Wolpe

Some time ago Rhea and I attended a concert presented by the Juilliard String Quartet, a truly superb ensemble. The 2 numbers before the intermission were the Mozart D-minor quartet, K.173 and Stefan Wolpe's Quartet (1969) in that order. This particular Mozart is not one of my favorites and I promptly dozed off. I awoke in time for the Wolpe. By the time intermission arrived I had long since concluded that my dislike for the Mozart, notwithstanding, I had slept through the wrong quartet.

On the program it was noted that the Quartet was dedicated to his mother. The music was so raucous and dissonant that I concluded that he must have disliked her intensely.

Jet Propelled Aircraft

Near the end of World War II the German Luftwaffe introduced a jet-propelled aircraft, the ME-262. It quickly became a topic of intensive and wide discussion in allied military circles. Shortly thereafter in the Pentagon a memorandum was circulated to the effect that in correspondence, "jet-propelled aircraft would not repeat not be referred to as blow jobs".

Environmentalists

It sometimes seems that:

On Mondays environmentalists picket nuclear power plants in the hope that they will be shut down.

On Tuesdays environmentalists picket utilities in the hope they will stop using coal or oil.

On Wednesdays environmentalists picket oil companies in the hope that they will stop drilling oil wells.

On Thursdays environmentalists picket coal companies in the hope that they will stop mining coal.

On Fridays environmentalists picket lumber companies in the hope they will stop cutting trees down.

On weekends environmentalists sit around by candlelight shivering in the cold worrying if they have overlooked something.