Listener comments!

Wed. 8/26/09 9:15am From: Parq

Don't worry abut participating, Bob. We'll take it from here. Nicely gothic opening today, btw.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:15am From: Cecile

hola, all and thanks for scaling back the pic, Bob.
that tattoo is awesome.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:16am From: BSI

who has carrot cake?

Wed. 8/26/09 9:20am From: Cecile

carrot cake? wha-?

Wed. 8/26/09 9:22am From: Cecile

knocking it out of the park, Bob.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:26am From: bobw

this is a first for me - the comments thing. and, yeah, i f-ed up the pic early on. tried to get that photo up, but not quite like that. it's of a guy's tatoo that features jesus as a hockey goalie. the text - "jesus saves."

Wed. 8/26/09 9:28am From: Bad Ronald

Esposito scores on the rebound!

Wed. 8/26/09 9:29am From: Chris

Kick save and a beauty! Let us pray.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:32am From: Parq

Oh Lord, we thank Thee, for in Thy infinite mercy, Thou hast allowed us to blow those fucks from Toronto right off the ice, in Thy name.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:34am From: Cecile

Thou has provided us with seafood to lob at the bastages who challenge our Red Wings

Wed. 8/26/09 9:35am From: annie

woohoo!! i see it now!!

Wed. 8/26/09 9:38am From: paul s

hey bob!!! i'm moving to michigan sometime soon but i dont know when. still working in the NY office for now

Wed. 8/26/09 9:38am From: Cecile

Now I know safranin has two good bands - Ceremony and Screen Vinyl Image...

Wed. 8/26/09 9:41am From: bobw

yow! fellow hockey hedz reprayzant, colllllise! paul, you've got to bone up on your red wings history if you're moving to mo-town.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:43am From: Gerry Cheevers

Crease be unto you.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:47am From: bobw

no coffee pot at wfmu this morning!!! i had to make coffee with a colander! i will not be deprived my coffee!

Wed. 8/26/09 9:49am From: BSI

Desperate times call for desperate coffee.
I recall driving across the country in the middle of winter & surviving on instant coffee+hot water from highway rest-stops, shaken in a thermos. That was 19 years ago and I'm still picking crap outta my teeth.

..........but it works, yeh?

Wed. 8/26/09 9:49am From: Parq

You little Martha Stewart, you! PS - see? The comment field is hard to resist, isn't it?

Wed. 8/26/09 9:49am From: BSI

correction: not hot water, mostly creepy warm-ish water.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:52am From: bobw

it's sometimes challenging enough to just pop the discs in and punch the buttons.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:57am From: BSI

and yet the machine coffee in the middle of Missouri seemed like an even worse idea..... travel is a deadly game. And no carrot cake.

Wed. 8/26/09 9:58am From: AnAnonymousParty

My first boss was an ex-marine gunnery sergeant, if there was no coffee made he'd just put a generous pinch of Folger's, right out of the can, 'between his cheek and gum' to get him going until a pot was ready.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:07am From: Listener Dave from NH

I grew up not too far from Newark. I can't say that I ever heard anyone pronounce it "Nurk" but I imagine that that's how someone from Baltimore might pronounce it.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:07am From: annie

i love my french press, but will always be able to resort to cowboy coffee,

Wed. 8/26/09 10:10am From: Cecile

you mean Balmer, LDfNH?

Wed. 8/26/09 10:11am From: annie

see cecile i was just gonna let that go... i always say balmer..

Wed. 8/26/09 10:14am From: Listener Dave from NH

Yeah. As my friend who transplanted from dirty Jersey to Maryland explained it to me, "It doesn't sound right unless you swallow a few letters."
I'm not from there so I don't want to get busted faking the accent.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:26am From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

I was born in Irvington and I pronounce it "Nork."

Wed. 8/26/09 10:27am From: Carmichael

Good morning Bob and fellow listeners of Bob. I got a big ol' cherry pie on the credenza outside my office door.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:27am From: bobw

speaking of dover and coffee, i had some super strong, tasty french press brew at a b&b in northwood, n.h. this weekend. the joint was built in 1771. i was expecting some ghosts. and re: the "nerk" thing - that's how the path conductor pronounced it this morning. i mean this merning.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:28am From: annie

i picked up the balmer thing when i took amtrak all the time down there.. i blame the ticket taker.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:35am From: Listener Dave from NH

Keen - Northwood's about a half hour from where I live up here. Hope you made it out to Bear Brook while you were up here (especially if you're a mountain biker).
I grew up in Maplewood and took NJ Transit bunches - how did I never hear anyone pronounce it like that?

Wed. 8/26/09 10:39am From: Trapper

We have a Culture of Commentary

Wed. 8/26/09 10:40am From: Trapper

There's a PATH conductor who says it 'New-Rick' which sounds very folksy to me.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:42am From: dei xhrist

I was in a hotel in Baltimore and heard a TV huckster who sounded exactly like the one John Waters was mimicking in Pink Flamingos. Swallowing the letters causes your voice to come out of your front nasal cavities, and you have to hold your tongue juuust raaaht.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:47am From: bobw

bear brook?! hayyyl no! i was staying on jenness pond! i also got wet at rye on the rocks. it was the warmest (and waviest) water that i've ever experienced in the atlantic north of the cape! i could stay in for more than 30 seconds! i lived on lexington street in dovah when i was at UNH.

