Chanukah in Santa Monica

The Remains of Tom Lehrer [BOX SET] I just received a rather amusing MP3 in my email today:

(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica (1.7 MB)

Turns out it’s a Tom Lehrer song from 1990. Check out the lyrics. The Yom Kippah rhyme is a bit of a stretch, but I guess that’s what they call poetic license. 🙂

Related: check out today’s Ask Yahoo! column: Why is the holiday Hanukkah spelled two different ways?

5 thoughts on “Chanukah in Santa Monica”

  1. David

    Only two different ways?

    Here’s my Hanukkah regex (oh, man, there goes another phrase I thought I’d never utter/type):

    /^(Ch|H)hann?ukk?ah?$/

  2. Glenn

    Hey, no need to remember the match — you can toss in another question mark!

    /^(?:Ch|H)ann?ukk?ah?$/

    or for those in need:

    $gift =~ s/\bC?[hH]ann?ukk?ah?\b/$$$/;

    # that makes for a really Greedy regex!

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