Posted on 07/27/2025 9:59:50 AM PDT by Borges
Always an interesting listen...RIP Tom.
RIP Mr. Lehrer. Thank you for making us smile.
Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter") also does a version of "The Elements" song
I’ll think of him every time I poison a pigeon...
That’s a bit sneering. And somewhat elitist.
CC
“Sing rickety tickets tin.”
Oops: “Sing rickety tickety tin.”
Autocorrect strikes again.
“Unfunny and juvenile after the third hearing. But he made some people feel smart and hip, and I guess they cherished him for that.”
Well said.
I loved him as a kid.
I still like and appreciate him to some degree.
I knew nothing about politics and puerile leftism when I was a kid.
“Hark, the Herald Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things
God rest ye merry merchants
May ye make the Yuletide pay
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and – buy!
So let the raucous sleighbells jingle
Hail our dear old friend Kriss Kringle
Driving his reindeer across the sky
Don’t stand underneath when they fly by”
Thanks, Tom, for all you did!
BTTT
I played “That was the Year that Was” relentlessly. In third grade, my friend Larry and I would sing songs off the album to our teacher.
First we got the bomb and that was good,
‘Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that’s O.K.,
‘Cause the balance of power’s maintained that way!
Who’s next?
The man was my hero. The only man whose work I considered worthy of memorizing. (Of course I can sing “The Elements”.) Today is a sad, sad day. And what makes it even more sad is that everything he said back then is just as relevant and true today as it was when he said it. A sad, sad day.
The Knights of Columbus giving Tom Lehrer’s written as a raffle prize...?
Where do I find more Catholics like these?
I have it on good account from an old pal from the NYC 60’s music scene in the Village that there were priests at Lehrer’s shows more than once, and they laughed along with the rest of the crowd. “Genuflect! Genuflect! Genuflect!”
Good stuff!
I was disappointed to have read this quote from Tom,
“I have always regarded it as part of my mission in life to follow around after Billy Graham and undo some of the work he has done.”
I think it’s true that the most mentally healthy and stable people are those who are able to laugh — and I mean REALLY laugh — at themselves.
Everyone else is wound too tight, and that’s become the malaise of our time.
Amen to that.
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