Museum of Bad Art
The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.
Don’t Talk on the Phone During a Live Performance . . .
. . . or at least be prepared for the consequences! (funny video; very short)
Fun with Beethoven!
I’ll admit that it takes a little time to enjoy classical music, even when you’re having fun with it. Perhaps especially when you’re having fun with it. But since I serendipitously encountered two fun Beethoven references in just a few hours, I decided to go exploring to see what else I could find.
I’ll not save the best for last in this post, because, as I said, classical music takes time. Just in case you, Dear Reader, don’t have oodles of time today, I’ll start with the best.
“Argument to Beethoven’s 5th;” Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray; 5:51; make sure you watch all the way to the end! (There’ll be a test later. . . or maybe not.)
Next is a link to a very, very interesting rendition of Beethoven’s Fur Elise (2:25). (Just imagine a googly-eyed umlaut; I’m too lazy to look up the HTML right now.) Based on the comments on that page, I don’t think viewers are “getting it,” but if you think about it for a few seconds, this rendition is incredible. . . or incredibly odd, at least.
Back to the fifth. I’m going to skip right over “A Fifth of Beethoven” and go right to the Beethoven Rap. (Back story here.)
Dudley Moore plays a well-done parody of a Beethoven piano sonata using the whistling tune from “Bridge Over the River Kwai” as a thematic subject here (4:29).
Beethoven on The Muppet Show (along with Victor Borge) (2:12).
And if you haven’t cracked a smile yet, maybe this will work:
(Beethoven is Funny, 0:42)
“Ough”
As a farmer was going to plough,
He met a man driving a cough;
They had words which led to a rough,
And the farmer was struck on his brough.
One day when the weather was rough,
An old lady went for some snough,
Which she thoughtlessly placed in her mough,
And it got scattered, all over her cough.
While a baker was kneading his dough,
A weight fell down on his tough,
When he suddenly exclaimed ough!
Because it had hurt him sough.
There was a hole in the hedge to get through,
It was made by no one knew whough;
In getting through a boy lost his shough,
And was quite at a loss what to dough.
A poor old man had a bad cough,
To a doctor he straight went ough,
The doctor did nothing but scough,
And said it was all fancy, his cough.
– Anonymous, cited in Carolyn Wells, A Whimsey Anthology, 1906
(via the always interesting Futility Closet)
Art and Design Creativity and Creating Fun/Funny Movies/Video/TV Music Time Wasters
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Odd Videos
The Hello Experiment (3:09)
Hiccup 101 (about 2:00)
Famous Poems as Limericks
Too funny! (rated PG for language)
The Raven
There once was a girl named Lenore
And a bird and a bust and a door . . .
Click here for the rest. (Via Karen at Say No to Crack, who has invited her readers to submit their own. Of course, limericks (clean ones) are welcome here, too!)
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967)
Edward Hopper was an American painter and printmaker, best known for Nighthawks.
(Clip from That 70s Show, 0:43)
Happy Birthday, Alex Trebek!
This clip is WAY too long, but I couldn’t find a shorter one from this television episode. If you start watching at the 5 minute mark, you’ll see all you need to see to get the point.
(X-Files, 1996, 5:43)
Official Jeopardy web site here.
Bill Watterson’s Birthday
Calvin: Want to help me write a book?
Hobbes: Sure. What’s it about?
Calvin: Well, you know what historical fiction is? This is sort of like that. I’m writing a fictional autobiography. It’s the story of my life, but with a lot of parts completely made up.
Hobbes: Why would you make up your own life?
Calvin: Because in my book I have a flame thrower!
Bill Watterson is the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. You can find more information about him here.
Here’s a nice tidbit of trivia for you: Calvin’s teacher, Miss Wormwood, is named after the junior devil in The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. (I can’t believe I never noticed that!)
