Weekly Firesign Chat Log

A Firesign Chat
04/29/2004

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||||||||| 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 29, 2004 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 7:58 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bubba's Brain coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bubba's Brain wanders in to say that he shan't be able to be in tonight. But then again, by doing just that, he disproves himself.
||||||||| Bubba's Brain departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Merlyn into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:11 PM, then departs.
Merlyn: see ya, BB
Merlyn twiddles his thumbs
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'AirAmericaCommunity', just granted probation at 8:17 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Merlyn: I can guess where you're from...
AirAmericaCommunity: spamming the world for AAR community, yep...
Merlyn: me too, as you saw
AirAmericaCommunity: yesp
Merlyn: couldn't they get rid of that hum on their bush bits?
AirAmericaCommunity: ha, yeah, youd think... I dont think they are very up the technical end of things yet there at AAR.
Merlyn: yeah, that's why I want Firesign Theatre on there.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Hypestyle into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:23 PM, then departs.
Hypestyle: greetings and solicitations..
Merlyn: hey HS
||||||||| musiclover2004 sneaks in around 8:24 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
musiclover2004: Hi everyone
Merlyn: hello hello
musiclover2004: I'm in NYC
Merlyn: I'm in St. Paul, MN
||||||||| Outside, the 8:25 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving jose coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
musiclover2004: Is that Republican territory?
||||||||| Outside, the 8:25 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Patriot coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: no, minnesota is pretty liberal
jose: i'm about 45 minutes north of Minneapolis/St Paul
Merlyn: around St. cloud?
jose: we have an extream right wing governor
jose: no, about halfway between duluth and the cities, on 35
Merlyn: yeah, but that's atypical
musiclover2004: Shame on any American who votes for Bush this time around. Wake up!
Hypestyle: who is the governor now that jesse ventura is gone? is he democrat or republican..
Merlyn: you can use accented characters if you want to be josé
Merlyn: Repub. Tim Pawlenty
||||||||| At 8:31 PM, AirAmericaCommunity vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Merlyn: Hey people, say something!
Merlyn: You can use color...
jose: theres not enough people here
Hypestyle: sorry, i'm just listening to janeane and sam.. :)
Hypestyle: say, what do people think about the Christian Right?
Merlyn: The usual Firesign fans will show up in about 40 minutes, then there will be more talking
Merlyn: Musiclover will get reaped soon...then at least something will happen.
||||||||| It's 8:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Patriot - dead from the common cold
||||||||| musiclover2004 - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:40 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving m0davis coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: you just missed a massacre...
Merlyn: hello m0
Merlyn: hmm, I hope Air America gets more real ads instead of running lots of public service announcements & plugs for their other shows...
jose: How have thier ratings been? Do we know that yet?
Merlyn: I don't think so; the only rating I've seen is the record realplayer streams for non-breaking news at 50,000 simultaneous streams and 2 million total
Merlyn: 2 million over the opening weekend or something like that
Merlyn: I don't know what the management shakeup will mean, though.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:56 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving ah.clem coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: hey clem
Merlyn: clock is getting really ahead
ah.clem: hi Merl
||||||||| It's 9:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| jose - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Outside, the 9:01 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dr Headphones coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dr Headphones: hello, dear friends. i'm oily, er, early
ah.clem: hi Ken
Merlyn: hey phone
Merlyn: man, I may have to listen to skybird instead of MR
ah.clem: just in time considering the clock this week.
Dr Headphones: i see catherwood is really getting fast again. someone (merlyn?) should tell them about ntp (network time protocol) and synchronizing clocks
ah.clem :)
Dr Headphones: i came in early because i'm leaving early again tonight. frontline on pbs at 10 (est) has show about bush and the christian right
Merlyn: believe me, I've tried to convince him to use auto syncing scripts
Merlyn: game 'em an URL and everything
ah.clem: sounds scary
Dr Headphones: can't do much more than that, merl
Dr Headphones: yes, clem, it scares me when any religion starts muddling in politics or vice versa
Merlyn: yeah...
ah.clem: right
Dr Headphones: a quick joke, i had someone tell me this week that "new age" rhymes with "sewage"
ah.clem: tell 'em to cut the soles off their shoes...
Dr Headphones: i made a comment on an email list which led him to assume (wrongly) that i was a new ager. he called me a commie godless atheist and condemned me to hell for all eternity.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:06 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: another early night cuz of refs on maj report blog?
Dr Headphones: oh well, if there is a hell, and i end up there, i will be in the company of many good friends
Merlyn: hey cat
Dr Headphones: hi cat
ah.clem: nice fellow
cease: good joke, lend
Merlyn: yeah phones, it's soooo much better to believe in being healed by a chunk of quartz
ah.clem: hi Cat
cease: hi ah, merl, others
Dr Headphones: lol, merl! i do have a bible right next to my monitor, but i guess there's some (processed) quartz closer, in the front of the monitor
cease: doncha all believe that jesus has returned as shrub?
Dr Headphones: my computer reference section on this desk is the bible, a dictionary, and "html4 for dummies". between the three of them, i can answer almost any question ;)
||||||||| Outside, the 9:09 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dr Headphones: if jesus returns, it sure won't be as a coke-snorting liar
ah.clem: what is hidden in that bible?
llanwydd: I see everyone's early tonight
Dr Headphones: hi llan
cease: who knows?, uh, nose?
||||||||| It's 9:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Hypestyle - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dr Headphones: clem: lots of good wisdom in there. i'm not a "thumper" myself, but can answer many questions through judicious use of it
Dr Headphones: i can pluck verses out of it to prove my point on almost anything ;)
ah.clem: just a joke Ken,
Dr Headphones: remember, i was a baptist in a former life (before age 18)
ah.clem: tape rolling now- skybird
llanwydd: that reminds me I saw a website about past lives of famous people. It said Richard Nixon had been James Madison and Hernando Cortez
cease: oh, proctor and bergman
ah.clem: all the hits all the time, all the same
Dr Headphones: i can't believe madison, not that sure about cortez even though my old home county in florida is named "hernando"
ah.clem: all the hits all the time, all the same
llanwydd: It was hilarious. Queen Elizabeth II had been Elizabeth I.
cease: i have seldom heard this one
cease: hi llan
Dr Headphones: duh, everybody knows that one ;)
llanwydd: hey cat
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Pocket Specie close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
ah.clem: toto slushey
Pocket Specie: Hi All!
Dr Headphones: hi, specie
llanwydd: Hi pocket
Pocket Specie: Hey Phones, what sounds good?
Pocket Specie: Howdy wydd
Dr Headphones: the new tony bennett/k.d.laing sounds damn good from what i've heard of it
Merlyn: hey specie don't go extinct
llanwydd: tony bennett's still alive?
Dr Headphones: no, he's using specie in the monetary manner
Pocket Specie: Try not too, Merl
Dr Headphones: llan: yep, and still singing great
cease: good to see the bremer speech on cbs news
cease: hi pocket
Dr Headphones: did everyone here see 60 minutes II last night about the prison atrocities in iraq?
Pocket Specie: Specie as in coined change to a better nation
Pocket Specie: Howdy cease
cease: boiled in oil, indeed
llanwydd: I see Give Us a Break is on skybird. That must be a rarity now
llanwydd: I read about the prisoner abuse on Yahoo
Pocket Specie: baked rather than fried?
Dr Headphones: might be rare, but i own one of them :)
Merlyn: yeah, I haven't heard it before, but I've heard some of the bits
Pocket Specie: What This Country Needs....
Dr Headphones: general suspended today because of it, and 6 face court-martial proceedings
llanwydd: I used to have it. "Lemon Car" made me split my sides
Dr Headphones: specie: got that one also :)
Dr Headphones: help me, i'm going sex crazy!
ah.clem: ...
cease: hey, another guywith a japanese name
cease: shrub's old prof
Pocket Specie: Follow the dotted path to true freedom . . . . . . . .
Merlyn: hee hee "idioats, the breakfast of madmen"
llanwydd: forget what? Impossible with my new system
Dr Headphones: hey clem, i think i have all my disk space/linux problems straightened out. i even figured out how to mount my usb drive (sda1)
||||||||| Catherwood enters with klokwkdoggonit close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:21 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
cease: what he's saying is right. you always remember the best and worst students
Dr Headphones: howdy, klok
llanwydd: evenin klok
Pocket Specie: Hi klok
Merlyn: hey kwd
Merlyn: which was bush?
cease: klokman.
klokwkdoggonit: 'lo-all
Dr Headphones: cat: of course. the vast majority in the middle fades into mediocrity
Pocket Specie: It's just those C students that blend in
Merlyn: everything floats towards C-level
Dr Headphones: i've gotta fly...and i've gotta buzz :)
klokwkdoggonit: mount a USB drive? they're kind of small, aren't they? was it good for you?
ah.clem: BBL
llanwydd: it's only the C students who go to class reunions
Merlyn: is that USB-2? That's a lot faster transfer speed
Dr Headphones: klok: nice double entendre there ;) but this one is an 80G in external enclosure
cease: this is very good
Dr Headphones: merl: yes, it's usb2, but the computer i'm using it on is only 1.1
klokwkdoggonit: nice, you built a house for your friend...
Merlyn: but it'll port to a new system
Dr Headphones: i moved data onto it from another computer with usb2 and it flew. crawls on the 1.1
klokwkdoggonit: now we are three?
Merlyn: I have an external firewire drive, 60 gig I think
Pocket Specie: USB1 is backward compat. with USB2
llanwydd: hard to tell. not hard to smell
Dr Headphones: no, klok, what was 5 is now 2....
llanwydd: the greatest motion picture ever remade
klokwkdoggonit: 25 or 6 to 4
Dr Headphones: yep, specie, but won't run as quickly on old interface
klokwkdoggonit: usb is backward, period, but the hot plug capability is nice on cold nights
Dr Headphones: i found 2.0 interface card for $20 but not sure i really need it yet
llanwydd: DOGGIES!!!
Pocket Specie: Specially that Firewire
Dr Headphones: i don't hot plug on cold nights, but my waterbed IS heated
klokwkdoggonit: i'd plug in a USB 1.1 cable for a half hour or so before going to the big game on Sat.; kept my hands warm until halftime
klokwkdoggonit suspects Ken's waterbed is positively feverish
Dr Headphones: i actually saw a USB coffee mug warmer advertised a couple years ago
Merlyn: stop plugging USB, they don't pay us for free advertising
klokwkdoggonit: yeah, they discontinued those; the radiation was tainting the coffee
Dr Headphones: combine that with the built-in mug holder/cd drive and you're got a winner
Merlyn: you can get a swiss army knife with UBS memory on it
klokwkdoggonit: oh, get a CD-RW Ken!
llanwydd: what about the decaf?
klokwkdoggonit: then you can fry pancakes whilst you browse
Dr Headphones: merl: did you see the cell phone commercial with the pepper grinder in it? hilarious
Merlyn: http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=4791994
klokwkdoggonit: what about the children?!
Dr Headphones: i don't do pancakes since i bought a waffle maker
Merlyn: no, headphones, what is it like?
Pocket Specie: And the terrible news drought continues......
Dr Headphones: my god, those swiss think of *everything*
klokwkdoggonit: how many more dozen killed since evening news?
llanwydd: this is lame chit chat
||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ah.clem - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: the best kind there is
Dr Headphones: the girl has a cell phone plan with everything, the guy has cell phone with everything (except caller id and voice mail)
llanwydd: I see Clem died
Dr Headphones: R.I.P clem......
Dr Headphones: those buboes got him
cease: i'm playing with kittens, watching a bunch of tv news channels and listeningt to maj report along with chatting
cease: he'll be back
Merlyn: maybe USB isn't as hot-pluggable as he thought
Pocket Specie: Server seems to be taking a small break
Merlyn: I'm listening to "Give Us A Break"
Dr Headphones: you deserve a break today
||||||||| Pocket Specie leaves at 9:31 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..."
cease: i have that on tape. i dont have shrub's harvard prof. very instructive
klokwkdoggonit: no, Wal-Mart has eliminated them
llanwydd: Which sketch is on, Merl. I bet I remember them all
Dr Headphones: merl, how difficult would it be to put in hot keys in this script. e.g., ctrl-i for italics, ctrl-b for bold, etc.
cease: the shrub of then was the same evil being as the current prez. who wudda thought?
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Pocket Specie ', just granted probation at 9:32 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
klokwkdoggonit: I remember Mama, life with father
Merlyn: impossible; that's browser/OS specific
||||||||| Outside, the 9:32 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dave coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
llanwydd: Pocket left. At least he didn't suffer the fate of ah, clem
Dave: hello all
klokwkdoggonit: wow, how Retro, Ken -- just like Electric Pencil
Pocket Specie : Browers froze or something like that..
Dr Headphones: life with father, life of riley, ergo, riley is father
klokwkdoggonit: hey Dave, welcome back to the reduced-population version of the Firesign chat,,,
Merlyn: but you can possibly set it up for yourself if you have a key macro thingy
Merlyn: hi dave
Dave: life with riley sponsored by Paps Blue Ribbon
Dr Headphones: hi dave
cease: dave
Pocket Specie : Got in a time loop that didn't move
Dr Headphones: don't smear the beer!
Dave: hey Dr Headphones take down the away messsage please
llanwydd: hi dave
Pocket Specie : The one and only Daaaaave!
Dr Headphones: ah, yes, dave, set it and forget it, i guess
klokwkdoggonit: his AIM is true, Dave... ;-)
Dr Headphones: i was away for a long time during the period my away msg was up, but forgot to remove it totally
Dave: only the AIM of one man? HAIL, speaking of hail, supposed to fucking SNOW here tomorrow
klokwkdoggonit: a total eclipse of the away
Dr Headphones: we had some flakes in the air early this week, over 80 today, windows open all over the house
klokwkdoggonit: moving to Montana soon?
klokwkdoggonit: well, folks, Montana is coming to YOU!
Dr Headphones: never been there, but i hear it's beautiful
Dr Headphones: you talking about when the yellowstone caldera blows?
klokwkdoggonit: all propaganda churned out by Chet Huntley
Dr Headphones: he's dead
llanwydd: if Muhammad can't go to Montana...
klokwkdoggonit: absent the Yellowstone caldera, the whole place is full of strip mine holes and tainted cattle runs
cease: he wont get any dental floss
Dr Headphones: taint as bad as you think it is.....
Dr Headphones: MORE SUGAR!
klokwkdoggonit: won't be a tycoon
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Dexter Fong', just granted probation at 9:38 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Dexter Fong: Did someone call for MORE SUGAR?
Pocket Specie : Hey Mr. Fong
klokwkdoggonit had to break to a screeching halt on the road tonight as a cat was having it out with a racoon
llanwydd: hi dex
Dr Headphones: yeah, but you ain't it, dexxie, old boy
Pocket Specie : More Dextrose, please
cease: dex
Dexter Fong: Hiya folks =))
Dr Headphones: i like the pump!
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| m0davis - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dr Headphones: get your fully automatic semi-automatic
klokwkdoggonit: Streetsweeper!
Dexter Fong: DH: The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle
klokwkdoggonit: get the original South African battle-proven tommy-shotgun
llanwydd: armor-piercin' weapons system
Dr Headphones: damned vandals. if only caesar had been alive still....
klokwkdoggonit: what u say, Hun?
cease: i hope this is archived
Dexter Fong: Dr. Archive
klokwkdoggonit: the moon was waxing gibbons
Merlyn: what're they talking about, cat?
klokwkdoggonit: and down they went
cease: the decline and fall?
Dr Headphones: what sort of wax? turtle?
klokwkdoggonit: no, the incline and fell
Dexter Fong: ..and never the wane will meet
cease: how bush's policies are a direct result of how he was a student
klokwkdoggonit: klister, Ken
cease: only worse, cuz that was before he got religion
Dexter Fong: Bush ? A student,/ Like me?
klokwkdoggonit: the rise and rise of the neo-con right, those fell daemons of the nite
Merlyn: ah. When they said anyone could grow up to be president, I didn't think they meant ANYone...
Pocket Specie : Just another C student from Yale..
Dr Headphones: cat: frontline at 10pm (est) about dubya and xtian right
klokwkdoggonit wonders if Bush remembers being a student
Dave: I'm lost in my own fucked up world, hardly pay attention anymore
klokwkdoggonit: as Bil Maher put it last night, "He was drunk until he was 40"
Pocket Specie : Daddy bought him that C and all the others
klokwkdoggonit: Bill
Dr Headphones: dave, if it's your world, you can't get lost. you draw the map
klokwkdoggonit: but anyone who denigrates Richard Jewell as a "glorified crossing guard" only deserves one 'l'
Merlyn: is that it for Give Us A Break?
Pocket Specie : Georgeville, Georgeville, the one nature remembered to hate
Dexter Fong: Jewel?
Merlyn: Guess so...
klokwkdoggonit: oooh, neat!
Dr Headphones: domino, domino, domino, you're all catholics now ;)
klokwkdoggonit: no, Bil, Dex; she wasn't involved (as far as I can tell, but who knows what the slanderers at the Atlanta Constitution put out there
llanwydd: I'm going to fade to gray if I don't write something
klokwkdoggonit: )
Dr Headphones: llan: at my age, fading to gray hasn't stopped no matter how much i type
klokwkdoggonit: the Portrait of Dorian Illanwydd?
