Practice problems.

GregW said
ELCB said

All in good fun...

 

  

I've heard a much longer version of this joke.

An orchestra was putting on a performance of Beethoven's 9th. During the concert, the air conditioning went out, and by the time the last movement was about to start the orchestra was sweating so profusely that they decided to bring out huge fans to keep the orchestra cool. While this was going on, the bass section, tired of waiting, decided to go to a bar across the street for a few drinks. Meanwhile, on the stage, the fans were in place, and the conductor's score kept blowing away when the fans were turned on, so he decided to tie the pages down to his stand. Finally, the conductor was ready to continue. The basses were missing, the fans made a lot of noise, and the pages were hard to turn when the score was tied to the stand. But the delay had gone on long enough, and the orchestra continued the concert anyway. Finally, the basses staggered back onto stage in the middle of the movement. They were all extremely drunk, and two of them had passed out. The conductor was furious. It was the bottom of the Ninth, the score was tied, the basses were loaded, there were two out, and the fans were going wild!