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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: mega-groaner
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 19:45:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 19:45:36 1985
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This is a bad joke about Beethoven's IX Symphony

As everyone knows, Beethoven's 9th symphony has
a long passage in the middle that has no part
for the double bass.

Well there was this symphony orchestra performing
the piece, ad some of the bass players were getting
tired of sitting around for measure after measure
waiting for the finale. So they thought of a clever
system to amuse themselves and still perform their
duties on opening night: they tied a string around
the page in the score that had their parts after
the log bass-less section. While the bass-less
passages were being performed, the bassists wet
out back and started drinking whiskey, confident they
would be able to return in time to finish the piece.

Well, they were getting kind of drunk after a while
and the conductor looked around for the bass section
but they were gone! He was panicing! Why was he panicing?
















Because it was the bottom of the ninth, the bassists were loaded
and their scores were tied.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Wasn't that awful?


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