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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: LostInReno on July 10, 2007, 01:30:48 PM
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Patton Oswalt
Tuesday, July 10th, 8pm - 11pm
on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
The legendary comedian Patton Oswalt visits with Tom Scharpling on the Best Show on WFMU! The man behind The Comedians Of Comedy and the voice of the lead rat in "Ratatouille" will be on the air, taking calls, making funny jokes, and entertaining everyone! Get ready for a good old time!
This was copied from WFMU.org.
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I'm very super duper uber excited for this.
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I hope he talks about what it was like working with Demi Moore and Cane Dook.
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As always, I hope he names about 100 things that I should watch/see/read/etc...
That may have sounded sarcastic but it's not - I think he's a champion of all things awesome. (and a brilliant comic in his spare time)
I'm juiced!
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I'm juiced!
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I'm juiced!
(http://r_harrison.tripod.com/Agonist/BarryBonds.jpg)
Come on not Barry Bonds. He is the greatest.
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I can't wait to listen to tonight's show.
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I can't wait to listen to tonight's show.
go die
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I can't wait to listen to tonight's show.
Me too I have been stoked all day
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It was spectacular.
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Great show - nice going, everybody who called in. I wasn't planning on listening, went to bed at midnight (BS is on here at 2 am), then unexpectedly woke up at 3 am, compelled by... something. Immediately got up and tuned in. Caught the last two hours, chatted some in the chat.
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Okay, I know I just joined up and we're all a big happy family, but Is it me or is AST stealing the FOT fire? Their Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion kills this Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion. I think we need a little friendly competition here.
...although I can't really think of anything interesting to say about it. I don't really know anything about comics, so I'm out of the goddamn loop.
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Sometimes I like the interviews, sometimes not as much.
This one was spectacular, made me wish I was more in the know of the world of comedy.
Petey sounded so old and so adult. Scary.
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The DVD part of PO's new rekkid Werewolves and Lollipops is available on Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Patton_Oswalt_Werewolves_and_Lollipops/70073401?trkid=189533&strkid=673261601_0_0). Had no idea they offered such discs.
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Okay, I know I just joined up and we're all a big happy family, but Is it me or is AST stealing the FOT fire? Their Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion kills this Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion. I think we need a little friendly competition here.
...although I can't really think of anything interesting to say about it. I don't really know anything about comics, so I'm out of the goddamn loop.
Bah. Call me when they've started a decent Porcupine Pie vs. Cowboy Star discussion. Or, alternately, when Patton starts giving us shout outs.
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Weird "Al" is a fan of the Best Show?! Who'd 'a thunk it.
P.S. Isn't it weird(!) seeing him now without the 'stache and glasses? And he's got that awful curly long hair like he's trying to be hip now and appeal to the youths.
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Okay, I know I just joined up and we're all a big happy family, but Is it me or is AST stealing the FOT fire? Their Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion kills this Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion. I think we need a little friendly competition here.
That's cuz we're all comedy nuts. And Patton's the best in the biz.
And AST's the best too. BOOSH!
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Didn't he just claim to have met Petey from the Future after a show in a recent AST posting?
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Okay, I know I just joined up and we're all a big happy family, but Is it me or is AST stealing the FOT fire? Their Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion kills this Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion. I think we need a little friendly competition here.
...although I can't really think of anything interesting to say about it. I don't really know anything about comics, so I'm out of the goddamn loop.
Did you hear Patton and Tom discussing who their favorite poster was on the FOT board? No, neither did I.
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Okay, I know I just joined up and we're all a big happy family, but Is it me or is AST stealing the FOT fire? Their Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion kills this Patton Oswalt on TBSOWFMU discussion. I think we need a little friendly competition here.
...although I can't really think of anything interesting to say about it. I don't really know anything about comics, so I'm out of the goddamn loop.
Did you hear Patton and Tom discussing who their favorite poster was on the FOT board? No, neither did I.
