Listener comments!

Fri. 7/24/09 2:04am From: crom

phew ... made it!

Fri. 7/24/09 2:07am From: crom

jamz

Fri. 7/24/09 2:12am From: crom

batting strong numbers

Fri. 7/24/09 2:12am From: Ergänzt

Good Mornin' Sue P.

Lookin' forward to the show later when I get off Work. I've had my 1,5 Liter
esspresso a bowl full of Performance enhancin' Müsli's and now it's off to the GRIND...(Da-Da-Da Da-Da Da Da Da)...Have a Great Weekend All

Fri. 7/24/09 2:19am From: Absteiger!!

Yesh!!! this rilly hits the ol' mainline....

Fri. 7/24/09 2:21am From: Ergänzt

Thanx alot now I'm gonna be late for work. I had to listen to Lie Detector...See ya'

Fri. 7/24/09 2:25am From: crom

juice

Fri. 7/24/09 2:37am From: Toronto Jim

ONE word out for "Crom":

...AND...

Fri. 7/24/09 2:42am From: bill

Cerebral Ballzy

i have cerebral PALSEY and I think this is a great twist,. i fuckin love when people can joke about it. it deflates the taboo

Fri. 7/24/09 2:47am From: bill

anyone else have any thoughts on this
???????????

Fri. 7/24/09 2:48am From: Toronto Jim

Bill: Nice work with the ALL-CAPS and the not-so-all-caps.
"Palsy," by the way, is a thing you know not how to spell. But that's okay, 'cause maybe you really meant it...?

Fri. 7/24/09 2:50am From: bill

if you have it that exempts you from having to spell it correctly HA HA

Fri. 7/24/09 2:52am From: crom

my computer just broke but i fixed it with my tattoo of a screwdriver!

Fri. 7/24/09 2:55am From: Toronto Jim

Wait a sec, Bill -- down to brass taps, as it were... First things first: are you using some kind of tongue depressor, or breath-tube, or stick-in-the-orifice kind of communication device? Or simply taking the piss?

Fri. 7/24/09 2:55am From: BILL

you know, i just thought: that would be a hell of a pickup line for a guy like me. "I have Cerebral Blazy. Go out with me and ill show you

Fri. 7/24/09 2:56am From: Sue P

Bill - I wouldn't recommend that pick up line, but that's just me....

Fri. 7/24/09 2:57am From: bill

ok

Fri. 7/24/09 2:59am From: Toronto Jim

"Ill" show you indeed. And I've never heard of anyone having cerebral "blazy." Only arsonists, as far as I'm concerned, have "blazy."
And, of course, as Sue P has pointed out, you'll NEVER get laid with that line -- not, at least, until you can pronounce it.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:00am From: crom

yo, are you currently hailing from TO?

Fri. 7/24/09 3:00am From: Sue P

Ha ha...well, after a few drinks everything either becomes really funny and great or horribly dreadful, so maybe it has a small chance.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:00am From: bill

that was a typo--i meant to say Ballzy

Fri. 7/24/09 3:02am From: Toronto Jim

Hailing frequencies open... coming in at/for/to you from Toronto the Good...

Fri. 7/24/09 3:03am From: bill

i was in toronto twice. nice city. very clean and safe

Fri. 7/24/09 3:03am From: Toronto Jim

Sue P: Horribly dreadful is too, too often...

Fri. 7/24/09 3:03am From: crom

JAM-CALAMITIES!!! my audio is not working anymore, i can't hear shit tru da ear buds!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:07am From: Toronto Jim

Bill: Toronto is currently without garbage pick-up for 31 days. And you know what? It's still not that dirty here. People are being very, very un-garbagey so far. Keep your garbage to yourselves! No crossing picket lines! Long live strike action! Make the whole world a better place! Or die!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:10am From: bill

well, i'll tell you--i went in the late 80s when i was going to NYU, and new york had gone to complete shit. it was dirty, smelled like piss in the summer, grafrittii and exhust smell all over the subway stations, so when i got to toronto and saw a city could be well maintained, it was a real shock

Fri. 7/24/09 3:12am From: Sue P

Why do you Canadians always have to behave better than us Americans? Can't you see you're making us look bad? ha!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:13am From: crom

got audio fixed just in time, caught some wild sax! RULIN'!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:13am From: crom

garbage is cool though

Fri. 7/24/09 3:14am From: Toronto Jim

Bill: People here (SOME of them) are trying very hard to make Toronto as dirty and stinky as NY. It seems to me that these lessons about "how a city COULD be" are bullshit. To quote a couple of genius musicians:
"You don't miss your water till your well runs dry" and...
"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone"

Fri. 7/24/09 3:14am From: bill

hey, any country that has hockey as a national sport is ok by me

Fri. 7/24/09 3:16am From: Toronto Jim

Sue P: Joke well appreciated. However, we actually don't make you look bad. You do that all by yourselves. The thing is: you don't HAVE TO.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:16am From: bill

............and besides, it is just too COLD to go out up there and do any real damage

Fri. 7/24/09 3:17am From: Toronto Jim

The good old hockey game is the best game you can name...

