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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: dave from knoxville on October 11, 2007, 05:04:58 PM
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The way Laurie responds with "THIS IS laaaah reeeee" when she's asked the question "Who is this?" I heard it this week on 7SD (the second Best Show), but it's happened repeatedly with Tom, and my heart melts down into my shoes every time I hear it. It's endearificating!
After that glorious self-ID, it hardly matters what she says, although what she says is always right on target too.
Thank you Laurie! And no, I will NOT stalk you, honest-injun!
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Dave, it's equally hilarious that you need to actually say your name. Who else calls in with your accent? I think if you just said "Tom..." we'd all know.
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i would vote for laurie as a super caller
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Laurie's my fav in a total non stalker way. I fully support Laurie.
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LAURIE?
OH, I AM A FAN
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You can hear the vodka chilling gently as the stacks of money rustle in the south Florida breeze.
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Once Laurie called up during the monkfish incident to talk about Ted Leo's Mazerati(??) full of cash I decided I was on board the Laurie bus for the long haul (a gold-plated bus full of her daddy's cash, btw).
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Dave can I ask you
what subject do you teach? If I may be so bold.
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Awww, thanks guys!
By the way, it was a "Miata-load" of cash.
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Alright, I either missed the joke a long time ago or missed the explanation. I'm tired of wondering so I'm just gonna come out and say: WTF is up with all this talk about Lauries dad?
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People seem to have gotten the impression that I am Veruca Salt or something. The spoiled child, not the girly rock duo from the nineties that was actually pretty darn good.
In truth, my dad is kind of an absent-minded professor. His linguistic theories were recently published in The American Scholar, so yay for him. We don't have a helicopter.
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Ah. So you aren't Shaq's kid huh? He just had his linguistic theories written up in Slam Magazine.
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Alright, I either missed the joke a long time ago or missed the explanation. I'm tired of wondering so I'm just gonna come out and say: WTF is up with all this talk about Lauries dad?
During one of the langorous, slowly stirred, juniper-tinged Tom-Laurie conversations, it came up that she'd received a painting for one of her tween birthdays. Tom and the board ran from there.
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Ah. So you aren't Shaq's kid huh? He just had his linguistic theories written up in Slam Magazine.
I was actually pretty impressed with Shaq's fieldwork among the Piraha people, but in the end I think his case against Chomskyan universal grammar is exaggerated.
Weirdly, I'm sort of involved in another internet debate about a Brooklyn-bashing article in this month's American Scholar, by Melvin Jules Bukiet, mostly because he's repeating what are on the horizon as the new set of Brooklyn cliches, and he's mostly just shooting fish in a barrel. Plus, he goes after Dave Eggers, who might not be the best writer around, but he's still a decent enough guy. Enough with the cheap shots already.
But I digress. Herewith: another purely symbolic vote for supercaller Laurie.
I also think the p*ong thread laid the groundwork for this particular runner. I don't know how closely Tom reads these boards, but I think it was being joked about here before the infamous painting call.
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What show was that? I don't think I've missed any for a couple years but I don't remember that call at all.
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During one of the langorous, slowly stirred, juniper-tinged Tom-Laurie conversations, it came up that she'd received a painting for one of her tween birthdays. Tom and the board ran from there.
A $700 painting, no less.
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During one of the langorous, slowly stirred, juniper-tinged Tom-Laurie conversations, it came up that she'd received a painting for one of her tween birthdays. Tom and the board ran from there.
A $700 painting, no less.
You know what I got for my 12th birthday? A CARTON OF CIGARETTES. The old man grabbed me by the shirt and said, "Smoke up, Buffy."
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During one of the langorous, slowly stirred, juniper-tinged Tom-Laurie conversations, it came up that she'd received a painting for one of her tween birthdays. Tom and the board ran from there.
A $700 painting, no less.
$700 is a lot, but not for a painting. I sold a painting for $700 last year and I'm a total nobody.
btw, it's highly debatable that Veruca Salt the band was "darn good".
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I think it's more that said painting was a birthday present for a twelve-year-old, JJ. I'd be willing to bet that on the birthday when I had the biggest take--whichever one that was--all the gifts combined, from all four family members, probably didn't cost that much. On the other hand, my parents are going to pay all the medical expenses ensuing from my recent finger mishap, which will amount to a hell of a lot more, so I really shouldn't thrown stones. And the fact that they can afford to do this doesn't make them rich; they simply enjoy the benefits of decades of extreme frugality. I would feel guilty and diminished at the prospect of accepting their generosity if the tremendous lack of ambition they instilled in me weren't responsible for my inability to afford decent health insurance.
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I'm a Laurie fan and I would totally support her elevation to supercaller status, but I've gotta ask: Is it possible to be a supercaller when every one of your calls ends in a GOMP?
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I'm a Laurie fan and I would totally support her elevation to supercaller status, but I've gotta ask: Is it possible to be a supercaller when every one of your calls ends in a GOMP?
Maybe a new category is needed. SuperGOMPy?
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I was actually pretty impressed with Shaq's fieldwork among the Piraha people, but in the end I think his case against Chomskyan universal grammar is exaggerated.