The real question is: did you hear any FOT members callin in to talk about the FOT board? (I only talked about AST with Patton because he actually posts on there and is involved with a lot of the discussions)
*group hug*
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I think it would have been gauche to call in to talk about this board. I mean, it exists entirely because of the show--does that nail need to be hammered? I also think that Tom exercises exquisite and sagelike discretion by not talking about it or us. Christ, we'd all end up like a bunch of squabbling siblings vying for Daddy's praise, and, let's face it, we're pathetic enough as it is. Besides, there are plenty of listeners who are not FOT and thus do not engage with this board. Devoting a lot of time to it on the show would be unfairly alienating, placing those listeners in the uncomfortable and rather dull position of the odd person out at a family gathering where everyone is exchanging private jokes and reminiscences. Remember what it was like when Tom used to refer to the chat? Terribly gratifying for the chatters; potentially off-putting to everyone else (though I'll admit it's what got me chatting in the first place: I wanted to be a guest at the party instead of the loser hearing about it secondhand).
Many lovely FOT are also ASTers. Let's not make them uncomfortable by continuing this stomping of totally unnecessary sour grapes.
In closing, the boxer is currently chewing away at an empty liter Coke bottle. That and a large coffee can are his new favorite toys. I find this charming.
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Sarah, will you please run for president instead of all these other goons?
You had me at "gauche."
Please?
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Sometimes I like the interviews, sometimes not as much...This one was spectacular, made me wish I was more in the know of the world of comedy.
Wait what? All of Tom's interviews are spectacular. I would say this was more spectacular than the others I've heard though. Patton held his own end up with Tom better than most of his guests do. I think Tom makes PFT nervous or something, he can't stop laughing.
I thought Oswalt was so funny I went down to Soundfix last night to hear him. (A side note: Another bar? C'mon Williamsburg.) I was two minutes late and couldn't get in the door. Geez. I had no idea. I laughed when the breeze blew just so and I could make out a joke.
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When the KFC Famous Bowl came out I called the KFC customer satisfaction number and tried to set up a catering job- my niece was graduating high school and I wanted a Famous Bowl for about 30 people, like kiddie-pool sized. They don't offer them in that size, but kindly agreed to "pass my idea on."
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When the KFC Famous Bowl came out I called the KFC customer satisfaction number and tried to set up a catering job- my niece was graduating high school and I wanted a Famous Bowl for about 30 people, like kiddie-pool sized. They don't offer them in that size, but kindly agreed to "pass my idea on."
wow. when i think about that huge, globby layer of gravy and cheese (a completely unholy mixture) i get a little clammy.
but, it also makes me think of double dare. because of that show, i still have a dream of someday sliding head first into a giant cream pie.
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When the KFC Famous Bowl came out I called the KFC customer satisfaction number and tried to set up a catering job- my niece was graduating high school and I wanted a Famous Bowl for about 30 people, like kiddie-pool sized. They don't offer them in that size, but kindly agreed to "pass my idea on."
wow. when i think about that huge, globby layer of gravy and cheese (a completely unholy mixture) i get a little clammy.
but, it also makes me think of double dare. because of that show, i still have a dream of someday sliding head first into a giant cream pie.
I once went to a live taping of Double Dare! It was pretty awesome.
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from the "The Sound of Young America" Maximum Fun forum (http://www.maximumfun.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10371#10371):
poster: Jerri and Me
Post subject: Tom Scharpling is a huge jerk.
In response to how Tom acted when Jesse called him on the Patton O. Edition of "The Best Show." This is the only time I've ever been disgusted with the way Tom treated someone. Ignore him Jesse.
New board battle?
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If Tom was a jerk (which I don't agree with), Jesse deserved it, considering he basically called in to brag about being carried by PRI.
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Jesse's call went on waaaay too long. If an expert were to diagram it, it'd lbe an near endless loop of:
Suckup. Brag. SuckupSuckup. Suckup. Brag.
It was a huge relief when Tom administered the mercy GOMP.
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If Tom was a jerk (which I don't agree with), Jesse deserved it, considering he basically called in to brag about being carried by PRI.
Correct.
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Huh. I got the impression they were sort of playing off each other. Kind of how Tom did the obnoxious call with Sam Seder a while back.
But hey, board wars are ALWAYS fun. Cuz there's not enough snarkiness on the internet to begin with...
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Sarah, will you please run for president instead of all these other goons?
You had me at "gauche."
