Something amusing that I've just run across

[The Mad Hatter]

Now you've gone and done it. They'll be after you, now.

Never mind, at worse you could be forced to listen to Sinopoli's cycle which is more of the latter than the former.

Good thing you avoided any comment on Bruckner. That could have been really bloody!

Mozart is played at our unmanned railway stations and multi-storey car parks. It keeps the vandals and petty criminals away.

Can't see Mahler doing that, somehow.

Hey, don't get me wrong, I love Mahler! But he was often banal, and occasionally deliberately so. Listen to the dance in the first symphony, for goodness' sake.

Josquin: I love it!

[greg]

DITTERSDORF EFFECT
Child speaks in predictable simple sentences in subject-verb-object order, then speaks in more predictable simple sentences in subject-verb-object order.

reminds me of how SCHNITTKE EFFECT children also end up speaking in all types of orders and disorders, too, like SVO, SOV, OVS, OSV, VSO, and VOS. Schnittke was Russian, so SCHNITTKE EFFECT children can do that sorta thing (even if it doesn't make sense in their native language).

[Kullervo]

PIERRE BOULEZ EFFECT:

Child speaks in a tight, controlled way that makes you think he's about ready to go off the deep end, and then he insults anyone who doesn't speak like him in the grossest terms possible.

It's funny because it's true!

[The Mad Hatter]

PIERRE BOULEZ EFFECT:

Child speaks in a tight, controlled way that makes you think he's about ready to go off the deep end, and then he insults anyone who doesn't speak like him in the grossest terms possible.

So he's pretty much a regular child, then?

[greg]

UBLOOBIDEEGA EFFECT
continues lifelong quest for the destruction of the universe
fails miserably at everything
likes black hole music, whatever that is
likes to kill ants and live at the gas station in a cardboard box

[Kullervo]

UBLOOBIDEEGA EFFECT
continues lifelong quest for the destruction of the universe
fails miserably at everything
likes black hole music, whatever that is
likes to kill ants and live at the gas station in a cardboard box

*gasping at the mention of He-Who-is-Never-Funny*

[PSmith08]

So he's pretty much a regular child, then?

I don't know too many tightly controlled kids seemingly ready to go off the deep end. YMMV.

[Bonehelm]

STRAVINSKY EFFECT - Child swears at 100dB and burst out in high-pitched cries ocassionally. He talks, stops, talks, stops...and then changes to talks..talks..stop...talk..stoppppp...talkkkk...stoppppp...talk. Then he goes to talks...stopppppp....talks..talks.talks.talks.talks.stop.stop.talklkkkkk...stopss...stops..

At last, the child screams and dies from dehydration due to the overly intense and violent blabbering.

[Kullervo]

STRAVINSKY EFFECT - Child swears at 100dB and burst out in high-pitched cries ocassionally. He talks, stops, talks, stops...and then changes to talks..talks..stop...talk..stoppppp...talkkkk...stoppppp...talk. Then he goes to talks...stopppppp....talks..talks.talks.talks.talks.stop.stop.talklkkkkk...stopss...stops..

At last, the child screams and dies from dehydration due to the overly intense and violent blabbering.

[Bonehelm]

How could you not get that one....

[karlhenning]

Wasn't that THE BEETHOVEN EFFECT? . . .

[The Mad Hatter]

I don't know too many tightly controlled kids seemingly ready to go off the deep end. YMMV.

I was referring to the second part. Although now that you mention it...

What's YMMV?

[Philoctetes]

Mahler Effect
Porcupine

Telemann Effect
Lacks the ability to shut the hell up.
And then they die.

And the Satie one was grossly inaccurate.

[karlhenning]

What's YMMV?

Your Mileage May Vary

[George]

I was referring to the second part. Although now that you mention it...

What's YMMV?

Your
Mileage
May
Vary

[Kullervo]

No, the Stravinsky Effect would go something like this...

Early in life child says things merely to gain attention, often using very cumbersome phrases. Later becomes very cool and mannered, impressing others with his/her mastery of grammar. Nearing the end of the child's life, the child imitates his/her friends' idiosyncratic speech. 

_{In all seriousness, I really do like Stravinsky.}

[The Mad Hatter]

No, the Stravinsky Effect would go something like this...

Early in life child says things merely to gain attention, often using very cumbersome phrases. Later becomes very cool and mannered, impressing others with his/her mastery of grammar. Nearing the end of the child's life, the child imitates his/her friends' idiosyncratic speech. 

_{In all seriousness, I really do like Stravinsky.}

You've nailed him, though

[PSmith08]

No, the Stravinsky Effect would go something like this...

Early in life child says things merely to gain attention, often using very cumbersome phrases. Later becomes very cool and mannered, impressing others with his/her mastery of grammar. Nearing the end of the child's life, the child imitates his/her friends' idiosyncratic speech. 

_{In all seriousness, I really do like Stravinsky.}

One of the interesting co-pathologies of the Boulez Effect is to be able to bully people who evinced the Stravinsky Effect into speaking like Boulez Effect-people.