MEANING:
noun: A design feature copied from a similar artifact in another material, even when not functionally necessary. For example, the click sound of a shutter in an analog camera that is now reproduced in a digital camera by playing a sound clip.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek skeuos (vessel, implement) + -morph (form).
NOTES:
A skeuomorph can be employed for various purposes. Since people are used to the click sound of a camera as feedback that the picture has been taken, it is now artificially-produced in digital cameras. Other examples are copper cladding on a zinc penny (for familiarity) and wood finish on a plastic product (for a more expensive look).
USAGE:
"While working two months ago in South Lowestoft, Suffolk, British archaeologist Clare Good excavated a four-sided object made of the mineral jet. It closely matches a geometrically designed gold object found far away at a burial site called Bush Barrow near Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The match is so close that experts believe the black artifact is a skeuomorph, or a copy in a different material."
Jennifer Viegas; Stonehenge Amulets Worn by Elite; Discovery News; Apr 6, 2007.
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...over the vintage nature of the rings. As a collector of sound effects recordings I have rings from the 30's, and even rings from German, French, and British models. But since I got my new phone I've only used the provided phone ring tone.
Ironically, you can't seem to get that ring tone on home phones!
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I have a particular dislike for musical ring-tones...
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October 7 2008, 1:39 PM
...don't know why, but they just bug me.
I have tried other sound effects. One personalized ring I had set up was a man screaming hideously. It was assigned to an employee whose calls I found trying. He'd call in a meeting and suddenly a screaming man would be in the conference room with us.
Janice made me change it when he started calling me all hours of the day and night.
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The filter end of a cigarette is often wrapped in speckled brown paper. This is to make it look a little like cork, which is what the first cigarette filters were made of.
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Sheesh. I felt all clever and stuff until you posted that. I actually plugged in my black rotary dial phone and recorded it for my cell phone ring tone.
But I still have two cutesy tones:
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah for Thing Two and Brown Eyed Girl for my brown eyed Thing One.
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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! One of my favorite songs of all time!
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October 7 2008, 11:12 AM
I remember my mom and dad playing the Allen Sherman comedy record (including that song) for dinner party guests in the 60's, and all the adults were howling.
Brown Eyed Girl I am sick of, however, since it seems to be played about 20 times a day on every lite-FM radio station.
I did see a very young Van Morrison sing it live at a "be in" on Boston Common in 1967, however.
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Mrs. Orlando bought me one and I said "send it back and get a refund".
Still, my ringtone would be Dylan's "Idiot Wind". Sufficient to scare off anyone I don't want to talk to, plus if you're in on the joke, OK, just be succinct. I might want one that can film stuff, though. As Satchel put it: "I've seen a lot, me and my eyes". Horrible acts of brutality, but also babies staring at me with innocent eyes.
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(the Allan Sherman) is on my playlist of my little mpg player.
Almost the only non-disco except for Cat Stevens 'Father and Son'.
A girlfriend and I went to see Van Morrison in LA around 86 or 87 and it was a terrible show! We wanted to see him, but he let his male backup singer do most of the songs, and only sang 2 or 3 himself.
He didn't even do his own Moondance. Talk about disappointing.
Shoot. Maybe he was sick?
Suz, that makes a funny picture of Things 1 and 2's personalities.
I always like hearing about the Things.
Plus I always picture the Suess characters.
Another friend calls hers the Keebs, after the Keebler Elves.
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