Now some of you - a small number, that I know - will be chuckling away to yourselves and thinking "That's funny...and clever!" You are computer and opera geeks whether you like it or not. The rest of you will be going "Wha....?" Some of you who fall into the latter group will be curious as to just what the devil I am going on about. If you are among that number of the curious just click here and you will be taken to a page where I explain the joke.
So. You found your way to Live Journal.Let me explain the witticism in this week's post concerning dido. To appreciate it there are two things you need to understand:
1. Many web sites require you to have a user ID and a password for you to have access to the content of that site. Frequently the log-in page or panel will have a small box underneath the User ID and Password place marked 'Remember Me'. The purpose of this is as follows: if you click there the next time and each subsequent time that you return to the site once you have typed in your User ID your password will automatically be filled in thus obviating your having to remember what your password for that site is.
2. Towards the end of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, Dido decides to commit suicide but before she does, this being opera, she sings about it. Not just any old bit of yodelling either but an aria held by general acclaim to be one of the most beautiful and heart-wrenching arias in the entire Western opera canon. It's opening lines are "When I am dead and laid in earth..." After expressing about how she hopes her self-inflicted death won't cause too much trouble she cries "Remember me! But, ah, forget my fate!"
Okay. Now go back and look at the picture again. Get it ? As one might expect, it is funnier if one needn't explain it.
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