in another thread i just invoked the rising head of dennis green saying "THE BEARS ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE... AND WE LET THEM OFF THE HOOK! IF YOU WANNA CROWN 'EM, THEN CROWN THEY ASS!"

that got me thinking, wasn't it the vaunted sir larry of shake that who tried riding the wave of dennisgreenmania by starting up a segment where callers would call up and pick someone whose ass needed to be crowned? i think this might have been during the loho solo time when he was on during the mid-days. i think the concept was the rough equivalent of pappy nort's jagbag segment, i.e. you bascally call up and call someone a jagoff, however this one was dressed up in hilarious dennisgreenmania. whoever did it, i don't remember it lasting long, which is why i think it's definitely loho.

another classic segment from the laurence holmes comedy vault came during his hamp-on-holmes (pic related) show. once again, ever the edgy observer of popular culture, laurence wanted to get some play out of the michael phelps caught smoking a bong phenomenon. loaded with giggles and self-promoting "oh my god this segment will never be allowed to come back" we were treated to "who's taking a hit off of michael phelps' bong?" laurence implored callers to call up and pick out athletes/public-eye-people who were acting strangely as if they, wait for it, were taking a hit off of michael phelps' bong.

if memory serves, i think laurence first did it when hamp wasn't around to lean on him, and then he did it one time with hamp. i remember hamp being very silent and groaning/bemoaning the segment, all while laurence kept on self-promoting it as a controversial wacky "hey look it's fun time with hip and happening larry! i'm the only guy who will give you zany off the wall antics like this! this will never be allowed to be on the air because it's soooo crazy" -- oh yeah. fun times. at least there was a little cypress hill in the segment intro.

from there, what are some of the other ones from shake that or even other hosts? i think i vaguely remember that mike north had a caning segment? hmmmmm... *twilight zone theme *

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Telander+Hood+Buffone

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Telander+Mully+Buffone

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The Bull and the Bear.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

5 hours in a 2-hour bag.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Joe Cain overnight host.

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Who You Crappin

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

The Mike North daily reading of the baseball standings.

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That was kinda fun bad though. He was basically begging for callers.

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I was in high school or college when that happened. I used to listen to the score every night when I got home. I thought it was a bit at the time. I also remember some overnight guys getting fired for going on the air when they were supposed to be playing "Best of the score"

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Drillrod of the week sucked.

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McCalister, Kaplan and Kozimer on WMVP.

Peter Brown wasn't very good.

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I thought McCallister was decent, but I had nothing to compare it to other than Coppock.
The Score didn't come in down here. But I listened mostly for Van Lier threatening to come through the phone and strangle someone.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

I remember norm being on the radio one night all fucked up and his wife called in to talk to him on air. He was telling people he was giving away trips if they could name the song he wa splaying on the radio.

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Yeah Norm was cool. I miss that dude.

I'm nominate The Fabulous Sports Babe as a failed gimmick. She looks like Steve Dahl in drag.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

I tried to block her out of memory. She was real bad. She also had her show simulcasted on Espn 2 for a while.

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She was brutal. Her voice and personality were grating.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

I think Webio belongs on the first page of this thread.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

So does Mac and Meat.

Joe Cain overnight was classic

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Big Partner. Not missed.

Didn't Joe move back to Seattle area? Wonder if he's tried sportstalk there... Hopefully not overnight; that takes a special kind of radio host to do that. Les, for instance.

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

His reading of the wild card standings in June.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Fred reading rap lyrics.

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Fred speaking

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I came here specifically to post "Who's Taking Hits Off Michael Phelps's Bong" and it was right in the first post. Drat.

As for Crown Their Ass, not sure when that bit was. Larry's solo show was July/August of '08 when Mully and Hanley stopped doing the six-hour morning show but before Hampton came on for football season. The actual Crown Their Ass incident was October 2006, nearly two full years before the Provisional Larry Show started, so to have done it that far past the expiration date would be utterly implausible. So in other words, that's probably exactly when it was.

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