A Firesign Chat
04/15/2004




Archive

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 15, 2004 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Mudhead enters at 7:46 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Mudhead leaves at 7:47 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..."
||||||||| Merlyn waltzes in at 8:03 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'EdmundEdmund', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:03 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
EdmundEdmund: Hello hello
Merlyn: hey EdEd
EdmundEdmund: So this is why no one is on IRC anymore.
Merlyn: Not for about 3 years
EdmundEdmund: Yeah, it's been a while.
Merlyn: OK, 2 years; the latest IRC is Sept. 2002
EdmundEdmund: Well, I was busy.
Merlyn: We're an hour early for the regular crowd
EdmundEdmund: Some of them might remember me then.
EdmundEdmund: I'll be here in an hour. Nothing better to do.
EdmundEdmund: I saw a notice about this place at the Majoirty Report Blog and I thought I'd see if anyone I know shows up.
Merlyn: oh, I put that up
Merlyn: glad somebody saw it
Merlyn: I'll put up a reminder in an hour, too
EdmundEdmund: Sounds good.
EdmundEdmund: I think we've talked before... it's been a long time though. I used to work for LodesTone... did a lot of the cover art for their releases among other things.
Merlyn: Yeah; John Weber is buying lodestone
EdmundEdmund: So Rich told me. I sent John a good luck message and told him if he needed any help to let me know.
Merlyn: He usually logs in as "Bubba's Brain"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:11 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving samhain coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: We're working with Firesign for T-shirt ideas
samhain: hello...hello?
Merlyn: hello sam
Merlyn: new here?
EdmundEdmund: John logs in here? Awesome. I haven't talked to him in ages.
Merlyn: Yeah, he's usually in each week
Merlyn: hey samhain, say something.
samhain: ok
EdmundEdmund: Oh now I remember! You sent me the art for George Tirebiter's Radio Follies!
Merlyn: Right!
Merlyn: It came out kind of stripey on the CD case, due to being faxed, I think
samhain: how is everyone this eve
EdmundEdmund: Sorry, my brain is not very functional right now. I think it came out stripey due to our equipment being cheap at the time.
EdmundEdmund: Hiya sam.
samhain: what/where is the firesign theater?
Merlyn: Ah; there's a version of it that I re-drew here: http://firesigntheater.com/tirebiter/
Merlyn: Firesign Theatre is a comedy troupe from the late 1960s (to present)
Merlyn: Have you heard of Nick Danger? That's them.
EdmundEdmund: Neat. These days I live within spitting distance (not that I would) of Proctor's home... I don't have any contact info for him anymore or I'd take he and Melinda out to dinner.
samhain: no, no I haven't.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:16 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving sylvia coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
EdmundEdmund: Hello sylvia
sylvia : hello all
Merlyn: The albums page has a lot of audio clips (you can listen after Majority Report if you like) http://www.firsigntheatre.com/albums
EdmundEdmund: samhain, check them out, they're very funny and still politically relevant.
Merlyn: hi sylvia
||||||||| Catherwood leads Zeit inside, makes a note of the time (8:17 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Merlyn: eded, I can send you Proctor's email (or phone #), or just go through planetproctor.com
Merlyn: Hey zeit, how ya fixed for geist?
Zeit: Evening
samhain: i want my bloody google email already
Merlyn: I want email that oogles me
Merlyn: and makes my penis bigger
Zeit: Last I heard Gmail was having some court problems
sylvia : So what is the agenda tonight? I'm new to this and hapilly listening to sam and janeane
samhain: *shudders* joy behar.....grrrreat....
sylvia : I'm hoping it get cleared up, because google mail sounds promising at least
Merlyn: pretty much whatever people want to talk about
EdmundEdmund: I really hope they popularize that photo I posted on the blog.
EdmundEdmund: Google Mail scares me... they will use a computer program to read through all of your e-mail to target-market products to you.
sylvia : I saw that, chilling
Merlyn: "more coffins, warden?"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:22 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Ginny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Zeit: It's not chilling, there arnt going to be a panel of people reading through your mail
Zeit: itle just be a computer progam that searches for key words
Ginny: I think we're all bozos on this bus, but the radio is tuned to Air America ...
Zeit: Like one of those old text based search engines
sylvia : the picture, not google
Merlyn: hey ginny, sometimes Phil Austin of Firesign Theatre actually shows up on these chats
sylvia : ^as to what was chilling
Merlyn: But I think he's on vacation right now
EdmundEdmund: Phil was really mean to me once. :(
Zeit: oh, that would certainly make more sense
Zeit: I havntseen the photo, can you link itin here for me?
Merlyn: what happened, ed^2?
Merlyn: The photo is at http://www.bartcop.com/iraq-coffins.jpg
EdmundEdmund: http://www.bartcop.com/iraq-coffins.jpg
Zeit: Thanks
Merlyn: There's an echo in here
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Mudhead', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:25 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
EdmundEdmund: Merlyn, I had to call all of them about some sort of legal issue and he got really mad and yelled at me because he was writing...
Mudhead: echo
Merlyn: Ah, misdirected anger
Mudhead: gey yhis echo off of me
Ginny: He's no fun, he fell right over (See, I can do Firesign and AAR. Product of a college education in Oregon, I guess.)
EdmundEdmund: Who am us anyway?
Merlyn: ask the postman
Mudhead: I just wanna sit in this tree and play the flute
Merlyn: hokay
Ginny: Is there a popup running on this website? It's making Google's toolbar nutty.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:29 PM and BuckFush steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Mudhead: yummm, nutty Google
Merlyn: there's no popups, ginny, just PHP frames
EdmundEdmund: Ginny... are you the same Ginny that is on Undernet? If so, I'm Arken there.
Mudhead: Is that with caramel?
Zeit: Wouldnt a draft be political suicide, It would enrage people more than taking away social security
Ginny: LOL, hi Arken.
Merlyn: (I wrote all this) in what way is the google toobar nutty?
||||||||| It's 8:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| samhain - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Ginny: the popupstopper keeps clicking merrily away.
EdmundEdmund: Google Toolbar is evil because it takes up more of my precious, precious browser window space.
Merlyn: Oh, I'm sure that's because this web page keeps doing an auto-refresh to print new text
Mudhead: Funny Ginny mines not complaining
Zeit: That's why you should use Bonzai buddy, the best program out there
Merlyn: mudhead, do you have the popup stopper on?
||||||||| "8:31 PM? 8:31 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Enid should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Enid enters and sits on the couch.
Zeit: Hands Down
Ginny: Ah, well, I think I'll stick to IRC for now, fewer noise distractions (besides the dreaded Embedded commercial)
Mudhead: You didnt say "Simon Sez"
Mudhead: what irc?
Merlyn: Hey, here we got colored text and everything!
Zeit: mIRC?
Mudhead: Im on Bararcade right now
Zeit: I'm geting nearly a 5 second+ lag here.
Ginny: See you guys (I'll probably have to come back and look around the rest of Firesign for old time's sake.) Yes, mIRC, or some doohicky like that.
Merlyn: see you, ginny
sylvia : my connection is acting up, but I look forward to chatting more later
Mudhead: do ya know what server/channel?
EdmundEdmund: Funny... I've been listening to Air America for the past half an hour and I still don't have an irrational zombielike urge to see Embedded at the Public Theatre.
||||||||| Ginny departs at 8:33 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
EdmundEdmund: Bye Ginny
Merlyn: zeit, the lag is just the refresh rate of the screen
Merlyn: I keep the default at 10 seconds because frequent refreshes seem to be more annoying than anything else. The screen flickers.
Mudhead: Im also really lagged
Zeit: Was that bush calling for a christian crusade
EdmundEdmund: Please, I beg of them, no more Let the Eagles Soar.
Merlyn: You can set your refresh rate to be faster by pulling down the "send to all" menu and selecting Configure, which will eventually refresh with the configure panel
Mudhead: Throw some more fuel at the gerbils inna wheel Merlyn, we need MORE POWER!
Merlyn: Or you can just manually refresh the screen
EdmundEdmund: Ah. Thank you, Merlyn.
Mudhead: how
Merlyn: The real EZ way is to go to the big long URL and change the ...refresh=10... buried in it to refresh=3 or whatever
Mudhead: i think
Merlyn: You should be able to see the params in the page URL
EdmundEdmund: Or you use your magical powers.
Mudhead: i got it
Mudhead: now how do i get rid of the parameter
Merlyn: You can pull down the menu and select the blank gap
Mudhead: how do i shut down configure?
Merlyn: That blanks the little private msg area
||||||||| It's 8:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Enid - dead from jaundice
 ||||||||| BuckFush - dead from the yaws
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Merlyn: That reaper just goes after people
Mudhead: how do i shut down configure?
Merlyn: I said mudhead, pull down the menu again and select the blank area
Merlyn: Right after Zeit's name
Mudhead: ok
Mudhead: thank you benevolent Wizard
Merlyn: For that, I won't reap you...
EdmundEdmund: What the hell is this crap Joy Behar is saying?
EdmundEdmund: Television is supposed to be balanced?
Merlyn: oh, who knows?
Mudhead: Would anyone like to know how my week went?
EdmundEdmund: No, but tell us anyway.
Mudhead: cuz I need to share
Merlyn: how did your week went? Mine went sun mon tue wed thu fri sat
EdmundEdmund: We'll never have days like that again.
Zeit: I'm geting nearly a 5 second+ lag here.
Merlyn: change your refresh rate zeit, the default is 10 seconds
Zeit: I dont know why it just repeated what I said.
Zeit: I thin I hit the wrong button.
Zeit: Telesion isnt balancd because television has to get ratings, and the main constituecy of T.V. are Republicans
Merlyn: there used to be an occassional keyboard bounce kinda bug
Mudhead: Its almost as bad as a country song, my car Did die, my phones shut off, cable and electric are off tmmw, my best friend is separating from his wife, and my state and federal disability assistance is gettin took away
Mudhead: and yjay was one day
Merlyn: ouch, mudhead
Mudhead: and that was on the 13th
Merlyn: you have to turn to steam power or something
Mudhead: i need the tube
EdmundEdmund: Tuesday the 13th... always a bad sign.
Mudhead: better yet, a bong
Mudhead: but I cant smoke no more
Merlyn: just wait for that Bush Economic Turnaround®
Mudhead: maybe if I hold my breath
EdmundEdmund: Well... I have never seen the View and now I know I never, ever will.
Merlyn: the View to a Kill
Mudhead: I wanna do everything I possibly can to re-defeat GW Bush
EdmundEdmund: Evvverything? *goes off to fetch the explosives*
Merlyn: good point, mudhead
||||||||| Outside, the 8:49 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: early tonight
Merlyn: hey cat
Mudhead: right at the top of my head Merlyn
EdmundEdmund: Cat!
cease: i thought maybe austin would be here, causing us all to appear early
EdmundEdmund: Long time no type pal!
||||||||| It's 8:50 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| sylvia - dead from pneumonia
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: ed2!
Mudhead: Hiya Cat
cease: what that sylvia austin?
Merlyn: no, cat
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bunnyboy inside, makes a note of the time (8:50 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
cease: mus, merl, zeit
Bunnyboy: heh
EdmundEdmund: No, and now that the reaper has taken her I'm thinking she might be Sylvia Plath
Merlyn: I think Austin may be in vacation
Bunnyboy: hiya, oily boids
cease: this is funny, this apprentice bush thing
cease: inbetween gigs, merl?
Mudhead: haha
cease: bunny
Mudhead: your fried tm
EdmundEdmund: Hi Bunny
||||||||| marick sneaks in around 8:51 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Bunnyboy: Merl: Well, he's certainly vacated The Waiting Room. ; )
Merlyn: I think he just mentioned being on the road for the next 10 days or something
cease: i noticed your plug on the majority report blog, merl
cease: aha
Mudhead: no cars on that road i hope
Merlyn: Yeah, we got a few people show up for a bit
cease: i wonder if it will bring people here
Mudhead: he'd get squashed
cease: already, merl?
||||||||| Catherwood escorts jasenlee in through the front door at 8:52 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
EdmundEdmund: It brought me back. What more do you want?
EdmundEdmund: What more COULD you want?
Mudhead: What can I get?
