The Periodic Table…In Song

Note that I have created a new section entitled “MLP”, which stands for “Mindless Link Propagation”. This concept is borrowed from kuro5hin.org. It is a way to quickly share links to stories, without needing to spend a lot of time writing a lengthy article around it. MLP stories may still generate a lot of discussion, but they are expected to be voted to the Section Page, never (or at least very rarely) to the Front Page. Or they might just get voted out of existence. I figured MLP was where a story like this one belonged. Enjoy!

7 thoughts on “The Periodic Table…In Song”

  1. Since it’s not mentioned on either of the links, the tune is Gilbert & Sullivan’s I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General.

    (science geek that I am, I was familiar with Lehrer’s version before I ever heard the G&S tune…)

    Smashing link, Drog! :-)

  2. I’d like to hear this song recorded, not just the midi. It would definitely get into my fun-tunes collection! Time to go google it…

  4. I used to listen to it all the time growing up. So many fond memories… “Fish heads, fish heads, rolly polly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum…” I just googled him and found http://www.drdemento.com. He’s still on the air??!! I had no idea, I don’t think his show is syndicated where I live.

  5. .
    featured unusual but recorded music. My all time favorite is “Pencil-Neck Geek”.

    My recollection of geeks back then was white shirts and stringy ties, glasses with coke bottle lenses, a pocket protector full of pens and tiny screwdrivers, and a foot-long slide rule to beat off female advances. That’s a little different from today’s positive but socially inept, techno-savvy, caffiene chugging, gadget addicted, nerdy-in-a-nice-way geek.

    But the pencil-neck geeks in the song are nothing like that.

    jon

  6. …I think…must have been The Scotsman. I say this because, for whatever reason, I still remember all the lyrics.

  7. During the song, when it got to Fermium, they didn’t show a picture of Enrico Fermi, like they did for the other physicists.

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