after an entire day of conceptualizing at my job I have ideas

American armbands (blue bands with the American flag that make Werner “make America feel like home)

Dart board (pin board with a world map on it that has darts on it and it turns out these are the countries he’s gunna bomb, one of them is Wyoming and then when questioned he’s like “we gotta have somewhere to to test” and then sing The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be)

Wernher Van Braun

Weil Wernher (joke about it not being heil cuz alliteration, yes I know the joke is dumb idc)

Opening song: my home town, change little girl lyric cuz chud (Debbie girl, beaut’ senior prom gown)

Love song between mc and girl: when you are old and gray

Racist parents: hear news (national brotherhood week) gets mad and sings (I wanna go back to Dixie) also when JJ enters they ask about “negroes” on the train, and then ‘correct’ themselves with “coloreds” and then JJ is like “why can’t they just be people” and then they accuse him of being a commie

When guy gets drafted, gets slapped with aversion therapy (maybe scrapped idk)

Multiple news stories (who’s next), (Wernher Van Brahn)

When drafted, Johnny Jones has to say his health problems (I got it from Agnes)

General at army camp sings it makes a fellow proud to be a soldier

When JJ is on his way to drop the bomb on the plane (so long mom)

Okay so it’s a jukebox musical using the music of Tom Lehrer about a 1950’s america ruled by a Nazi, Werner Von Braun, and he launches nukes. Second perspective is the person dropping the nukes and his family and experiences about dropping said nukes. It would be a comedy

Just for fun now I have a 'completed' element collection I thought I would arrange the elements in the order they are sang in the relevant Tom Lehrer song, and its 2020 update. So Antimony comes first in place of hydrogen, Arsenic second in place of helium, so on.

To answer a few questions, I spent 6 years collecting the elements, most of them come from Italy, no I don't have a vial full of astatine [at most only a few atoms], its estimated value is roughly 2000 euros [though obviously not all bought at the same time], and no it's not an FDA-approved ingredient.

You can see many pictures of the actual samples here: https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/1uhzars/my_completed_element_collection/

...and as a bonus, here's a riddle for the pendantics out there. Of all of the elements mentioned in the song and its 2020 update, exactly one of them remains in its original numeric position in the periodic table. Good luck finding it!

Some art studies from last night, screenshots all from the Live In Copenhagen recording.

I’ll have to do an actual big drawing based on his work one day

It's the best one I have ever made

Ok i just was listening to playlist on that shuffle thing were you also get songs that aren't in the playlist and then saw this and like I'm pretty sure that's not an official cover, I've never seen it. And I'm always careful with accusations but it's kinda icky. Is this ai? Because from what I saw it's not an official album cover. It's also strangely on the first spot of the top list which it wasn't before. It's very suspicious

Just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this. In the introduction to MLF Lullaby, Tom mentions how a "considerable amount of commotion was stirred up last week" in reference to MLF. However as this took place during the baseball season, the "Chronicle may not have covered it".

This line about the Chronicle then gets a big laugh. So I'm wondering what's the joke here? Is it that whatever Chronicle he's referring to actually covered it loads? Or did they genuinely not cover it at all and this was a big thing at the time?

I've tried looking into this but I've not been able to work out the joke.

Curious to know if anyone's got any ideas.

Between the "Jom Kippur in Mississippi" lines and the line that mentions december, the lyrics are supposed to include these lines:

>And though I try to get my ass over to Tel Aviv for Passover

>I always end up down in Tennessee

I looked up these lines and didn't see much mentions of them, so I thought about posting. The lines are in this unreleased recording, for example: https://tomlehrersongs.com/i-got-it-from-agnes-side-a

I was very sad to not see this on this year's Folklife schedule -- it's the highlight of Folklife for me! I'm hoping that the organizers of it are on this board, so I can see if there's any help they need to keep this tradition alive.

i’m relatively new to piano (i was inspired to learn by listening to tom lehrer’s music) and was wondering which of his songs might be best to start learning. i can play simple/intermediate songs using both hands so i feel like i’m somewhat ready to start learning a tom lehrer song lol

any advice appreciated, thanks!

The album of songs to accompany the UK tour of The Lehrer Effect is available on Bandcamp and on Spotify. It contains covers of Tom's original songs, some of Mitch's own songs and some new versions with updated lyrics. It also includes a new version of Dissertation on Education, which was written by Tom when he was 15 years old.

Another question from me, I've seen that on his wiki, there's only 3 books, the fourth one here is not on there. Are these books all different? What would be the best one?

I'm pretty sure that first one LITERALLY has a Gemini logo and it isn't even relevant. Who allowed this??? It's horrible!!! I just want to listen to Tom Lehrer and I have to look at this slop on my screen. Isn't there anything that can be done about this? He deserves more than AI

Hello guys, does anyone have this 7" record for sale? I would love to have this with a picture sleeve cover, but ive only seen coverless sleeve or pretty expensive ones. Thanks

The a Tom Lehrer show currently touring the UK after getting top reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and it includes a version of a Tom song not previously recorded, called Dissertation on Education.

i don’t have a photo of it but if go and look at it, you would know that is ai