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Re: Beethoven...

To: sharon.lebrun@tcibr.com, tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Beethoven...
From: LeBrun@hii.hitachi.com
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 15:27:09 PST
     TN;
     
     -Thx.

     
     
This one is a classic...
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>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 noises 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, unrecognisable 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."
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>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 realisation 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."
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