Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 07, 2005

Transcript:

Vienna 1810 DA DEE DA DEE DA DEE DA DEE DUUUUUUH... "What are you doing, Beethoven?" "I am trying to write this 'F?r Elise' piece, but I cannot get it right and it is killing me...Ahh, what is the use?! @#$@# it!!" "Beethoven, no! You cannot say that! Your work is beloved by all!" "Oh, sure...They love it now...But what about in two hundred years??" "They will still love it." "No...no...I fear that only a small minority of the people will enjoy it...and that is not enough...I want the masses, the working classes - the commoners - to hear my music and to know my name..." "They will, Beethoven!! They will!! I promise you that!" "Then I shall carry on! Through the toil and the agony and the sweat and the tears!! I shall produce this work as my gift to those people!! May they forever savor each and every note of this, my ardous labor!!!!!" DA DEE DA DEE DA DEE DA DEE DUUUUUH... "Yo, dude...Your cell's ringing." "Stupid @#@*$% cell phones..."