A Firesign Chat
04/01/2004




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Special appearance by
Phil Austin
||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 01, 2004 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:56 AM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Merlyn coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: Just popping in to say I don't think I'll be in tonight, at least not during normal hours.
Merlyn: The "Let's Eat" show starts at 8 PM, and the chat starts at 6 PM Pacific...
||||||||| Merlyn leaves at 8:58 AM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| Outside, the 8:48 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Yamamoto-otomamaY coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Not enough Deisel In them Phumes, I say
||||||||| Outside, the 8:54 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving ah,clem coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: ah, clem
ah,clem: Hi Yammy,
ah,clem: BBL
Yamamoto-otomamaY: chure
||||||||| ah,clem departs at 8:57 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:03 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
cease: i'm listening to this nation dude on air america
cease: very interesting
cease: but janeane's show seems to have come on at an earlier hour than yesterday and i missed most of the first hour
cease: hi yammi, ah
Yamamoto-otomamaY: hullo
cease: i'm getting as much exercise constantly turning off the commercials as i did at the gym
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Commercials?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:09 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Danny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: yeah, i'm not used to ad driven radio. i usually listen to cbc or co-op here, both ad free
Danny: hi all
cease: hi danny.
Danny: achoo!
||||||||| Outside, the 9:12 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bubba's Brain coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bubba's Brain: Well, arent' we palindromic?
cease: though the ad for the chappelle show is good
cease: as good as old firesign ads for real people
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I've pretty much given up on radio
cease: do you get nyc radio, yammi?
Bubba's Brain: That's because radio has pretty much given up on you.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:14 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dr. Headphones coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: i'm listening to the majority report on the air america site
Dr. Headphones: hello, dear friends
cease: great interview with chappelle, among others, yesterday
cease: hi kend
Danny: hellow yellow salutes the DOc
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I get NYC radio here
Bubba's Brain: Its the exhaulted Dr H.
Dr. Headphones: i tried listening to airamerica on their website yesterday, i got ALL the damned commercials and about 10% of the show. the buffering monster lives in my computer
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi Ken^
cease: head quarterrs is some nyc station
cease: no shit, kend
Dr. Headphones: exhaulted? you must mean exhausted (well, i did just return from the bathroom!)
cease: i've had it on all day since yesterday morning
cease: except when i'm out
Dr. Headphones: yeah, no shit, cat :)
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Bah
Danny: buffer the liberal scuffer
Dr. Headphones: i wonder if they immediately increased their servers dedicated to streaming?
cease: this is definitely something the fireguys should be doing
cease: at least they have a half decent website today. didnt yesterday
Yamamoto-otomamaY: what sorta rubbish do they try to sell?
cease: bergman would be a natural at this
Dr. Headphones: yam: all sorts of stuff, but mainly XM radio
cease: maybe i should wait for other older people to come on but if any of you have ever been in the american miliatry, and heard the sort of propaganda that plays nonstop on the illistary radio station, its the same shit
Danny: what?
||||||||| Phil Austin strides in at 9:18 PM with Danny Vanilla badgering him for an interview; since he has no badgers, Catherwood forcibly escorts Danny Vanilla out the door.
cease: its like ads to read to your kids. funny anti pot ad. ads for the military'
Phil Austin: Howdy everyone
Bubba's Brain: Hey, Phil.
cease: hey, i was just looking for a former mlitary person
Danny: Hey!
Dr. Headphones: cat: i used to listen to AFRTS (the farts network, armed forces radio television system) all the time, know just what you mean
cease: you're perfect, mr. danger
Dr. Headphones: howdy, uncle phil
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi
cease: i thought they were firesign things, but no, they're really like that. still
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I'm a former Military Person
Dr. Headphones: or, you're in danger, mr. perfect
cease: did you hear their radio fare, yammi? austin used to be a dj on it
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Elayne close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:20 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I once found an AFARTS edited "Nick Danger"
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Dr. Headphones: hi, el
Danny: mmmmm TV..... or was that TB....
cease: hi el
Elayne is listening to Air America on streaming audio...
Phil Austin: In forty five minutes I'm leaving to go to the UCLA Hal Willner FST event
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Actually they had some decent Jazzz Compilations
Phil Austin: The clock is ticking
cease: oh really?
Bubba's Brain: Cool.
Elayne: Break an appropriate limb, Phil!
cease: do you look forward to it?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Yes
Dr. Headphones: phil, wave at all the celebs for us, please
Phil Austin: Elayne: Not performing, sitting in audience wondering
Bubba's Brain: He can't look backward on it.....yet.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Thicking? Then we must flee!
Danny: hope you don't have to take off your shooooooz
Elayne: Ah, well, then you can break someone else's legs! That's always more satisfying.
Dr. Headphones: or bend over and spread 'em
Phil Austin: I will curb myself from yelling "fuck you" in Alvarado's voice
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and ah,clem disembarks at 9:22 PM.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Only if they're the exploding kind
ah,clem: hi all
cease: sound of the sound effects man splitting it
Dr. Headphones: ah, clem
Yamamoto-otomamaY: or spliffing it
Elayne: You can always yell "FCC You," I think that's allowed now.
Dr. Headphones: lol, elayne! "up your michael powell!"
Danny: Hello, ahhh, clem
Yamamoto-otomamaY: There's an obescentity
cease: powel to the left of me, powel to the right of me, stuck in the muddle with you
Yamamoto-otomamaY hads Elaye a bar of soap
Elayne: Hey, I ain't no general's son...
Elayne: No soap, radio!
Elayne: http://www.airamericaradio.com
Danny: lol cease
Yamamoto-otomamaY: No radio, MP3
cease: jay leno's wife
Dr. Headphones: i kept my dad out of the war (korean--you got deferred if you were a father)
Danny: and they stream what. real media?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Good for you Ken^
Danny: mp3?
Dr. Headphones: e: listened to some of it yesterday, didn't try today
||||||||| Outside, the 9:24 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bambi coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dr. Headphones: yes, danny, the most hated of formats
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I'm listening to my MP3's
cease: hi bambi
Elayne: It's not bad. I can only take so much of Janeane Garafalo, but Randi Rhodes is terrific.
Dr. Headphones: dear deer bambi is here :)
Elayne: And Al Franken had Bob Elliott on yesterday, doing Wally Ballou!
Yamamoto-otomamaY: some ogg's too
cease: isnt she, el?
Danny: hiya Bambi! welcom
cease: never heard of her but a joy to hear
Bambi: hi clem, Bubba, Cat, Danny, Ken, Elayne, Yammy and Phil!!
Dr. Headphones: e: i must have been buffering during that, missed it totally
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi
Elayne: I'd heard wonderful things about Rhodes but I'd never listened to her before. She's terrific. Reminds me a lot of Lynn Samuels.
cease: that was fantastic, el
Bambi: why thank you kind Ken
cease: but the ads are a source of continual excercise
Bubba's Brain: ..
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I have cable. No buffering for ME
Bambi: hey Danny
cease: dont know if they're real, firesonian, or us military
Danny: WTG yam
Dr. Headphones: yam: so do i, i think they were just overwhelmed with people trying to listen
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oh
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I thought the conservatives were running stuff SO well
Dr. Headphones: i would get long periods of no sound with the clock showing elapsed time running, then out of nowhere, a commercial would appear.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Selling soap, I'll wager
cease: i think the chappelle show is what the firesign could do if they did tv
Dr. Headphones: phil is turning pink, does he have a fever?
Bubba's Brain: Error America, Dr H.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Phil is turning pink
cease: dont let him turn into a hotel. he'll burn down
Danny: error america... lol
Bubba's Brain: Why not, he's getting roasted tonight.... or at least tributed.
Bambi: so how is everyone doing this fine drizzling thursday?
Danny: god one...
Dr. Headphones: ah, yes, bubba, the error of liberalism. we should all be fascists and reich-wingers
Danny: erm good one
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Sounds like an album, press 50 000 copies!
cease: sunny in north van
Bambi: drizzling here in VA that is
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Cold and Rainy here
cease: or as sunny as it gets at 630
Bubba's Brain: I was thinking streaming error, but what the hay....
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Like seattle, but full of swine
Bambi: how cold Yammy? (I am hoping to feel better about not making over 46 degrees F today.
Danny: hears the ringing beat of afghanistan in his head
Yamamoto-otomamaY: 45ish
Bubba's Brain: Hog butcher to the world?
Dr. Headphones: bambi: 43 here now, high of 55
Yamamoto-otomamaY: No, that's (Joe Fropm) Chicago
cease: i thought that was north carolina
Bambi: thanks Yammy ;) ... Ken you had a high of 55 today?
Dr. Headphones: yes, and quite sunny. nice out, just not shorts weather
Danny: 85 here in microcelsious
Bambi: they claim we had a high of 57...must have been when I was napping lol
Dr. Headphones: you should have it tomorrow
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Nuts
Bambi: everytime I looked at WeatherPulse it said 46
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Missed the Ska News show
Danny: cocaine will fall Sunday
Dr. Headphones: hey, guys, i got an email back from a job application i have in, he wanted more info from me. a promising sign. i won't celebrate until i'm hired, but i'm feeling good about it
Danny: Gas is 275
Yamamoto-otomamaY crossis fingers
Bambi: looks like Phil is fading fast ... he's turned pink!
