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Title: My First GOMP.
Post by: orangewhip on June 05, 2008, 10:28:09 PM
    I wasn't trying to sound like a Douche, but upon listening to the archived episode....I realized I did.
Anyway, I'm honored to have received my first GOMP.  Next time I'll try to actually finish a phone call.

-derek from detroit
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: joanna on June 05, 2008, 11:06:54 PM
don't worry, happens to everyone! keep calling.
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: yesno on June 05, 2008, 11:22:23 PM
Whatever you think of the caller himself (I love the caller but not the raps), MC Steinberg throughout early 2005 should be a model for tenacious callers.  I think it took him months of calling before Tom finally let him get through his spiel.
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on June 06, 2008, 04:07:55 AM
I got GOMP'd this week.  It was oddly delightful.
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: B_Buster on June 06, 2008, 12:58:45 PM
I got GOMP'd once when I had the night off and called the show. The deep funny voice I used did the trick (I think the deep funny voice is more likely to get Gomp'd than the high funny voice, but you're in risky territory with either).
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on June 06, 2008, 01:29:58 PM
On one of my first calls to the show in 2006, Tom GOMP'd me because I refused to wake up my daughter by hitting her with a pillow.
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: Omar on June 06, 2008, 01:39:50 PM
On one of my first calls to the show in 2006, Tom GOMP'd me because I refused to wake up my daughter by hitting her with a pillow.

10/31/06 (http://www.recidivism.org/2006/11/halloween_blues_and_boogie_sho.html):

- Weirder Jon calls (starts at 36:26) to say that he wanted to put his daughter on to tell Tom about her candy haul, but she just fell asleep. Tom wants WJ to wake her up. WJ says he can’t do that, so Tom gives him some help: hit her with a pillow. WJ actually does know how to do it, but he doesn’t want to unhinge her wrath. Tom thought his weirdness would make him prone to do such a thing, but he’s afraid of his kids. They’re brutal and get very cranky if jarred from bed soon after they fall asleep. Tom believes he’s a chicken and makes clucking sounds to taunt him. He dismisses him because he talks to humans, not chickens. Tom, who knows the dangers of parent-child power dynamics from his chats with Philly Boy Roy, suspects that WJ's kids are bullying him around. When they demand a trip to Toys-R-Us, WJ responds with "Yes, master." Tom thinks that, like Roy, Jr., his kids probably call him by his first name: "Hey, Jon, we're going to Toys-R-Us."
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on June 06, 2008, 11:23:11 PM
On one of my first calls to the show in 2006, Tom GOMP'd me because I refused to wake up my daughter by hitting her with a pillow.

10/31/06 (http://www.recidivism.org/2006/11/halloween_blues_and_boogie_sho.html):

- Weirder Jon calls (starts at 36:26) to say that he wanted to put his daughter on to tell Tom about her candy haul, but she just fell asleep. Tom wants WJ to wake her up. WJ says he can’t do that, so Tom gives him some help: hit her with a pillow. WJ actually does know how to do it, but he doesn’t want to unhinge her wrath. Tom thought his weirdness would make him prone to do such a thing, but he’s afraid of his kids. They’re brutal and get very cranky if jarred from bed soon after they fall asleep. Tom believes he’s a chicken and makes clucking sounds to taunt him. He dismisses him because he talks to humans, not chickens. Tom, who knows the dangers of parent-child power dynamics from his chats with Philly Boy Roy, suspects that WJ's kids are bullying him around. When they demand a trip to Toys-R-Us, WJ responds with "Yes, master." Tom thinks that, like Roy, Jr., his kids probably call him by his first name: "Hey, Jon, we're going to Toys-R-Us."

I am reliving the trauma!  You're like a therapist, Omar.
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: henry on June 08, 2008, 10:17:49 PM
i got gomp'd twice in one night. 
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: Steve in North Hollywood on June 09, 2008, 03:45:45 AM
GOMP?  What's THAT!?
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: erika on June 09, 2008, 07:55:39 AM
I'm not exactly sure, but I know it happens if you talk about the prominence of David Boooie's package in the movie Labyrinth.
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: Steve in North Hollywood on June 10, 2008, 05:57:31 PM
I'm not exactly sure, but I know it happens if you talk about the prominence of David Boooie's package in the movie Labyrinth.

That's nothing compared to the Wolf in Into the Woods.  Oh man ... nightmares since I was a kid!
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: masterofsparks on June 13, 2008, 04:17:20 PM
I got GOMP'd once when I had the night off and called the show. The deep funny voice I used did the trick (I think the deep funny voice is more likely to get Gomp'd than the high funny voice, but you're in risky territory with either).

I just listened to the 12/9/03 episode and you, in your pre-AP days, came dangerously close to being GOMP'd after mouthing off about Dinosaur Jr. It's a hugely entertaining call.
Title: Re: My First GOMP.
Post by: fyodor on June 13, 2008, 08:17:18 PM
I'm not exactly sure, but I know it happens if you talk about the prominence of David Boooie's package in the movie Labyrinth.

Would that be Mr. Boooie's "knife"?

(ew brother)