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[isaacs_law]

At least there's a place there for you and your friends.

Most true!

Thanks for the welcome, guys. I've been stalking this board for years now without saying anything, so it's good to finally enter the castle of TOUAMB.

[Caustic Armadillo]

Couldn't "Ich habe Gesellschaft" also mean "i have company"? My high school German is getting a bit rusty

[wombat]

  Firstly, some of them are just plain awfull, but people just accept that "that's what a countertenor sounds like". There is no reason to sound like a cat being strangled, no matter what type of voice you sing in. Good countertenors proove this.
  Secondly, and more importantly, they've more or less hoaxed the whole opera audience into thinking they're good replacements for castrati.

Well, some sopranos make me want to stick rusty nails in my eyes if it would make them stop singing.  But you can't go blaming them all for that.

Anyway, my countertenors sing music from before opera was invented.  So we do not have to have a fight about this.

Back on topic:  People, don't you think it's supposed to be pidgin German that isn't quite grammatical and doesn't entirely make sense?  Beating your head against what it really means spoils the joke.

[theinevitable]

so, I always wonder what guy said "hey, do you know what God wants? he wants us to cut off this kid's balls. He wants to own this kid's manhood."

[Pimp_skitters]

so, I always wonder what guy said "hey, do you know what God wants? he wants us to cut off this kid's balls. He wants to own this kid's manhood."

  Apparently the most common excuse given by the parents was that their son was "attacked by a boar". Considering that at the height of the castrati's popularity 4,000 - 5,000 boys were put to the knife each year, I'm suprised kids didn't develop an instense fear of pigs

[Pimp_skitters]

  P.S.  I should add that the excuse given by The Church was that women shouldn't be allowed to sing in the church, thus, if there just happen to be some male sopranos around, they'd have to have them sing in the choir. A case of the left hand not acknowledging what the right hand is doing...

[Drygioni]

  P.S.  I should add that the excuse given by The Church was that women shouldn't be allowed to sing in the church, thus, if there just happen to be some male sopranos around, they'd have to have them sing in the choir. A case of the left hand not acknowledging what the right hand is doing...

For a second I thought you were talking about these guys. I think I only realised what you were talking about at the word 'choir'. Anyway, you seem to know a lot about this castrati thing. A lot.

[Pimp_skitters]

For a second I thought you were talking about these guys.

   Hah! I spewed my cola at that ( and that's no hyperbole: I've just finished wiping it off the monitor ).
  Actually I'm never quite sure how one seperates the church ( as in catholicism ), from the church ( building down the road ) in terms of capitalisation. Perhaps I should just say the Catholic Church.

Anyway, you seem to know a lot about this castrati thing. A lot.

  Have you thought of a career in opera, young man?