Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!qumix!qubix!jdb From: jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The worst lyrics you've ever heard Message-ID: <1470@qubix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 19:09:43 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.1470 Posted: Fri Oct 26 19:09:43 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 07:40:45 EST References: <1702@inmet.UUCP> <5308@brl-tgr.ARPA> <857@ihuxn.UUCP> <409@uwmacc.UUCP> <5439@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 16 > My own miscellaneous responses: > > Re Tom Lehrer: > Computer buffs (I'll not temppt the flamers by saying hackers) ought to > like Tom Lehrer's esoteric sense of humor -- he has one song that teaches > base 12 mathematics! Another of my personal favorites from Lehrer is _The Elements_, his setting of the periodic table to a Gilbert & Sullivan "patter" tune. "These are the only ones of which the news has come to Haavad. And there may be many others but they haven't been discaavad." -- Dr Memory ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb