Dowe's on 9th, Pittsburgh, PA..... Richard Thompson played a number of new (or, at least, previously unreleased), rather droll songs, including " The Hots for the Smarts " (a title which has internal rhyme if you're British): "I need a girl with a feel for Faraday's wheel A girl who'll drool for Fleming's Left Hand Rule Now you may like pin-ups of girls who do chin-ups Like Xena the Warrior Princess but I'll take to dinner My Nobel Prize winner with plutonium stains down her dress" Another one along these lines is " Alexander Graham Bell ": "Television was a thing That he had all prepared But he left that to his pupil John Logie Baird Of course there was the telephone He’d be famous for that alone But there’s 50 other things as well From Alexander Graham Bell" You've gotta love a song that disses Edison and Tesla: "Edison, he was a thief And Tesla nuts beyond belief"
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