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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2004/09

From: Kat Sleeper <katsleeper@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] Humor: Politically correct music titles
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:23:15 -0400

Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> Ten Politically Correct Works:
>>
>> 1. Britten: Simple Symphony becomes Differently Intelligent Symphony
>>
>> 2. Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers becomes The Beachcombers who Benefit from
>> Maritime Misfortune
>>
>> 3. Holst: The Perfect Fool becomes The Ideal but Intellectually
>> Challenged Person
>>
>> 4. Goetz: Taming of the Shrew becomes Pacification of Dissatisfied
>> Partner
>>
>> 5. Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance becomes Independent Maritime Tax
>> Officers of Penzance
>>
>> 6. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust becomes Community Service Order of
>> Faust
>>
>> 7. Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades becomes The Person of Afro-
>> Caribbean Extraction In
>> Touch With The Feminine Side of His Nature
>>
>> 8. Rossini:The Thieving Magpie becomes The Bird with an Alternative
>> Concept of Property
>> Ownership
>>
>> 9. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons becomes Quarterly Meteorological
>> Phenomena
>>
>> 10. Mozart: Don Giovanni; or, the Dissolute One Punished becomes The
>> Behaviour Modification of
>> John, a Morally Challenged Sexually Active Person
>>
>

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