With which i mixed up names of Saber Dance, by Khachturian (roommate, keep your clothes on), is actually Fucik's Entrance of the Gladiators.
It's also the original Ringling Brothers theme from 1930, which were known rather curiously as screamer marches.
My labmate thought i was was whistling the Benny Hill theme Yakety Sax, which happens to incorporate 2 bars of Entrance of the Gladiators. i didn't know this, and thus launched a 7 minute troll through youtube and wikipedia, which satisfying ended with the answer that we're both right. Although said labmate is from Baraboo, WI, home to the Circus World Museum, so i don't know why the first reference was Benny Hill? Tsk. (Teasing, Ryan.)
You know you're a grad student when your Friday night plans include cross-referencing theme music from the circus.
Another article i enjoyed today concerned the game show The Price Is Right, but with one caveat; Plinko is NOT stupid.
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