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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
Piano
Keys
Much
Smoked
Elephant
Elephants
Explaining
Yellow

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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.
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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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