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Does the young and restless star Larry_Bagby have contact info for his autograph singing on his website?

Does the young and restless star Larry Bagby have contact info for his autograph singing on his website? http://www.larrybagby.com/ I bought an autograph off of his website. Does it have contact people for sales? Venustar84 (talk) 00:24, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I presume you're referring to his role in The Young and the Restless, and are not claiming he is personally either young or restless.  :) -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 01:18, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Please don't post the same question on multiple Reference Desks. This is also at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Entertainment#Does_the_young_and_restless_star_Larry_Bagby_have_contact_info_for_his_autograph_singing_on_his_website.

This was the original posting. The one at the Entertainment desk is the double posting. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 06:10, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Whistling

Is there a term for the whistle for calling someone's attention, that rises in pitch at the end? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.104.187.34 (talk) 16:46, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Half a wolf whistle? Alansplodge (talk) 18:44, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I think it's a bobwhite whistle. --TammyMoet (talk) 20:34, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Taxi whistle? (I think a bobwhite's call is two separate notes, the second at a higher pitch than the first.) Deor (talk) 21:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

The one I think of (and my cell phone uses), has three notes, low-hi-low. StuRat (talk) 01:15, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

I think that's nautical in origin, but I don't know what it's called. --hacky (talk) 05:08, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh, that's called "piping somebody aboard" (like an Admiral), and uses the boatswain's call, but the version I mean has a quicker tempo. StuRat (talk) 08:28, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

And the (un-named to my knowledge) whistle used to attract someone's attention that I remember from my earlier years (the '60s and '70s), but not much heard in the last 20, was the opposite: high-low-high. I suspect such things are down to sub-national (i.e. regional) cultures and subject to relatively rapid change, and so would be any names used for them. {The poster formrtly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.197.66.19 (talk) 15:16, 8 December 2012 (UTC)