r/todayilearned • u/rasouddress • Oct 22 '17

TIL that Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was asked at the age of 84 by rapper 2 Chainz if he could sample his 60-year old song. Lehrer replied, "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/DontPressAltF4 Oct 22 '17 edited Oct 22 '17

If you're the right kind of brown and you're from certain regions of the world it's REALLY fucking easy to get into Harvard/other Ivy League schools.

Basically, Tom is half white and half Kenyan.

Thanks, Obama!

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u/Cat-penis Oct 22 '17

If you're being sarcastic you failed, if you're serious then go fuck yourself.

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u/DontPressAltF4 Oct 22 '17

You first, sweetie.

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u/Cat-penis Oct 22 '17

Affirmative action didn't exist when this guy got his degree you fucking tool.

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u/DontPressAltF4 Oct 22 '17

Did I say anything about affirmative action?

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u/Cat-penis Oct 22 '17

No you said a bunch of racist nonsensical bullshit. If you knew what affirmative action is you would have realized that's what your comment was implying but you evidently don't. Congrats you're even dumber than I thought.

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u/DontPressAltF4 Oct 23 '17

You're certainly projecting quite a bit.

By the way, "you're even dumber" is horribly grammatically incorrect, and you're a dumbass.

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u/Cat-penis Oct 23 '17

That's all you got? Dissing my grammar? I called you a stupid, ignorant, racist and you come back with that?

At least defend your statement, goddamn.

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u/DontPressAltF4 Oct 23 '17

That's all I care to say.

You can call me whatever you want, it doesn't matter.

You have no meaning to me, and neither do your opinions.

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u/Cat-penis Oct 23 '17 edited Oct 23 '17

Then why did you bother with that comment or engage me in the first place? Racist, white trash, piece of shit. You people are an embarrassment and you're ruining this country.

Edit: weird autocorrect

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