Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire
That Was The Year That Was was one of my favorite childhood records(age 6), just about wore that thing out. I didn’t discover his other albums until much later.
Reported for forum change. :smack:
My sister sent me that link, with the comment “I had no idea he was still alive.”
Love his quote:
In base-8, he was born on April 11, 3610, and is celebrating his 132 birthday.
Are you missing two fingers?
Happy 90th! and thanks for the link, Coach
Ready, aim, SING!
Czarcasm was probably thinking about childhood and the New Math; how soon we forget. As everyone knows, children are born with only 8 fingers and don’t get the full complement of 10 until puberty. This makes base-8 math easier for the young, but harder for the mature. As Tom reminded us,
Moved
I’m pretty sure he got the reference.
In honor of Mr. Lehrer, whom I have adored since early adolescence, today I shall hold a rose in my teeth, with the thorns underneath, sticking into my gums.
Happiest of 90ths, sir.
Given how many threads with a link the OP reports, I’m kinda surprised it got moved to CS & not the cornfield, which is, I assume, a reflex for our mods.
Everybody thinks that their number system is base-10.
Anybody up for a nice stroll in the park today? 
Irish Stew at my place after.
Who can turn a Tom, into a tome?
Happy birthday, Mr. Lehrer!
Not a word about it in The Vatican Rag.
Who wants to join me for a banana split?
I have a copy of his original 10" LP that I found in a secondhand store and snapped up immediately.
I think I first heard him on TW3. This was pre-Monty Python, pre-Firesign Theatre, pre-hippie movement. There was nothing like him. I’ve been a fan for 50+ years.
With the peanuts coated with cyanide? That is still, for some reason, my annual spring anthem to be sung when walking to work on the first really nice day of the year.
Which here in upstate NY we’re still waiting for, and it’s mid-April. Geez.
I hope he is not too old and grey. And I hope he acted with agility when he still had facility.