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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Paul DePhiladelphia on June 24, 2010, 08:22:41 AM
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Ex.:
Tom playing Aimee Mann's Wise Up. Its so melodramatic and gets me every time.
Telling people his life story based on the Good Will Hunting script.
GG Allin: how he passed on after playing an orchestra hall.
I got tons, what are your's?
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"Comedienne" is nice.
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Tom arguing with inanimate objects that have a weird power over him (Abba Box, Squeaky toy, cell phone, etc)
Tom bragging about being awesome at something even though he's never done it before.
Obsession with mustaches.
I also like all the weird shibboleths that sort of organically spread, like Enguhland, Barnes & Nobles, and all the words where long vowels are replaced w/short ones or vice versa, as in coongas & shon't.
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I also like all the weird shibboleths that sort of organically spread, like Enguhland, Barnes & Nobles, and all the words where long vowels are replaced w/short ones or vice versa, as in coongas & shon't.
I can't remember the last time I pronounced "chocolate" in the traditional manner. And that includes inside my own head.
(Also, thank you for teaching me the word "shibboleth".)
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I also like all the weird shibboleths that sort of organically spread, like Enguhland, Barnes & Nobles, and all the words where long vowels are replaced w/short ones or vice versa, as in coongas & shon't.
David Boowie, and he used to call The White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Stan."
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When Tom's getting bored with a call and interrupts with "What's that, Mike? No, I will not hang up on him."
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Show agenda lists:
"Ok criticize Kill Bill, cross that off. Make fun of Kevin Smith, cross that off..."
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I also like all the weird shibboleths that sort of organically spread, like Enguhland, Barnes & Nobles, and all the words where long vowels are replaced w/short ones or vice versa, as in coongas & shon't.
David Boowie, and he used to call The White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Stan."
Jim E. Hendrix.
... and what the hell is a "shibboleth"? If only there was some kind of way I could look that up ...
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... and all the words where long vowels are replaced w/short ones or vice versa, as in coongas & shon't.
FONTASY
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Making words that end in 'man' or 'men' sound like they end in an abbreviated 'mun' or 'min.'
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I never grow tired of the way Tom handles song requests.
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any mention of famous publisher al goldstein.
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Shia LaBoof
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ste-PUNCLE
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I also like all the weird shibboleths that sort of organically spread, like Enguhland, Barnes & Nobles, and all the words where long vowels are replaced w/short ones or vice versa, as in coongas & shon't.
David Boowie, and he used to call The White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Stan."
I don't get it.
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The magazine that is so twisted that once you see it you can't stop thinking about it.
Tom finding the board set for mono. ("Who am I, Phil Spector?")
Crypto-racism and tea party misinfo from JW characters when Obama comes up.
Death panels.
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Crypto-racism and tea party misinfo from JW characters when Obama comes up.
"He's a cool cat." and PBR: "I don't like it one bit."
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I'm a big fan of Tom's use of technology during the show:
go to ask.com, search google.com.
click
search google for youtube.com
etc.
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I also like all the weird shibboleths that sort of organically spread, like Enguhland, Barnes & Nobles, and all the words where long vowels are replaced w/short ones or vice versa, as in coongas & shon't.
David Boowie, and he used to call The White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Stan."
Or calling the band "The White Strips."
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I'm a big fan of Tom's use of technology during the show:
go to ask.com, search google.com.
click
search google for youtube.com
etc.
Yes, this is IT. This and "Kids" from Bye Bye Birdie.
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The magazine that is so twisted that once you see it you can't stop thinking about it.
Tom finding the board set for mono. ("Who am I, Phil Spector?")
Crypto-racism and tea party misinfo from JW characters when Obama comes up.
Death panels.
Yes, the Magazine Saga has been very entertaining/aggrevatingly mysterious. The best is when Tom will ask something like "And are you going to be the one calling me?" and JW just whispers/hisses...
"yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss" and hangs up.
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I laugh at this literally every time I hear it (i.e. at least once a week):
"Tom, it's Curt Gaistburn."
"Gaistburn?!"
"...Yes."
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I laugh at this literally every time I hear it (i.e. at least once a week):
"Tom, it's Curt Gaistburn."
"Gaistburn?!"
"...Yes."
I laugh at Mike's: "...Sociology, Anthropology. We all get degrees in the end."
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This thread is making me chuckle. Thanks!
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Scharpling antagonists who are 4' 8" (which as you know, is the funniest height).