Bubba's Brain: And the baby will fall....
Danny: I prefer the nitrous
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:32 PM and late as usual, it's Dave!, just back from Billville."
Phil Austin: I'm still here. getting dressed ...
Bubba's Brain: Congrates, Dr.
Dave!: oh look who's here!
cease: good for you, kend
Yamamoto-otomamaY: It's cheaper
Bambi: hey Phil...great to see ya
Dr. Headphones: phil: surprise them all, go with shorts, come in quarts ;)
cease: horse corsets, phil?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Go nude
Bubba's Brain: Doing an un-strip tease?
Bambi: glad to hear that Ken .. wish you luck with it!
Dave!: oh I'm overshadowed, pity, lol just kidding, hey there Phil
Danny: or un-nude
Bambi: clem??? you are fading!
ah,clem: ...
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Give him a noodge
Bubba's Brain: I'm nude.... underneath my clothes.
Bambi: hey Dave!
Phil Austin: Ooooooona is supervising my outfit ...
Danny: don't let'em see the jewels!
cease: i see nightline is dsoing a piece on liberal radio tonight
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Now E is going grey
||||||||| Outside, the 9:34 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bambi: Hey Elayne ... you here?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: An aloha Shirt and Shorts
llanwydd: evenin folks
Bambi: hi llanwydd!
Phil Austin: Does anyone know what station in LA is Airamerica?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi ll
cease: mrs leno is quite eloquent
Bubba's Brain: We all are getting older.
Elayne: Oops, sorry, I was answering e-mail.
Danny: Phil too early to tell here
cease: KBLA
Dr. Headphones: cat: special at 10 on ecstacy opposite frontline about rwanda. not sure if i want to go up with drugs or down with genocide
Elayne: Yes, listening to Mavis Leno, can't imagine what she sees in Jay. :)
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I miss having this on IRC, I could use agent to listen to it
cease: yeah, its a hard choice, kend
Dave!: I'm not getting older
Dr. Headphones: yam: get an allstate agent, you will be in good hands
Phil Austin: thanks cat, I'll figure out where that is
Danny: It's a secret hut on the Los Angleeez river
cease: domestic diva wont be darkening our doorstep anymore
Bambi: 1190 in NY
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Phil 1230 AM
Phil Austin: Thanks yam
Dr. Headphones: yam: that's mighty early in the morning
cease: garafallo does good alliteration
Elayne: Heh, now Janeane is talking about their blog. :)
Bambi: WLIB 1190
Elayne: They only have two posts up so far...
Yamamoto-otomamaY: http://www.ituner.com/station/UnitedStates/3822.html
Bambi: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/005859.html
Yamamoto-otomamaY: also has streaming audio
Elayne: http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/
Elayne: BRB.
Bambi: http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/000393.html
Yamamoto-otomamaY was and may return to radio soo knows about this stoof
Dr. Headphones: let's celebrate the night of the URL--everybody post a few :)
Dave!: FST on skybird
Bambi: KBLA (AM 1580)
Bambi: http://www.gnutella.com/news/11283
Phil Austin: The Korean Community
Dave!: welcome to the wonderful world of snails and adventure!
Bambi: it's kinda in a few places ;)
ah,clem: skybird http://216.234.115.10:8000/listen.pls
Phil Austin: must be grateful for the presence of the Great Liberal Wrestler
Bambi: lol clem
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'klokwkdoggonit!', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:40 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I have a week off and no money, so I'll go and see if I can wedge into a local station
Bambi: just like to do research :)
cease: you guys goin on air america, phil?
Bubba's Brain: Skybiiiiiiirrrrd! Skybiiiiirrrrrd!!
Dr. Headphones: dog's here
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi Klok
cease: ride the tribute while it lasts
klokwkdoggonit!: hey folks!
Bambi: hey Klok!
Bubba's Brain: Oops, that's sposed to be Freebird.
Danny: The bird ?
llanwydd: I'd like to check out airamerica but I'm in the far north of NY state where people aren't much into that kind of thing
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I hate that song
cease: ross broccoli sounds ilke a firesign character
Yamamoto-otomamaY: LL. Look for a stream and jump in
Dr. Headphones: does he have cauliflower ears?
klokwkdoggonit!: hi bambi, nice web page & skybird site stuff
Dave!: hey I'm over the cold and am singing full strength, well would be if no one was here
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Sing it, Dave!
Bambi: thanks Klok ... glad you are enjoying it
Phil Austin: catski: we're still in negotiation with Airamerica through Mr. Rice
Dave!: oh I wish
cease: wow, this is like coledge radio
cease: hey, even i can do this
Dr. Headphones: great news, phil! keep us appraised, please
Danny: achoo!
cease: great to hear, phil
Yamamoto-otomamaY: If I can, anyone can
Phil Austin: Dr. Head: How's pool?
klokwkdoggonit!: well ain't that the seventh seal...
cease: janeane has a great radio voice
Dr. Headphones: that's doctec you're thinking of. he's the shark
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Seal? Have a Herring
Dave!: wait what's this news? sorry missed it
Dr. Headphones: "you can't tell the doctors without a scorecard!"
cease: probably working for scale
Bubba's Brain: I suppose you're all wondering why I gathered you here tongiht. Someone in this room is the murderer.....
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Call the AMA
Phil Austin: Sorry, I thought Doctec had become headphones
klokwkdoggonit! actually just returned from Ocean State Job Lot with four tins of herring, Yam, packed in mushroom sauce and imported from Deutschland...
ah,clem: he he
Yamamoto-otomamaY: mmmmmmmmmm
Dr. Headphones: he's a connecticut yankee, i'm in michigan
Danny: hiccups
Yamamoto-otomamaY: No, Ken is headphones
Dr. Headphones: mmm, fishies :)
klokwkdoggonit!: all our names have changed to confuse the authorities
cease: hi klok
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'CCharles Foster Dudley', just granted probation at 9:45 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Dave!: that a lot of fish klok
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I'm a misplaced Coloradan in NY
||||||||| CCharles Foster Dudley says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, CCharles Foster Dudley exits at 9:45 PM.
Phil Austin: Now I get it. I suppose I'll see Merlyn tonight in person
||||||||| Outside, the 9:45 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Charles Foster Dudley coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
llanwydd: hey chuck
Dave!: even mine, mine's really Shwipt
Yamamoto-otomamaY: He won't be here
Charles Foster Dudley: G'day Y'all
klokwkdoggonit!: yeah, dave, but I hate herring. but a friend does and I promised as birthday present
Bubba's Brain: Tell him we all say Hi.
Phil Austin: time's ticking away. tick tock tick tock tick tock baby, time's ticking away
Dr. Headphones: hi ccharles, or is it charles?
cease: the usual high to merl
Yamamoto-otomamaY: My cats get ticks
Dr. Headphones: i like the herring in cream sauce i find on salad bars sometimes. i can eat a whole plate of that stuff
Danny: there she sores!
Charles Foster Dudley: Hey docc it's this friggin keyboard.
Phil Austin: I'll say hi from everyone. He'll be in his usual t-shirt, I suppose, but oooooooona's got me in a suit
cease: then you must flee
Bambi: hi Charles
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I'm fond of Anchovies
ah,clem: then we must flee.
klokwkdoggonit!: yes, where does the time go? neither Sandy nor Stephen Hawking ever 'splained that...
Dave!: yeah me too Ken
cease: zoot zoot
Charles Foster Dudley: Smells like a dead cat in here ...
Dr. Headphones: klok: it's the age of aquarius, time has no meaning to us now
llanwydd: anchovies are little flat things with eyes
Bubba's Brain: Free the zoots!
Phil Austin: My favorite frame of the comic Get Fuzzy has Satch, the dog, explaining to Bucky (Dent) the cat that he doesn't have to tell time, the Watch tells the time
klokwkdoggonit!: he's going to mix with the suits? oh dear, oh dear, the End is definitely near (I knew that seal head in the airport luggage was the final Sign)
Bambi: and here I thought it was the year of the monkey ;)
Yamamoto-otomamaY: The age of aquariums? When they gonna change the water?
Dr. Headphones: all hail sea monkeys!
klokwkdoggonit!: laugh while you can, monkey boy, er, girl
Phil Austin: Klok: Ooona feels that I've got this suit, let's wear it
Dave!: I'm a monkey, they just trained me really well
Yamamoto-otomamaY: There's a Monkey in the White House
klokwkdoggonit!: tell her to wear it! :-)
Dr. Headphones: leisure suit or nehru jacket?
klokwkdoggonit!: let me guess, there ain't enough room in that suit for the both of you...
Dr. Headphones: "bell bottom blues"
llanwydd: the drunken, French kind, Dave?
Charles Foster Dudley: Y'all been listening to Air America yet? I can't get any work done when I turn it on ...
Phil Austin: Twenty minutes to leaving. This guy willner couldn't even bother to get me the xtra tickets I requested, but somehow is putting ossman and wife up in a hotel and flying them to la
klokwkdoggonit!: Ken, I'm sure whatever it is, it, um, suits him fine
cease: whenever we travel, fumiyo forces me to buy new shirts. why isnt' one enough?
