Oolite Bulletins

Disembodied wrote:

Is it The Dead Past by Isaac Asimov?

Spot on. Over to you...

Um. OK, let's try this:

Sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic in one (hyphenated) word ...

Disembodied wrote:

Um. OK, let's try this:

Sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic in one (hyphenated) word ...

Hmm... I know exactly which author and story this is, but I can't think of an obvious hyphenated word to describe it.

cim wrote:

Disembodied wrote:

Um. OK, let's try this:

Sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic in one (hyphenated) word ...

Hmm... I know exactly which author and story this is, but I can't think of an obvious hyphenated word to describe it.

Likewise...but I'll take a punt on 'Extra-terrestrials'?

Ditto... I'll try 'mind-twisting'?

...re-reads story. Oh, of course. Hah. Clever.

It's not necessarily an English word ...

Maybe "word" is the wrong word to use. "Sound" might be better. So the question is: sum up the 1930-31 Pabodie expedition to the Antarctic with one (hyphenated) sound ...

A-choo!

(Sorry, that's not the answer...I've just got a bit of a cold at the moment.)

Ho-ho!

Oh-oh?

Selezen wrote:

Oh-oh?

Nope, that's not it either, nor other variations on that theme ... it's a much less human noise.

It has been described as "an insidious musical piping" sound ... and it was reportedly heard by earlier Antarctic explorers, too.

Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zoo-owli-zhiv?

Well, after much frantic Googling I came up with...

Tekeli-li

(which may or may not be the answer, and is definitely not as funny as Ahruman's suggestion )