Sunday, November 22, 2009

Tom Lehrer's The Elements

Posted by Arun at 5:46 PM

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Nainan · 799 weeks ago

The tune is borrowed from the Major General's patter song in the Gilbert & Sullivan opera 'The Pirates of Penzance'; that particular song has lent itself to a large number of imitations and parodies. The Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas were a major inspiration for Lehrer; he explicitly satirised them in another of his songs ('Clementine').

If you're not already familiar with Lehrer's entire oeuvre, you might want to listen to 'Lobachevsky' as well.
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Cynthia · 798 weeks ago

The Heaviest Element Known to Science;~)

http://bitsandpieces.us/2009/03/16/the-heaviest-e...

[ Not very good humor, but it's humor nonetheless ]

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