[1708] in Humor
HUMOR: Pianos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Thu Nov 21 12:39:52 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:23:42 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:05:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: jim@hosaka.SmallWorks.COM (Jim Thompson)
>From the Big Issue:
It's all been going horribly wrong with pianos. In Leicester, a man
driven mad by his neighbour's off-key playing attacked the offending
instrument with a sledge hammer. "Curiously, the D-flat's been perfect
ever since," said the owner philosophically. Not so Rolf Mickleberg's
D-Flat, which was badly affected by a pair of naked buttocks. Trouble
started when Mr Mickleberg, of Feldback, Austria, returned home early
while wife Ilya was making love to plumber Gunter Goch. A naked Mr. Goch
took refuge inside the family's grand piano whilst Mrs Mickleberg
endeavoured to divert her spouse's attention. She singularly failed and
Mr. Mickleberg remained by the piano until the early evening, when 20
friends arrived to hear a recital of Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. "I
started playing," he recalled, "and someone squealed "Ouch!" so I lifted
the lid and there he was." Mr Goch's claims that he was the victim of an
alien abduction were not believed, and the Micklebergs are now getting
divorced. "He's lucky it wasn't Beethoven's Fifth," opined Mr Mickleberg,
"or I might have really done some damage."
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