GTP vs. Wham - Last Year's Thread

[Vic Reign93]

My brother is a dispicable human being @Daniel

Oh what a rotten bit of luck.

*This'll probably comeback to bite me given my luck with Lady Karma.*

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I liked that Slaves one!

I thought there was three of them??

 

[m8h3r]

I'm just sat here watching people take each other out like "yep nobody knows me from here in real life"

I liked that Slaves one!

I thought there was three of them??

PS. I know it looks like I'm following you but I'm not. (Or am I going to sneak wham you)

 

[Kurei]

@Daniel, as of 11:11am this morning, I am out.

Busy morning at the dealership, decided to head into the service-office because I heard a customer had brought us a bunch of bagels with all the fixings, stepped-in, and heard a very familiar jingle over our PA-system...
-"Is that..?"
-"This year.. to save me-"
-"Yep... damn..."

It was a slow year anyhow, never really got into the challenge because I wasn't seeing people with the spirit, the lack of snow and all.
Best of luck to the others, don't let @Jordan get the better of you for me.

 

[Aesthetics]

I'm glad my WUL entry says what it says, because of I wrote it, it would've gone like this:

• -17/12: @DCybertron - Open your mouth, here comes Georgie.

 

[nick98]

@DCybertron That "My Favorite Song" in your signature... It's Wham. Hopefully I kept the sound on mute - even though I'm not an official GTP vs Wham contestant, I just act like I'm in the game. Just sayin'.

 

[DK]

I'm being Whammed once again. Goddammit

 

[Spacegoat]

Best of luck to the others, don't let @Jordan get the better of you for me.

I suppose that's one good thing about getting Whammed! We don't have to worry about what evil plan @Jordan has brewing this year.

 

[RACECAR]

I'm glad my WUL entry says what it says, because of I wrote it, it would've gone like this:

Thanks, that nightmare was sorely missing from my life

 

[AnthonyD1993]

I knew I wasn't going to make it this year, and that's true now because I'm out. My brother asked me to go in his room to show me something he was looking at, and lo and behold, the radio station he was listening to was playing Wham!. Not sure how he found out since I never told him and close GTP when he comes in my room, but it's my own damn fault for going in his room after he said "Your favorite song is on by the way."

Oh well, I don't really have an issue with the song, but my streak ends after three years of not hearing the song. Next year, to save me from tears, I won't be a gullible fool. Or maybe, just maybe, I'll make him come back to GTP and sit out next year just so that I can watch him wither in agony after I avenge my defeat this year.

@Daniel

 

[kolio]

Come to find out, we really don't play Christmas music during our 89 hours of Christmas charity deal.

So now I can sit in the studio for another 2.5 hours and not even worry. Although I wasn't worried anyways.

 

[nick98]

Come to find out, we really don't play Christmas music during our 89 hours of Christmas charity deal.

So now I can sit in the studio for another 2.5 hours and not even worry. Although I wasn't worried anyways.

Don't say such things, that's just asking for it.
Remember the post I've made on page 43!

 

[kolio]

Don't say such things, that's just asking for it.
Remember the post I've made on page 43!

waiting for somebody to call in and have it playing.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Was hoping Mr Lemon didn't appear in the adverts before The Force Awakens.

The Force was with me, 'twas citrus free.

 

[Turtle]

Just popping in to say I got Whammed a few minutes ago. Bah Humbug.

 

[Cowboy]

 

[NW48]

This is around the time last year I had my first and only close call, let's hope that history doesn't repeat and I keep on going into the New Year, making it 2 from 2.

 

[photonrider]

It depresses me how easy some people have it in this game. I sign up every year just to see how close I can get before I am yet again out... No matter what I do, it is unavoidable. Then I come here and read about you all going shopping to THE FREAKING MALL for an entire days shopping and not getting caught once, or worse still - not even a close call!

I would settle 1 year for my Whamming to be a classy, planned, and devious moment. My wife playing the song down the phone to me unannounced. Someone placing it into my Spotify playlist against my knowledge. The old 'burst into the room playing it at full volume from a phone and shouting "KALI MA" as you do it'.

I wouldn't mind the 'Kali Ma' routine at all - if one has to get whammed at least with some dignity in death instead of been taken out swatted with a newspaper - you know, you walk into a crowded pizza store to get a slice and it . . is . . playing.
Everybody is staring at you and you know why.
You've gone pale, your eyes are bulging, swear words gibber from slack, drooling lips . . and it wasn't even a tsunami.
Something playing on that merry and bright cheery little Christmassy music system. Wham. The original.
White Christmas? What?

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Harry sidles into the confessional and kneels down, peeps furtively through the rattan weave at the mysterious figure beyond.

'Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.'
'You again? Didn't I see you last week?'

Harry coughs, self-conscious. 'Beengood thisweek, Father, just . . one thing that bothered me.'

Silence from the darkness beyond. Harry kisses his praying hands.

'I think I was whammed,' he whispers finally.
'Wut?' The darkness creaked.
'I'm not sure it was the original,' Harry told the priest.
'You committed original sin? Son, that is nothing to worry about, it isn't forbidden anymore. Now when are you going to marry this girl?'
'It wasn't a girl.' Harry said.
'Oh! I see.'

