Once renowned from Italy to Austria, the baroque composer Freidrich Wilhelm Ribbit (1698 – 1732) was once considered a contemporary of the great Bach himself. Alas, his career ended when an errant blast from a tuba blew him from the conductors podium and down the bodice of the Countess Elena Maria Shoshanna Fofanna Banana of Spain, causing an international incident.
Scholarly submitted by Andrew Y. (Photo by Tanto Yensen via Bored Panda.)
OK this has got to be photoshopped but I don’t care, he too cute, but I prefer the name you gave him on Facebook, Johann Sebastian Croak ?
Perhaps not Photoshopped, because I found another photo from this session at the Mirror. But ‘shopped or not, I think all of the photos by this artist are staged.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/force-strong-one-frog-bears-9327302
I guess snails are no better than kittens for photography models…
Yes, stadged is what I meant.
P.S. that is one patient ?
Cracked juxtaposition of zany pic and silly story. Those long Spanish names always make me smile. Exactly riffed, Mr. Mike.
I see you are familiar with The Name Game Mike. Rather dates us both. ?
Staged or no, it’s a brilliant pic with equally brilliant witticism attached – if I’d had anything in my mouth I’d be screen-cleaning right now. (I thought the countess was one of the FeFi Fofannas, but I guess not)
That whole incident wasn’t Ribbit’s fault, though. The original sheet music for his opus “Let Us Proceed to the Hop” never called for a tuba in the first place!
“Let Us Proceed to the Hop!” Good one.
hee, hee. Reminds me, in concept, of a sports cheer I used to say at the extremely few sports games I ever attended – “Repel them repel them; force them to relinquish the ball.” (repeat as needed)
He wrote the ‘Forest Floor Fugue’ with these and with its success he upgraded to conch shells composing the ‘Ocean Canon’ which unfortunately was an echoey wash. *croak*
Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.
Jabba the Hut with Princess Lea hair? Ribbit.