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Nyyahhh!!! >:( :D >:(
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Namaste.
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Tom claiming to not be able to get a ticket for a horrible, unpopular movie, visiting Stub Hub out of desperation, and being sold a counterfeit ticket.
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Tom making a bet for some ridiculously large sum and then a request by the counter-party for the bet to be made for a slightly smaller, but still ridiculously large sum.
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The average weight of a Newbridgian seems to be around 450 pounds.
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I will never get tired of Tom hanging up on people who call back and say they've been hung up on.
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I will never get tired of Tom hanging up on people who call back and say they've been hung up on.
I'm a fan of his ongoing quest to hang up on people a half second before the end of a sentence. I think I mostly enjoy it because of the delight that Tom and anyone else in the studio gets from it.
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"I STILL can't get tickets to that."
Followed by a story about counterfeit tickets.
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Remakes starring Andy Milonakis
Anton CHURG
Any disapproval or disgust with what Mike is doing ("Mike's having a party out there...")
Anytime JW is arrogantly wrong about something
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When he plays the role of a pitchman, deconstructs a movie, then names the price he'd pay for tickets. Not really a running joke, but it always makes me titter.
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Anytime JW mentions a Hondo guitar. As a kid my friends and I would always stop in to goof on the crummy guitars in our crappy neighborhood music store. It was the kind that mostly rented school band instruments so they had a guitar section just to say they did. Hondo was well represented on those walls.
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JW responding to a question with a detailed and absurd answer, followed by an exasperated/suspicious "Why?"
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I don't care that it's been mentioned: COMEDIENNE. Every time PFT is on, I shake with anticipation for Tom to drop it, and nearly pass out laughing when the time finally arrives. "I thought you said..."
I love (what seems to be) an out of the blue arbitrary heave-ho--
"I don't know Fosse!!!"
"Stan Getz?? Heave ho, you RACIST."
I also like all the other whatever everyone else says they like.
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One of my favorite arbitrary heave-hos was when some guy called to talk about Harmony Korine and Tom was trying to tell the guy that Korine was going to make Speed Racer 2. The guy, trying to anticipate where this was going, asked if Andy Milonakis was going to be it. Tom replies, angrily, "It's Emile Hirsche's role to lose! Heave-ho!"
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I also really love it when a movie is described as - going for a 'hard R'.
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I love how Tom refers to someone's female significant other as "lady friend". Not really a joke, but it tickles me every time.
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www.friendsoftom.com/forum/newpost~/forwardslash.thewordforwardslash.geocities.com
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Wait, what??? The above URL is not working.
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Quoting Don King as "King."
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"let me wiki that"
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"let me wiki that"
Agreed, but when PBR said he was going to Google something last week, it cracked me up. Not sure why.
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I really like it when JW is baffled that Tom works for a radio station and doesn't know [insert arcane piece of music trivia here; e.g. Dave Smalley is the bassist for the Raspberries].
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Anytime JW mentions a Hondo guitar. As a kid my friends and I would always stop in to goof on the crummy guitars in our crappy neighborhood music store. It was the kind that mostly rented school band instruments so they had a guitar section just to say they did. Hondo was well represented on those walls.
My first guitar was a Hondo. My dad bought it at Sears.
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Very long pauses on the other end of a phone line.
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Hand burger, fontasy and boo-ffet.
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Tom claiming to not be able to get a ticket for a horrible, unpopular movie, visiting Stub Hub out of desperation, and being sold a counterfeit ticket.
This makes me laugh every time.
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Not so much an ongoing joke as a repeated one, but I love Tom's Paul Stanley speech to the slobs at a Kiss concert who have horrible lives.
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Not so much an ongoing joke as a repeated one, but I love Tom's Paul Stanley speech to the slobs at a Kiss concert who have horrible lives.
"Our lives aren't that bad." So good.
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Remember the ol' "Running into celebrities in the Elevator" bits?
I love/miss those.
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Tom feigning ignorance of something that he knows all about.
Tom mentioning his Zune.
Tom threatening Pangea.
JW calling Hodgman "Max"
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I miss the sound of a foghorn blaring through a phone.
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I miss the sound of a foghorn blaring through a phone.
Me, too! And vuvuzela madness seemed such a good excuse to bring it back.
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I miss the sound of a foghorn blaring through a phone.
I love when JW says "It's just something I do."
I've used this saying a lot when asked for detailed explanations for any absurd thing I might do.