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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by stuartd on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:34PM (#16777146)
49 comments without mention of Lobachevsky?

And who deserves the credit? And who deserves the blame? Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky is his name!

I have lots of TL on an old disk, but this is the one I still listen to. A good primer on Russian cities as well as a hilarious, brilliant and pithy song.

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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by PeterMikhailov on Monday April 09, 2018 @05:45PM (#16797268)
> And who deserves the credit? And who deserves the blame? Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky is his name!

It's a song about plagiarism... and it's all ripped off I mean borrowed from a Danny Kaye routine. Many levels.

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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by jmmcd on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:37PM (#16777179)
Well it's in the article.
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