Please?
I am either deeply touched or very, very hurt by this suggestion.
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I can't wait to listen to tonight's show.
go die
Kiss off and drop dead !!!!
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Sarah, will you please run for president instead of all these other goons?
You had me at "gauche."
Please?
I am either deeply touched or very, very hurt by this suggestion.
Please don't be hurt! I meant it - I was actually agreeing with what you had to say about the two boards and loving the way you said it!
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I thought Tom was alright to that dude about The Sound of Young America, except that if I was that guy's co-host that would've been pretty rough stuff. I also got the impression he wasn't really being all that serious. But maybe half-way. I've never listened to TSOYA, but that dude kinda reminds me of the guy who calls up Seven Second Delay to plug his news site all the time. Maybe Tom should do a show where Andy Breckman is his co-host and he can just out-and-out alienate callers who Tom is too nice to call bullshit on so Tom can play good cop for a change.
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Of course I wasn't hurt, TL. I was making a little joke. I mean, really, wishing the presidency on someone! How unkind can you get? (Although it's better than the time a fellow whose book I was editing said to me--as a compliment, mind you--that I'd be a great head of the CIA.)
In truth, though, your post made my day. Which is about as sad as all this foolish rivalry between AST and the FOT.
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If you are going to have petty rivalry, make it a big petty rivalry.
I think FOT need to mobilize and crush the evil forces of AST. We'll show them!
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(Although it's better than the time a fellow whose book I was editing said to me--as a compliment, mind you--that I'd be a great head of the CIA.)
Yipe!
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In truth, though, your post made my day. Which is about as sad as all this foolish rivalry between AST and the FOT.
There is no rivalry, it's just one aspect of the cosmic struggle between good and evil.
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If you are going to have petty rivalry, make it a big petty rivalry.
I think FOT need to mobilize and crush the evil forces of AST. We'll show them!
BRING IT
But really, fellas, I/we don't wants no troubles with yous folks...
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You can't top the FOT
You can't stop the FOT
Consider it brung (brought? bringed? to have acheived a state of bring?)
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I am FOT and AST!!!
GROUP HUG!!!
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Scharpling's Army?
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I'm a conscientious objector.
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You could change your username to swiss miss 2 and maintain your neutrality
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I'm from MD and I'm neutral.
Henceforth, I'm going to fill Patton's thread with happy pictures of peace and love:
(http://www.lisd.org/pwp/children%20holding%20hands.gif)
(http://www.theanthonyking.com/archives/love_joy_peace.jpg)
(http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/300W/fs7.deviantart.com/i/2005/233/4/e/heart__by_rosarot.jpg)
And this uber adorable picture of Grumpus as a puppy.
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o232/atsugi_01/grumpus_truck.jpg)
If you can't feel the warmth in your heart now then there's just no hope...
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I just want everyone to know that I certainly didn't call in to brag. Tom is the wisest man in radio, in my book, and I wanted some guidance, since I'm at a real crossroads.
His advice was tough to swallow, but I'm thinking about it very seriously. Jordan's coming in later today, and I haven't decided whether I've got the guts to follow through, but I'm trying to find the strength in my heart.
Jesse
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I'm trying to find the strength in my heart.
If that's the case, try not to look at that adorable picture of Grumpus as a puppy.
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I just want everyone to know that I certainly didn't call in to brag. Tom is the wisest man in radio, in my book, and I wanted some guidance, since I'm at a real crossroads.
His advice was tough to swallow, but I'm thinking about it very seriously. Jordan's coming in later today, and I haven't decided whether I've got the guts to follow through, but I'm trying to find the strength in my heart.
Jesse
We are here for you.
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I listened to the archive, and Mr Oswald was very funny. So I pursued some of his further material on Youtube, and I have the same questioned I posed on the chat.....why all the toilet talk? I'm no prude, it just seems so gratuitous and.....unnecessary. I like Tom and Jon's theory that the FCC checks on language on WFMU create a tension that is part of what makes the show even funnier than it would be if it were run like a Howard Stern crapfest. "Devices" anyone?
PS, I am a big Zappa fan (I apologize, but you have to be what you are), but the same argument goes there. The "PG" records like Apostrophe and The Grand Wazoo are among the best stuff, as far as I am concerned.
