Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2023 March 2

= March 2 =

Dark Side of the Moon - digital downloads?
Is there any word on if the 50th anniversary The Dark Side of the Moon will be available in high-resolution downloaded files? I mean the new stereo mix. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:14, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * From what I can see by Googling "dark side of the moon 50th anniversary digital download shows some promising places to get it. Amazon for example, offers an mp3 download.  -- Jayron 32 11:52, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I want a high-resolution download, not mp3, but it seems that they will be available. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 16:24, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Fishy prose
A long time ago (personally speaking; I'm thinking early 1970's) I heard a radio programme (almost certainly on BBC Radio 4) wherein the following story was told/read.

A man desired to join an exclusive society of piscatorial epicures. Entrance was (at least partly) by examination. He was served a dish of rare and desirable Japanese puffer fish (one of the varieties that needs great care in preparation to remove all the poisonous parts) and was then asked to write an account of his experience. He waxed lyrical about the appearance, smell, flavour and aftertaste of this wondrous dish. When he was afterwards informed that the dish served to him was plain boiled code, he became greatly downcast, thinking he had completely failed as a connoisseur of seafood, but he was told no! such an account of so simple a dish is exactly what was expected of members of the society, and therefore he was admitted.

That outcome has stuck with me ever since. I scarcely expect anyone to remember the broadcast, but I am hoping that the reading was of a published short story, or episode of a longer work. Does anyone recognise it? -- Verbarson talkedits 21:44, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * A plate of boiled code? Perhaps boilerplate code? --Lambiam 11:28, 3 March 2023 (UTC)


 * If it had finished with an excruciating pun then it's exactly the sort of yarn spun by Muir and Norden at the end of My Word!. DuncanHill (talk) 12:29, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I was also familiar with the My Word! stories,  so I am certain it was not one of those - there was no pun, though the printed version might well end Fin. (As for boiled code, I fear my profession has spilled over into my leisure time. I rather think the story was set in a time preceding computers, so only boiled cod was available from the server.) -- Verbarson  talkedits 13:46, 3 March 2023 (UTC)