"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
Pffts, the title of my undergrad thesis was "A Survey of the Literature on Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Parameterization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold". :P
@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.
In Russian he says: "Я иду куда сам царь идет пешком", lit. 'I am going where the Tsar himself goes on foot' [=I am going to the bathroom] and "Жил-был король, при нем блоха жива [была]" lit. 'Once upon a time there lived a king, and a flea was living on him', a line from a Goethe song made famous by Chaliapin. He leaves out the last word of the first line in his fake review. His accent is pretty poor in these lines actually, worse than in individual words, but it's a wonderful song.
I don't kno where I heard the following, but looking for it lead me to this wonderfully richer version. Yeah! When in college, don't hide your eyes. God made your eyes. Plagiarize. -- Unknown
@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.
Thank you for that, Tom. I've wondered for many years what, exactly, Pravda and Izvestia were saying. Seems to me they were right on! I also appreciate the fact that Lobachevsky's feers oreeginal paper's title is authentic, rather than some sort of pseudo mathematical-sounding gibberish. Of course I would expect no less from you! Thanks for all the smiles, not to mention belly laughs, you've provided me and many others over the years.
@TigerofRobare You obviously care deeply about being correct in all things. And about correcting others. You are predigiously intelligent. Thank you so much.
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.
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.
@@miggiewarms632 But Joe Biden is the KING of Plagiarism. He was even passed over as a presidential candidate once because of it. Apparntly the Democrats got over that.
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.
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
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
It's from the Friska part of Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 by Liszt, also known as "that piano song from Tom and Jerry." Don't even know if you'll get a notification after 11 years...
Well, Weird Al is still sort of his own successor. The big comedy musicians now would probably be: Garfunkle and Oats, The Lonely Island, Bo Burnham, Stephen Lynch, Tenacious D,
To the Minister of Culture, a native Ukrainian, Wolodymir Medinsky, the best expert among Ukrainians on glorius Russian culture devoted: "Десять мудрецов не превратят дурака в умного. Но поставь мудреца во главе десяти дураков - и скоро он станет подобен своей пастве." Рабби Менахем-Мендл из Коцка
I haven't heard this for decades, and I suddenly got the urge, and sure enough, here it is. And it still cracks me up like it did half a century ago.
"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
Pffts, the title of my undergrad thesis was "A Survey of the Literature on Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Parameterization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold". :P
Borzhemoi! This I know from nothing!
So was it research?
Oopa
I think about the manifold in the automobile when I hear that. Almost blew a head gasket.
@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.
Fabulous, Brilliant, Stunning, Hilarious... the man's a genius!
In Russian he says: "Я иду куда сам царь идет пешком", lit. 'I am going where the Tsar himself goes on foot' [=I am going to the bathroom] and "Жил-был король, при нем блоха жива [была]" lit. 'Once upon a time there lived a king, and a flea was living on him', a line from a Goethe song made famous by Chaliapin. He leaves out the last word of the first line in his fake review. His accent is pretty poor in these lines actually, worse than in individual words, but it's a wonderful song.
I don't kno where I heard the following, but looking for it lead me to this wonderfully richer version. Yeah!
When in college,
don't hide your eyes.
God made your eyes.
Plagiarize.
-- Unknown
In Soviet Russia...
...papers plagiarize YOU!
Just call him "the greatest who ever got chalk on his coat".
@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.
Thank you for that, Tom. I've wondered for many years what, exactly, Pravda and Izvestia were saying. Seems to me they were right on! I also appreciate the fact that Lobachevsky's feers oreeginal paper's title is authentic, rather than some sort of pseudo mathematical-sounding gibberish. Of course I would expect no less from you! Thanks for all the smiles, not to mention belly laughs, you've provided me and many others over the years.
To steal ideas from one person, that is plagiarism. To steal ideas from many, that is research.
his fake russian is pretty good. ive seen others botch it terribly, but he sounds as close to legit as a non-speaker can get, in my opinion
I couldn't help but think of this song as I was pulling images off the web and cobbling them together into a talk.