Merlyn: yeah cat, you didn't notice EdEd
cease: i wasnt gonna show b4 6 as usual but just finished dinner and figured i'd see if anyone showed up here early. i am very surprised
EdmundEdmund: All we have to fear is me.
EdmundEdmund: No, he said hi to me.
Mudhead: Tasmanian fur ball warmers?
Merlyn: warm mukluks?
cease: ed2 sounds familiar
Mudhead: get them outta de cellophane
cease: is jasonlee another spelling of janene?
Mudhead: but no wolf stools
Merlyn: dan geduld from lodestone and IRC
EdmundEdmund: Exactly. I was even in a couple of your productions, you crazy man!
Merlyn: quite a different spelling
cease: aha
cease: not the same person as bubba's brain though, right?
EdmundEdmund: Must... see... embedded... at... public... theatre
Bunnyboy: EATING RAOUL is on DVD now. Watched it for the first time a couple of days ago. Quite droll, yes...
Merlyn: right
EdmundEdmund: No, not the same. That's John Webber.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:55 PM, dragging Scumbo by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
cease: speaking of productions, i have an idea for a spot for air america
Scumbo: hello
EdmundEdmund: Plus, he's still in Indiana. I'm on the Left Coast now.
cease: i probably know you by another name, ed
Merlyn: hi scumbo
EdmundEdmund: I've submitted a couple of things to Air America but they didn't respond.
cease: right, i got email from him about marketing said productions
Bunnyboy: And lotsa character actors to spot: Buck Henry, Ed Begley Jr., John Paragon and the late, great Richard Paul.
Scumbo: how is everyone on this fine evening?
cease: you mean fully produced, ed?
EdmundEdmund: Cat: You know me as this one and as Daniel Geduld. As Merlyn said, I used to work for Rich. You cast me in a couple of your productions as I said.
cease: we're great, now you're here, scumbo
EdmundEdmund: Yes, fully produced.
Bunnyboy: Not to mention Edie MacClurg...which I now have.
Merlyn: I told you not to mention her
cease: i noticed when i signed up for membership they said no submissions, please
||||||||| Outside, the 8:56 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving alown coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bunnyboy: Sorry about that, Chief
Scumbo: sounds about right cease.
EdmundEdmund: They have an 'unsolicited submissions' in their contact email now so I sent a couple.
Scumbo: i was just trying to play limbaugh.com but i have to sign up or something.
Bunnyboy: BTW, Don Adams turned 81 the other day. 5 more years to go!
cease: yet they do offer "submissions:" from people- for example the 2 versions of "she still looks reptitlian to me"
Merlyn: ah, that'd be the right address to use
Merlyn: to go to what, bboy?
cease: you're not alown no more. you're with us
Bunnyboy: I can see the article now: AGENT 86 AT 86.
EdmundEdmund: Would you believe 82?
Mudhead: cruel but oddly humorous
Merlyn: I see; barbara feldon has to hit 99?
Scumbo: i want to submit something fantastic
Bunnyboy: A boy scout with a pocket knife?
cease: me too, scumbo. but they would have to determine it was fantastic
Bunnyboy: The Cone of Silence!
EdmundEdmund: I have no shame. I'll probably keep submitting things for the hell of it and expect them not to air them.
Bunnyboy: Phineas J. Whoopie, you're a genius!
Mudhead: what?
||||||||| Outside, the 8:58 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving TomInNYC coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:59 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving ah,clem coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: when you say you submitted them, how? just mailed them to their new york address?
Merlyn: are you submitting station IDs or what?
TomInNYC:
Scumbo: o
Merlyn: hey clem, tom
Scumbo: i am in nyc
Mudhead: ah Clem!
Bunnyboy: Naw, Barb turned 71 about a week back.
Scumbo: i bet tom is cute
cease: you and 16 millions others
Bunnyboy: And she still looks great.
Merlyn: catherwood's watch is fast again
Mudhead: she didnt hurt her back tho
cease: so you can just walk or take subway to their station and give them a cd?
Scumbo: theres only like 8 million of us
EdmundEdmund: Little sketches and such. For instance, this morning Al Franken said that the 'Islamic Extremist Leanrs to Fly' memo sounds like a childrens' book, so I did an audiobook version of the book.
Scumbo: right tom?
||||||||| It's 9:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| jasenlee - dead from the fiddlers
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bunnyboy: Tom: Izzat you, Doc?
TomInNYC: Not sure what the question was...
cease: yeah, i thought of something like that too, sounds like the deputy dan sketch
Scumbo: that's a good idea - i should hand out cd's
Scumbo: to people on the trains
EdmundEdmund: http://www.everyonesvoice.com/extremistfly.mp3
ah,clem: hi all, BBL
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Mudhead: k clem
cease: have you all heard their little state profiles? pretty funny. i've heard minnesota, washington and i think kansas
||||||||| At 9:01 PM, ah,clem runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
TomInNYC: NYC is pretty anti-Bush
Merlyn: I'll wait for the newsbreak, Ed^@
EdmundEdmund: No, haven't heard those.
cease: i want to do something like that on canada, to paraphrase firesign, the only state of the united states that was Never a state
EdmundEdmund: Wait... is TomInNYC DocTechnical?
Merlyn: I mean Ed^2 (shift problem)
Mudhead: we gotta get Florida pissed off at GW also
cease: hi ah
EdmundEdmund: Just type EE. :)
Merlyn: canada: we didn't start a war recently
TomInNYC: I am not anyone that you know... This is my first time to your chat
cease: yes, actually the piece i wrote is about canada at war
EdmundEdmund: Ah. Well welcome.
Mudhead: Welcome Tom
EdmundEdmund: I think Oklahoma's slogan should be Oklahoma: The OTHER Kansas
Merlyn: ok tom, one of the webmasters is tom near NYC
Mudhead: Im from CT
cease: and ohio.
TomInNYC: I saw the "link" on the "blog" on MR
Scumbo: i am sneezy
Merlyn: Kansas: our state is a subset of another state
EdmundEdmund: The tom near NYC is in CT. Maybe Mudhead is Tom!
cease: just read great article about kansas in harpers
Mudhead: i am the other one, Horny
EdmundEdmund: Or he was in CT last time I saw him which admittedly was years ago.
Bunnyboy: The local cafeteria had a Texas Caesar Salad. I couldn't resist my own definition...
cease: not our kansas, arkansas
Merlyn: I'm Sleepy
EdmundEdmund: I'm Dopey... but then you knew that.
cease: and Doc is doc
Merlyn: noah's arkansas
TomInNYC: I'm not a dwarf
cease: mine hasnt kicked in yet, ed
Mudhead: no Mudhead is...Mudhead, from before the beginning
Bunnyboy: The Dubya Special, AKA The Texas Caesar: Green lettuce, with a generous side of bullshit.
Merlyn: don't crush that dwarf
cease: you'd have to say bullcrap on air america
EdmundEdmund: You know how you can tell Dick Cheney is lying? Bush's lips are moving.
Merlyn: it's a law?
cease: mudhead used to be richard arnold, long ago
cease: good one, ed
EdmundEdmund: Thank you.
Merlyn: I like elayne's idea of just substituting "FCC" for all swearing
Bunnyboy: No, it's a guideline.
TomInNYC: Bush is soo full of himself
cease: ed, you said you submitted pieces? how?
EdmundEdmund: Oo. Elayne shows up? I haven't talked to her in ages either.
cease: sounds like an old firesign riff
Mudhead: Isnt she moving?
Merlyn: sure EE
||||||||| Outside, the 9:05 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Reebus_Kaneebus coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
EdmundEdmund: Cat: They have a little submission form on their contact page and one of the choices is unsolicited submissions. I sent them URLs to mp3s I did.
Merlyn: "FCC" pronounced "FK"
cease: oh i see
EdmundEdmund: I last spoke with both Elayne and Doc on my honeymoon at a sushi place in Greenwich Village.
cease: yes, doc was talking about doing that last week
TomInNYC: Are you all listening to MR?
cease: that's the easiest way
Merlyn: I am
EdmundEdmund: Well, I should be, but I've been talking and I'm not good at multitasking today.
cease: of course, tom
Bunnyboy: Yes, pronounce FCC as FFF Cuh Cuh.
Reebus_Kaneebus: I am listening to SkyBird for FST shoc.
TomInNYC: ah, good
Merlyn: that sound weird, EE, on your honeymoon?
cease: does anyone here NOT want to do a piece for air america? and i'm not even american
Mudhead: what is Skybird doing?
EdmundEdmund: My honeymoon was in NYC and we met up with Elayne and her husband and Doc and someone else that I don't remember for Sushi.
Reebus_Kaneebus: AA got dumped in LA and CHICAGO
TomInNYC: Where are you cease?
cease: north vancouver
EdmundEdmund: AAR will be back on the air in Chicago tomorrow apparently. Unfortunately, us in La-La Land have to wait.
Merlyn: dunno, I think ah, clem logged in just to put that up but had to leave
Bunnyboy: Yes, LA's still into EST.
Reebus_Kaneebus: music now, FST soon.
cease: but they won their court case re chicago, reebus
Bunnyboy: And Chicago...well, it's just not their way.
Reebus_Kaneebus: AH
cease: Earthsign Theatre?
TomInNYC: I love Canada... My girl and I have been discussing moving up there if Bush wins again
cease: we got lots of room, tom
EdmundEdmund: Silly bunny, after April 4th, LA is into EDT.
Reebus_Kaneebus: I heard they are also taking LA to court.
EdmundEdmund: (Well PDT really, that wouldn't fit the joke)
cease: i lived in LA when the firesigns were aborning there
||||||||| Catherwood enters with ed close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:09 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
Reebus_Kaneebus: I am NORTH of toronto, windsor and montreal.
Bunnyboy: Oh, Garry Goodrow's also in EATING RAOUL. Man, he ran on for public office in NY a few years back...on the Marijuana Progessive Party!
EdmundEdmund: Reebus: The same company owns both the LA and Chicago stations. There was a contract dispute about LA and the company pulled Chicago off the air as leverage. The court injunction will put them back on the air in Chicago.
ed: they'll owe money but not the whole $1 mill
cease: there actually is a marijuana party in canada
Merlyn: we got ed and eded
||||||||| It's 9:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| alown - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
EdmundEdmund: Oo! Dear Daniel Geduld, YOUR PACKAGE 5 (EXHIBITS ONLY) REGISTRATION for the E3Expo 2004 has been approved.
EdmundEdmund: Yay.
Bunnyboy: Ah! Tom indirectly answered my question...welcome, anyway!
cease: maine, reebus?
Bunnyboy: Perhaps the handle should be TomNOTDoc
TomInNYC: Huh?
Reebus_Kaneebus: Upper Michigan, on the shore of gitchee goomee...
cease: aha, like Kend
Reebus_Kaneebus: its the truth or you ca sue me.
Bunnyboy: Tom: Doc Technical's secret ID is Tom.
Merlyn: gitchee gitchee goo
TomInNYC: Who is Doc?
Bunnyboy: Oops! I "outted" Doc...and he ain't even here!
ed: so is Janine deranged or what?\
Reebus_Kaneebus: radio ga ga
Mudhead: Mudhead drops a pin
Reebus_Kaneebus: Hey I heard that
EdmundEdmund: We already outed him.
Bunnyboy: I certainly don't expect Dave to sign on as DaveNOTBb.
Reebus_Kaneebus: it went "doink"
EdmundEdmund: Janeane is deranged but she's cute as a button so I forgive her.
Merlyn: who's janine?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:12 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dr. Headphones coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Reebus_Kaneebus: Gimme two!
EdmundEdmund: She's Janeane's identical twin.
Dr. Headphones: hello, dear friends
Reebus_Kaneebus: hidoc
Merlyn: only one per customer
Bunnyboy: lo Ken
EdmundEdmund: Is Dr.Headphones DocTech? WHO IS DOC TECH?!
Reebus_Kaneebus: waaaahhhhhhn
EdmundEdmund: And furthermore, who is Harry Crumb?
Bunnyboy: Tom's not Doc, and I'm not Ed!
Dr. Headphones: i am NOT a crook, er, doctec :)
Merlyn: tom o'neill is doctech, the other firesigntheatrelegacy.com webmaster (besides me)
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:13 PM, dragging Dyp Phong by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Reebus_Kaneebus: I am not right.
