Re: OT-HUMOR: Singin' in the Can

From: HIPSource@aol.com

In a message dated 5/15/99 2:08:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pdyer@flash.net 
writes:

<< His idea of gardening is to hire a truckload of landscapers to come and
 clean out the place -- a week before the local tour, spends thousands of
 dollars of full-grown, fully-blooming plants to landscape with, then goes to
 the liquor store and buys whatever it is you buy to make a few gallons of
 mint juleps.>>  

Oh, manure! Another instance of the "Ain't it amazin' what two thousand bucks 
worth of mulch and pansies can do!" crowd, which are legion around these 
parts. Later, out come the pansies, and they pop in red geraniums. Actually, 
their "gardener" does it.
 
<< Anyhow, if I were to play the type of classical music I normally listen to,
 I'm not sure how the flowers would react.  I lean towards 20th century
 composers such as Stravinsky, Prokofieff, Shostakovich, Alberto Ginastera,
 Samuel Barber, and Scriabin.  Hey, maybe that's what Brad Kasperek did to
 get all those wonderful novelty-things with their splish-splashed blossoms
 and variegated foliage....>>

They might like some Satie. You might get some endearing MTBs with that...

You  know, I think they did this same sort of environmental music experiment 
on milk cows and they liked classical, particularly chamber music of the 
tinkly kind, and they did not like country, which folks somehow were 
expecting to be just their cup of julep. But it was done with a radio, as I 
recall, so maybe they were put off by all the Dolly Parton jokes on the 
country station.

For what any of that is worth to anyone.......

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com

 



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