Ivan Lalic, who was a Yugoslavian poet back when there were
Yugoslavian anythings and had translated all of Walt Whitman
into Serbo-Croatian (a mistake, doing all of it, he said), seemed
to have all or almost all of Tom Lehrer by heart.
Hal
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Listen, watch and be silent, if you want to
live in peace.
--Spanish proverb
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On May 14, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Roger Collett wrote:
> Tom Lehrer has the distinction of being the *ONLY* artist whose
> record was allowed to be played in our Sixth Form Science block at
> school (1959). This was by virtue of his track *The Elements*, I
> think our Science Master thought that we might learn something.
>
> Roger Collett
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]
> >
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Flanders & Swann
>
>
>> F&S seemed sweet cuddly
>> TL fantastic biting
>> TH much loved too!!
>>
>> Greets P
>> TH Tony Hancock
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Roger Day
>> Sent: 14 May 2008 07:55
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Flanders & Swann
>>
>> To me, F&S seemed to belong a world away.
>> Tom Lehrer was funnier.
>>
>> Roger
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Dominic Fox
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Personally I prefer Tom Lehrer, which is probably treasonably
>>> unpatriotic of me but so.
>>>
>>> Dominic
>>>
>>
>>
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