Phil Austin: It's gong to be twisted
klokwkdoggonit!: ouch! discrimination!
Charles Foster Dudley:
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I have no suits or ties
Danny: make the best of it
Dr. Headphones: gong show redux?
klokwkdoggonit!: Razor and Tie?
Danny: ask for more whiskey!
Yamamoto-otomamaY: More sugar!
Dr. Headphones: no, dave, MORE SUGAR!
Phil Austin: more shiskey
||||||||| Charles Foster Dudley leaves at 9:50 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Dr. Headphones: dam the yam, beat me to it
klokwkdoggonit!: ;-)
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I have to sometime
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:51 PM and late as usual, it's Charles Foster Dudley, just back from Billville."
Danny: seriously... best wishes
klokwkdoggonit!: yeah, have a blast, Phil
Yamamoto-otomamaY: More Shiksas?
cease: i hope everyone does a good job with your lines tonight, phil
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Yes
Dr. Headphones: no, do NOT have a blast. but have fun (no bombs for you, my man!)
Phil Austin: Dave: got your private message and I'll answer here: tonight is the Hal Willner "tribute" to FST at Royce Hall at UCLA featuring John Goodman and Howard Hessman and Tod Rundgrem
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Oi, Tod's a homeboy
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Just up the road from me
Phil Austin: klok: thanks for the good wishes
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Peter Shickele, too
Danny: Phil, Awesome
Dr. Headphones: i wore out a couple of tod's albums back in my druggie days
Charles Foster Dudley: Wow thats a hell of a line up Phil. Tell Howard his wicked Uncle Ernie says HI!
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Never met either
Bubba's Brain: Can't we still be friends?
Dave!: cool, tell them I say "hey"
klokwkdoggonit!: neat; was just watching Goodman in One Night At McCool's yesterday. The Village People thing is still ROFL.
Dave!: have fun
Phil Austin: cat: Yeah. I'm kind of hoping they have Howard be Nick Danger, but it will probably be John
||||||||| Catherwood escorts The O'Fong Factor in through the front door at 9:53 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Danny: will it be recorded?
Dr. Headphones: hey, o'fong
The O'Fong Factor: Hello Liberal Friends
klokwkdoggonit!: welcome, Sir Dex
Yamamoto-otomamaY is not a liberal
Phil Austin: Danny: Don't know. We've been kept muchly in the dark.
Charles Foster Dudley: Hey Al!
Bambi: howdy Dex
klokwkdoggonit!: (apparently, Dex has inhaled from Air America...)
Bubba's Brain is pleased to announce he has purchased the LodesTone Catalog from Rich Fish, and will be taking over and rebuilding the catalog.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi
Bubba's Brain drops da bomb.
The O'Fong Factor: Hey Klok, Bubba Cat, CFD, D & D, Kend^, OI and Phil!
Dave!: dexxxxxx
Danny: Phil, let me know next week.. TNX
cease: The Doch Ness Monster?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Now pick that up!
The O'Fong Factor: ..and those fading to gray
klokwkdoggonit!: Danny: given the current political climate, I think they're going to take everybody's names
cease: O
Phil Austin: Ahhh. I see. Bubba's Brain is the buyer. Sorry I didn't answer you back yet.
Dr. Headphones: hey, bub, good news (i hope!)
cease: former japanese homer run hitter?
Bubba's Brain: S'awlright.
llanwydd: gjfkdl
Danny: achoo!
ah,clem: hmm
The O'Fong Factor: Bubba: Good luck and good job too =)
Bubba's Brain: I hope to turn it around. Make it a strong source for radio theater once again.
The O'Fong Factor: Clem: Sorry missed you on the greet go round
The O'Fong Factor: and Bambi too, sheesh
ah,clem: np, Dex
Bubba's Brain: Thank's Phil... Rich mentioned you'd talked to him about it.
Bambi: no worries Dex :)
ah,clem: the hmm was to stop fade,
Bambi smiles
Phil Austin: Bub: Yeah, I wanted to know what stock he's got left
Danny: lol
Dr. Headphones: news flash: say "hmm" if you're fading, miracle cure
Danny: huh?
Bubba's Brain: Phil... just did an inventory. I'll mail the results.
klokwkdoggonit!: Bambi -- is the level on Skybird just a little low?
The O'Fong Factor: Clem: Check your msges
llanwydd: I say hgfjkdl to get the gray out
||||||||| Catherwood says "9:58 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs The O'Fong Factor by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Dr. Headphones: llan: doesn't that strain your throat?
Bambi: think you need to ask clem ... he's monitoring for sound quality ;)
cease: this endless parents in school ad is just like us military radio ads
||||||||| Outside, the 9:58 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving The O'Fong Factor coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: maybe it is from armed forces network, just like phil austin
Bambi: wish that would work for white ... as well as gray lol
klokwkdoggonit!: ok, clem, whattabout it?
Dr. Headphones: diesel o'fong
Bubba's Brain: Oh, Fong!
The O'Fong Factor: Ken: Not DSL, Cable
Dave!: oops Dex sent you a private message not sure if you got it
Dr. Headphones: dave's talking about us behind our backs....
Bubba's Brain: Throws him out the door, and he comes off the bus.... just like the old revolving door sight gag.
Dave!: indeed
||||||||| Outside, the 10:00 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving paustin regnad coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
klokwkdoggonit!: DSL is cheeper for the first 3 months, Dex. In fact, I think diesel is cheaper again, too
Dr. Headphones: paustin! good to see you
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: April Fools joke, isn't it?
klokwkdoggonit!: what's faustian?
Bubba's Brain: I'm a seeing double.
ah,clem: I can bring level up little, stand by
Phil Austin: paustin typed forgot the slash when he logged back in
cease: how many austins are there? dorothy, i dont think we're in texas anymore
Dr. Headphones: catherwood is speeding again
Bambi: hi paustin
Danny: is it?
The O'Fong Factor: Dave: No msge here
Charles Foster Dudley: Where's your deadend dog?
Phil Austin: paustin is a ghost
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Ha
Bambi: lol
Danny: a good ghost I am sure
Phil Austin: five more minutes and off to my own funeral
Bubba's Brain: Yeah, he looked a little pausty.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Did You say Goats upon the Battlement?
||||||||| 10:02 PM: wcguy jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Charles Foster Dudley: I'm seeing double ...
klokwkdoggonit!: darn, and here I thought it was a doppelganger
Dr. Headphones: ghost upon the battlements
Dave!: k will resend
Dr. Headphones: hi john
Bambi: hi wcguy
wcguy: hello all
Charles Foster Dudley: Hi WC?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Well if it were goats then we could milk the joke
Phil Austin: wcguy: I'm off to the UCLA tribute to FST. Thanks for your long email and I'll answer any minute
cease: mr. rice
The O'Fong Factor: Hello JR
Dr. Headphones: wc: just re-watched "weirdly cool" again other day, still holds up under the test of time
klokwkdoggonit!: oh, think of it as a celebration, Phil...and hope they have an open bar ;-)
ah,clem: hi Dex, WB
wcguy: Nice to hear, Phones
Bambi: break a leg Phil
Dr. Headphones: closed bars imply jail or prison
Phil Austin: John: any gossip on the first day or so of airamerica?
wcguy: Say hi to the gang, Phil. (look for Shifrin in the audience tonight)
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Bah I never get good E-mail, just späm
Phil Austin: bambi: luckinly I don't have to do anything tonight
wcguy: Not much, but from what I've heard, they've got some work to do.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: If you break a Leg, I'll deliver yr walker
klokwkdoggonit!: best kind of gig, phil!
Dr. Headphones: yam: i got a spam about "passion of the christ" with a cryptic line at end something like "as with any diet, consult your doctor first"
Phil Austin: wcguy: I'll look for Steve indeed. I'll mention it to Peter in particular
Bambi: ah the kick back and enjoy type ... awesome!
cease: this guy sounds like proctor
llanwydd: you should put honey mustard on spam
Danny: I like that
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Freq Man into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 10:05 PM, then departs.
klokwkdoggonit!: Ken, I was hoping the rapture gets all those spam guys
Dr. Headphones: llan: i marinade in soy and worchestershire, fry in real butter :)
wcguy: <--not Proctor (if that is what you are suggesting)
Charles Foster Dudley: Hay Freq!
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Spam on the "Passion"?
Dr. Headphones: hey freq
Bambi: hey Freq Man
cease: i know, but sounds like him
cease: proc is in audience tongiht, eh>?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi
Freq Man: Hello there fiends
Dr. Headphones: yam: wanted to sell me dvd of mel gibson appearing on "nightline" or something like that
Bubba's Brain: Nope... spammer's ain't goin there.
llanwydd: hi freq
cease: eddie are yu kidding? about the 50 tailors?
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oh
wcguy: I'll take that as a compliment! :)
Dave!: Dex sent msg again
Bambi: they'll try to spam people about anything
Yamamoto-otomamaY: BTW don't tell an Australian thhat Me's Australian, it upsets them
Bambi: it's disgusting ... spam sucks
klokwkdoggonit!: "it's a government job, though", loved that line...