Fri. 7/24/09 3:17am From: Sue P

Indeed, Jim, I am well aware that we make our own bed, so to speak. Just needling you.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:18am From: bill

jim: maple leafs fan ?

Fri. 7/24/09 3:18am From: Toronto Jim

Cold? If you really want cold, go to Buffalo! Way colder than here. Lake Erie is totally unforgiving! Lake Ontario is much more... umm... prosaic.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:19am From: Toronto Jim

Leafs fan? Bite yer fekking tongue! Of course I'm a goddamn Leafs fan!

Death to the Habs!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:20am From: bill

rangers for me

Fri. 7/24/09 3:21am From: crom

brittle

Fri. 7/24/09 3:21am From: Toronto Jim

Bill:

Death to the Blueshirts!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:22am From: crom

North Stars all the way ..

Fri. 7/24/09 3:23am From: bill

alright.. i gotta crash. goodnight everybody. enjoy yourselves and your cerebral ballzies

Fri. 7/24/09 3:24am From: Toronto Jim

Ah, the good ol' expansion North Stars. May Bill Masterton rest in peace -- poor guy.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:27am From: Pieter

Good morning Sue P , Good morning all

Fri. 7/24/09 3:28am From: Toronto Jim

Bill Masterton, by the way, was (so far) the only pro hockey player ever to die DIRECTLY as a result from an on-ice injury. Before his bloodied head nodded off to death, he told a teammate: "Never again. Never again." Then he died. True story.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:29am From: Sue P

Good morning, Pieter. We're having a little hockey lesson from Toronto Jim today. Welcome!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:34am From: Toronto Jim

Hi Pieter. No lesson -- just a remembrance ('cause Crom liked the North Stars) of a player (sans helmet) who died in a freaky way and whose memory lives on in a lesser-known NHL trophy for sportsmanship. If he'd had a helmet, he wouldn't have died. (He died, by the way, in 1968. They didn't make helmets mandatory until eleven years later. Think about that...)

Fri. 7/24/09 3:36am From: Sue P

It's a lesson for me! Thanks for sharing. I grew up in a town without (professional) hockey...

Fri. 7/24/09 3:37am From: Toronto Jim

What town, Sue?

Fri. 7/24/09 3:38am From: Sue P

Cleveland, Ohio

Fri. 7/24/09 3:39am From: Sue P

...so I KNOW Lake Erie.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:39am From: Toronto Jim

Cleveland?! Why, you silly ninny, you had the Cleveland Barons in the NHL for, oh, two years or so, before they went tits-up. (1977-78 or thereabouts)

Fri. 7/24/09 3:40am From: crom

Broten and Ciccarelli were on the ice during my formative years

Fri. 7/24/09 3:41am From: Sue P

Yes, I know that! I'm just saying that growing up there was no team in the present...only the past. Not the same.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:42am From: crom

cleveland joined w/ the north stars

Fri. 7/24/09 3:42am From: crom

you should really get a Barons jersey Sue P!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:42am From: Toronto Jim

I KNOW that you know Erie! That's a mofo-ing lake like no other! Shallow as hell (for its size), and so you get GREAT fekking winds off of her. And sh*tloads of fekking garbage and detritus and flotsam!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:44am From: Toronto Jim

Crom: True dat! The Barons were so woefully broke that they didn't even move towns! They just packed all their gear up and joined with the already-existing North Stars.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:45am From: Toronto Jim

Sue: Don;t bother getting a Barons jersey -- ugliest things ever worn on ice!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:46am From: Sue P

My dad has an old Barons program somewhere...I don't remember their logo though.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:47am From: crom

whatev dude. i can think of way worse jerseys.
check this: http://aycu20.webshots.com/image/14899/2003124428316918073_rs.jpg

Fri. 7/24/09 3:48am From: Toronto Jim

Barons logo here, Sue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Barons_(NHL)

Fekking UGLY!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:49am From: Toronto Jim

Crom: You were a bit ahead of me there. Well done! The players' numbers used to be inside that little shoulder-map-of-Ohio. What a laugh!

