Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for December 10, 2012
Transcript:
the beethoven's birthday song sung to "ode to joy" beethoven: ach, bitte. don't sing. come and listen to the story of a man named ludwig van, born the sixteenth of december, in the german town of bonn. wrote concertos, quartets, sonatas, missa solemnis & min-u-ets. beethoven: verdammter! kleinbeethovenkopfboutique sale and he never made a penny from those ugly stat-u-ettes.
Templo S.U.D. almost 12 years ago
I don’t know if Schröder would be happy or unhappy.
Ida No almost 12 years ago
Beauty!
Sisyphos almost 12 years ago
Ohh! How much is the sales-price for a little Beethoven head? (Despite whose imprecation, I [silently] read the strip as if singing the “Ode to Joy”!)
el8 almost 12 years ago
Brilliant!
pumaman almost 12 years ago
He was born that way!
mountaingreenery. almost 12 years ago
That is exactly what I thought too.
Perkycat almost 12 years ago
Are they bobble-head stat-u-ettes?
fritzoid Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it’s gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. It’s like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now!
doris sloan almost 12 years ago
Yeah! What Fritzkringle said!
murphyspop almost 12 years ago
Brubeck, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms…Gone. But their music will live forever!