[Red Badger]

Ping!.Ping!.Ping!.Piiiiiiiing!.......................

[dfwgator]

[RummyChick]

paget’s disease

[Leaning Right]

I have long thought that one of Hillary’s ancestors used lead to poison Beethoven, all to gain some obscure political advantage. This story confirms my suspicions.

[golux]

For a musician, nothing could be more ironic.

Yet not as ironic, over time, as Beethoven's decomposition.

[wildcard_redneck]

Genetic testing of everyone would reveal that the “fairer sex” often strays and that many men wear the cuckold’s horns.

[HerrBlucher]

Tell Tchaikovsky the news......

[Clarancebeaks]

I’m surprised they didn’t “discover” that his great great grandfather was black which would explain his musical talent. It is black history month after all.

[LukeL]

Always chase your dream and never listen to naysayers. Did Beethoven listen when people told him he couldn’t write a symphony just because he was deaf?

[billorites]

[Ezekiel]

extrapair paternity event

Now there's a euphemism worth note.

[Mariner]

His late string quartets achieved the pinnacle of art.

He was both mostly bedridden and deaf when he wrote them without even a piano. Which he could not hear anyway.

[Colorado Doug]

I did not read the article. Is this the one that Netflix commissioned and determined that he was actually Black?

[MayflowerMadam]

It says the hair was “clipped”. I thought there has to be a follicle in order to extract DNA

[drSteve78]

Gluten intolerance, colon cancer.

[lurk]

All that from a hair sample. Amazing.

[Texan5]

He could have had severe food allergies, too-and it isn’t like there was any way to know about gluten intolerance, IBS, etc. the food choices were pretty limited for anyone who wasn’t a rich noble who could have food grown in a glass/green house or literally-shipped from someplace else...