One for Chuck

[Chuck]

So, is this what it feels like to be popular...

[pet-els]

A TOURIST IN VIENNA IS GOING THROUGH A GRAVEYARD AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
HE HEARS MUSIC.

No one is around, so he starts searching for the source.
He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with
a headstone that reads: "Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770- 1827".
Then he realizes that the music is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and it
is being played backward!

Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with
him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed.
This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it
is being played backwards.

Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar.
When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing,
again backwards.

The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse
order in which they were composed,
the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.

By the next day the word has spread, and a crowd has gathered around
the grave.
They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward.
Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group.

Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation for the music.
"I would have thought it was obvious,” the caretaker says.
"He’s decomposing."

PeterH

[Newcastle George]

Your best one so far Peter.

George

[Helen Grose]

Haha well done Peter
Helen [emoji23]

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[Noggins]

This was told to me by an old bloke I met many years ago
I'll call him Jack ( 'cos that was his name)
Anyway one of Jacks jobs in the small town where he lived ( Old Tallanatta Vic ) was grave digger, one day he got a call to dig a fresh hole for the next day and if possible have it all dressed and ready by 11.30 .

So Jack went down to the grave yard early one foggy / misty morning and started digging a standard 6' deep grave .
He said it was an exact science to get the sides straight up and down 'cos he wouldn't like the Priest to slip in like he did on one of his first holes.

Anyway to cut a long story short he's about to finish the hole and reached in his vest pocket ..................... NO Bloody Smokes , he'd left them home on the kitchen table.

Ahh SHite ! ! ............... well a bloke'd have to wait till it's all finished .

Then old Arty wanders past on his way to the pub for a start on his daily routine supporting the publican
Jack hears him going past and "thinks" Artie can get me some smokes from the pub"

So he reaches up out of the hole , standing on the small steps he uses and calls out to Artie.

Hey Artie ..... Hey Artie .. over here .

Old Artie takes one look and screeches one long loud wail and takes off flat out down the road .
Old Jack falls back into the grave laughing his head off.

Later he went down to the pub and old Artie has about 8 empty shot glasses in front of him sadly weeping and hand shaking as he threw another whisky down the chute.

Old Jack strolls over and says
"What's up Artie ? ... Yer look like yer seen a ghost"

Artie tells him he saw the devil calling him from a fresh grave and although he's done a few things this life he ain't ready to go yet ( he's got a pub to support --- like he's done since he sold the farm ).

Then Jack told him it was him and explained it all slowly and clearly , so after a few beers and chasers they decided to go up to the grave yard and sorta drop in on the funeral , well the people have all gone and Artie looks down on the coffin , then nearly fell in on it.

Jack reckoned he nearly wet himself rolling around on the grass laughing and still can't tell it without a bit of a laugh.
Reckoned Artie never went to the pub by that road again and took a 2 mile detour .


Ron
P.S this was told to me as a true story , The Old Tallangatta grave yard is now under Dam water