January 3, 2006

"Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"

Posted by pete at January 3, 2006 4:41 PM

They found Mozart's skull, eh?

Have scientists found Mozart's skull? Researchers said Tuesday they'll reveal the results of DNA tests in a documentary film airing this weekend on Austrian television as part of a year of celebratory events marking the composer's 250th birthday. The tests were conducted last year by experts at the Institute for Forensic Medicine in the alpine city of Innsbruck, and the long-awaited results will be publicized in "Mozart: The Search for Evidence," to be screened Sunday by state broadcaster ORF.

Past tests were inconclusive, but this time, "we succeeded in getting a clear result," lead researcher Dr. Walther Parson, a renowned forensic pathologist, told ORF. He said the results were "100 percent verified" by a U.S. Army laboratory, but refused to elaborate.

The skull in question is one that for more than a century has been in the possession of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, the elegant Austrian city where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on Jan. 27, 1756.

They didn't want to use "Mozarteum," but "Imaginarium" was already taken.

So was "Requiemenagerie." Probably.

The Foundation's just lucky this guy didn't find it:

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Too obscure?

It sounds more like a Mozartuary. I think we should have a Mozartorium on Mozalogisms.

And it's a good thing they didn't use the Houston Crime Lab to verify their results.

--Posted by Michael on January 3, 2006 4:53 PM

The Foundation's just lucky this guy didn't find it:


Eeewww. Must you?

--Posted by blurker gone bad on January 3, 2006 5:17 PM

Michael, at the risk of ruining any of my hard, thugged-out street cred, I must say that "Mozartuary" made me guffaw out loud.

You don't post enough, good sir.

--Posted by The Thing That Walks Like A Man on January 3, 2006 11:07 PM

>The Foundation's just lucky this guy didn't find it

It took me about 5 seconds, but may i say, that is pretty damned good.

--Posted by flyno20 on January 4, 2006 1:56 AM

Perfectly Cromulent, alright.

"Hi, I'm Troy McClure, you might remember me from such films as: "They found Mozart's Skull!" and "Full Metal Condom."

--Posted by Grotesqueticle on January 4, 2006 7:57 AM

TTTWLaM: I blush. Pete and his commenterati are a fast crowd with teh funny and it's nice to be noticed in it. However, if you did not spew beverage from your nose (the goal of all comedy, ever, and the reason comedy clubs have a 2 drink minimum), then my work is not done.

In general would advise you to stick to Pete, as he published 32 blog posts in December as opposed to my four, and his were generally funnier than my putting-Matt-Damon's-head-on-Jack-Lemmon's-body-in-a-dress photoshop efforts.

--Posted by Michael on January 4, 2006 12:41 PM

R. Lee Ermey strikes again. Obscure? Maybe. Apropos? Extremely.

--Posted by on January 4, 2006 2:47 PM



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