Bunnyboy: README, DOCTOR MEMORY?
EdmundEdmund: These days, he says "I am not a corpse."
Dyp Phong: Hiya All
EdmundEdmund: I read unhappy macnam
Scumbo: i am very pretty
||||||||| TomInNYC leaves at 9:14 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..."
Reebus_Kaneebus: pretty what?
Dr. Headphones: and is reebus from the u.p.? welcome, fellow michiganian (but i'm as far down as you can go, on indiana border)
Bunnyboy: SYSTAT NINER
Reebus_Kaneebus: I am pretty deranged.
Dyp Phong: Unhappy Power Mac
Dr. Headphones: hi phong, are you ersatz fong?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:14 PM and late as usual, it's klokwkdogInRI, just back from Billville."
Merlyn: my furniture is rearranged
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'BuckFush', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:14 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Dr. Headphones: hey klok
||||||||| Catherwood leads llanwydd inside, makes a note of the time (9:15 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
klokwkdogInRI: yeah, me and the horses
cease: hi kend
cease: klok
llanwydd: howdy
Dr. Headphones: howdy, BF and llan
EdmundEdmund: It's always you and the horses. Feh.
cease: llan, hey the regulars are appearing
klokwkdogInRI: any day now, any way now, I shall be rearranged...
Bunnyboy: I gotta go tend to muh dog. May BBL. Good reception, all.
Dyp Phong: Ping-Pong with an H
Dr. Headphones: klok, i've been waiting all my life...."you AND the horse you rode in on!" ;)
cease: i've just rejoined you in cat ownership land, as if anyone ever owns cats
klokwkdogInRI: by e Bboy
cease: by bun
||||||||| Catherwood leads Danny inside, makes a note of the time (9:16 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Merlyn: cats don't have owners, they have staff
Reebus_Kaneebus: hullo deer frends voiceprints of the 60's
cease: indeed, merl
Dr. Headphones: cease/cat: 4 new ones here yesterday, momma is now slim and trim, 4 little tigers
Reebus_Kaneebus: My cat speaks.
Dr. Headphones: hey danny
||||||||| Bunnyboy rushes off, saying "9:16 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Merlyn: we've got your voiceprince
Reebus_Kaneebus: and she swears in cat o neese
cease: we got ours yesterday too. born feb 5th
Dr. Headphones: whereas we swear in MANdarin?
Dyp Phong: Bye Bun
EdmundEdmund: Hmm... Catherwood leading Danny inside... Pandemonium was breaking out all around ME
Reebus_Kaneebus: Myorno waka waka
klokwkdogInRI: regular, or one of those atwood plan enhanced models, cat?
Danny )
llanwydd: I've got five sisters named Cat. Cathleen, Catherine, Catholic, Cathode and Catheter
Reebus_Kaneebus: atkins cat
cease: margaret atwood has a plan?
EdmundEdmund: The image of Moby having a tea shop is so precious.
Dr. Headphones: i used to play the pandemonium in an orchestra....
Merlyn: a whale in a tea shop?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:18 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving PDB Fong coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dyp Phong: The National Fur Ball Convention?
klokwkdogInRI: LOL
Merlyn: like bull & china?
llanwydd: Catherwood must be a Cat too.
cease: and dex too
EdmundEdmund: I used to play the telephone.
Danny: has anyone seen Nancy?
Reebus_Kaneebus: a whale OF a teashop
PDB Fong: Yikes...an imatator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dr. Headphones: aye, fong, wecome
Merlyn: you mean betty jo bialowski?
Reebus_Kaneebus: everyone knew her as nancy
EdmundEdmund: I fong an imitator.
PDB Fong: ...and a full house too
klokwkdogInRI: let's avoid ethnic stereotypes, Merlyn
Danny: if you knew her like I know here. oh wait you ! YOU!
Dyp Phong: Calm down, I'm NOT Bush....thank God!
EdmundEdmund: Yeah, but I have a royal flush, so...
||||||||| It's 9:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| marick - dead from pneumonia
 ||||||||| ed - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: menopause?
Dr. Headphones: i need to call a plumber, i think, my royal flushes require two pushes of the handle now
Scumbo: i keep fading to grey
PDB Fong: So..Hi cat, Danny, Kend^, Dyp (THong), Double Edmund, Klok, Ilan Merl, Reebus, and those fading to gray
EdmundEdmund: No thanks, cease. I'm trying to give them up.
llanwydd: do you know chat is french for cat
EdmundEdmund: Hello Fong
Merlyn: scumbo, that just means you haven't "spoken" for a while
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'saltine', just granted probation at 9:21 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
cease: no wonder i've been here since the beginning
Reebus_Kaneebus: jai une belle chat!
Dyp Phong: Hey PDB!
Danny: hiya Fong!
saltine: what is happening to me?
Dr. Headphones: saltine! where's the peanut butter?
Merlyn: since people can leave while staying logged in, it just shows they might not be around
cease: are these folks coming in from the majority report blog invite?
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bessie inside, makes a note of the time (9:21 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
EdmundEdmund: Most likely, Cat.
Merlyn: saltine, didn't you assalt a peanut?
EdmundEdmund: Or should I call you Chat?
Bessie: hi
cease: or are they folks who are familiar with the firesign theatre?
Dr. Headphones: hey bessie
Merlyn: I posted another ad, was entry #2
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'InflatableTweeny', just granted probation at 9:22 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
EdmundEdmund: Merlyn really mustard all of his skills to pepper us with that one.
cease: hi bessie. where's harry?
PDB Fong: Mr. Chairman..in as much as we have a quorum, Let's Eat!
InflatableTweeny: Solid coffee, anyone?
cease: merl, you submitted a spot to air america?
Mudhead: i relish the thought
Dr. Headphones: tweeny, i prefer mine in liquid form
PDB Fong: Tweeny, thought you retired
klokwkdogInRI: what's left of it...
Reebus_Kaneebus: I like mine thick.
Dyp Phong: Got to be crackers around here...
Dr. Headphones: read fast so you can ketchup
Merlyn: cut me off some coffe, tweeny
InflatableTweeny: Air America rocks.
saltine: Dr: Headphones: what would you recommend? i'm looking at the sony mdr-V6, most sennheisers are over my budget (~$100)
llanwydd: I just bubbled up the real thing on the flash. Thanks for reminding me
PDB Fong: Ken: I relish your wit
Merlyn: special baked guests
EdmundEdmund: I always get baked before being a guest.
saltine: (air america)++
InflatableTweeny: Sure wish the boys were still on XM. Been revisiting the clips recently...
cease: i thought that was Me
Dr. Headphones: saltine: i recommend the cheapie radio shack model and spend the rest of the money on dope, booze, and whores ;)
Dyp Phong: do you relish mustard gas, too?
cease: even still on ATC
Danny: and guns
saltine: so is this a frontend to an irc server or web only?
klokwkdogInRI: mdr-v6s are the absolute gold standard for a huge cohort of fanatics who rued the day Sony discontinued and are the reason they broght them back
EdmundEdmund: Web only
Merlyn: grey poupon mustard gas?
InflatableTweeny: But then again I wish Bill Hicks was still around explaning about biblical times.
Dr. Headphones: we're web only, sometimes we have simultaneous sound feed
PDB Fong: I recommend Grado Headphones..reasonable and very good
Reebus_Kaneebus: This chat is slow, I have to wait to ketchup
Merlyn: saltine, it's a web-based chat I wrote in PHP
EdmundEdmund: It's the Mooooooooooveon Raaaanger!
Dr. Headphones: i got my first sennheisers back in 70s and they were GREAT! mostly listen on 5.1 surround speakers now
Merlyn: reebus, the default refresh rate is 10 seconds, but you can change it
InflatableTweeny: Waiter?
Merlyn: or just do a manual refresh
PDB Fong: Wait here?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:25 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Woody One coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: headphones?i couldnt speak more highly of my beyerdynamic DT 911s
Dr. Headphones: manual refresh involves cutting out old pages, taping in new ones, makes for messy product
Merlyn: trundling? It was called bundling
PDB Fong: Hiya Woody
saltine: klok...: the 7506's are the same as the v6, only with the gold plug, is that what you mean by 'brough back'?
Dyp Phong: Now wait over there!
Woody One: Hi folks
InflatableTweeny: Hey Woody...
llanwydd: oui messeeeeer?
Dr. Headphones: hi woody
Dyp Phong: Hi wood
klokwkdogInRI: i worship my MDR-V6s, but the earpads disintegrate after 5 years or so. You can buy new earpads for $20-30, though
saltine: i cant find the v6 on their site
cease: woody
llanwydd: Hey, Woody! Peace at any price
InflatableTweeny: As Mr. Mr. would say, welcome to the real world.
PDB Fong: Salt: Hang on, I'm sending you a couple of V-2's
saltine: yeah i was thinking of sticking on velour earpads for a beyerdynamic pair that fit
Merlyn: OK, do you think david cross will make "special" brownies?
Reebus_Kaneebus: I need senheizer 424 pads! They ignore me. I have the signature ones.
klokwkdogInRI: well, they were selling them last year, or was it 2002. I'm leery of "exactly the same as MDR-V6s", 'cause I've heard too much about how nothing is
Woody One: A Wood peace at any price.
EdmundEdmund: Bush Sr. hates broccoli
InflatableTweeny: Accompanied by M-262's?
Dr. Headphones: reebus: send me your old ones, i'll sign 'em
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'The_Decline', just granted probation at 9:27 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Bessie: what are you guys talking about?
Reebus_Kaneebus: ha!
saltine: PDB: im in a bunker 3 miles under in an undisclosed location
InflatableTweeny: I hate bronchitis.
Merlyn: well, cubby broccoli hates bush sr.
Dr. Headphones: we're doomed, the_decline has started!
Danny: sanitary napkins i think
Reebus_Kaneebus: earscopes and eye phones
Mudhead: Reebus Im close by the Sennheiser offices, can I assist you?
Bessie: "M262sw"?
EdmundEdmund: Isn't Cubby dead?
PDB Fong: Bessie: WHich conversation is eluding you?
Dr. Headphones: bessie: anythynge you want....
||||||||| Catherwood leads canadian_patriot2000 inside, makes a note of the time (9:28 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
klokwkdogInRI: there are actually some beyerdynamic earpads that're supposed to be *better* than the V6's (not difficult), but I can't find those either. check Google Groups for info
Reebus_Kaneebus: Yes MUD!
llanwydd: saltine, run into Osama yet?
cease: yet another canuck?
Danny: do they really lst 5 years?
Dr. Headphones: hi patriot2000
InflatableTweeny: What in the world made you think this is a conversation?
Merlyn: "that's not writing, that's typing"
Dyp Phong: Talking about Shoes for Industry and More Goat Clusters
Mudhead: klok your in RI?
PDB Fong: This is a bunch of punch lines looking for a set-up
Woody One: I have a friend. His name is Medium Rare'. He's a mystic chef and guru. Would you like to speak with him? Here he is.
Dr. Headphones: it's not a conversation, it's a conversion. you're all catholics now
InflatableTweeny: Yet another movie about suffering.
saltine: klok: google://"site:head-fi.org v6 beyer pads"
canadian_patriot2000: Interesting chat room...do you any of you post to Yahoo Message Boards?
Woody One: Domini, domini
klokwkdogInRI: saltine: http://www.djtronix.com/sonymdrv6.html
InflatableTweeny: Like bowling pins?
Dyp Phong: When will the railroad be going through?
Dr. Headphones: can_pat_2k: yes, but mostly just read them
Danny: do yo ugoogle?
Merlyn: only the naughty ones, canadian
||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zeit - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| BuckFush - dead from the yaws
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: I do, actually
Reebus_Kaneebus: I am in 70'saudiomindset
PDB Fong: I used to post to the YooHoo msge board, but it made my face break out
Danny: woah deja vu....
klokwkdogInRI: padded crime room? nude year?
cease: i only post to alt. firesign
Merlyn: saltine, if the URL scrolled by too fast, you can get a log of tonight with the Log link
Woody One: What are the yaws anyway?
