I never realized that guy was supposed to be part-Lehrer; he seemed like pure Russell
People ask me how I do it.
Did you learn it from Agnes?
Yeah, he learned not to get it.
What I love about “New Math” is that it was written by a humorist who really understood this stuff - being a mathematician and all.
So long Mommy
I’m off to get a Commie
So send me a salami*
and don’t wait up for me
*this was actually a thing during WWII, or at least Katz’s Deli wanted it to be.
I stumbled upon this once, and it was a real thing. Never understood the line before learning that.
With music:
I am utterly amazed. I always thought that Lehrer was just looking for a rhyme for “Mommy”
Just for completeness:
Me too. The stuff we learn around here.
However it is unlikely anyone will get their salami delivered in the hour and a half the war is on.
Short nuclear wars were the thing back then. There is the one in Pangborn’s “Davy” and the fifteen minute one in Dylan’s “Talkin’ World War III Blues.”
And the book Warday.
Very true. If he’d been working in the UK, he would probably have skewered the ‘Initial Teaching Alphabet’
‘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet’
just as adroitly.
Link doesn’t exist.
Sorry about that. Let me try again, I’ll test this time.
Except that New Math was legit. But i still love the song.
And today I learned where my dad got “The navy gets the gravy, but the army gets the beans.”
Dear Og, WTF were they thinking??!!?! That’s some damned fine wackiness there.
But thanks for the cite; I learned something today.