Sadly, I can't figure out how to embed Youtube videos; nor even find the right thread to make that sorry claim.
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Sadly, I can't figure out how to embed Youtube videos.
http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,801.0.html
...nor even find the right thread to make that sorry claim.
http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,692.0.html
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Well... I do find the "s-hit list" and "Can I say...(blank)?" stuff that Tom and Jon do hilarious, but I, personally, have a pretty terlitty terlett mouth, especially when I get wound up, and I find the sort of vernacular Patton uses to be just "amped-up conversational." It's exactly how I would talk with my friends and (some of my) family when babbling animatedly about some subject or other.
I wonder, though, if there's not another more serious aspect of the particular tone that Patton and others (David Cross?) use in a lot of their bits - so much of the underlying premise of so much of their material is incredulity at the state of modern life, and it seems to me that it naturally leads to expressions of gob-smacked amazement laced with anger, in a "WTF??!?!?!?" kind of way. Is the nature of the material, i.e. "the state of the world" (if you're taking the general tack that there's a lot of crappy stuff worth getting worked into a lather over), part of the equation here? Context, too, seems important in determining the level of letting loose. Obviously, he knows how to rein it in for radio and Comedy Central specials; and while engaging in policy discussions in a classroom, think tank, or at a dinner table might require and DESERVE a certain level of restraint, getting drunk and riffing about these things to an also possibly drunk audience in a club seems like one of the places you ought to be able to let it all hang out a bit more.
I've certainly heard my share of (and been guilty of) gratuitous and downright lazy and bothersome profanity, but I haven't felt that what I've heard from Patton Oswalt (and in fairness, I haven't explored too deeply beyond the "officially released" records themselves, and to my chagrin, I've never yet seen him live, so I could be missing something) is anything but natural animated expression.
Can you tell that I'm having a seriously boring Sunday afternoon? :-\
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Wow where is the love?
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Wow where is the love?
What're you talking about? I got NOTHIN' but love!
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Well... I do find the "s-hit list" and "Can I say...(blank)?" stuff that Tom and Jon do hilarious, but I, personally, have a pretty terlitty terlett mouth, especially when I get wound up, and I find the sort of vernacular Patton uses to be just "amped-up conversational." It's exactly how I would talk with my friends and (some of my) family when babbling animatedly about some subject or other.
I wonder, though, if there's not another more serious aspect of the particular tone that Patton and others (David Cross?) use in a lot of their bits - so much of the underlying premise of so much of their material is incredulity at the state of modern life, and it seems to me that it naturally leads to expressions of gob-smacked amazement laced with anger, in a "WTF??!?!?!?" kind of way. Is the nature of the material, i.e. "the state of the world" (if you're taking the general tack that there's a lot of crappy stuff worth getting worked into a lather over), part of the equation here? Context, too, seems important in determining the level of letting loose. Obviously, he knows how to rein it in for radio and Comedy Central specials; and while engaging in policy discussions in a classroom, think tank, or at a dinner table might require and DESERVE a certain level of restraint, getting drunk and riffing about these things to an also possibly drunk audience in a club seems like one of the places you ought to be able to let it all hang out a bit more.
I've certainly heard my share of (and been guilty of) gratuitous and downright lazy and bothersome profanity, but I haven't felt that what I've heard from Patton Oswalt (and in fairness, I haven't explored too deeply beyond the "officially released" records themselves, and to my chagrin, I've never yet seen him live, so I could be missing something) is anything but natural animated expression.
Can you tell that I'm having a seriously boring Sunday afternoon? :-\
That's a great take on it. Probably some of it is my Southern thing, too; I am trying to repress that (I'm really not entirely a yokel, but I am a bit of a boy scout.) Ya'll bear with me til I get my sealegs under me.
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That's a great take on it. Probably some of it is my Southern thing, too; I am trying to repress that (I'm really not entirely a yokel, but I am a bit of a boy scout.) Ya'll bear with me til I get my sealegs under me.
