Describe Rita Cosby's voice.

[graywarrior]

She needs a nickname and for the life of me, I cannot come up with a one or two word description. Rita "the Phlegm" Cosby is not it. Rita "Fog-horn Throat" Cosby is close, but that's not it, either.

I dunno, what to you all think? She needs something that is "her."

[Rainscents]

1. Use ear plugs!!!

[stop the bleeding]

2. Throaty Mclusky - props to Jon Stewart on that one

[Rick Myers]

13. Throaty McHusky

[Patsy Stone]

28. Throaty McHuskington, IIRC.

Over in the Countdown Group we call her "Gargles with Razors".

Bot, :loveya:

[Straight Shooter]

3. "Chalkboard Cosby" .........n/t

[Skip Intro]

4. Raspy Rita?

Not cutting enough, is it?

[electropop]

5. "NailsOnBlackboard?"

That's not quite grating enough, but it's getting closer.

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

6. sounds like crack whore cosby to me

nm

[crispini]

7. Gargles With Razors?

[Mike Nelson]

8. Wounded Crack Ho?

sorry!

[DancingBear]

9. The same way that Leo Kottke described his voice

"like goose farts on a muggy day"

[stop the bleeding]

10. Horrible I can not wait for her balls to drop

[Eurobabe]

11. I think she's got a hidden thyroid problem

or cancer or something.

[Maiden England]

12. "Cough goddamit cough"

[bloom]

14. Is it a "strangulated, gargling, monotone female voice" ?

omega minimo has a thread about it in the women's issues section...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=229&topic_id=3505&mesg_id=3505



on edit:

one DUer blames Rita Cosby for the phenomenon:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=229&topic_id=3505&mesg_id=3512

[meganmonkey]

15. ...

:hurts:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. Wolf Blitzer's echo

Famn dingers, tan't cype lorth a wick.

:silly:

[peekaloo]

17. 3 a.m. barfly just lookin' for some company and maybe a place to sleep.

[graywarrior]

21. That comes close.

She looks alright in the dark.

[graywarrior]

18. No, it's more like how you sound when you're just getting over a cold.

There's a word for it, like the space between your nose and lip, but I don't know what it is. It's surreal, like something out of an Anne Rice novel. Like an evil misty smokey thing spiraling out of your tv and into your brain.

[Lars39]

19. She sounds croupy to me.

[Fridays Child]

27. You just wanna yell...

FOR THE LOVE OF JESUS, RITA! CLEAR YOUR THROAT!

[Lars39]

33. I don't watch tv much, so I had to go look her up on the net.

I literally couldn't stand to listen to her for more than a sentence or two.

[Cobalt Violet]

20. Her dentures popped out of her mouth...

Hit the microphone, and popped back into her mouth upside down.

[Fridays Child]

22. Frog farts on a muggy day.

I think Leo Kottke once described his own voice that way.

[lonestarnot]

23. Rottenchords Rita.

[AlCzervik]

24. Too much dairy.

[graywarrior]

26. That's what Michio Kushi would say.

Her face shows the same thing.

[tularetom]

25. Sounds like the sound of my brothers farts

after he has drunk a pitcher of beer and eaten a lot of pizza.

[PA Democrat]

29. Someone described it as the voice of someone who is a chain smoker of

road flares.

[Kurovski]

34. ROFL

It hurts!!

[Beausoir]

67. BAHA! THAT is funny. n/t

[Davion]

30. From the "50 most loathsome people in America"

31. Rita Cosby

Charges: Unholy pastiche of fearmongering and celebrity ringworm with the brain of a moth, the integrity of a tapeworm, and the appearance and larynx of a sugar-addicted, glass-eating drag queen.

Exhibit A: Her banter with Joe Scarborough kills children.

Sentence: Kicked in the nuts.

http://buffalobeast.com/91/50.htm

[graywarrior]

49. OMG, that made me want to light up a butt after reading it.

[Kurovski]

31. She's the mother of aural terrorism. Everything she says

sounds like a threat from a coked-up, jumpy psychotic.

Got no nickname, though.

[bbernardini]

32. Vera de Milo - Jim Carrey's bodybuilder on "In Living Color" (pic inside)

<>

Vera was a steroid-addicted female bodybuilder. The first time I ever heard Rita Cosby's voice, this character was the first thing I thought of.

[Blue Belle]

35. Throaty McHuskington.... or Foghorn McRaspy.

Throaty McHuskington is what John Stewart calls her...:)

[manxome]

36. Harvey Fierstein?

With many apologies to Harvey, whose voice I love. On Harvey.

How about Joshua (the computer) from "War Games".

Perhaps it's a mixture of the two.

[AtomicKitten]

37. a cross between sandpaper and a seal barking .... (nt)

[tulsakatz]

38. it really makes you wonder............

...how someone with a voice like that could get into television journalism

[dweller]

44. perhaps something deep within her throat?

isn't there a movie somewhere about that?

dp

[spanone]

39. Irritating as Hell.

[Gabi Hayes]

40. this is it! I promise

http://www.sound-effect.com/sounds/animal/WhalesDS/sealion2.wav

[graywarrior]

50. LOL

[Gabi Hayes]

54. tolja! took me awhile to figure out what animal has that similar

husky, throaty sound

the Jim Carrey one is pretty close, too

[Caoimhe]

41. the devil estrogenized

her voice seriously makes me want to hurl

[Kierkegaard]

42. How about:

"My Little Horsey?"

[dchill]

43. Tubular balls.

[skids]

45. There's actually a picture...

...in some of the Hurricane Rita coverage that shows Rita talking with a caption:

Rita
winds 130mph

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

46. itchy 'n scratchy

[gohuskies]

47. "Bull Moose" Cosby (nt)

[rusty charly]

48. Cepacol McThroat-Nodule

[Poiuyt]

51. Will everyone PLEASE stop making fun of her voice and find the thugs who

gave her a karate chop to the throat

[area51]

56. LOL. (n/t)

[graywarrior]

52. Maybe she has a disability and MSNBC had to hire her.

That's a real possibility. We could be the assholes.

[Kurovski]

57. LOL!

It wouldn't be the first time. :-)

Some very funny stuff on this thread. Wicked.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. An elderly sea lion who's been smoking 4 packs of Camels a day

for its whole life.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

55. A rusty anchor chain dragged through a clogged sewer pipe.

[Marr]

58. Harvey Firestein played at 78rpm.

[montana500]

59. a grunting, clicking dolphin with strep throat

[graywarrior]

60. She could pass for a dolphin come to think of it,

A "blonde" dolphin.

[Mr_Spock]

61. Eat shit and die? It just got stuck in my throat :P

AAAAAK!

[longship]

62. Just call her Wheezy!

:kick:

[AlabamaYankee]

63. Overaged Cheerleader

ruined by whiskey, cigarettes an really harsh weed

[XOKCowboy]

64. It's not her voice as much as her stupid questions and..

"dead behind the eyes" look as she asks them. I wonder how KO feels about having to intro her every damn night?

[graywarrior]

66. Like a carp.

[graywarrior]

65. I know! It's hairballs!!!