h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So many people just don't know what they're missing.

Great that there's at least one other person out there who's laughing along to the songs

Laughing and memorizing. For example:

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do. Don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes every Sunday a treat for me.

All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Every Sunday you'll see my sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

When they see us coming, the birdies all try and hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanhide.

We've gained notoriety
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety
And lack of propriety
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.

But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.

So, if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.

And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.

My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychinine
We feed to a pigeon
(It just takes a smidgen)
To poison a pigeon in the park!

Scary, ain't I? I swear that was all from memory. I'd have 'The Masochism Tango' memorised if it weren't so darn long. There are two or three line missing, but I didn't correct my mistake for a reason.

I wouldn't worry, I've memorized that one as well, and a couple of others. The Hunting Song is nice and easy to remember as well. I'd only start to get concerned if you'd memorised the elements.

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium. And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, and iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium. Europium, zirconium, .... and lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium. And gold, protactinium, indium, and gallium, and iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium....


NOW are you worried?

My brother has that memorised too... Personally I like WWIII But Poisoning Pigeons in the park is still very good We have the Remains of Tom Lehrer CDs cause my brother got into him a few years ago and got them for a birthday one time

We have those CDs too. Actually, the range of music I listen to is startlking. I like Tom Lehrer, The Beatles, Rammstein, Fairport Convention, The Chieftains, Abba, Cocteau Twins, Enya, Lothlorien, and practically everything else I listen to. Including, unlike a nu

We have those CDs too. Actually, the range of music I listen to is startlking. I like Tom Lehrer, The Beatles, Rammstein, Fairport Convention, The Chieftains, Abba, Cocteau Twins, Enya, Lothlorien, and practically everything else I listen to. Including, unlike a number opf people I know, country music.

Oh, yeah, forgot Devo and Viggo Mortensen.

I've memoprised parts if the elements but not the whole thing

I've got the CD as well, very good.

Most of the rest of the time I listen to Queen or the Beatles

Ooooh someone else who's actually heard of Tom Lehrer!

A whole group of them!

Yay! Another person who's heard of Tom Lehrer!

It's been a while since I listened to them, but I recall my favorite song being Pollution... and We will all go together when we go... adn the Christmas Carol... and... and... and...

Masochism Tango is THE best song he wrote.

For some reason I never really picked up on that.
Possibly because I never got a chance to actually lsiten to it with no one keeping me from hearing it properly... or something like that...

So listen to it! Actually, my dad remeber singing 'Pollution' in some park when he was about my age. I wish I could remember which park.

'Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park' is one of my favourites. Played it to a friend once without telling her the title first. She was actually reduced to rolling on the floor laughing. She told be off afterwards for almost suffocating her by making her laugh too much.

...as you do... The annoying thing with me is I heard a lot of them before I got to know what they meant, so I already knew the words before I knew the meanings so some of the humour had gone...

Now that's a shame , I didn't here any apart from the elements song and the hunting song until I went to university and those two didn't need an eplaination.

I heard a lot of them before I understood them, too. like the masochism tango... when I first heard it I was young enough to not know what masochism meant.