Klarinet Archive - Posting 000882.txt from 1997/07

From: Michael Norsworthy <mnorsworthy@-----.net>
Subj: something you may find funny :)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:19:00 -0400

Where do you want to go today?
> >
> > Straight to hell, apparently...
> >
> > The other day I saw another Microsoft commercial on TV: sublime choral
> > music drifts through the background as the unseen user surfs through the
> > Internet and various Microsoft content using Internet Explorer. The
> > commercial closes with the Microsoft slogan "Where do you want to go
> > today?" and a final, furious blast of music. It's a very cool effect...
> > But if you dig a little deeper.....
> >
> > As it turns out, the background music is the Dies Irae of Mozart's Requiem
> > Mass. And the words of the final blast of music which accompanies "Where
> > do you want to go today?" are actually "confutatis maledictis, flammis
> > acribus addictis..." In English: "When the damned are confounded, and
> > consigned to sharp flames..."; which describes exactly where I want to go
> > today...
> >
> > Unfortunately, while Explorer will take you to hell for free, the upgrade
> > to purgatory is pretty steep...