The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28590   Message #355825
Posted By: mousethief
12-Dec-00 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Beethoven's birthday
Subject: RE: BS: Beethoven's birthday
If the 16th is good enough for Schroeder, it's good enough for me.

True story: Charles M. Schulz was visiting the gravesite of the great composer. Lots of people leave little mementoes on the grave; he reached into his pocket and pulled out a pin depicting Charlie Brown and left it on the grave. A German woman saw what he was doing, and said, ,,Nein! Nein! Nicht der Charlie Braun! Der Schröder!" Schulz of course fished around for a Schroeder pin and left that instead.

Alex