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Postby Zombie Sheep on Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:03 am

Does anyone remember the elements song from secondary school? I was reminded of it on 'This Week' and I found a link:

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

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Postby Little Miss Giggles on Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:09 am

Aw I remember it! Absolute genius hee hee hee
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Postby Iain on Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:06 am

Yaaaaaaaay!!! We heard it three times in two years over Standards and Highers...... Oh the nostalgia!!!
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Postby David Bean on Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:45 am

Tom Lehrer! Hurrah.

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Postby Senethro on Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:11 am

The elements song was great until the last line where he rhymed discovered with Harvard. That always makes me want to rip my ears off.
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Postby Steveo on Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:56 am

Yes, I have it as an mp3.

I can sing most of it.

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Postby exnihilo on Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:28 am

Based, unless my memory is totally screwed, on a song about Russian composers by Danny Kaye.

Good old Tom Lehrer.
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Postby novium on Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:32 am

[s]David Bean wrote on 02:45, 26th Nov 2004:
Tom Lehrer! Hurrah.

[hr]"[i]Fiat justicia ruat coelum
(let justice be done though the heavens may fall)" - Judge James Horton (family motto)
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Oh good, other people know about tom lehrer.


You listen to poisoning pidgeons in the park just ONCE and people start giving you funny looks....



interestingly enough, I found out he worked at my home university, but I think he retired.
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Postby tordenskjold on Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:23 pm

I love Tom Lehrer. Have two cds with him that I was able to find when I was in the US in the summer. Also managed to fit a verse of "We'll all go together when we go" into my latest piece of submitted work for my Atom Bomb module. Happy days.
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Postby Pender Native on Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:34 pm

Ooh that's the guy who wrote the masochism tango! A schoolfirend taught me that in S2 but I haven't heard it since then.

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Postby garage red on Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:09 pm

Tom Lehrer is a legend. I recently found in Blue Note music an LP of his concert "That Was The Year That Was". It's amazingly funny.

Wasn't he a Maths lecturer at Harvard or something?
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Postby The_Farwall on Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:22 pm

[s]novium wrote on 10:32, 26th Nov 2004:
You listen to poisoning pidgeons in the park just ONCE and people start giving you funny looks....


It's when you start singing it out loud absent mindedly that people really start to worry. I might be gaining a reputation around the office...

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Postby lúthien on Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:57 pm

ahhh...a true classic
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Postby novium on Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:18 pm

[s]garage red wrote on 13:09, 26th Nov 2004:
Tom Lehrer is a legend. I recently found in Blue Note music an LP of his concert "That Was The Year That Was". It's amazingly funny.

Wasn't he a Maths lecturer at Harvard or something?

yes, and at UCSC as well.
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Postby novium on Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:19 pm

[s]The_Farwall wrote on 13:22, 26th Nov 2004:
[s]novium wrote on 10:32, 26th Nov 2004:[i]
You listen to poisoning pidgeons in the park just ONCE and people start giving you funny looks....


It's when you start singing it out loud absent mindedly that people really start to worry. I might be gaining a reputation around the office...

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[s]Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.[/s]
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When I was 12, all my friends and I would sing them while doing laps in PE. We were supposed to be running, but we never did.
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