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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Steve in North Hollywood on April 10, 2008, 07:52:36 AM
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Hi FOTs,
Not sure if this is already a topic, but I didn't see one like it in my search. So ...
How do you climb the FOT ranks? I'd like to get to the Steve McQueen With A Skull Face ranking. Is it all about how many postings you make? Or does Tom pick based on his own criteria?
There Will Be GOMPs!
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I'm not sure either, but I've heard it has something to do with your Q rating.
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I'm so excited to see where this thread goes.
(I wish I had something really funny to say so that Tom will see it, think I'm cool, and boost my ranking)
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Per Gordon from North Dakota, Tom is receptive to payola, so that's worth a try.
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I used to have more than 3,000 posts. Then Tom found a surveillance tape of a disparaging comment I made about "Waterloo" during our high school 70s Day.
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You need to paypal me $100.
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They're all just messing with you, Steve. To move up you need to get a high score on one of the message board arcade games or record a personal best score on each of the games; then it unlocks a profile upgrade and a new batch of celebrities in the profile picture library.
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"Uhh, if you guys wanna see it, we got a kill screen up the front... Donkey Kong kill screen... KILL SCREEN!"
You could be the next Steve Wiebe.
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I used to have more than 3,000 posts. Then Tom found a surveillance tape of a disparaging comment I made about "Waterloo" during our high school 70s Day.
man that sucks.
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“I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain,
but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
– Anon.
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There are easter eggs in the message board code that allow you to get more stars. But each one works only once per user, so my personal rank will not rise based on the rest of this post:
1. Use the word "sir" in a post.
2. Use the word "junior" in a post.
3. Complement Dogmo.
There are also easter eggs that will remove stars:
1. Make a disparaging comment about our President.
2. Use the word "exactamundo."
3. Be Stephen King.
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He rewarded me because I can give six-digit approximations to square roots of positive integers to within 1%. IN MY HEAD.
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He rewarded me because I can give six-digit approximations to square roots of positive integers to within 1%. IN MY HEAD.
No way. You too?
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He rewarded me because I can give six-digit approximations to square roots of positive integers to within 1%. IN MY HEAD.
No way. You too?
Don't you remember, it's where we met!
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I just started using Kern Co.'s new wonder drug FOToxinil
higher the dose = higher the rank
may cause heart stoppage
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"Uhh, if you guys wanna see it, we got a kill screen up the front... Donkey Kong kill screen... KILL SCREEN!"
You could be the next Steve Wiebe.
Holy Moly - I just saw that movie the other night - amazing! Pretty much everyone in it EXCEPT Steve Wiebe is a Grade-A FWD AND a nerd! "You know - it's controversial - like the abortion debate." Whew buoy...
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That movie was my Karate Kid.
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"Uhh, if you guys wanna see it, we got a kill screen up the front... Donkey Kong kill screen... KILL SCREEN!"
You could be the next Steve Wiebe.
Holy Moly - I just saw that movie the other night - amazing! Pretty much everyone in it EXCEPT Steve Wiebe is a Grade-A FWD AND a nerd! "You know - it's controversial - like the abortion debate." Whew buoy...
Yeah! Steve Wiebe's basically normal to slightly-nerdier-than-normal. Like his whole approach of actually confronting people in a non-threatening straightforward way just rocked the shit out of the gaming world when it's sort of like a standard middle management thing. "Hey, I'll call this guy I don't like and try and breach an uncomfortable subject like an adult." NO YOU DIDN'T! Now that guy has to spend all his time on cell phones with arcade goons spying on you!
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I was out on the Walk of Fame in Weird-O-Wood and a homeless man called me Steve McQueen with a Fat Face ... Close enough!!!
No, it's really not though. That homeless man had to pay, and pay he did ... with all of his life up to that moment.
I am bored at work and none of the above is true.
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Anyone looking for a healthy dose of Billy Mitchell crazy should take a look at this transcript (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_king_of_kong_continued) from the Onion AV Club.
My favorite part:
AVC: I'd guess this is a question you're getting a lot.
BM: Either that, or I can read your mind, and you should hang up the phone quickly. Recall the scene in your mind. I'm walking with my wife—my trophy wife, which we'll talk about later. Um, what part of the country are you in? Chicago? Is that where you were born? Or where you grew up?
AVC: I grew up in Milwaukee.
BM: Very good. That plays a point later… We're on the record here so, I'm gonna watch what I wanna tell you. Are we on the record?
AVC: Yes.
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3. Complement Dogmo.
Wait a minute... I don't think complimenting Dogmo works.
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3. Complement Dogmo.
Wait a minute... I don't think complimenting Dogmo works.
Complementing will, complimenting will not. How you do that is anyone's guess.
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I am bored at work and none of the above is true.
Why did you have to say that? Now I'm bored.
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"Uhh, if you guys wanna see it, we got a kill screen up the front... Donkey Kong kill screen... KILL SCREEN!"
You could be the next Steve Wiebe.
Holy Moly - I just saw that movie the other night - amazing! Pretty much everyone in it EXCEPT Steve Wiebe is a Grade-A FWD AND a nerd! "You know - it's controversial - like the abortion debate." Whew buoy...
Yeah! Steve Wiebe's basically normal to slightly-nerdier-than-normal. Like his whole approach of actually confronting people in a non-threatening straightforward way just rocked the shit out of the gaming world when it's sort of like a standard middle management thing. "Hey, I'll call this guy I don't like and try and breach an uncomfortable subject like an adult." NO YOU DIDN'T! Now that guy has to spend all his time on cell phones with arcade goons spying on you!