Dexter Fong: Domino, Domino. Domino.....You're all sugar importers now
llanwydd: good one klok
Dr Headphones: i only wish it had all changed to gray instead of most falling out :(
klokwkdoggonit: that's from Fidel, isn't it Dex?
Pocket Specie : Be on the right if you don't face the other way, then you're left behind.
Dexter Fong: Klok: Yes, or Fidelio and it's known in Deautschland
Dr Headphones: semper fidel
Pocket Specie : simple funner
llanwydd: Waiting for Fidel or Someone Like Him
Dexter Fong: Waiting for the "Fiddles" or something like it
Dr Headphones: are we in goshen yet?
Dexter Fong: Fiddlers
llanwydd: Fidel Mutual
Dr Headphones: i knew him when he lived in omaha
Dr Headphones: "jim will now demonstrate how to keep your hands out of the mouth of the crocodile after this word from mutual of omaha...."
Dexter Fong sings "O Ma HaHa...to me it was so beautiful...
||||||||| It's 9:50 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dave - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: how. electriciian!
cease: big dog just came into room, scared small kittens away
Dexter Fong: and dangerous
klokwkdoggonit: sounds like Iraq
llanwydd: Now Dave's dead
klokwkdoggonit: they really need to Do Something
Dr Headphones: klok: are we playing charades now?
cease: the brocoli character just makes people in the "heartland" sound stupid
klokwkdoggonit: no worries about aging-- everybody sez we'll be there for 20 years
Dr Headphones: got any peyote?
llanwydd: Thanks, Mr. Relishfoot
klokwkdoggonit: i was suggesting the Guys do an Iraq piece along these clueless lines
cease: the store that sold peyote burned down last week
klokwkdoggonit: yeah. who gets the Audrey Hepburn role?
cease: last sunday, actually. big black cloud over the city, like Satan, or Sauron
Dexter Fong: Didn't Dorothy Lamour wear a Sauron?
klokwkdoggonit: union troubles, Cat? (there were problems here with the Teamsters and then my local liquor store burned)
Dr Headphones: yeah, in those hope/bing movies
||||||||| 9:53 PM: Specie's Return jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
llanwydd: pardon my sauron
cease: it was arson. someone set 3 dumpsters on fire behind the "pot block" and destroyed several stores within
Dr Headphones: pocket specie II: specie's return. NOW PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU!
Specie's Return: Kill off Pocket, please
llanwydd: Specie's back
cease: we suspect it was an anti-pot activist
Dexter Fong: Help! It's the Police!!
Specie's Return: THe Church Polise!
Dr Headphones: roxanne..........put on your red dress.........
Dexter Fong: Opus Dei?
klokwkdoggonit: (the pro-Pot folks being too mellow to be activist...)
cease: could well be fanatic christian
llanwydd: Detective Parson, ma'am
Dr Headphones: opus dei is dangerous to the very concept of religious freedom
klokwkdoggonit: isn't that redundant these days, Cat?
Specie's Return: Police State, help.....
Dexter Fong: Gimme a "C"..gimme a "H"...etc
||||||||| Outside, the 9:55 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Dave coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
klokwkdoggonit: oops, Kristoff was just chiding types like me about that...
Dexter Fong: Ken: Religious freedom is an oxymoron
cease: not if you listen to aa or watch NOW. lots of amazing ministers blasting bush
Dr Headphones: yep, dex, i recall the "thou shalt not..." listing myself
klokwkdoggonit awaits a judge posting the I Ching on the courtroom wall...
Specie's Return: E.L Mouse could straighten them out
Dr Headphones: i don't hold my breath waiting for oriental wisdom to permeate our courts
Dexter Fong: Dave: Answered your msge
llanwydd: "we threw I Ching...out the window
Dexter Fong: ...on the teachers orders
klokwkdoggonit: one from column A and two from column B
Dr Headphones: sacred tablets. i could use one right about now....
klokwkdoggonit: Mr. Piccoli! Is this your Pizza?
cease: and she's still flying, just ilke princess goddess
klokwkdoggonit: otherwize known as Ann E. Mi?
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Pocket Specie - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dr Headphones: here comes the sun.........
llanwydd: PS died again
Specie's Return: clock's a bit quick
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
klokwkdoggonit: ohmygod! it's also going the wrong way! It's Velikovsky! He's baaaaak!
Specie's Return: his incarnate Return has returned
cease: bergman did a show about velikovsky. almost made him sound believable
cease: bergman is like saruman. that voice!
klokwkdoggonit: re-ban the books!
Dr Headphones: i have read about immanuel before, but never read his actual writing
klokwkdoggonit: he was right about Venus...
cease: this was in the serious hippie era, 68. bergman had this 1 hour radio show on sunday nights after radio free oz got cancelled or whatever
Specie's Return: immanuel lewis?
cease: Venus for the Venutians
llanwydd: what about Veinous?
Merlyn: "Joys in Collision; the world of Emmannual Velikovsky"
cease: Loud explosion
cease: i was thinknig of sagan's chapter about him in one of his books
Specie's Return: Uraniuses for Washington
Dr Headphones: breast fed for 14 years? why wasn't she MY mother!
Merlyn: velikovsky was a real crank
Dr Headphones: which one is doing the jfk imitation here?
Specie's Return: breast fed from a bull, the anger in it....
klokwkdoggonit: yeah, but Wilhelm Reich thought he had a point
Dr Headphones: yuck, specie, not pleasant thought at all
cease: that's the problem, merl. the firesigns, especially bergman, made a lot of bullshit sound utterly believable. the old saruman trick
cease: at least up until eykiw
llanwydd: hate to say it but I've fogotten what Velikovsky did
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:06 PM and Atomic Gumshoe steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Dexter Fong: Hubcaps of the Gods
Dr Headphones: you don't believe "eykiw"? hell, i'd bet my vas deferens on it. wait, they have already been cut. cancel that thought.....
Dr Headphones: hi, atom
Merlyn: hey shoe
klokwkdoggonit: the vaughn meader RFK imitation is the only really dated thing in this, even if it is so well done
cease: had a theory about venus being a comet, hitting earthand then becomming a planet
llanwydd: hey gum
Specie's Return: Invented the horizonal pinwheel?
cease: hey atomic
cease: how's nuclear?
Dr Headphones: velikovsky did "worlds in collision"; von daniken did "chariots of the gods"
cease: weird with a beard
Dr Headphones: it's your karma
Dexter Fong: "Collision of the Goddly Venusian Hubcaps"
klokwkdoggonit: Ilan - Velikovsky published Worlds in Collision in the early '50s claiming evidence in historical record for bizarre astronomical events in recent times
llanwydd: but isn't Venus about the same size as Earth?
klokwkdoggonit: scientific establishment conspired to keep his books from being published or promoted
cease: not unlike astrology
Atomic Gumshoe: hello?
cease: dont let the facts interfere, llan. yur president doesnt
Merlyn: hello. state short question
klokwkdoggonit: part of the theory, Ilan, is that Venus did a lot of moving around, as documented in the Old Testament
Dr Headphones: yes, gumshoe, talk to us! any subject at all, we will ridicule you for it regardless ;)
Dexter Fong: Herro Gumshoe
Atomic Gumshoe: Okay
Dr Headphones: ok, dear friends, i have a date with the television set, will return after 11 or next week, whichever comes first
klokwkdoggonit: also that it was hot enough there to melt tin when most scientists believed it was earthlike, just 'way cloudy
Dexter Fong: Look out Ken
klokwkdoggonit: cu Ken
cease: ok, kend. i'll watch that show later
Merlyn: venus was unto like a billiard ball, contrary to all laws of physics
llanwydd: I've read the Old Testament. Why don't I remember anything about Venus?
Atomic Gumshoe: This thing Freezes if I kick Sjybird on
klokwkdoggonit has hound-minding app't inviolate near 11 will also b bak
Dr Headphones: g'night
||||||||| Dr Headphones leaves at 10:09 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..."
