Pajama Pundits

Damn Internets!

~Phone rings~

Youngest daughter on other end...

"Mom, are you at your computer? We're at a restaurant, would you look up something for us? This is really bothering us..."

"Sure, what is it?" I ask, as I sit down to fire up the browser.

"Who wrote Hungarian Rhapsody?" she asks.

"Rachmaninoff." I answer, confidently. No need to Google that.

"No, no... that's what your perfect son-in-law thinks." [So, what more proof do you want? Your husband and your mother, both couldn't be wrong could they?] "It starts with an "S", the composer's name, but I can't think of it right now."

"Shostakovich?" I ask.

"Yes! that's it!" I hear her convey this info to her husband, as confident in Shostakovich as I am in Rachmaninoff.

By that time, this Google page is staring at me.

Mary (mail):
"Perfect" son in law? I think not... Close maybe.
7.5.2005 10:13pm
fling93 (www):
Well, heck, I've actually played the song (a two-piano version), and I couldn't remember who wrote it either.
7.11.2005 4:32pm