Lobachevsky - Tom Lehrer

[cheatman247]

I love this guy and I'm 15 years old good songs never die out

[VeXorian1337]

Боооже мой... :D

[quentinlynch]

Ha, zu Guttenberg is gone...

[MARGARELON]

@quentinlynch And good riddance! But he'll be back soon enough.

[san2chi]

"I spoke no Russian (and still speak none), and it was Munro Edmonson who taught me (phonetically) the Russian phrase I used in 'Lobachevsky' regarding going where even the Tsar goes on foot. The first phrase was the first line of Mussorgsky's Song of the Flea, with which I was already familiar and which Ed taught me how to pronounce. It means 'once there was a king who had a pet flea.' The second says 'now I go where even the Tsar goes on foot.' A reference... to the bathroom." --Tom Lehrer

[mabarry3]

At least we know where Tom got his songs from. *scoffs and walks away* Actually, I love Tom, best artist (for he IS a true artist) I've ever seen. I could care less if he plagiarize, I mean *who doesn't?*

[rainbowheydrich]

Tom Lehrer is absolutely amazing. It's such a shame that people today (particularly the younger generation) waste their money on trash when there's material of absolute quality such as Tom Lehrer's songs.

I love Tom Lehrer. <3

[tonan63]

I love this man... he's the same age as my wifes father ... & if anyone can do the math it's the man born in 1928 (who wasn't the guy who wrote this) I've never forget the day. Idaho fall's for GE finance dude. twas in veriatable. Tony Miller.

[flibberswooper0]

I never forget the day...

[Hekateras]

Heh, I'm Russian, and the poke at Russia couldn't get more obvious, but I still find it ingenious and hilarious as hell. XD

[VivaRenata]

@Hekateras Thank you! and immortal besides. I am a prof. of history but my father is a retired prof. of biochemistry and to him Lobachevsky is a great name. He introduced me to Lehrer, because we both love music. We are Swedish and if anyone from our country had gotten such a fantastic acknowledgement, we would be proud.

And we both love Borge, who is very funny, but hardly as challenging as Lehrer.

[MrSpockify]

One man deserves the credit, one man deserves the blame, and Nicholai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name! Aye! Nicholai Ivanovich Lobachev-- I'll never forget...

xD I love how he just cuts off like that.

[alexkx3]

To steal ideas from one person, that is plagiarism. To steal ideas from many, that is research.

[whiskycopter]

As far as I can find on Google, the only instance of the phrase "locally euclidean metrization", outside of the lyrics of this song, is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. probably because it doesn't make sense lul

[Elanchana]

OH BOZHE MOY. I cracked up at that part.

[Robinwhiteart]

I would call Mr. Tom Lehrer's humor sardonic satire. That includes his use of the fake accent. Remember that most of his songs were written during the Cold War. One has to take these things in context. HIs work is still viable, that counts in the Arts. It is sheer genius! And very funny as well. Not too many things fall into that combined category.

[mrbobmanbob]

@Robinwhiteart

The accent was epic.

[TigerofRobare]

@Robinwhiteart Actually, the tune is one Lehrer "researched" from Danny Kaye, who had a song about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski and changed the words to be about the founder of non-Euclidean geometry, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky because he was such a math geek.

[Robinwhiteart]

@TigerofRobare You obviously care deeply about being correct in all things. And about correcting others. You are predigiously intelligent.

Thank you so much.

[VivaRenata]

Christina och Joel, hoppas ni njuter och skrattar! Jag kommenterar tre versioner, så hamnar de på min facebook. Kram, ML

[goldghast]

And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was his name!

[goldghast]

i did not plagiarize this... i merely "researched" it!!!

[VivaRenata]

He's a genius!

[snakeboy144]

oy gevalt!

[Hailstone47]

Nope, all American ingenuity

[Eve6fangirl]

omg i love this song!

[Ahab2008]

This song is a rip-off...

[imorio]

From?

[Elric33239]

Danny Kaye's "Stanislovsky" was the inspiration for this song.

[xTorhnx212]

no shit the whole song is about plagerism

[allanfelipebr]

LOL ! Great point.

[mk555712]

think it was a joke XD

[GolumTR]

Very meta-, manx.

[hellyeahcouk666]

of what song?

[phoenixpax]

This is a fake accent, people. Listen to his other stuff, and it would be obvious. Besides, his other stuff is hilarious, so you should anyway.

[FangFiftyFive]

@phoenixpax

Well, duh!

[rydag11]

@phoenixpax He also does a damn good Irish accent in his Irish ballad

[northernatheist]

Best Lehrer song. I've actually been to Minsk.

[BintAbdullah]

this is great! haha

[beigekitten89]

u kno wats hilarious? the fact that my proffesor talks exactly like him LOL

[KarinAnachronism]

omg my math professor in the fall semester talks exactly like him also. xD

[beigekitten89]

lol I OMG did u say math proffesor?? cause mine was math proffesor too!!

[KarinAnachronism]

yess! lmao i think he's like, cuban but his accent sounds half german or something. lmfao

[beigekitten89]

OMG SAME HEEREE n he does sound like he is german or smtin whoa

[Lavarunner]

cuban? german? Hes american and hes doing a fake russian accent

[KarinAnachronism]

i know this. he just sounds like a professor i had.