A case against universal grammar? Why, Chomsky turned first language acquisition theory on it's head. Was Shaq saying that we perchance don't have a L.A.D. imbedded in our heads? For shame, Shaq.
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$700 is a lot, but not for a painting. I sold a painting for $700 last year and I'm a total nobody.
"Hey, you're not a total nobody to us. You're a somebody around here. And don't you ever forget it." (movie quote from the future film: ART STAR!)
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A case against universal grammar? Why, Chomsky turned first language acquisition theory on it's head. Was Shaq saying that we perchance don't have a L.A.D. imbedded in our heads? For shame, Shaq.
Actually, I believe that Shaq espouses the theory of Shaqian Individual Grammar. He asserts that he (and no one else) possesses "mad grammar skillz." In other words, it's his language, and we just communicate in it.
Actually, the list of Shaqologisms I found seem to prove Chomsky's theory in a way:
http://www.shaqquotes.com/#InventWords
$700 is a lot, but not for a painting. I sold a painting for $700 last year and I'm a total nobody.
"Hey, you're not a total nobody to us. You're a somebody around here. And don't you ever forget it." (movie quote from the future film: ART STAR!)
Yeah, John, you have mad skills! Everyone should check John's stuff out via the extracurricular activities thread. It's awesome. Just whatever you do, don't let Laurie make you into a porn star.
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I don't remember who asked, but I teach Math, mainly Calculus and Statistics. I use it to explain my obsessions with the "music" of Robert Fripp and whoever can wedge themselves into the studio with him and his enormous head full of ideas.
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I don't remember who asked, but I teach Math, mainly Calculus and Statistics. I use it to explain my obsessions with the "music" of Robert Fripp and whoever can wedge themselves into the studio with him and his enormous head full of ideas.
You have a lot of personality for a math teacher, do you make your lessons "fun"?
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I sacrifice "learning" at the altar of "fun". I have given up trying to impart knowledge, as the students have no interest in learning, but a nice punch line wins the day every time.
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I sacrifice "learning" at the altar of "fun". I have given up trying to impart knowledge, as the students have no interest in learning, but a nice punch line wins the day every time.
wow.
You're doing the lords work.
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You know what I got for my 12th birthday? A CARTON OF CIGARETTES. The old man grabbed me by the shirt and said, "Smoke up, Buffy."
More stuff we have in common Buff_O.
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So is it safe to say that Dave from Knoxville is in love with Laurie from Miami?
I listened to Veruca Salt when I was a teenager. I just recently listened to them on Last FM and it was nostalgic :)
One year I got nothing for my birthday. My dad got drunk and admitted he forgot. I was a very understanding 10-year-old, I actually didn't really care.
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Seriously, fredrxxx, wtf is up with all the bumping of old threads?
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Seriously, fredrxxx, wtf is up with all the bumping of old threads?
I thought it was fun. Martin.
But then again not everyone shares my enthusiasm for reading old magazines and newspapers. I'm just looking for connections and bringing attention to them.
Since it seems like I'm bugging you. I'll cease.
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I think it's fun! I'm new so it's great to see these old threads. I say bump away Freds!
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I always get Laurie and Julie mixed up Laurie is the drunk one with the dog right?
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I always get Laurie and Julie mixed up Laurie is the drunk one with the dog right?
Close.
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I always get Laurie and Julie mixed up Laurie is the drunk one with the dog right?
No, that's Spike.
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I'm a Laurie fan and I would totally support her elevation to supercaller status, but I've gotta ask: Is it possible to be a supercaller when every one of your calls ends in a GOMP?
Maybe a new category is needed. SuperGOMPy?
Like the Rick James number?
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Not sure what this means but the answer is yes
So is it safe to say that Dave from Knoxville is in love with Laurie from Miami?
I listened to Veruca Salt when I was a teenager. I just recently listened to them on Last FM and it was nostalgic :)
One year I got nothing for my birthday. My dad got drunk and admitted he forgot. I was a very understanding 10-year-old, I actually didn't really care.
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Going through 2006 and hearing Tom refer to Bob Euker as a "talented young man" has made my week.
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Not sure what this means but the answer is yes
So is it safe to say that Dave from Knoxville is in love with Laurie from Miami?
I was just messing with you :-) You are part of a love triangle with Larry the Purv!
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How can you not be in love with Laurie From Miami? That voice! That laugh! Five stars.
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My head is spinning from the double messages I am receiving from this thread.
I feel chastised and encouraged simultaneously.
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How can you not be in love with Laurie From Miami? That voice! That laugh! Five stars.
I would say the same thing about Fredricks! :-)
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How can you not be in love with Laurie From Miami? That voice! That laugh! Five stars.
I would say the same thing about Fredricks! :-)
Aww, Rhea sweet of you to say. I'm blushing.... either that or I've been doing the frog pose for too long.
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How can you not be in love with Laurie From Miami? That voice! That laugh! Five stars.
I would say the same thing about Fredricks! :-)
Aww, Rhea sweet of you to say. I'm blushing.... either that or I've been doing the frog pose for too long.
Push those feets down, Frixie!