I cheated and googled Schwarzenegger’s name and “it’s not a” – apparently a famous line of his from Kingergarten Cop is “It’s not a tumor!”, in response to some kid saying his headache could be a tumour.
I don’t know if they had marching bands in Schwarzenegger’s school in Austria, but he didn’t go to a US high school, where I understand they proliferate. He didn’t go to the US until 1968, when he was 21.
As Narmitaj says, it’s a variant on the Kindergarten Cop quote. (I didn’t have to cheat!)
just saying the line with his accent is funny enouh
Here’s a popular Arnold-quoting joke that’s has been going around in recent years. Here in plain-text form:
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger were discussing who they were going to play in the new Hollywood Blockbuster: The Great Composers!
“I wanna be Beethoven,” said Stallone.
“I gotta be Mozart,” retorted Willis.
“What about you, Arnie?” they asked….
It also can be found with pictures[*] of the actors. Also variations in the dialogue, with different composers; or of the punch — either spelling it out what Arnold says, or having him demur with “Guys, I’m not going to say it!”.
[* Please don’t say that alternative presentation is “as a meme”. As far as I’m concerned, a joke that is “going around with variations” simply is a meme, already!]
The joke would have worked better if he drew a euphonium.
I got the joke. It’s wrong, though. A Sousaphone IS a type of Tuba. There are concert tubas that are played while seated. A Sousaphone can be played in a marching band. It is easier to carry, and can be played on the march. It’s still a tuba.
Pumping Brass.
Kindergarten Cop was 34 years ago. Almost needs a “geezer alert” tag…
Go see a “Tuba Christmas” event near you, if it’s not already too late for it. “Tuba” is a broad term for several specific instruments, including euphonium and sousaphone.
Meanwhile, who remembers a half-century-old line from Kindergarten Cop?
Go see a “Tuba Christmas” event near you, if it’s not already too late for it. “Tuba” is a broad term for several specific instruments, including euphonium and sousaphone.
Meanwhile, who remembers a half-century-old line from Kindergarten Cop?
I mean, lots of people remember it, Ed. I do, and I’ve never even seen the film. It was in the trailer and short and memorable.
Oddly, “tuba” is Latin for “trumpet”, as in the “Tuba Mirim” in a Requiem Mass. Italian for “trumpet” is “tromba.” “Trombone” is Italian for “big trumpet.” I can understand how the Italians got to naming the big trumpet before anyone else, but who decided to name the really big thing a “tuba” without taking into consideration the confusion it would cause? We can’t blame some Medieval person; the tuba was invented in the 19th century.
If for some reason you had to label orchestral parts in Latin (maybe for performances at the Vatican), obviously the trumpet part would be labeled “Tuba” but what would the tuba part be labeled?
MiB: And I fairly recently discovered that the French word for a paper clip is “trombone.”
But why is a tuba called that? “Tuba” was an old blanket term for a variety of horns, trumpets, and bugles. In 1835, Johann Gottfried Moritz called his invention the “basstuba” just because it had a lower tone than historical “tubas.” The name evolved from there.
MiB: And I fairly recently discovered that the French word for a paper clip is “trombone.”
But why is a tuba called that? “Tuba” was an old blanket term for a variety of horns, trumpets, and bugles. In 1835, Johann Gottfried Moritz called his invention the “basstuba” just because it had a lower tone than historical “tubas.” The name evolved from there.
If for some reason you had to label orchestral parts in Latin (maybe for performances at the Vatican), obviously the trumpet part would be labeled “Tuba” but what would the tuba part be labeled?
Tubissimo?
One instrument name I never understood is “recorder”. It has nothing to do with sound recording. Samuel Johnson defines it (3rd definition of “recorder”) in his dictionary of 1750 but gives no derivation, other than the general derivation “from ‘record'”.
Looking at Etymology Online, “recording” was a term for a bird singing a repetitive song over and over again. The recorder was an instrument which could sound like a bird.
I would look for a tuba concert to go to for Christmas – but, unfortunately, we will be spending a good part of the holiday season in 1775 as usual – and doing so manages to take up almost all of our time each Christmas season.
(We volunteer at the local restored village during their Christmas event with our reenactment unit Village is set in the mid 1800’s, but one house is set in the 1770s and we take it over for the event every year.)
