Global Mic Check

[Fire Walk With Me]

That's what's next. Courtesy of livestream chat...

[PETRUS]

1. Whose world?

[pacalo]

2. OUR world!

[BillyJack]

3. What does "Mic Check" mean? Serious question.....

not all of us are the "cool kids". I've heard 'mic check' thrown around alot.

I googled "what does mic check mean" and I get for top answers:

1) Definition for mic check:
Web definitions:
"Mic Check" is the third single by British Grindie band Hadouken! to be released from their second studio album, For the Masses..
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2) mic check

fellatio.
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3) What does \"MIC check failed\" mean in Insight Desktop transaction summary?
Categories: Software : Networking

The "MIC check failed" message indicates that the MIC (message integrity code) for the packet can’t be successfully verified by InSight Desktop when it tries to decrypt the secure packet using the encryption key specified by your Decoding preferences (File -> Preferences -> Decoding -> Decryption Key). If you change this key to match the network’s security key and then reload your log file (or start a new capture session), the packets should decrypt properly.

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4) What does Check 2 1 2 mean?
I always here that in songs now where they go "Mic Check 2 1 2" And i have no idea what it means/

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It's a generic thing to say when you're making sure that the microphone is plugged in correctly. People will know that you're testing it... just like testing 123, bu I guess check 212 sounds cooler. Or, if you check mikes alot, you might get bored using the same check words.

They use that so people know that you aren't starting the show or talking for real yet. It's like saying 'don't pay attention to me yet, I'm just making sure it works'.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=What+does+mic+check+mean&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a


I don't see anything here that I would want to "go global". Heck I STILL don't know what 'mic check' REALLY means. :shrug: I'm sure that I am NOT ALONE in not knowing what 'mic check' means.

I hope someone would care to explain (and make it easier for ppl who try/like to look up the answers for themselves.

Thnx.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

4. It has to do with the Occupy groups not having amplified sound,

So folks repeat what someone says. Lots of folks repeat what is being said so more people can hear. When someone wants to say something they want passed on they start with saying "Mic Check."

Hope that helps. It's what I've picked up from watching video and live stream from Occupations.
ADW

[cheri010353]

5. Mic Check

One member of a crowd yells "mic check!" and then others repeat everything that person says.
It's a way to spread a message through a crowd in a somewhat orderly fashion.

[Number23]

6. I don't understand what it means either

I always think of this when I see someone saying somebody was "mic checked"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCpqez5xvMI

"Microphone check, micro-microphone checka..."

[tblue]

7. Thanks. I asked that yesterday & didn't get an answer.

All I found was that it's slang for what Monica did to Bill.

[roman7]

9. i think i like that one best

i need a little more humm on this mic check

[WillyT]

8. Go Here:

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2375160

:hi:

[Capitalocracy]

10. Zuccotti park rules: No amplified sound.

That means no sound system, no microphone, not even a bullhorn. So what do crowds do to communicate? The person who has the floor (which apparently they ask for by saying "mic check" in order to use the "human microphone" says what they want to say, and people repeat it so it can be heard in the back of the crowd.

It was first done out of the need to be heard in a crowd with no sound amplification, but soon became emblematic, and evolved from there to include, for example, a method of organized protest in opposition to a public speaker as was done to Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich... a protest which in both cases would have been over faster and been less disruptive if they had just let them speak instead of escalating it into an altercation.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Everyone is heard, every one hears. Check this glorious example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9D33hr4CW0&list=WLC54AC24CDE4735EF&index=2&feature=plpp_video

[Ship of Fools]

12. When amplified musicians are doing soundchecks on stage, they're

alerting the folks at the soundboard to pay attention! and start adjusting to optimize
that particular mic's quality of sound/balance in the monitors on stage. You repeat
the phrase "mic check" over and over until you're happy with the level/quality/balance. Then
the folks can go back to their booze & coc. (I played *fiddle* in an old country band for years here in Kansas.
Great fun, brainless but nostalgic music ... old rednecks waltzing ... Great money, too.)

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. Kick

[Huey P. Long]

14. #OWS Thanksgiving at Zuccotti Park - photos by Zach D. Roberts.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150483584754283.427048.108067899282&type=3&l=4b73f90fd0