A fum little e-mail

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:

> (Little known fact:  Tom Lehrer left the musical comedy business 
shortly
> after Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.  He is quoted as 
saying
> that he was quitting because "I can't write anything more absurd 
than
> that.")

Hi.  It's me -- Joywitch M. Curmudgeon, not-so-friendly local 
compulsive, founder of The League Of Obsessed Nitpickers, and unable 
to keep her mouth shut when she has a chance to correct someone.

So, here we go:  Tom Lehrer actually left the musical comedy business 
long before Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, which was in 
1973.  Lehrer's records were all released in the 1950s, or at the 
very latest the early 1960s.

And, what he actually said about Kissinger was that "Political satire 
became obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize."

--Joywitch, returning you to your regularly scheduled nitpicking

**GO YANKEES**