InflatableTweeny: Padded volksvagen from Jack Poet.
llanwydd: alt.comedy.firesgn is a mess these days
Dr. Headphones: woody: similar to pitch and roll, but in a different direction
EdmundEdmund: Why do Janeane and Sam have this crazy man on?
canadian_patriot2000: PDB - Are you saying they are dominated by little kids?
Danny: and altbinariesfemalebodyhair
cease: good question, ed
Dyp Phong: Bush naked in Playgirl for National Birth Control.......what a platform!
Woody One: thank you doctor
Danny: did someone see Nancy?
cease: good one, dyp
Merlyn: the development of corn is pretty well known
saltine: ys i can find retailers selling them (froogle)++ , and i cought that djtronics one
PDB Fong: can pat 2k: Tiny Dominatrixes...yes
cease: i just invented whiskey
Dr. Headphones: merl: call it maize for our commonwealth friends
InflatableTweeny: Spread eagle there, on the floor...
Merlyn: CORN! Now we can make whisky!
Merlyn: whisky tortillas for everyone!
InflatableTweeny: I just invented Jung!
Woody One: I just invented Tom Collins
cease: americans just ordered reduction of smog. i thought bush. co bought them all off
Dr. Headphones: now work on olde
canadian_patriot2000: PDB: I figured that but I have actually had some good conversations...I like the format...very user friendly
Merlyn: hey, my internet stream just cut out
Danny: dang price of cigarattes goin up again
Dyp Phong: HE bought them off with Oil Stock Options
llanwydd: I just invented Bill Cosby
PDB Fong: can pat 2K: Actually this is the only chat place I frequent
Woody One: It's the tax Danny
llanwydd: Actually Bill's okay
Danny: not to mention cues
Dr. Headphones: danny: roll yer own, better control of ingredients (jes don' uze that wacky tabacky!)
Merlyn: If the US invaded north carolina, cigarette prices would go down
canadian_patriot2000: This guy on show sounds baked out of his mind right now.....
InflatableTweeny: And yet another fan of Fat Albert. You'd better let him out...
Woody One: No, give it to me
||||||||| Outside, the 9:34 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Tess coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: just like gas prices when down when we invaded iraq
Dr. Headphones: howdy, tess
cease: Tess, meet Bessie
Merlyn: hey tess
InflatableTweeny: Hey Tess
Bessie: lol
InflatableTweeny: Mooo
Dr. Headphones: let me guess: you're "of the d'urbevilles"?
Tess: hello
InflatableTweeny: Welcome to the asylum.
Merlyn: your name is dangerously non-weird
PDB Fong: Hi
||||||||| Outside, the 9:35 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dave coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dr. Headphones: tweeny: don't say that, others will want in also!
EdmundEdmund: She likes to think of herself as a Durbeyfield actually
Dyp Phong: Dave Here!
Tess: what is this place? I just saw the link on air america
PDB Fong: Hey Dave
Merlyn: hey dave, big crowd tonight
InflatableTweeny: Evenin' Dave
Dr. Headphones: hi dave
Dave sings I'm in the mood for nothing but nothing
Merlyn: it's the chat room for the Firesign Theatre, George Carlin's favorite comedy group
PDB Fong: Dave: We got plenty o' nothin'
Dr. Headphones: tess: we're afficianados of the firesign theatre (and mostly left-wing nuts to boot)
InflatableTweeny: Carlin likes comedy?
Merlyn: Ever hear of Nick Danger? That's them.
cease: Dave
Bessie: are all of you listening to air america?
Woody One: Carlin has good taste
Dave: oh boy! big crowds! sorry if I miss if someone says something to me
Dyp Phong: In what key, Dave?
PDB Fong: I'm a left wing screw
cease: and not just his own, tweeny
Dave: we're all nuts
Merlyn: Well, Carlin is turning into ranting old man mode
Tess: oh ok good. where is the theatre>
PDB Fong: Never mind Dave
cease: that's what i thought when i saw him live last year
InflatableTweeny: Long hair, short hair...
canadian_patriot2000: The guy on the program sounds like he IS more suited for the Art Bell Show
Woody One: Don't know danger but am familiar with regnad kcin
Dyp Phong: I'm Left Handed in a right winged world.......
EdmundEdmund: The announcer for Pinxav sounds amazingly like TV's Frank from MST3K
cease: it's a radio/cd comedy group, not an actual theatre, tess
llanwydd: When is Carlin going to chill out? He's not even funny anymore
Merlyn: It's the name of the group. If you want samples of their albums, try www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/
Dyp Phong: Theatre is in your mind....
cease: speaking of the left hand of darkness, excellent 2-part show about u.k. leguin on cbc this week
PDB Fong: Stell Cage Match: Carlin vs, Dennis Miller
Woody One: That's what a lot of people thought-wish I could tupe faster
Woody One: or type
llanwydd: canadian, do you mean Carlin's appearance on Art Bell's show? I actually heard it
PDB Fong: Tuping is good
InflatableTweeny: Making fun of everyone without bias of race, gender, or political affiliation since the 60's.
EdmundEdmund: cat, I hope it's better than the recent film of Left Hand of Darkness...
Danny: good to see you all...I just fade my voice out like
cease: film?
Danny: cue the organist
PDB Fong: Danny goes in and out like anything
EdmundEdmund: Does this mean that Ron Suskind has been on every AAR show now?
saltine: you people are weird, i'm out of here
InflatableTweeny: Although Nixon was quite a gift...
cease: you mean the remake of Lathe of Heaven? i think that's the only "film" project of one of her books
PDB Fong: Stay slaty, cracker
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| The_Decline - dead from the fiddlers
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
PDB Fong: salty
cease: are those my cues?
Merlyn: we're here every thursday, saltine
Dyp Phong: I'm on a no salt diet...
EdmundEdmund: Cat: Yes. Sorry. I meant Lathe of Heaven. It was really badly made IMO.
InflatableTweeny: Ah, Clem.
Woody One: or slatine
PDB Fong: o even slatern
cease: yeah the first was MUCH better. and also faithful to the book, one of my alltime faves by Anybody
cease: when uk came to vancouver to a writers conference, she said she was consciously trying to write a PK Dick book with that.
cease: and did a much better job than almost all of his
EdmundEdmund: The first mostly just suffered from a low budget, but other than that, yes. It was very close to the book. I met Ursula a couple of times because her daughter went to Indiana University when I was a kid.
cease: wow
PDB Fong: No more Lathe of God though...he's outsorced those jobs
Woody One: My brother went to IU
InflatableTweeny: Am I U?
llanwydd: Ive got a friend who's begging me to read PKD. Where should I start?
EdmundEdmund: I can see that being a PK Dick book now that you've said that. Makes sense.
InflatableTweeny: Sorry...
PDB Fong: Ilan: At the beginning
EdmundEdmund: Ilanwydd: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Woody One: who am us anywho?
cease: the only sf writer i've ever met was spider robinson, who's fun but not in the same talent galaxy as uk
EdmundEdmund: One of his most famous books and for good reason.
InflatableTweeny: Who is we?
cease: good flick, at least pk thought. but the book was WAY better.
Dyp Phong: Why, we're just like you ....and you and maybe them!
Mudhead: Theres a fight on TV...oh wait, its a hockey game
cease: i think the best thing ever written about religion, which is totallyabsent from the flick
Dr. Headphones: ah, i go to bathroom and to get more coffee and i fade to near nothingness.... such is life
cease: old joke, i went to a fight and a hockey game broke out
klokwkdogInRI: I don't recommend that anyone but men read PKD; it's incredibly sexist; sometimes annoys even me
||||||||| Catherwood ushers BuckFush into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:44 PM, then departs.
Woody One: but still funny
Dyp Phong: All things must pass, phones..
cease: yeah, he had an enormous problem with women. married 5 and died alone
Bessie: what does pkd stand for
InflatableTweeny: Not much of a cough there, BF...
cease: philip k. dick, dont remember what the k is for
Merlyn: dr 'phones, you need your cat to walk on your keyboard while you're gone
Dr. Headphones: wb, BF
PDB Fong: Phillip K Dick, Sci-fi author
cease: the name of this radio show is a riff on his short story "minority report"
Woody One: five wives is definintely an enormous problem
Bessie: o, ok
EdmundEdmund: I don't remember PKD being all that sexist... his attitudes were pretty standard for the time he was writing them (the late 50s and early 60s)
Merlyn: at once?
Dr. Headphones: merl: there's a program you can buy to stop that, never bookmarked it though, so can't refer you
cease: my kittens were walking on my keys an hour ago. will do so again when they wake up
Merlyn: yeah, I know phones.
PDB Fong: Klok: How you doing with that giant dog?
Merlyn: but if you pull down the "I'm Away" flag, you don't fade
EdmundEdmund: I mean, it's like saying that Shakespeare was sexist... unfortunately, women were simply not viewed the way they should have been at that point.
cease: the flick of that was actually pretty good, inspite of speilburg, cruise
Woody One: like naked
klokwkdogInRI: giant dog is out on the deck. I'll have to go deal with it if it threatens to break the slider.
cease: klok, you have giant dog and kittens too?
EdmundEdmund: Yeah, the movie of Minority Report was not bad.
Dyp Phong: Cease, tell them cats to write something you can use
||||||||| Outside, the 9:47 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving andie coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: it captured pkd's insight into advertising very well
klokwkdogInRI: I bought some Frosty Paws with some of the contingency money and have been using them when it really gets beserk
Merlyn: I've heard movies use about the first chapter of PKD books
Bessie: where is everyone from in here?
Merlyn: hey andie
InflatableTweeny: Well, you have to feed it something, don't ya?
cease: well, writing is not my problem. PRODUCING the finished audio is more the problem
Dr. Headphones: so we weirded out saltine and he/she left? too bad
Merlyn: I'm in St. Paul, MN
Dr. Headphones: hi andie
PDB Fong: NYC
cease: you've never read any, merl?
Dr. Headphones: bessie: sw michigan here
InflatableTweeny: Welcome to the nightmare, andie.
EdmundEdmund: Minority Report was a short story, Merlyn.
EdmundEdmund: Cat- you need a producer? *hint hint*
Bessie: where is everyone from in here?
Merlyn: Not that I remember, cat, maybe some short stories
Mudhead: Who needed Senheiser assistance?
Woody One: I'v been trying to figure that out all my life
cease: as was total recall, and another flick
Merlyn: can you remember it for me wholesale?
EdmundEdmund: I'm from Los Angeles.
PDB Fong: Still from NYC
Woody One: Where in LA Ed?
Bessie: i am from jersey
InflatableTweeny: You can't get there from here.
llanwydd: I'm from northern New York State. Originally New Jersey
Merlyn: in England?
PDB Fong: What exit =)
cease: my 2 fave stories by anyone are Faith of Our Fathers (a kind of alternate mao) and The Electric Ant, very reminiscent of an old twilight zone
EdmundEdmund: Total Recall was based on a PKD Story in the same way that Slayer is based on Elvis Presley soungs.
Dr. Headphones: i've been to jersey, damned deer jumped on my car there, almost totalled it
Dyp Phong: I'm from Elmertown
Mudhead: Im in New London, CT
EdmundEdmund: Woody: Hollywood.
Woody One: Antelope Freeway one mile
cease: you and janeane, eh?
cease: gazelle freeway, one leap
Bessie: yeah, janeane was born in my home town!
Woody One: I just moved from Marina Del Rey
klokwkdogInRI: do you want to know where we are or where we are coming from?
Dyp Phong: If you lived here, you'd be home by now
Mudhead: Where are you going?
||||||||| It's 9:50 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| BuckFush - dead from jaundice
 ||||||||| canadian_patriot2000 - dead from measles
 ||||||||| saltine - dead from the fiddlers
 ||||||||| Danny - dead from the yaws
 ||||||||| Dave - dead from the common cold
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
PDB Fong: ..or where we're at?
Dr. Headphones: wow, an epidemic there!
InflatableTweeny: Which way's Goshen?
llanwydd: I think the deer is worse in Pennsylvania
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Dave in through the front door at 9:50 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
PDB Fong: WB Dave
||||||||| Catherwood says "9:50 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Dave by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
klokwkdogInRI: is that in Marin?
InflatableTweeny: Deja vu, Dave...
