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Originally posted by TheWatchman:
I never could even imagine how anybody could think that sound is anything other than a beer can opening and Lightfoot taking swig. I think I must be gullable to keep believing that people actually think it's a Zippo.  Must be some joke started long before my arrival in Corfidland and I keep falling for it. If Lightfoot told me that it was a Zippo I still wouldn't believe it! 
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It's not a joke. It's the honest truth. Way back when we Lightfoot fans didn't know any other really devoted fans, and there were no chat rooms or discussion groups to talk this out, Derek Kidd had concluded that the sound was a Zippo. Honest. So when somebody asked what it was on the newsgroup (I think it was?), he stepped in and proudly answered ... only to be set straight by a bunch of other fans. His funny mistake has become part of the lore of Lightheads, and we all love to joke about it, but it really happened. Derek may be the only person on the planet who thought it was the sound of a Zippo, but he did.