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Illiways, the Café at the end of the Ufiverse | by Treehugger | 2007-05-18 00:53:33 |
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I sleepy... | by JimK | 2007-05-18 01:26:53 |
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*serves hangover breakfast* | by Treehugger | 2007-05-18 01:27:41 |
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No, no hangover, just lack of sleep... | by JimK | 2007-05-18 01:31:10 |
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Bah. That's what they all say | by Treehugger | 2007-05-18 05:16:22 |
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Teaching is fun. | by JimK | 2007-05-18 05:27:35 |
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We was being taught bout plagerism | by Treehugger | 2007-05-18 05:30:05 |
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heh. Is that as persuasive as they get? | by JimK | 2007-05-18 05:36:42 |
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by Phoon |
2007-05-18 06:50:28 |
Lobachevsky
by Tom Lehrer
[The song alternates between singing and speaking. Spoken words are in quotes.]
"Who made me the genius I am today?
The mathematician that others all quote?
Who's the professor that made me that way?
The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat?"
One man deserves the credit
One man deserves the blame
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, hey
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachev...
"I am never forget the day, I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word, he taught me the secret of success in mathematics: 'Plagiarize'."
Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
"Only be sure always to call it, please, 'research'."
And ever since I meet this man my life is not the same
And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, hey
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachev...
"I am never forget the day, I am given first original paper to write. It was on 'Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Parameterization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifolds', bozhe moi! This, I know, heh, from nothing. What... I'm going... to do.
"I think of great Lobachevsky and I get idea, ha HA!"
I have a friend in Minsk
Who has a friend in Pinsk
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk
And when his work is done
Ha ha! begins the fun
From Dnepropetrovsk
To Petropavlovsk
By way of Iliysk
And Novorossiysk
To Alexandrovsk
To Akmolinsk
To Tomsk to Omsk
To Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run
Yes, to me the news will run
And then I write
By morning, night
And afternoon
And pretty soon
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed
When he finds out I publish first
And who made me a big success and brought me wealth and fame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name, hey
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachev...
"I am never forget the day my first book is published. Every chapter I stole from somewhere else. Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory. This book was sensational. Pravda, heh, well, Pravda said '{Russian doubletalk}, it stinks.' But Izvestiya, Izvestiya said, '{more Russian doubletalk}, it stinks.' Metro-Goldwyn-Moskvar buys the movie rights for six million rubles, changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle', with Ingrid Bergman playing part of Hypotenuse."
And who deserves the credit?
And who deserves the blame?
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name
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