Current favourite jokes

[LMcD]

Typical, isn't it? You wait ages for a decent documentary and then 2 come along on different channels at the same time! Next to the ATM, I would say two of the greatest technological advances during my lifetime (so far ...) have been (1) TV sets with an integral recordable hard disk (disc?) and (2) the iPlayer and similar services. Many years ago, an indignant Radio Times reader complained that she'd cut short her holiday so as to be home in time to watch a key episode in a soap opera, only to find it had been postponed, to be shown a day after she was originally due to return.

[oddoneout]

Typical, isn't it? You wait ages for a decent documentary and then 2 come along on different channels at the same time! Next to the ATM, I would say two of the greatest technological advances during my lifetime (so far ...) have been (1) TV sets with an integral recordable hard disk (disc?) and (2) the iPlayer and similar services. Many years ago, an indignant Radio Times reader complained that she'd cut short her holiday so as to be home in time to watch a key episode in a soap opera, only to find it had been postponed, to be shown a day after she was originally due to return.

Except that in this case no advanced technology was required, just the stamina to watch the two one after the other as broadcast - see #3734

[LeMartinPecheur]

Q What's the new parliamentary Covid theme-tune?

A Fauré Op 112 (Masques et Bugger-masques).


( V sorry...)

[LMcD]

Q What's the new parliamentary Covid theme-tune?

A Fauré Op 112 (Masques et Bugger-masques).


( V sorry...)

As it happens, I'm expecting a bunch of CDs one of which features various works by Fauré including his Opus 112.
I wonder whether this piece inspired Churchills' 'Keep on buggering on' - Fauré's secret contribution to the Allies' victory?

[oddoneout]

Q What's the new parliamentary Covid theme-tune?

A Fauré Op 112 (Masques et Bugger-masques).


( V sorry...)

Ooh I don't think you are really - naughty but funny.

I was musing last night about whether Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera had ever been done at the Proms as it would be quite an apt choice for a re-broadcast...

[ahinton]

Q What's the new parliamentary Covid theme-tune?

A Fauré Op 112 (Masques et Bugger-masques).


( V sorry...)

Possibly, but there are other equally valid candidates including Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera mentioned above:

A. Tippett: The mask of time
B. Szymanowski: Masques
C. The SARS bride (aka The Tsar's bride) by Rimskof-course-I-cough
D. Shostakovich: The nose (now streaming at a place near you and not to be sneezed at)
E. Alkan: Comme le vent(ilator)
F. not to mention a new work entitled Le dix-neuf jointly being written by the Matthews brothers, CO(lin) and (da)VID...

[edashtav]

Not forgetting Roger Sessions Ballet THE BLACK MASKERS

[Pulcinella]

Not forgetting Roger Sessions Ballet THE BLACK MASKERS

Or Nielsen's Maskarade?

[ahinton]

Not forgetting Roger Sessions Ballet THE BLACK MASKERS

Indeed!

Or any setting of Beat Virus, come to think of it...

[edashtav]

[LMcD]

Ooh I don't think you are really - naughty but funny.

I was musing last night about whether Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera had ever been done at the Proms as it would be quite an apt choice for a re-broadcast...

I don't know whether it's been done complete, but extracts have featured in 35 Proms in all, starting in 1905.

[LMcD]

Q: How do you fix a broken tuba?
A: With a tuba glue

[oddoneout]

Q: How do you fix a broken tuba?
A: With a tuba glue

Thanks for that old fruit, I needed a proper laugh (rather than laugh or you'd cry) as today has not been fun so far.

[johncorrigan]

Q: How do you fix a broken tuba?
A: With a tuba glue

Couldn't help recalling the old classic:
What do you do if you have a trumpet growing in your garden?
You root it oot!

[oddoneout]

Nominative determinism is always good for a smile...
This is from a Guardian article about unsolicited seed packages

Gerard Clover, head of plant health at the Royal Horticultural Society,