*sings* All the world seems in tune On a spring afternoon, When we're poisoning pigeons in the park. Ev'ry Sunday you'll see My sweetheart and me, As we poison the pigeons in the park.
And if you like Pigeons, you'll love Pollution.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
*laughs* I liked the "New Math" one. My son came home last year from school using terms I'd never heard of!
quote: I hold your hand in mine, dear, I press it to my lips. I take a healthy bite From your dainty fingertips.
quote: I'm sorry now I killed you, For our love was something fine, And till they come to get me I shall hold your hand in mine.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Funny is that song. I love the end of the world one.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*sings* So long Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb. So don't wait up for me! Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
He also had a song called "The John Birch Society," plus one where he just listed all the elements on the Periodic Table. It ended:
And these are all the elements we've learned about at Havahd. There may be others but they haven't been discovaaahd.
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
quote: There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium, And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium, And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium, <gasp> And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium, And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium, And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium, And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium, And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium. And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, <gasp> And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium, And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium, And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard, And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.
Love it Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Dr. Demento!! I love that song.... *hums*
They're coming to take me away HA HA! They're coming to take me away HO HO! HA HA! To the funny farm! Where life is beautiful all the time andherecometheniceyoungmenintheircleanwhitecoatsTHEY'RECOMINGTOTAKEMEAWAY!!!! ahahahaha;sdljrfads;lfjkasd
I love that song.... Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I do like Yakko's "Countries of the World" better than the Element song, though.
Dagonee
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Potty emergency! Potty emergency! Can I use your potty??
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I love how, every time Tom Lehrer is mentioned on Hatrack, people react as if they're surprised that other people have heard of him. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Some of us haven't been around as long as you, Tom...
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Some of my favorite Tom Lehrer songs are the ones he did for Electric Company (possibly the greatest show that ever appeared on PBS). Who could forget, for example, the L-Y song, all about adverbs? Or Silent E?
"Who can turn a can Into a cane? Who can turn a man into a mane?"
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Electric Company was great. Who can forget, "Hey you guuuuuuuuuuuys!" or the Spider-Man stories where you had to read Spidey's dialog.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Existential blues! T-bone!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I'd rather have this bottle in front of me...
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
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.
...
Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany, That's why I'm in such exquisite agony. My soul is on fire, It's aflame with desire, Which is why I perspire when we tango.
The Masochism Tango
The first and so far only time a guy made a mix tape/CD for me, this was the first song on it. I love quirky guys.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
You caught my noooose! In your left castonet, love! I can feel the pain yet, love, every time I hear drums. ba da da de de de de. And I envy the rose! That you held in your teeth, love, with the thorns underneath...sticking into your gums!
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Fargo North, Decoder and the original "Letterman" (not the late night guy, but the superhero)...
also, let us not forget that the Electric Company gave us Morgan Freeman.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I like "Who's Next?":
quote: Fist we got the bomb and that was good, 'cause we like peace and brotherhood... then Russia got the bomb but that's okay, 'cause the balance of power's maintained that way!
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
"Boot to the Head!"
"You missed."
"Yeah, well, uh, I. . . "
"You too shall be honored to experience Tai Kwan Leap!"
"No! That's okay! You don't have to!"
"Boot to the head!" <thwap>
"Aieeeeeeeeee!"
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
I've always wanted to know if that was a young Bobcat Goldwaithe
quote:OW! you booted me in the head!
Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
Dead puppies aren't much fun When you call them they don't come Dead puppies aren't much fun
My puppy died last fall That's him lying in the hall Dead puppies aren't much fun
You can't make them beg for food You can try - it's no good Dead puppies aren't much fun They won't roll over, they won't play ball They'll play dead, that's all Dead puppies aren't much fun
When you pick them up they sag When you walk them it's a drag Dead puppies aren't much fun Mummy isn't feeling well I think she doesn't like the smell Dead puppies aren't much fun Not much fun
The scariest thing was when I was at AggieCon and singing this to myself... half the people in the hallway joined in. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: I love how, every time Tom Lehrer is mentioned on Hatrack, people react as if they're surprised that other people have heard of him.
Tom, sadly, we have been conditioned by the responses we get from most people we know IRL.
*blank look* Who? Tom Lehrer! Oh, his stuff is great! *sings a verse* *freaked expression* Uh huh. I need to be going now. *flees*
Oh no! She's singing those songs again!
