Were You Aware Of How Loud Your Verdi Was, Sir?
According to an article on the CBC News webpage, listening to Wagner can be hazardous to your health. At least if you're driving. Under no circumstances should you listen to his
Ride of the Valkyries when behind the wheel. Apparently it's just as dangerous as polishing off half a tequila bottle and revving up the ol' engine block.
You can check out the article here: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/drivingsongsno20040414
I actually find it vastly amusing that two operatic/orchestral songs rank amongst the top three "No-No"'s on the list. What I subsequently find disturbing is that while I'm quite familiar with all of the "won't-somebody-think-of-the-children's-eardrums?!" songs listed in the article, all of the songs they happen to mention there on the "safe" list I don't even recognize in the slightest.
In other news, I see that the *cough* escourt service in our apartment complex has come to an abrupt end with the...shall we say, administrative heads moving out. Yes, you read that right. I was rather surprised to find out that said service was being run not only in our apartment, but on our floor. Though on the other end of the corridor, so me learning about this entire thing after the fact is understandable.
Apparently there was an attempt to purge the entire escourt business from the complex, but legally they had done nothing wrong so their lease could not get revoked. Hell, there was a police sting operation to boot! All the superintendents could do was try to rack up enough complaints against them to justify giving them the boot. Again, I learned of this after the fact.
But it appears that in the end all this effort was somewhat unnecessary: the ecourt servicers (I confess I can't help but giggle as I type that) moved out shortly thereafter. I guess anonymity doesn't work when a john knocks on their door, and a bunch of heads from apartments down the hall poke out from the doorways, and everyone comments, "That's the third one in an hour! What is she, a machine?!"
Today's Lesson According To Mel: chocolate is usually better than sex. Unless it's hot wild monkey sex, which in fact
is much better than chocolate.
posted by Phillip at 8:03 AM
