Lolcow Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman: The Original Lolcows?

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Ever heard of them? They were the subjects of a series of famous recordings released under the name "Shut up lil' man!"

The story goes that in 1987 two college graduates moved in next door to them in an apartment that had paper thin walls. Peter and Ray were drunk almost 24/7 and would constantly get into arguments, fist fights and drunken rants with one another complete with constant death threats.. It didn't help that Peter was a flamboyant gay man and Ray was a major homophobe which made them the ultimate odd couple. Their neighbors eventually began recording their endless fights to share with friends who then shared them with other friends and it because an underground sensation. Eventually the two boys started also prank calling Peter and Ray which would of course elicit hilarious reactions. By the time they moved out of the aparment 2 years later they had over 14 hours of recordings of the pair. This was all done in the days before the internet.

There's also a fascinating documentary on the recordings called "Shut Up! Little man!" on netflix.

 

[Cid Highwind]

Re: Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman: The Original Lolco

I've heard this entire cd. It's really funny, these guys get really violent with other and stay piss drunk 24/7. If you like the prank call outcomes, you should hear the Tube Bar Tapes.

 

[CatParty]

Re: Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman: The Original Lolco

I've heard this entire cd. It's really funny, these guys get really violent with other and stay piss drunk 24/7. If you like the prank call outcomes, you should hear the Tube Bar Tapes.

i was gonna suggest the tube bar guys. i think they precede these two. those guys are great. drove red insane. not to mention simpsons used to do homages to them.

 

[Tim Buckley]

Re: Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman: The Original Lolco

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Ever heard of them? They were the subjects of a series of famous recordings released under the name "Shut up lil' man!"

The story goes that in 1987 two college graduates moved in next door to them in an apartment that had paper thin walls. Peter and Ray were drunk almost 24/7 and would constantly get into arguments, fist fights and drunken rants with one another complete with constant death threats.. It didn't help that Peter was a flamboyant gay man and Ray was a major homophobe which made them the ultimate odd couple. Their neighbors eventually began recording their endless fights to share with friends who then shared them with other friends and it because an underground sensation. Eventually the two boys started also prank calling Peter and Ray which would of course elicit hilarious reactions. By the time they moved out of the aparment 2 years later they had over 14 hours of recordings of the pair. This was all done in the days before the internet.

There's also a fascinating documentary on the recordings called "Shut Up! Little man!" on netflix.

Man, thanks, this is gold!

 

[butt in trouble]

Re: Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman: The Original Lolco

I've heard this entire cd. It's really funny, these guys get really violent with other and stay piss drunk 24/7. If you like the prank call outcomes, you should hear the Tube Bar Tapes.

i was gonna suggest the tube bar guys. i think they precede these two. those guys are great. drove red insane. not to mention simpsons used to do homages to them.

Yeah there's a short film of nothing but still images of a guy pretending to be red yelling at the pranksters over the phone.

 

[DavidFerrie]

I was into these guys YEARS before I knew CWC -- or the LOLcow phenomenon in general -- existed. They're like LOLcow prototypes, especially in the how they reacted when their neighbors trolled them.

Have been by their old place on San Francisco's Steiner Street a couple of times. Call me a ween, but as I drove by, I yelled "SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN!" out the window at the building.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Already posted this on another thread: This is a musical tribute to Peter and Raymond, complete with sound-clips, from the DEVO spinoff-band The WipeOuters:

 

[AnOminous]

There's also a fascinating documentary on the recordings called "Shut Up! Little man!" on netflix.

I've watched this. This is probably one of the few places you'd find a bunch of people who have. I was alternately convulsed with laughter and horrified while watching that.

I also once had a crazy downstairs neighbor who acted like this while I was living in what pretty much amounted to a flop in a bad stretch of my life. He was probably a paranoid schizophrenic, but would scream gibberish at all hours of the day and night, some of it fairly disturbing. One I remember was "Get out before I kill you again."

I used to have a bunch of recordings of him on quarter inch tape, alas, long lost.

This song by Beck is also apparently about neighbors like this, and the recording at the beginning is of some crazy neighbors he had that sound a lot like Peter and Ray fighting.

Spoiler: Truckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs

 

[MrsFrizzle]

"Shut Up, Little Man" is brilliant, but there were lolcows long before
Peter and Raymond, from Joe Gould to Florence Foster Jenkins.

Two of the best-known newspaper reporters who specialized in lolcow coverage in the 20th century were Joseph Mitchell and H. Allen Smith. There's a recent collection of Mitchell's columns called Up in the
Old Hotel that has some great lolcow stories; Smith's work is a little harder to find, but there are some great things in it.

 

[DavidFerrie]

@MrsFrizzle : Have you read Smith's THE COMPLEAT PRACTICAL JOKER? It's sort of the great-granddaddy of all compilations of True Trolling Tales, and is packed with hilarious anecdotes about ingenious and bizarre pranks pulled on unsuspecting dupes.