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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 16:36:13, 01-10-2008 »
The latest of Glass's biographical operas is to be about Walt Disney:

http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=1544
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #1 on: 16:39:28, 01-10-2008 »
Mickey Mouse repetatively repeated 500 times.


Mi Mi Mi Micke Micke Micke Mickey Mickey  etc.
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« Reply #2 on: 00:28:48, 02-10-2008 »
Who's the leader of the band that's minimalist excess?
P-H-I, L-I-P, G-L-A-S-S!
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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« Reply #3 on: 01:08:29, 02-10-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 00:28:48, 02-10-2008
Who's the leader of the band that's minimalist excess?
P-H-I, L-I-P, G-L-A-S-S!

Fantastic.  Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: 02:57:01, 02-10-2008 »
I'd never realised, until I sang that out loud, that the last three letters of both of Phillip Glass's names spell orifices (albeit in Amurkin English).
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« Reply #5 on: 03:02:44, 02-10-2008 »
... or that he's a Greek letter plus something red, shiny and feminine.
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« Reply #6 on: 19:21:56, 03-10-2008 »
Quote from: Robert Dahm on 02:57:01, 02-10-2008
I'd never realised, until I sang that out loud, that the last three letters of both of Phillip Glass's names spell orifices (albeit in Amurkin English).

What, you've never heard him called "Phillip Glass - ass - ass - ass - ass - ass - ass - ass ..." ?  I thought that was a terribly old joke.
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