# Straight Dope -- the Musical.  No, the OPERA!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 3, 2002, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165 "2002-08-03T12:35:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165/41 "2002-08-07T00:55:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Elenfair \*  
> \*\*::: peers from her balcony at lno, hiding in the shade below :::
> 
> Ah! tu sais que la nuit te cache mon visage!  
> Tu le sais! si tes yeux en voyaient la rougeur!  
> Elle te rendrait témoignage  
> De la pureté de mon cœur!
> 
> …
> 
> LNO, STOP CHUCKLING, DAMNIT!
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> (for the curious, that’s Gounod, Roméo et Juliette)
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> E. \*\*

Me, Ferdinand Quimhunter III, Peering up a the balcony, oblivious to lno:

_Oh maiden fair, upon the square  
I fathom not thy tongue,  
Yet thy sweet breasts and golden hair  
are made for love, so pure and young,  
Care to give Ferdie a roll?  
Like yon bull of yore am I hung!_

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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165/42 "2002-08-07T00:56:26Z")

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Ahem.

:o Ma Ma Ma Ma  
Mi Mi Mi Mi  
Mo Mo Mo Mo  
Moo Moo Moo Moo  
My My My My

Ah- **HAAAAAAAAAAAA!**

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**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165/43 "2002-08-07T01:39:40Z")

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I knew that. :o  
Are we at the Valkyrie scene already? Where’s the script?

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**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165/44 "2002-08-07T02:46:27Z")

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Shouldn’t there be a camel stampede? And some emus? Emus are operatic.

May I help with the costumes, **hillbilly queen**? I can’t sing, but I _can_ sew.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165/45 "2002-08-07T03:14:43Z")

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Script?

This is going to be an extemporaneous Esperanto Rap Opera. Of course, once we’re finished playing it out, we’ll have to find an Esperanto translator.

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**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-the-musical-no-the-opera/122165/46 "2002-08-07T04:49:57Z")

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Can I be **Elenfair** ’s servant/handmaid, the kind who does her hair and clothes and has a shy, secret romance with the delivery boy? I can be in the chorus, too, if you have enough other singers to drown me out. Oh, and I’ll do the programs–somebody find a Babelfish Esperanto-to-English translator for me, will you?

😃

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