Fri. 7/24/09 3:51am From: crom

into it

Fri. 7/24/09 3:52am From: crom

i used to ski race against the Canuks and they always had lots of molsen with them. not much for competition though.

Fri. 7/24/09 3:53am From: Toronto Jim

Worst NHL jerseys ever (no particular order, since they're all so bad):

Tampa Bay Lightning
Cleveland Barons
Florida Panthers
Carolina Hurricanes
Phoenix Coyotes (their entry-year monstrosities)
Vancouver Canucks (take your pick -- easily twelve different jerseys since inception -- sheesh!)

Fri. 7/24/09 3:54am From: Toronto Jim

Which Molson?

Fri. 7/24/09 3:54am From: crom

turns out that's my list of favorite jerseys

Fri. 7/24/09 3:55am From: Toronto Jim

Well, Crom, there you go: CROM = AMERICAN

Fri. 7/24/09 3:55am From: crom

does this have what's his name on drums?

Fri. 7/24/09 3:56am From: crom

full of garbage and proud of it!

Fri. 7/24/09 4:00am From: Toronto Jim

Crom: Also full of the insidious, stupid practice of naming sports teams in the singular (Lightning, Wild, Jazz, Magic, etc) Thanks a lot, USA.
Utah Jazz?! indeed! (Utah fekking Narrow-minded Christians, rather...)

Fri. 7/24/09 4:01am From: crom

single word names? sounds fine to me ...

Fri. 7/24/09 4:03am From: Toronto Jim

Do they even allow jazz clubs to exist in Utah? I just heard that, as of last month, you no longer have to sign a waiver to get a beer in Utah.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:04am From: Toronto Jim

Crom: I'll correct your last entry:

"Single-wprd name? sound fine to me"

Fri. 7/24/09 4:06am From: Toronto Jim

Oh, great -- I misspell a fekking word when I'm correcting someone else...

I am the loser that you always knew I was. I'm slapping myself for that idiotic mistake of mine. I'm slapping myself so much that... wait... I think... yes.. I'M ENJOYING IT. (Sue P: turn your eyes away!)

Fri. 7/24/09 4:09am From: crom

i think my audio feed is behind the real-time. my computer is totally messed.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:09am From: Toronto Jim

I repeat (and I want an answer from one of you smug Utah-Americans):

Do they even allow jazz clubs to exist in Utah? I just heard that, as of last month, you no longer have to sign a waiver to get a beer in Utah.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:12am From: Toronto Jim

Not sure what's up with my iTunes feed either. There's been no sound at all for about an hour -- keeps on lying to me with its "rebuffering stream" nonsense. Don't care, though -- thoroughly enjoying the company of all you people, (Well, that and my industrial-strength insomnia)

Fri. 7/24/09 4:12am From: Sue P

I don't know much about Utah: there are Mormons there and there are ski resorts there. That's about it.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:14am From: Toronto Jim

What is a person from Utah called? Utahan? (Like, when a fekking blow-hard senator gets up to speak on behalf of his state's citizens, what does he call them?)

Fri. 7/24/09 4:15am From: Toronto Jim

Licence plate?: "UTAH -- HOME OF THE WESTERN WORLD'S ONLY COMPLETELY MADE-UP RELIGION"

Fri. 7/24/09 4:16am From: Sue P

That's an excellent question! I'm gonna guess "Utahian" but I really don't know.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:16am From: crom

there's the great salt lake, Spiral Jetty, Moab ... tons of great stuff, beautiful scenery, etc. TO Jim should check it out some time. who cares about if mormons are weirdos, you don't have to be one or anything to got there.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:17am From: Toronto Jim

Shit. Check that. There's also the scientologists, yes?

Fri. 7/24/09 4:19am From: Toronto Jim

Sue P: I'm with you on your extrapolation. Utahian. I like it. BUT... how do you pronounce it?

Fri. 7/24/09 4:20am From: crom

bryce, zion, arches, and monument valley -- all heavy spots, all in utah

Fri. 7/24/09 4:20am From: Sue P

you-taw-ee-an

Fri. 7/24/09 4:21am From: crom

!!

Fri. 7/24/09 4:22am From: Toronto Jim

Crom: I will check Utah out sometime -- like sometime after I can safely go into a bar, sign my Utah waiver that says I can legally purchase drink, proclaim that I'm a socialist, and NOT get the shit beat out of me out back. Deal?