Dave! For god's sake - no shame in that game! You're a class act, and regardless, you have every right to your opinion - I was just conversatin' (and I had too much time on my hands to think about comedy bits and profanity today - not proud of what I DIDN'T acomplish while I was musing in front of my computer...).
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If you can swear and it helps the point, then it's great. If you cannot swear and you can make a creative workaround (the bleeping in Arrested Development also comes to mind), then it's great. If the whole premise is swearing, then it's not gonna be great.
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Patton was amazingly hilarious on Conan last week. Right off the bat, he got into having a chapped penis in Salt Lake City then how he and Janeane Garofilo look like an ideal butch/fem lesbian couple then tried to segue into a clip from the children's movie he starred in by saying, "Go see my rat movie, kids."
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Wow where is the love?
What're you talking about? I got NOTHIN' but love!
Sorry I didn't mean you TL it sounds like its the FOT vs AST crowd.
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I do believe I showed my love for both AST and FOT by displaying photos of love and peace, and by using the term "Group Hug" quite a few times.
Bottom line: FOT and AST overlap, so there's really no issue.
And, again, please feel some love for Grumpus, as this is Patton's thread after all:
(http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/photos/uncategorized/grumpus.jpg)
(LostinReno are you on AST too?)
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Grumpus is a French bulldog, yes? Very charming indeed.
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Grumpus is one of the top ten best dog names ever.
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Grumpus is one of the top ten best dog names ever.
Top 3:
3. Funyuns
2. Dogmo
1. Mr. Belvedere
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Favorite nick-name: Grump-man-du
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The other day, my brain failed me, and I called Zach "Boxer." Now I wish I'd named all my animals so straightforwardly: Boxer, White Mutt, Black Mutt (renamed from "Large Black Mutt" after Small Black Mutt died a few years ago), Girl Cat, Boy Cat (the last two have always been known collectively as "the blacks").
Another good name for Zach would have been Spot, since he has just one, so it would have been nicely precise.
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as we are veering off topic, my wife and I have not seen eye to eye much on baby names (october 27th!!!!!) and maybe something like "You" or "Kid" would be a good direction to go in.
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"Offspring," I think, which can be modified to "First Offspring" if necessary.
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P.S. I love it when threads take detours. Makes 'em more like real conversation.
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I would name my hypothetical pet Yakub, after the evil mad scientist who the Black Muslims say created the white man 6,000 years ago.
I would do it just so I could tell that story every time someone asked about his name, because I find the idea that my ancestors were created by an evil mad scientist to be waaay more compelling than many of the other creation stories out there.
NOW this thread is off course! Damn straight!
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Why don't you just go with "You," "Kid," or "Offspring" until he or she is, like... say... four years old, and then let the kid pick his or her OWN name? That could be interesting...
And for the record, I'm thinking of this more in an experimental case-study kind of way than a hippie kind of way.
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My Grumps
My Grumps
My Lovely Lady Grumps
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as we are veering off topic, my wife and I have not seen eye to eye much on baby names (october 27th!!!!!) and maybe something like "You" or "Kid" would be a good direction to go in.
Spawn!
I used to have a dog named Sammy Davis because he was black and jewish and my mother is a bit of an odd duck. She originally wanted to call him Theodore and call him "The Beaver" but we vetoed that idea immediately.
PS. Has everyone purchased or downloaded Patton's CD yet?? Hmmmm?? If you don't like toilet talk, you won't like it. But I prefer to think of "cuss words" as nice punctuation to make a story or joke just a little more lively. That, and I have a vocabulary like a whiskey-drunk sailor.
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Here's a great name for a dog, or a kid, but perhaps mostly a dog:
Fletch!
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When I was 7 or 8, I got a dog, and I really really wanted to name him Scooby, like the cartoon dog, but I was wise enough to know that I would get laughed at and beaten for naming my dog after a cartoon dog, so I came up with an homage to Scooby that I knew would throw all the nay-sayers off of my trail.
I named him Scubby.
The neighbor across the street laughed at me, and said I was too chicken to name him Scooby, and he started to call ME Scooby.
So I drowned him. Which was a mistake, because his kickball skills were wicked, and my team was never the same. Well, not MY team, technically, but the team I would watch from safely from the other side of the fence, pretending I was a vital member.
