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Not an obituary, note this (I was very sad before clicking in)
by curuinor 9y ago
Not an obituary, note this
(I was very sad before clicking in)
- contravariant 9y agoYeah that's one scary way to start a headline.
- thallian 9y agoYeah, I only saw "Tom Lehrer" and "90" and that was my first sad thought then.
- MBCook 9y agoHonestly I had no idea he was still alive. I had always assumed he died a few decades ago.
- jacquesm 9y agoHe's alive and kicking: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer?utm_term=.lem7An3Ea#.vs7ab6v9V https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer?utm_term=.lem7A...
- black6 9y agoThe liner notes from his three-disc anthology ask you to kindly pass rumors like that on to the IRS.
- ghaff 9y agoHe just gave the whole gig up and adamantly refused to be pulled out of musical retirement. A couple of times a group I was involved with back in school (long time ago) got a professor who knew him very well to try to get him to do a concert but no dice.
- ohjeez 9y agoSorry! I just used their headline and didn't add anything.
- curuinor 9y agoThat's the normative thing to do in HN, so it's their fault, basically