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“Hey! Buddy! What do you think you’re lookin’ at?”

By Robert Basler
May 31, 2006

Today we learn a Japanese scientist thinks he has figured out what Mona Lisa’s voice would have sounded like, based on the shape of her skull and stuff like that. It turns out she sounded exactly like Fran Drescher in that old “Nanny” sitcom. Okay, maybe not really. But you can go to a Website and hear for yourself. 

Don’t ask me why the world needed this. Why put a voice to a woman whose enigmatic smile speaks to the ages? All this really means is that I guess if you’re being bothered by crank phonecalls from an Italian lady, you can now go to the Website and rule out Mona Lisa as the culprit. Here’s the story and here is some Rough Cut video:mona300.jpg

 

A cleaner sweeps beside a Mona Lisa artwork made from hundreds of used computer parts displayed at the ’9th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo’ in Beijing May 26, 2006. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

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