The Order Of Thing

[Spoony]

Couldn't be more serious. I wanted to counter it and chase him with a wet mop and a bucket of soap.

[Fido]

I just remembered how I met my co-worker the Jain at a company conference in Philadelphia. We were talking about his impressions of Philly, and since I couldn't introduce him to cheesesteaks, I decided to introduce him to the fictional personage of Philly Boy Roy, which he found hilarious. No doubt this ruined his impression of the place completely.

[erika]

Somewhere towards the bottom of my list would be strangers coming up and touching my hair without asking. (not that you should even ask to touch a stranger's hair...)

[jbissell]

Somewhere towards the bottom of my list would be strangers coming up and touching my hair without asking. (not that you should even ask to touch a stranger's hair...)

I don't understand why anyone would ever touch a stranger's hair.  They are most likely carrying some parasite.  Although I'm sure your hair is clean and lovely erika.

[erika]

yeah i don't know. it's curly and they kind of pet me like a dog. weird.

[Sarah]

Damn you for posting the link to that Wall Street Journal article, Fido.

[Spoony]

People come up to me on the street and ask if they can pull my mustache, so I can kind of relate.

[Fido]

I know, Sarah, I feel bad for having done it. You just know that there is a deep, deep well of stupidity and willful ignorance out there, you don't need to go dunking your bucket into it, right? My apologies.  

[<<<<<]

No matter how tired it can ever get (which is only ever temporary), black will always carry slightly more sex appeal than blue.

Also, it matches anything.

Liz is correct.

[John Junk 2.0]

Somewhere towards the bottom of my list would be strangers coming up and touching my hair without asking. (not that you should even ask to touch a stranger's hair...)

That sounds pretty bad.  I've had non-strangers pet my hair (look, i got nice locks.  I'm not bragging.  Or am I?) .  And I've hated it.  A lot.

[erika]

Yeah. Usually it's ladies with a dazed look in their eyes that do it. Last night a lady did it and said "ooh you use a lot of gel, don't you!" so I felt criticized in addition to having my hair molested.

[samir]

Top of the list:

I drove three hours to surprise my mum at work yesterday because it was her birthday, with flowers and everything, and she was all teary to see me.

More generally: "Making people incredibly happy".

[andrew in philadelphia]

Somewhere towards the bottom of my list would be strangers coming up and touching my hair without asking. (not that you should even ask to touch a stranger's hair...)

that's the creepiest fucking thing i've ever heard in my life. and would first asking: "can i touch your hair" make it any less creepified?

and what people are doing this? are we talking well-dressed business women who admire a nice head of hair, or weird pervs and fetishists (no offense spike - i enjoy your calls greatly.)

i hope you punched them.

[Pete Velcro]

I would like to have called in and posed "Casual Fridays" to get Tom's reacton.  I had one job where we did Casual Fridays. Beyond being able to wear sneakers--which was awesome--it was kind of irrelevant. No one wore a tie. What would really work for me would be No-Shaving Fridays.

I wonder what Paul F. Tompkins would think?

Also, I'd like to take a minute to recognize how ridiculously funny it was when that guy suggested "That which will not be mentioned" for the list. Listening back on the podcast, it's one of those moments where everything comes together. The suggestion itself is hilarious. Every stand-up in the world is going to have a ___ joke soon. Then, also his inflection, as if he was pretty sure someone had mentioned it already. So funny. And Tom had just eviscerated another caller for approaching a toilet story that was sounding pretty innocent...etc.

[Josh]

I would like to have called in and posed "Casual Fridays" to get Tom's reacton.  I had one job where we did Casual Fridays. Beyond being able to wear sneakers--which was awesome--it was kind of irrelevant.

There's something about seeing packs of office drones in blue jeans, white sneakers, solid color polos with embroidered company logo, and photo ID keycard on that belt-mounted retractable string thingy slowly walking 4-wide down the sidewalk to lunch talking about the Peterson account that really gets my ire up.