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It was the Thunderer. Story time. I was in a gym substitute teaching PE about 10 or 11 years ago. One of the other teachers saw it around my neck and said she was so proud that she had the loudest whistle on earth to use on the playground. I asked what it was and she said, "An ACME Thunderer." I said, "Go get it and let's have a contest." We shut the gym doors. She blew the Thunderer. I blew the Fox 40 classic. She hung her head in defeat! Had a similar conversation with the most arrogant principal I have ever known a few weeks later. He was wearing a metal whistle with a rubber mouth guard. He saw mine and asked me what it was. He said his was loudest in the world. Same test. He muttered something about it not having a pea in it and walked away. I love that old Fox 40. I used it this morning when I was letting my gordon setter run in a field.
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 That's my whistle -- and I'm sticking to it!
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