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“Toot my own horn” is an idiom meaning to brag. However, [[Black Hat]] takes this literally and toots (blows) an air horn. An air horn is a horn attached to a can of compressed air.
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“Toot my own horn” is an idiom meaning to brag. However, [[Black Hat]] takes this literally and toots (blows) an air horn. An air horn is a horn attached to a can of compressed air, and at close range is extremely loud.
  
 
The {{w|Vuvuzela}} is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2P8SnOwLo noise-generating instrument], mainly used for making noise at football matches in South Africa. This comic was published during the {{w|2010 FIFA World Cup}} in South Africa, and the constant buzzing from vuvuzelas throughout the matches attracted attention and controversy.
 
The {{w|Vuvuzela}} is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2P8SnOwLo noise-generating instrument], mainly used for making noise at football matches in South Africa. This comic was published during the {{w|2010 FIFA World Cup}} in South Africa, and the constant buzzing from vuvuzelas throughout the matches attracted attention and controversy.
 
Those horns like Black Hat shows were mainly used in the seventies and eighties at the last century, not only on Football or Soccer events.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 07:46, 28 December 2013

Toot
This is also one of only five identified situations in which a vuvuzela is actually appropriate.
Title text: This is also one of only five identified situations in which a vuvuzela is actually appropriate.

Explanation

“Toot my own horn” is an idiom meaning to brag. However, Black Hat takes this literally and toots (blows) an air horn. An air horn is a horn attached to a can of compressed air, and at close range is extremely loud.

The Vuvuzela is a noise-generating instrument, mainly used for making noise at football matches in South Africa. This comic was published during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, and the constant buzzing from vuvuzelas throughout the matches attracted attention and controversy.

Transcript

Cueball: I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I was first in my class at Caltech.
Black Hat: Really? I don't mean to toot my own horn, but
BRAAAAAAP!
[Cueball falls backward as Black Hat sounds an air horn in his face.]
[A picture of an air horn.]
Air horns: Worth carrying around your entire life for those few perfect moments.
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Discussion

The YouTube link in the explanation is a sarcastic video, that makes anyone who views it laugh out loud at how "seriously" the three men in tuxedos are acting as they blare out awful sounds with those horns. Calling the vuvuzela a "highly sophisticated" instrument based on that video is misleading at the least. 173.245.54.11 16:00, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Use #2: http://www.sfw.furaffinity.net/view/4078940/
Use #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofsc-0aqK8

Greyson (talk) 06:34, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

I wonder what the other 4 situations where a V thingy is appropriate are? 108.162.221.53 07:48, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

-Predation.
-Sneaking mission.
-Former and disliked significant other's wedding.
-MORDOR 108.162.250.162 06:08, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
1, 2: actually harmful to your goal, 3 - ethically dubious, but okay, 4 - well, maybe 172.68.10.167 14:09, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
(1, 2) Maybe if you are the victim of predation or a sneaking mission. PoolloverNathan[stalk the blue seas]UTSc 00:23, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

The best part about this comic is that it looks like Black Hat is also screaming "BRAAAAAAP!" at the top of his lungs. 108.162.249.205 01:59, 14 January 2015 (UTC)