Wayne Freno wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Paul Winkler wrote:
> >
> > Hello? What is the frequency, kenneth? Kenneth, what is the frequency?
>
> I have come across this quotation many times.  From where does it
> orinate?
>
> --
> end soundbite

(orinate? ;-))Thus I have heard:

    Dan Rather was walking in New York city, when a crazy man attacked him
shouting the immortal
words:
"What is the frequency, kenneth? Kenneth, what is the frequency?"

Michael Stipe of the popular rock group R.E.M. thought this was interesting
and wrote a song (on their album 'Monster') entitled:
"What's the frequency, kenneth? "

Meditate upon these words intently: focus on them as if they were a red-hot
ball of iron that you
can neither spit out nor swallow. Then get on to writing music, because
they're (literally) the
ravings of a madman. @:-)

(somewhat useful ) PS:
Publisher & info for the intro text I wrote of in an earlier post:
Digital Audio Signal Processing, An Anthology, ed. by John Strawn
The Computer Music and Digital Audio Series
William Kaufman, LosAltos, CA, publisher (1985)
ISBN 0-86576-082-9
Again, for those people wanting a grasp on digital audio signal processing,
I cannot recommend
this book highly enough. It also has one of the best explanations of the
internals of the
'phase vocoder' DFFT algorithm....('pvoc')..in it's seminal (for computer
music) form coded by
Marc Dolson. Dick Moore's Elements of Computer Music also covers the code
in detail, but
I really prefer the earlier article (in the Strawn book) for explaining
this code. But perhaps that's 'cause I just got through a long contract
working with John Gordon, one of the authors...nice guy!
;-)

L&K, all....

CharlieB