Atomic Gumshoe: Gbye Ken
Atomic Gumshoe: bah
klokwkdoggonit: because it looked like the Sun, Ilan -- it was really close when it went by
Merlyn: clem is gone, so I updated the skybird topic
Specie's Return: Bye Phones
cease: the mayas were REally into Venus
Merlyn: I'll guess it has 15 minutes left to go...
klokwkdoggonit: some battle when the sun went down, came back up, frightened the enemy, but the Israelites knew about it in advance
Atomic Gumshoe: I'm Yamamoto btw
Dexter Fong: Mayas *are* from Venus...Incas from Mars
klokwkdoggonit: what happened was that Venus did a close pass and messed up Earth's rotation/spin, something like that
Dexter Fong: OI OI
klokwkdoggonit: it's a very nice city
cease: no, Aztecs are from Mars. that's where they vacation
Merlyn: I see, an imposter
Atomic Gumshoe: Oi indeed
llanwydd: Fascinating! You know something. I've seen old paintings where the moon seems to take up half the night sky. Maybe it used to be closer
Dexter Fong: Cat: I thought they were from the Dog Star
klokwkdoggonit: it did, but it's receding
Merlyn: no, velikovsky is bunk
Atomic Gumshoe: Or no sense of perspective
klokwkdoggonit: something about Chemlawn
cease: my dog has a star? he's big enough to distort its gravity
Atomic Gumshoe: I have a new cat
klokwkdoggonit: he wishes, Cat
Dexter Fong: Cat: He's a white giant
Merlyn: people still think the moon looks much larger than it is. You can cover it with a dime held at arm's length
Atomic Gumshoe: Or a red Dwarf
Dexter Fong: Merl: Unless its very low in the sky
klokwkdoggonit: depends on where you are, Merlyn
Merlyn: or Rimmer
Atomic Gumshoe: Or Lister
Merlyn: you can cover it with a dime bag
Atomic Gumshoe: Or a new Cat
Dexter Fong: Is this your bag, Dr. Lister?
klokwkdoggonit: in geosync. orbit, I think they need a nickel. that's why all the communications satellites are so expensive. they have to use all that nickel...
Atomic Gumshoe: No
Specie's Return: How abou a Dwarf President? Easily crushed with a pair of Liars...
klokwkdoggonit: how about a troika? Kerry, Bush and Nader
Atomic Gumshoe: Plenty of those to be found these daze
Dave: brb
||||||||| Dave says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Dave exits at 10:14 PM.
klokwkdoggonit: or Hillary, Katherine Harris and Karen Hughes
Atomic Gumshoe: Don't crush taht Dwarf, Hand me the Samovar!
klokwkdoggonit wishes he could afford a good samovar
Specie's Return: Rock, Paper and Shears in a tight race
llanwydd: That's a nadir. That's a pun
Dexter Fong: Nader is tryng to punish us
Specie's Return: Better than getting a Melvin
Merlyn: If he wants to punish us, he can host Saturday Night Live again
cease: good one, merl
klokwkdoggonit: Nader? Who else? We're well into the fifth act of The Trials of Job here. Sheesh!
klokwkdoggonit: I voted to stay an American, not join some friggin' S&M club...
cease: interesting thing about cheney-enron-taliban cabal on maj report now
cease: looks like i have to visit your country again in may. what a bummer
klokwkdoggonit: can you get a visa now, Cat?
Specie's Return: Crossing our designer border, cease!
cease: not by choice, return
Merlyn: tell them you're smuggling drugs to old people
Specie's Return: running illegal Sugar across the border...hmmm?
Merlyn: it's the fatcats vs. the bigwigs
Merlyn: the bigwigs defeated the hoity-toity back in the 50's
Dexter Fong: My money's on the fancy-pants
llanwydd: Sugar? Who do you think you are? Fidel Castro?
Merlyn: what about the hoi-polloi?
cease: not that far off. ailing parents. they, or their insurance can afford drugs, but still....
Merlyn: and where are the hotshots?
Dexter Fong: what about the sans culottes
Specie's Return: More five cent cigars, maybe?
cease: cut off your shoes and learn to play the flute
Merlyn: I hate getting sans in my culottes
klokwkdoggonit: who was the last bigwig? Priscilla Presley or who? Cher?
Dexter Fong: Lannie Kazan
Dexter Fong: ..or Harvey Fierstein
Merlyn: Trump?
Dexter Fong: You're fired?
||||||||| Bone-E-Boi sneaks in around 10:23 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
klokwkdoggonit: I hate Bridge
Dexter Fong: Oh Boi!
Specie's Return: Trump no spade, then deal!
klokwkdoggonit: welcome BeB
Specie's Return: Hey Bone
Bone-E-Boi: Is the clock actually telling accurate time?
klokwkdoggonit has forgotten just how good this album is
Dexter Fong: Nope
Specie's Return: somewhere in space the clock is true
Bone-E-Boi: It isn't? That's a relief!
klokwkdoggonit: yeah, on Venus maybe BeB
Merlyn: Clock is about 1/2 hour ahead
klokwkdoggonit has been researching how to hack an alarm clock to run on Mars time
cease: hey bone. are you in la?
Atomic Gumshoe: I have a program for mars time on my Palm
klokwkdoggonit: lala ward land?
klokwkdoggonit: batteries don't last as long, gum
cease: must make palm reading difficult, atomic
Dexter Fong heads off for a refill
||||||||| Outside, the 10:26 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving ah,clem coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
klokwkdoggonit: maketh my Palm to lie down on still wassers?
Merlyn: hey clem, is Electrician still going?
llanwydd: just got a message that said "this item can not be used"
cease: but you can listen to the dalai lama all the time
Bone-E-Boi: Charlie McCarthy. Did you know that Charlie Manson was actually trying to kill Candace Bergman's boyfriend when he invaded Sharon Tate's home?
klokwkdoggonit: just ended
llanwydd: but I clicked it off and now there's no trouble
ah,clem: just finishing now
Bone-E-Boi: CandICE Bergman. Ice berg man.
Merlyn: ok clem
klokwkdoggonit: then it MUST be new, Ilan!
Atomic Gumshoe: http://marsclock.sourceforge.net/
Bone-E-Boi: The Icebergman Cometh.
Specie's Return: Yeah, and the Aztecs invented the vacation, too
ah,clem: just poped in to say hi and reset banner, Merl, see ya,
Merlyn: ok clem, se ya
cease: by ah
ah,clem: night all
Merlyn: did you pope in in your popemobile?
Bone-E-Boi: This Charlie Manson/ Charlie McCarthy thing will haunt me forever. The Bergman connection.
Specie's Return: Later on, clem
||||||||| 10:29 PM -- ah,clem left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
klokwkdoggonit: the palm needs batteries too often. cheap alarm clocks run on 1 'AA' battery for a year
Merlyn: No Communion for you!
llanwydd: Manson didn't go into the Tate house, Bone
Bone-E-Boi: Is this thing on?
Dexter Fong: Is this thing on what?
Bone-E-Boi: No, he was a real control freak. You'd better watch out for Charlie's girls.
klokwkdoggonit: they also have lower power since the osc. is 32 KHz only. plus they can use precision watch crystals which are quite accurate and cheep.
Specie's Return: he icropo orking, ere
cease: beavis and butthead go the principla's office, good metaphor
Bone-E-Boi: Candice Bergman's boyfriend was Doris Day's son.
Dexter Fong: Dennis Day?
klokwkdoggonit: i always worried about that "detective agency" Townsend was running
Merlyn: Geraldo Rivera used to be Kurt Vonnigut Jr's son-in-law
Bone-E-Boi: He was a record producer who had promised to make Charlie a star.
Dexter Fong: The Won't get Fooled Again Agency
cease: scary, merl
Merlyn: but not now
llanwydd: going for a cough of cuppee. brb
Bone-E-Boi: Manson, that is. Not McCarthy.
cease: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, wont get fooled again
klokwkdoggonit: Who?
Dexter Fong: Thanks you Mr President
cease: your shrub is endlessly inventive in his language
klokwkdoggonit: ah, slack guitar?
Atomic Gumshoe: The Mars Flies
Dexter Fong: Gloriously inarticulate
Atomic Gumshoe: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/
Specie's Return: Fool me three times and I'm looking for the fourth
klokwkdoggonit: how can that be, considering his vocabulary?
Atomic Gumshoe: The Time on Mars Flying
Bone-E-Boi: I promised Charlie McCarthy that I'd make him a rock and roll star. And I fully intend to keep my promise.
Atomic Gumshoe: I heard Bush Is multilingual
klokwkdoggonit: yeah, I looked at that one before, GUM. but so far, for the power, the cheap alarm clock looks like the best approach
Atomic Gumshoe: or a cheap Palm
Specie's Return: He can also tie both left and right shoe
Dexter Fong: I had a cheap date with a Date Palm
Bone-E-Boi: One slip, and kiss your dreams goodbye. No second chance...
Atomic Gumshoe: To each other
Dexter Fong: Together again
llanwydd: trouble on my screen. I'm going to try coming back on with a different name
Specie's Return: tapdance and play the drums
Dexter Fong: Try one we can pronouce Ilan
klokwkdoggonit: just interrupt the pulser that clicks the second hand gear using a pseudo-random bit string to slow it down to the base spec. on the NASA page. I'm not going to worry about Civil Twilight and rotational tilt and seasons and all that crap too.
klokwkdoggonit: I can get the alarm clock for $2.99, GUM
Specie's Return: How about the Fudge factor in a chocolate factory?
||||||||| Outside, the 10:36 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving bill barnstormer coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
bill barnstormer: this is better
Merlyn: bill, are you llan?
klokwkdoggonit: it's a sticky question, Specie
Dexter Fong: Hi Bill, or Il
Merlyn: should I kill llan, or kill bill
bill barnstormer: I'm llanwydd
Merlyn: why didn't you log out?
klokwkdoggonit: bitter, batter or better?
