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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Dorvid Barnas on August 01, 2007, 12:57:07 AM

Title: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on August 01, 2007, 12:57:07 AM
Remind Tom how important the show is to you by letting him know how you would otherwise spend your Tuesday Knights.

Dorvid

8:00 - 8:45 - Rob a bank; trash an animal hospital. 

8:45 - 9:45 - "Jordan, Jesse Go."

9:45 - 10:30 - Cry. Call ex-girlfriends.

10:30 - 10:35 - Post about my despair on AST.

10:35 - 10:40 - Edit my AST post; add photo of cats, compliment Paul F. Tompkins.

10:40 - ? - Stare out a window/"Never Not Funny"/ Black Fudge Heroin/ "This American Life"/ Pant Rummage/ "Seven Second Delay"
Title: Re: What Would I Otherwise Do?
Post by: noise.light on August 01, 2007, 01:26:39 AM
Time spent on TBSOWFMU would now be spent on:




- more low quality You Tube videos (save me from this time-sucking stuff)

- more CSI reruns

- finally doing something with those green stamps


I need more laughter in my life.  Forget all the other stuff.
Title: Re: What Would I Otherwise Do?
Post by: Josh on August 01, 2007, 02:09:25 AM
perfectly formed shame spirals  :-[
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Jouster on August 01, 2007, 05:50:25 AM
Watch John from Cincinnati.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: knifegirl on August 01, 2007, 06:06:28 AM
What wouldn't we otherwise do?

Tom helps me be on a path of righteousness. No Best Show No Peace.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Stan on August 01, 2007, 08:11:51 AM
What wouldn't we otherwise do?

Tom helps me be on a path of righteousness. No Best Show No Peace.

 Know Best Show, Know Peace.

 Take that, Christians. Cheek? Turn please.

 Thanks.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: erika on August 01, 2007, 09:06:37 AM
I honestly don't know how I'd fill that void.

That's the saddest part of all.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: bruce on August 01, 2007, 09:10:16 AM
watch Veronica Mars oh wait that show got cancelled. Then probably just read a book
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Sarah on August 01, 2007, 09:11:25 AM
I would spend yet another evening watching television of greater or lesser crappiness, probably dozing on and off over the course of the hours.  My week would be one seamless stream of drear.

On the other hand, I also would go to bed earlier on Tuesday nights and wouldn't have odd dreams in chat format.

Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: dave from knoxville on August 01, 2007, 09:26:58 AM
Le Show
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Chris L on August 01, 2007, 10:43:22 AM
Read Omar's Smodcast recaps.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Martin on August 01, 2007, 11:22:43 AM
Sleep. Stare. Write. Stare.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: buffcoat on August 01, 2007, 12:01:23 PM
All I can say is that the number of Tuesday night hobo disappearances in Durham has gone WAY down since I started listening to the Best Show.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 01, 2007, 12:54:27 PM
My blue habit would skyrocket if not for the show.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: John Junk on August 01, 2007, 01:59:57 PM
I would grit my teeth and ask the Heaven's why, oh why, can they not send down someone who is smart, grouchy, sarcastic, with excellent musical taste, a bizarre sense of humour, and a flawless moral compass to show me the light?
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: LostInReno on August 01, 2007, 04:25:45 PM
Now that I have had The Best Show in my life. I can't think of any other way to spend my Tuesday nights.

Archives would take over
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Jixby Phillips on August 02, 2007, 03:37:13 AM
I'd just plain put my head in something and hope for the best
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: A.M. Thomas on August 02, 2007, 07:40:41 PM
I would probably just read reddit and sulk about my failed relationships and shortcomings.

The Best Show is the only comedy in my life.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Gentleman Jim on August 02, 2007, 08:24:38 PM
I'd call Spike and hang up when he answers the phone, just so I could hear his voice.