Brilliant song - I have loved this ever since I first heard it.
I love this guy and I'm 15 years old good songs never die out
OH BOZHE MOY. I cracked up at that part.
I never forget the day...
@TigerofRobare You obviously care deeply about being correct in all things. And about correcting others. You are predigiously intelligent.
Thank you so much.
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
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.
My favorite Tom Lehrer song by far
I have a friend in Minsk ...
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.
I'm sure Tom Lehrer would be proud to see that the main focus of discussion on his song is based on his onomatopoeia.
u kno wats hilarious? the fact that my proffesor talks exactly like him LOL
The fabulous Tom Lehrer........
Modern Politicians have taken this to heart...Barak Obama and Harry Reed both 'researched' many past speeches in writing theirs, for example...
Of course, Melania Trump was to take this to previously unscaled heights of plagiarism several years later.
@@miggiewarms632 But Joe Biden is the KING of Plagiarism. He was even passed over as a presidential candidate once because of it. Apparntly the Democrats got over that.
omg i love this song!
He's a genius!
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.
even the accent is like melanic's.
Sweet
I love the accent.
@phoenixpax He also does a damn good Irish accent in his Irish ballad
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
amazing
@Robinwhiteart
The accent was epic.
Thank you !
Great! ;)
Never knew so many Russian cities rhyme.
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
It's from the Friska part of Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 by Liszt, also known as "that piano song from Tom and Jerry."
Don't even know if you'll get a notification after 11 years...
@@soupgirl1864 I did :P But someone responded to me already :P.
It was so long ago UA-cam replies appeared as separate comments :p
Christina och Joel, hoppas ni njuter och skrattar! Jag kommenterar tre versioner, så hamnar de på min facebook. Kram, ML
Wonderful!!!
Who are the successors of Tom Leher, Oscar Brand, Weird Al, Allan Sherman, et. al., today?
I'd like to know.
Tom G
Well, Weird Al is still sort of his own successor.
The big comedy musicians now would probably be: Garfunkle and Oats, The Lonely Island, Bo Burnham, Stephen Lynch, Tenacious D,
loved them all. Still love Weird Al. Ah and Oscar Brand - did you ever hear his Brand X album? naughty!
Also check out the Funny Music Project at thefump.com for some great new comedy musicians.
Also Roy Zimmerman. His early songs were for a group called The Foremen. Tom Lehrer wrote a one line endorsement on the back of one of their CDs.
Боооже мой... :D
Danny Kaye's "Stanislovsky" was the inspiration for this song.
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was his name!
oddly, there was an actual mathematician named Lobaschevsky. Far as I know, he was not a plagarist.
NIckolai Ivanoivich Lobachevesky is his name!
Watching this in honor of Claudine Gay
lol I OMG did u say math proffesor?? cause mine was math proffesor too!!
i did not plagiarize this... i merely "researched" it!!!
Does anyone have the sheet music to this ?
Maybe can find at UCSC, where he later came to teach for years.
you mean "researched?"
OMG SAME HEEREE n he does sound like he is german or smtin whoa
I believe that accent is "plagiarised" :P
@phoenixpax
Well, duh!
I see a Science paper in my future
To the Minister of Culture, a native Ukrainian, Wolodymir Medinsky, the best expert among Ukrainians on glorius Russian culture devoted: "Десять мудрецов не превратят дурака в умного. Но поставь мудреца во главе десяти дураков - и скоро он станет подобен своей пастве."
Рабби Менахем-Мендл из Коцка
The real slim shady
From?
Ha, zu Guttenberg is gone...
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.
Lots and Lots of practice + talent i think.
Or maybe he plagiarized other persons' playing :P
Baiden too...Don't believe me? Check out watch?v=9BxYfHuMDt0 at time index 6:00
I published first😂
no shit the whole song is about plagerism