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usonian

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10. That mushroom reminds me of Mad Magazine (and what doesn't?)
Mon Apr 29, 2024, 07:41 PM
Apr 2024

Sung to "A Cockeyed Optimist" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in "South Pacific"

When the sky turns a bright atomic yellow
and that cloud starts to mushroom in the glare,
then I'm proud I'm a nuclear physicist,
even though I am fouling the air.

I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
that we're done and we might as well be dead,
but I'm glad I'm a nuclear physicist
with that dust falling out overhead.

They say the human race is falling on its face
and will soon be blasted out of sight.
The things I learned in school
about the molecule
are helping me to prove
they're right!

People yell that I'll turn them into jello,
but I promise I'm not that kind of guy.
I'm just stuck like a dope
with an isotope
and I've just got to give it a try ...
one more try.

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It's at the internet archive, and was posted here by Mme. Defarge
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10021798730
in 2012
I remember the original (I think)

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That mushroom reminds me of Mad Magazine (and what doesn't?) usonian Apr 2024 #10
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