Drawing diagrams for my next post. . . I begin to procrastinate. . . and find that Dana is now embedding Tom Lehrer videos. Given my background, this one has particular resonance for me:
The Tom Lehrer songbook — yes, I own the Tom Lehrer songbook — has alternate lyrics which include the couplet, “Japan will have its own device / transistorized at half the price.”
I’m curious about “given my background…” Do you mind saying more?
(I think I found one of my father’s old LPs years ago, and memorized songs about dope peddlers and boy scouts and non-Euclidean geometry.)
I grew up in Alabama.