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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
NYT ^
| 7/27/25
| Peter Keepnews and Richard Severo
Posted on 07/27/2025 9:59:50 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Publius
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posted on
07/27/2025 11:48:09 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
To: Borges
“... plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize —
Only be sure always to call it please ‘research’.”
“Lobachevsky”
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:03:01 PM PDT
by
decal
(They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
To: Borges
43
posted on
07/27/2025 12:05:50 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Borges
I was shocked to hear of his passing. I thought he was gone long ago. I listened to the Vatican Rag in college in the late 60’s early 70’s.
wy69
To: decal
And for you classical music lovers, there’s always “Alma.”
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:07:45 PM PDT
by
decal
(They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
To: dfwgator
Sorry, I never heard of him.
To: wjcsux
Great song. Also love New Math and Old Mexico.
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:09:38 PM PDT
by
mairdie
To: Borges
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:10:27 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Borges
49
posted on
07/27/2025 12:12:58 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Borges
Rest in Peace you funny guy. I played his "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" for my wife and daughter. They laughed themselves silly yet regretted it just a little.
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:14:46 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
To: Borges
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:15:51 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
To: Skooz
To: Borges
Makes me think a little of Victor Borge.
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:33:35 PM PDT
by
ChessExpert
(Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
To: Publius
Whoa. I didn’t realize he was still alive. Lucky man to have lived such a long life. Maybe something to be said for having a wicked sense of humor.
I’m sure he ticked some people off but as for the rest of us, we loved him.
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posted on
07/27/2025 12:41:43 PM PDT
by
radu
(God bless our military men and women, past and present)
To: ChessExpert
Borge was a genius.
We’re just not producing entertainers like these anymore.
55
posted on
07/27/2025 1:20:39 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Publius
I think that may be where I saw him.
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posted on
07/27/2025 2:37:17 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Borges
a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country A Beatnik? Cool, Daddio!
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posted on
07/27/2025 2:45:54 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
To: Jamestown1630
We had the forbidden Tom Lehrer album “That Was The Year That Was” that stayed locked up in the office cruise box for 50 years!
I think Mom & Dad won it at a KofC party raffle. “Do The Vatican Rag”? Scandalous!
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posted on
07/27/2025 3:13:54 PM PDT
by
pingman
("Step right up! Get your free helicopter ride, courtesy of Pinochet Air!")
To: Borges
For those of you of the right age to remember The Electric Company, Lehrer sang “The LY Song”
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posted on
07/27/2025 5:02:14 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either)
To: Borges
Well, he was a Harvard math grad who got to 96 without killing people, so there’s that ...
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posted on
07/27/2025 5:13:03 PM PDT
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