Elayne is back.
Charles Foster Dudley: I coming over shorty because I am a portly ...
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Mel
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Hell E
Bubba's Brain: don't send msg.... some people may be alergic.
The O'Fong Factor: Hi E
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Hello E
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Hell
cease: you promised you could fit me in a fifty dollar suit
klokwkdoggonit!: nah, Yam, he came from New York, just like Jerry Jeff. Look it up in IMDB
Charles Foster Dudley: Shes back and shes beautiful!
Elayne: Hey Yammie!
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Shows how much I know
Danny: mmm spam and beans!
ah,clem: Hi E!
Elayne: Sorry, just finished dinner. Didn't get home till about 8:45 tonight. Only an 11-hour day...
Dr. Headphones: e: that's strange, mine have 24 :)
Elayne: So listen, mark your calendars for April 17, that's when we're having our Packing Party.
Bambi: welcome back E!
Charles Foster Dudley: NO rest for the wicked E!
Bambi: oh, joy
wcguy: Just stopping in, gotta run and make the world safe for BMW.
cease: looking forward to move, el?
Bambi: got one of those tomorrow ... not looking forward to it
Dr. Headphones: john: car or cycle?
klokwkdoggonit!: BMW uber alles?
Elayne: Definitely, Cat. We know it's an interim move until we can buy a house, but I can't wait to get out of this apartment building.
The O'Fong Factor: Dave:Replied to your msge
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Ozzies will happily remind you he's actually american. Guess Murdoch is enough of an embarassmrent
Bambi: see ya wc
Yamamoto-otomamaY: oi
Dr. Headphones: love those ozzies, huh?
klokwkdoggonit!: doesn't the elevator work, E? ;-)
Charles Foster Dudley: Later WC!
Dr. Headphones: mel's dad is the real nutzo
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Well, Rupe is too fascist for even queensland
wcguy: Suggestion: Let's send some emails to Air America suggesting that FST should be part of the action (or asking why they aren't). There is a general email address on their website.
cease: by wc. keep em pissing
Freq Man: I heard a portion of Ossman's Empire of the Air thing on WBAI recently... Only heard the end of it, but it made me want to go out and get the recording from Lodestone...
Dr. Headphones: john: did it last week :)
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| paustin regnad - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
klokwkdoggonit!: supposedly he left US to get his kids away from Vietnam War, Ken; can't be that nuts...
Elayne: I'm actually looking forward to not having an elevator any more, Klok.
Freq Man: I've been listening to Air America a bit... I'm not sure they're ready for Firesign...
Elayne: By June I should be all settled in a new apartment and a new office building.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: No elevator? Taking the lift out of life?
Dr. Headphones: yeah, klok, can't put him down for that decision. but then aus. was in that fiasco also, weren't they?
Bambi: hey the Plague ... your ghost has been honored Phil ;)
cease: i live in a house with escher like stair cases everywhere., el
wcguy: Night all. We expect a full report on the UCLA gig, Nick!
llanwydd: hgjfk
Dave!: are they gonna be broadcasting this FST thing? can I stream it?
klokwkdoggonit!: that's a good first step, E. I certainly have had a much easier time moving since I got rid of mine!
Elayne: I don't mind stairs. I hate hills, but stairs have rails you can hang onto. :)
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Maybe I could sign on for air america. Wonder if they need a SKA show?
klokwkdoggonit! always comes off the rails when things get dicey
Dr. Headphones: rails? rock - a - feller.....
The O'Fong Factor: rock - a - feller
Bubba's Brain: Nixxxxxxxxx-on
Dr. Headphones: from sea to shining sea.....
The O'Fong Factor: Wall a c eeeee
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Dave if you get a sttream, then you can pee into it and that's important
The O'Fong Factor: Particularlay if you're a big hairy guy
Freq Man: I had to respond to my kid's "I need a glass of water" ploy... how do I scroll up to see lost mesages...
Yamamoto-otomamaY: A member of the Urination
Charles Foster Dudley: It's in the water, thats why it's yellow !
Danny: Says Gourd night good peeps!
Dr. Headphones: freq: you don't scroll, open another window and read the log
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Yep
The O'Fong Factor: Freq: I believe you have to go to the log
klokwkdoggonit!: open the log in a new tab or window, Freq
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Look out for worms
Bambi: red log button lower right corner Freq
||||||||| Danny rushes off, saying "10:14 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
The O'Fong Factor: Open the log door, Hal
Bubba's Brain: Don't scroll -- I can read you.
Bambi: night Danny
Freq Man: Oh... it's the old open a window and read the log ploy...
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I got a nice dead sea scroll
Bambi: lol
The O'Fong Factor: Bub: Reading you 5 by 5 Big Daddy
Dr. Headphones: if you don't open the window, the glass distorts the log and you can't read it
llanwydd: as opposed to a live sea scroll?
ah,clem: hmm, Phil is fading fast
The O'Fong Factor: I've got a SEA OVER High sea scroll
cease: glass logs? what a concept
Yamamoto-otomamaY: He split, I think
cease: i think pil has departed for tributeland at ucla
Yamamoto-otomamaY: He forgot to turn off his radio
Charles Foster Dudley: Who was that masked man?
ah,clem: ok
The O'Fong Factor: He split a glass log, wow!
Dave!: if they're firelogs they'll explode
cease: lenny bruce
Bubba's Brain: By the C... the beautiful C....
Dr. Headphones: look--up in the sky, it's the lone ranger!
Bubba's Brain: ... a bouncy C.
Charles Foster Dudley: UCLA everyday from the studio windows in Hollywood!
Bubba's Brain: No, H, that's a plain.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Make it a C note and I'll take the Case!
Yamamoto-otomamaY: D's bounce better than C's
Elayne: I think that was a "C" note I just heard, watching that Judy Garland musical...
cease: anyone read the article on michael moore in new yorker?
Bubba's Brain: (from Spain)
Freq Man: On Air America... the gal AFTER O'Franken was pretty darned good... anyone listen?
Charles Foster Dudley: I just solved a case of Scotch!
Elayne: That's Randi Rhodes, she's great.
The O'Fong Factor: Clem In answer to your msge, not sure =)
Bambi: it was a plain pane or a plane pain
Yamamoto-otomamaY ignores the New Yorker, too
cease: what it said about comedy drought on the left in the 80s really made me think of firesign dissappearing about then
llanwydd: I've got a dead seahorse
Charles Foster Dudley: Yes I had to turn her off to get some work done Randi Rhodes
Bubba's Brain: Myself, I came down with a case of Whisky, CFD.
Dr. Headphones: llan: take the saddle off and sell it
The O'Fong Factor: Freq: Yesterday she beat the bejesus outta Ralph Nader...It was great
Yamamoto-otomamaY: What is their comedy on the right?
Charles Foster Dudley: Therews a cure for that Bubba!
Dr. Headphones: nader deserves it
Freq Man: O'Fraken was kind of hit and miss for me... but Rhodes was consistant.
Freq Man: I heard the Nader thing... she played it again today.
Charles Foster Dudley: Yeakh Al seems a bit of a fascist sometimes?
llanwydd: my posts are taking long to post. It's this damn webtv
Elayne: Rhodes doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Dr. Headphones: i didn't even try rhodes, will give her a try tomorrow
The O'Fong Factor: Gotta give AAmerica time to get their legs under them...so to speak
Freq Man: You can play it for her... you can play it for me...
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Poor Ralph being a spoilsport makes him unsafe at any speed
||||||||| It's 10:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| wcguy - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dr. Headphones: good one, yam :)
Freq Man: DH: \definately worth it!
Yamamoto-otomamaY bows
cease: lol yam
Charles Foster Dudley: I wrote Darth Nader a letter the other day and he was not amused!
llanwydd: wcguy's dead. This sure is a dangerous place
Freq Man: Not amused at your letter, or at Rhodes interview?
Bubba's Brain: I'm a fool, and I suffer gladly.
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Gotta have yr shots LL
llanwydd: the letter or the latter?
Charles Foster Dudley: AT my letter and Randi too!
ah,clem: plugh
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I just suffer
Freq Man: I mean... what cracks a guy like Nader up... what makes him belly laugh?
Bubba's Brain: Gladly, the cross-eyed bear.
ah,clem: (I feel better now)
Dr. Headphones: no thanks, i don't need anthrax shot
klokwkdoggonit! feels liberals' pain, but worries that this anti-nadir crusade makes them like the O'Reilly Youth...
The O'Fong Factor: Clem: May have missed your reply
Bubba's Brain: What, H, you need immunization against heavy metal.
Charles Foster Dudley: He wasn't to enthused with my 30 pieces of silver analogy apperntly?
Dr. Headphones: uh oh, cfd, not a good comparison for anyone. but he deserved it
llanwydd: which of us is going to get the plague?
Freq Man: Hmmm... the passion of the Nader...
The O'Fong Factor: Klok: It's not O'Reilly..it's just Reilly until he recognizes Al Franken as O'Franken
cease: ok, the dems have to win on more of a margin than nader, ok?
llanwydd: has anyone gotten rickets yet?
