... ! ... well I always heard it as splines ... and so did my partner who thought it was the sexiest voice he'd heard since he bumped into me and I accused him of being Sgt. Pepper (this being 1990, btw) Beside which the loading screens of every sims game/ep since it came out has had a reticulating splines joke in there somewhere ... May I recommend Audiclean ... it's on special offer tha noes!