In yesterday’s Name That Part, I gave all of you the opportunity, should you seize upon it, to get head. And get it you did! Well done to you!
It sounds so much more exciting when I say it that way.
Using a particular system of logic I like to refer to as “blind luck”, über-commenter small-e ran away with the prize, by not only finding the answer, but finding an appropriately-matching photo. It was, as many of you worked out — but not as quickly as small-e, it should be pointed out — the “S14” head from a BMW E30 M3. I’ll be honest, the only reason I know it was an “S14” is because that was the file name of the picture I stole utilized. Some of you, however, were fully aware of this, as well as many trivial fascinating details about the head itself.
I strongly suggest that these people attempt to learn such intimate details about women instead.
On to today’s Name That Part!
Tom Lehrer, as well you know, was a mathematician at the University of California, Santa Cruz. At some point, he got bored with this, and started writing songs. If you are unfamiliar with his repertoire, you should immediately leave, pirate borrow all of his songs, listen to them, memorize them, sing them to your family members, and return once appropriately educated.
Seriously, I’ll wait.
Back? Okay, good. As you are now aware, he wrote such wonderful songs as “The Vatican Rag”, “The Masochism Tango”, and “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”. His songs were widely admired, and his performances of them generally held in the highest of regard. The New York Times, in 1959, remarked, “Mr. Lehrer’s muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.” As such, I can relate to him. Many such things are said of me on quite a regular basis, although not usually quite so eloquently, and with more swear-words. And usually by family members, rather than the New York Times.
Perhaps Mr. Lehrer’s most recognized, repeated and stolen performed song, is “The Elements”. It is nothing more than an unordered list of all of the elements known to science as of 1959, when the song was written, set to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Modern Major General”. I myself have performed this song three times now for auditions. To date, nobody has been anywhere near as impressed that I was able to navigate the whole song as I myself was.
What does any of this have to do with today’s Name That Part? That’s for you to work out.
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