Doesn’t Anyone Remember Tom Lehrer?

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | January 13, 2004 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Restorer]

This guy Lehrer is like an early version of "satirist" Al Franken.

Except Tom was funny.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

This guy Lehrer is like an early version of "satirist" Al Franken.

Only Tom Leher is funny.

[Amerigomag]

During the bracero program, women were not permitted in the camps.

Bingo

What is also unstated is that today over 75% of illegal immigrants are employed in the services industry, not agribusiness.

The services industry tends toward year around, stable employment which leads to the ability to support a family here in the US permanently.

A by product of the transition of Mexican immigrants from field hand to janitor is its effect on organized labor and politics in California. Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D- California Senate) is an excellent example. Cedillo is an anchor baby and past president of the largest, foreign, labor local in the US. The janitorial union local in the LA basin.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

beat me by two minutes

[D Rider]

Everytime I'm "poisoning pigeons in the park"

That's the one that came to my mind too!

[A. Morgan]

He was on a TV show back in the 60s, singing and playing a piano.

[Restorer]

Actually, FormerlyAnotherLurker beat us both. :)

But we're all three correct.

[A. Morgan]

So Long, Mom

So Long, Mom
(Tom Lehrer)

So long mom, I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me,
But while you swelter down there in your shelter
You can see me. . .On your TV.

While we're attacking frontally, watch Brinkley and Huntley
Describing contrapuntally the cities we have lost.
No need for you to miss a minute of the agonizing holocaust.

Little Johnnie Jones was a US pilot, no shrinking violet was he.
He was mighty proud when world war three was declared
He wasn't scared, no siree.
And this is what he said on his way to Armaggedon:

So long, mom, I'm off to drop the bomb, so don't wait up for me,
But though I may roam, I'll come back to my home,
Although it may be a pile of debris.

Remember Mommy, I'm off to get a Commie,
So send me a salami, and try to smile somehow.
I'll look for you when the war is over,
An hour and a half from now.

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

Yeah, but I lost out on the Sydney Morning Herald article by a couple minutes to philo.
I have to learn to type faster!
AND, to refresh the page before I hit "post."
Also, changing my tagline from a couple days ago might be a nice idea.

[Jonah Hex]

"Vunce der rockets go up, who care vere they come down. It's not mein department." says Wernher von Braun.

[dhs12345]

LOL!!!

[Aliska]

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Moslems, And everybody hates the Jews.

OK, you win :-). It's been awhile and I never was good at remembering song lyrics.

Deduct some points though if you looked it up :-).

[fnord]

the water tasted bad for a week
and we had to make do with gin ...

[dhs12345]

Useful for Chemistry Students...

"The Elements."

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

Isn't that interesting? I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's gonna be a short quiz next period.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard, And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

I listened to it last night (Hmm, it was a .wav not an MP3 - wonder where I got it?) and have the lyrics on disk.

[truth_seeker]

"During the bracero program, women were not permitted in the camps."

Kids under 21 aren't allowed permitted to drink; under 18 not permitted to smoke. Marijuana is illegal, too.

Now as to the issue, if a person was/is physically born in the USA they ARE eligible to be a citizen.

Prove me wrong. Where did you live in California in the 50s and 60s? Did you have two camps in your town? I did.

I am NOT saying I support the citizenship of persons born here, to illegal immigrants. But until laws are changed, it is as it is.

I have many friends and associates that are of Mexican ancestry. I don't recall asking a single one of them, if they know with certainty that none of their ancestors was an illegal immigrant.

I don't claim to know about immigration laws, through our history. Under which provisions my Swedish ancestors came in the 1860s, I am totally ignorant.

I presume there were laws of some type, and further assume that not all entrants observed every law. Therefore we may have fervant anti-immigration posters on FR that are descendants of illegal immigrants, themselves!

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

It really bothered me when I found that article but I tried to just ignore his crap and listen to the music. Works most of the time.