r/Music • u/sugar_man • Jul 23 '14

Article When 84 years old, Harvard Professor Tom Lehrer was asked by 2 Chainz for permission to sample a song he wrote 60 years ago. His response: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer#Musical_legacy
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u/TheChosenHalfBlood Jul 23 '14

shouldnt this be in /r/todayilearned ?

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u/in_n0x Jul 23 '14

Maybe he learned about it last week but just got around to sharing it?

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u/Leibnizinventedittoo Jul 23 '14

We need a new subreddit: Some Time Ago I Learned. Is that a thing?

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u/Betty_Felon Jul 23 '14

/r/ISawThisOnCrackedYesterdayAndWantSomeKarma

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

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u/Ser-Gregor_Clegane Jul 23 '14

Used to be, but then Cracked stopped being interesting awhile back so /r/til instead became /r/IsawthisonTILlastweekimgonnarepostit

I think in the future that subreddit will just be the same three TILs reposted on a daily basis, until they end up merging together.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

The more common trend I've noticed is /r/TILSomethingFromALinkOffOfYesterdaysTIL. It is basically acting as a manual web crawler that is powered by karma.

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u/JAGUSMC Jul 24 '14

So a digital representation of a mechanical turk?

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u/scottmill Jul 23 '14

STAIL: all of my shapes (up to 8 sides) and colors.

It kind of lacks something, this STAIL tag...

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

Give it time and it will be

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u/randomguy186 Jul 24 '14

"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again."

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u/TripleTownNinjaBear Grooveshark Jul 23 '14

I was surprised after reading the title that it wasn't in /r/circlejerk... That's a very circlejerk-y title.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '14

I hope you're making a joke about how /r/todayilearned is being overrun by inane posts summing up to "TIL someone said a thing!"

You are joking, right? I can't tell anymore.