"Snobby woman to teenage girls talking: Decrescendo, girls. Do you know what that means? It's an operatic term for 'lower your voices.'
Teenage girl: Actually, 'decrescendo' is a musical term for 'get softer,' and when you say get lower, you're actually referring to pitch, not volume.
--Metropolitan Opera Lobby
Overheard by: Maria"
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Comeuppance.
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