Throwing a paper together just days before a conference, the grad student rides a turbulent wave of shame and exhilaration.

Fearing such hits as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “National Brotherhood Week,” “The Masochism Tango,” “The Element Song,” “Be Prepared,” and “Lobachevsky”

I was explaining Tom Lehrer to friends a couple of nights ago. And now I've learned he has left his songs to us...

Lots of people worried that he's dead. No, he's still alive (hurrah!) -- I just meant the songs are in the public domain:

as he explains:

I, Tom Lehrer, and the Tom Lehrer Trust 2007, hereby grant the following permissions:

All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. All of my songs that have never been copyrighted, having been available for free for so long, are now also in the public domain.

The latter includes all lyrics which I have written to music by others, although the music to such parodies, if copyrighted by their composers, are of course not included without permission of their copyright owners. The translated songs on this website may be found on YouTube in their original languages.

Performing and recording rights to all of my songs are included in this permission. Translation rights are also included.

In particular, permission is hereby granted to anyone to set any of these lyrics to their own music, or to set any of this music to their own lyrics, and to publish or perform their parodies or distortions of these songs without payment or fear of legal action.

Some recording, movie, and television rights to songs written by me are merely licensed non-exclusively by me to recording, movie, or TV companies. All such rights are now released herewith and therefore do not require any permission from me or from Maelstrom Music, which is merely me in another hat, nor from the recording, movie, or TV companies involved.

In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.

So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money.

NOTICE:

THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG.

Tom Lehrer

November 1, 2022

I HAVE BELLS

I PLAYED THE BELLS SO MUCH IT STARTED SNOWING ON MY DASH

assuming you’ve enabled 1-8 keys to play the bells, joy to the world is:

87654321

566778

88765543

88765543

3333345

4222234

321865434321

Jingle bells is: 

333 333 35123

4444 43333 3223 2 5

333 333 35123

4444 4333 554 2 1

twinkle twinkle little star:

1155665 4433221

5544332 5544332

1155665 4433221

this old man:

535 535

6543234

3451111 12345

5224321

the “dashing through the snow” part of jingle bells:

14321 1115432 25432 66535 14321 15432 22543 666 676521

“His Theme” (Undertale):

1541334 141334 1541334 146545

“Mary had a little lamb”

3212333222355

3212333322321

“Lord of the Rings”

1235321

35687532

123532121

356 (pause) 532 (pause) 1

I just keysmash them until it snows. I’m SUCH a cheap date. :)

"ode to joy"

5567 7654 3345 544 5567 7654 3345 433 4453 45653 45654 341 5567 7654 3345 433

free him

HE’S FREE

Yes

YES

The Snorlax is out

@piyotan

If you acquired every animal you have ever touched on purpose in your entire life, what would be the coolest thing you could morph into?

Mine would probably be a nurse shark or a boa constrictor. The snake was from when a reptile specialist brought it to my middle school and let us pet it. The shark would be from a Pet The Shark exhibit at an aquarium.

Not gonna lie though, my favorite one (not the coolest, but definitely the most sentimental value) would be the tiny stingray I was friends with when I was 6.

i once touched a monkey at a zoo because it held its hand out (not a smart idea but i was like, 11 lol), also a black bear, and an elephant. i’d just be rachel i guess

When I was a kid my mom took me to a Get-Your-Picture-With-A-Tiger thing at Sam’s Club, of all places, but it was a baby tiger, so I’d definitely morph that and be completely useless for 1 hour and 59 minutes.

i’ve touched a whitetail deer and i’ve gone on one of those sad camel rides (i was like five?) and i have also ridden a horse. so like. if im low on fluids in the desert i can use my weird blood cells to not die. i guess i could also be a really big harmless yellow burmese python. nothing very cool though.

When I was maybe 4 or 5 I got to ride on an Indian Elephant. That would be my strongest morph.

I got to pet a Camel a Dromedary I think when I went to a small circus. A “Zebra” but I’m sure it was a horse painted to look like a zebra. And a pony. There was also a goat with only one horn that they said it was a unicorn. I didn’t touch it though.

Got to pet a giraffe at a zoo. Well more like it was trying to eat my hair.

I go to the wool festival every year. So plenty of goats, sheep, llamas, and one alpaca.

My parents had an aviary So lovebirds, cockatiels, and parakeets. We also had chickens and a dog.

So mostly farm animals.

standard city critters: golden retriever, various doggies including pit bulls, assorted cats, beta fish

lived in a rather rural area growing up: horses, cows, chickens (assorted varieties), a turkey (he was a jerk), sheep (montadale and hampshire), pigs (American Yorkshire and hampshire; don't underestimate these guys, they get big and can be mean), rabbits (assorted varieties), goat, box turtles, various fishes

Neighbor was a Shriner so we went to the Shriner's circus with fancy passes one year: Indian elephant, camel, shetland pony

Nerdy enough to be in the biology club in high school, we did a volunteer stint at the local exotic animal rescue: emu, tiger, wolf, male lion, coydogs

Friend worked at the aquarium one summer: bull shark, lotsa freshwater fishes, sea turtle

Helped a friend with their thesis on animal geography in town and got to do some stuff with the local wildlife rescue and animal rehabilitation center as a result: opossum, scarlet macaw, assorted snakes (notably a cottonmouth, other various non-poisonous garden snakes), lots of spiders because I was the one without arachnophobia, bald eagle, crow, racoon

Related excursion to the zoo: manta ray (they let you touch these in their tank), standard petting zoo critters (alpaca, camel, horse, goat, etc.), red kangaroo, golden tamaran monkey (our zoo has several "open exhibits" where there are no barriers with the animals and sometimes they think you may have snacks...)

