MetaFilter posts tagged with tom

Ring the bells

vronsky — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:01:00 -0800

What's Opera, Doc?

litterateur — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:34:35 -0800

And now presenting the 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons!

“I’ve stolen Guevara’s puzzle cube” remarked Tom cherubically.

wendell — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:06:40 -0800

Schott's Vocab Blog is doing a weekend competition for 'puns that monkey with the description of reported speech for comic effect', and has gotten about 2000 entries so far!" Tom said swiftly. "Some of them are actually funny if you think about them," he added judgmentally.

"And this no-frills site serves up random Swifties," Wendell said refreshingly. "I wanted to give an extra link because I procrastinated in posting this," he extrapolated.

"There's more on the inside!" he added punishingly. Here's the last time we did these on Metafilter, he wrote in riposte. "Only once in ten years!" he noted decadently. "I'm hoping to lure Tom Swifties Master bradlands back to the site with this," he said outlandishly. "I found this on the Internet!" Wendell said as Hugo ogled. "I think Tom Swifties are funnier than a Gary Larson cartoon with a bike in it!" he said farcically. "I'm glad I took the chance on this," he said haphazardly. "The last time I did something like this, they cut me off at the ankles," he said defeatedly.

Back Story to the folk song "Tom Dooley"

RussHy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:17:55 -0800

Tom Dula was a real person. Who knew? The Kingston Trio's version of Tom Dooley is the most famous. It says here that Doc Watson's great-grandparents were the Dooley's neighbors. They say Ann Melton confessed before she died... "Folk music is serious business."

I have a scrambler in my brain.

2or3whiskeysodas — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:23:20 -0800

Tom Waits interviews Tom Waits. A charmingly rambling (but what else would you expect?) interview in advance of his PEHDTSCKJMBA tour. Includes these tantalizing words: I’m doing songs with them I’ve never attempted outside the studio. via reddit.

Waits for Nonsequitors

ornate insect — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:24:04 -0800

Tom Waits Press Conference (that is all)

Just sing out a Te Deum when you see that ICBM

griphus — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:40:17 -0800

Expanding on a previous post about Tom Lehrer, and in what is becoming a grand tradition of single link YouTube posts about him, 6funswede and YouTube present the entirety of An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer.

Oh, bollocks! Now I have to MULTI-TASK!!!!!!

miss lynnster — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:48:42 -0800

"Tammy Wynette was quite wrong when she sang 'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman'. It's not. It's always hard to be a woman. Especially if you're a man." Hard-hitting journalism from The Daily Mail. Other Tom Mitchelson scoops: Invasion of the Russian gold diggers and Poseurs Paradise! What's it really like to work at Abercrombie & Fitch?

Tom Cruise, ooohhhh!

milarepa — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:27:01 -0800

A gay boy wished for a planet full of unicorns, Planet Unicorn, Unicorn Planet! Episode: two, three.

Well I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys and my pride

BrotherCaine — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:25:47 -0800

The One that Got Away - Tom Waits

Puss wasn't gettin' the boot, Mammy Two-Shoes was (old news)

Bravocharlie — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:44:14 -0800

Youse is getting to old to cath mouse (disclaimer: loud southern ebonics). I love this woman - queen of the partially seen characters. Bring her back.

don't be so shellfish!

wakko — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:23:22 -0800

Those crazy Scientologists are at it again. This time, a New Zealand website owner has been ordered to relinquish his clever domain name, scienTOMogy.info under threat of legal action. The site, an ugly-looking collection of links to other Scientology-debunking websites, serves as a clearinghouse for information about one of the church's most notorious members, Tom Cruise. CoS claims the domain is similar enough to their official website address to be confusing to Internet users.

arrrr you ready for a goofball

tsarfan — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:23:11 -0800

Never mind jumping the shark, has Tom Green lost it? As if Freddy Got Fingered wasn't sad enough, the former Mr. Drew Barrymore is picking blogfights with bloggers!? Isn't it embarrassing enough to be a quasi-celeb with a blog, let alone use it to rally your fans into send hate-mail and threats to a little-known blogger? Or is this just another childish attempt to embarrass his parents?

So sweet so cold so fair

mwhybark — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:58:26 -0800

St. James Infirmary, in a funereal, no lyrics, brass-band version underlies a persistent scrum of half-remembered songs about New Orleans rising in concert with the waters, lapping at the sandbags of my mind. Up front, Tom Waits (I Wish I Was in New Orleans) and Randy Newman (Lousiana 1927) are duking it out for time at the piano, elaborately filigreed chords overlapping and changing the dominant lyric at the moment of harmonic convergence, while in the background Arlo Guthrie (The City of New Orleans) warbles about a train ride. Professor Longhair and/or The Dixie Cups (Big Chief, Iko Iko) sort of amusedly fight to keep sliptime with the martial drums from Jimmy Driftwood's The Battle of New Orleans (caution: embedded quicktime) behind the whole toxic soup of sonic residue. I'm sure the stew will grow more dense over the next couple weeks. Got a New Orleans song to toss into the waters?