Freq Man: Al Reilly...
cease: if bush can persuade that many people to vote for him says something evil about your country, but not innaccurate
The O'Fong Factor: The Life, O'Reilly
Yamamoto-otomamaY: I've got crickets
llanwydd: that's a nadir. that's a pun
cease: free ideas, very firesign
Dr. Headphones: cat: if he does, i might move in with you
cease: then the weight loss product, sounds like xenadrine
klokwkdoggonit!: Karen Hughes is back oily. If James Baker shows up again, we'll know they're really in trouble
Freq Man: They're not free... they're stolen... (you're all under arrest)
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Cat We ALL may move in with you
Yamamoto-otomamaY: (Dont mind the skinheads)
Charles Foster Dudley: Baker too busy defending the Saudi royals against the 911 family James mad doggie dog Baker is one sick little puppy!
Dr. Headphones: when are people going to wake up and smell the oil?
The O'Fong Factor: Good question Ken
klokwkdoggonit!: not anytime soon, Ken, if prices keep going up
Bambi: we do, when the kero runs out in the heater ... gets a bit cold without it lol
Charles Foster Dudley: May be too late with the electronic vote guarenteed by Diebold
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Wonder if I can convert my Tempoo to BioDiesel
Dr. Headphones: bambi: sweat suit is the answer. don't remember the question
The O'Fong Factor: Diebold and Diebeautiful
Freq Man: If a scary naughty leader murders his people, it's ok... but if they have access to lots of oil... then its a human rights issue.
Charles Foster Dudley: Ford just put out a gas/electric suv that gets 40 mpg.
cease: idi amin, where art though?
Dr. Headphones: cfd: i saw that on news tonight. most people won't go for it though because of cost
Yamamoto-otomamaY: ow
The O'Fong Factor: Thank God we're an all gas/electric family
Dr. Headphones: he's dead, cat, couple years ago, exiled in--guess where?--saudi arabia
Charles Foster Dudley: Freq hence N. Korea has nothing to fear but the Saudis are just across the desert from all our Panzers.
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: He died of sudden weight loss
Bambi: gas is part of the barrel too Dex lol
||||||||| Outside, the 10:30 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bunnyboy coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bunnyboy - dead from the common cold
 ||||||||| Dave! - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
: lo dere
Dr. Headphones: hi ho, bunny bo
cease: hi bun
Yamamoto-otomamaY: Roll Out The Barrel!
The O'Fong Factor: It's the ghost of Bunnyboy
||||||||| Outside, the 10:30 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bb coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bambi: hi bunny
Charles Foster Dudley: Hey Bun!
Freq Man: Diesel / Electric ain't so bad... nine out of ten freight locomotives use it...
Bubba's Brain: Hey Bb.
Dr. Headphones: uh oh, the bunster got reaped when he arrived!
cease: that happens to everybody,
klokwkdoggonit!: CFD: they were all lined up in Kuwait, too. Idiots went 180° in the worng direction
Bb: Ouch! Dat kick hurt!
cease: or every body
llanwydd: so Dave got it
Bb: AKA Bunnyboy, me
Dr. Headphones: dave is talking to his grandmother on telephone
cease: you listening to air america, bun?
klokwkdoggonit!: I was all for them going South, we'd have $15/gal gas now and one heck of a wonderful mess
Yamamoto-otomamaY: well, I'm gonna go to bed. Later all
||||||||| Yamamoto-otomamaY leaves at 10:31 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Charles Foster Dudley: NO tthey got the 2nd largest oil reserves on the planet with # 1 and 4 to go.
Elayne: Oh dear, I'm fading again... sorry about that...
Bb: cat: Ain't had a chance yet. Look forward to doing so.
The O'Fong Factor: Oi and goodnight Yam
Freq Man: nighty night...
Bambi: night Yammy
Elayne: Dang, and I missed saying goodbye to Yammy as well.
llanwydd: nite yam
The O'Fong Factor: YOu go gray you miss the day
Dr. Headphones: another arctic cold front moving through here saturday. good god, it's april! SPRING! and sunday is start of daylight savings time
klokwkdoggonit!: oil in the ground not much good if some guy sticks a couple pounds of plastique around a valve body every couple of weeks
Freq Man: Ah... daylight savings time...
Freq Man: leap years... sigh
Bb: Ain't lyin' and dyin'
ah,clem: toad away....
Charles Foster Dudley: Ala Fritz the cat Klock?
The O'Fong Factor: Gosh, and what about the centennials
klokwkdoggonit!: yeah, when do we get all that daylight back?? or is it like social security?
Dr. Headphones: klok: it's in a lockbox
Freq Man: We spent all our daylight...
The O'Fong Factor: Klok: It's stored in giant batteries under the ground
Bambi: thanks Clem!
klokwkdoggonit!: ala the wells around Mosul, Charles...
The O'Fong Factor: IN Cheney's bunker
cease: you think phil or merl will log on here after the show?
Bb: echo
Bb: try again
Elayne: I think I'm moseying too, just too tired tonight. Anyone in the NYC area, mark down April 17!!! Party!
||||||||| Bb leaves at 10:34 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: Won't that be like about 3 in the morning eastern?
||||||||| Outside, the 10:35 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bunnyboy coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Elayne leaves at 10:35 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Bunnyboy: lo agin
Charles Foster Dudley: Oooh Dear Friends Kewl
klokwkdoggonit!: night E
The O'Fong Factor: Hello Bunny!
Bambi: you are looking much better now Bunny
Bunnyboy: just da Toad
llanwydd: signing off. nite folks
Bambi: night E!
The O'Fong Factor: Night Ilan
Bunnyboy: nite El
The O'Fong Factor: Night E
Dr. Headphones: for those who haven't eaten lately or don't get sick easily, here's the unretouched video of yesterday's massacre in fallugah: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5972.htm
klokwkdoggonit!: sorry folks, have to relocate and fight a 100 lb Akita. will be up again shortly
Bambi: night llaywydd
Charles Foster Dudley: Later Il
Bambi: night Klok
The O'Fong Factor: Go for his hindquaters Klok
cease: off they flee
Bambi: gonna call it a night too..long day tomorrow
Bunnyboy: nite Il
Dr. Headphones: roast with new potatoes and garlic, klok
Bambi: have a great week
Dr. Headphones: later, bambi
The O'Fong Factor: Night Bambi
Freq Man: DH... I saw the thumbnails on yahoo... man... that was enough for me.
Charles Foster Dudley: That was on the front page of the Detroit Freepress this morning went real good with breakfast!
Bambi: night Dex
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:37 PM and late as usual, it's Dave!, just back from Billville."
Bambi: night Ken
The O'Fong Factor: wb Dve
||||||||| Bambi departs at 10:37 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Bunnyboy: nite Bambi
Dave!: how the hell did that happen, I just refreshed the page
Freq Man: yeah... lots of people calling it a night...
Charles Foster Dudley: Oh well time to get my ads out http://issuesandalibis.org ... Keep'em flying y'all!
The O'Fong Factor: Dave: You gotta start young if you wanna stick it out
The O'Fong Factor: Go to press Mr. Birdseed
cease: youre ernie?
Dr. Headphones: later, uncle ernie
cease: tha's pless to you
Charles Foster Dudley: Ah yep dats me cease
Charles Foster Dudley: Nite Y'all!
The O'Fong Factor: Pless to meet you
||||||||| Charles Foster Dudley leaves at 10:39 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Bunnyboy: nite Charles
ah,clem: I have to run to, have some things to do, See ya next time!
Bunnyboy: nite clem
The O'Fong Factor: Night Clem
Dr. Headphones: later, jl/clem
ah,clem: night all,
||||||||| ah,clem leaves at 10:40 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Freq Man: it was a full board when I got here... well more than a dozen...
Dr. Headphones: is phil immune to the reaper's scythe?
Freq Man: give me immortality...
The O'Fong Factor: Ken: Been wondering the same thing...double standard here it would appear
Bunnyboy: It's just about spelunking time (don't ask). I'm wiggling off to byte some bits. Nitey!
Freq Man: some are more equal than others...
Freq Man: night bun
Bubba's Brain: Phil's met him several times.... got diplomatic immunity.
The O'Fong Factor: Bun: A cave is just a hole on its side
Dr. Headphones: later, bun
Dr. Headphones: those sneaky scythians
||||||||| Catherwood leads klokwkdog inside, makes a note of the time (10:42 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Freq Man: or a pit on it's side...
Bubba's Brain: ... or rather beat him several times....
The O'Fong Factor: Those Scythians are suite
Bunnyboy: Hi klok. Nitey!
||||||||| Bunnyboy leaves at 10:43 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Dr. Headphones: two kloks in one!
The O'Fong Factor: Nitey Bun, Hi klok
klokwkdog: nite bun
Bubba's Brain: ... you may be a king or a lowly street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper....
klokwkdog: the other kwd can die, clem
klokwkdog: merlyn?
Dr. Headphones: what key is that in, bubba, i'll sing along
The O'Fong Factor: Merlyn is not here tonight Klok
cease: bi bun
The O'Fong Factor: WB Bub
cease: he's watching other people act out firesign plays
Dr. Headphones: klok: if you are on same IP address, reaper won't get the other klok
Bubba's Brain: well, it was originally a rap, so a few keys can't eb fare behind...