PDB Fong: or not
Bessie: in northwest jersey, the deer are all over
Merlyn: dave goes in & out like anything
klokwkdogInRI: anywhaere near the Golden Hind Boatel?
llanwydd: There is a Goshen, NY and a Goshen Indiana
cease: very firesonian of him
InflatableTweeny: Yeah, right next to Chong...
EdmundEdmund: Can we all just get beyond thunderdome? Please?
Merlyn: the boat hotel
Dyp Phong: Super-Lax Dave...
Woody One: I'm in IN right now
Dr. Headphones: i'm only a few miles from goshen, indiana, nice little town
klokwkdogInRI: the deer thing is simple
Merlyn: Phil Proctor is from there
PDB Fong: SUV's mow en down
EdmundEdmund: Hah, Woody. I moved from Indiana to LA two months ago.
cease: does anyone think this air america thing can make a difference in the election?
klokwkdogInRI: they are always cutting thru the chain link fences along the Interstates
cease: where are you in la, ed?
InflatableTweeny: Phil's from thunderdrome?
Woody One: I'm in Evansville
Bessie: SUVs gobble up gas
EdmundEdmund: Cat: Hollywood.
klokwkdogInRI: esp. if someone has wired a cattle salt block up under one of the drain covers in the median
PDB Fong: BUt they kill deer
Dr. Headphones: klok: about 20 mile section of I-80/90 near here has deer alert system. i think it's lasers, but might be microwaves
InflatableTweeny: Air America is losing stations. Best over the net.
Reebus_Kaneebus: dead deer, always a plus
Merlyn: dunno, cat, I don't see how Bush can still pull 43% or whatever
Bessie: who wants to kill deer AND the environment?
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Bacchus', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:53 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
cease: i lived in the valley, only went to hollywood to buy books, at , forget the name but a great book store
PDB Fong: Tweeny: They got Chicago back to day and will get the rest back
klokwkdogInRI: then you just get on the road kill list and voila! fresh venison weekly
InflatableTweeny: Say hi to Roy, Woody...
klokwkdogInRI: and no more deer on the highway
Reebus_Kaneebus: I can't hear AA, they only use WMA and I am LINUX. Shoulda been mp3
llanwydd: Microwaves? Sounds dangerous
Woody One: I don't want to kill anything except a few hours
Dr. Headphones: killing deer is ok if they are overpopulated as they are here. i don't do it myself, but will eat it if you kill it
Mudhead: I lived in Venice CA many years ago
InflatableTweeny: Evenin' Bacchus.
cease: salon seems to think this howard stern's character's wrath (never heard him) will effect the election and not to bush's advantage
Woody One: Who's Roy?
cease: you and paul krassner, mud
Dr. Headphones: hi bac
InflatableTweeny: Air America uses Real.
Mudhead: Whos that Cat?
cease: the tiger cat?
klokwkdogInRI: its either you and your family in a sedan against the deer, or getting the semis involved. semis can stand up to them
Bessie: i live in a town where my high school gets the first day of hunting off
EdmundEdmund: Reebus: I have a link to an Ogg Vorbis stream of Air America if you want it.
Merlyn: stearn is likely to reach undecideds, and he has more listeners
Merlyn: whoa.
Woody One: Howard Stern watches Oprah
Merlyn: ....must....order....tickets
klokwkdogInRI: well, Rumsfeld sure made a hit with all the voters among the troops in Iraq today...
cease: paul krassner, firesign pal and comedian, founder of the magazine The Realist,
||||||||| 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 50TonsOfMustardGas disembarks at 9:55 PM.
Merlyn: somebody should be watching oprah
cease: had a show with peter bergman and harry krassner called Peter, Paul and Harry in LA
Dr. Headphones: bessie: first day of hunting season here is unofficial holiday
Merlyn: how so, KWD?
EdmundEdmund: Hey... did you guys hear that Tim Robbins has a play called Embedded at the Public Theatre in New York?
Woody One: I'm taping it
PDB Fong: Gosh, what is all this Military imagery, Sir?
Dr. Headphones: hi mustard
Dyp Phong: How's the DOgs, gas?
InflatableTweeny: It's mean Mr. Mustard!
cease: are you going to the new firesign show in la, merl?
klokwkdogInRI: the FBI is watching Oprah, arent' they?
cease: good one, ed
50TonsOfMustardGas: hey guys
Woody One: along with the Home Shopping Network
Bessie: yeah, it is kind of anoyying, but i get a day off of school, so i don't care
cease: this is funny, the profiles in discourage
Merlyn: yes cat
Merlyn: are you related to the human ton from The Tick?
klokwkdogInRI: he Catch-22'd them, Merlyn
Woody One: Batmanuel!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:57 PM and Elayne steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
50TonsOfMustardGas: hey guys
cease: i highly reccommend krassner's autobiography, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut
klokwkdogInRI: 90 more days of Baghdad nights and daze
PDB Fong: Hi Elayne
InflatableTweeny: Maybe they can find some discount equipment on HSN, as they're ridiculously underfunded for the job we're asking.
cease: and speaking of Krassner....here's Elayne!
Dyp Phong: Howdy E!
Elayne: Anyone order this grape?
EdmundEdmund: Elayne! Long time no type!
Elayne: Evenin' all!
||||||||| Outside, the 9:57 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: hey elayne
klokwkdogInRI: hey, E! How goeth the move preps?
InflatableTweeny: Hey E.
cease: hey yammy
Merlyn: and yammy
Elayne: My goodness, EddieEddie! How the heck are you!?
PDB Fong: oi
InflatableTweeny: Hey Y.
cease: el, have you ever seen so many new people here before? not i
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto: oi
Elayne: Gah, klok. I think we need lotsa help. :)
EdmundEdmund: I'm great. Moved to Hollywood a few months ago.
Elayne: Hey Yam!
llanwydd: I wonder if my car would run on mustard gas
EdmundEdmund: I hear you're moving too. Where to?
llanwydd: Hey Yam!
||||||||| wintermute sneaks in around 9:58 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Dyp Phong: oi vey
Elayne: That's "Hollllywood, with three or four 'l's."
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto: I hate moving with a vicious passion
Woody One: my car runs on asphalt
50TonsOfMustardGas: sure, if it's the weiner-mobile
InflatableTweeny: Gosh, it's cold in here...
Dr. Headphones: hey yam, winter
EdmundEdmund: They haven't added the extra Ls to the sign yet.
Elayne: Oh, we're only moving about 10 minutes north of where we live now. But it's a chore, lots of junk to pack and throw out, and only two weeks left!
klokwkdogInRI: mine runs on Faith
Merlyn: I hate moving, but the damn earth KEEPS ROTATING!
cease: Pickwick, that's it! it was so good it was worth the drive from van nuys just to visit
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto: Bet that's funn filling, eh?
cease: on hollywood blvd, is it still there, ed?
EdmundEdmund: As long as you keep rotating with it, you'll have no problems.
Woody One: moving stuff is a pain
klokwkdogInRI: gotta get some of them ball-bearing shoes, Merlyn
EdmundEdmund: I don't know, cat. I'll look for it.
InflatableTweeny: Then you should move to China, right in the middle.
EdmundEdmund: I have been avoiding bookstores because I have such a backlog of books that I can't go in because I know I'll just buy more.
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| andie - dead from pneumonia
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bessie: has anyone seen embedded?
Woody One: poor andie
||||||||| 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 Budgie disembarks at 10:00 PM.
PDB Fong: Not me
EdmundEdmund: No, but I'm ordering tickets now. I'm ordering tickets now. I'm ordering tickets now.
Merlyn: you need to get some bookworms
llanwydd: If you moved to China we'd all fall off.
Budgie: Hey Elayne...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bessie: w it on tuesday, and tim robbins was there for a question and answer, it was awsome
Mudhead: not pass the indian!
Dr. Headphones: hey budgie
InflatableTweeny: They sure are advertizing the heck out of it.
cease: a tidal wave of newbies. all from the mr blog?
||||||||| Outside, the 10:01 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving majority report coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
EdmundEdmund: Did anyone ask him why his radio commercial is so damn irritating?
Woody One: we're giving him away next week
Merlyn: hey maj rep
InflatableTweeny: Hello Budgie.
Dr. Headphones: yam: i bookmarked this, i think it's something you would like to see, but without opening it myself again, i don't know for sure
cease: hey el, or are all these folks from YOUR blog?
klokwkdogInRI: a landslide of culture to fill our chat entertainment centre!
cease: good query, ed
llanwydd: hey maj
Dr. Headphones: http://www.octanecreative.com/knowitall/index.html
InflatableTweeny: MR, isn't that a new dramatic series?
Bessie: you should all go see it
cease: and speaking of majority report...
cease: you've seen it, bessie?
wintermute: its a radio show
EdmundEdmund: Well, being on the opposite side of the country, my going to see it does not seem to be very likely.
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto: To get to china you gotta dig a huge hole and chuck all yr stuff in it
Budgie: Newbie, yes. Not from the Mr Blog though; from Elayne's. Just never been up at 3 in the morning on a Thursday night...
InflatableTweeny: I'm not a doctor, but I look like one.
wintermute: this room is linked to from their forum
Merlyn: I look like two doctors
Bessie: yeah, i saw it on tuesday, and tim robbins was there
cease: welcome, budgie, all the rest of the new folks
Dr. Headphones: 3am? must be one of those euros, huh?
PDB Fong: Budgie: YOurin Iceland?
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 10:02 PM, dragging Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Dammit
cease: who?
Woody One: go ahead squeeze the wheeze
Budgie: London - you know the bit of America where we still drive on the left.
PDB Fong: 'here's an echoes chatter in here
Merlyn: There's two yammys
Dyp Phong: Re-Yammed again
cease: my own private iceland, or as we like to call it, Canada
klokwkdogInRI: no, that's UK offset
InflatableTweeny: What's that, a new sushi, Y?
Woody One: you mean the colonies
EdmundEdmund: Mmm. Sushi.
Mudhead: bait
cease: su su sushi, she's so nice
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : No, pizza tonite
EdmundEdmund: Elayne is responsible for introducing me to the joys of Sushi.
cease: grow em in your toilet
Woody One: and no anchovies
Merlyn: hay maj. report, you from around Georgia?
PDB Fong: Budgie: I admire your willingness to go without sleep
cease: i lived in japan for 17 years and could never stand the stuff. no joys for me
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Always Anchovies for me
InflatableTweeny: Fishin' for snook...
cease: still working for scale?
klokwkdogInRI: yeah, internationalizing the chat would require some significant re-think of an appropriate time. It's at lunch time in Sydney, for ezzample
Dyp Phong: You mean to tell me, in my very own toilet?
||||||||| 50TonsOfMustardGas departs at 10:05 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
EdmundEdmund: Of course not, Cat. Everyone knows that 'sushi' is Japanese for 'ha ha stupid white devil eat raw fish'
Woody One: you've got the wrong man
InflatableTweeny: Oh, cease...
PDB Fong: Played snooker with a fish once, took him for a fin
cease: never going back to georgia, never going back no more....
Budgie: Naah, Fong - crashed out on the sofa at 10 and woke up ten minutes ago, so thought I'd drop by and see what the Firesign chat was all about
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : That's what Stalin Said...
klokwkdogInRI: well, it's about this long...
llanwydd: in America, sushi is foreign. That's why we like it
Dr. Headphones: budgie: we're all certifiably insane. if you are too, then you're in good company
cease: the title of a greast song by the blues magoos (thanks, Dave)
InflatableTweeny: Georgia was on Stalin's mind.
klokwkdogInRI: BTW, Budgie, what about those giant Stalinist clams advancing down from Norway?
PDB Fong: I'm not certified yet, taking home correspondance course though
cease: stalin had a mind?
Elayne: Sorry, called away from keyboard.
Woody One: I lie about it on my resume
Elayne: Good lord, Lee?! Is that you?
Budgie: Klok - I think I shouldn't mix in. After all would Norway give a shit about me?
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : I just lie about it
Dr. Headphones: those uzbek girls really blow my mind!
cease: when i'm calling you-oooo
klokwkdogInRI: who is she talking to?
InflatableTweeny: More like head cheese.
Budgie: Elayne - that's ok, no need to call me "Good Lord". "Sir" is fine.
