The Best Award Show on WFMU

[Phantom Hugger]

Mac (uh, maybe not)

Mac is responsible for the enduring Wiggy Malmsteen

[wwwes]

Mac is also responsible for one of my favorite moments. The time he calls up talking about his heavy metal book and Aerosmith, Jon calls up pretending to be Jimmy Crespo and he and Tom spend about thirty minutes just messing around with him.

[Denim Gremlin]

Best Dance : The Darryl Dawkins

[masterofsparks]

I know it probably doesn't count because of the 2008 date, but there was a really good rope-a-dope on this week's show (1/29/08). It was the caller right before me and you can hear me laughing when Tom put me on the air. The call starts at around 59:40 on the archive:

Caller: This is Tom in Buffalo.

Tom: How are you tonight?

Caller: Good! I called in last week but it wasn't a very successful call. You called me a gorilla.

Tom: Why did I call you a gorilla?

Caller: I said I bench-pressed my girlfriend (? Not sure what he says here, but this is my best guess).

Tom: Uh-huh. How did the call end?

Caller: I think you hu--

Tom cracks up.

[Josh]

BEST GOMP OF 07 HANDS DOWN BAR NONE THIS GOMP HAS ITS OWN THREAD INCLUDING A DEFENSE FROM THE GOMPEE IN QUESTION

- Paul from Nashville, TN, calls to ask Tom to settle a debate he's been having with his girlfriend. Tom wants to hear more about the key issues before agreeing to serve as their radio arbiter. Paul says they are both law students with one year remaining prior to taking the bar exam in late July 2008. Time expires, but Paul earns another 30 seconds. He explains that most law students go on a "bar trip" to some exotic locale after taking the examination. He and his girlfriend are having a big dispute about their desired destination. Paul really wants to go to South America (less "ethno-centric and Western"), but his girlfriend prefers a jaunt to Spain, Greece, and Portugal. They thought Tom's wisdom could help them work through this crucial life decision. Tom says that Paul and his girlfriend have what he likes to call "rich people's problems." He doesn't care about their fancy travel itinerary and issues an emphatic GOMP to the rich jerks/future lawyers.

This was also the first CLOSED PHONE TUESDAY using THE 30 SECOND TIMECLOCK!

I uploaded the clip listen here.

[erika]

Best "Friendly End to a Good Call", other than Tom's increased squeaky goodbyes (I don't even know how to type that awesome noise that happens sometimes when Tom's ending a good call) it would have to be this past Tuesday's call that was right before mine.

Tom sang "Thaaaaank you for calllllll-ing!" and it was perfect. I think it's around 1:29 in the archive but I'm not sure.

[Rainer]

Best Resurrection Call.

Caller enters dead-on-arrival and exits in "rarified air."

[kleoville]

Worst dinner companion choice that probably everybody can get behind: John Stossel

[Zookeeper Joe]

Most Educational Call --- my nomination would the guy who informed Tom that CVS is an acronym for "Consumer Value Stores."   Prompting Tom to decide he would never shop there again.

Song of the Year (any year?) --- Ted Leo. Rock and Roll Dreams'll Come Through.  Done.

[dave from knoxville]

Second Best Show on WFMU

and the nominees are.....

[Tom Scharpling]

Okay, everybody - here are the categories!

BEST CALLER
WORST CALLER
MOST PATHETIC CALLER
MOST DELUSIONAL CALLER
BEST GOMP
BEST GUEST
BEST BEST SHOW RECAPPER
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
SADDEST CALLER
BEST/MOST VIOLENT THREAT AGAINST TOM

THE TOM SAWYER/HUCKLEBERRY FINN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED TO TOM SCHARPLING

Please weigh in on each of these awards with nominees. Anybody who can help pull or put together sound clips - especially for the GOMPs and the VIOLENT THREAT awards will, in addition to getting thanked, WILL WIN AN AWARD DURING THE SHOW.

One thing is that the nominations and soundclips should be from shows DURING 2007.

Thanks!

Tom.

[Martin]

BEST/MOST VIOLENT THREAT AGAINST TOM

Good. (I was a bit concerned about not having a category that could include JW, but this one solves it beautifully.)

[Martin]

WORST CALLER

I nominate:

"Homo radio" guy
Guy who wants to scream at old people ("what is this - Saw?")
Julie
Spike

[Stupornaut]

WORST CALLER

I nominate:

"Homo radio" guy
Guy who wants to scream at old people ("what is this - Saw?")
Julie
Spike

"Homo radio" was 2006. (I think it was the circa-Thanksgiving Tom Waits Defense Force show.)

Did "this is Dubba Hoosaaaay" make any appearances in '07? That was just baffling/lame/pointless.

[Martin]

Oh damn.