Now our dog's name is Pepper.
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Why don't you just go with "You," "Kid," or "Offspring" until he or she is, like... say... four years old, and then let the kid pick his or her OWN name? That could be interesting...
And for the record, I'm thinking of this more in an experimental case-study kind of way than a hippie kind of way.
I swear I met someone who picked their own name at 3 or 4, and they picked something stupid and were unhappy with it. I wish I could remember the situation and whether or not their name was cookie monster or not.
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Here's a great name for a dog, or a kid, but perhaps mostly a dog:
Fletch!
Playing fetch would be confusing.
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So I drowned him.
DAVE!
I thought you were a supercaller not a superkiller!
For shame. :'(
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So I drowned him.
DAVE!
I thought you were a supercaller not a superkiller!
For shame. :'(
Mettapho...Metaffor...Mentaphor...Symbolically
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I think you'd be a wonderful serial killer, Dave from K.
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I used to have a dog named Sammy Davis because he was black and jewish and my mother is a bit of an odd duck. She originally wanted to call him Theodore and call him "The Beaver" but we vetoed that idea immediately.
PS. Has everyone purchased or downloaded Patton's CD yet?? Hmmmm?? If you don't like toilet talk, you won't like it. But I prefer to think of "cuss words" as nice punctuation to make a story or joke just a little more lively. That, and I have a vocabulary like a whiskey-drunk sailor.
What kind of dog is black and jewish? Just curious.
Also, is anyone *really* that offended/disappointed/whatever by the toilet talk? I agree there's a time and a place for it, but what better time and place than a gosh durn comedy CD? Are we all going to hell if we listen to someone say the F word?
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Are we all going to hell if we listen to someone say the F word?
No. As I pointed out elsewhere, it takes French Canadian profanities to consign one to perdition.
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What kind of dog is black and jewish? Just curious.
Well, he was a little black dog, and we are a jewish family. Thus making him black and jewish. Again, my mother has an odd sense of humor, and a love of the Rat Pack.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/419051795_7a9861a514.jpg)
He lived to be 16 and was a very good boy. The end.
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Did he have a glass eye?
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haha no but the cat once scratched his eye (he had to have eye surgery) and we made a LOT of glass eye jokes.
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i heard he was too busy keeping an eye on the sparrow to see the cat coming
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not sure if this deserves its own thread or not, so i thought i'd piggyback on this one...
patton oswalt gave tom and the best show some pitchfork love in today's guest list (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/44177-guest-list-patton-oswalt).
>> Favorite Radio Show
"The Best Show" on WFMU. Fucking kills. Oh my God! That show is so good. I could listen to Tom Scharpling talk about anything. If that show were eight hours long, eight hours of my week would be gone listening to it.
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This MySpace blog post from Patton is kind of amazing:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=67077201&blogid=295931806&page=1
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Patton's tribute filled me with nostalgia, reminding me of the days when I was madly in love with movies. A happy early memory is of watching The Invasion of the Body Snatchers when I was about four. From age six to ten, every Saturday saw me at the Roxy Theater, where for a quarter I was guaranteed a pleasant afternoon. Later, after my family moved to New Paltz--and my parents finally bought a television--I discovered channels 5, 9, and 11, all of which still showed decent movies fairly regularly: the Bergman festival I've mentioned before, some Italian fare, even The Four Hundred Blows one day when I was home with a cold. On a boat to England when I was twelve, I passed my afternoons with whatever movie was being played, even missing out on the first sighting of the White Cliffs of Dover because I was watching 8 1/2 (later, on another ship--the Lermontov--I got to see all kinds of Communist propaganda films, featuring mad, bad White Russians and noble revolutionaries). It was in England that I first encountered Michael Powell, when the entire student body of Stroud Girls' High School was marched two-by-two to see Is It Heaven or Hell? Whenever I lived in a city, I gobbled movies up. In Boston, for example, I loved nothing more than to go to theater after theater, traveling all around town to see as many as I could squeeze in over the course of a day (my record was four).
I could go on and on, but this reminiscence is already too long. It's just that Patton reminded me that I used to have passion. Ahimé, as they like to lament in Italian opera.
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Patton has become such a great actor