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When Beethoven passed away... (Joke)
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Andrej Kluge
Sep 5, 2012, 9:54:51 AM9/5/12
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...he was buried in a churchyard. A couple of days later, the town drunk was
walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the
area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest
to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some
faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest
ran and got the town magistrate. When the magistrate arrived, he bent his
ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards." He listened a while
longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too.
Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh...
the Sixth... the Fifth..." Suddenly the realization of what was happening
dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had
gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry
about. It's just Beethoven decomposing."
(stolen from the internet)
walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the
area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest
to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some
faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest
ran and got the town magistrate. When the magistrate arrived, he bent his
ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards." He listened a while
longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too.
Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh...
the Sixth... the Fifth..." Suddenly the realization of what was happening
dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had
gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry
about. It's just Beethoven decomposing."
(stolen from the internet)
William Sommerwerck
Sep 5, 2012, 11:09:16 AM9/5/12
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"Andrej Kluge" <kl...@wizzy.de> wrote in message
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That's dreadful. You deserve a public flogging.
Gilbert did it much better -- and far more tersely -- in what is probably an
apocryphal anecdote...
A lady approached Gilbert and complimented Sullivan's music. "It so reminds
me of the music of Mr Baytch. Tell me, is Mr Baytch still composing?"
"No, ma'am, he's rather by way of decomposing."
Gilbert had a quick wit, and the following might be true. (Even if it isn't,
it sounds like Gilbert.)
He was tall (6') and imposing, and sometimes mistaken for someone from the
working class. In front of a hotel, a man asked him to call him a cab.
"Very well... You're a four-wheeler."
"What...?"
"Well, you asked me to call you a cab -- and I couldn't very well call you
'hansom'."
news:aap3tq...@mid.individual.net...
Gilbert did it much better -- and far more tersely -- in what is probably an
apocryphal anecdote...
A lady approached Gilbert and complimented Sullivan's music. "It so reminds
me of the music of Mr Baytch. Tell me, is Mr Baytch still composing?"
"No, ma'am, he's rather by way of decomposing."
Gilbert had a quick wit, and the following might be true. (Even if it isn't,
it sounds like Gilbert.)
He was tall (6') and imposing, and sometimes mistaken for someone from the
working class. In front of a hotel, a man asked him to call him a cab.
"Very well... You're a four-wheeler."
"What...?"
"Well, you asked me to call you a cab -- and I couldn't very well call you
'hansom'."
Mort
Sep 5, 2012, 11:29:03 AM9/5/12
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2/3 of a PUN is P U
Mort Linder
Kip Williams
Sep 5, 2012, 11:40:37 AM9/5/12
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Mort wrote, On 9/5/12 11:29 AM:
Or at least don't drag it out. "They opened up Beethoven's grave, and he
was sitting there erasing something. They asked him what he was doing,
and he said, 'I'm decomposing.'"
Unless you're telling a shaggy dog story whose primary purpose is to
punish the listener, puns are best told with a minimum of preparation. A
spontaneous pun, for instance, is much more forgivable than one whose
teller has clearly tried to work the conversation around to a straight
line setup.
Kip W
was sitting there erasing something. They asked him what he was doing,
and he said, 'I'm decomposing.'"
Unless you're telling a shaggy dog story whose primary purpose is to
punish the listener, puns are best told with a minimum of preparation. A
spontaneous pun, for instance, is much more forgivable than one whose
teller has clearly tried to work the conversation around to a straight
line setup.
Kip W
Matthew�B.�Tepper
Sep 5, 2012, 3:30:31 PM9/5/12
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Kip Williams <mrk...@gmail.com> appears to have caused the following letters
to be typed in news:VnK1s.2997$fC5....@newsfe04.iad:
> Or at least don't drag it out. "They opened up Beethoven's grave, and he
> was sitting there erasing something. They asked him what he was doing,
> and he said, 'I'm decomposing.'"
>
> Unless you're telling a shaggy dog story whose primary purpose is to punish
> the listener, puns are best told with a minimum of preparation. A
> spontaneous pun, for instance, is much more forgivable than one whose
> teller has clearly tried to work the conversation around to a straight
> line setup.
Yep, that one is a (pardon the expression in this context) moldy oldy, it
requires, but also deserves, no more than a brief setup.
--
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to be typed in news:VnK1s.2997$fC5....@newsfe04.iad:
> Or at least don't drag it out. "They opened up Beethoven's grave, and he
> was sitting there erasing something. They asked him what he was doing,
> and he said, 'I'm decomposing.'"
>
> Unless you're telling a shaggy dog story whose primary purpose is to punish
> the listener, puns are best told with a minimum of preparation. A
> spontaneous pun, for instance, is much more forgivable than one whose
> teller has clearly tried to work the conversation around to a straight
> line setup.
requires, but also deserves, no more than a brief setup.
--
Matthew B. Tepper: WWW, science fiction, classical music, ducks!!
Read about "Proty" here: http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/proty.html
To write to me, do for my address what Androcles did for the lion
Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of my employers.
weary flake
Sep 6, 2012, 12:51:39 PM9/6/12
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What did Beethoven do after he died?
He decomposed.
Kip Williams
Sep 6, 2012, 12:57:18 PM9/6/12
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weary flake wrote, On 9/6/12 12:51 PM:
Yes, indeed. Short, to the point, doesn't overstay its welcome.
I can get that down to four words, but that's flea surgery.
Kip W
I can get that down to four words, but that's flea surgery.
Kip W
O
Sep 6, 2012, 1:01:20 PM9/6/12
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In article <MB42s.2225$Sj2....@newsfe07.iad>, Kip Williams
Much better to rework it to make it fresher, talk about a posthumous
work as a decomposition, something like that. Needs to be part of a
bigger joke, maybe wrap around and come in again at the end.
-Owen, gag writer for rmcr.
work as a decomposition, something like that. Needs to be part of a
bigger joke, maybe wrap around and come in again at the end.
-Owen, gag writer for rmcr.
Steven Bornfeld
Sep 9, 2012, 3:28:44 PM9/9/12
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Beethoven's last movement.
So sorry.
S.
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Kip Williams
Sep 9, 2012, 4:44:11 PM9/9/12
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Steven Bornfeld wrote, On 9/9/12 3:28 PM:
Kip W
rasfw
> How about 3 words?
> Beethoven's last movement.
Two: "Beethoven's decomposing."
> Beethoven's last movement.
Kip W
rasfw
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