OFF: Classical-music fans may have more brains

Doug Pearson jasret at MINDSPRING.COM
Mon Aug 20 15:05:21 EDT 2001


On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:08:42 -0400, Eric Siegerman <erics at TELEPRES.COM>
wrote:
>Reminds me of once in Grade 9 or 10 English class -- early '70s.
>The teacher was gloating over some claim that plants thrived if
>you played classical music at them, but suffered in some way I no
>longer recall -- stunted growth?  withering? -- if subjected to
>rock.)
>
>To which one of the class "losers" piped up: "Well, sir, that
>just goes to show we're not vegetables!"
>
>("Loser" was the teacher's term -- he'd never get away with that
>now, I suppose.)

Don't forget that Ramones music makes the heads of mice explode!!!

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com



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