I watched, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” last night (DVD) and the “Jingle Bells” bit still sleighs me.
“Gee, do they still make wooden Christmas trees?”
Gladwell should have done his math. That’s everyday for four years.
It was more like 250 times.
Yikes…come on! Tip your hat to greatness
But Mozart might have:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegelstatt_Trio
The German word Kegelstatt means “a place where skittles are played”, akin to a duckpin bowling alley. Mozart wrote that he composed the 12 Duos for Two (French) Horns (not basset horns as is commonly thought), K. 487, “while playing skittles;” on the first page of the autograph manuscript of K. 487, Mozart inscribed the following: " Wienn den 27.t Jullius 1786 untern Kegelscheiben " (Vienna, 27 July 1786 while playing skittles)
Right up until “Revolver” was released. Sure, it had the silliness of “Yellow Submarine”, but the rest of it was an attention-getter and pretty much signaled the end of their teen pop era, while “Sgt. Pepper” left no doubt.
(Nice!)
This is where Lucy would say, “But did Mozart ever pick up a 7-10 split? Did he? How can you say he’s a great composer if he never picked up a 7-10 split?”
This has been here for 18 hours and hasn’t been acknowledged. Burpo, I acknowledge you.
In “duckpin bowling” (which seems to be what Beethoven played) you roll 3 balls per frame rather than 2. A 7-10 split would be a lot easier to pick up in that game, assuming you knocked the first 8 pins down with the first toss.
Then again, it only counts as a spare if you get them all in the first two tosses; if it takes you 3 throws then you get 10 pins counted but I don’t know if that counts as “picking it up”. (I’m only personally familiar with American ten-pin bowling.)
( …it was a slow sleigh …)
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo, domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo, domo
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
“Cake, cake, cake, cake
Cake, cake, cake, cake
Cake, cake, cake, cake
Cake, cake, cake”
- Rihanna, Cake
Or as one of the great poets of his generation said:
A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.
Shucks, Paw, ‘tweren’t nothin’. 
Now, I’m as sick of the Beatles as most Boomers, but I started watching the Peter Jackson Beatles “documentary” (really just editing together 60 hours of “fly on the wall” footage)…
… and I got bored of that after ten minutes. BUT I was blown away by their musical abilities; just their jamming and trying riffs or snippets of half-written songs… amazing.
And better than anything I’ve heard on the radio lately.
.
(Except this of course…)
eta: No, no, I repent. Do NOT click on that link! After a minute of Dennis DeYoung sounding as smarmy as an evangelist, he starts off the Styx Reunion Tour with… a harder-rocking “Renegade”? Or “Blue Collar Man”?
No, it’s the Splenda-coated, execrable “Lady”. I didn’t even make it to the first “Layyyy-ayy-deee…” and it’s still stuck in my head. Even the lyrics, and they’re straight out of middle school:
“Lady, when you’re with me I’m smiling…”
Ooh, that’ll win her heart, Denny…
I like the Beatles. I’m not sure if I’d call myself a fan, but I like them. My favorite song of theirs is Maxwell’s Silver Hammer if that tells you anything.
It truly is hell.
I opened this thread and discourse was clever enough to open it at my own post. Which I had no memory of ever making which threw me a bit.
Then I saw the date.
The OP is obviously a rabid Archies fanboy who’s still constipated over Get Back charting higher than Sugar Sugar in 1969.
Die Die Die, Die Die Die Die
Die Die Die, Die Die Die Die
Die Die Die
The Avett Brothers - Die Die Die