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“It was like a flash right in my eyes. I saw in my head Squidward with his clarinet lodged in his throat and then SpongeBob does the Heimlich maneuver and the clarinet comes flying out of his mouth,” she said.

“I had no clue what I was doing until it was done.”

Allyson said when she realized she couldn’t breathe “it was the scariest moment of my life. I was thinking ‘I’m going to die. What will my parents think?’ ”

RTWT

What I think is so funny is the “What will my parents think?” line. Ah yes ….

(I read it first at The Buzzing Reed.)

PS Never swallow a clarinet. Advice you can use. (The girl was actually choking on a piece of gum.)

… along with some clothing and shoes that don’t grab anyone’s attention:

A Cacophony of Musical Playthings in the Desert

There are complete skins of animals, dried, tied and knotted, their orifices fitted with hollow canes and reeds. Other hides are stretched taut over enormous gourds. Strings, spun from intestines, are pulled and pegged into the ends of long necks. Antlers, bones and horns are cut, carved and drilled. Elephant, goat, antelope, lizard, gazelle — the skins of all are used.

Music is noble, ethereal, seductive, thrilling, but spend time gazing at some of the 12,000 instruments that the new Musical Instrument Museum has collected in time for its Saturday opening — about 3,000 are on display in a new 190,000-square-foot building on 20 acres in northern Phoenix — and you are overwhelmed by something else. These instruments from around the world are haunted by the animal world and its natural setting.

I read about the music museum here.

It’s in Arizona.