# "Up in the Air, Junior Brdmen..."

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-air-junior-brdmen/828287>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-air-junior-brdmen/828287 "2019-01-23T19:19:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-air-junior-brdmen/828287/21 "2019-01-25T00:48:04Z")

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> [@mixdenny](#):
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> But he did it the easy way, not the right way:
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> [9 reasons why Pope John Paul II was the best pope · The Daily Edge](https://www.dailyedge.ie/pope-john-paul-funny-793866-Feb2013/)
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> Dennis

He’s the Pope. I’ll let it slide.

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-air-junior-brdmen/828287/22 "2019-01-25T06:35:52Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
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> Tom Lehrer referenced Junior Birdmen in [the intro to his song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQb7JT6_zU) “It makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier.”

With which he was making fun of the actual Air Force anthem. Until this thread, I had no idea the “Up in the Air Junior Birdman song” was a real thing.

Here’s a link to the song; the relevant bit starts at 0:37.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/J0L_rD7CCe4/hqdefault.jpg "Tom Lehrer - It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a soldier") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0L_rD7CCe4)

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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/up-in-the-air-junior-brdmen/828287/23 "2019-01-25T18:16:06Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> I remember it from Summer Camp back in the early 60s. I still can do the goggle bit.
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> They also had “Junior Scubamen,” which was the same song with slightly different lyrics, and you made a scuba mask with your hands (basically, just an oval).

We sang it at Scout Camp in the eighties, but we didn’t have the “Junior Scubamen”.

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