Sent by Reader Alison, this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Enjoy this seasonally appropriate exploration of editing.
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I found a Pinky-Winky video but could not inflict it on you. But the search turned up The Wonky Donkey, first in animated-video form . . .
. . . and then in Granny-reading form. Remember this?
So is this music? No.
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We have to realize that the child’s world is without economic purpose. A child doesn’t understand – happy ignorance – that people are paid to do things. To a child the policeman rules the street for self-important majesty; the furnace man stokes the furnace because he loves the noise of falling coal and the fun of getting dirty; the grocer is held to his counter by the lure of aromatic spices and the joy of giving. And in this very ignorance there is a grain of truth. The child’s economic world may be the one that we are reaching out in vain to find. Here is a path in the wood of economics that some day might be followed to new discovery. Meantime, the children know it well and gather beside it their flowers of beautiful illusion.
Source:Â On the Front Line of Life by Stephen Leacock; in John Robson's Words Worth Noting
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This one is sort of inspiring, don't you think?
2025 Nov 15 - And I have faced it. We can communicate on this theme.
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Thanks Isabel, and those tags/keywords are right on – Laughing Frequently, indeed!
Marion – Quite brilliant, I think, from the concept to the writing to the video and musical execution.
That’s hilarious!
Thanks, Isabel.
Tom
Tom – I thought the musicians and singers in the crowd would like it.
I admire the ingenuity that can pounce on a common small niggle and turn it into an art form. Thanks for the fun and for the inspiration, Isabel. Singing this Christmas carol will never again be (the) sane — I mean, same!
Laurna – IKR? The artistry at all levels in this piece is astounding IMO. I do wonder how he chose his YouTube name (Ramses the Pigeon). I’m thinking there’s a story there . . .
Yup, just what we talked about. Our choir director usually directs us not to breathe where the commas are in order to make the music flow. Thus, I ignore all punctuation in singing. Choirs can get away with this by what’s known as “stagger breathing”, in which each person silently breathes in places other singers are not breathing. And no one seems the least bit interested in the detailed meaning of the lyrics, just the overall sentiment of the song. Which is good, given how some songs are written, as we lamented on Friday. Thanks for the video!
Judith – Well, when it’s not a legal contract, the overall sentiment would seem to be sufficient. 🙂 Interesting to think about choir management, which has not been in my line at all, from either side.
The interesting thing about choirs (chorales, even orchestras — musicians in general, perhaps) is trying to get them to act as a single living entity. Singers, horn players, etc., have to breathe as one. Apparently, even their heartbeats tend to coordinate.
The project work you used to do, Isabel, required people to think as one (for the duration of the project, at least). Musical rendering requires people to live and breathe as one (for a few minutes). They may have radically different politics and/or morals, but for those moments of performance, there can be no individualism.
Jim T
Jim T – Ah. An interesting connection to something I do understand. 🙂 Thanks.
And when this happens, there is flow — the “hive” mind in a good sense. Some of the peak experiences in my whole life have been singing in a choir of 60 voices — a capella.
As for horn players, the better they can SING through their instruments the better.
Barbara – 🙂 I did not know you had sung in a choir, a capella or otherwise.
Isabel – my nomination for the editor’s anthem.
John – Noted. Awards ceremony to be held post-COVID.