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Our Final Time-Waster of 2007 - And It's Elementary

Dec 24, 2007


Animator Mike Stanfill offers this flashed-out version of Tom Lehrer's classic 1959 song "The Elements," which lists them all to a jaunty Gilbert & Sullivan melody. (Turn speakers on, please.)

And if you wake up Christmas morning with the tune still buzzing around in your head, don't blame GTO!

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