Topic: Oh my god, other people have actually heard of Tom Lehrer! (Read 6391 times)

Disgruntled Jack · « **on:** 08 Oct 2006, 14:57 »

Heya! Yes, first post, shut up.
Anyway, I was reading the WCT on some of the older comics, and came across a Tom Lehrer.
That was seriously the first tiem I'd ever heard of anybody else even KNOWING of him, in real life or Internetty
So, who else here knows of his genius?

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #1 on:** 08 Oct 2006, 15:42 »

First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
Then genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

Disgruntled Jack · « **Reply #2 on:** 08 Oct 2006, 15:45 »

Oh god yes!
I love love LOVE the Vatican Rag.
Also: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park for the win.

I have the lyrics to pretty much all his songs but one completely memorized.

Any guesses as to which one I cannot, for the life of me, remember all the lyrics to?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3 on:** 08 Oct 2006, 16:29 »

THEEEEEERE'S....Antimony, Arsenic, Aluminum, Selenium and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen and Rhenium...

Disgruntled Jack · « **Reply #4 on:** 08 Oct 2006, 17:29 »

That is exactly the one I was thinking of.

For those of you who have never heard this, he rattles off the ENTIRE FREAKING PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS to the tune of "Modern Major general."

That is the ultimate toungue-twister, and he enunciates everything perfectly.

Beyond Bread · « **Reply #5 on:** 08 Oct 2006, 17:34 »

I have that song memorized! I'm quite proud. That's actually how I got my boyfriend...hahaha, I sang it to him on the phone. Tom Lehrer = <3!!!!!

Disgruntled Jack · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 Oct 2006, 18:30 »

Wow, that is somehow exactly on the line between "Really Nerdy" and "Kick-awesome"

Um, I did kinda mean that as a compliment, not sure it came out right.

celticgeek · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 Oct 2006, 21:21 »

I actually have two Tom Lehrer albums: That Was The Year That Was and Revisited. I started listening to him in college, lo these many moons ago. I love his stuff.

"Be Prepared"

pat101 · « **Reply #8 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 02:24 »

if you were to describe his music to someone who has NO idea what he plays, how would you do such a thing?

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #9 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 05:05 »

Overeducated Harvard (or is he a Yallie?) man writes darkly funny piano songs.

Jim Morrison was a fan.

'Oh we'll all go together when we go/every Hottentot and every Eskimo".
they're doing a theatrical tribute to him in Melbourne

penpen17 · « **Reply #10 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 07:56 »

How I ache for the touch of your lips dear
But much more for the touch of your...whips dear
You can raise welts like nobody else
As we dance to the masochism tango

<3

Thrillho · « **Reply #11 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 08:53 »

I always will remember, t'was a year ago November...

Disgruntled Jack · « **Reply #12 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 12:05 »

Aaaaaaalll theeeeee world seems in tune
on a spring afternoon
when we're poisoning pigeons in the park!

Splunkle · « **Reply #13 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 13:10 »

Clougamah!
Who, who....
Fell into the foaming brine
Dig that crazy clementime, MAN!

Ally · « **Reply #14 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 17:38 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 08 Oct 2006, 16:29

THEEEEEERE'S....Antimony, Arsenic, Aluminum, Selenium and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen and Rhenium...

We watched this in chemistry.

And by watch I mean watch.

Disgruntled Jack · « **Reply #15 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 18:37 »

Oh.
My.
God.
Ally, I think I love you.

Ernest · « **Reply #16 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 19:13 »

Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud!

I love Tom Lehrer. My mom got me into him.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #17 on:** 09 Oct 2006, 23:02 »

Last time a Tom Lehrer thread came around I just posted the entire lyrics to "Smut!" because I still know 'em.

ielerol · « **Reply #18 on:** 10 Oct 2006, 01:52 »

Quote from: Disgruntled Jack on 08 Oct 2006, 18:30

Wow, that is somehow exactly on the line between "Really Nerdy" and "Kick-awesome"

That is a fine line that I walk every single day.

I sang the masochism tango for karaoke once. Fortunately it was all the nerds at a nerd school who were too nerdy to be out at real parties.

My knowledge of Tom Lehrer can be blamed squarely on my father's vinyl collection. He is a baron of nerds (my dad). Not the king, but definitely a sort of minor lord.

I usually describe Tom Lehrer as "Weird Al if he were far more overeducated and clever with just a piano and his brilliance."

So be sweet and kind to mother,
Now and then have a chat.
Buy her candy or some flowers,
Or a brand new hat.
But maybe you had better let it go at that.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #19 on:** 10 Oct 2006, 04:18 »

Why does that song remind me of Finding Nemo?

The only song I had heard before was the Masischmo Tango

Disgruntled Jack · « **Reply #20 on:** 10 Oct 2006, 06:28 »

Quote from: ielerol on 10 Oct 2006, 01:52

So be sweet and kind to mother,
Now and then have a chat.
Buy her candy or some flowers,
Or a brand new hat.
But maybe you had better let it go at that.

Or you may find yourself with a quite complex co-o-omplex and
You may end up like Oedipus--
I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus,
Than end up like old Oedipus Reeeeeeeeex!

Yes!

manc_ill_kid · « **Reply #21 on:** 15 Oct 2006, 13:45 »

The man's a god

Patrick · « **Reply #22 on:** 16 Oct 2006, 04:42 »

Dammit, and I thought I was done with BitTorrent for the day. Thanks a lot guys.

tehseal · « **Reply #23 on:** 19 Oct 2006, 09:08 »

"He gives the kids free samples,
Because he knows full well,
That today's young innocent faces,
Will be tomorrows clientele!"

tehseal · « **Reply #24 on:** 19 Oct 2006, 09:12 »

Quote from: Ally on 09 Oct 2006, 17:38

Quote from: KharBevNor on 08 Oct 2006, 16:29
THEEEEEERE'S....Antimony, Arsenic, Aluminum, Selenium and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen and Rhenium...

We watched this in chemistry.

And by watch I mean watch.

That is AWESOME!!!

Edit: Sorry for the double-post.

theherocomplex · « **Reply #25 on:** 19 Oct 2006, 11:43 »

Oh, Tom Lehrer! The man is a twisted genius and I love him so bad.

strawberry_gashes · « **Reply #26 on:** 19 Oct 2006, 17:43 »

Holy crap, I love him!
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park is genius...

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Author Topic: Oh my god, other people have actually heard of Tom Lehrer! (Read 6391 times)

Disgruntled Jack

Disgruntled Jack

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Beyond Bread

Disgruntled Jack

The Eyeball Kid

penpen17

Disgruntled Jack

Splunkle

Ally

Disgruntled Jack

ielerol

TrueNeutral

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manc_ill_kid

tehseal

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