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From: ssipila@convex.csc.FI (Seppo Sipila)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Save your day with Grolier's CD-ROM encyclopedia and audio CD program
Date: 23 Feb 1994 10:56:51 GMT
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Hi, everyone. I'm probably not the first one to suggest this,
but since I got a good laugh out of it, I'll do it anyway. 

I got Grolier's CD-ROM encyclopedia (1992 edition) free when I bought a 
Panasonic 562B. One evening, I was doing some editing work on the PC.
My wife happened to be in the room, too. I thought about playing some
music in the background to make the work less boring. So, I thought I
had an audio CD in the CD-ROM drive and started the QCD audio CD
player program. It wasn't an audio CD, it was Grolier's encyclopedia.

One of Bach's Brandenburger Concertos started playing, but all of a
sudden it was mixed with the cries of some tropical bird. One by one,
we heard excerpts from all the great works of music raped by the
weirdest noises, whoops, grunts and roars of the Animal Kingdom. We
almost died laughing when in the middle of Wagner's Ride of the
Valkyries, at the most pompous moment, a duck or something started
croaking. Then there were a lot of sound examples of musical
instruments, not very funny, but at the end of the audio track (track
n:o 2) there was - what else but - Sousa's "Stars and Stripes", during
which we heard (through our own roars of laughter) something that 
sounded like the grunting of a sex-starved big ape.

Just a hint on how to misuse your hard&software to produce 
funny effects... 

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