Oh, and I'd work on a Union Army uniform so I could become a Civil War reenactor.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Emily on August 18, 2007, 12:24:11 PM
Watch Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It on HBO Tueday night at 9pm:

http://www.hbo.com/films/asyoulikeit/

Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: LostInReno on August 18, 2007, 04:46:02 PM
Law and Order marathons on USA, NBC, TNT holy shit law and order is on all the friggin time.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Amplituden on August 18, 2007, 05:21:27 PM
I might open a mattress store.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Miss on August 18, 2007, 05:26:18 PM
I'll probably spend my Tuesday nights curled up in the fetal position, sucking my thumb.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Fido on August 18, 2007, 05:52:50 PM

I'd use the time that I would save to become one of the world's foremost scholars on Beowulf

I might also develop an obsession for cleanliness and order that would occupy every other night of the week.  Fortunately, that won't happen as long as The Best Show remains on the air.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: dave from knoxville on August 18, 2007, 09:06:37 PM
I've given this some more thought.

I guess I would be left with Le Show.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Jason on August 18, 2007, 09:25:58 PM
I would probably just read reddit and sulk about my failed relationships and shortcomings.

 

Wait whuuuuuuuuuuuuut? You're the FOT's number one eligible bachelor.

Right ladies?

Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: jane on August 18, 2007, 10:02:05 PM
become a full-time dreamer...oh, actually that's what David St. Hubbins would do if he couldn't do his favorite thing in the world.  This is all your fault Knoxville, you had me thinking about Derek Smalls with your post.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Topher on August 19, 2007, 02:09:49 PM
Finish work on my new reality show, "Angus Young's Intern"
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on August 19, 2007, 02:21:26 PM
Well, I usually listen to the show on Podcast, so I'd probably just re-subscribe to the Leonard Lopate show, and continue to listen to AST Radio and The Sound of Young America, and listen to the Stereolaffs releases, and maybe the archives sometimes, and generally be just a little bit sadder.  It's my students who'll suffer the most, though; I was always in a great mood when I listened to TBSOWFMU on my way in.

I was also planning on sticking a toe into the water and listen to it streaming, so I could call in.  My wife has class Tuesday nights this fall so I'd be home alone.  If Tom quits (and the Kid should do whatever he's gotta do), I'd obviously have to scrap that plan.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: erika on August 19, 2007, 06:23:28 PM
I might open a mattress store.

I would say "that's that, mattress man"...

(http://jstudz.blogs.allocine.fr/blogsdatas/mdata/7/1/7/Z20070408175019430262717/img/punch_drunk_love_1.jpg)

Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Omar on August 19, 2007, 06:38:34 PM
I'd recap the show that wasn't happening, thus ensuring that The Best Show will live on in text form forever!
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 19, 2007, 07:40:35 PM
Like fan fiction, or a tribute to John Cage's 4'33".

Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: buffcoat on August 19, 2007, 11:41:17 PM
Again, Richard - why does it have to be only one of those?
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Emily on August 20, 2007, 12:10:22 AM
i thought Richard was somehow referring to John Cage - Peter Mac Nicol's character from Ally McBeal - because he was vertically challenged.

Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: JP on August 20, 2007, 12:48:19 AM
I would get to the tri-state area, and spend each tuesday night between 8pm and 11pm hunting down C___ J___ and going tall biker on his A__.   

Oh, I'd find something to do with that time.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Laurie on August 20, 2007, 07:55:25 AM
I would cry in the shower.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Chris L on August 20, 2007, 08:36:16 AM
My Tuesdays would pretty much be the same, except I'd listen to Phil Collins instead of the show and aimlessly call my ex-wife instead of Tom:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tnyp9tRXRo[/youtube]
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Laurie on August 20, 2007, 09:10:29 AM
I would finally start that Scharpling/Wurster slash fan fic community. Woah ho ho, I think this comment merits a wacky emoticon.  :o
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: erika on August 20, 2007, 09:31:36 AM
Hear! Hear!

I'll see your wacky emoticon and raise you one:

(http://cybergifs.com/faces/LOL.gif)
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: christine on August 20, 2007, 09:46:57 AM
I would finally start that Scharpling/Wurster slash fan fic community.

