Klarinet Archive - Posting 000897.txt from 1997/07

From: Kelli White <kelliw@-----.au>
Subj: Re: something you may find funny :) (OFF)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 04:57:01 -0400

Not to mention the Mitsubishi Pajero!

David B. Niethamer wrote:
>
> 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/