PDB Fong: Ken: ANy girl blows your mind
||||||||| Reebus_Kaneebus leaves at 10:07 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..."
EdmundEdmund: will you answer truuuuuuu-uuuuuuuuuuuuuu-uuuuuuuue
Mudhead: Hi Elaybe
Elayne: Heh, what a wonderful surprise Budgie!!
Woody One: anybody like circus peanuts?
Mudhead: Elayne
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto at 10:08 PM
llanwydd: Those Norwegian clams are going to split up Poland with the Germans
Elayne: But my goodness, it's way too late in the UK now, get back to sleep or you'll be a wreck in the morning.
EdmundEdmund: Circus peanuts killed my father.
Elayne: Oh, and please wish Laura a happy belated from me!
Merlyn: I hope that was the right one...
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : It was
PDB Fong: oi
Bessie: i have a question, what name does janeane post on the blog
||||||||| 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 Reebus_Kaneebus disembarks at 10:08 PM.
Elayne: Hey Mudhead! Sorry, didn't mean to ignore the rest of you, but having Budgie here... well, suffice it to say I'm a bit bowled over. :)
Elayne: The last time Budgie and I were on a chat together was in our old CompuServe days.
klokwkdogInRI: Budgie - it was in the Toilet, er, The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/28/wcrab28.xml
Budgie: Was just saying that I crashed out on the sofa at 10 (5 Eastern) and woke up 15 minutes ago, so...
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : My lag is godawful
Woody One: you didn't answer the question, Ed
InflatableTweeny: So, Sir B, how's England looking at our boy's adventures in Viet, er Iraq.
Merlyn: who's budgie?
EdmundEdmund: What question?
||||||||| Outside, the 10:09 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dave coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Budgie: And of course, I'll pass on your good wishes to Laura. Thanks x
Dr. Headphones: bowled over? spare or strike?
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Budgie-That was 20 minutes ago
EdmundEdmund: Oh, do I like circus peanuts? Yeah, they're okay.
Reebus_Kaneebus: bonk
EdmundEdmund: They're better stale.
Elayne: Merlyn, Budgie is an old friend of mine from the CompuServe Comics and Animation Forum, 'round about, oh, like a decade ago...
Woody One: if you like circus peanuts
Elayne: He has a great LiveJournal blog now.
cease: hey dave, i was just thanking you for the blues magoos song. bet no one here has ever heard it
Budgie: Inflatable - depends on who you ask. UK opinion in the street is pretty much split 50/50
Woody One: boy am I slow
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Circus Peanuts are deadly w/a slingshot
InflatableTweeny: I get elepantitis when I eat circus peanuts.
Merlyn: budgie, did you find this from Majority Report or something else?
EdmundEdmund: Hey, did you guys know that the roundabout theatre got their own stage with an ACA insured bond?
PDB Fong: Cat: YOu'd be wrong
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bacchus - dead from the yaws
 ||||||||| wintermute - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: isnt it too late in your country to talk about your accountants?
Elayne: Lee, I wish you could be here to help me and Robin move...
Dave: which one Cat?
klokwkdogInRI: so do you go for a spare or a strike?
Woody One: better late than never
Elayne: Yeah, do you have an April 15 deadline there too?
cease: good for you, fong, but your knowledge of music is encyclopedic to say the least
EdmundEdmund: Always keep a spare on hand.
llanwydd: Charles Schultz wrote Circus Peanuts didnt' he
InflatableTweeny: Spare me.
Dyp Phong: Can you spare a strike?
PDB Fong: E x2: Whoa
Budgie: Merlyn - from Elayne's blog a few weeks back. Just never been up at the right time to participate before
cease: never going back to georgia. apparently there is someone here in or from georgia
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Clowns scare me
cease: lucky strike means fine tobacco
klokwkdogInRI: using www.allmusic.com, just about anyone's would be, Cat
Merlyn: The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut; it's a mammal.
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : LSFMT
Budgie: Elayne - for taxes? Nope - 31st Jan deadline for previous March tax year-end
InflatableTweeny: I enjoyga...
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Smoke luck Strike Greens these days...
klokwkdogInRI: except when it's in a Gallery, Merlyn
Dr. Headphones: well, frontline on pbs now, and i'm going to give it 100%. see all next time (or at 11pm when it's over?)
Elayne: Robin says hi, Lee.
Bessie: a peanut is a bean
cease: fongie, you're old enough to have heard jack benny do the orginal commercial for that. i only heard it on golden days of radio stuff
EdmundEdmund: Oh boy. Happy news.
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : later
Woody One: A jack-in-the-box scares me
Merlyn: cat, I just tried to see if "majority report" was from NYC. Their ISP is in Georgia, so unlikely...
Elayne: You and he are the only two Brits I know who've even heard of Firesign. :)
PDB Fong: Klok: I do *not* use "allmusic"
klokwkdogInRI: nite Ken
cease: you dont have a vcr, kend?
||||||||| Dr. Headphones leaves at 10:12 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..."
klokwkdogInRI: was not accusing you so, Dex
Budgie: Tell him congrats on the Green Card, and remember, he's not allowed to use any British expressions anymore or they take it back
PDB Fong: Klok: I know =)
klokwkdogInRI: he likes to experience video live, Cat
Elayne: Lee, he says "Oh, bugger off.":)
PDB Fong: ..and I know you know too
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : I have a green card, it's an 8 of spades
klokwkdogInRI: slip road slip road slip road...
Budgie: Heh
cease: didnt bergman play jackson browne for the first time on the radio?
InflatableTweeny: Or end every sentence as if ti were a question.
llanwydd: Spike Milligan knew about FST
EdmundEdmund: Bergman did everything first.
cease: this cd collections actually sounds worth getting
klokwkdogInRI struggles to parse cat's last sentence...
InflatableTweeny: Ti a yellow ribbon...
Budgie: Oh Elayne - latest news on this year's Hypotheticals. The panel's shaping up with Karen Berger, Andy Diggle and Chris Weston as a start...
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Off slip-On slip-Dual Carriageway-Gantry-Roundabout! Ha!
klokwkdogInRI: i thought it was Proctor who was Russian
Elayne: Did he, Llan? That's good to know. Firesign had/has great respect for the Goons.
EdmundEdmund: I just saw a really interesting Spike Milligan film... The Bed-Sitting Room. Absurdist comedy co-written by spike about the last 20 people alive after Britain is destroyed in a nuclear war.
Budgie: Still don't know if I can make it down to Bristol for it, though - nephew's barmitzvah that weekend
Woody One: It's Butters!
Elayne: Sounds great, Lee. Next year Robin and I hope to finally make it back! Would you consider having either of us on the panel?
Merlyn: heard of it, EE, haven't seen it
InflatableTweeny: Proctor's from Afghanistan. He only wishes he were Russian.
Budgie: Still trying to work out timings for getting down there and still making it to the shul and party...
Elayne: Well, come on, your nephew has to come first. Can't Dave Gibbons run the panel in your absence?
Budgie: Lots of driving, I suspect
Budgie: Oh, Dave runs it anyway. All I do it write it and appear on it.
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Pastor Crosstalk wonder whatever happened to him
Elayne: So write it and e-mail it to him. :)
Budgie: But there's another reason for me to be there... that I'm under NDA about at the moment
InflatableTweeny: They have a tribute to Spkie in one of the XM broadcasts.
Elayne: NDA?
klokwkdogInRI: that's the problem with this country -- no backbone!
Budgie: Oh I do, and I do anyway.
klokwkdogInRI: charred catepillars?
Woody One: Gotta go. Thanks for tolerating my free association ramblings.
cease: ah, the kittens are awake
Budgie: Non-Disclosure Agreement.
Elayne: Take care, Woody!
llanwydd: Crosstalk was from Just Folks wasnt' he
cease: let's see what they'll type.
Mudhead: Elayne, whens the move?
PDB Fong: See Yah Woody
Elayne: Ah, I've heard of those, Lee. :)
EdmundEdmund: Bye Woody
cease: f you have problems with my sentences NOW, klok, just wait a few minutes
InflatableTweeny: That's Spike. My typing is abominal.
cease: by woody
Elayne: So Cat, are you e-mailing me those jpgs of your new cats for tomorrow's Friday Cat Blogging?
PDB Fong: Elayne: Will be in attendance on the 24th
InflatableTweeny: Must be my abdomen.
klokwkdogInRI: yeah, how did you know I just finished that beer, Cat?
Dyp Phong: They're all your type to print
Elayne: Mudhead, the official moving day is the 29th.
Elayne: Mudhead, the official moving day is the 29th.
Budgie: Elayne, but trust me, there's a reason for me to be in Bristol this year
Elayne: Thanks Dex, that's great news!
Merlyn: The Spike Milligan bit from XM is at http://firesigntheater.com/xmradio/show6/index.html
cease: havent taken any pix yet, el. just got em yesteday aftternoon. they' slowly settling in
llanwydd: theres an echo in here
EdmundEdmund: My cousin is a physics professor in Bristol
klokwkdogInRI: oh God, did Bush create a new holiday? is it like Boxing Day or something?
Dyp Phong: Elayne in motion..?
Elayne: Budgie, I hope it has to do with you getting a writing gig for one of the Big Two...
Mudhead: now its over there==================>
PDB Fong: CCan he do the Bristol Stomp?
Elayne: Okay Cat, then it'll be blogged next week.
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Sharp as a pistol...
EdmundEdmund: I never asked him.
cease: hey merl, are the firesigns gonna release the xm shows as product?
klokwkdogInRI: Dex beats us over the head with musical scholarship once again...
Budgie: Elayne - can't confirm or deny. (No, I'm not Tony Blair - take that thought out of your head)
llanwydd: I've been in Bristol. Bought a set of contact lenses there
Elayne: Oh, that's (potentially) great news Lee, congrats (tentatively)!!
PDB Fong: lol Klok
klokwkdogInRI: he's some kind of American-made inflatable robot, isn't he, Budgie?
Dyp Phong: I can hear the noise of the Blairing PM
Merlyn: Maybe cat, I'm not sure. Might have rights problems or something. I want my DVD of nick & mark stuff out if possible...
llanwydd: Actually is was just one contact now that I remember. To replace one I lost on the Common in Weston-Super-Mare
EdmundEdmund: Boy it would be nice if the guy who was supposed to e-mail me a file that he needs me to do post-production work on by tomorrow would do it already considering it's after 7.
PDB Fong: Klok: He's one of those new smooth-skin robots
cease: do you have the rights?
klokwkdogInRI: hopefully this one will work better; the earlier models (Batista, Saddam, Marcos, Noriega) all malfunctioned after awhile
Elayne: I thought Tony Blair was like a robo-dog or something.
InflatableTweeny: Well, that's it for me. Give my best to Liverpool. No wait, that's what you did for us :)
Elayne: Every time Robin hears his name he starts barking.
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Bionic Poodle
cease: maybe he cant tear himself away from air america, ed
Elayne: http://www.yetisports.org has a few new games, by the way.
Merlyn: no cat, I put it together but I don't have any rights. FT needs to get rights from XM
EdmundEdmund: Yetisports is a lot of fun
llanwydd: Now that I think of it I went to a dentist in Bristol as well. Gave me a filling real cheap.
||||||||| It's 10:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| majority report - dead from the common cold
 ||||||||| Dave - dead from pneumonia
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
klokwkdogInRI: EE - try India! There's places in Bangalore that'll do post-prod for $10/hr starting any time.
EdmundEdmund: Could be, Cat. He and I already have much in common.
EdmundEdmund: Yeah, but I do post production myself. Why would I want to pay them?
Bessie: are we talking about making films?
Merlyn: audio, I think
klokwkdogInRI: not yet. thin films or thick films? active or passive?
Bessie: o, ok
Mudhead: Well, past my bedtime, g'nite Dear Friends
Merlyn: nite mudhead
PDB Fong: Night Mudhead
llanwydd: nite mud
Dyp Phong: Later on, Mud
EdmundEdmund: Bye mudhead
klokwkdogInRI: nite mud! will b in contact
Merlyn: oily films
cease: mud
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto : Beditime for me, too later all
||||||||| At 10:22 PM, Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Mudhead departs at 10:22 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
PDB Fong: Oi, Yam
cease: yammy
||||||||| Outside, the 10:22 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bubbas Brine coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| doctec waltzes in at 10:22 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: nite yam
Merlyn: what a mysterious vanishing
PDB Fong: Hey Bubba
Scumbo: www.scumbo.com
Bubbas Brine: Hello all, cough, cough.