The O'Fong Factor: You gotta sing like Maurice Chevalier if you wanna get in or out of this chat
Freq Man: said the nun to the bishop
Bubba's Brain: Welcome back... your dreams were your ticket out....
The O'Fong Factor: May I see your passport please
Freq Man: I've got a red pencil box
klokwkdog: me and my bright wireless ideas. hmpf. thanks, ken
The O'Fong Factor: You must be the editor
cease: with a picture of chairman mao on it?
Dave!: I can sing, but don't know that guy, can I sing like Dave then
Bubba's Brain: .... I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key....
Bubba's Brain: Get these damn songs out of my head!
Freq Man: Dave... think pepe le peu...
The O'Fong Factor: Sure Dave...just use a French accent
Dave!: I know that song bub, sounds familiar
Dr. Headphones sings: "what's new, pussycat? whoa, whoa, whoa-o-o"
cease: ew
Dave!: I can do a decent French accent, but not as good as some of my others
The O'Fong Factor: Melonie...that melonie...it won't leave my brain
||||||||| klokwkdoggonit! is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 10:47 PM.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:47 PM and late as usual, it's klokwkdoggonit!, just back from Billville."
Bubba's Brain: ... outta my head.... over you... day and night, night and day....
Freq Man: does your chewing gum loose its flavor on the bedpost overnight
klokwkdog: well, I guess that's one way...
Dr. Headphones: bub: that's a good one, i actually know all the words and sing along when i hear it
The O'Fong Factor: FreQ: Itf it does, put a condom over it
Bubba's Brain: ... I'm gonna marry a lighthouse keeper and keep him company....
Freq Man: flavor blaster condoms...
Dr. Headphones: freq: i played that one on piano when i took lessons
The O'Fong Factor: There's a new breed of Condoms to the west....Big Red
Bubba's Brain: Not to be torturning me!!!!!!!!!!!!
cease: indiana for tor the indianans
Freq Man: call them Cliffords... nah... nevermind.
Bubba's Brain: ... and Bloomington.
The O'Fong Factor: Freq: =))
klokwkdog: i thought it was for John Mellencamp...
||||||||| It's 10:50 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from pneumonia
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Freq Man: gasp... I went from Indiana to Minnesota, and never left Bloomington
The O'Fong Factor: ...and leave the past behind
klokwkdog: but...what...about...seymour?
Dr. Headphones: leave the behind in the past
Bubba's Brain: Mellencamp gave 2k to John Edwards www.fundrace.org
The O'Fong Factor: But whose behind is in the past?
Bubba's Brain: Mellencamp gave 2k to John Edwards www.fundrace.org
The O'Fong Factor: What's that Bub?
Dr. Headphones: bub: did you do the neighbor thing there and see who people in your area give to?
Bubba's Brain: what?
cease: is that a bad thing, bub?
||||||||| Catherwood leads LiliLamont inside, makes a note of the time (10:51 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Freq Man: he sat in the speghetti and had a pasta behind.
klokwkdog: his parents were demo heavyweights in IN, bubba; was in the Salon interview
Bubba's Brain: what?
cease: lili enchantee
The O'Fong Factor: thats 4k...not too shabby
Dr. Headphones: hey, lili
klokwkdog: welcome lili
Bubba's Brain: Yep, k, sure did.
The O'Fong Factor: Hey Lili
Bubba's Brain: Nope, not a bad thing at all, c.
Dr. Headphones: on that page click neighbor, enter your zip code
LiliLamont: Hi, guys. Have I missed much. Doc is on his way with tonic for my vodka. What a nice guy.
LiliLamont: Hello, Phil.. Glad to see you here.
Freq Man: I think I've got gin, but no tonic... sigh...
The O'Fong Factor: There was a full board earlier Lili, including the Austin
Bubba's Brain: Tonic... what, is your vodka sick?
Freq Man: shhh... Phil is invisable...
The O'Fong Factor: Austin is gone but only faded
Bubba's Brain: Phil's gone.
klokwkdog: you missed all the excitement and the biggest exposition since the Eagle landed, Lili!
LiliLamont: Oh, no. He's gone?
The O'Fong Factor: Gone to LA
Dr. Headphones: phil isn't really here, but reaper refuses to kill him
Bubba's Brain: He's at the tribute show.
Freq Man: why must we whisper around invisable people?... why is that the way... why?
klokwkdog: big doins' lili -- his squeeze forced him into a suit. it was awful to behold
The O'Fong Factor: I see whispering people
LiliLamont: Shit. My timing really sucks. I was making a late meal for myself. Doc fended for himself this evening.
Freq Man: oh dear.
Bubba's Brain: He did an un-strip tease.
cease: he's immune to death
LiliLamont: So, O'Fong, how do you like the O'Franken Factor?
The O'Fong Factor: We all took dollar bills outta his jockeys
cease: listening to air america, lili?
Dr. Headphones: bump and grind by phil? the mental picture annoys me for some reason
Freq Man: We were talking about that earlier Lili... I thought the show after Franken was superior...
The O'Fong Factor: Lili: I'm just glad to have the liberal point of view up and running
LiliLamont: Goddamn! The things I miss. Is he coming back?
The O'Fong Factor: Not soon
cease: sounded like firesign will be on it
LiliLamont: Yes, CAT. It's about fucking time there was an alternative to assholes like Rush.
cease: ive never heard him or oriley or any of that shit. why would i?
LiliLamont: Are you talking about Randi?
The O'Fong Factor: Know thine enemy for he is we
Freq Man: Lili... yes
The O'Fong Factor: Lili: Yes randi
cease: i heard firesign when it was just bergman's friends in 66. it's even more needed now
LiliLamont: No shit, cease? When will that be. I've gotta tune in and record.
LiliLamont: Pardon my pathetic punctuation, BTW.
cease: they're in negotiations, as phil says. you can read the log
Dave!: I tried to listen to Rush, my dad calls him a nazi
Dr. Headphones: dave, you have a smart dad
Dave!: I don't really care anyway
Dr. Headphones: i listened to rush one time. first thing i heard was "and, as usual, i was right." i turned it off right then, never went back
The O'Fong Factor: Dave: If you don't want a future that entails selling pencils on the street, you outta care
Freq Man: pencils are cool
The O'Fong Factor: and pointy too
cease: good point, fong
LiliLamont: Cease, you have no idea how lucky you are. I think I've heard 2-3 seconds of his rants, and I realized that it would rot my brain. What a fucked up sanctimonious asshole. Kind of like Bush, but with more charisma. I think....
Bubba's Brain: That was "As usual, I'm on the right", H
Freq Man: only the sharp ones...
klokwkdog: i don't have any problem with Rush, but I don't see any reason to listen to him. or air america or imus or stern. if i want talk, i'll watch CSPAN; they do quality stuff
cease: but he plays firesign on his show, so that means....
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| klokwkdoggonit! - dead from the yaws
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
LiliLamont: Rush plays FST?????
The O'Fong Factor sings "Only the sharp ones, know the points I make"
cease: i watch the news not knowing what it will be but knowing a lot of it will be bummers
Freq Man: Klok... discourse in the raw
Bubba's Brain: wow, c, proof that firesign causes drug abuse.
LiliLamont: I stick to NPR and the NYT.
cease: what is cspan, klok?
klokwkdog: lili - he makes enough money to have a serious drug habit; think of him as an entertainer, preaching to a choir
LiliLamont: Quick, someone get me some drugs!
Dr. Headphones: or that drugs cause firesign abuse
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Freq Man: I like Pacifica...
Dave!: I figure I'm too depressed to watch the news anyway, so I'm kinda out of touch
LiliLamont: True, Klok. What a fucking hypocrite. You've gotta love it.
klokwkdog: american cable channel triumvirate - cable TV vendors must contribute to support it. nominally they just show legislative sessions, but in between, great stuff
Freq Man: And the internet... I like pencils... pacifica and the internet...
cease: i dont listen to a bunch of yankess babbling cuz i got nothing else t listen to. this is actually interesting
Bubba's Brain: Too much firesign is never enough. I can stop listening any time I want....
LiliLamont: Aha! I hear the good doctor entering my abode! What ho!
cease: drugs cause firesing abuse. oh, i see.....
Freq Man: the doc is a ho?
Freq Man: yo?
klokwkdog: www.cspan.org cat -- with broadband, you can watch much of their stuff online; it's my backup if I miss a JPL Mars briefing like today's, for ezzample
The O'Fong Factor: Lili: The thing is is that even NPR and NYT and even (gasp) CPAN don't always cover some of the important stories...AAMerica goes out of its way to find those stories cause they always reflect badly on the adminstration
Dr. Headphones: hey, doc :)
LiliLamont: Uh, no.... He's really a nice guy. And as far as I can tell, pretty fucking devoted. A one woman man.
Bubba's Brain: ho ho ho
LiliLamont: Hang on, he should be here momentarily.