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off llanwydd at 10:36 PM
Atomic Gumshoe: Klok, can't argue w/that
Bone-E-Boi: In retrospect, I think The Wall was about Phil Spector. That movie Magic with Anthony Hopkins in it must have been about Charlie McCarthy.
klokwkdoggonit: wanted to watch himself go
Specie's Return: This is Elmertown, Bill
Atomic Gumshoe: How wouldja slow down the seconds?
bill barnstormer: I can't log out
Dexter Fong: Looks like a clear cut solution
Merlyn: no exit button?
bill barnstormer: not nice of you to kill me Merl
Atomic Gumshoe: The Satre Chat room
klokwkdoggonit: put a micro in power down. interrupt it out with the 1-second pulse drive from the original circuit, then farble that with a long bit table
Specie's Return: right click, Back?
Dexter Fong: Satre Merde?
Atomic Gumshoe: Sorry
bill barnstormer: no exit button
Atomic Gumshoe: bad spelling, Meet Bad typing
klokwkdoggonit: most of the time, you get a pulse in, send one out. occasionally, you drop one. in the long run, the clock keeps Mars time
Merlyn: that's weird; is it always like that for you?
Atomic Gumshoe: Ok I think I uderstand tat
Atomic Gumshoe: that
Specie's Return: No where to go and all night to look for the Sugar
bill barnstormer: first time, Merl
klokwkdoggonit: you can then re-flash the sequence to trim the timekeeping to account for the crystal being off or the sequence being off
Merlyn: ok, I won't worry about it...
Bone-E-Boi: There is a Firesign connection here, sort of. Jack Nicholson co-authored Head. He also starred in several movies with Candice Bergman.
klokwkdoggonit: it's like an AC wall clock - it's not that accurate in the short run, but the power company counts AC cycles so that over a month or more, the suckers are just about dead on to something like 4th-removed NBS atomic clock accuracy
Specie's Return: I've always been a little off, half a bubble off of plum or a pair
Bone-E-Boi: Bergman, Bergman... Can the name be a coincidence?
klokwkdoggonit: of course, now, you can get an "atomic clock" for $8 that picks up the radio signal from NBS directly
Bone-E-Boi: Hm. Yes, I suppose it could.
Dexter Fong: Inbred Bergman?
bill barnstormer: Isn't it Bergen?
Bone-E-Boi: You're right!
cease: but real truth is unavailable at any price
Atomic Gumshoe: Give it some reds, the atomic clock and maybe it would run mars time
bill barnstormer: Inbred! LOL
Bone-E-Boi: Give the man a cheroot.
Dexter Fong: Mystery solved
Specie's Return: What about a conspiracy?
Dexter Fong: I game
Dexter Fong: I'm game
klokwkdoggonit: you could try, GUM. Here's the cheep one: http://www.softwareandstuff.com/CES10290.html
Dexter Fong: I will have gamed
Bone-E-Boi: I'm just desperately trying to think of something, anything to say about FST.
cease: is it that hard, boney?
klokwkdoggonit: we've been hitting them good tonight so far, BeB
Dexter Fong: Cat: Please!!
klokwkdoggonit: would help if the FST on Skybird resumed
cease: i think there must be some firesign stuff that would be perfect on this show
Specie's Return: We could all shave our heads and name ourselves Bergman..?
bill barnstormer: Ever heard "Give Us a Break" Bone?
Atomic Gumshoe: Ken Tech?
cease: i heard janeane quoting firesign this week. so why not the real thing?
bill barnstormer: or give us a bone break
klokwkdoggonit: the more radioactive wall-sized virgin is here GUM: http://www.softwareandstuff.com/CES10289.html
Merlyn: cat, you mean dept of redundancy dept, or something else?
klokwkdoggonit: and do religious allegory films, Specie?
Bone-E-Boi: What should we carve in our foreheads?
Dexter Fong: A third eye
cease: yes, merl
Bone-E-Boi: Yin yangs?
klokwkdoggonit: we could call ourselves the Seventh Sealed Calvary and annoy AA until they give FST an 'in'
klokwkdoggonit: already got that in the back of my head, Dex
cease: klok, i thought ausitn said they were in negotiation
Bone-E-Boi: We're celebrating our bad karma.
klokwkdoggonit: another one and I'd start to feel like the Mars Rover
klokwkdoggonit: Is he in Fallujah, too, Cat?
Dexter Fong: Klok: Wondered why you always wore your hair in an upsweep
Specie's Return: allegator in allegory,.. next film at eleven..
cease: is that further out than the carl rover?
klokwkdoggonit: beyond the Mission Spec, Cat. Way out there...
bill barnstormer: Would you believe I'm right outside of Vermont and I can't get this liberal radio show?
Merlyn: you can stream it...
Dexter Fong: Carl Rover easy to follow...leaves a slime trail
klokwkdoggonit: you should watch those briefings; they really get their rocks off
cease: ask this ben guy to buy a station and put it on
Bone-E-Boi: My favorite celebrity spelling error is Barbara Feldman. Those eyes... weird.
bill barnstormer: I don't think I can stream anything with webtv
Atomic Gumshoe: Here's a laugh: Me w/Picasso's Interstate Highway sine: http://mryamamoto.50megs.com/buffalo-trip/3125.jpg
||||||||| Outside, the 10:48 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dexter Fong: WB Bill/Il
klokwkdoggonit: she was olllld
Merlyn: ah.... now can I kill bill? Do I have to pay royalties?
klokwkdoggonit: hot stuff; won $64K question back in the '50s didn't she?
Dexter Fong: No Merl...it's an homage
llanwydd: good one merl
klokwkdoggonit: we're going to let them sue us, Merlyn
klokwkdoggonit: settle for half or something
Specie's Return: Could pick up stick and move to Elmertown instead
klokwkdoggonit looks at the picture and does not understand (which is not unusual)
Merlyn: me too neither, kwd
klokwkdoggonit: hound baying against slider; not a Good Sign, speaking of signage
||||||||| Catherwood leads doctec inside, makes a note of the time (10:51 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Dexter Fong: Hi Doc
llanwydd: evenin doc
klokwkdoggonit: gad, tawk about fasHionably laaate
doctec: hi gang
Specie's Return: howdy doc
cease: hey doc!
doctec: sorry i'm running late - had a pool session with my buddy al
Dexter Fong: Be sure to towel off good
Bone-E-Boi: All three faces, doctec?
Specie's Return: Did ya get wet?
cease: how goes the pool,doc
klokwkdoggonit laments he doesn't even have a jacuzzi...
doctec: and i'm rapidly running out of gas but wanted to at the very least poke my head in as it were
Atomic Gumshoe: Swimming in the Gene Pool w/ Dr Slicer again?
Merlyn: note to doc and all: I've beefed up the search functions for chat logs, the mindless fellowship pavilion, the billville guestbook, and the front page keyword: input
Specie's Return: sink your balls in the water??
Dexter Fong: Klok: Put that Akita in the tub with you
klokwkdoggonit: he's having a ball, no doubt
doctec: my pool shooting has improved a little of late
Atomic Gumshoe: that was supposed to be "Splicer"
klokwkdoggonit: sheesh, i'm going to need a convalescent one shortly, Ash
Merlyn: Now the searches understand regexps, and you can use google instead, and if you don't pick a valid keyword, the front page shows a google search of firesigntheatrelegacy.com
klokwkdoggonit: got rid of the competition, eh?
Merlyn: lotsa free time
Specie's Return: sunk two battleships and one rubber duck?
klokwkdoggonit: ;-)
doctec: wow merl, that sounds fantastic
cease: the legend of fats domino will be replaced with the legend of doc
Bone-E-Boi: Snorkel snooker.
klokwkdoggonit makes up regexps in his spare time in order to annoy less-than-perfect implementations
Merlyn: nobody ever uses them, though.
llanwydd: by fats domino do you mean minnesota fats/
doctec: they never come up into the hills?
Atomic Gumshoe: Lucy Sez "Hello"
llanwydd: or Waller/
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off bill barnstormer at 10:55 PM
Specie's Return: A search for nowhere, a good place to go.
Merlyn: Kill Bill part 1
klokwkdoggonit only uses them when Something Big has to be done; the ability seems to fade like last nite's dream if it isn't used frequently
cease: been feeding cats. how's it going?
