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My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« on: August 08, 2011, 05:05:55 PM »
Tom is telling the story of the kid in the club in Portland.  The bouncer tells him he can't get leave and get back in. 

The kid says:

"That's ok, cause this place sucks, and YOU suck."



The whole Japanese restaurant turned to stare at me.
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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2011, 07:48:43 PM »
This happens to me too. I'll be listening on my phone, and walking down the street alone laughing intermittently. People will stare and think there's something wrong with me.

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2011, 08:07:47 PM »
This happens to me too. I'll be listening on my phone, and walking down the street alone laughing intermittently. People will stare and think there's something wrong with me.

Me too.  I like to listen at the gym, so my random smiles and laughs always get weird looks. 

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2011, 11:26:13 PM »
Oh man.  Several years back, I had an experience walking out of a subway station.

Tom was pondering why, with all of our amazing modern technologies, we can't slow down those old-time movies so that baseball players might appear to be running at a normal speed. 

I started laughing so hard, I had to step against the wall to let the flux of humanity by me as they rushed to climb the stairs. I was up against the hallway wall, laughing so hard no noise was coming out of me...just a ridiculously large exhale. It hurt!
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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2011, 12:54:48 PM »
I lost it at work when Tom was doing his "Glutton" poems a few shows ago. I had to put my head on my desk.

Also, I can't remember if it was this year, but the guy's story about the Amtrak dining-car waiter/bartender (?) saying "Meow meow goes the kitty" when someone tipped him got me but good.
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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2011, 02:15:25 PM »
My too obvious answer is the entire Gathering Of The Juggalos segment w/ PFT, which had me wheezing in my cube at my former job.

Another one that comes to mind was from the epic Bruce Springsteen biographer call from late last year.  As I walked down the street, I listened to the real story behind Darkness On The Edge Of Town, bursting into laughter on a crowded street corner when I learned that the main characters, Rip and Mary, didn't have the means to start a family b/c Rip was "born without nards."  It came out of nowhere, and Tom's attempts to quickly move the call forward just made me lose it.

Of course, my laughter was amplified 1,000 times later in my walk when the biographer sang the original lyrics to "Racing in the Street".  What made me double my pace so I wouldn't have to be around one single group of pedestrians too long was the gem of a lyric, "I got those at the Car Quest also downtown...because they were on sale there."

Later, a friend sent me a link to a Bruce message board and a post dedicated to this particular call. 

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2011, 02:15:58 PM »
I think Tom was telling  caller about Hider in the House. And caller said "Nooo waaayyyyy!" in this whispering/excited tone.  Tom hung up in disgust and kept repeating "Nooo waayyyyy." I'm pretty sure it was that. I couldn't stop laughing.

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2011, 05:27:03 PM »
Biggest for me was the Return of The Jedi 'Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttt Uuuuuuuuup!' bit. The build up was amazing. I was driving, and I swerved from laughing.

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2011, 11:32:35 AM »
I had to get off of an elliptical machine during the Gathering of the Juggalos bit, but I was alone. My potentially-embarrassing public laff was on NJ Transit a few years ago, when Tom told a caller he should end a breakup with his girlfriend by walking backwards and singing "wah wah wah wah wahhhh."
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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2011, 01:28:50 AM »
My nearly drove off a cliff moment:

"Show some respect!"

Tom: "why?"

"I'm Egyptian!"

and also "you Egypt-a-dip!"

I had to pause the old ipod, that dude was too much.  Thank goodness I wasn't driving while listening to any of the "magic" todd manheim stuff, I might not have been so lucky to reach the pause button in time  :P.

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2011, 02:56:03 AM »
Ho-heave & Mister Moonlight.

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2011, 09:22:45 AM »
Thank goodness I wasn't driving while listening to any of the "magic" todd manheim stuff, I might not have been so lucky to reach the pause button in time

I'll have to go back to get the actual wording, but there's a part in the first half of the Magic call that becomes twice as funny after the reveal at the end. Tom's pressing him to admit that his powers are all a sham, and he gives this kind of impish "I dunno, they could be real?" response in a way that gets to the heart of what I love about so many of the Newbridge callers.
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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2011, 01:30:57 PM »
I was on a run during "Jazz Fart" and had to stop on the side of the road.  People passing by thought I was insane.

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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2011, 02:35:07 PM »
The Fleshdunce stuff got me pretty good.


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Re: My Biggest Best Show Laugh so Far This Year
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2011, 08:56:46 PM »
the whole "sucks" bit. i was listening at work and had to stop it several times and run to the bathroom because i couldn't control my laughter.