Metropol

Well hello there luvvies - allow me to SLIP into NICK HARVEY mode for a moment whilst I tell YOU a story...

Just yesterday, back home for my Christmas holiday from uni, I was forced to take a bus full of schoolchildren home (I like how I phrased that so I'll keep it). One of the year 8 girls (estimated) behind me made a flippant reference to Mozart. Their conversation then steered onto "WHO'S MOZART"?!

HOW CAN THEY NOT KNOW THAT?!

So I'm starting a poll here, and be honest - had you at least heard of Mozart in a musical context when you were that age? I'm a bit gutted about standards I must say!

And yes, I set them straight very politely. They called me rude.

And no matter what The Sun tells you, I am not a paedophile.

Yeah it seems i've always known who Mozart is. Weird you say that cos we were watching a film about him during Music lesson today.

There were two Mozarts, W.A. Mozart and L. Mozart, who composed the 'Toy Symphony', basically a jaunty little ditty reinforced by having lots of silly 'cuckoo' noises and things through it. In Monty Python, Mozart was a rat catcher! There was two Strauss's as well weren't there?
I did find it a bit incredible that when John Peel died, my girlfriend asked... "Who's John Peel?" She still bought me his biography for Christmas mind you.

Sput wrote:And no matter what The Sun tells you, I am not a paedophile.

My computer (specifically Microsoft Word) has decided to take the liberty of, whenever I type "ts", corrrecting it to "The Sun" (with capital letters, of course). It appears to have adopted a severe case of Murdochism.

Perhaps I should tell it the story about the computer that had no motherboard.

Mozart used to live rough near me

well actually it was a tramp who had an ear missing