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I cheated and googled Schwarzenegger’s name and “it’s not a” – apparently a famous line of his from Kingergarten Cop is “It’s not a tumor!”, in response to some kid saying his headache could be a tumour.
I don’t know if they had marching bands in Schwarzenegger’s school in Austria, but he didn’t go to a US high school, where I understand they proliferate. He didn’t go to the US until 1968, when he was 21.
As Narmitaj says, it’s a variant on the Kindergarten Cop quote. (I didn’t have to cheat!)
just saying the line with his accent is funny enouh
Here’s a popular Arnold-quoting joke that’s has been going around in recent years. Here in plain-text form:
It also can be found with pictures[*] of the actors. Also variations in the dialogue, with different composers; or of the punch — either spelling it out what Arnold says, or having him demur with “Guys, I’m not going to say it!”.
[* Please don’t say that alternative presentation is “as a meme”. As far as I’m concerned, a joke that is “going around with variations” simply is a meme, already!]
Yup. Riff on “not a tumor”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_FRWUPcR7Y
The joke would have worked better if he drew a euphonium.
I got the joke. It’s wrong, though. A Sousaphone IS a type of Tuba. There are concert tubas that are played while seated. A Sousaphone can be played in a marching band. It is easier to carry, and can be played on the march. It’s still a tuba.
Pumping Brass.
Kindergarten Cop was 34 years ago. Almost needs a “geezer alert” tag…
Go see a “Tuba Christmas” event near you, if it’s not already too late for it. “Tuba” is a broad term for several specific instruments, including euphonium and sousaphone.
Meanwhile, who remembers a half-century-old line from Kindergarten Cop?
Go see a “Tuba Christmas” event near you, if it’s not already too late for it. “Tuba” is a broad term for several specific instruments, including euphonium and sousaphone.
Meanwhile, who remembers a half-century-old line from Kindergarten Cop?
I mean, lots of people remember it, Ed. I do, and I’ve never even seen the film. It was in the trailer and short and memorable.
Oddly, “tuba” is Latin for “trumpet”, as in the “Tuba Mirim” in a Requiem Mass. Italian for “trumpet” is “tromba.” “Trombone” is Italian for “big trumpet.” I can understand how the Italians got to naming the big trumpet before anyone else, but who decided to name the really big thing a “tuba” without taking into consideration the confusion it would cause? We can’t blame some Medieval person; the tuba was invented in the 19th century.
If for some reason you had to label orchestral parts in Latin (maybe for performances at the Vatican), obviously the trumpet part would be labeled “Tuba” but what would the tuba part be labeled?
MiB: And I fairly recently discovered that the French word for a paper clip is “trombone.”
But why is a tuba called that? “Tuba” was an old blanket term for a variety of horns, trumpets, and bugles. In 1835, Johann Gottfried Moritz called his invention the “basstuba” just because it had a lower tone than historical “tubas.” The name evolved from there.
MiB: And I fairly recently discovered that the French word for a paper clip is “trombone.”
But why is a tuba called that? “Tuba” was an old blanket term for a variety of horns, trumpets, and bugles. In 1835, Johann Gottfried Moritz called his invention the “basstuba” just because it had a lower tone than historical “tubas.” The name evolved from there.
If for some reason you had to label orchestral parts in Latin (maybe for performances at the Vatican), obviously the trumpet part would be labeled “Tuba” but what would the tuba part be labeled?
Tubissimo?
One instrument name I never understood is “recorder”. It has nothing to do with sound recording. Samuel Johnson defines it (3rd definition of “recorder”) in his dictionary of 1750 but gives no derivation, other than the general derivation “from ‘record'”.
Looking at Etymology Online, “recording” was a term for a bird singing a repetitive song over and over again. The recorder was an instrument which could sound like a bird.
I would look for a tuba concert to go to for Christmas – but, unfortunately, we will be spending a good part of the holiday season in 1775 as usual – and doing so manages to take up almost all of our time each Christmas season.
(We volunteer at the local restored village during their Christmas event with our reenactment unit Village is set in the mid 1800’s, but one house is set in the 1770s and we take it over for the event every year.)