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		fragmede on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity? The sun is a misama of incandescent plasma, by They Might be Giants for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA A 2009 follow-up to their original song from 1993, the sun song, in which they erroneously claimed the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, to weigh the follow-up song is a correction.

aebtebeten on May 24, 2024 [–]

My current song pedantry fave is Nanobot, perfected by a video with 18 numbered [refs]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvxPSQNMGc

(presumably Brian May would have had his phases of astral matter correct in the first set of lyrics?)

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