[1838] in Humor
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Savvides)
Wed Jan 22 17:20:33 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:06:27 -0500
From: George Savvides <savvides@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple
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."
