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Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

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A 1967 live film of Tom Lehrer performing his patter song "The Elements" in Copenhagen, reciting the chemical elements to a Gilbert and Sullivan tune. It is a short, polished example of his satirical piano-and-voice style.

HN commenters cite it as a favorite Lehrer song and invoke it as a joke whenever elements or science-themed wordplay come up.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@Kaibeezy2023 · in “Researcher discovers new isotope of astatine”

Don’t know much about astatine except it’s the rarest naturally occurring element and Tom Lehrer sang about it. ▶ this video

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@nayuki2022 · in “Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain”

"The Elements" is the Tom Lehrer song that made the biggest impression on me. link , ▶ this video There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, ...

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@nayuki2020 · in “Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951)”

The first work of Tom Lehrer's that I heard is "The Elements", where he recites chemical element names. link ; ▶ this video

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@Diederich2020 · in “Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube”

For those who aren't aware and/or won't look this reference: link As the other comenter noted, Tom Lehrer is indeed a national treasure, and his satire is top shelf. From the light-hearted "The Elements": ▶ this video (watch for the surprise at the end) To the gallows comedy of "We Will All Go Together When We Go": link NB: I appreciate the irony linking to YouTube content in a 'WTF Google/YouTube' thread.

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@DonHopkins2015 · in “Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (1979) [pdf]”

Jonathan Rees's a la carte menu of the elements of "object oriented programming" is a great example of that. link The Elements of Object Oriented Programming: Encapsulation, Protection, Ad Hoc Polymorphism, Parametric Polymorphism, Everything Is An Object, All You Can Do Is Send A Message, Specification Inheritance, Implementation inheritance/Reuse, Sum-Of-Product-Of-Function Pattern. These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard, and there may be many others, but they haven't been discarvered. ;) [Apologies to Tom Lehrer.] ▶ this video

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