Peter Townshend made me deaf... Who!?

The level of loud noise is measured in decibels, with 0 being the softest sound someone can hear and 194 being the loudest sound possible. Noise levels above 140 decibels can cause damage to hearing after a single exposure, experts say. Here is how loud some everyday things are:
In decibels

50 - Rainfall, large office
60 - Normal conversation
70 - TV audio, freeway traffic
80 - Alarm clock, ringing telephone
95 - Lawnmower
110 - Leafblower, car horn
117 - Stadium football game
120 - Rock concert, ambulance siren, thunder
130 - Percussion section at symphony
140 - Threshold of pain, airplane taking off
150 - Jet engine taking off, firecracker
170 - Shotgun
180 - Rocket launching

Sources: OHSA, Centers for Disease Control & League for Hard of Hearing

This fellow walks into a bar and says, "Hey, I just got a great new hearing aid" The bartender says, "What kind is it?" The fellow looks at his watch and says "It's twelve-thirty" Ha-ha-ha. I slay myself.

On his Web site, Townshend has warned iPod users that they could end up with hearing problems as bad as his own if they don't turn down the volume of the music they are listening to on earphones. Townshend, 60, Genius, and guitarist in '60s rock band The Who, said his hearing was irreversibly damaged by years of using studio headphones.

Tommy? ...Tommy?