Wed. 8/26/09 10:56am From: Listener Dave from NH

It's so nice having ponds and lakes up here. Having grown up in Superfund Country, I still find it kind of disconcerting that I can just roll up to a pond and slide on in for a swim and not have to worry about being consigned to a starring role in a Troma film.
Someone named a band after a nuke plant in N'Hampsha? That's bananas.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:03am From: bobw

the water in jenness pond is so clean that it supports leaches. wait - that doesn't sound right. i don't know what's behind naming your band after seabrook. "three mile island" - ok. "vermont yankee" - cool. "pilgrim station unit 1" - that has a ring to it. but seabrook?

Wed. 8/26/09 11:04am From: stingy d

hi erybody. lets eat pie!

Wed. 8/26/09 11:05am From: Carmichael

I'll bet there's a band called Tennessee Valley Authority.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:06am From: still b/p

dei - what'd you think of Frantasia? I was there just Friday night...with the opening act so confoundingly unexpected it was kind of a kick to talk about.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:06am From: dei x

sounds badassss

Wed. 8/26/09 11:07am From: Cecile

what kind of pie, stinge?

Wed. 8/26/09 11:13am From: dei x

oh, THAT guy... with his own TV and bassed up vocal mic... well, we were all interlopers there so it kinda works. Saturday was mostly really good (self plug!), because of Id m Theft Able, Skinny Vinny, qfwfq duo etc. There was also a sing/songer who sang like the extreme pitch experiments.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:13am From: Carmichael

Right outside the office door. Come on over. We'll talk.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:15am From: stingy d

i was thinking strawberry rhubarb, because that's what i'm always thinking. but any kind of berry is what's up right now i'd say. have some coffee. and damn fine pie.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:17am From: Listener Dave from NH

Thankfully, the pond where I swim in regularly is leech-free. I've been in a dozen or so lakes and ponds and haven't gotten a leech on me yet, which is good because that'd be the last time I went swimming. Even when I see a fish out there, I start digging like I'm in "Jaws" (and I'm wearing a wetsuit most of the time).

Wed. 8/26/09 11:19am From: still b/p

What does id m theft able do other than what made up his brief cameo contribution on Friday? I recognized his name from FMU, but couldn't recall material I'd heard.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:25am From: dei x

don't forget the threat of ducks.. really puts a bit more fear in to skinny dipping... Id does vocal stylings with a crapload of soundmakers. He was bouncing a ball and screaming as it fell, making smaller noises as he used a violin bow on a license plate and strumming rake tines - definitely a strong visual aspect. For a lesson in the worst possible graphic design possible (on purpose) go to kraag.org/id

Wed. 8/26/09 11:32am From: still b/p

Actually, I see id is right up here living/performing at my elbow, so local listings are where I've caught his name as well. By the nice description, sorry to miss Saturday. 'At's whut we go fer. I'll check him 'round town. You performed in addition to repping your boxes?

Wed. 8/26/09 11:39am From: dei x

yep, I'm in Birdorgan. And like every other traditional band, the female is the vocalist. I also did a bit dressed up as the drag version of the Joker, and preached about the holy value of "taking matters in to your own hands".

Wed. 8/26/09 11:44am From: GP

AAP..late to the comments, that "raw" coffee trick is hardcore, but I must say that I have tried it, yeah I have indeed.....talk about still picking grit out of ones teeth.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:46am From: Parq

Those people know perfectly well that park goers can see them. It's called exhibitionism. One more reason that hotel was a bad choice for the Highline, aside from the fact that it's butt-ugly and intrusive.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:47am From: still b/p

Rats. Oh, what we miss. Like that Robert Frost poem, The Frantasia Not Taken. I'll watch for Birdorgan.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:50am From: anna

Nice DJ set! Making Wednesday morning much more enjoyable. Muchas gracias.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:51am From: AnAnonymousParty

@GP, Heh, that guy was a Marine's marine, according to him, picking the grit out was for pussies -you might find yourself someplace where there ain't even any coffee, and you'd kill for a piece of that grit to chew on.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:52am From: dei x

Don't feel too bad, I slept through the Cave Bears feeding their new found karaoke deer head and repeating beyond ad nauseum while everyone else cleaned up around them!

Wed. 8/26/09 11:52am From: BSI

bleh!
My diggage of this show got hijacked by ofc. meeting..... now I'm back with a mere 8 minutes to catch up on my diggage-diggin'.

looks like good stuff, boss.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:54am From: GP

AAP.. LoL ...great image that.

BSI, I know the feeling, at least I got a 15 minutes in.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:56am From: bobw

oh - i used a coffee filter in the spag. strainer! what do you think i am, some kind of barbarian?!?

Wed. 8/26/09 11:58am From: Parq

"Coffee Filter In the Spagetti Strainer" would be a good title for Bob's autobiography.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:59am From: Cecile

Hey that's the principle behind those filter drip pots.

Wed. 8/26/09 11:59am From: dei x

"or, The Wet Willy of Industry"

Wed. 8/26/09 11:59am From: still b/p

Great show.

Wed. 8/26/09 12:06pm From: bobw

yow! thanks everybody for making my debut comments show fun and not too distracting! thanks for tuning in and typing up!

Wed. 8/26/09 12:12pm From: rebba

this is the first time i've listened to this radio station and it is wonderful! there is nothing on the air like this in manchester, uk

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