The Whistling Game
Oct. 22nd, 2004 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenBeen a busy week, and will be busy next week as I try to make a deadline while doing house-buying things (may have something soon!), but this job does have its good points.
My boss is in the next office along. You can always tell when he's around, because he whistles. A lot. Usually that would be irritating, but he's actually quite good and he has an impressive repertoire - I'm not sure I've ever heard him pick the same tune twice.
I've heard him whistle classical numbers, and Billy Idol's "White Wedding". And today... today he'd picked something aggravatingly familiar. I knew the melody, and there were oddities in the rhythm that are unique to this song - it's one of those that suddenly breaks out of itsr time signature and rambles on for a bit before dropping back into regular time again. But it took me several minutes to realise it was Tom Lehrer (Folksong Army, to be exact).
Damn, but that man is as much of a geek as I am.
My boss is in the next office along. You can always tell when he's around, because he whistles. A lot. Usually that would be irritating, but he's actually quite good and he has an impressive repertoire - I'm not sure I've ever heard him pick the same tune twice.
I've heard him whistle classical numbers, and Billy Idol's "White Wedding". And today... today he'd picked something aggravatingly familiar. I knew the melody, and there were oddities in the rhythm that are unique to this song - it's one of those that suddenly breaks out of itsr time signature and rambles on for a bit before dropping back into regular time again. But it took me several minutes to realise it was Tom Lehrer (Folksong Army, to be exact).
Damn, but that man is as much of a geek as I am.
