WARNING - WARNING - WARNING!!!
Watch out for this
Virus that Strikes Musicians!!!

from New Scientist magazine,
with embellishments by Rudi Treutlein, rtreutl@TPGI.COM.AU.

If anyone attempts to teach you a tune titled "Join the Crew", do notlisten!

This is not a traditional jig or reel but a Balkan virus in 13/8time whose insidious counter-Celtic rhythms will erase all tunes in yourmemory and the memory of anyone who hears it replacing them with randomexcepts from Snoop Doggy Dogg's greatest hits.

Please send this message to as many musicians as you can. This is a newvirus and not many people know about it. There are reports of jam sessionsin as many as 42 cities (so far) being destroyed by this virus, with as manyas 300 former musicians able to only sit helplessly at their muteinstruments while reciting Snoop Doggy Dogg.

At this point it has not yet been confirmed that the virus affects theinstruments as well.

With the amount of bamboo in use in musical instruments, it mightwell pay for us to be on the look-out for this virus, which could well be spread through *.wav file attachments to e-mail messages. Should your computerplay the file within the hearing of an A.donax grove for instance, the mindboggles at the effect on the bagpipe reed industry, especially in view ofthe mind-altering alkaloids present in the plant.