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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Good morning crew,
Who has heard of Twitter? This is a hugely popular social
networking site similar to Facebook, and GopherCentral has
jumped into the Twitter phenomenon with both feet.
We already have a dozen GopherCentral newsletters on Twitter
and more are coming. Clean Laffs isn't on there yet, but
it's just a matter of time.
Take a minute and check it out at http://www.gophertweets.com
signing up takes the click of a mouse, plus it's free. If
you don't have a Twitter account you can sign up for that
free too!
Laugh it up,
Joe
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"Due to the bad economy, all the McDonalds in Iceland are
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"The number 1 movie at the box office this weekend was
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Maybe this is why they don't teach music in high school
any more. Following are actual answers from students on
music tests...
- The principal singer of nineteenth century opera was
called pre-Madonna.
- Gregorian chant has no music, just singers singing the
same lines.
- Sherbet composed the Unfinished Symphony.
- All female parts were sung by castrati. We don't know ex-
actly what they sounded like because there are no known
descendants.
- Young scholars have expressed their rapture for the Bronze
Lullaby, the Taco Bell Cannon, Beethoven's Erotica,
Tchaikovsky Cracknutter Suite, and Gershwin's Rap City in
Blue.
- Music sung by two people at the same time is called a
duel; if they sing without music it is called Acapulco.
- A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
- Contralto is a low sort of music that only ladies sing.
- Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the
Hatfields and the McCoys.
- I know what a sextet is but I'd rather not say.
- Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical com-
positions and had a large number of children. In between he
practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic.
- Rock Monanoff was a famous post-romantic composer of piano
concerti.
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In the office where I work, there is a constant battle
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personnel over the room temperature, which is usually too
low.
The frustrated director, trying to get us to understand his
position, announced one afternoon, "We need to keep the
temperature below seventy-five degrees or the computers
will overheat."
Thinking that this was just another excuse, one of my
shivering colleagues retorted, "Yeah right. So how did they
keep the computers from overheating before there was air
conditioning?"