NO GOD NO WHY WHYYYYYYYYYY

I was really hoping against hope that I would go my entire life without ever hearing/reading the words "Scharpling/Wurster slash."  Time to go barf up my breakfast and wash my eyes out with bleach.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Chris L on August 20, 2007, 09:56:00 AM
I would finally start that Scharpling/Wurster slash fan fic community.

NO GOD NO WHY WHYYYYYYYYYY

I was really hoping against hope that I would go my entire life without ever hearing/reading the words "Scharpling/Wurster slash."  Time to go barf up my breakfast and wash my eyes out with bleach.

So which of them is the young stableboy?

(http://a486.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00466/58/40/466250485_m.jpg)
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: dave from knoxville on August 20, 2007, 10:01:04 AM
Did I mention le SHow?
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Laurie on August 20, 2007, 10:17:27 AM
I would finally start that Scharpling/Wurster slash fan fic community.

NO GOD NO WHY WHYYYYYYYYYY

I was really hoping against hope that I would go my entire life without ever hearing/reading the words "Scharpling/Wurster slash."  Time to go barf up my breakfast and wash my eyes out with bleach.

So which of them is the young stableboy?

(http://a486.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00466/58/40/466250485_m.jpg)


Are you asking which one is the "woman" in the relationship?

This is making me laugh far more than it probably should.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: christine on August 20, 2007, 12:54:25 PM

So which of them is the young stableboy?

(http://a486.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00466/58/40/466250485_m.jpg)


Are you asking which one is the "woman" in the relationship?

This is making me laugh far more than it probably should.

Now you've gone and ruined a perfectly adorable picture.  I hate you guys so much.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Laurie on August 20, 2007, 01:30:16 PM

So which of them is the young stableboy?

(http://a486.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00466/58/40/466250485_m.jpg)


Are you asking which one is the "woman" in the relationship?

This is making me laugh far more than it probably should.

Now you've gone and ruined a perfectly adorable picture.  I hate you guys so much.

For what it's worth, the picture shows up as a red x on my work computer. I'm hoping it's a book cover similiar to Lady Wainsworth's Desire.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on August 20, 2007, 04:34:25 PM

So which of them is the young stableboy?

(http://a486.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00466/58/40/466250485_m.jpg)


Are you asking which one is the "woman" in the relationship?

This is making me laugh far more than it probably should.

Now you've gone and ruined a perfectly adorable picture.  I hate you guys so much.

For what it's worth, the picture shows up as a red x on my work computer. I'm hoping it's a book cover similiar to Lady Wainsworth's Desire.

It's sort of like that, but it's also like one of Charlie White's "Understanding Joshua" photos:

http://www.charliewhite.info/sub/work/2001.html

Except it's like Jon Wurster is feeding the milky stuff to Tom.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: christine on August 20, 2007, 05:13:11 PM
*cries*
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on August 20, 2007, 05:24:35 PM

For what it's worth, the picture shows up as a red x on my work computer. I'm hoping it's a book cover similiar to Lady Wainsworth's Desire.

Oh it is....
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: God Stewart on August 20, 2007, 05:30:59 PM
What would I do otherwise?

I'd form a rock band! We'd start off as a Blues Traveler cover band, then we'd start writing our own material. Eventually we'd get signed to a major label and write terrible music that, inexplicably, every human would be able to recite verbatim in ten years time. Our biggest hit would be a cover of "Fall Down" by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: John Junk on August 20, 2007, 05:34:19 PM
*cries*
Ditto.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on August 20, 2007, 07:07:56 PM
What would I do otherwise?

I'd form a rock band! We'd start off as a Blues Traveler cover band, then we'd start writing our own material. Eventually we'd get signed to a major label and write terrible music that, inexplicably, every human would be able to recite verbatim in ten years time. Our biggest hit would be a cover of "Fall Down" by Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Ditto.
Title: Re: What Would We Otherwise Do?
Post by: christine on August 20, 2007, 08:48:27 PM
In the long run, I will likely spend my Tuesday nights getting plowed in bars & hitting on dudes that look like Tom and Jon, looking desperately to fill the void. No one will live up, though.  It will be disappointing.  Probably I will die alone.

But this week I think I'll just do laundry and go to the gym.