Fri. 7/24/09 4:26am From: Toronto Jim

Sue P: The REAL Utahans will have a problem with that "w" sound in your pronunciation. (After all, it ain't Arkansas). Which raises another interesting question: What do blow-hard, arsehole senators from Arkansas call THEIR citizens (besides "chumps")?

Fri. 7/24/09 4:27am From: crom

skullflower sounding good ...

Fri. 7/24/09 4:28am From: Sue P

People from Arkansas are called Arkansans, I believe.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:28am From: crom

4:20

Fri. 7/24/09 4:30am From: Toronto Jim

Shit, Sue P: You're right! For a mo' there, I was tinkering with "Arkanawans."

BTW, has anyone ever teased you by calling you Sue P. Sales? (He's still alive, you know)

Fri. 7/24/09 4:37am From: Sue P

bar....yez, I have heard the Sue P Sales thing a few times.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:37am From: Toronto Jim

4:20, eh? Well, it so happens that I'm just fresh out of the wonderful Collingwood dope I normally smoke.

In the spirit of 4:20, though, I would (SERIOUSLY for a moment) ask you all to write to your local corrupt congressman and demand that Marc Emery be set free as soon as he lands in the US. (He's a major dope crusader up here, who has sold seeds on the internet for years -- which is LEGAL in Canada. Our spineless, shitty Conservative government, under hefty pressure from DICK Cheney, Dubya, et al, is EXTRADITING Emery to the US of A to serve a lengthy prison term for his "crimes." He's doing a bittersweet "farewell tour" of our country, with lots and lots of smoke, before he has to take a government plane down "there" and get handcuffed. What do you think about justice, eh?)

Fri. 7/24/09 4:41am From: Sue P

Get this: wikipedia refers to people from Utah as "Utahns"!

Fri. 7/24/09 4:42am From: crom

yeah but i bet it's pronounced the same way

Fri. 7/24/09 4:43am From: Toronto Jim

Sue P! Thanks! "Utahns?!" Sounds like the way all Americans pronounce words all the time -- that laaawng draaawl!

Fri. 7/24/09 4:46am From: Sue P

That's just Southerners, Jim. There are so many fascinating regional accents here, you'd be hard pressed to generalize like that.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:48am From: crom

wow i dig this

Fri. 7/24/09 4:50am From: Toronto Jim

Fair play, Sue. I actually do know a few of the atrocious American accents. Anyone from the southern shores of the Great Lakes sounds like an extra from "Fargo." Noo Joiseyians sound like... well, best leave that one alone. Mid-Bible-Belt Southerners sound possessed, and not a bit stoopid. Deep Southerners sound charming indeed, until you learn that they think you (from Toronto) are from Ireland. Stoopid.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:50am From: Torbjørn

Is the mp3 stream working properly ? The stream has had the same sounds coming out of it for hours. It plays the same thing for 30 seconds, then stops .. and my player falls off.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:52am From: crom

i was having trouble earlier too

Fri. 7/24/09 4:53am From: Toronto Jim

Torbjørn: My stream is fucking up as well. But at least my player isn't falling off. (It's right here in my hands, and working just "fine" (don't tell Sue P. that I'm thinking of her all the while).

Fri. 7/24/09 4:57am From: Sue P

Hey all....I just checked the live stream, too, and it does seem to be messed up! I'll see what I can do over here, though I'm not super tech-savvy.

Fri. 7/24/09 4:58am From: Sue P

Restarting your computer is always a safe bet....

Fri. 7/24/09 5:00am From: Toronto Jim

Restart my computer?! You must be mad! I've got 12 applications running, and probably 30 or so files open!

If the feed is fucked up everywhere from Joisey to Norway, my restarting ain't going to help much!

Fri. 7/24/09 5:06am From: Torbjørn

I do kind of agree .. not that I wouldn't do whatever Sue P tells me to, but as a computer professional, I don't restart my computers on principle.

Fri. 7/24/09 5:10am From: Toronto Jim

Right you are, Torbjørn! Now, are you really from Norway, as I had guessed? Or just Sweden?

Fri. 7/24/09 5:10am From: Sue P

I know you're right but I'm at a loss....

Fri. 7/24/09 5:11am From: Sue P

hahaha...what does that mean: "just Sweden"?

Fri. 7/24/09 5:14am From: Torbjørn

Toronto Jim: You hit the Scandinavian jackpot there, I'm in Haugesund, Norway. Actually, they don't have my "ø" in Sweden, but they do in Denmark. "just sweden" means you're one of those oppressive, to-good-for-Scandinavia old imperialists across the border !

