American audiences find the shouty chef's constant hysterical raging more shocking than we do – even though much of it is beeped out across the Atlantic.
Instead, it is beeping at your from the other side, or even better... across the room where you have to walk to it.
I ended up staying with some friends over the weekend in a little ranch with no phone reception, and when I left and started driving down the hill my phone sounded like it was going to explode -- it was beeping like crazy.
"It was, like, beep beep beep beep beep beep beep," she says, "and then, like, half of my paper was gone".
"Lately it's like I'm beeping shedding".
"All these individuals were screaming at each other — it was, like, beep beep beep beep — and I was getting annoyed that I couldn't hear the vernacular".
It would be beep, beep, beep, beep".
As the name suggests, the program is intended to capture sounds that your computer plays and save them as audio files on your hard drive, whether it's the beep of an e-mail program or the stream of your local traffic and weather report.
BEEP, beep, beep, beep: it's the truck backing up with this year's crop of wine books for the holidays.
"It's just beeps in the air, but it just meant everything to people," said Richard Dillman, a self-described "radio squirrel" who serves as president of the nonprofit Maritime Radio Historical Society, which sponsors the event.
