# Aloha! Tom Brower(D)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloha-tom-brower-d/674341>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 20, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloha-tom-brower-d/674341 "2013-11-20T13:08:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloha-tom-brower-d/674341/41 "2013-11-21T00:52:23Z")

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> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> Sounds like Kipling.

Longfellow, I suspect; it’s roughly troachic tetrameter.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloha-tom-brower-d/674341/42 "2013-11-21T01:19:26Z")

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English major! Get 'em! Quick, he is getting away, escaping, scarpering…

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloha-tom-brower-d/674341/43 "2013-11-21T13:55:11Z")

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> [@Merneith](#):
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> Longfellow, I suspect; it’s roughly troachic tetrameter.

Huh. I wonder if Longfellow did the Spider-Man and Hulk theme songs [too](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlFjjzimcs).

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloha-tom-brower-d/674341/44 "2013-11-21T18:17:48Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> Huh. I wonder if Longfellow did the Spider-Man and Hulk theme songs [too](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlFjjzimcs).

It’s kind of amazing how much things sucked in the '60s, isn’t it?

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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aloha-tom-brower-d/674341/45 "2013-11-21T20:47:00Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> Huh. I wonder if Longfellow did the Spider-Man and Hulk theme songs [too](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlFjjzimcs).

OMG I can’t stop singing that! I hadn’t heard it before and now I’ll never unhear it. I’m going to make it my ringtone.

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