two more Tom Lehrer items
Jul. 28th, 2025 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacthat I forgot about while writing my previous post. Like the others, they're about my appreciation of his work.
9. Fact proven scientifically: If you take four Jewish boys attending a science-fiction convention on Thanksgiving weekend, and put them in a car going out for a dinner expedition, and the car drives past an early Christmas display, all four of them will spontaneously and simultaneously begin singing Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol." And they won't stop until it's done, because of course they all have the song completely memorized.
10. You've heard of two-finger typists? I am a two-finger pianist. There are two tunes I can play two-fingered: one of them* is Tom Lehrer's "The Irish Ballad" and the other isn't.
*which I learned from the sheet music, thank you
9. Fact proven scientifically: If you take four Jewish boys attending a science-fiction convention on Thanksgiving weekend, and put them in a car going out for a dinner expedition, and the car drives past an early Christmas display, all four of them will spontaneously and simultaneously begin singing Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol." And they won't stop until it's done, because of course they all have the song completely memorized.
10. You've heard of two-finger typists? I am a two-finger pianist. There are two tunes I can play two-fingered: one of them* is Tom Lehrer's "The Irish Ballad" and the other isn't.
*which I learned from the sheet music, thank you
