#tomlehrer

@AIF_Massachusetts @heidilifeldman Fight Fiercely, Harvard! #TomLehrer

"How did smut get so dirty? Simple: It was never clean." But did you know that its filth was originally botanical?

New on the Strong Language blog, @Fritinancy pays tribute to smut and the Tom Lehrer song of that title, now 60 years old: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/smut/

#TomLehrer #music #etymology #smut #PopCulture #songs #StrongLanguage

Ev'rybody say his own Kyrie Eleison: Happy 97th birthday to Tom Lehrer, the greatest musical satirist of the 20th Century. #Comedy #Humor #Humour #Music #Satire #TomLehrer #Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5kBDt6G_h4

On the 60th anniversary of Tom Lehrer’s song "Smut", @Fritinancy offers a salute to Lehrer and to "a four-letter word that wasn't quite one of *those* four-letter words".

On the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/smut/

#TomLehrer #music #etymology #smut #PopCulture #songs #StrongLanguage

Before I invest time making a #TomLehrer quotes #bot, is anyone on fedi aware of one?
I haven't found it yet but some gems are hidden

I always like to end on a positive, uplifting note, so here is a rousing, uplifting song which is guaranteed to cheer you up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

#TomLehrer

The Element Song, by Tom Lehrer. This is probably the world's least sing-alongable song ever, but it fits perfectly for tonight's theme!

#ScienceAndDiscovery
#JukeboxFridayNight
#TomLehrer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cfju6GTNs

@georgetakei

In some respects it's a shame that some of Tom Lehrer's songs remain so relevant today — notably for example "Pollution" and "National Brotherhood Week".

Some, though, are perhaps a bit dated, and warrant revision to reflect the zeitgeist. We have a modest example here…

https://elonreevemusk.fun

#ElonMusk
#Musk
#Parody
#TomLehrer

Oh, for the good ole days when all we Americans had to worry about was Putin threatening to use nukes. He's not doing that anymore, is he....and I just now noticed.

I was ready to cue up Pete Seeger's "Talking Atomic Blues" (Old Man Atom) to draw attention to the fact that Old Man Atom is just like air,
He don't give a hoot about any politics
Or who got what into whichever fix...but #TomLehrer had a good take on Mutually Assured Destruction: We Will All Go Together When We Go.

The thing is, he might as well be singing about global warming, bomb or no bomb.

youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs

Well, here we go with #TomLehrer 's take on our pandemics.
I Got It From Agnes
#NowPlaying

youtu.be/58JK3gTEWrQ

Never ever anything went wrong with a man making questionable alliances to get his rockets into space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

#ElonMusk #TomLehrer #VonBraun

@hagen

Wernher von Braun (Robbie Ellis update)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ntY5-4ZG8

Original by Tom Lehrer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

#WernherVonBraun #TomLehrer

Are you part of the "Folk Song Army"?

http://www.tomlehrer.org/

#TomLehrer #PublicDomain #CreativeCommons #FolkMusic #Parody

"Hark the Herald-Tribune sings,
Advertising wond'rous things!"
- Tom Lehrer about the true spirit of Christmas
#tomlehrer #christmas #carols

I'm spending Hanukkah
Singing at the opera.
Wearing costumes,
As accustomed
You will see.

#UpcomingHolidayStressASong
 #HashTagGames #Mazeldon #TomLehrer #music #publicDomain

The Masochism Tango, Tom Lehrer. Speaking of burn, lots of suitable imagery in this classic.

Take your cigarette from its holder
And burn your initials in my shoulder
Fracture my spine
And swear that you're mine
As we dance to the Masochism Tango

#BendBreakBurn
#JukeboxFridayNight
#TomLehrer
#MasochismTango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE

#HashtagGames
#MetalASongOrPoem
#GilbertSullivan #MajorGeneral

I am the Bohr's Model of the modern elemental chart;
There's antimony, vanadium, aluminum, selenium
And manganese, and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium...

#TomLehrer
youtu.be/AcS3NOQnsQM?si=ybseOp…

@ichichson @parismarx

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares about anti-trust?
That's not my department!" says Elon Reeve Musk

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In Russian, and Afrikaans, I know how to count, just
And I'm learning Chinese!" says Elon Reeve Musk

#ElonMusk
#Nazi
#TomLehrer

https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/

@ichichson @parismarx

Gather 'round while I sing you of Elon Reeve Musk
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, his reply will be brusque
"Nazi, Schmazi!" says Elon Reeve Musk

#Musk
#ElonMusk
#Nazi
#TomLehrer

https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/

Have some Madeira idea
#ConceptOrNotionASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames
#TomLehrer