Freq Man: hmmm but Air America's only been on two days O'Fong... how can you say that after only two days... granted I listened... I've enjoyed it... but really
The O'Fong Factor: Freq: They had several items this afternoon that all the papers dodged
cease: we are listening to a work in progress
klokwkdog: oops, they don't have the 4/1 briefing, just last week's. anyway, most of the political stuff they put on TV is on this website, cat
Freq Man: so does the drudge report...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "11:04 PM and late as usual, it's doctec, just back from Billville."
Dr. Headphones: not all the papers dodged, some of them forded
doctec: hi gang, sorry i'm late
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: Correct, and we can only hope that they'll get it together a bit more professionaly
cease: hey doc
Bubba's Brain: hey doc
doctec: it's been a long exposition, i'm exhausted
Freq Man: doc... anything going to Mark Time this year?
Dr. Headphones: tom, i said hi before you checked in here, but i'll repeat it again
klokwkdog: lili - my point was that Rush is just playing a part. I think he's going for the money and may not actually believe all he's putting on air
The O'Fong Factor: Hello Doc, glad to see you operating
klokwkdog: yeah, hi DT
Bubba's Brain: well I'm glad you're where you are now and not in your ex-position.
Dave!: heyya doc
The O'Fong Factor: Klok: I tend to agrre, He is considered a great broadcaster..not the same as a great political thinker
Dr. Headphones: 11pm in the eastern zone, i'm gonna check out. see everyone next time. g'nite
doctec: i had so much stuff to do before taking off for the billiards expo last week that i neglected to pack the laptop i got from the office, so i couldn't get onto chat last thursday night
Freq Man: See the thing about Air America is they're going to HAVE to sell ads... they may not be about all the profit... but they're still going to have to meet their operating costs.
klokwkdog: nite ken
The O'Fong Factor: Gosh Ken: That's pretty abrupt
Dr. Headphones: dex: yawns are chasing me, about to catch
cease: by kend
Freq Man: night
The O'Fong Factor: Freq: You're right. Just hope they can find enough liberal moeny to keep going with the same belligerence they've shown so far
klokwkdog: yeah, ash, but what good is having a liberal outlet also ranting to its choir?? it's a waste of time to me
||||||||| Dr. Headphones leaves at 11:07 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
doctec: man i have just been so balls to the wall busy these last 2-3 weeks... i feel like i barely have time to catch my breath
cease: here
Freq Man: hello doctec...
The O'Fong Factor: Doc: Turn around
Freq Man: what nice breaths you have
cease: are you listening to air america?
doctec: has anybody heard the majority report on air america yet? i've caught some of o'franken and randi rhodes, not exactly riveting but still a lot better than most alternatives
cease: bad place for balls, doc
doctec: tell me about it cease
Freq Man: unless they're trophy balls
The O'Fong Factor goes for refill
cease: most of yesterdays, half of todays.
klokwkdog: put the balls on the Other Side, DT!
Freq Man: AHHHH... yes...
cease: i can definitely see this as a place for firesign
klokwkdog: look at 'em spin now!
doctec: re billiards expo - the bad news: i didn't make it past the 1st round of the 9-ball tournament. the good news: i won a $760 cue in a $10 raffle - it a real beaut, too bad it doesn't come with an instruction manual though :)
klokwkdog wonders what can the Cat mean? Of course it are!
cease: if it crashes, they have nothing to lose. if it kicks large planets, it will do so with their considerable assitance
cease: good for you in cue land, doc. too bad about non win
doctec: i knew something was up numerologically speaking when the room # at the hotel was 414 (4+1+4 = 9) and the number i drew for the tournament was 909
klokwkdog: sheesh, it won't take over the house like the high-speed vibrating clubs, will it DT?
doctec: klok: no, it's just taking over my life is all .. :)
Bubba's Brain: ... da da da da won after 909....
cease: i thought it was the vibrating clocks. there time has come again
klokwkdog: what, is it one of those German cues with all manner of machinery inside?
cease: oh fuck, now they're starting to play music
Freq Man: schlock absorbers
Bubba's Brain: pick up your cues out of the cellophane...
Freq Man: they can't talk forever... can they?
klokwkdog: must be my tune, Cat. the Akita is looking at me suspiciously (and I'm listening to KEXP...)
Freq Man: well... I suppose I should, could, better move along...
The O'Fong Factor: Klok: Do you have a dog now?
cease: sounds like the dead intro to franken factor
klokwkdog: no, but the owners left me as lunch or something over here
cease: i cant get up that early, so its nice to hear this at night
The O'Fong Factor: Man, Akitas are a handful and more...they are some serious dog
klokwkdog: sheesh, this thing has my shoe half off. i think we're going for a walk
Dave!: uh, what is on Skybird?
Freq Man: Good night everyone...
klokwkdog: very sweet dog, but now it wants to go out in pouring rain and sniff for awhile
klokwkdog: bye folks
||||||||| klokwkdog leaves at 11:15 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
The O'Fong Factor: Why does the Skybird stream its message in the air
cease: by klok
cease: freq
Bubba's Brain: to get to the other side?
doctec: they're dropping life files (he says, lysdexically)
The O'Fong Factor: Dave: Skybird directory is down...maybe they'll back announce
Bubba's Brain: dyslexia for cure found!
cease: good one, bub
Dave!: yeah there's no way to see what they've played in winamp, is there anyway to tell?
The O'Fong Factor: The eyes have it
The O'Fong Factor: None I know of Dave
Dave!: oh well
Dave!: people ducked out early eh? quack
cease: you folks think this liberal network will last?
The O'Fong Factor: Bubba: Keep us informed about how your doing with Lodestone. I think it's an important resource for Audio material
Dave!: liberal network? hmmm....
cease: certainly for mine
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: Indeed
cease: or progressive as they say these days
Bubba's Brain: Sure will, Dex.
Dave!: yeah it's too bad the mainstream "" is so full of garbage
doctec: i think it's too early to tell whether air america will last
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: We can but hope and myabe occasionaly by the products
Dave!: I mean, people just wouldn't get FST stuff, it's sophisticated, can't spell that, it's totally different than the usual formulaic comedy out there
doctec: i think it's gonna be a while and take some format tweaking before they hit their stride
cease: ok, but many, many of you folks have appeared in my productions, from austin on
doctec: i think peter bergman would make an excellent on-air dj/host on the new network though
cease: so i see an opportunity here, and if i see it, so do y'all
The O'Fong Factor: So far at least, they've had a fairly impressive list of callers and well wishers
cease: indeed, doc
cease: obvious
doctec: he's liberal, articulate and sees through a lot of the bullsh*t
cease: put the shit back in sh't
The O'Fong Factor: Was delighted to hear Bob Elliot yesterday as 'ly Ballou
Bubba's Brain: We're bullsh on america.....
cease: too bad ausitn isnt here to contribute to ths conversatoin. but i think he's happy about the tribute to him tonight
cease: wasnt that a trip?
cease: phil procotr is a product of bob and ray
Dave!: how did that all come about? the tribute I mean
cease: as phil austin is of la radio at the same time
The O'Fong Factor: They gave Austin 3 ears of corn as tribute and he didn't have to give them 3 beakers of chemicals
cease: ask merl
The O'Fong Factor: ..although he offered
cease: some people know about that, and the rest of us dont', but you can probably do a search on previous chatrs
The O'Fong Factor: Looks like Phil will be here/not here all night
Bubba's Brain thinks someone oughtta re-write Creeque Alley with lyrics about the start of the Firesign....
Dave!: well guys, think I'll sign off, I'm actually starting to fall asleep and it's like 9:20 here
doctec: he probably left his pc on and the chat thing up in his browser after he left - would expect there'll be some kind of party afterward, so he might check in again at 3am est
The O'Fong Factor: "Pete and PHillie, just a-getting silly.....
doctec: when do we cut over to eastern daylight time anyway?
Bubba's Brain: Exactly, Dex...
cease: how's it goin, doc?
Dave!: might check back later, if not, g'night all
Bubba's Brain springs forward.
||||||||| Dave! leaves at 11:27 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
The O'Fong Factor: Night Dave...keep swingin'
cease: by dave
doctec: cat: it took a day or two to adjust to a work schedule after the billiards expo
cease: i would expect
doctec: they started a new thing this year: after midnight, you can play pool on the nice 7-foot tournament tables all night for a flat $10 fee
cease: or wood
The O'Fong Factor: Kept chalking up your finger?
cease: tiger, tigress
The O'Fong Factor: Burning, right..........
doctec: my buddy al mcneal and i played from midnight until 6am friday night, and again midnight until 3:30am saturday night
cease: i have to keep remembering to turn the volume back on withi air america
Bubba's Brain fears symmetry.
cease: wow
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: YOu getting that from Portland?
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Freq Man - dead from pneumonia
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
doctec: i'm still sleep deprived, looking fwd to getting caught up on sleep and a lot of other things this weekend
The O'Fong Factor: or from on line?
cease: yes
Bubba's Brain: Is that palindromiphobia?
doctec: i expected the i-95 bridge problems to make my commutes really bad this week (i assume some if not all of you know about the fuel tanker that caught fire and melted a chunk of i-95 near where i live about a week ago)
cease: online from portland station
doctec: but as it turned out, a combination of factors (trucks having to take alternate routes, my intimate knowledge of the local roads here) made the commutes pretty bearable
doctec: that was one bonus
The O'Fong Factor: What was the other?
