[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Latest additions to the esteemed Harvard Dictionary of Music:

Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon mjl at ix.netcom.com
Wed Aug 9 11:58:50 PDT 2006


>>>CACOUGHANY: A composition incorporating many people with chest colds<<<

Has anyone ever tried, as a joke on the audience, the old ploy of Victor Borge, by saying at some point, "Now the next number is a number during which most people cough..."?  It'll probably always remain my favorite moment on all my Borge records, when he says this, and wave after wave of coughing arises from a distinctly embarrassed audience that knows it just proved the power of suggestion...,

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Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon, Vicar-general
North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
Archdiocese of California
www.naorc.org



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