Saturday, December 31, 2005

Happy New Year

Wouldn’t it have been funny if instead of a fiddle, Nero had played a tuba as Rome burned?

17 comments:

morbid misanthrope said...

hulabelly - It would have changed history...well, except that whole throwing Christians to the lions bit.

Anonymous said...

happy new year !

drunkbh said...

Did they have tubas in 64 AD? I'm too lazy to look it up. Either way it's an interesting thought.

morbid misanthrope said...

just thinking - Happy New Year to you as well.

drunkbh - No, they didn't have tubas back then - not in the form they exist now, anyway. Although, an early form of tuba was the Roman buccina; a spiraled infantry bugle. The tuba's current design didn't show up until the 1870's.

Coincidentally, I don't believe ukeleles were around in Nero's day, but a ukelele-playing Nero would have been funny too. It wouldn't have had the same meaning as Nero playing a tuba, but it also paints a funny picture.

badgerbob said...

Willow, an idiot savant? how appropriate for you to mention that.

Anonymous said...

I see willow and bob are back to normal...

morbid misanthrope said...

rude - That makes a lot of sense. Then, as my brother noted, "he could have played with his meat-needle."

willow - Very interesting idea, that. Then the unborn ghost of Liberace could have played his ghost piano alongside Nero. That sounds like a Disney animated movie just waiting to happen.

badgerbob/willow - Others have suggested the two of you get married. I, on the other hand, would much rather see you two starring in your very own, prime-time, ABC sitcom with a gratuitous laughtrack and a bumbling, slightly neurotic, next-door neighbor.

hulabelly - I must give Nero some credit. Playing the fiddle - or violin in my case - can be quite difficult. Of course, the history books never said Nero played well.

just thinking - And in rather good form as usual.

Anonymous said...

I think they SHOULD get married...

morbid misanthrope said...

willow - I'd still watch if you two had a sitcom. Hell, anything is better than Will and Grace.

badgerbob said...

Enough of your mindless drivel, willow.
Morb , we your readers, are in need of a new post.

morbid misanthrope said...

badgerbob - I'll be getting to that as soon as possible; unfortunately, business deadlines come first. This is just another example of the man keeping me down...damn, that's a ridiculous thing to say even when you're joking.

drunkbh said...

New post????

You can repost the one about food. that one is still my favorite.

morbid misanthrope said...

drunkbh - Thanks for the idea. Cheers.

Anonymous said...

Roman version of Fiddler on the Roof? :)

morbid misanthrope said...

bayi -- God, I hope no wrestling is involved.

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