Klarinet Archive - Posting 000888.txt from 1997/07

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: something you may find funny :) (OFF)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:24:54 -0400

on 7/29/97 7:18 PM, Michael Norsworthy wrote:

>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...
>
In addition, the Japanese translation of "Where do you want to go today"
is "If you don't know where you're going, we'll see that you get taken"

Roughly the equivalent of General Motors marketing the Chevy Nova in
Mexicao - in Spanish, "No va" means "Won't go"

Major corporate marketing saavy at work! (That nice dark sound...)

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/