I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living

[sovay]

Tom Lehrer had entered my household's dialect before I was born. That's not my department. I am never forget the day. Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Only be sure always to call it please research. More, more, I'm still not satisfied. Lucky Pierre! Who's next? Songs not on rotation in my parents' record collection could be encountered lyrically and traumatically in Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle (1981). One could in fact call him one of my idols since childbirth. With just a handful of music, he touched the hearts of millions, and in the spirit of his own liner notes, I hope he died mad about it.

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[mrissa]

We listened to several at my mother's this evening. I remember doing jazz hands to "genuflect genuflect genuflect" with my father when I was in the 6-8yo range. I do not have a lot of celebrity crushes generally speaking but I have such a crush on the moment in "Werner von Braun" where the urbane smile slips for half a second and you can see how incandescently furious he is.

[sovay]

We listened to several at my mother's this evening. I remember doing jazz hands to "genuflect genuflect genuflect" with my father when I was in the 6-8yo range.

*hugs*

That's my father's favorite part, too.

I do not have a lot of celebrity crushes generally speaking but I have such a crush on the moment in "Werner von Braun" where the urbane smile slips for half a second and you can see how incandescently furious he is.

Because Operation Crossbow (1965) was a transatlantic co-production from MGM-British Studios, thanks to Operation Paperclip and NASA its otherwise historical plot centered around the R&D of the V-2 at the Mittelwerk and the titular Anglo-American efforts to investigate and target V-weapon production and launch sites is notable for its one hundred percent omission of Wernher von Braun, so whenever another block of flats in London crumbled under the impressive special effects of a V-1 hit, we did our best to counterweight for reality with another round of "WHO OWE THEIR LARGE PENSIONS . . ."