In a lecture series by Seattle Symphony I learned that in his day Beethoven’s music was considered “inappropriate” for well-bred young ladies as it might “incite indelicate passions”. Glad they’re not around these days, they might actually stroke out…
This is one of my all-time Schulz favorites. I have been using that line, “It means you were asleep” for 30 years and getting laughs from others who feel the same as CB!!
…then fast forward to Hobbes giving up and going inside when Calvin describes on of their giant snowballs as “one of the molecules” of their huge snowman.
In Seattle at the old Kingdome we had a vendor – would kind of look up and around as if he had no idea why he was there, and then yell “Ice Cream ??” You could hear the “question mark” in the call, never failed to get a laugh out of visitors.
My brother and I were lucky, we had our (then) unfinished basement to bang pucks around up on Vancouver Island. Only had to stop when Mum needed to use the laundry or get into the big freezer. Hockey rules!!
In a lecture series by Seattle Symphony I learned that in his day Beethoven’s music was considered “inappropriate” for well-bred young ladies as it might “incite indelicate passions”. Glad they’re not around these days, they might actually stroke out…