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You seen Google today?; 125th birthday of Walter Gropius
Topic Started: May 18 2008, 09:24 AM (174 Views)
jon-nyc
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In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Orlando Gibbons
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I'm going to fold my arms and shake my head in protest because of what he did to Mahler.

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George K
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Orlando Gibbons
May 18 2008, 12:41 PM
I'm going to fold my arms and shake my head in protest because of what he did to Mahler.

From that logo, it looks like he's 'doing' her to this day. :P
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Orlando Gibbons
May 18 2008, 10:41 AM
I'm going to fold my arms and shake my head in protest because of what he did to Mahler.

I thought he did Alma. Of course, Kokoschka and Werfel also did her....
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
jon-nyc
May 18 2008, 10:24 AM
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I was wondering what that was. Poor art. Doesn't look like Gropius at all.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Frank_W
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Well, this ain't nothing to write home about, either:

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Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Dewey
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HOLY CARP!!!
The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.

Her lovers were many and varied,
From the day she began her -- beguine.
There were three famous ones whom she married,
And God knows how many between.

Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
Which of your magical wands
Got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?

The first one she married was Mahler,
Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav.
And each time he saw her he'd holler:
"Ach, that is the fraulein I moost have!"

Their marriage, however, was murder.
He'd scream to the heavens above,
"I'm writing Das Lied von der Erde,
And she only wants to make love!"

Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
You should have a statue in bronze
For bagging Gustav and Walter and Franz.

While married to Gus, she met Gropius,
And soon she was swinging with Walter.
Gus died, and her tear drops were copious.
She cried all the way to the altar.

But he would work late at the Bauhaus,
And only came home now and then.
She said, "What am I running? A chow house?
It's time to change parters again."

Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous.
Though you didn't even use Ponds,
You got Gustav and Walter and Franz.

While married to Walt she'd met Werfel,
And he too was caught in her net.
He married her, but he was carefell,
'Cause Alma was no Bernadette.

And that is the story of Alma,
Who knew how to receive and to give.
The body that reached her embalma'
Was one that had known how to live.

Alma, tell us!
How can they help being jealous?
Ducks always envy the swans
Who get Gustav and Walter,
you never did falter,
With Gustav and Walter and Franz.


("Alma," by Tom Lehrer, from the album "That Was the Year That Was")
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George K
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Tom Lehrer is a genius. Just had a birthday, IIRC.
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Frank_W
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I love Tom Lehrer. "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park," is just classic... :thumb: :lol2:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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