[grenzman]

My favorite Tom Lehrer song by far

I have a friend in Minsk ...

[lsD0iJaa3]

Index, I copied out old Vladivostok directory. Hahahahaha

[McRat1968]

Lehrer makes another hilarious mention of plagiarism in "Bright College Days."

"Here's to the papers we cribbed

from the genius who lived down the hall."

LOL

[creativebob1]

When I heard Lobachevsky again today it brought tears to my eyes. I had worn out the Lehrer disk years ago. He is the greatest. Have you heard "The Old Dope Peddler" or was it "The Boy Scouts Marching Song"? I'm going from here to Google to find out where he is.

[xerxes118]

Nickolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name HEY!

[keinve2]

'Hi', actually.

[xerxes118]

What? It's hey!

[keinve2]

Well, actually, due to the accent it is AY. look, say hey along with the video. See how it sounds. They say either HI or AY with the video. Hey is close, but 'HI' and 'AY' are closer.

[xerxes118]

I cannot believe we are going to such lengths to discuss this.

[keinve2]

I got into a five hour argument(in real life) over how old beowulf was when he died. DO NOT complain. These are a few sentences. That was a violent argument, and i actually threw a chair.

[TheShadowyPhantom]

It's "oy".

[IRONSTOVE]

I'm sure Tom Lehrer would be proud to see that the main focus of discussion on his song is based on his onomatopoeia.

[keinve2]

Yes, he would.

[TheShadowyPhantom]

Thanks for the uneeded jab.  Perhaps you don't have business of your own to attend to?

[keinve2]

Why do you think we are on youtube?

[TheShadowyPhantom]

I wasn't talking to you, smart one.

[keinve2]

I know that. I was just pointing out that if we had anything important to do, we wouldn't be on youtube.

[XCidePharmaceuticals]

@IRONSTOVE Really if you think about it, he would be happy people are paying such close attention to his songs.

[GolumTR]

Did you come to an agreement (on Beowulf's final age)?

[keinve2]

No, someone called the police due to the 'chair' thing.

[GolumTR]

Not group consensus, I mean you particularly.

[keinve2]

Well, he was young when he killed grendel, and, at the time, that would be younger than twenty. To be fair, i've given him an age of 17, still considered young, yet certainly old enough to fight for the time. He doesn't become king right away, so the age itself isn't obvious. I think he was anywhere between 20-25 when he took command. Any younger and most people wouldn't feel safe having someone likely younger than them. He ruled for fifty years, if the poem is accurate, so that makes him 70-75.

[keinve2]

Which is, of course, almost impossible with the medical level then. So i'm going for the most possible which is 70.

[freddage91]

You are a very sad person

[keinve2]

Not sad. Angry. Short tempered. But happy as a Hurkle.

[newguy298]

Thats quoting.

"Every politician does that. The people like Obama stole parts of his speech from other politicians. Those politicians stole some other parts of their speech from other speeches. And in the future, new politicians will use original parts of Obama's speeches."

[Euclid34]

i love this thing...

its so funny especially the plagiarizing thing!

[BelovedRaven]

0:48 and on

Hilarious and kind of sad.

[99bottlesrootbeer]

catchy! This is possibly my favorite Lehrer song. So many people have taken dear Lobachevsky's lesson to heart...

[rsimpson69]

There is nothing new under the sun.

[tarkenberg]

I love the accent.

[bradkey98765]

Great song !,

What's the tune at around 2:00 called, when he sings

And then I write

By morning, night,

And afternoon,

And pretty soon

I just can't remember the name

[eleirbag89]

Liszt, 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody.

[bradkey98765]

Thank you !

[rcanning89]

amazing

[RedwoodTheElf]

Modern Politicians have taken this to heart...Barak Obama and Harry Reed both 'researched' many past speeches in writing theirs, for example...

[RedwoodTheElf]

Baiden too...Don't believe me? Check out watch?v=9BxYfHuMDt0 at time index 6:00

[guitargamer7000]

Every politician does that. The people like Obama stole parts of his speech from other politicians. Those politicians stole some other parts of their speech from other speeches. And in the future, new politicians will use original parts of Obama's speeches.

[Pieter345]

hhaha ingrid berglmans is a belgian tv presentatrice xDDD, tom is awesome!

[Fredde21]

Well, here we are talking about the Swedish actress, Ingrid Bergman

[Pieter345]

sorry for not knowing jeez

[Fredde21]

Now you know, and it was not meant to be rude, if you understood it like that. Simply so that people will not get the wrong information.

[Pieter345]

okay

[NivMizzet89]

Lots and Lots of practice + talent i think.

Or maybe he plagiarized other persons' playing :P

[sidthinker]

I wonder how he learned piano.. his technique is so incredibly alive, fluent and utterly flawless... trust me.. that's NOT easy.. or quick... that's amazing talent.

[bobbyjack0218]

awesome!

[anniemcl12]

Classic! :)

[muszaj]

Great! ;)