PDB Fong: and the Doctor is in
Merlyn: hey EE, here's your chance
cease: Doc! BB!
llanwydd: hey doc!
doctec: hi gang
klokwkdogInRI: hey, DT
llanwydd: hey bub!
EdmundEdmund: Heya Bubba... it's Daniel Geduld here.
klokwkdogInRI: i just found out mudhead's in New London
doctec: just got to lili's
Budgie: OK, heading for bed... while it's still officially "night" over here.
Bubbas Brine: Hey, Daniel.
Elayne: Hi Tom! Dex said he can make it on the 24th!
Elayne: Night, Budgie - thanks for stopping by!!
PDB Fong: Ta very much Budgie
klokwkdogInRI: goodnight and welcome, Budgie!
EdmundEdmund: Congratulations on LodesTone.
klokwkdogInRI: great to see the UK represented, finally
Bubbas Brine: Tanks.
Merlyn: by budgie
||||||||| Budgie leaves at 10:24 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..."
EdmundEdmund: bye budgie
EdmundEdmund: Oops. Too late.
Dyp Phong: Take Care Budg.
Elayne: Well, I'm going back to watching Judy Garland movies and, appropriately, cleaning out my closets.
cease: budgie
cease: have fun, el
cease: i'll send you jpg of kittens soonest
Bubbas Brine: Nite E!
Elayne: Party on the 24th!!
PDB Fong: E: Will call for redireections soon
Merlyn: OK E
klokwkdogInRI: don't miss the ruby slippers, E! g'nite!
llanwydd: nite e
Elayne: Cool, Dex, thanks!
Elayne: Night all!
Bessie: i want kittens... i am kind of jealous
||||||||| At 10:25 PM, Elayne runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
EdmundEdmund: Bye Elayne. Nice to talk to you again
Dyp Phong: A festoon of Garland?
EdmundEdmund: Damn it
EdmundEdmund: That's twice now
PDB Fong departs for a refill
doctec: can't stay long myself - too much going on here
doctec: getting the skinny from lili re employment situation (not very encouraging)
Merlyn: but she'll see it in the archives
doctec: brb
||||||||| Outside, the 10:27 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving ah,clem coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
klokwkdogInRI: hers or alternate choices for you, DT?
Merlyn: hey clem
cease: bummer, doc
klokwkdogInRI: hey clem
EdmundEdmund: Doc!
Bubbas Brine: Hi, clem.
ah,clem: hi all
EdmundEdmund: Didn't see you there! Long time no type.
EdmundEdmund: Hi clem.
llanwydd: hey ah
PDB Fong: Hi Clem
ah,clem: been busy, sorry I missed so much
Dyp Phong: say ah!
klokwkdogInRI: you missed all the exposition and the biggest thing since the Eagle landed!
Merlyn: lots of people tonight, some Majority Report visitors
ah,clem: will review log to see what you said about me... LOL
klokwkdogInRI: we had more foreigners trying to slip into our chat!
EdmundEdmund: The eagle took off again?
PDB Fong: Since the Eagle Spread
EdmundEdmund: That's a big eagle landing.
klokwkdogInRI has been trying to beat the Spread for years...
Merlyn: I thought they were furriers
PDB Fong: Lkok: If you hang it over your clothesline, it's easier and no dust in the house
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Woody One - dead from the fiddlers
 ||||||||| InflatableTweeny - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Scumbo - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
ah,clem: ou mean the chin chillas?
EdmundEdmund: klok, try preserves.
PDB Fong: Ah a trifecta Reap
EdmundEdmund: When my chin gets chilla I grow a beard.
Merlyn: scything them down
klokwkdogInRI: nah, hate all the bits of real fruit in that, EE
cease: mutant blue
Dyp Phong: one swoop of the sickle..
PDB Fong: Scthes and whispers
ah,clem: right ED, mine is growing long as well
EdmundEdmund: Yes klok, but with a name like smucker's...
klokwkdogInRI: oh gad, now the Scythians are showing up. Back to Persia, infidels!
EdmundEdmund: Mine has ceased to grow since I shaved it off... Odd that really.
Bubbas Brine: BRB... got a few things to do...
||||||||| Bubbas Brine 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..."
llanwydd: You shaved off your chin!
cease: i'm not losing mine in this lifetime
Dyp Phong: Another Salty Dog!
klokwkdogInRI never dealt with anything but Knott's Berry Farm Season's Select preserves for yeer and yeers, Dex
PDB Fong: Wearing a HOmburg too
ah,clem: mine to almost 6" (going for the ZZ look.
EdmundEdmund: It's odd, but there seems to be some strange correlation between my scraping my face with a razor-sharp blade on a daily basis and my beard no longer growing.
EdmundEdmund: The ZZ look is the tops.
klokwkdogInRI looks horrible in a beard, but that didn't stop him from trying
llanwydd: makes sense ed
PDB Fong: EE: If you keep the beard in a jar of hair oil, it will continue to grow
llanwydd: I haven't shaved in years. I don't know if I still have a chin
klokwkdogInRI: ZZ Top playing TX blues fest with Clapton this summer; BFD w/BB King, etc.
EdmundEdmund: Too late. In fact, for extra measure I decided to shave the hair on the top of my head too.
PDB Fong: Ilan: Don't you have to ocassionaly shave when you're acting?
Dyp Phong: Acting in Real Life?
ah,clem: full fat untrimmed beard, scares everybody (they mistake me for a "head doctor")
klokwkdogInRI: it's like the swords they use, Dex, the razors are all dull and rubber
EdmundEdmund: Isn't that all that's on TV anymore, Phong?\
llanwydd: I never have since about 1997 actually
PDB Fong: Ilan: Shaved or acted?
Dyp Phong: TV or Not TV?
llanwydd: I do a lot of Shakespeare and the beard fits right in
EdmundEdmund: Just do what I do and only act by doing voice overs and you don't even have to shower.
ah,clem: cool LL
PDB Fong: Ilan: Prolly wont get Romeo part though
Reebus_Kaneebus: I do voiceovers.
klokwkdogInRI: Only one guy in Forbidden Planet had a beard, Ilan, so it's not universal truth
Reebus_Kaneebus: It's a dirty job but someone has to do it.
llanwydd: I'm too old for some parts I'd love to play
EdmundEdmund: Fun, isn't it?
EdmundEdmund: And look what happened to him, klok.
Dyp Phong: I have voices in my head, no waiting.
klokwkdogInRI: rent a double, become an agent, Ilan
PDB Fong: Some of my parts are too old to play also
Reebus_Kaneebus: I did a comedy series in the 70's and 80's
cease: i'm in need of voices, actually
klokwkdogInRI: LOL
Dyp Phong: or is that the headphones?
klokwkdogInRI doesn't hear the voices any more
PDB Fong sings I wanna be sedated
klokwkdogInRI: except...tonight! Thanks, Skybird!!
EdmundEdmund: Cat: I'm always happy to do voices for you. Check out my demo: http://www.everyonesvoice.com
Dyp Phong: I've been post dated for freshness..
klokwkdogInRI: hell, no! I just said 'no' to drugs!
Bessie: i am gray!
Merlyn: I thought it was "say know to drugs"
PDB Fong: turning blue over you?
klokwkdogInRI bought organic beef tonight -- no Go Mad By date on the package
EdmundEdmund: It was "Say! Know two drugs?"
Merlyn: put a towel over it, bessie
Dyp Phong: What do the drugs say back?
PDB Fong: lol Merl
llanwydd: It's say no to rugs. Bald is beautiful!
klokwkdogInRI: nothing
cease: i'm balding, not spaulding
klokwkdogInRI: all that stuff was in French, anyway
ah,clem: we take drugs very seriously here.
klokwkdogInRI: he's gone now, poor bugger
PDB Fong: Take 'em over there
klokwkdogInRI: yes, a lot of them and not very many of us...
PDB Fong: Tried Swimming to Iraq from the Staten Island Ferry
cease: you here that song about balding bergman, from the nyc show?
Dyp Phong: We're bringing the war back home!
PDB Fong: Didn't check the tide tables
klokwkdogInRI: some kind of Blue Crush tribute?
||||||||| EdmundEdmund leaves at 10:41 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..."
||||||||| Outside, the 10:41 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving EdmundEdmund coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
EdmundEdmund: That was odd.
EdmundEdmund: Can anyone see me?
EdmundEdmund: Oh there
klokwkdogInRI: well, the tide has turned now! we're bringing the war back home!
EdmundEdmund: I can see me now.
EdmundEdmund: Weird.
PDB Fong: klok beats us over the head with *his* musical knowledge
cease: by ed
Dyp Phong: How about a Blue Moss tribute??
klokwkdogInRI: u exist and are noted, EE
Merlyn: hey EE what happened?
klokwkdogInRI: that was a movie dig, Fong
EdmundEdmund: I'm not sure. for some reason, I stopped being able to submit anything.
Dyp Phong: I can hear you if you type LOUDER!
llanwydd: It tastes awful
PDB Fong: EE did the ever difficult re-entry, degree of difficulty 4.7
EdmundEdmund: Did you get my private message, Cat?
Merlyn: It looks like you may have hit the exit button accidentally
EdmundEdmund: No, I did that intentionally
klokwkdogInRI has littel innate musical knowledge, only that amplified by aforementioned all-music guide
EdmundEdmund: Because I thought it would be best if I restarted.
cease: yes, ed.
cease: lets see how this chromium switch wroks
EdmundEdmund: Ok. Cool.
PDB Fong: It wroks havoc
Merlyn: Oh, but you couldn't type? We've had sporadic weird effects like that
cease: aha. i sat on my pipe
klokwkdogInRI: yeah, merlyn ought to add a safety to the button, like six inane dialog boxes saying "are you sure?"
PDB Fong: Take gas Clem, its cleaner
klokwkdogInRI: June Havoc?
PDB Fong: and April Showers, together agaian
EdmundEdmund: Gas? Go to Taco Bell.
klokwkdogInRI: ;-)
cease: i've writtn a short spot on air america, as have quite a few others on this group. i'll send you a script post haste for any ideas. same with doctec, dex, others. i've already talked to elayne and merlyn about some other ideas
EdmundEdmund: Sounds good.
ah,clem: well hope you all enjoyed the SkyBird presentation, it will be over soon, tune in Saturday t about 9 pm eastern for more.
Dyp Phong: Pull your finger at Taco Bell?
klokwkdogInRI: he has a headful of ideas that're driving him inane...
PDB Fong: Thanks Clem
EdmundEdmund: NOT INSANE
klokwkdogInRI: thanx clem!
klokwkdogInRI: yes, inane
ah,clem: you are all welcome
llanwydd: would you send me a script too, Cat?
||||||||| Catherwood enters with C. Simril close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 10:46 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
klokwkdogInRI: don't you go collectivizing ME, commie!
EdmundEdmund: Okay, my e-mail finally arrived. Off to work. Later all.
C. Simril: you bet, llan
||||||||| EdmundEdmund leaves at 10:46 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..."
llanwydd: hi C
Dyp Phong: the vast void of inane...I can see it now
C. Simril: i tried to send a privatre message and got sent to hell for my sins
PDB Fong: Night Double E
klokwkdogInRI: heigh ho, heigh, ho...
C. Simril: by ed
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off cease at 10:46 PM
klokwkdogInRI: it nices workly, cat, IMO
Reebus_Kaneebus: boof
PDB Fong: Nice save Reebus =)
Reebus_Kaneebus: he scoots, he SNORES!
klokwkdogInRI: great tune!
ah,clem: he misses
Merlyn: hmm, dunno what happened, cat
PDB Fong: He gets his own rebound, and a triple double
Reebus_Kaneebus: woops
Dyp Phong: Off to see the circus, later on all... bye!
C. Simril: i gotta record some canadian content first.
||||||||| Around 10:48 PM, Dyp Phong walks off into the sunset...
C. Simril: it happens often, merl
Merlyn: bye phong
PDB Fong: Night Namesake =)
C. Simril: by dyp
Reebus_Kaneebus: Red hot momma sweedish gal in town.
