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Re: 'baroque'
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Owen Daly <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 May 2007 21:19:33 -0700
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One supposes that it would have been too much to ask for them to have 
said "Bach is the German Vivaldi."




>On Wednesday 02 May 2007 20:25, turpin d'isigny-ffytche wrote:
>
>>  But we are stupider now, and radio announcers can say such nonsensical
>>  things as 'Rameau is the French Bach'
>
>L'abbe Turpin gets the prize for finding the Stupidest Media Obiter
>Dictum of the year -- we'll make a statuette like Oscar and call
>him Stultissimus.
>
>Seriously, your Reverence -- did this really appear in print? Or did you dream
>it and think it really happened?
>
>
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>We are here on Earth to fart around.
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>-- the late Kurt Vonnegut

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