@piyotan what would yours be?

"In the 70s it was black and minority ethnic people, in the 80s it was gay people, trans people are just the latest to get it in the neck from comedians who can't be bothered to try at their jobs anymore. I cannot stand there and watch another dogshit comedian go: 'Ooohh if a woman can identify as a man, maybe I'll identify as a chair!' Why don't you identify as good comedians, you hack motherfuckers?!"

- Nish Kumar: "It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves pt.2"

Yeah but you need to actually hear the full clip and the fury and passion and glee (because he knows he's nailing them) in his voice. (Wish I could find the audio somewhere other than Twitter, but I can't.

here it is!

Unreasonable Ideas

How did you guys come out with your simblr name?

Mine is because I wear specs and I am pretty confident with my fashion style *clear throat* so I come out with this name “spectacledchic”.  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Originally I was just lazy and wanted to name my site after something dear to me, so I named it after my Dog who’s name is Onyx. However the name works in multiple ways :)

Well, my name has a lot of history.. and it’s meaningful to me because i ..

who am i kidding. yes, it was because of GAGA. y'all, it’s too late for me to change it XD.

I’ve used ‘Quiddity’ or ‘Quiddity Jones’ in some form online since 1995. It’s from the word quiddity, which means ‘the essential nature of something.’ I like to consider myself the essential nature of myself really, so I stuck with it.

Gohliad (Goliad) was a character from Adventure time and CupidJuice is my favorite drink in The Sims 4, it makes your sims flirty~ ♥ I’m a big fan of the pink, reds and light blues of valentines day so I like anything romance related. 

my favourite festival from city living <3

i wanted to use “vatore” because you know, the vatore siblings, but it was already taken by a porn blog (or a beginning of one yikes) so i just added one more “v” 

I really, really like Dragon Age…also I’ve always thought “lyrium” was a phonetically pleasing word to say. So it was a match made in heaven.

Ridgeport is literally just a drink name from ts4. That’s it lmao I love it to death tho bc I love fancy drinks

I wanted a simblr name that somehow matched my main blog so people can be like ahh its her. And i am also soft so

Solas is an Evil Egg and I’m gonna beat him when the new Dragon Age comes out 💪💪

It made me laugh when I thought of it. I can’t even eat avocados.

I like Alexander Goth and my name is also Alexander lol, tis my attempt at a reference *peace signs*.

Meow.

I would spend way more time playing sims than going to the playground across the street from my house. My mum would force me off the home computer in the sims 1 days, and give me time limits to make me go play outside - and that folks is how I picked pixelplayground.

An asari ancient kingdom, also the name of the asari ark in MEA. I just love the sound of the name, elegant ♡

my username came from blackpink lisa’s line in boombayah :^) “I’m gonna go brrrr. Rambo”

I love drinks with milk in them and I just used that in combination with the work trait and BOOM technology :

Who even cares why I chose mine, I’m just reblogging this because it was so fun to see something like this from a while back with folks I recognize. I love it. I had to share it.

everyone thinks my name is xl dicks so i’m just gonna go with that origin story and say i post xl dicks or something. lol

my name is just a play on spelling of the ts4 world “newcrest” but i just thought i’d be cool and spell it “nucrests.” there wasn’t much thought to it lmao

SENTATE was a name I made up for a character in a story when I was 10! When I decided I wanted to make cc as a ‘fashion house’ I thought it would be a good choice…… I had no idea it translated to ‘sit down’ in spanish until after a few years of releasing cc lol

Someone was already using Hellfrozeover (my original) and PizzaForBreakfast, so I live with my choice. Plus, it gives me a convenient uwu veneer for my dark soul.

it was actually one of tumblr's random name suggestions when i made my account :/

Making remarkable progress on his research, the grad student wonders what disastrous mistake will eventually blow up in his face.

Wrapping up another year, the grad student reflects on how much and how little has changed at the exact same time.

the two halves of my brain/the two wolves inside me when making up a fantasy/sci-fi creature:

Side A: okay but what niche is this species occupying? They’re eusocial and cave-dwelling, did they evolve in natural caves or do they dig warrens, or some combination of both? Are all castes blind, or only some of them? Do they have any kind of special thermoception or electroreception sense? Could they have evolved to be bipedal, or is that stupid and they need a different body plan more suited for tunneling/noodling around in cramped parts of cave systems? If they’re smaller than humans but still fairly large creatures, how do they get the energy they need in a resource-scarce subterranean environment? You have to read these three journal articles right now!! Read them right now!

Side B: aww and this character wears a little knitted hat with holes for her little ears