The O'Fong Factor: or others?
The O'Fong Factor: Boni, that is
cease: he says this gives me an idea. how firesonian is that?
||||||||| Dave sneaks in around 11:34 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
The O'Fong Factor: Dave: You're up!
cease: ok, we can do this, eh?
Dave: decided to come back
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: Huh?
cease: no, really, fong. you and the usual crew thursday nights can put together sometrhing that can get on this netowork, eh?>
cease: in what sense am i wrong, dex?
cease: this is firesign plus harry shearer plus paul krassner plus everybody who has any kinda talent to do this kinda thing and really want to do it.
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: Having difficulty following you...did you leave something out or did I miss something
cease: i'm listengin to air america as i type, dex
doctec: shearer already has his own forum with 'le show' - getting him interested in doing something on air america may be a hard sell
Dave: where can I listen to this?
doctec: but in genreal i think it's a good idea - the fledgling network can probably use any & all material they can get their hands on, as long as they don't have to pay too much
doctec: so cat, i assume you're suggesting putting together taped bits for them?
cease: if the station keeps on the air, he'll be interested, dont you think, doc?
cease: he's al;ready on lots of netwroks
doctec: submitting them to the network 'cold' as it were?
The O'Fong Factor: Ah...well, I think, or believe at any rate that while they have no problem with being funny and goofing around, they'd prefer to be seen as a serious liberal news outlet, and I have a lot of difficulty staying serious for any length of time
doctec: i thought shearer was only on npr stations
cease: no he's on tons of others, including military
cease: the ads on this are so armed forces radio.
doctec: i think npr is the main distributor of the show to those affiliates - npr signs his paychecks
The O'Fong Factor: Also, they would seem to need highly topical stuff which precludes a long pre=production time etc
cease: paychecks? he says he does it for free
doctec: dex: well, if everyone in this chat could set themselves up with a way of capturing decent quality audio (minimal background noise and room echo, good quality mics etc) then i think cat is right - all dialog recordings could be uploaded to a central location, assembled and submitted to air america on the cheap through the miracle of the internet
cease: wasnt that phil austins idea, doc?
cease: if the lads can do it, we can contriubute to it, is my point
The O'Fong Factor: Doc: =) Sounds great but.......I think what they want/need is if something comes outta the White House on the 6 pm news, they wanna be all over it by the morning
doctec: cat: yeah, for the firesigns - but i think getting all four to log into the chat and bandy about ideas through their computer keyboards was akin to herding cats
doctec: dex: are you saying you don't think we could pull it off? i think we could, if we put our minds to it
cease: yes doc, but they can now hear what is happening with franken et all, and think to themselves, yeah, we can do this
The O'Fong Factor: Doc: Agree...Now maybe if they had a weekly segment, 5 or 10 minutes, that might be feasible
Dave: ah, found the air america website
doctec: who
doctec: who's 'they', cat?
doctec: the fireguys?
cease: the firesgins
cease: austin was looking for the staton when he was on earlier
Dave: brb
cease: i think this will happen, doc
doctec: i'm sure they could do a live show, a la their xm radio gig - the trick is to get them in one place on a regular basis, which is quite problematic these days
The O'Fong Factor: Doc: I think that pulling it off (hmm, that sounds familiar) is a lot easier said than done...look at your schedule for instance, and mine is not so much better in terms of free time
||||||||| Dave leaves at 11:46 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
cease: they need product, and firesign, if so interested, can provide
cease: no, not in one place at one time. at their phones
cease: compters, whatever
doctec: well, this is something we'd obviously have to make time for, i'd quit a couple of my pool league teams if you all were really serious about this. my experience pulling together red shift in the time frame i did has shown me that i can produce quick one-off audio bits very quickly if the need were there
doctec: cat: the phone call in thing does not work to my ears - it's just not the same when proctor and bergman are live in the studio and austin & ossman are phoning in
cease: doc, i cannot speak for anyone but me.
doctec: they all need to be in the studio at the same time for it to work imho
cease: i agree. the phone call in thing is annoying. i hated it wtih bergman in 6 and hate it now
cease: ok, then that is unlikely unless large sums of money are drifted their ways, i suspect
||||||||| Dave waltzes in at 11:49 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
The O'Fong Factor: Doc: I'd agree, as i said a regular weekly 5 or 10 minute segment would seem the best way for them to do it if they wanted to
Bubba's Brain: i'm not trying to fade here, just doin it.
The O'Fong Factor: Which would preclude highly topical stuff, although there's plenty of politcal humor that doesn't need to be up to the minute
doctec: yes dex - true
cease: this network needs product. the firesign can do it, if inspired, paid, etc
doctec: payment precludes inspiration in this case i think
||||||||| Outside, the 11:51 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving mrmuckle coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: are they that poor?
doctec: the guys aren't gonna do something like this out of the kindness of our hearts that's for sure
cease: hey muck
mrmuckle: hakhakhak
doctec: hey muckler
The O'Fong Factor: Cat: I'm not so sure that the network views itself as a "Humor" network per se, although certainly right now, they're playing that card heavily
mrmuckle: Howdy y'all
The O'Fong Factor: Hi Mr. Muckle, Honey
doctec: no, not that poor - but also not willing to expend energy on something unless they get paid what they consider a fair wage for the effort, and i am not sure air america has the budget yet
cease: ok, o. i can se your point
mrmuckle: teeheehee
cease: but its good to think in the future
cease: a fair fro all, and no fair to ...
cease: a fair fro all, and no fair to ...
doctec: yes i agree. well, i am fading fast - gotta take off and get some shuteye
The O'Fong Factor: 'ere's an echo in hree
The O'Fong Factor: Good to see you again Doc
doctec: i'm glad i was able to pop in for a little while
cease: shu them eyes, doc
doctec: should be here next week at closer to regular time
The O'Fong Factor: Also Night to a Faded Lili
doctec: have a better one - lili says good night all - and nytol from me too (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........
||||||||| doctec leaves at 11:54 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Bubba's Brain: nite doc
cease: off you sleep
||||||||| At 11:54 PM, LiliLamont vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
The O'Fong Factor: I'm outta here too, time to move the car...Night Bub, Cat, Dave, and MM
mrmuckle: gunnite!
Bubba's Brain: Cat -- you get my email earlier. Wasn't sure if I had your correct/current address.
Dave: yeah things seem to be breakin' up so I guess I'll call it a night as well
||||||||| The O'Fong Factor leaves at 11:56 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Dave: bye all again
||||||||| Dave leaves at 11:56 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
mrmuckle: bye dave
mrmuckle: well. I'm gonna make like a hockey player and get the puck outta here....Nite all..........
||||||||| mrmuckle departs at 12:00 AM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Bubba's Brain: Cat -- you get my email earlier. Wasn't sure if I had your correct/current address.
cease: by dave
Bubba's Brain: nite mrm.
cease: no bub
Bubba's Brain: what is your addy.
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
cease: i don t think i can do this bub. will have to figure out how by next week
Bubba's Brain: Okay... nite then.
||||||||| Bubba's Brain leaves at 12:03 AM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| cease - dead from jaundice
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Outside, the 2:41 AM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Johnny Piano coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Johnny Piano: Phil, you still here?
Johnny Piano: You're fadin' fast...
Johnny Piano: How was the show? Did you go?
Johnny Piano: Guess I've just missed you...hope it was fun...curious what Rundgren did.
Johnny Piano: Good night...er, morning!
||||||||| Johnny Piano departs at 2:44 AM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Outside, the 2:48 AM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dr. Headphones coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dr. Headphones: ah, the miracles of cats who think they are alarm clocks :)
Dr. Headphones: phil? i guess you're not back from the party yet. hope it went well
Dr. Headphones: johnny, i missed you by minutes. if catherwood wasn't fast, you'd be here now
Dr. Headphones: ok, i've talked to myself enough. will check email, try going to bed. this time i might even SHUT THE DAMNED DOOR so the cats can't get in!
Dr. Headphones: ta ta for now
||||||||| Dr. Headphones leaves at 2:51 AM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Phil Austin: Austin gets home and signs off now. What a weird experience.
||||||||| "4:15 AM? I'm late!" exclaims Phil Austin, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the garden.
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."

The Evening's Participants:

Phil Austin
ah,clem
Bambi
Bb
Bubba's Brain
Bunnyboy
cease
Charles Foster Dudley
Danny
Dave!
Dave
doctec
Dr. Headphones
Elayne
Freq Man
Johnny Piano
klokwkdog
klokwkdoggonit!
LiliLamont
llanwydd
Merlyn
mrmuckle
The O'Fong Factor
wcguy
Yamamoto-otomamaY
 URL References:
http://216.234.115.10:8000/listen.pls
http://issuesandalibis.org
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/005859.html
http://www.airamericaradio.com
www.cspan.org
www.fundrace.org
http://www.gnutella.com/news/11283
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5972.htm
http://www.ituner.com/station/UnitedStates/3822.html
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/000393.html


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