GLCDec 7, 2024

@rmathematicus @cstross

It does come to mind. That's my childhood there, more or less (really, the previous albums).

(Slightly inaccurate relative to the video. My recollection of the record would be a third version - "once they go up" - but it's been about 60 years now ...)

Show threadMajor Denis BloodnokDec 7, 2024
@glc Your memory may be OK (if it scans) - there's multiple wordings of Lehrer songs even on Youtube, and I daresay if I dusted off the records I could find some more.
Show threadJdeBP

@denisbloodnok @glc

Not the only one who varied things, either.

It was actually a part of Flanders's and Swann's routine to state that they'd tell a particular joke differently in the U.S.A. and in the U.K..

#MichaelFlandersAndDonaldSwann

Dec 8, 2024 at 2:02amWeb
Show threadGLCDec 8, 2024

@JdeBP @denisbloodnok

There's also the Lehrer line in "My Home Town": "We're recording tonight so I'l have tol leave this line out." He always found some excuse for dropping that line. And Lehrer's remarks in Australia were amusing.

I can't say at this distance in time that I have a detailed recollection of Flanders and Swann's jokes (US version), though the intro to their song about thermodynamics has stuck with me. That particular intro probably worked equally well in either context.