[ June 18, 2004, 05:29 PM: Message edited by: rivka ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I'm definately living in the wrong generation. I don't even bother mentioning Tom Lehrer... the Marx Brothers... etc....to my generation. On my university residence form it asks "what type of music do you like?" Perhaps I should put Tom Lehrer. Have fun matching that one up.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I recently purchased a 3 disc set of Tom Lehrer and have had a lot of fun listening to it. Genius, sheer genius.
I don't remember Electric Company, but this set has some of those songs too and they are pretty funny.
But Vatican Rag is still my favorite:
Genuflect, genuflect!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Back in the Dark Ages, when they had these black disks called "records," my dad was listening to the brand new Tom Lehrer record with a colleague. The colleague is a devout Catholic.
The last two songs on "That Was The Year That Was" are Wernher von Braun and The Vatican Rag. After the last song, my dad was curious about his friend's reaction. Quoth he, "Now I think I know how Wernher von Braun feels."
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
*Creeps quietly out of thread before she has to look at dead puppies, worry about missing fingertips, or poisoned birdies*
"And just think - my shrink thought I was psychotic . . ."
"I ain't got nuttin' on these folks . . . nuttin' I say"
*Ponders the dubious wisdom of looking for some of this depraved music and decides a rollicking laugh, depraved or not, is essential to good mental health*
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Never underestimate the power of the dark side for pure unadulterated mirth.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Fish Heads
Chorus: Fish heads, fish heads, rolly poly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!
Chorus
In the morning, laughing, happy fish heads; In the evening, floating in the soup.
Chorus
Ask a fish head anything you want to; They won't answer - they can't talk.
Chorus
I took a fish head out to see a movie; Didn't have to pay to get it in.
Chorus
They can't play baseball; they don't wear sweaters; They're not good dancers; they don't play drums.
Chorus
Rolly poly fish heads are never seen drinking capuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women, yeah.
Chorus 4 times
Yeah.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Why, oh why, is there not an emoticon demonstrating the fine art of gagging and/or projectile vomiting . . . ?
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
and where did all the 'l's get too?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:*blank look* Who? Tom Lehrer! Oh, his stuff is great! *sings a verse* *freaked expression* Uh huh. I need to be going now. *flees*
I had this EXACT CONVERSATION on Monday!
[ June 19, 2004, 02:48 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
*composes verse dedicated to the wild-eyed triumphance of the kitty*
*purrs*
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:I liked the "New Math" one. My son came home last year from school using terms I'd never heard of!
o_O
"New Math" has not been in vogue since the 1970s. Where is this taking place? (And are you sure it's really "New Math" and not simply ill-remembered "Old Math"?)
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
new math has been en vogue? since when?
I could tell you when but I might just have to revoke your hard-earned priveleges *shakes head* and I wouldn't wanna do that.
fallow
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I wonder if I'm the only one who never understands what the hell you're saying . . .
[ June 19, 2004, 04:16 AM: Message edited by: Icarus ]
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
*quietly wonders if I can find "Someone Ate the Baby" by Shel Silverstein somewhere online solely for Shan's benefit*
[ June 19, 2004, 08:25 AM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
(yes, you can. )
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Inspired by CT's confidence in me, I found the following:
SOMEONE ATE THE BABY Titled "Dreadful" in 'Where the Sidewalk Ends'
Someone ate the baby. It's rather sad to say. Someone ate the baby So she won't be out to play.
We'll never hear her whiney cry Or have to feel if she is dry. We'll never hear her asking "Why?" Someone ate the baby.
Someone ate the baby. It's absolutely clear Someone ate the baby 'Cause the baby isn't here.
We'll give away her toys and clothes. We'll never have to wipe her nose. Dad says, "That's the way it goes." Someone ate the baby.
Someone ate the baby. What a frightful thing to eat! Someone ate the baby Though she wasn't very sweet.
It was a heartless thing to do. The policemen haven't got a clue. I simply can't imagine who Would go and (burp) eat the baby.
(Am wondering if I should cross-post this to the "10 Great Reasons" thread)
[ June 19, 2004, 09:34 AM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
*Sticks fingers in ears and sings "La, la, la, la, la - I can't hear you*
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I grew up on Tom Lehrer music, I love it ALL. I can sing pretty much all of it, hehe, including having the entire elements song memorized.
