Tom Lehrer - The Professor's Song

[otakubluemoon]

this so sounds like sheldon!!!!!!!!!

[beatlesopera]

I think Tom Lehrer would make an excellent King Gama.

[agodinho64]

The Song is fron a Gilbert & Sullivan play.

[linkmaster561]

@agodinho64 no kidding.

[linkmaster561]

@agodinho64 He SAID IT WAS from a play by the pair. i think you need to get your hearing check

[HeBreaksLate]

I had to pause @1:42 I was laughing so hard.

[casestudyification]

I'm just an idiot who half the time doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, but I'm a huge Tom Lehrer fan anyhow, I have all his stuff, and of course no one I know has ever heard of him. I wish I could meet Tom and get an album autographed. He's probably above that sort of thing.

[Mad4MM]

@casestudyification He is listed in the phone book. He has said that if people what to meet him, they should call!

[Satchmoeddie]

I miss the old blackboards which we would work our way around the room from one wall to the next, eventually erase cover up the one we started on, and some poor schmuck was always still stuck working on the first blackboard out of the 12 in the room. Now they throw a TI calculator at you and use a virtual blackboard or computer projection screen. Usually the material is pre-programed by some halfwit hack. Add the professor and we are all doomed. I love continuing education, I think...

[Satchmoeddie]

This reminds me so much of Dr. Moyer, or was it Moyal. Whatever. It was chemistry 3rd years advanced and she has the worst time keeping track of reactions and how they were notated to the point tin became lead. When elements are changing from one to another in any reaction that is either nuclear fission or fusion, and I want to be about 40 miles away from anything even remotely close. No wonder I dropped out and became an electrician. I still had years of $100K + earning, so there!

[Satchmoeddie]

@Satchmoeddie Holy crap we are doing cold fusion this week!

[zelda64rules]

Tom Lehrer's songs are masterpieces... And I can't think why...

[stapler942]

This desribes a lot of professors, and not just of mathematics.

[theboombody]

Gilbert and Sullivan stuff rules.

[rainbowheydrich]

He's so amazing at everything. I love him. =D

<3

[CobinRain]

For such a big Tom Lehrer fan I somehow managed to miss this video until this morning. My loss, now my gain. Funny, sharp..love it

[SatoTM3]

have the same maticulous handwriting =p my u m i w are all the same x)

minimum is my new favorite word !

[beatlesopera]

I think Tom Lehrer should have played King Gama from princess ida the character that sang this song.

[MilesStauffe]

I have not laughed so hard in ages. This is true for almost every ancient crusty old professor...in every discipline...

[proberush]

Problem: find the Fourier series.

[tsukinohime3]

Harvard's best graduate.

[HazelEhren]

he he, can't think y.

[graidstin]

Thats funny cause lehrer means teacher in german

[CobinRain]

@graidstin And learner?

[6665726e]

<3 <3

[orion7763]

Tom Lehrer is amazing

[Nanumir]

he's the best

[sakar181]

My statistics prof. loved the word minimum. lol

[barrusDemonPlucker]

There is much truth in this song

[KongKegso2]

@barrusDemonPlucker The thruth is strong in this one

[tolemaso]

Thanks for the information, AYchip! I haven't done any research, but I think you are right. In the video he does mention that the song was for a show called "The Physical Revue."

[AYchip]

Actually it's called "The Professor's Song" and it's a version of something he did for a stage show called "The Physical Revue" a long time back. Unless, of course, my sources of information are unreliable - which is entirely possible.