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I'm gonna try my best not to get political this week. I'll only raise my blood pressure to no good purpose. Besides, we're going to Dragon*Con this weekend! Fun fun fun. (To everyone going to NoreasCon, I hope you have a great time as well, and safe travel. I want you all here when I get back.)

For today, use this for an open thread. Have fun, play nice.

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Date: 2004-08-30 07:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com
Okay, I'll bite.

On the Live at GaFilk CD, at one point you say something about an ice cream social, there's audience chatter, then you say, "Ice cream! We're gonna get ICE CREAM!" and finally you say, "Oh, good, somebody got it."

Well, I didn't get it. What's the reference, please?

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Date: 2004-08-30 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
It's from "Tonsils", the opening story -- damn near fifteen minutes long -- on one of the very bestest comedy albums of all time, Wonderfulness by Bill Cosby. Bill, age 5 or so, is in the hospital the night before his tonsillectomy, with his new pals Johnson and Rudy. They have been bribed into going along with this whole thing with the promise, "THEY'LL GIVE YOU ALL THE ICE CREAM IN THE WORLD YOU CAN EAT". And so they sit around and start singing a little song:

"ICE cream! We're gonna get ICE cream!
And we will eat it every day and every night!..."

("-- You know what, you know what I'm gonna do, when they give me... my first bowl... of ice cream? I'n gon- I'm not gonna touch it, or, or eat it or nothin'.

("I'm gonna... smear it... all... over... my body, man. Just smear it all over my face and eyes and hair and everywhere.

("And them I'm gonna put a green cherry in my navel.

("And I'm gonna be the most BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE SUNDAE YOU'VE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE!!! ICE cream, we'll eat that ICE cream....")

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Date: 2004-08-30 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com
Ah! Have never heard that album. Shall put it on the list of things to look for.

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Date: 2004-08-30 09:34 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
RIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!

NOAH....

Date: 2004-08-30 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
How long can you tread water? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

So what happened here?

Date: 2004-08-30 11:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
Well, you see, officer, I was driving along and this TREE just JUMPED out and attacked my car!

OH! I hit a cow!

Date: 2004-08-30 11:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
We had to race on Dead Man's Hill. It was called Dead Man's Hill because it went straight down about a quarter of a mile, and then emptied out onto a freeway.

Henceforth, the name "Dead Man's Hill".

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Date: 2004-08-30 11:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
Dammit, will you get out of the rain!

Dad, I'm Jesus Christ!

Breakfast

Date: 2004-08-30 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ixias.livejournal.com
Not to mention chocolate cake.

Wait, gotta gopher wood....

Date: 2004-08-30 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com
If you be serious...
1 cubit = distance between elbow and fingertip.

Re: Wait, gotta gopher wood....

Date: 2004-08-30 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
Oh, God.

Can it be that you haven't heard Cosby's "Noah" bit!?

(If not, we get the pleasure of turning you on to it....)

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Date: 2004-08-30 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unclelumpy.livejournal.com
[One day, Noah is in his workshop, sawing away at a piece of wood]

*VROO-pa... VROO-pa... VROO-pa...*

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Date: 2004-08-31 02:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com
Uh-huhhhhh.....
(I'm a Brit. We don't get snappy american comedy, just the cheap stuff the TV companies can get teens / young folks with more money than sense to watch devotedly)...like Friends.....

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Date: 2004-08-31 12:49 pm (UTC)
jss: Me (kosh)
From: [personal profile] jss
Think 1960s. Think before he was on I Spy, let alone The Cosby Show and Cosby.

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Date: 2004-08-31 01:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com
*brain hurts and starts to smoke*

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Date: 2004-08-31 01:27 pm (UTC)
jss: Me (kosh)
From: [personal profile] jss
I know, I know. "You are not programmed to respond in that area."

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Date: 2004-08-31 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
He was a storytelling comedian before he did anything else, and his stuff is classic. Start with "Wonderfulness" or "Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow - RIGHT!" (The latter is the one with the "Noah" bits we've been quoting.) You can easily get 'em from Amazon, and hear snippets at their Amazon pages.

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Date: 2004-09-01 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com
Thanks....
another bill to pay! (kidding)
Will do!

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Date: 2004-09-01 10:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com
OK done it. Weird....got them for less than £6, about half price!...being shipped from USA...

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Date: 2004-08-30 09:33 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
That takes me back, haven't hear that in years. Cosby RULES!!

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Date: 2004-08-30 10:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janet-coburn.livejournal.com
Years ago, my husband used to use Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart records (vinyl--gives an idea of the date) with laughter therapy groups he did for mental patients and addicts. He can still recite most of the routines.

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Date: 2004-08-30 10:29 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
"That's right...'S' for Clark Kent."

tom not at worldcon

Date: 2004-08-31 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
TOM, do you ever think that we will see you at another worldcon?

Re: tom not at worldcon

Date: 2004-08-31 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkertom.livejournal.com
If Columbus wins, Oh Hell Yeah. It's a matter of expense, proximity, and prior commitment -- for instance, this year, I wasn't going to go to WorldCon or Dragon*Con, until the Dr. Demento thing got organized and they called me up and said, "Yoo hoo! We'll pay your waaayyyy...."

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