He is so hilarious. I adore Lehrer.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
quote:I don't remember Electric Company
<---scandalized.
And you expect me to marry you? How can we have anything in common when you don't remember a show that was such a formative part of my childhood?!?
Oh wait. I probably don't remember anything that was a formative part of your childhood. Carry on.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote: About a maid I'll sing a song, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, About a maid I'll sing a song Who didn't have her family long. Not only did she do them wrong, She did ev'ryone of them in, them in, She did ev'ryone of them in.
quote: One day when she had nothing to do, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, One day when she had nothing to do, She cut her baby brother in two, And served him up as an Irish stew, And invited the neighbors in, -bors in, Invited the neighbors in.
And when at last the police came by, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, And when at last the police came by, Her little pranks she did not deny, To do so she would have had to lie, And lying, she knew, was a sin, a sin, Lying, she knew, was a sin.
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
I remember Electric Company. Of course, I also thought it was on KET. It was why I put up with Mr. Rogers, after Sesame Street went off.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I just want to say that my quote of Fish Heads in the "Help PH be Creative" thread came from before I read this thread.
Has anyone else ever heard, "Irving, the One Hundred and fourty second fastest gun, in the west."
quote:One forty one were faster than he, But he was looking for number one forty three.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Dan,
that would be "The Ballad of Irving" by Frank Gallop.
He was short and fat, and rode out of the West With a Mogen David on his silver vest. He was mean and nasty right clear through, Which was kinda weird, 'cause he was yellow too.
They called him Irving. Big Irving. Big, short Irving. Big, short, fat Irving. The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West. Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
OK, I wasn't gonna do this, but after rivka said "pfft" to Shel Silverstein, here it is:
"Carrot Juice is Murder" by The Arrogant Worms
Listen up brothers and sisters, Come hear my desperate tale. I speak of our friends of nature Trapped in the dirt like a jail.
Vegetables live in oppression, Served on our tables each night. This killing of veggies is madness, I say we take up the fight.
Salads are only for murderers, Coleslaw's a fascist regime. Don't think that they don't have feelings Just 'cause a radish can't scream.
CHORUS: I've heard the screams of the vegetables, (Scream, scream, scream) Watching their skins being peeled. (Having their insides revealed) Grated and steamed with no mercy. (Burning off calories) How do you think that feels? (Bet it hurts really bad.)
Carrot juice constitutes murder, (And that's a real crime.) Greenhouses prisons for slaves. (Let my vegetables go.) It's time to stop all this gardening. (It's dirty as hell.) Let's call a spade a spade. (...is a spade, is a spade, is a spade, is a...)
And you can listen and sing along here. (in mp3 and realplayer)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, I really wasn't saying "pfft" to Shel Silverstein -- I love his stuff. It was the fact that you seemed to think that we couldn't stick solely to Lehrer and still freak Shan out sufficiently.
And now I know why the scene with the fructarian in Notting Hill always seemed eerily familiar! (Hmm, no, the song is from 2003, so that can't be it. Weird)
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Does anyone have the complete lyrics to that Metallica song that goes along these lines . . .
"I got somehtin' to say I killed your baby today doesn't matter anyway . . . "
*Wanders off whistling innocently*
*Tosses a in the direction of rivka and sndrake*
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
rivka,
On the website, the song originally appeared on a 2002 CD. But I'm pretty sure I heard it on Demento even earlier than that. I could probably find out - there's a site that keeps pretty extensive logs of Demento's playlists.
And Shan,
Here's an early (or late, if that seems more accurate) birthday song for you:
"Happy Birthday" by Weird Al Yankovic (partial)
Happy birthday Happy birthday to you Happy birthday Happy birthday to you
Well, it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer You should be good and happy that there's something you can eat A million people every day are starving in the street
Your daddy's in the gutter with the wretched and the poor Your mama's in the kitchen with a can of Cycle Four There's garbage in the water There's poison in the sky I guess it won't be long before we're all gonna die
Happy birthday Happy birthday to you Happy birthday Happy birthday to you
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, Notting Hill came out in 1999, and I think it may have been 2000 before I saw it. Still seems like it would have been before I could have heard the song, though.
Shan, watch where you stick that thing!
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