APPRECIATION THREAD: Happy 97th birthday to the brilliant musical satirist Tom Lehrer, who said at one of his last shows in 1967, “All of these songs were part of a huge scientific project to which I have devoted my entire life. Namely, the attempt to prolong adolescence beyond all previous limits.”
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Drafted into the Army in 1955, Tom worked at the NSA for two years.
Well, Henry Kissinger finally died on November 29, 2023, at 100.
But did you know that Tom also wrote a song about the Strategic Air Command for the 1963 Rock Hudson-Rod Taylor film “A Gathering of Eagles”? Well, he did.