Harry couldn't see but he could've sworn he saw the darkness beyond squirm.

'You don't understand, Father, it's not about original sin it's about committing a sin without knowing it.'
'Well, son, if you got to know it was a sin later and repented of that iniquity and avoid it you are forgiven. So if this whamming you talk about was imposed on you you can be forgiven. Did someone force you to do something you liked but wasn't supposed to like?'
'Huh?'
'Would you like to tell me everything? Did you have all your clothes on?'
"Father . . ." Harry sighed. This was getting him nowhere.

He tried another tack: 'Father. If I went with a prostitute, but didn't know it, would that be a sin? If she did it to me and I didn't know she was a prostitute?'
'Have you ever been to a prostitute?'
'Who? Me? No! Never! This is why now I'm not sure.'
'Why?'
'Father, I've never been to a prostitute and I don't know what it's like. If I go with a woman who actually is one - would that be my fault? How would I know what a prostitute is if I've not experienced the original thing?'
'Hmmmm . . . ' The lump in the darkness squeaked an squirmed for a long moment.

'Tell you what, son,' said the voice from beyond, 'go back there into the sacristy and ask the sacristian to show you where the prostitute sleeps under the portico, poor thing - go explore her and come back and tell me if that's what you experienced. She needs the money anyway.'
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Can you even imagine this happening if I went Confession?
So if I listen to the original in the OP that would be breaking a fast of three years.
Three years of abstinence! Pure chastity.

As I blurted in consternation the other day, I was listening to the John Tesh radio show on CHFI. I've been playing the radio on and off and listened to cover after cover, avoided the original once because the DJ announced it aforehand, and generally enjoyed some of the covers as well as the rest of the Christmassy music.
Then the other day, just after Tesh said one of those mind-blowing things he says on 'Intelligence for Your Life', and I'm thinking 'wow, what a thought', this music comes on, sounds familiar, 'ah, it's another version of Last Christmas. . . who?'
But the music kept playing without Tesh voicing over and this guy started howling - and I'm thinking 'WTF is that? Who? Not George? Can't be George. No.' My skin begins to crawl.
Time stand still - I listen to the whole song, and it's not a cover I've ever heard before- I've heard all the others many times over. The song ends. I wait for Tesh to tell me something intelligent - like 'And there you have it, a Christmas Classic Last Christmas by Wham, yamamadingdong etc.'
But he doesn't say anything!
There should be a law about this! Announcers must say what song they played. Or they get the whip or guillotine or some sort of punishment.
He starts talking about how to avoid adding pounds this Christmas.
I could've pounded him.
Strangely, I've never heard that version again.

I stumbled upon this version, though, while hunting through the internet to see if I could find that cover. It is far more the classic version to me than the original.

 

[NW48]

This is around the time last year I had my first and only close call, let's hope that history doesn't repeat and I keep on going into the New Year, making it 2 from 2.

The unthinkable has happened...

No, not Wham!, but very, very nearly. Closest call yet for me in the two years I've been playing.

I've been cover-Whammed. By Taylor Swift. I was mowing my Nan's lawn when from next door (who were having an Christmas party) I heard that intro kick in. With nowhere to go, I hung my head in shame, but then Taylor's voice kicked in and I was counting my lucky stars. That was a close one.

 

[GT5Power]

I'm still in this. I did have a close call with Mariah Carey at a restaurant but I'm holding on... *braces self for Christmas*

 

[Dean]

Surprisingly there's been zero signs of Wham! here so far. The store I'm in has also started to play radio, however the channel they've chosen doesn't play Wham! I still don't feel 100% safe, but I keep my fingers crossed.

 

[nick98]

Every time I come back from school RMC (the radio station I'm tuned in the most) plays a Christmas song. Best part is, they always play covers of old Christmas songs (y'know... Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Do They Know It's Christmas?), but no signs of Wham! Here in Italy, Michael Bublé is apparently way more popular than George Michael. XD
But still, "trust" is a concept unknown to GTP vs. Wham!; trust nobody, not even yourself.

 

[SomePlayaDude]

Day 3 in the UK. 4 different shopping centres. Mariah Carey struck at Heathrow.

I'm at least given safety till tomorrow at my brother's place. Wednesday I might be at Liverpool for whatever reason, but will my luck run out?

 

[Brutaka]

Jordan is gonna get us all Christmas day, mark my words.

 

[Fastcarguy]

Thats why I browse GTP with my computer muted

 

[GT5Power]

I browse every single site with my computer muted. @Jordan could make Google set us all up.

 

[Aki Ko]

Jordan is gonna get us all Christmas day, mark my words.

We don't need your negativity, sir.

I browse every single site with my computer muted. @Jordan could make Google set us all up.

Avoid YouTube at all cost. I haven't been stalked with Wham! for a few days now, but I still have to watch myself.

 

[GT5Power]

What I fear about YouTube is that one of those pesky ads they give us before the actual video could play Wham!.

 

[AnthonyD1993]

I'll have my popcorn ready if Jordan goes on another whamassacre. I'll have the satisfaction of watching people wither in agony after thinking that they'll survive only to face the wrath of @Jordan.

 

[nick98]

What I fear about YouTube is that one of those pesky ads they give us before the actual video could play Wham!.

I have AdBlock installed, so no worries there.