Disgraced Vice President Spiro T. Agnew ([info]jfboyd) wrote in [info]pearlswine,
@ 2008-05-09 23:58:00
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5.10.08


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[info]kamino_neko
2008-05-10 07:11 am UTC (link)
For those who can't identify the piece by the name, it's Sonata no 2 in B Flat Minor, specifically, the third movement, which can be heard here.

There's sections, though, that taken out of the context within the Funeral March, that wouldn't be bad...if sped up, a bit, at least.

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[info]daahh
2008-05-14 12:00 pm UTC (link)
like we really wanted to know.!!

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[info]podoroges
2008-05-10 09:21 am UTC (link)
Hyena's car?

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[info]kyle10001010
2008-05-10 09:37 am UTC (link)
The icecream truck in my neighborhood usually plays Christmas carols all summer long.

I never see him during the winter, and I got to wondering what he does for $$ until next summer, which led me to guess mebbe he drives south for winter, which ofcourse led me to wonder, "What are the migratory patterns of the North-American Icecream Truck Driver?"

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[info]chazthespazz
2008-05-10 02:17 pm UTC (link)
Next summer, tranquilizer dart the mysterious Icecream Purveyor. Then hook up a radio beacon to him attached to a big orange collar riveted permanently to his neck, spray paint a big orange number on his side so you'll be sure it's him. Then release him back to the wild (Be careful not to stand in front of the truck when he first starts to drive again).

I've done this several times and it works like a charm!

Tracking him down next winter will be a piece of cake.

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[info]kyle10001010
2008-05-10 11:09 pm UTC (link)
That sounds great, but if I tranq the icecream man, first thing I'm going to do is wipe out his inventory :)

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[info]bigture
2008-05-10 09:42 am UTC (link)
on the contrary, I think the guy is trying sublimal advertising.. icecream is happy food. by making potential customers sad, it is creating demand for the icecream.

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[info]outlanderssc
2008-05-10 12:35 pm UTC (link)
But making them want to avoid HIS truck and buy elsewhere -

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[info]bigture
2008-05-10 02:07 pm UTC (link)
not if he is the only ice cream truck for miles around :)

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[info]lostsynapse
2008-05-10 11:02 am UTC (link)
Maybe there's an almond flavor with extra cyanide.

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[info]kerssido
2008-05-10 11:31 am UTC (link)
It's a fun march!

We had a midi on one of our computers of the funeral march (presumably the same one? I've only heard one funeral march) and it was labeled "fun march". Needless to say, when it was played out of curiosity, it was not fun at all.

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[info]theropod
2008-05-10 12:03 pm UTC (link)
I never knew who composed that piece.

Anyone who follows "Marketplace" on the public radio, you know that when they review the daily numbers for Dow, NASDAQ, etc., they play "We're in the Money" as background music on up days, and "Stormy Weather" when the markets are down. I remember one particularly bad day, around the time of the Enron meltdown, instead of playing "Stormy Weather", they played this.

I think they abandoned that practice, perhaps out of respect for several high-profile investor suicides.

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[info]seabreeze99
2008-05-10 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Reminds me of an old Far Side strip with the caption "Failed marketing ploys" which showed an asparagus truck going down the street, with the motto "I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for asparagus!" lol

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[info]gitemstevedave
2008-05-10 03:37 pm UTC (link)
I think this is akin to the song that they play at circuses when the clowns come out. It's called "Entry of the Gladiators". I could just see the Gladiators entering the stadium with balloon tridents and huge sandals, 10 of them stuffed into one chariot.

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[info]lisadamole
2008-05-10 05:40 pm UTC (link)
Isn't the music we usually think of as the funeral march actually a Mahler piece? something about dead children in the title I think...

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[info]kamino_neko
2008-05-10 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Obviously, there's a certain amount of subjectivity to this, but I've never heard Mahler's funeral march, but Chopin's was immediately recognizable when I looked it up.

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[info]ludizara
2008-05-16 05:54 am UTC (link)
You're thinking of "Songs on the Death of Children" (Kindertotenlieder), it's not usually known as a funeral march, as far as I know, but it is about death(Friedrich Ruckert's poem of the same title as the piece I believe)and the mother recounts losing her children -- whereas Chopin's piece IS known as "the funeral march" (except when you're a child and play "Chopin's Funeral March" : falling on the piano keys covering as many keys as possible and laying your head on it:)


The Weird thing about this strip is that rat and goat are looking in the wrong direction for the icecream truck!

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