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Title: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: dania on February 01, 2008, 06:30:03 PM
So, like all the other threads I start, there's probably already a topic like this.  I had to post it anyway though.  I want to start a list of Tom's inanimate friends that he has full conversations with:

-Scratchy Record
-ABBA Box

Those are the only 2 I can think of.  There has to be more...  Does Microphone count? 
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: bruce on February 01, 2008, 07:16:40 PM
I can't wait till Tom makes friends with AP Mike's Fillmore West 1969 Box Set (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Fillmore_West_1969)
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Fido on February 02, 2008, 01:38:52 PM
I can't wait till Tom makes friends with AP Mike's Fillmore West 1969 Box Set (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Fillmore_West_1969)

That'll be the day.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: bruce on February 02, 2008, 02:19:29 PM
I can't wait till Tom makes friends with AP Mike's Fillmore West 1969 Box Set (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Fillmore_West_1969)

That'll be the day.
Stranger things have happened
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: John Junk on February 02, 2008, 03:49:42 PM
Toblerone.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Sploops on February 02, 2008, 03:56:57 PM
I seem to remember Tom talking to a bird in a costco but maybe I'm on drugs. (not inanimate but still...)
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: folksnake on February 03, 2008, 12:28:34 PM
Fast forward 65 years: Tom staggers, the snowglobe with the four figures in it tumbles from his hand as he gasps:
 
"...ABBAbox..."
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Gagneaux on February 03, 2008, 12:30:50 PM
Fast forward 65 years: Tom staggers, the snowglobe with the four figures in it tumbles from his hand as he gasps:
 
"...ABBAbox..."

Brilliant. My favorite post ever (?)
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: folksnake on February 03, 2008, 12:46:25 PM
I seem to remember Tom talking to a bird in a Costco but maybe I'm on drugs. (not inanimate but still...)

If it was a frozen chicken, I think it qualifies.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: dania on February 03, 2008, 08:52:08 PM
Or, even better, when Tom does voices for inanimate objects.  Like the chosen fork at picnics:
"You know I'm your fork.  Why didn't you pick me up?  You let someone else get me, Colin."
(9/18/07)
That, and the voice of cookies:
"Don't cry!  Eat!  Eat more cookies!"  (5/22/07)
I simply cannot help laughing during these priceless moments. 
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Denim Gremlin on February 03, 2008, 11:20:58 PM
Or, even better, when Tom does voices for inanimate objects.  Like the chosen fork at picnics:
"You know I'm your fork.  Why didn't you pick me up?  You let someone else get me, Colin."
(9/18/07)
That, and the voice of cookies:
"Don't cry!  Eat!  Eat more cookies!"  (5/22/07)
I simply cannot help laughing during these priceless moments. 

I've heard Tom's voice as the voice of my fork ever since.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Spalding on February 04, 2008, 02:32:32 PM
Tom once had a falling out with his cell phone (it tried to run away) and he did the phone's voice in his high "little kid" voice. this was before the podcast, maybe early '05? When he started talking to the ABBA Box, I was hoping it would talk back like the phone.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: dave from knoxville on February 04, 2008, 02:47:30 PM
I am betting the Abba box's voice is hard to distinguish from Hulk Hogan's.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Chris L on February 04, 2008, 03:19:04 PM
I seem to remember Tom talking to a bird in a costco but maybe I'm on drugs. (not inanimate but still...)

YOU ARE NOT ON DRUGS.  He was recounting how "a little birdy" told him something about Xbox, I believe, and he couldn't get past how unusual it was that a little birdy was talking to him. 
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: yesno on April 06, 2008, 12:21:46 AM
Tom once had a falling out with his cell phone (it tried to run away) and he did the phone's voice in his high "little kid" voice. this was before the podcast, maybe early '05? When he started talking to the ABBA Box, I was hoping it would talk back like the phone.

7-27-2004
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: TremblingEagle on April 06, 2008, 06:50:02 AM

"Don't cry!  Eat!  Eat more cookies!"  (5/22/07)
I simply cannot help laughing during these priceless moments. 

thats my favourite voice right there
I feel so weird saying that
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: orangewhip on April 06, 2008, 11:16:20 AM
first thing i thought of when i saw this thread was him talking to the scratchy record at the beginning of the post 9/11 show.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Stupornaut on April 07, 2008, 10:37:22 AM
Toblerone.

I nearly ruptured a lung listening to this in the archives. Especially when he decided the callers needed to speak to the assorted Toblerone bars.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: dania on April 07, 2008, 06:24:44 PM
Toblerone.

I nearly ruptured a lung listening to this in the archives. Especially when he decided the callers needed to speak to the assorted Toblerone bars.

what's the date of that show? 
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Stupornaut on April 07, 2008, 09:06:53 PM
Toblerone.

I nearly ruptured a lung listening to this in the archives. Especially when he decided the callers needed to speak to the assorted Toblerone bars.

what's the date of that show? 

3/2/04, I think.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: Regular Joe on April 07, 2008, 09:14:10 PM
Wasn't The M-Azing bar also a friend? I can't remember.
Title: Re: Tom's Inanimate Friends
Post by: dania on April 11, 2008, 06:44:42 PM
Toblerone.

I nearly ruptured a lung listening to this in the archives. Especially when he decided the callers needed to speak to the assorted Toblerone bars.

what's the date of that show? 

3/2/04, I think.

OH MY GOSH WAS THAT SPIKE'S FIRST CALL(S)? 
I think that entire exchange was quite possibly the funniest thing I've EVER heard on any show I've listened to yet.  Can someone get a call count on that whole drama?