When the air becomes uraneous . . .

. . . we will all go simultaneous.

Every transuranic, radioactive cloud has a silver - that's an element - lining. And the death of that former KGB thug from, first, thallium, then, correction, polonium has served to remind people of Tom Lehrer, the golden satirist of the sixties

Radio has a desperate desire to find a piece of music appropriate to the news item and, sick as it may seem, it has been playing Tom's setting of the periodic table to the tune of I am the very model of a modern major-general, whenever it reports on the current scare about mass poisoning.

Let's hope it leads to a revival of the great man's reputation.

Try this link: http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/elements.htm