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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #15 on: December 16, 2007, 04:12:52 am »
Oh dear. There is a problem, in that the item in question is not where I thought it had been living all these years. I will investigate further tomorrow but I have a bad feeling about this.

What it was, was a letter about my request to apply to his fictional university - was it the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople?  Or Northern South Dakota?
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2007, 04:41:14 am »
Quote from: wombat on December 16, 2007, 04:12:52 am
Oh dear. There is a problem, in that the item in question is not where I thought it had been living all these years. I will investigate further tomorrow but I have a bad feeling about this.

What it was, was a letter about my request to apply to his fictional university - was it the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople?  Or Northern South Dakota?

Hoople was mentioned a lot as he continued his research into the life and works of PDQ Bach. Maybe that was it.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2007, 05:32:47 am »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on December 16, 2007, 03:59:53 am

Please scan and show us the funny thing from Professor Peter Schickele. That would be 10 kinds of awesome.


Seconded.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #18 on: December 16, 2007, 03:14:07 pm »
There were a few tense moments searching through the file drawers there... but here it is.

http://www.rebsig.com/LL/hoople.pdf
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2007, 03:35:38 pm »
That is classic.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2007, 04:11:16 pm »
Heh! That is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2007, 04:14:41 am »
It stops loading for me. :-(
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2007, 07:29:23 am »
This is the best thing ever. My favorite part is the check-boxes.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2007, 01:28:47 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on December 17, 2007, 04:14:41 am
It stops loading for me. :-(

Nooo!  I could email it to you. Can you usually open a pdf under other circumstances?
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2007, 03:51:32 pm »
The crest intrigues me.  Chi-rho overlaid with a reference to a bible passage praying for the unity of all believers.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #25 on: December 18, 2007, 07:32:41 pm »
Speaking of opera, has everyone seen the Paul Potts video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLF9iEXnBRo

I love how the one judge at the 24-second mark is like "Oh shit, here we go," and Simon settles in like "Let's get this over with" 20 seconds later.  And then he fuckin' FLOORS them.

I've read that some in the opera business are all "He's not really that good," which may be technically true.  But he's probably done more to get people interested in opera than anyone else in years, so fuck off, killjoys.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #26 on: December 19, 2007, 02:23:05 am »
Quote from: carlosdelvaca on December 18, 2007, 07:32:41 pm
Speaking of opera, has everyone seen the Paul Potts video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLF9iEXnBRo

I love how the one judge at the 24-second mark is like "Oh shit, here we go," and Simon settles in like "Let's get this over with" 20 seconds later.  And then he fuckin' FLOORS them.

I've read that some in the opera business are all "He's not really that good," which may be technically true.  But he's probably done more to get people interested in opera than anyone else in years, so fuck off, killjoys.

I LOVE him, even though there was some dissension as to whether he was really "undiscovered" when he went on the Idol show and blew all the judges away. Even Simon le Cowell was impressed, and the lady judge was moved to tears.
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #27 on: December 19, 2007, 03:24:27 am »
Yes, but did he bungle up a national anthem so badly that the other country now loves him for it?
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Re: It's ALWAYS Time for Opera
« Reply #28 on: December 19, 2007, 02:47:39 pm »
Quote from: Golfhaus on December 19, 2007, 03:24:27 am
Yes, but did he bungle up a national anthem so badly that the other country now loves him for it?

Yeah, that's some good shit right there.  Interesting that "love" and "c*ck" are so close together in their language, and if that's the case you know that every man in the country sang the anthem that way when they were 10 years old.  So they were psyched to finally have someone do it out in the open.
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