IP: \For your amusement..

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Timothy Sliski" <tjs () ibm net>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: For your amusement..
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:05:58 -0400
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>
> A friend of mine forwarded the following... I don't know if there's any
> validity to it, but for myself as a classical
> musician-as-well-as-computer-scientist, I find the thought rather
> entertaining:
> ----
>
> I ran an AltaVista search to verify (1) this is ALL over the Web, and (2)
> the text is authentic.  Absolutely, completely and totally hilarious!
>
> > The classically-minded among us may have noted a new
> > TV ad for Microsoft's  Internet Explorer e-mail program,
> > which uses the musical theme of  the "Confutatis Maledictis"
> > from Mozart's "Requiem."
> >
> > "Where do you want to go today?" is the cheery
> > line on the screen.
> >
> > Meanwhile, the chorus sings "Confutatis maledictis,
> > flammis acribus addictis,"  ...which means: "The damned
> > and accursed are convicted to flames of hell."