, with a rubber tip on the other end to pretect the door from being scratched?
Flick one of those things sideways.  If an erection made a noise, that is the noise it would make.  "Ddddd-d-d-dd"

------ooo-'U'-ooo-------Kilroy was here.

[Ash]

Hehe!

 Goon, I used to flick those coiled doorstops like crazy when I was a kid until it would drive my mother nuts and she'd yell, "WILL YOU STOP IT!!!!??"

[Velvet Brotha]

Hey, I resent that remark.... I'm 29 and I remember The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers, Battle Star Galactica, Dr. Who, etc... In syndication of course ; ) Ahhhh... the memories...

[Brother Ragnarok]

Who didn't flick those little doorstops?  They were also great for catapulting action figures across the room.  And I'm with Velvet Brotha on the age difference.  We may not have been there for the original airings of these shows, but PBS and the Sci Fi channel are still wonderful educational tools for those who know what's good.

Brother R