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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: scotttsss on February 10, 2008, 01:53:17 PM
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I know orange crates are all the rage among most listeners, but I prefer the smaller milk crate. It's light, compact, and does the job nicely. While listening at work (grocery industry), I was literally sitting on one when Tom and Paul F. Tompkins were discussing their use among the audience. I don't know if what I felt was pride exactly, but it was pretty funny if nothing else..
(http://users.adelphia.net/~javamoose/ROV/images/032.jpg)
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Orange crates suffer from a serious drawback: being made of wood, they can give one splinters.
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Bah, those things waffle your ass is you sit too long. Orange crates all the way.
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A throw pillow takes care of that, Sploops. Or a coat or the like.
Personally, I like the spring in a milk crate; orange crates are so unyielding.
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Back in the 60's, Yoko Ono decorated her whole Soho loft space with orange crates she collected on the street. She set one down as a coffee / eating table then arranged others around, which served as seats; she joined a couple together to form a bed and night table, which was her sleeping area.
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And if life has taught me anything, it's this:
Emulate Yoko Ono.
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Hey, I'd be willing to spend a week in bed. Noooo problem.
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I listen to the podcast on an iPod.
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I listen to the podcast on an iPod.
Yeah, this definitely isn't a mono vs. stereo, vinyl vs. cd debate. It's gotta be Ipod>Milk Crate every time. Tom's voice just sounds so much richer. Frankly, I don't even know why anyone would even think of listening to the Best Show on a milk crate.
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Well you know, it comes down to cost/benefit analysis in the end. Is it worth the money an ipod costs versus the bare-bones functionality of a milk crate? Each person has to decide that for themselves.
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Milk crates are also much more versatile than iPods. For that matter, so are orange crates.
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I tend to be a cement block guy, myself.
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Most of my furniture consists of stacked Zunes that I grabbed from outside convenience stores.
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Milk crates are also much more versatile than iPods. For that matter, so are orange crates.
I've gotta come down on the side of crates here. Try carrying your oranges or glass milk bottles around in an iPod. You will not get far.
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Hey Rockefellers, ever heard of a chair?
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The ipod idea is intriguing though. Gonna have to steal me one of those.
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I'm all for the milk crate. Orange crates are way too bourgeosie for me.
from Crate Creations
Hand crafted wooden crates and displays (http://www.cratecreations.com/Orange.html)
Item #6013
Orange Crate Large Item #6013
Large Orange Crate
Our largest Orange crate available.
Solid 3/4" dividers and wide 3/8" slats.
The perfect display for heavy duty
items to cloths or other merchandise.
Size: 42"L x 13"W x 11" D
Sale $719.88 per dozen
(http://kickthebobo.com//orange_crate_lg-226x180.jpg)
that's $60 a pop!
for that money, I could get...
SLIGHTLY USED BLACK LEATHER OFFICE CHAIR--LOCAL PICK-UP (Ebay)
(http://kickthebobo.com//8a6d_1.JPG)
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Travel Chair Big Bubba Chair (REI)
(http://kickthebobo.com//1495903.jpg)
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New His Majesty's Throne Prince Wooden Potty Chair (Ebay)
(http://kickthebobo.com//7b53_1_b.JPG)
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Hey Rockefellers, ever heard of a chair?
That's so.......common.
Gauche even.
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(http://kickthebobo.com//7b53_1_b.JPG)
With longer legs, this might have been the perfect gift for Tom if he'd made the move to Sirius.
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LISTENER APPRECIATION WEEK, MARCH 13, 2001
"Henry, if you're out there listening, sitting in front of your old transistor radio, probably sitting on the orange crate in your apartment, or in your parents' basement, you got where you got because of that attitude, buddy!"
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MARATHON WEEK 2, MARCH 27, 2001
to Hot Rockin' Ronny: "There's no way you've gotten one piece of mail from anyone in this area, except for maybe the guy who rented you your furniture, the orange crates that you used to sit on in your subbasement apartment."
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JULY 13, 2004
to Humberto: " . . . in your rotten Brazilian apartment, sitting on the orange crate and watching your black and white television and listening to your transistor radio with your single-ear earpiece."
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December 2, 2003 (http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=9672&archive=10394&starttime=2:46:00)