[2505] in Humor
HUMOR: Grave Humor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Fri Oct 16 09:45:11 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:37:51 -0400
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>From: "Joke of the Day" <<Joker@joker.org>
>Subject: Grave Humor
>Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:39:13 -0500
>
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of
> a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he
> starts searching for the source.
>
> He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a
> grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven,
> 1770-1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth
> Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he
> leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with
> him.
>
> By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has
> changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the
> previous piece, it is being played backward.
>
> Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When
> they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing,
> again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are
> being played in the reverse order in which they were
> composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.
>
> By the next day the word has spread and a throng has
> gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the
> Second Symphony being played backward.
>
> Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group.
> Someone in the crowd asks him if he has an explanation for
> the music.
>
> "Oh, it's nothing to worry about" says the caretaker. "He's
> just decomposing!"
> ___________________________________________________________
>
>
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