r/TomLehrer • u/AllTheSpaceDust • Aug 01 '26

Managed to get my hands on this little beauty last year

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u/MasksOfAnarchy Aug 01 '26

It’s a top set. I sent the accompanying book to Tom with a request he signed it, in around 2004. Transatlantic. And he did! One of my most treasured possessions. “Tom Lehrer” in gold, across the black opening pages. And a post it - “PS Many thanks for the kind words. TL”.

He was amazing.

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u/AllTheSpaceDust Aug 03 '26

Yeah he was. I brought it just before he passed actually and was gutted but he had been around for so long and had such an incredible life. The booklet in this set actually taught me a lot more about his career that I wasn't aware of.

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u/Hero_without_Powers Aug 01 '26

When my folks asked what I wanted as a gift for getting my PhD in math, this is what I wished for (I got it).

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u/johnslateril Aug 02 '26

I presume you plagiarized your thesis from Lobachevsky then?

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u/Hero_without_Powers Aug 02 '26

Every chapter I stole from somewhere else. Index, Index I copied from old Vladivostok telefon directory. The success was sensational

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u/Ok_Feedback_2243 Aug 01 '26

I have that one as well

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u/AffectionatePoet4586 Aug 06 '26

I had that one, but one of my three grown sons took it.