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Thread #10104   Message #68011
Posted By: Barbara
04-Apr-99 - 03:42 AM
Thread Name: Flanders & Swann, Tom Lehrer
Subject: RE: Flanders & Swann, Tom Lehrer
Ah yes, John Forster is wonderful, and to blow the puns that you have to ROTFLYAO through a whole song for, "Entering Marion" is entirely bad enough without the tag about being the Marion kind.
Have some Madiera, M'dear has one of my favorite lines ever in a song:"Raising her eyes, his hopes, and the glass"
Right up there with "I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me/But the room just filled up with mosquitoes; they'd heard that my body was free..." Course maybe Leonard Cohen wasn't trying to be funny. As far as I know Tom Lehrer still teaches math at UCSC, though he doesn't perform anymore as far as I can tell. My bro had a class from him a while back.
Blessings,
Barbara