wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) (10/06/84)
> > ...and every hour, > > on the hour, a chorus of little beeps washed across the wrists > > of the audience like the mating calls of a flock of time birds. > Yeah, that's pretty annoying in a flick, it's probably worse in a > play. Worse yet at a concert. Murphy's Law being what it is, it's guaranteed that the watches will sound the D just below the E flat that the violins have just soared up to and are now playing pianissimo, the one that defines the whole mood of the slow movement... Bill Laubenheimer ----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill
grass@uiucdcsb.UUCP (10/22/84)
<> I have played in concerts where MEMBERS Of THE ORCHESTRA beeped on the hour. (admittedly amateurs, but...) Very annoying. -- Judy at Univ. of Illinois