Fav. Tom Quote

[DannyBoy]

I think it'd be a good idea to have a central thread for this...recent, anyway, if it's been done before.

I can actually use some help with mine, as in the wording/origin. Something like...

"I'll hit you in the face with your baby. I'll take it from you, and hit you in the face with your own baby. That's called a twofer."

I love it, but I'm not sure I'm remembering it exactly right. Anyone else remember this, or have one of their own?

[moonshake]

"You want me to recognize you and I won't. I won't acknowledge you. I deny you. So you keep begging and begging. The door is slammed on you. I want nothing to do with you. You will die unrecognized by me."
4/19/2005

[moonshake]

I thought this thread showed promise.

[Gibby]

"I'm going to give you an audio autograph....TOOOMMMMMM SCHAARRRRPLING!"
06/22/04

[yesno]

"Enough with this Hitler guy. I don't like him. The jury's in: thumbs down."

[theericcarr]

(Banning Petey).

'Five month ban! You're like Wyclef Jean, son...You're gone 'til November!!!'

[Come on, Jason]

"I hope your foot gets run over by a car."

[moonshake]

"Oh Hippies! You are the worst people on earth."

10/04/2005

[Forrest]

The continuation of the quote on Hitler: "He is a grade...A...jerk."

[Steve of Bloomington]

A recent one, but 'You cracked the code on weight gain.'

[Fido]

"Oh Hippies! You are the worst people on earth."

10/04/2005

Although I too can find them pretty annoying sometimes, I never understood why Tom has it in for hippies until I gave the "most self-centered people in the world" critique some thought. After I read Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion's thoughtful profile of the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love, I could see what he meant. I still kinda think there are lots better social groups in the world to pick on.

I find myself chortling at "Respect must be paid to Ernie Anastos" whenever I tune into Channel 5 news, which is seldom. It just hit my funny bone, what can I say?

[dave from knoxville]

Anything that follows "Listen, junior"

[pigasus]

The exquisite beauty of "...Gorcey?"

[Jan.]

"Never underestimate the leprechaun and you'll beat him"

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Although I too can find them pretty annoying sometimes, I never understood why Tom has it in for hippies until I gave the "most self-centered people in the world" critique some thought. After I read Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion's thoughtful profile of the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love, I could see what he meant. I still kinda think there are lots better social groups in the world to pick on.

It's a punk thing.  Punk as rejection of hippy idealism and naïvety is sort of a core differentiating belief when you consider that the two subcultures essentially hold the same politics.