Over valley and hill there is no finer thrill

[venta]

Last night, I managed to reduce secutatrix, liriselei and andykittie to a spluttering heap with a single sentence. I am very proud of this.

However, it seems the reason I managed it is that they were deprived children.

They never had sung to them the song about The Hole In The Elephant's Bottom.

That's the only version I can find online, which is not the version I know - it's quite like it, but it's missing the chorus, and the words, though broadly similar, are not the same.

Note for the mother: do you have a recording of F&F singing it anywhere ?

Update: and if anyone can tell me how to get the mp3 to work properly under Firefox, I'd be grateful. It's not like I particularly want to listen to it, just that it's annoying that, despite me having the correct version of QuickTime installed, it doesn't work.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

The mp3? The bottom link in the page? Works fine for me...

Or the "click" button at the top? Which, for me, under Opera says: This page requires that you download and install a plugin, but does not specify which one.

Under Firefox, I didn't get the "click" button, but a "install a plugin" icon, which tries to install quicktime (and fails until I get myself admin permissions).

The URL it's trying to play from is http://www.immortalia.com/sounds/field-recordings/from-internet/00%20-%20The%20Hole%20In%20The%20Elephant's%20Bottom.mp3

[wimble.livejournal.com]

LJ can't handle apostrophe's in it's auto-linking code.

Try this instead

[venta.livejournal.com]

The mp3? The bottom link in the page? Works fine for me...

Thanks, that's helpful :)
It just takes me to another page which has the message about requiring you to install additional plug-ins.

I already have QT installed, I shouldn't need any rights at all.

I know what it sounds like, because I fired up IE to listen to it, so I don't really care to listen in this instance. I just want to know why FF won't behave.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

The link at the bottom (of the elephant?) is

The Second Eleven
Outrageous Rugby Songs
Hole In The Elephant's Bottom Time: 1:43

which goes to an mp3, not another page :)

Ok, well, I'll look at why Firefox is silly then, rather than trying to work around it :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. I was looking at the other link at the bottom. Yes, the very bottom one does just go to an mp3.

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

If its any comfort FF keeps demanding I install the QT plugin thing too (even though it is installed) This turned out to be a complete nuisance during some levels of notpron even with the suggested third party extension that the bulletin boards reccomended.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm... having had my problem solved for me (below (http://www.livejournal.com/users/venta/145948.html?thread=2285852#t2285852)) you might want to try the same and see if it works for you.

(This comment now with correct html, hopefully :)