Dexter Fong: Cats look healthy
Specie's Return: Let hungry cats eat.
klokwkdoggonit: doing the Sigfried and Roy thing, Cat?
cease: i hope that's not true in la, doc
Atomic Gumshoe: I have a new one
Atomic Gumshoe: cat
||||||||| Outside, the 10:57 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving shifty coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: the cats are about the size of a shoe, klok. i fear not for my toes
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:57 PM and Bunnyboy steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Bunnyboy: lo dere
Dexter Fong: Cat: He has a new cat, cat
cease: new cat?
Merlyn: my keyboard has two shiftys
cease: i've had these kittens for 2 weeks now
Dexter Fong: Hey Bunny and shifty
doctec: lili and i saw kill bill vol 2 the weekend after it was released - we rented the dvd of vol 1 to refresh our memories re the story and characters
cease: hey bunny, shifty
llanwydd: hi bunny
Specie's Return: don't take the tag off the cat , Gum,.. it's illegal and painful for the cat
klokwkdoggonit: the cat in the road was facing down a racoon about 4X its size, Cat. amazing. or maybe the racoon was bored
Bunnyboy: Ambushed by a QWERTY Sidewinder!
doctec: we both loved vol 2 - much more character driven, more of the back story behind all the chop socky and blood'n'guts of vol 1
Dexter Fong: Racoon was laughing
doctec: hi bb
klokwkdoggonit: well, the car kind of outclassed both of them, and I had someplace to Be...
Bunnyboy: The elder Bros. Carradine are both kicking butt recently, in KILL BILL and DEADWOOD, respectively.
Dexter Fong: This is ETAIN SHRDLU, come in QWERTY
doctec: hey bb - saw that audiomidi.com is running a native instruments special - a 'best of' software package for around $550 - good thru end of may
||||||||| Atomic Gumshoe leaves at 10:59 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..."
klokwkdoggonit: it's kind of strange that Stony Lane was so quiet at 8:40 PM, though. Weird. Maybe there is Something Bad going to happen here...
doctec: reaktor 4, absynth 2, pro-52, b4, fm7, and others
doctec: all in one package
Merlyn: was it rocky raccoon?
Bunnyboy: I wasn't here last week, but saw in the transcript that Ken mentioned the colorized REEFER MADNESS.
Specie's Return: Gumshoe walks quietly into the west
klokwkdoggonit: LOL, Merlyn
doctec: reaktor 4 alone is something like 400 bucks so this sounds like an amazing deal
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: Let's see. Who hasn't shown up here tonight. Just Bambi and Elayne
klokwkdoggonit: yeah, Ted Turner did that right after The Wizard of Oz, didn't he?
Bunnyboy: The disc is fun. Colorization is a much more sophisticated tech, nowadays.
doctec: elayne's probably in the last throes of the move to the new digs
Dexter Fong: Elayne will be absent for at least the next 2 weeks due to moving and having to re-eastblish DSL connection
Merlyn: doc, let's get byron to reset the clock again (and maybe install a sync script)
Bunnyboy: That said, I still think some titles should be off limits, i.e. CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA, et al.
klokwkdoggonit: I like what Turner said, that people could choose.
doctec: i wish i could have helped out last weekend but i had commited that time to helping someone else with a music project over a month ago
doctec: merl: i'll mention it to him
klokwkdoggonit: gad, DSL is so nasty about setup
Dexter Fong: Doc: There wasn't all that much to do so don't fret
Merlyn: ok doc
llanwydd: I'd love to see Birth of a Nation colorized.
klokwkdoggonit: where's lili? lili hasn't been here tonight
doctec: dex: thanks i appreciate knowing that
Bunnyboy: And the techs who produced Da Colored Reefuh said they approached the project like an animated comic book.
Dexter Fong: Ilan: Lot's of coloreds in BoN
doctec: lili is at her place and i am at mine
llanwydd: Or All Quiet on the Western Front
Specie's Return: Got to be someplace, night all!
klokwkdoggonit: you both have computers, no? ;-)
||||||||| Specie's Return 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..."
Merlyn: BoaN is about black & white
Dexter Fong: Night Spec
Bunnyboy: Hence, a few primary "spikes", and lovely green and pink smoke FX.
llanwydd: I didnt' mean that dex
Dexter Fong: Who was Specie, does anyone know?
Merlyn waves at fishy in sea
klokwkdoggonit: speaking of which, the slider won't last much longer. gotta go for a walk, I think
cease: how is lili, doc?
doctec: she is still looking for work, also not feeling 100% at the moment - slept in most of the day, she is on a roll taking care of household chores so we agreed i should stay home tonight and let her continue with that
cease: good for the roll
llanwydd: I saw BoaN on a big screen twice
cease: i really think this is the best aa show. best guests, anyway
doctec: lland: how about 'intolerance'? ever seen that one on a big screen?
Bunnyboy: I went to Legend Films site, and saw their demo reel of colorization samples. Stooges, fine and dandy, ALL ABOUT EVE...well, my hackles went up, even though the colors were quite believable.
cease: randi is the best at rallying the troops, but i really dont like the call in format and she doesnt like the guest format
Bone-E-Boi: Everybody out of the dead pool. Watching Mort Sahl swim around in there using only his eyebrow muscles to propel himself is making me queasy.
doctec: beb: lol
llanwydd: No but I saw it on video. I think it's the most pretentious film ever made
doctec: lland: really? more pretentious than heaven's gate?
llanwydd: didn't see hg
Bone-E-Boi: Mort is swimming face down. Hm... Who's got April 29 for Mort?
Dexter Fong: Knock Knock Heavens Gate
doctec: lland: you should - just for comparison's sake
cease: intollerance? it;s a fuckin Ad for intolerance. like bush's clean skies billl
cease: clean of birds
Bunnyboy: I just remember when Turner first started colorizing films, and the lady in the electric purple dress in a Laurel and Hardy short, and the canary yellow tuxedos in CASABLANCA.
Dexter Fong: Canary Island Yellow tuxedos
cease: yes bunny. and the colorization of scrooge. there must be a hell for people who do that
Merlyn: BEB, mort sahl not ready for mort ician yet...
doctec: yeah bb, i remember those - i hated them, i've always thought colorization of b&w films was a bad idea
Bunnyboy: Dex: Speaking of HEAVEN'S GATE alums, Brad Dourif is GREAT as the Doc in DEADWOOD.
Merlyn: Of course, the worst was coloring "ol' blue eyes" Sinatra with brown eyes
doctec: bb: yes - dourif rawwwks!
cease: we dont get that here. alas
cease: read interesting reveiw of it in salon
Dexter Fong: Bun: I had planned to watch that show, but somehow never got started and now....well
cease: fuck, we dont get the sopranos or 6 feet under
doctec: cat: odds are you will, and not too long from now
Bunnyboy: "I wear the brushes I forged in life..."
cease: until years later
Bone-E-Boi: I thought the pastel dayglo Triumph of the Will was really different.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| shifty - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bone-E-Boi: But everything was too pink.
doctec: well i'm fading fast & want to catch the daily show before i crash - y'all have a great evening, will try to make it closer to starting time next week
Merlyn: they should make all the nazi blue for a nazi blue man group
Bunnyboy: Except ashen grey Adolph.
Bone-E-Boi: Blue Meanies.
Merlyn: OK doc
Dexter Fong: Night Doc, and best to Lili
Bunnyboy: nite Doc
Merlyn: zactly, BEB
Bone-E-Boi: Paint Adolph purple. Really freak Jerry Falwell out.
doctec: until then yippee tie one on, so long (& i'll pass on your good wishes to the lilimeister, a.k.a. zeitgeistbabe)
cease: good that you could show up tonight, doc
Merlyn: with a triangle on his head
Dexter Fong: But if Nazi's *had* dressed in pink, would have been much better for all concerned
doctec: nytol (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............................
Merlyn: bye doc
||||||||| doctec leaves at 11:11 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..."
Bone-E-Boi: Replace Adolph with a computer animated vibrator.
||||||||| Mudhead waltzes in at 11:12 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Bunnyboy: I picked up FRANKENSTEIN : THE LEGACY COLLECTION this week. The first 5 Universal Frankenstein pictures.
Dexter Fong: Hey Mud
Merlyn: then he'll be illegal in Alabama
Mudhead: I wanted this thing in bronze dammit
cease: hi mud
Bunnyboy: lo Richard
Merlyn: you can sell all the hitler dolls you want, but no dildos
Dexter Fong: Cool Bunny, is that like Frankie meets Dracula, and meets the wolfman etc?
Mudhead: desist cease
Bunnyboy: Dex: That's HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the 5th title.
Mudhead: Merlyn, no nazty nazi dolls pleaze
Merlyn: billy the kid meet's frankenstein's daughter?
cease: 53 is the new 30
cease: hey, maybe i can meet a 29 year old in la
llanwydd: haven't heard of F the L. Who's in it?
