Subject : Cemetery Humor > Music Man > > A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of > a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts > searching for the source. > > He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming > from a grave with a headstone that reads: > Ludwig van Beethoven, > 1770-1827. > > Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it > is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and > persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive > back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the > Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being > played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult a music > scholar. > > When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is > playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies > are being played in the reverse order in which they were > composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th. > > By the next day the word has spread and a throng has > gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the > Second Symphony being played backward. > > Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. > > Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation for > the music. > > "Don't you get it?" the caretaker says incredulously. > > He's decomposing.