Fri. 7/24/09 5:14am From: Toronto Jim

Norway is to Sweden what Canada is to the USA (or what New Zealand is to Australia) -- the "little" brother. So, as a Canadian, I invert the relationship (on principle) in order to make our Norwegian friend feel (rightfully) superior to his "big" brother Swedes. It's a game we lesser nationalities play when you bigger nationalities aren't looking.

Fri. 7/24/09 5:19am From: Torbjørn

Ah yes, "the game" .. Of course, we're richer now, and we import a lot of Swedish labor, so maybe that dynamic is changing. What about you, Jim ? Are you looking forward to picking up NY hipsters outside of your local Home Depot when the US economy really tanks ?

Fri. 7/24/09 5:19am From: Toronto Jim

Yay! I guessed Torbjørn's nationality! Now, Torbjørn: are you thinking in English when you write? Or are you thinking in Bokmal, or Landsmal?

(See, we lesser nationalities know a little thing or two about others)

Fri. 7/24/09 5:20am From: Toronto Jim

Torbjørn: What do you mean "when the US economy tanks?" When it tanks, ours tanks, and yours too.

Fri. 7/24/09 5:22am From: Toronto Jim

...and by "tanks," I don't mean a person from the Bronx appreciating some goodwill gesture you have made towards him/her

Fri. 7/24/09 5:27am From: Sue P

You can take as many NY hipsters as you want. I won't miss them.

Fri. 7/24/09 5:29am From: Torbjørn

Well, I was mostly trying to make a joke based on economic circumstances versus "bigger nationalities" relationship to neighboring "lesser nationalities" and respective labor imports .. As for thinking, in this English context, I think in jumbled mix of Bokmål / my local dialect and English, I guess. I'm right here on the Landsmål (which is called Nynorsk now) border, but it's Bokmål all the way .. what about you, Parle vous Francais ?

Fri. 7/24/09 5:37am From: Toronto Jim

Oui, je parle le français, mais pas si disertement, tu sais. Selon moi, je me "débrouille" en français. Mais je ne sais aucun norvégien, tant pis. (Mais, si tu comprends le français, nous pouvons ridiculer les américains ici, sans qu'ils puissent comprendre!)

Fri. 7/24/09 5:40am From: Sue P

Oh, Jim, je parle aussi le francais, mon ami!

Fri. 7/24/09 5:46am From: Toronto Jim

Sue P! C'est merveilleux! Je viens d'expliquer à Torbjørn comment si doux soient les américains comme toi! Nous, toi et moi, nous devons nous communiquer en français de temps en temps.

Fri. 7/24/09 5:48am From: Sue P

C'est vrai mais mon vocabulaire est tres petit! I am much smarter en anglais..ha!

Fri. 7/24/09 5:49am From: Torbjørn

Alas, my French barely allows me to parse that. The two Norwegian languages are very similar to each other, not like English and French at all. However, it looks like we won't fly under Sue P's multilingual radar anytime soon ..

Fri. 7/24/09 5:51am From: Toronto Jim

Sue P: Moi aussi, bien sûr! Tu l'as dit! Je suis... comment dire... way smarter in English!

Fri. 7/24/09 5:55am From: Toronto Jim

Hey Torbjørn: For a guy who can speak a crazy language that nobody speaks, like... Norwegian, you sure have pretty fekking good English (far better than a lot of Americans have, or Canadians for that matter). I'd love to learn Norwegian some day. ("What for?!" people will ask, and I'll tell them simply to fuck off.)

Fri. 7/24/09 6:01am From: Toronto Jim

I have been teaching myself Welsh over the last few years. When I mention that to people, their jaws drop as if I'd just pulled out my penis. "B-b-but... WHY?!" they gasp. "Just 'cause," I cooly reply. I just LIKE the language -- it's beautiful in its archaic, crazy way.

Thu. 8/13/09 6:32am From: Iikka from Helsinki

Wow, the most comments I've seen here EVER! I am listening to old archives after three-week vacation, great show as always.

Thu. 8/13/09 6:36am From: Iikka from Helsinki

And regarding the Scandinavian inferiority/superiority complexes, we Finns used to feel like kid brothers to the Swedes as well. That's why many people here were amused to see these Norwegian Anti-Sweden jeans...
http://fashion.mirror.co.uk/2009/03/anti-swedish-jeans-brand-nor-w.html

In one of their ads they use music from Sunn 0))) !

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