# Interesting little...musical...Flash...thing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957 "2007-11-10T20:30:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/1 "2007-11-10T20:30:10Z")
This pretty much defies categorization. [http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage\_site/Kor/hestekor.swf](http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf) ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/2 "2007-11-10T20:31:44Z")
I’m scared. ---
**Author:** ![ThirdCultureKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@ThirdCultureKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThirdCultureKid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/3 "2007-11-10T20:45:42Z")
That was way more fun than it should have been. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/4 "2007-11-10T20:49:08Z")
Pretty! Though not as euphonous as this perhaps-drug-inspired [ditty.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOxR7rTYuSI) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/5 "2007-11-10T21:01:16Z")
Ah, the singing horses. Part of my daughter’s music homework from school included the instruction to go and play with it. I confess, it’s one of the things I had in mind when I made [The Mouse Organ](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/mouseorgan/) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/6 "2007-11-10T21:11:49Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Ah, the singing horses. Part of my daughter’s music homework from school included the instruction to go and play with it. I confess, it’s one of the things I had in mind when I made [The Mouse Organ](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/mouseorgan/) [/QUOTE] Nice. Reminds me of [Mary Midnight’s Cat Organ.](http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/COMET/glasgrev/issue2/king.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ThirdCultureKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@ThirdCultureKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThirdCultureKid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/7 "2007-11-10T21:32:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Shoshana** > > _Nice. Reminds me of Mary Midnight’s Cat Organ._ I do not think that link means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/8 "2007-11-10T21:41:04Z")
Reminds me of Monty Python somehow… ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/9 "2007-11-10T21:44:39Z")
I don’t understand what you think I don’t understand. I linked to an academic article that, among other topics related to gender, describes Christopher Smart’s performances in drag as Mary Midnight, in which role s/he purported, among other things, to have invented a “cat-organ,” “a harpsichord fashioned from live felines.” If, however, you’re making a pun about cats and organs, go right ahead, but that was not my intention. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/10 "2007-11-10T21:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] I don’t understand what you think I don’t understand. I linked to an academic article that, among other topics related to gender, describes Christopher Smart’s performances in drag as Mary Midnight, in which role s/he purported, among other things, to have invented a “cat-organ,” “a harpsichord fashioned from live felines.” If, however, you’re making a pun about cats and organs, go right ahead, but that was not my intention. [/QUOTE] I think I see the problem. Everyone else was linking to cute little musical numbers, and you linked to an academic article. ---
**Author:** ![ThirdCultureKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@ThirdCultureKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThirdCultureKid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/11 "2007-11-10T21:47:59Z")
Oh! No, no, I misunderstood completely. A friend once sent me a link similar to the mouse one upthread, but with cats mewling instead of mice. I clicked on it expecting the same link. Why I didn’t see the connection when I perused the article, I don’t know. :smack: I’m off to reread now. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/12 "2007-11-10T21:59:48Z")
> [@](#): > > I think I see the problem. Everyone else was linking to cute little musical numbers, and you linked to an academic article. Well, but I _also_ posted a cute little musical thing upthread. Can’t a girl cite her sources even if we’re not in GQ? Do you want more badgers? Is that all I mean to you? Is this about the god damned [badgers](http://youtube.com/watch?v=T0NvcQ3Yiqk)?? ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/13 "2007-11-10T22:12:40Z")
[True inexplicability!](http://www.mlcsmith.com/strange/hatten/assets/hatten.swf) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/14 "2007-11-10T22:19:37Z")
[QUOTE=Achren] [True inexplicability!](http://www.mlcsmith.com/strange/hatten/assets/hatten.swf) [/QUOTE] [Hatten är din](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatten_%C3%A4r_din) ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/15 "2007-11-10T22:21:37Z")
Now you took all the fun out of it. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/16 "2007-11-10T22:25:21Z")
Okay, [this](http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatten_%C3%A4r_din) should put the fun back in. Or [this.](http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=bork&url=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.straightdope.com%2Fsdmb%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D9163651%23post9163651) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/17 "2007-11-10T22:26:00Z")
[QUOTE=Achren] [True inexplicability!](http://www.mlcsmith.com/strange/hatten/assets/hatten.swf) [/QUOTE] …beyond strange. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/18 "2007-11-10T22:26:23Z")
I think it’s pretty clear which of the OP’s horses are geldings. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/19 "2007-11-10T22:38:51Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Okay, [this](http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatten_%C3%A4r_din) should put the fun back in. Or [this.](http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=bork&url=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.straightdope.com%2Fsdmb%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D9163651%23post9163651) [/QUOTE] 😃 (I knew about the flash video, but it’s ever so much fun to show it to people without any explaination first.) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957/20 "2007-11-10T22:51:17Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] [Hatten är din](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatten_%C3%A4r_din) [/QUOTE] I love this bit from the article [QUOTE=Hatten är din wiki-article] The Swedish “subtitles” are not a translation of the Arabic, but rather a phonetic transcription of the lyrics into Swedish, resulting in outlandish non sequiturs such as Limma skinkbit, cooligt (glue a piece of ham, cool) and **Man kan knarka och hamna i TV (You can do drugs and end up on TV)**. [/QUOTE] (bolding mine) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-musical-flash-thing/425957.md?page=2)