Dexter Fong: and one is nothing
Merlyn: computer programmers just change number bases; I'm always 20
Bunnyboy: They also released Dracula and Wolf Man sets, and one big "monster" set, with all 3 editions, and 3 busts.
cease: i thought it was just 1's and 0's
Bunnyboy: It's in anticipation of VAN HELSING, Universal's new Hugh Jackman flick.
Bone-E-Boi: Onto the vibrator superimpose Shirley Temple's grey teeth.
Merlyn: That means I'm 101,111
Dexter Fong: Saw previews for VH, sure took it way beyond Bram Stoker's original vision
Mudhead: hi, Im 00010110
Bone-E-Boi: Singing "animal crackers in my soup" and "on the good ship lollypop"
Bunnyboy: Merl: Billy and Frankie's Daughter is in another edition, commentary by Joe Bob Briggs.
llanwydd: I havne't seen much Shirley. I liked her in Fort Apache.
Mudhead: Wanna know what Im listening to? Try http://mack.is-a-geek.com:8000/listen.pls
llanwydd: Or was it the one afterthat
Bone-E-Boi: But I suppose that would be monkeying around with the director's creation.
Mudhead: Fair Use I cry!
cease: hows it going, mud
Bunnyboy: Speaking of listening, be sure to check out Bob Edward's last stand on MORNING EDITION tomorrow.
Merlyn: what izzit?
Mudhead: Hiya cease
llanwydd: If you guys are into old horror why don't you stop by at the classichorror group at Yahoo. I posted a trivia quiz
Bone-E-Boi: Shirley Temple's teeth look grey in the colorized versions of her movies.
cease: why was he fired? bush did it?
cease: they really need to get krassner on this show. he's in nyc now!
Bone-E-Boi: That explains the free association of Hitler and a vibrator.
Bunnyboy: It's from eating all that Republican tripe!
Dexter Fong: I must away to park car..will stop back by later
Mudhead: Is Jenna still on Air America?
Bone-E-Boi: A giant singing vibrator.
Merlyn: you mean janeane? No, majority report just ended
Bunnyboy: Bob Edwards was reassigned by NPR's management. He'll now be a Senior Correspondent, in much the way Daniel Shore used to be, I imagine.
Bunnyboy: It really stinks.
llanwydd: wish I could even start my car
Bone-E-Boi: Wait a minute. I've got a theme for Kerry's campaign. How's this. George W. Bush is an embarassment to the whole world
Merlyn: "hmm, I don't like that 'world' in there...not American-oriented enough"
Bunnyboy: Bob hosted MORNING EDITION for just short of 25 years...and it's 25th anniversary is next fall!
Mudhead: Embarresment of the Hole inna Bush?
llanwydd: I'm hearing things about Kerry's activities in Viet Nam that I don't like
Mudhead: How long ago was that?
Bone-E-Boi: Bush Gore on the rag.
Mudhead: Think oof the current body bag total
Bunnyboy: Pat Oliphant and Garry Trudeau are both doing gangbuster work nowadays.
llanwydd: What Viet Nam or what I heard?
Mudhead: Ask whos responsible?
llanwydd: Park and lock it!
Bone-E-Boi: Gangbanger cartoonists?
Mudhead: Bush, stupid hole inna Bush
llanwydd: always liked Oliphant
Mudhead: They kept eating my peanuts
Bone-E-Boi: American Graffiti part 3.
Mudhead: What happened to the radio?
Bunnyboy: Lose The Smirk, Impeach The Jerk!
cease: i thought charles shultz was dead
llanwydd: Doonsebury's too cynical for my taste
Bunnyboy: It was eaten by TV.
Mudhead: Too late, we're stuck wif him
Bone-E-Boi: Did you ever see American Graffiti part 2? One of the loveable characters gets drafted and commits suicide in Vietnam. No shit.
Merlyn: mikey?
Mudhead: Im ashamed whenever his name comes up in chattin
cease: that's like saying suetonius was too cynical in the roman empire, llan
Bone-E-Boi: He cleverly frags his CO without killing him. Unfortunately he kills himself instead.
Mudhead: bonehead
Mudhead: oops mudhead
llanwydd: well maybe you read Doonesbury more than I do cat
Bone-E-Boi: He blows up the latrine and showers his CO with shit.
Bunnyboy: The character B.D. lost a leg in Iraq. Grim indeed...and yet, sardonic laughter remains!
cease: i've read i think evey strip since the beginning, llan
Mudhead: whats funny about that?
Merlyn: "if you lose a leg, we help you look for it"
cease: same with shultz, an old hero of mine
cease: pogo, lots of underground comix, neal gaiman, i like the whole aesthetic
llanwydd: even remember the katzenjammer kids, cat?
Mudhead: another 12 soldiers died today alone
klokwkdoggonit: grrr
cease: i was deeply into comic history at one time, llan. i wrote a book about peanuts long ago
Bunnyboy: Mud (and y'all, too): Check out the last couple of weeks of strips at www.doonesbury.com. Compassionate to the corp.
||||||||| Outside, the 11:28 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving mindless fellow coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bone-E-Boi: Pico and Alvarado could star as the gangbanger cartoonists.
cease: i lived in japan for a long time and collected early 19th century japanese comics
cease: hi fellow. how's the ship?
llanwydd: cool, cat
Bunnyboy: "Good news first: B.D. won the Purple Heart!"
cease: good one, bun
Merlyn: hey mindless, mind your head
Mudhead: bad news posthumonously
llanwydd: welcome fellow fellow
mindless fellow: i'm jes anudder yahoo
cease: the stuff you see on the walls at pompeii is a lot closer to what we consider comics than what we consider "art"
Bunnyboy: cat: That's Zonker, receiving the news, before Boopsie demands the phone.
cease: yeah, i know, bun
llanwydd: did they have comic books in the 19th century? In color?
cease: but you're even more into comics than me. and elayne is on another universe
Bunnyboy: lo Findless Mellow
cease: even before that. only those are all in museums, or in the michener collection
cease: back to the 1600s. the whole wood block print thing
cease: a fuck of a lot of the impressionist movement came out of that. and that was cuz those "comics" were used as wrapping paper in stuff sent to france
llanwydd: Oh, yes. Now I am remembering "Punch"
mindless fellow: 'ello, y'all. i gotta go raid the medicine cabinet a minit
cease: help yerself, fellow
Mudhead: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”
Bunnyboy: I sense a pizza in the house. Buenos Nachos, yez!
cease: civilization, Ho
llanwydd: bet your goin for a sleepin pill, MF
Mudhead: Anne Coulter two days after 9/11
llanwydd: Mexican Pizza, cool
Mudhead: brb
cease: no, not
Bunnyboy drags his knuckles outta the room
cease: hot
llanwydd: Domini Domini Domini yer all Catholics now
||||||||| Bunnyboy leaves at 11:35 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
mindless fellow: anybody got any rope?
llanwydd: Yes at Radio City Music Hall 3 days before 9/11
Bone-E-Boi: Terry the Toad commits suicide in Vietnam in More American Graffiti. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079576/
Bone-E-Boi: Toad away.
klokwkdoggonit: things starting to fade here; I think i'll lure hound to bed and then go home and work on my stuff...
llanwydd: choose the nearest exit to your seats
klokwkdoggonit: ok
klokwkdoggonit: beware russian rescuers bearing gas?
mindless fellow: believe in your fellow human beans
cease: by klok
klokwkdoggonit: goodnight Cat, everyone
Mudhead: nitet ni
klokwkdoggonit: has been a trying day 4 sure, sigh
mindless fellow: byeeeeeee
||||||||| klokwkdoggonit leaves at 11:39 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Bone-E-Boi: Nite.
llanwydd: good night klokdog
llanwydd: is it my imagination....or are we all getting mellowwwwww
mindless fellow: Oh. I get it! It's a profit deal!!!
Mudhead: Take this industrialk boxcar of coke over to Haliburton will ya Lynne?
llanwydd: My sleeping pill is making me harder to read. Good thing I can only take this stuff at night
mindless fellow: <<>>>
Merlyn: i'm back and beautiful
llanwydd: I love ambien
Mudhead: wb wizard
llanwydd: yes merl good to see you back again
mindless fellow: opps! magic, all my letters misremembered
mindless fellow: methinks the Right Reverend EL Mouse was onct a Volkswagon
llanwydd: that will happen in the pavillion
llanwydd: even in the vault
mindless fellow: i wuz there once, many times. i sat on a wolf stoo;.
llanwydd: you mean the broken glass?
mindless fellow: oops again - stooL
mindless fellow: i love the sound of broken glass
Mudhead: sound like victory?
mindless fellow: sound like rob lowe
llanwydd: Ever heard "In a Glass House" by Gentle Giant, MF?
llanwydd: you'd love the sound of the glassssss
mindless fellow: many moons ago. very gud stuf ........(i'm cnserving leters)
mindless fellow: i'm afrad i'v about usd up all the letrs that Microsnot sold me and i'll hav 2 by mor.
