Something I'm In Love With About the Show

[dave from knoxville]

The way Laurie responds with "THIS IS laaaah reeeee" when she's asked the question "Who is this?" I heard it this week on 7SD (the second Best Show), but it's happened repeatedly with Tom, and my heart melts down into my shoes every time I hear it. It's endearificating!

After that glorious self-ID, it hardly matters what she says, although what she says is always right on target too.

Thank you Laurie! And no, I will NOT stalk you, honest-injun!

[senorcorazon]

Dave, it's equally hilarious that you need to actually say your name. Who else calls in with your accent? I think if you just said "Tom..." we'd all know.

[Beth]

i would vote for laurie as a super caller

[dotmap]

Laurie's my fav in a total non stalker way. I fully support Laurie.

[Jixby Phillips]

LAURIE?

OH, I AM A FAN

[buffcoat]

You can hear the vodka chilling gently as the stacks of money rustle in the south Florida breeze.

[John Junk]

Once Laurie called up during the monkfish incident to talk about Ted Leo's Mazerati(??) full of cash I decided I was on board the Laurie bus for the long haul (a gold-plated bus full of her daddy's cash, btw).

[Ason]

Dave can I ask you
what subject do you teach?  If I may be so bold.

[Laurie]

Awww, thanks guys!

By the way, it was a "Miata-load" of cash.

[Gilly]

Alright, I either missed the joke a long time ago or missed the explanation. I'm tired of wondering so I'm just gonna come out and say: WTF is up with all this talk about Lauries dad?

[Laurie]

People seem to have gotten the impression that I am Veruca Salt or something. The spoiled child, not the girly rock duo from the nineties that was actually pretty darn good.

In truth, my dad is kind of an absent-minded professor. His linguistic theories were recently published in The American Scholar, so yay for him. We don't have a helicopter.

[Gilly]

Ah. So you aren't Shaq's kid huh? He just had his linguistic theories written up in Slam Magazine.

[buffcoat]

Alright, I either missed the joke a long time ago or missed the explanation. I'm tired of wondering so I'm just gonna come out and say: WTF is up with all this talk about Lauries dad?

During one of the langorous, slowly stirred, juniper-tinged Tom-Laurie conversations, it came up that she'd received a painting for one of her tween birthdays.  Tom and the board ran from there.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Ah. So you aren't Shaq's kid huh? He just had his linguistic theories written up in Slam Magazine.

I was actually pretty impressed with Shaq's fieldwork among the Piraha people, but in the end I think his case against Chomskyan universal grammar is exaggerated.

Weirdly, I'm sort of involved in another internet debate about a Brooklyn-bashing article in this month's American Scholar, by Melvin Jules Bukiet, mostly because he's repeating what are on the horizon as the new set of Brooklyn cliches, and he's mostly just shooting fish in a barrel.  Plus, he goes after Dave Eggers, who might not be the best writer around, but he's still a decent enough guy.  Enough with the cheap shots already.

But I digress.  Herewith: another purely symbolic vote for supercaller Laurie.

I also think the p*ong thread laid the groundwork for this particular runner.  I don't know how closely Tom reads these boards, but I think it was being joked about here before the infamous painting call.

[Gilly]

What show was that? I don't think I've missed any for a couple years but I don't remember that call at all.