Merlyn: I blame the hardware
llanwydd: nite phong
ah,clem: the reaper always wins in the end....
klokwkdogInRI has been losing email at his ISP's server and having funnies with his outgoing posts. seems to trak the arrival of some encrypted mail...
C. Simril: llan, sned me your address and i'll sned you script
Reebus_Kaneebus: Yups
PDB Fong: Merl: YOu keeping Bessie and Tess alive somehow?
Reebus_Kaneebus: You can beat the reaper, but in the end the reeper beats you.
Merlyn: no, they must be refreshing the screen
ah,clem: night GB, night all....see ya soon
PDB Fong: Night Clem
llanwydd: hate to say it but I don't think I can send or receive private messages with my setup
Bessie: hey, i am here
Reebus_Kaneebus: or as they say in sector R, outen da lights.
klokwkdogInRI: oooh yessss. Mr. Reaper, beat me one more time (the Bergman version in Swedish)
ah,clem: right Reb
Reebus_Kaneebus: Hit me with your riddum stick!
llanwydd: park and lock it
Reebus_Kaneebus: nite clem
Merlyn: what's your setup, llan?
klokwkdogInRI: ex-webtv
PDB Fong: Wasn't Mr. Reaper the landlord on "#'s Company"?
PDB Fong: "3's
Reebus_Kaneebus: ah moody blues!
llanwydd: webtv
klokwkdogInRI: now yet another subsidiary of BillyG
ah,clem: that was roper
C. Simril: moody, no. magoos, yes!
Reebus_Kaneebus: roper doper midnight toker
PDB Fong: Thought you left Clem ?=)
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bubba's Kanubbus inside, makes a note of the time (10:52 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
llanwydd: okay, I just got two. First ones I've ever gotten
klokwkdogInRI: well, he changed it when he became an actor...
Merlyn: hmm, I don't know how to test that
Bubba's Kanubbus: Back
ah,clem: night again,
Merlyn: llan, can you pull down the 'send to all' menu?
Merlyn: nite clem
ah,clem: don't distract me I mean it this time.
klokwkdogInRI: again nite clem
Bubba's Kanubbus: nite clem
||||||||| ah,clem says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, ah,clem exits at 10:53 PM.
C. Simril: clem
||||||||| At 10:53 PM, Reebus_Kaneebus runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
PDB Fong: night
C. Simril: keep em ah'ing
PDB Fong: Reebus
C. Simril: RK
PDB Fong: Royal Kanadians
klokwkdogInRI: yeah, there is this little arrow next to "send to all" that if you click brings up a wondrous list of us all and much else...
Bubba's Kanubbus: Got a hot tea / honey / lemon / Irsish Whiskey. I'm sure it's good for my throat, but it tastes perfectly awful.
llanwydd: reebus didn't say much tonight
klokwkdogInRI: that lombardo guy?
PDB Fong: Klok: Yeah, Vince Lombardo
klokwkdogInRI: bubba -- isn't that an oxymoron?
C. Simril: i like these lewis and clark ads
Merlyn: made with CORN
Bubba's Kanubbus: ... and his royal texans...
llanwydd: lombardo doesnt sound Canadian. He must have been an imposter
C. Simril: i prefer guaraldi and scully
PDB Fong: AND chemicals
klokwkdogInRI: doesn't he have a rest stop on the Jersey Pike outside NYC, Dex?
Bubba's Kanubbus: who you calling an oxy?
PDB Fong: Klok: Indeed, not as nice as JOyce Kilmer's though
doctec: just finished pizza with lili
klokwkdogInRI: i like the "See Seven States from Rock City" ads...
doctec: sorry for lack of attentiveness, it was a busy day and i didn't get to lili's place w/dinner until after 10pm edt
PDB Fong: Doc: Who held the anchovys
klokwkdogInRI never stops at rest stops within 50 mi. of NYC unless dire emergency.
doctec: um, i think it was the sandanistas
Merlyn: dr. who held the anchovies?
doctec: or maybe the ronettes
PDB Fong: Godd Merl, slow but good
klokwkdogInRI is tending giant dog, has had naught but beer; looks longingly across the street where pizza slices await...
Bubba's Kanubbus: slippery little suckers....
doctec: i forget - who can keep track of all these details
doctec: ?
PDB Fong: Ernst and YOung?
klokwkdogInRI: what, you mocking Rumsfeld's comments today, DT?
llanwydd: must be swell pizza
klokwkdogInRI: nick's?
doctec: you bet your ashcroft
klokwkdogInRI: yeah, rosemary & tomato on one and feta and olives on the other 2
doctec: it was swell pizza - mushroom & eggplant
klokwkdogInRI goes to check whether thunk is giant dog attacking the slider
llanwydd: you a vegitarian, klok?
Bubba's Kanubbus: are you going to scarborough fair.... olives, feta rosymary and tomato....
klokwkdogInRI: no, but the pepperoni slices are to quote an earlier participant's phrasing, "perfectly awful"
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tess - dead from the common cold
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
PDB Fong: Klok: A local thing, or you don't care for pepperoni?
klokwkdogInRI: well, after nothing but a beer all evening, it's in this beholder's eye (once he retreats to his abode) quite appetizing
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
C. Simril: i hope so, llan
klokwkdogInRI: Dex - at $1.49 a slice, I want something more than a slab of cheese and some thin slices of sodium-laden meat.
C. Simril: i cant seem to go from public to private and back, for some reason
doctec: mmmm, chemicals (drool)
C. Simril: hey doc, i'll send you a script this week.
PDB Fong: Come to Pop's Sodium Shoppe
klokwkdogInRI: got a nice lb. of organic ground beef tonight, lest you think I'm agin eatin' dead cow bits
C. Simril: i'm gonna start collecting suitable sounds and stuff immediately, but have brand new kittens to tend to
Bubba's Kanubbus: mmmm, dead cow.....
C. Simril: pix will go to el's blog next week
klokwkdogInRI: sheesh! that door won't hold. c u all later folx
PDB Fong: put plenty of fire inside
PDB Fong: Night Klok
klokwkdogInRI: will b in kontakt via email dt
||||||||| klokwkdogInRI leaves at 11:03 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 Kanubbus: nite klok.
C. Simril: byklok
doctec: ok cat - look fwd to receiving
llanwydd: I cooked some kielbasa a little while ago and didn't get to eat it. Pardon me one moment
doctec: next 10 days very busy but will try & keep up as best i can (helping nyc friend w/music project, on top of my already packed schedule)
C. Simril: as always, doc
C. Simril: great you can even show up here
Merlyn: ok doc
doctec: just reading log from tonight - sorry i missed ed2
Merlyn: everyone's quiet
doctec: it's been ages since he's been in chat!
C. Simril: what's happening with seem real in lodestone, bub?
Merlyn: yep doc, since IRC
C. Simril: yeah he said as much, but i cant remember who is who
PDB Fong: Daniel ?
C. Simril: i dont even keep my own name the whole chat
C. Simril: howard zinn on tomorrow. fantastic!
doctec: who am us anyway
doctec: what is url for majority report blog?
Merlyn: http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/
PDB Fong: dunno
C. Simril: i bought used copy of his us histoyr at shakespeare and company on our last day in paris and thrilled in it throughout the french countryside
doctec: ah thanks
C. Simril: most here tonight ever, i think
Merlyn: I try to plug the chat at the start of the hour, got lots of first timers
PDB Fong: Must relocate car so...until next time, Night Dear Friends
C. Simril: must have been 30-40
C. Simril: by fongie
Merlyn: nite fong
||||||||| Catherwood says "11:11 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs PDB Fong by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
llanwydd: nite fong
C. Simril: sounds like something eddie izzard would say
doctec: i gotta take off too - i'm beat, gotta make it thru one more day before weekend rest & project catch-up
C. Simril: by doc. hope all goes well with lili
Merlyn: back soon
doctec: y'all take care - hopefully lili will have better employment news next week
doctec: see you then
doctec: ttfn
doctec: ttyl
doctec: & please don't touch that dial!
Bubba's Kanubbus: Cat -- this didn't send for some reason earlier --- Sorry I hadn't gotten back to you. I'd like to do Box and Neal in the catalog.
doctec: nytol (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........................
Bubba's Kanubbus: Nite Doc
||||||||| doctec departs at 11:13 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
C. Simril: ok bub. email me again about it
Bubba's Kanubbus: I will.
C. Simril: dalai lama is coming to vancouver this weekend. i wonder if i can get him a copy of red shift
C. Simril: about as likely as me being reborn as the next dalai lama, i suppose
Bubba's Kanubbus: Say Hello, Dali for me....
Bubba's Kanubbus: Sorry about that one....
C. Simril: he wouldnt get any of the cultural references but might be amused by the buddhism
Bubba's Kanubbus: Actually, the Dali's brother lives in bloomington. He comes here a lot.
C. Simril: you know him?
Bubba's Kanubbus: No, never met him (but have been in an audience in front of him).
C. Simril: you think he could actulaly get a copy? if brother is living in the ussr, or is it a, maybe he'd like a copy
Bubba's Kanubbus: I doubt it.... I don't know of any specific channels to him.
C. Simril: oh well, i'd be more than interested in the opinion of someone in his cirlce at least. the way i was from neal's son, wife, friends
C. Simril: allen ginzberg was due in van the day neal amid came out so i was gonna give him a copy but he died instead
Merlyn: i'm back
Merlyn: kind of an odd choice
Bubba's Kanubbus: Norbu (Dali's bro) has a restaurant here... I suppose that'd be a place to start.
C. Simril: yes, that's it. give him a copy
llanwydd: surrealist cuisine?
C. Simril: you mean giving ginzberg a copy of neal, his death and all that?
Bubba's Kanubbus: Tibettan tid-bits.
llanwydd: I don't think I'd eat it
C. Simril: he's got a famous poem about his ma's death, i thought he could handle it
C. Simril: i thought neal amid was very elegaic. others may disagree
Bubba's Kanubbus: This stuff doesn't necessarily sooth the throat.... rather after you've had enough of it you don't care about the pain any longer.....
C. Simril: what is it?
C. Simril: nothing soothes my throat more than okanagan crisp apple cidre
Bubba's Kanubbus: The tea / honey / lemon / irish whiskey mix I mentioned earlier....
C. Simril: ah
Bubba's Kanubbus: I gotta go ahead and drop out for the night.
Merlyn: ok bk
||||||||| At 11:25 PM, Bubba's Kanubbus vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
llanwydd: think I'll be dropping out too. Next week, folks!
C. Simril: by bub
C. Simril: by llan
Merlyn: looks like it's breakup time
C. Simril: i'll email you my canuck idea in the next few days, merl. tell me what you think
Merlyn: OK cat
C. Simril: i'm composing it in my head as i type
C. Simril: see you later
Merlyn: bye all
||||||||| At 11:26 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Merlyn!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bessie - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| C. Simril - dead from the common cold
 ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with JohnGalt close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 12:10 AM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
||||||||| JohnGalt, spotting Bradshaw, runs into Public Address System.
||||||||| 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:
50TonsOfMustardGas
ah,clem
Bessie
Bubba's Kanubbus
Bubbas Brine
Budgie
Bunnyboy
C. Simril
canadian_patriot2000
cease
Danny
Dave
doctec
Dr. Headphones
Dyp Phong
ed
EdmundEdmund
Elayne
Ginny
InflatableTweeny
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto
Jellyfish Heaven Yämamoto
klokwkdogInRI
llanwydd
Merlyn
Mudhead
PDB Fong
Reebus_Kaneebus
saltine
samhain
Scumbo
sylvia
Tess
TomInNYC
wintermute
Woody One
Zeit
 URL References:
http://firesigntheater.com/tirebiter/
http://firesigntheater.com/xmradio/show6/index.html
www.allmusic.com
http://www.bartcop.com/iraq-coffins.jpg
http://www.djtronix.com/sonymdrv6.html
http://www.everyonesvoice.com/extremistfly.mp3
http://www.everyonesvoice.com
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/
http://www.firsigntheatre.com/albums
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/
http://www.octanecreative.com/knowitall/index.html
www.scumbo.com
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/28/wcrab28.xml
http://www.yetisports.org


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