Should I watch King Of Kong? I keep walking past it in the video store, and the guy with the muttonchops who works evenings taped a little note to it that's like "EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH THIS IT IS SO AMAZING" but that's sort of convincing me in the other direction because he's never been that nice to me. And he has muttonchops.
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3. Complement Dogmo.
Wait a minute... I don't think complimenting Dogmo works.
Complementing will, complimenting will not. How you do that is anyone's guess.
My spelling really does suck!
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Does let muttonchops affect you decision to see King Of Kong. It is very good. But I know what you mean about annoying people recommending good movies. That has sometimes kept me away from some movies for a bit. I still haven't seen E.T. due to a jerk recommending it to me in third grade and that goes back to the early 80's.
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"Uhh, if you guys wanna see it, we got a kill screen up the front... Donkey Kong kill screen... KILL SCREEN!"
You could be the next Steve Wiebe.
Holy Moly - I just saw that movie the other night - amazing! Pretty much everyone in it EXCEPT Steve Wiebe is a Grade-A FWD AND a nerd! "You know - it's controversial - like the abortion debate." Whew buoy...
Yeah! Steve Wiebe's basically normal to slightly-nerdier-than-normal. Like his whole approach of actually confronting people in a non-threatening straightforward way just rocked the shit out of the gaming world when it's sort of like a standard middle management thing. "Hey, I'll call this guy I don't like and try and breach an uncomfortable subject like an adult." NO YOU DIDN'T! Now that guy has to spend all his time on cell phones with arcade goons spying on you!
Should I watch King Of Kong? I keep walking past it in the video store, and the guy with the muttonchops who works evenings taped a little note to it that's like "EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH THIS IT IS SO AMAZING" but that's sort of convincing me in the other direction because he's never been that nice to me. And he has muttonchops.
You should see it. It's not amazing , but it's darn good entertainment.
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So was E.T., once upon a time. I don't know if you'd enjoy it now, so you may have missed out forever, totep.
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Should I watch King Of Kong? I keep walking past it in the video store, and the guy with the muttonchops who works evenings taped a little note to it that's like "EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH THIS IT IS SO AMAZING" but that's sort of convincing me in the other direction because he's never been that nice to me. And he has muttonchops.
As if John Junk's word isn't good enough.
Emma, I know you'll listen to me.
Watch 'King of Kong', it's pretty great.
There's a guy in it called Mr. Awesome and you get to see his dating video.
It's like my webcam but sexier.
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As if John Junk's word isn't good enough.
Emma, I know you'll listen to me.
Watch 'King of Kong', it's pretty great.
There's a guy in it called Mr. Awesome and you get to see his dating video.
It's like my webcam but sexier.
Not only have all these recommendations settled the matter, but I am stealing this post and handing it in as part of the poetry assignment I have to do for Writer's Craft.
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has anyone tried his hot sauce?
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has anyone tried his hot sauce?
not yet, but a few of my friends want to make a road trip over the summer down to his restaurant in south florida.
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"Uhh, if you guys wanna see it, we got a kill screen up the front... Donkey Kong kill screen... KILL SCREEN!"
You could be the next Steve Wiebe.
Holy Moly - I just saw that movie the other night - amazing! Pretty much everyone in it EXCEPT Steve Wiebe is a Grade-A FWD AND a nerd! "You know - it's controversial - like the abortion debate." Whew buoy...
Yeah! Steve Wiebe's basically normal to slightly-nerdier-than-normal. Like his whole approach of actually confronting people in a non-threatening straightforward way just rocked the shit out of the gaming world when it's sort of like a standard middle management thing. "Hey, I'll call this guy I don't like and try and breach an uncomfortable subject like an adult." NO YOU DIDN'T! Now that guy has to spend all his time on cell phones with arcade goons spying on you!
Should I watch King Of Kong? I keep walking past it in the video store, and the guy with the muttonchops who works evenings taped a little note to it that's like "EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH THIS IT IS SO AMAZING" but that's sort of convincing me in the other direction because he's never been that nice to me. And he has muttonchops.
Does having a soft spot for muttonchops make me a terrible person?
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Does having a soft spot for muttonchops make me a terrible person?
FOTchan, Gloria.
It's there for a reason.
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has anyone tried his hot sauce?
not yet, but a few of my friends want to make a road trip over the summer down to his restaurant in south florida.
My cousin went there a couple weeks ago. He sent me an email regarding it. Here it is.
"So....Susan and I are on a couple-day spring break getaway to Fort Lauderdale, and this evening we drove 20 minutes down the road to Hollywood to have dinner at Billy Mitchell's restaurant. On the outside it looks like such a ridiculous dive. On the inside, much smaller than you'd guess from the shots in the movie, and packed with over-middle-aged-to-elderly hic locals all being very loud and old women in skanky clothing. Weirdness. A dialogue:
Me: I'll have the pastrami on rye with the cole slaw.
Waitress: Oh, our cole slaw sucks.
Me: Okay, I'll have the fries."
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Does having a soft spot for muttonchops make me a terrible person?
Not in the slightest.
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has anyone tried his hot sauce?
A guy I know ordered some, and Billy Mitchell called him up on the phone about it, same as he did in that Onion article. He must do that a lot.
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How do you climb the FOT ranks? I'd like to get to the Steve McQueen With A Skull Face ranking.
When the ranking category labels changed, I thought the man behind the curtain had dropped the ranking convention in favor of personally bestowed nicknames. "I'm Steve McQueen with a Skull Face? Why? My complexion? Oh well, at least I'm not a rapist."