When Tom Lehrer penned his little ditty about soldiering, albeit from lived experience, I wonder if he contemplated that the sad sacks, retards, and microcephalic officer corps he makes fun of were what kept him out of Hermann Goering's soap dish* just a few years before. Mr. Lehrer is still alive. What say you, Tom? But then, nothing li…
When Tom Lehrer penned his little ditty about soldiering, albeit from lived experience, I wonder if he contemplated that the sad sacks, retards, and microcephalic officer corps he makes fun of were what kept him out of Hermann Goering's soap dish* just a few years before. Mr. Lehrer is still alive. What say you, Tom? But then, nothing like enforced service from the gifted kids at Harvard and Columbia to leaven the intellectual wattage of the uniformed services, eh? I mean, look at Admiral Rachel Levine.
*The reference is from Herman Wouk's Broadway Play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" where the defence-attorney character played by Henry Fonda drunkenly claps back at the slimy author who had just got rich from his book chronicling navy incompetence.
When Tom Lehrer penned his little ditty about soldiering, albeit from lived experience, I wonder if he contemplated that the sad sacks, retards, and microcephalic officer corps he makes fun of were what kept him out of Hermann Goering's soap dish* just a few years before. Mr. Lehrer is still alive. What say you, Tom? But then, nothing like enforced service from the gifted kids at Harvard and Columbia to leaven the intellectual wattage of the uniformed services, eh? I mean, look at Admiral Rachel Levine.
*The reference is from Herman Wouk's Broadway Play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" where the defence-attorney character played by Henry Fonda drunkenly claps back at the slimy author who had just got rich from his book chronicling navy incompetence.