Bone-E-Boi: I've been reading the log. At one point chat reminded me of the old Flo and Eddie by the Fireside radio show. A half dozen people babbling at one on a half dozen different topics.
cease: i have that on tape, llan
llanwydd: that's the way things are here
Merlyn: wait, that means no two people are talking about the same thing. what are we, congress?
mindless fellow: that made my brain hurt
Bone-E-Boi: Anyone got Flo and Eddie by the Fireside on tape?
cease: but i really have to go prepare food if i want to eat tonight
llanwydd: great sounds. Especially Runaway
cease: my cats are staring at the tv in wonder
Merlyn: ok cat
cease: see ya next week
mindless fellow: cease must be in the `quarter-to-nine` zone
cease: yep
cease: off i go
mindless fellow: bye c
Mudhead: nite all also
mindless fellow: c u
mindless fellow: LATR
||||||||| Mudhead leaves at 11:55 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: looks like it's time to break up
Merlyn: HAHAHAHahahaha
Merlyn: see?
Bone-E-Boi: There's a Linux screensaver that drives my cat nuts. It's the flying Calvin & Hobbes screensaver. My cat is certain there's some critter hiding in the monitor.
||||||||| Merlyn departs at 11:56 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
llanwydd: When I saw Flo just now it reminded me of Ziegfeld and I saw theatre curtains in the message board
mindless fellow: flo an eddie were a trip. they worked well with T Rex
Bone-E-Boi: I'll have to digicam my cat staring at that screensaver. Hysterical.
mindless fellow: that'd b neat
llanwydd: but there are 5 of us left Merl
Bone-E-Boi: At least now my cat understand why I'm at the computer for hours at a time. I'm obviously trying to catch whatever's hiding in the monitor.
mindless fellow: im lafing. that was good
mindless fellow: or, as John Winston Lennon would say, "larfing"
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
Bone-E-Boi: Flo and Eddie. The Turtles. Back when Harry Shearer was working on KRLA AM Pasadena, California. Hit radio. Then Flo and Eddie joined the Mothers and Shearer joined the Credibility Gap.
Bone-E-Boi: Things got weird after that.
mindless fellow: really good and weird. B Mitchell Reid. Brother John
Bone-E-Boi: KMET, right. That was FM.
mindless fellow: pasadena playhouse
Bone-E-Boi: KRLA was earlier... 1965.
mindless fellow: KMET (DOO-EEE-DA-LEE)
Bone-E-Boi: KMET was so early Seventies. Like National Lampoon. But Flo and Eddie by the Fireside was broadcast on KMET, I think. Sunday nights, wasn't it?
mindless fellow: '65 was a good year. i got out of prison ...errr, hi skool
Bone-E-Boi: I snuck into KROQ twice when Phil Austin was doing Hollywood Niteshift. Shook Chevy Chase's hand then nearly ran him over in the parking lot.
mindless fellow: i may have met you there. i, too, was at HN several or more times - with a camera.
Bone-E-Boi: A huge blue automobile. Reminiscent of the big blue old Chevy in Where the Buffalo Roam. Bill Murray as Dr. Thompson hides in the trunk when a DEA helicopter machine guns the car.
Bone-E-Boi: Chevy, Chevy.
Bone-E-Boi: hu
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| cease - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
mindless fellow: and the unforgettable .....Cheby
llanwydd: My "sleeping draft" for want of a better expression is nearlyin full force. I wlll bid you goodnight until der nachste Dienstag. Check out bobsbrazerkolounge at Yahoo Groups
Bone-E-Boi: Rod Stewart's Rolls Royce nearly ran me over in the parking lot of the Roxy club.
mindless fellow: a 57 Cheby lowered, with baby moons
Bone-E-Boi: Such incidents were to be expected back in those days.
Bone-E-Boi: God, I've said all of this before. I'm a middle-aged bore with a bad memory.
Dexter Fong: Gad, I hate laternate side parking
Dexter Fong: alter
mindless fellow: i was zonked on the corner of Sunset and Whatever, where the Whiskey was, with my head pressed against the wall, vibrating with the walls to a new group, first LA gig, called The Cream. the sign said so...
mindless fellow: Hey! You're one of Us! xcpt my memory doesn't very well
Dexter Fong: Gnight Dear Friends =)
mindless fellow: it was, back then, Dr. ......uh
mindless fellow: Dr. ................
Bone-E-Boi: Your head against the wall? Passersby must have thought you were in the brickbreaker's union.
mindless fellow: gunnite
mindless fellow: passersby be dammed (then flooded)
Bone-E-Boi: Firesign were on KRLA for awhile, weren't they?
mindless fellow: yes ja vol
Bone-E-Boi: You should have smashed a hole in the wall with your head. You could have heard Clapton better that way.
mindless fellow: Doctor Duck!!!
Bone-E-Boi: Maybe you did and forgot.
mindless fellow: or maybe i'm still there, and all this is a fiction
Bone-E-Boi: Smashing bricks with your head is a Masonic secret.
mindless fellow: but only the Japanese Mason's
||||||||| It's 12:20 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
mindless fellow: i've always liked their jars
Bone-E-Boi: Japanese Beatles? With Clapton? I remember that gig! They performed at a real hole in the wall.
mindless fellow: but i didn't care too much for Perry
Bone-E-Boi: Luke Perry is Japanese?
mindless fellow: No, Mason's aren't Beatles, they're Bee's!
Bone-E-Boi: In what meaning of the word? His personal habits are none of my busienss.
mindless fellow: (thet say he once had 4 feet of toilet paper dangling from the back of his pants
Bone-E-Boi: I'd rather be a wanker than a drone. Yes, I would.
mindless fellow: 10-4, Elanor!
Bone-E-Boi: Aunt Bea of Mayberry. Always reminded me of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Bone-E-Boi: Little Ronnie Howard. Should have directed American Graffiti 2.
mindless fellow: what i'd like to know is why they named a president after Ann Elk
Bone-E-Boi: Negro: Gary Puckett.
mindless fellow: Little Ronnie, he done good. Still do
mindless fellow: then there's the OTHER Ronnie Howard, but that's another story
Bone-E-Boi: Andy Griffith in Spy Hard really increased his depth as an actor.
Bone-E-Boi: Dexter, ya still awake?
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dexter Fong - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
mindless fellow: didja ever go to a place called The Banjo Cafe, in Santa Monica, to hear bluegrass? (you're making me laugh again! Now, stop that!)
mindless fellow: or concerts at McCabes?
Bone-E-Boi: No, but I've been to the Baked Potato in Pasadena. I think it went out of business.
Bone-E-Boi: The Ice House it still there, yes?
mindless fellow: Yeah. Maybe the only good one left in LA is Canter's, unless they're gone now, too
Bone-E-Boi: That's where David Letterman got his start.
mindless fellow: Yes! I believe it is
mindless fellow: well, i'ma gonns make like a hockey player, and get the puck outa here. have a goo 'un
||||||||| mindless fellow leaves at 12:34 AM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
Bone-E-Boi: I saw this jazz dude named Blue Moon perform at the Baked Potato. I think that was his name.
Bone-E-Boi: There aren't many truly weird moments in television anymore. Not since Conan O'Brien's first season.
Bone-E-Boi: Oh. I'm alone. Took me only ten minutes or so to realize this fact.
Bone-E-Boi: I could get philosophical about it. Who among us isn't alone? Nah.
||||||||| Bone-E-Boi leaves at 12:39 AM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| Outside, the 3:29 AM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving SunshineJim coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| SunshineJim leaves at 3:31 AM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters, 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:
ah,clem
ah.clem
AirAmericaCommunity
Atomic Gumshoe
bill barnstormer
Bone-E-Boi
Bunnyboy
cease
Dave
Dexter Fong
doctec
Dr Headphones
Hypestyle
jose
klokwkdoggonit
llanwydd
Merlyn
mindless fellow
Mudhead
musiclover2004
Pocket Specie
Pocket Specie
Specie's Return URL References:
http://mack.is-a-geek.com:8000/listen.pls
http://marsclock.sourceforge.net/
http://mryamamoto.50megs.com/buffalo-trip/3125.jpg
www.doonesbury.com
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079576/
http://www.softwareandstuff.com/CES10289.html
http://www.softwareandstuff.com/CES10290.html
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=4791994

Rogue's Gallery:

PP and Cat(cease)	Bunnyboy	klokwkdog	kend^/Dr. Headphones
FreqMan	Merlyn LeRoy	DocTech	LiliLamont
Rotonoto	LeatherG & SO	Nin0	Tonk
	Compañero Señor Yämamoto	Dexter Fong	Elayne
And, "The Home Team"	Peggy Blisswhips	Audrey Farber	Tiny Dr. Tim Rest In Peace, Dear Friend