Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 26, 2019
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the beethoven's birthday song sung to "ode to joy" beethoven: ach, bitte. don't sing. come and listen to the story of a mean named ludwig van, born the sixteenth of december, in the german town of bonn. wrote concertos. quartets, sonatas, missa solemnis & min-u-ets. kleinbeethovenkopfboutique sale beethoven: verdammter! and he never made a penny from those ugly stat-u-ettes.
17 December 1770 was the day of the First Boston Tea Party. Ludwig was baptized on that day in 1770, in 1903 Wilbur and Orville achieved powered heavier than air flight on that date and on that date in 1960 a girlfriend I had in high school was born. But she balked when I suggested we go for a plane ride on her 18th birthday. She was afraid of small airplanes, especially when I was doing the piloting. Thank goddess the Mrs, and the daughters, like small aircraft.