Move over, monkeys. It gets better than flingin'.

weston — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:10:15 -0800

Ballistic Defecation is just what it sounds like. Or is it?

By the power of Xenu...be gone!

zardoz — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:16:00 -0800

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah Quick and silly. [mov file]

Cruising for a bruising

BrodieShadeTree — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:53:16 -0800

Has anyone else noticed actor Tom Cruise going more and more wacky in public? Is his love affair with the hot-young-actress really a sham? Is this a PR stunt run dangerously wild, or Scientology in action? Oprah's scared, are you? The folks at FreeKatie.net think you should be.

When wars were good and men were noble...

rzklkng — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 08:52:46 -0800

The making of a D-Day tradition... I immediately get goosebumps when I hear the score of Band of Brothers...I'm not sure why, maybe it was my local connections (Dick Winters, Bill Guanere, Albert Blithe, Babe Heffron, Thomas Meehan, Ralph Spina, Harry Welsh, and Robert Strayer are all from Philadelphia), the surrounding suburbs, or Pennsylvania), or maybe it was because the original airings took place in the shadow of 9/11 (the premiere was September 9th, 2001, with the D-Day drop occuring in the second episode, Day of Days, on 9/16/2001), but this series will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart. Everything is done so beautifully, from the special effects, to the sound, the music, to the dutiful translation from Stephen Ambrose book to the screen. It's certainly worthy of the 9.5 out of 10 that IMDB readers had given it. Every year now since, either HBO (On Demand - you have to subscribe to HBO plus have digital cable) or the History Channel has played Tom Hanks' and Steven Spielberg's masterful WW2 epic. You can think of it as Saving Private Ryan, but 3 times as long. Even if war movies are not your thing, I can almost guarantee that they will see the human side of the soldier and becomely deeply invested in the characters. Follow the men of Easy Company from training and the running of Currahee, to the parachute jump on D-Day, through the liberation of Europe, the horror of a German concentration camp, and eventually to the end of the war, to Hitler's mountaintop retreat. I'm not the only one - check out the numerous fan sites to BoB (forum shorthand for Band of Brothers) here, here, and here, as well as entries on TVTome, Wikipedia, and Television without Pity. If you want to try before you commit to watching the whole thing, I'd recommend the episodes Day of Days, Crossroads, and the Breaking Point.

Licenced to.........sing???

bap98189 — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:01:43 -0800

Fitness to Practice is a collection of songs written and performed by Amateur Transplants, two practicing doctors from the UK. The album consists of original songs as well as witty parodies of songs originally performed by among others Tom Lehrer and The Jam (mp3 links). The lyrics contain a lot of medical in-jokes, but the humour is broad enough to appeal to everyone.

the aeronaut, deflecting the rudder, sent the Red Cloud on a downward slant

mwhybark — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:52:24 -0800

The Original Tom Swift Series Public Domain Texts. Twenty-five of 'em for your perusal. In piles of formats, some including page scans, and with color cover images (mostly from here, where they also have larger images). Not that kind of Tom Swift, mind you.

I must admit, the domain name gave me pause. So far, no teleportation has transpired.

Car Talk Staff

nofundy — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:38:28 -0800

Giving Credit where credit is due. For your Friday browsing pleasure, may I present the staff at NPR's CarTalk. Enjoy!
The Conclusive, Definitive, Official Dewey, Cheetham, & Howe Staff List In the good old days, we had an engineer and a rotary telephone with a couple of buttons on it. We pressed a button and--BINGO-- someone was on the air. Of course, it was usually a wrong number...but that's the price you pay for simplicity. Now look at the mess we're in! Thousands of people on the staff...all trying to do less work than us. What a revoltin' development this is. Look at all these employees! But despite our huge payroll--we're always hiring. So if you know of someone who may be worthy to join our crack(ed) staff, send his/her/its name and potential position to the Car Talk Plaza Personnel Department via e-mail to Dewey, Cheetham and Howe.

jaden — Thu, 23 May 2002 10:47:34 -0800

Giving telemarketers a taste of their own medicine. It seems too good to be true, but Tom Mabe is managing to make money by messing with their minds. His tormenting even extends to the web. His page is currently the top result on a Google for telemarketers, which is likely a thorn in their side. He's thought up some great responses to use when for some strange reason you just can't hang up the phone. Besides saying you're dead, what have you said to get rid of them?

liam — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:04:47 -0800

The Tom Waits Streaming Event. Anti Records is streaming both of Waits' new albums in their entirety, each in turn for three days starting today, prior to their release. Is the home listening booth for whole cd's a common marketing tactic now?