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Alasdair Stuart

RT @rdouglasjohnson@twitter.com

This update to Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" is almost there, but I prefer changing the final couplet to:

🎵 These are the only ones that Tom included in this anthem,
And some more have been discovered since, but nobody can scan them. ♩ ♫ ♩ ♩ 𝄽 ♩ ♩

🐦🔗: twitter.com/rdouglasjohnson/st

Letter allegedly from Tom Lehrer. Slightly abridged: 10/21/10 Hello Peter I wasn't planning to deal with this problem ever again, but your version is so close to satisfactory that I couldn't resist the challenge. Here is your version: Copernicum, meitnerium, darmstadtium, organesson Rutherfordium, scaborgium, roentgenium & hassium Livermorium & bohrium, moscovium, nihonium Lawrencium & tennessine, dubnium & flerovium Like all others that people have sent me over the years, it doesn't scan or rhyme. However, if one were willing to add a syllable (i.e., use two sixteenth-notes), in your case _ruther_fordium and _liver_morium, or in my case _ruther_fordium and lawren_cium_, one could actually achieve the two necessary rhymes: Copernicum, meitnerium, nihonium, moscovium _Ruther_fordium, seaborgium, roenthenium, flerovium Darmstadtium, lawren_cium_, organesson, livermorium & tennessine & hassium & dubnium & bohrium Note: I believe the accent in organesson is on 'ness'
Jan 20, 2023, 11:25 PM·Quiet public·Mastodon Twitter Crossposter
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