Comments on: single link youtube of tom lehrer

single link youtube of tom lehrer

criticalbill — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:02:20 -0800

It's a (Dressed-up) Single Link YouTube Post because you've already had the 13-minute long video of maths songs; you've already had the long newspaper interviews; you've even had the animated version (not to mention a few you shouldn't bother with); but have you, I ask, have you had Tom Lehrer in his heyday, singing "Werner von Braun"?

By: DU

DU — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:13:01 -0800

As it happens, I work with (well, NEAR) a relative of von Braun. He's pretty cool, though I kind of raised my eyebrows the time he tossed off "Ve haff vays of makink you talk" in a meeting.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:14:04 -0800

*swoons*

By: ottereroticist

ottereroticist — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:18:24 -0800

Who knew he was such a fox? I have a total weakness for people with a diastema, especially when they are brilliant.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:26:37 -0800

Awesome. Sad that he gave up music.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:27:25 -0800

Vunderful—danke!

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:35:20 -0800

"Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown 'Nazi, schamzi', says Werner Von Braun."

By: briank

briank — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:42:36 -0800

My favorite Tom Lehrer song!

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:50:03 -0800

My favorite Tom Lehrer phrase was: "Sliding down the razor-blade of life."

By: j-dawg

j-dawg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:58:09 -0800

Of course, for good Lehrer animation, it's hard to do better than Silent E, and my personal favorite, L-Y, both from The Electric Company.

By: salishsea

salishsea — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:00:04 -0800

...heck, I have now!

By: DU

DU — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:09:18 -0800

Would you believe L-Y isn't on the Electric Company "Best Of" DVD? ReDONKulous!

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:17:38 -0800

diastema I had to look that up. Show-off.

By: washburn

washburn — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:49:18 -0800

In this vein see also "Who's Next?" which is perhaps more frighteningly prescient. I do wish someone would whip up a nicer You Tube video for it however.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:51:18 -0800

One of my favorite lines is: As someone remarked to Schubert, "Take us to your Lieder."

By: SweetJesus

SweetJesus — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:54:41 -0800

but have you, I ask, have you had Tom Lehrer in his heyday, singing "Werner von Braun"? My parents gave me a bunch of Tom Lehrer records when I was like 7 years old, and they twisted my humor up for life. I mean, who lets their child listen to songs recommending a boy scout to not pimp out his sister unless he's able to get a reasonable percentage of her price or retelling the tale of Oedipus Rex gouging out his eyes after sleeping with his mother. It wasn't right. I'm gonna give 'em to my kids.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:37:15 -0800

I distinctly remember a line from Silent E regarding turning my pop into the Pope. Thank goodness for the interwebs (or geocities, anyway), which back me up.

By: ottereroticist

ottereroticist — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:34:25 -0800

I had to look that up. Show-off. Where better? That kind of material is wasted on normal people.

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:55:57 -0800

Thank you! I've been on a Lehrer kick for weeks now.

By: swerve

swerve — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:04:00 -0800

My parents were big Tom Lehrer fans, so I knew the words to many of his songs before I understood the jokes. There was a rumor that he gave up performing after being sued by none other than Werner Von Braun, but Lehrer has denied this. I keep it in my mental stable of urban legends anyway. And I had to look up diastema too.

By: serazin

serazin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:58:41 -0800

Horray!!!

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:38:44 -0800

Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect.