Weekly Firesign Chat Log

A Firesign Chat
07/15/2004

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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 July 15, 2004 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 axe disembarks at 1:27 PM.
||||||||| It's 1:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| axe - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Tweeny in through the front door at 7:23 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Tweeny: The earlybird gets the wurm.
Tweeny: George Bush has managed to distract the entire American Army. Grid help us.
Tweeny: As always, thanks to the boyz. You ain't got no friends on the Left... You ain't got no friends on the Right...
||||||||| It's 7:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:54 PM: Bubba's Brain jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| 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 Merlyn disembarks at 8:56 PM.
Bubba's Brain: Hey
Bubba's Brain: New link for you -- http://www.lodestonecatalog.com/FireTees.html
Merlyn: hello
Merlyn: how's the shirt biz?
Bubba's Brain: Its a static page featuring the Firesign shirts.
Bubba's Brain: Pretty good
Merlyn: ah, good, better than single links for sizes
Bubba's Brain: All the Mark Times are sold out... save one Large which is being held for new credit card info (the card was rejected)
Bubba's Brain: And maybe 20 or so of the phrase shirts.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Merlyn: Catherwood is actually on time
Merlyn: OK, the firesign page links to the shirts now
Bubba's Brain: Have been proposing bumper stickers and plate holders to the guys -- check out www.lodestonecatalog.com/BumperBozos.pdf and www.lodestonecatalog.com/platefram1.pdf -- these are just the rough/proposed versions.
||||||||| 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 llanwydd disembarks at 9:02 PM.
llanwydd: hello
Bubba's Brain: An Ilan wydd blows in....
Bubba's Brain: hi
llanwydd: just us?
Bubba's Brain: yup
Bubba's Brain: the 3 of us
Merlyn: Do you know if it's OK to use Phil Hartman's art?
llanwydd: I checked out lodestone the other day. some of it was under construction or some such thing
Bubba's Brain: I've asked the guys that -- don't know yet.
Bubba's Brain: really -- under construction --- what part?
llanwydd: I just remember having trouble accessing some of it
Bubba's Brain: Hmmm.... then I haven't done my job right.
llanwydd: I was actually looking for the Red Shift CD
Bubba's Brain: ah.... that's not up yet. I don't have any from Cat yet.
llanwydd: they certainly have a lot of Firesign
Bubba's Brain: Doc's doing some re-editing, and will get me copies soon.
llanwydd: I see. Do you run/own lodestone?
Bubba's Brain: Yes. I bought it earlier this year, and re-opened it 3 weeks ago.... Sorry, I thought everyone in chat knew.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:08 PM, dragging c ease by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Bubba's Brain: Speak of the Cat....
c ease: did someone say red shift?
llanwydd: hi cat
Bubba's Brain: Yep, Ilan was looking on lodestone for it.
c ease: maybe when doc finishes fixing it, he'll send you some copies. i don't know if i did or not
Bubba's Brain: Nope, I don't have any copies. Just Box and Neal right now.
c ease: i wish i could replace MY voice as deng. i'm a terrible actor.
llanwydd: that's okay. I'd rather hear the Finnish project
c ease: i tried 3 others, real actors whose voices i really liked and used elsewhere but they just couldn't get what i wanted from the part.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Dr Headphones close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:12 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
Dr Headphones: howdy, dear friends!
||||||||| 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 klokwkdog-OrangeAlert disembarks at 9:12 PM.
c ease: i agree with austin. i shouldn't be allowed near a microphone. nor should i be allowed to direct. just send REAL actors/director the script.
c ease: hi kend, klok
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: wow, that was synchronised!
llanwydd: hey, klok and doc
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: 'lo all
Dr Headphones: hi, klok and all others here as of this moment
Bubba's Brain: Hey all!
c ease: hmm, buyers market for new cars, sayeth nbc news. they must be monitoring ME
c ease: i'm starting to sound like what susan ellison call sher husband in her newsletter: HE
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: buyer's market for cars nobody wants
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: 3 mpg designs
Bubba's Brain: Yep.. its theire customer monitoring division....
Bubba's Brain: they're
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Chrysler PT Cruiser?
Bubba's Brain: their
Dr Headphones: i don't want a new one. old one still has lots of miles left in it
c ease: we wanted ours and needed a new one. thus far, it's great. of course, it's been less than 2 weeks
Dr Headphones: hey gary, i hear you
llanwydd: got mail. brb
c ease: you're lucky, kend.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Ken, the problem is extracting all those extree miles
Dr Headphones: insert long-chain hydrocarbons, extract CO₂
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Lumina at 165,178 today. Passed inspection for another 2 yeers
Dr Headphones: mine is 1997, has under 80k on it
Bubba's Brain: Sentra 171,732
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: another set of C-clamps likely needed to extract more miles
llanwydd: you get 2 year inspections. You're lucky
Bubba's Brain: '94
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: poor Lum is 1991
Dr Headphones: i think there are a few counties here which have emissions inspections, but we aren't one of them
llanwydd: at least we get 2 year registration
||||||||| 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 Mudhead disembarks at 9:18 PM.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: we get 2-year everything required by-mail except driver's L, 4 years, in-person renew
Mudhead: Hello Dear Friends
llanwydd: You've got a Sentra, Bub? Me too, but it's 50 miles away from my house and won't start
Bubba's Brain: Hey Mud
c ease: hi mud
Dr Headphones: klok, you're doing well on it. a few bucks every now and then for repairs is fine, but when you start paying more than new one would cost per month, it's time
llanwydd: everybody who has looked at it says the solenoid is the problem
Dr Headphones: hey muddy
Bubba's Brain: Its my second sentra in a row....
Dr Headphones: llan: take it out, turn it around, reverse the electrical connectors, and you will get twice the life from it ;)
c ease: that happened to us, kend
llanwydd: except one guy who said its the "solenator"
Mudhead: Tell me somethin good, Ive had a real bad time lately
Bubba's Brain: Yeah... I just replaced the water pump.
Dr Headphones: mud: the sun hasn't extinguished yet, so we have another few billions of years left
Bubba's Brain: Didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger play that?
c ease: all the evil people on the planet will eventually die
Mudhead: My stepdad Jerry has had multiple strokes, hes lyin in intensive care with tubes comin out of him
Dr Headphones: cat: unfortunately, that happens to the good ones also. it's universal
Dr Headphones: ah, mud, sorry to hear that. hope there is a recovery and it's quick
c ease: well, he wanted the Good news
Bubba's Brain: Oh, man, Mudhead, sorry to hear it.
llanwydd: very sorry to hear it mud
c ease: all condolences, mud
Mudhead: Thanks Doc
Dr Headphones: anyone besides me listening to skybird now? some strange sound effects, castanets or flamingo dancing or something
Mudhead: Who was lookin for Sennheiser parts?
c ease: i was listening to the linguist on maj. report but forgot to turn it back on after i turned it off for the ads
||||||||| 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 Demonbusters-Yamamoto disembarks at 9:23 PM.
Dr Headphones: i haven't listened to sennheiser in many years. i've been tempted to try the noise-cancelling 'phones from bose
Dr Headphones: hey yam
Bubba's Brain: Yammy!
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Hey I really REALLY need a link to the Demonmaster commersh
llanwydd: hey yam
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: oi all
Dr Headphones: from boom dot bust?
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: y
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: I got a guy on misc.transport.road who goes by the name Demonbusters and I wannt to mock and disabuse him
c ease: yammy
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: oi cat
||||||||| 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 beTweenythelines disembarks at 9:26 PM.
Bubba's Brain: Tween!
llanwydd: hey tweeeny
beTweenythelines: Moore coffee, warden?
Dr Headphones: mr. tweeny! glad you made it
c ease: no thanks, i've seen enough
Dr Headphones: yes, i think i do want more coffee, thanks for reminding me
||||||||| 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 Dave disembarks at 9:28 PM.
llanwydd: I just understood "Open up your cells and let go" just now!
Dave: hoy there
llanwydd: startling revelation!
beTweenythelines: Hope the guys come out with something real soon. Lots of material.
Bubba's Brain: Tween -- I hear you're MaryKateandAshley's target market....
Dr Headphones: hi, dave
Merlyn: anyone hear anything from John Rice lately?
Bubba's Brain: hey dave
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: oi n'at
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: a big consideration is $$
Dr Headphones: hmmm, not sure why, it works for me, but then, i'm within the net also
c ease: only when he shows up here, merl. hi dave
beTweenythelines: Target? Let me give you this billy doux.
beTweenythelines: Well, show her up....
llanwydd: John Rice? I heard of a preacher by that name long long ago. Never heard the name since
Dave: packing for cruise tomorrow, packing is a bitch
Bubba's Brain: I only have Rice for you, dear....
c ease: you know, if they wanted to, the guys could produce their own cd. for tiny sums of money, if they were into it
beTweenythelines: Just wondering about the guys. Hope they have something to say before the election. Eat a scarlet begonia for me...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: only if you're taking anything, Dave ;-)
c ease: the dont need a studio or a recording company.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: cat - what about their time they'd have to invest?
llanwydd: I'm dying to know who this Rice fellow is
c ease: they could do it with shared files. they wouldnt have to get together in the same room
Bubba's Brain: Friend of Old Ben?
Merlyn: John Rice produced Weirdly Cool and he's trying to get Firesign on Air America
llanwydd: no studio is a bit of a stretch cat
||||||||| 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 Dexter Fong(Nuff Said) disembarks at 9:32 PM.
c ease: he's their liason with us, llan
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: why, cat? For "Art"?
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): 'lo dere
c ease: not true, llan. proc has a fine studio in his house. i've recorded him there myself
llanwydd: I see
llanwydd: hey dex
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): HI Ilan
llanwydd: home studio? Sounds cool
c ease: doctec or someone told me austin was trying to get them to do just that. share files online and then mix em. anyone with cool edit pro (etc) has his/her own recording studio
Dr Headphones: dex, my dear friend, how goes it?
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): No Firebird Radio tonight?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: hey Ash
c ease: hi dex
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Dextrose Fung
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): Hiya fellahs
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: My evil twin
Dr Headphones: dex: gary is on, but no firesign that i've heard yet
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): and a large personal "OI" to you know who
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: You and Mitsubishi fuso
llanwydd: I just can't imagine FST doing that, though
Dave: yes Cat Cool Edit is great, too visual for some things though, if only they made a speech-friendly sound editor
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: who?
Mudhead: as I get older I get quieter and greyer, I m gonna leave before I cant see myself anymore
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: I heard Gary say JL & Bam "real busy" at POP 4 now running things
c ease: if they wanted to, they could do it a lot more easily than i produced my cds
Mudhead: g'nite all
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: FST saying OI? Prolly not
||||||||| At 9:35 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Mudhead!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
c ease: by mud
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): "who rote the Book of 'OI'"
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: and he can't get at FST stuff, so he's not planning anything
llanwydd: nite mud
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: nite
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): Night Mud
Bubba's Brain: Well, HIS name is "Mud"!
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: night mud?
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: ew
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): Yam: Bergman is Jewish you know
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: you mean "Mudd"?
c ease: speaking of seem real theatre production, my first actual "job" is now up on the web. the "conference" i recorded last week
Dr Headphones: is he related to dr. mudd of the lincoln/wilkes infamy?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: the same
Dr Headphones: cat: i got your email about that, but haven't listened/watched yet
llanwydd: then they can say oi vey if not just oi
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: you mean mudhead? don't think so
c ease: all my beautiful images look like shit when they're compressed to mpeg for the web, but at least they're up
Dr Headphones: yam: want me to email you link so you have it in windows?
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): Where there's a vey there's an OI!
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: no, that's oy
Dr Headphones: oops, another fox paws on send to:
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Ken, y
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): 'yo that's oy
Dr Headphones: cat: compression works wonders on good stuff, makes it look terrible
Dave: hey who here knows a good email client that isn't too graphical?
c ease: i recorded 12 poem-videos. only one up thus far, but the half hour overview of the toker's bowl is up. well edited but again, all my beautiful images are, well, compressed
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): Cat: bREVITY IS THE SOUL of wit
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said): yikes
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: dave - Pine and Elm are classic text email clients
c ease: not true with the firesigns, dex
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dexter Fong(Nuff Said - dead from jaundice
||||||||| beTweenythelines - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Demonbusters-Yamamoto is not wearing briefs and is therefore witless
: what???
Dave: ok klok thanks, any idea of the urls?
Merlyn: That shouldn't have happened
llanwydd: so many people die in here
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: dave - both pine and elm are from the unix world, but exist in windows form
Dr Headphones: klok: dave doesn't run linux
Dave: it's a pissed off Reeper
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: I have Pine on my Linux side
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: I'll have to look, Dave, hold
||||||||| 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 DESTER FONG(SAYING A BIT disembarks at 9:40 PM.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: It does IRC, too
Dr Headphones: merlyn is here, maybe he can diagnose
DESTER FONG(SAYING A BIT : bOY THAT WAS BRIEF
DESTER FONG(SAYING A BIT : Yyikes
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: ha
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: my cat got yr tounge. Want it back?
DESTER FONG(SAYING A BIT : who?
Bubba's Brain: G'nose?
llanwydd: dex is reborn
Merlyn: Dex, it may have been your closing paren that confused the reaper
c ease: my cats have tongues of their own
||||||||| DESTER FONG(SAYING A BIT leaves to catch the 9:42 PM train to Hellmouth.
c ease: will be losing their balls soon, though
||||||||| 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 Dexter Fong disembarks at 9:42 PM.
Dexter Fong: There...all better
Merlyn: When it reaped you, it omitted the ")", so it may have not correctly checked your name as still breathing
Dexter Fong: S'okay Merl
Dr Headphones: yes, dex, you look like your old self again.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: wow, Dex, u going thru 2 many changes
c ease: merl, were you in on that conversation with austin and doc about them putting together an album by email? you're a Natural
Dexter Fong: Ch-ch-ch-Changes
Bubba's Brain: as opposed ot looking like his new self?
c ease: i know how much ossman hates to travel
Dexter Fong: and Austin hates to Fly
Dr Headphones: i'm an unnatural!
c ease: i dont thin he's capable of it
Dexter Fong: Hear Kenny: Take this magic bat into your hand....ummmmmmmmmm
Bubba's Brain: Let him drink Red Bull. It gives him wings...
Dexter Fong: Winged him
llanwydd: Ossman lived in NYC for a while didn't he?
c ease: i thought that was Ty Cobb
Dexter Fong: "Got him Tennessee...dead center
Dr Headphones: i like the wings. good meat, just not much of it
c ease: he did indeed. his early radio career
Dexter Fong: Cat: Ty Cobb drank Redman chewing tobacco
Bubba's Brain: At least you didn't hit him in the peninsula!
||||||||| 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 Elayne disembarks at 9:46 PM.
Elayne: Evenin' all! Won't be here too long, have a killer cold *snif*.
Dexter Fong: Hi Elayne
Bubba's Brain: E!
c ease: he was on the very first stereo broadcast. elayne will know when
Dr Headphones: hey elayne
c ease: on wbai when it was a commercail station.
llanwydd: hi elayne
c ease: hi el
Dr Headphones: hit me in the isthmus and i get right angry
Elayne: 'BAI, Cat? I think it was '65.
Dexter Fong: Elayne: You be feeling poorly right often
Merlyn: Dex, my reaper script explicitly removes ( and ) for some reason (probably messes up the script)
Dr Headphones: e: my symphonies to you, it's not good in summer
c ease: ossman was in la by then. i thought it was late 50s
Elayne: Well Dex, it was physical injury before, now it's just a nasty head cold. I think I caught it from a schoolboy.
Dexter Fong: Merl: I shall eschew such practices in the future
c ease: when ossman was on it. i could go find one of fred's mags and find out, but that takes Work!
Dr Headphones: damned schoolboys
Elayne: Not only is it sucky in the summer, Dr. H, but I have a vacation week coming up! I'd dearly like to get better by tomorrow.
c ease: but you have a CAR, el
Elayne: Might have been late '50s, Cat...
Merlyn: I'll see if I can fix it (or at least change the name to match)
Dr Headphones: terrible to be sick on vacation. i've done that against my will
Elayne: I know, Cat! I want to take my defensive driving course (two blocks away from my office) on Sunday, and get the car inspected on Monday...
Dexter Fong: Elayne: Put your head on you central processor and the chat group shall heal you
Elayne: I finally got my license plates and registration this past Tuesday.
Elayne: No can do, Dex, it's under the table. :)
Dexter Fong: So.........??
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Yr car is under yr table?
Elayne: Ah, you think I should assume the position...? :)
Elayne: I hated driving today, with this cold it felt like I was driving through pea soup. Still, better than driving yesterday when I was really ill and it was pouring rain.
||||||||| Catherwood leads justanotherTweeny inside, makes a note of the time (9:49 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
llanwydd: My car broke down while I was doing Much Ado About Nothing
Dexter Fong: I'd prefer you considering it "assuming an attitude"
Dr Headphones: tweeny is back? i didn't even see you leaf
llanwydd: Fortunately the director loaned me his car
||||||||| 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 jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dexter Fong: Ilan: Glad to hear it wasn't serious
Bubba's Brain: Never assume anything, E.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: My car just cost me $500
Elayne: That is a spot of good luck, llan.
c ease: i've always hated driving but a new car helps
justanotherTweeny: Who you callin a leif?
Elayne: Gah, I don't want to hear about cars breaking down and costing people money! Mine's still new, let me keep that illusion for awhile!
c ease: unless your cold diminishes that lovely new car smell
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: an old car does to, it just eats money now and again
Elayne: You know, I don't think my car has a new car smell. It's not that powerful at any rate.
c ease: our fucking car was costing us that much a week, yammy. that's why we had to get rid of it
justanotherTweeny: Mmmmm. Dodge Magnum...
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: E, ya pay one way or another :)
Elayne: Yam, I'm paying in aggravation, since Dad bought the car for me. :)
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: $%00 wk yow
Elayne: I'm paying in a 3-hour drive down to (and then back from) my parents' house next week.
Dexter Fong: afk for drink
Elayne: Still, for now it's easier than paying in money. :)
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: E send yr dad my way, I can use about a Kia Rio's worth of aggro
c ease: hey el, you can see the very first seem real theatre Video production up on pot-tv. net. the toker's bowl show and the pot poet
justanotherTweeny: And all I got was this lousy congress.
Elayne: Ooh, good idea Dex! Me too. BRB.
Merlyn: I remember, Dex - I had to do that because of the ()'s put around people who are "I'm Away" - but I'll fix it to ONLY take off a pair from the start & end
justanotherTweeny: Anybody got any Billy Jock?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: ken - there are PC versions for Windows
c ease: ask the piano man
Dr Headphones: billy jock itch caused by fungus
llanwydd: the dog food that Billy Jock likes?
justanotherTweeny: Suck your thumb, Dell.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: among us?
justanotherTweeny: Who is we?
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: You need Fast Actin Tinactin
Dr Headphones: who am us anyway?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: is he running for President this year?
Dr Headphones: athlete's crotch
Demonbusters-Yamamoto is dissappointed Mike Ditka's not runnning for ILL senate
justanotherTweeny: I'll support that.
llanwydd: Who, Billy Joke?
c ease: only the well senate? is that like wellstone?
c ease: i'd rather be stoned than well
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: No, ILLinois
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Yam - Jerri Ryan has dirt on him, too...
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Like indiana with criminals
Bubba's Brain: Resistance is futile
justanotherTweeny: Better airplanes....
Dexter Fong: Merl: It's your house and you can do what ever you want..I wasn't all that attached to those parends =)
c ease: will she assimilate him?
Dr Headphones: resistance is a function of wire type and size
justanotherTweeny: Champaign from the northers.
c ease: fly jefferson airplane, getcha there on time
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: maybe she should run for Senate...
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: She could assimilate ME
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: get dirt on everybody ;-)
Dr Headphones: i've had dirt on me, but shower usually takes care of it
justanotherTweeny: Idiots. Mei Lai.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Hopefully she hasn't the poor taste to run as a republican
Dexter Fong: Mike Ditka was in Vietnam?
llanwydd: william jefferson airplane
justanotherTweeny: You will be assimilated.
Dexter Fong: Every Pill makes him larger
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Thomas Jefferson Airplane
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: she could run with Socialist Workers' Party and prob'ly get elected
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: I blame Bob Dole
justanotherTweeny: Run a Whig?
Dr Headphones: i've never been assimilated, but give me enough ethyl alcohol and i can become an ass
Elayne: Oh dear, I go away for one minute and when I come back all you boys are slobbering over 7 of 9. Puhleese. :)
c ease: if you watch the poet video, this plane flies over the boat i'm filming him on mid poem
Bubba's Brain: I don' wann be ass-imolated!
justanotherTweeny: That's 2 SS, hoss.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Should we slobber over you?
c ease: i kept thinking of that donavan ref to the jef air
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert poured methanol into his gas tank and didn't get assimilated, but his NOx passed emissions today...
Elayne: Not with my husband watching, Yam. He's no Jack Ryan!
Dr Headphones: i passed gas earlier today, but the breeze took care of it
Merlyn: OK Dex, now you can have ()s in your name
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: NOxious Prenumbral emisions? Methane!
Elayne: See, I didn't even realize that the hero of all those Tom Clancy novels was married to the Star Trek actress...
justanotherTweeny: Moore coffee, warden?
Dexter Fong: Ken: Maybe if we squeezed you, you'd pass another
Merlyn: And the reaper won't get confused
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: she is actually a pretty good actress, once the writers get her out of a cat suit and into some good dialog
Dexter Fong: Thank you Merlyn =))
Dr Headphones: dex: i'm not sure i want you squeezing me anywhere!
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Well she has all those curves and bumpy bits ya see
justanotherTweeny: So, what are the boyz up to these days?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: in fact, she has some hilarious stories about that suit...
Dexter Fong: Ken: It's not just me, you know
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bubba's Brain: Great.. I'll reincarnate as ((()))(()()(((())()(())(())()
c ease: all i know of clancy is what i learned from your sentence, el. that he writes novels
justanotherTweeny: Rev. Barnstormer needs your help.
Dr Headphones: catherwood seems to be reasonably accurate now
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Bubba -- could you state that in glyphs, please?
llanwydd: I don't know what the boys are up to.
Merlyn: The outer pair of ()s will be changed to [] (this is old code)
Dr Headphones: bub: make sure none are unmatched
justanotherTweeny: Please donate your Hammond to the organ bank.
Elayne: Cat, the hero of his novels (at least some of them) is named Jack Ryan. Oddly, none of the blogs seemed to make any Tom Clancy puns during the whole Jack Ryan mess.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Merlyn - that's the stuff in the Kuniper Belt?
Merlyn: no, that doesn't matter
c ease: i'm reading Weapons of Mass Persuasion, marketing the war against Iraq by an author i first heard on this radio show
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Elayne - Ryan was creating enough humor by hisself
justanotherTweeny: You might lose.
Dexter Fong: Kuyper Belt?? Klok?
Dr Headphones: clancy's ryan is like mcgyver in some ways, can do anything
c ease: i dont know who mygyver is. a brand of scotch?
Merlyn: Why does Kuniper wear a belt? To keep his asteroid covered!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: don't have my star atlas handy, Dex
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: thanks
llanwydd: They should have a Wurlitzer Organ Bank
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Well we needed Ditka to raise the entertainment ante
justanotherTweeny: Gee, I've got $15 (not canadian). How 'bout a new album?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: he's a TV show character that characters on The Simpsons watch, Cat
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: It would have been fun to listen to Rush Eta al sucking it up and apologizinf for him
justanotherTweeny: Sorry, boot.
Dr Headphones: mygyver was show on tv here many years ago. he could take a nickel and a set of jumper cables attached to battery and weld together an SST in 5 minutes. just in time for commercial break
c ease: this is wrong, this news! hawking said the fucking opposite. jesus f, dont they have f- checkers?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: It was just a fraternity prank, Yam
llanwydd: think I've got more spam. brb
c ease: indeed, the particles kicked back out of the black hole eventually destroy it. in a google years or so
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Is it American News?
||||||||| 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 Piano John disembarks at 10:05 PM.
c ease: the majority report news
Piano John: Hello, am I late?
Dexter Fong: Ssshhhh! It JP
Bubba's Brain: why, are you dead?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: hawking always changes his mind to keep the press listening to him
c ease: are you planning to get pregnant?
justanotherTweeny: Knew Americans?
c ease: good point, klok
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: That's American, there you have it. We don't need no stinking facts
Piano John: Naw, I was dead last week
Dr Headphones: hello, pj
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: he's like Bob Widlar, it's a game to him, I think
Merlyn: yes, as in the late Dent Arther Dent
c ease: this week, just grateful?
Dexter Fong: Klok: Could be a brain storm brought on by excessive, undesired sun bathing
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: did you see Lennon?
c ease: and speaking of their old bus driver, great article on neal and kesey in recent new yorker
Piano John: Well, you're not really dead unless you're gratefully dead
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: sun baiting? is that like bear baithing?
c ease: no, that's bear Hating
Dexter Fong: Do not go grateful into dark night
llanwydd: yeah I saw him and marks
Elayne: Bathing with bears? Is that like doing it with box turtles?
Piano John: You can really get burned baiting the sun
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: what happened to Arthur Dent?
c ease: i see a bear, i run the other way
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: y
justanotherTweeny: Your men won't have to go to the bathroom.
Dr Headphones: i didn't see lennon, but i saw marx
llanwydd: I would never go out with the sun, man
Bubba's Brain: At baxters?
llanwydd: dat's a terrifying thought
Bubba's Brain: Groucho?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: E - LOL
c ease: salvador dali stole my pillow
Dexter Fong: Bathing at Skunk Baxter's
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: that's afterwards, Bubba
justanotherTweeny: Neve lives in TX. Allah be praised.
Piano John: Speaking of Marx, Universal is reissuing the first 5 films as a DVD box this November
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Two book titles right there
Bubba's Brain: Salvador Dali melted mine.....
Elayne: Klok, if you look at my blog today you'll see how confused I am about the past few days' news items...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: that's OK, Cat, I've got one here on the windowsill where it melted
c ease: Involunteers: the story of the us army in iraq
Piano John: Soft pillows? Not very surreal
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: aren't we all, E
c ease: just seeing how many jefair refs we can stash into one chat
Dr Headphones: pj: you and bunnyboy should get together
justanotherTweeny: When The Truth is found...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: E - provide URL
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: You didn't tell us we were gonna have to KILL ppl!
Piano John: He probably knows already, Ken
llanwydd: jefair? Not familiar
Dexter Fong: One kill makes you bigger, another makes you King
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: they are just virtual simulations of pillows, PJ. Very easy to clean. You just say make clean and you're done
Piano John: Here comes President Kill again
Dexter Fong: Clean Clean Clean
Elayne: Klok, same as it ever was: http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com
justanotherTweeny: Roosevelt's wife wasn't exactly what you'd expect. My vote for greatest president.
Piano John: Cleaner than everything
llanwydd: tough to sleep on them though?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: 2B lies (or !2B lies - that is the question...and are they true?)
justanotherTweeny: Pravda. Ask Williams.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Ilan - get with the program - a virtual sleep program to be ezzact
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Bookmarked it, E
Dr Headphones: gonna go to kitchen for a while, will return. play nice without me while i'm gone
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: which Roosevelt?
llanwydd: virtual sleep doesn't sound to inviting
Dexter Fong: Do it standing up..vertical sleep
justanotherTweeny: The one with the soup.
c ease: sounds like vertigo to me
Elayne: Oh dear, Yam. Now I feel like I have to post more interesting things to live up to your expectations. :)
Dexter Fong: Regenerate like Jeri Ryan
Bubba's Brain gets enough sleep while he's driving.
c ease: better come into the kitchen. cuz it's gonna be rain outside
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: What expectations?
justanotherTweeny: They call me Bruce!
Piano John: Bubba, love the sticker design...
Bubba's Brain: Tanks.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: she does keep reinventing herself, just like Elvis...
Elayne: You know, as I'm coughing this much I might as well give myself a reason to cough. Be right back.
c ease: that's my imitation of steve milller immitating a blues man
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Dave into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 10:13 PM, then departs.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: My expectations are rarely great
justanotherTweeny: Elvis didn't die. He just went home.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Dave - sent you mail info
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Dave again
Piano John: Ah, E must be taking cough syrup...
justanotherTweeny: Dave...
llanwydd: fly like an eagle...
Piano John: Hey Dave
Dexter Fong: Kinda close JP
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: I hate that song
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: more cough syrup, PJ
Dexter Fong: Let the Eagle sour
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Nyquil
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Romilar
c ease: the scariest thing in 911
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: or, as they say in Wyoming (and Tokyo), fry like an eagle.
Piano John: Bring me the spoon!
c ease: i agree with the salon cartoonist on that
justanotherTweeny: May I see your passport, please?
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Spotted Owl Stew anyonwe?
Piano John: Again, bring me the spoon!
Dexter Fong: Rumor: Cheney drops out..Ashcroft drops in
Elayne: No no, the cough syrup comes later. First the smokables. As I'm coughing anyway, and all that.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: are those spotted owls making trouble again?
Bubba's Brain: MaryKateandAshcroft?
llanwydd: where'd you hear that, dex?
Dexter Fong: Air America
Dexter Fong: Not serious I suspect
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Dex - will he have to be annoited with oil again? or will the first dose suffice?
c ease: i heard that
Piano John: That's scary, Dex
justanotherTweeny: Damned birds. We'll make sure they don't take a dump on Brewster.
Dexter Fong: but who knows what those wacky guys will do
Bubba's Brain: Drop out, drop in, get out.
Merlyn: will he be running against a dead guy?
llanwydd: why would Cheney drop out anyway?
c ease: i agree with whoever said that it was a discursion. don't look behind that curtain
Elayne: All I heard on Air America was Randi Rhodes bitching about how this is all we can seem to talk about, when today was one of the bloodiest days of the war in Iraq.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: postpone the election until the war on terror is won, Dex?
Piano John: I'll run if that's the case!
Dexter Fong: Jeeze Merl: What have you heard!!??
Dexter Fong: Ilan: He's got incredibly low approval ratings
c ease: yes, el. it was randi. i have this on all day, forget who said what
justanotherTweeny: Chein Knees?
Merlyn: Ashcroft can't even win an election against a dead guy
justanotherTweeny: Welcome to the Club.
Dexter Fong: Correct..I forgot that Merl
Elayne: Cat, my radio signal's for shit at work, so I listen in the car during my commute, and sometimes I listen to the streaming audio in the evenings.
Dexter Fong: Let the Eagle crash
c ease: a case of what, pj?
Piano John: Maybe the election should be in Chicago - plenty of dead guys to elect
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Well it looks like bush is gopnna get trimmed, so, it's time to advance the coup a bit
Elayne: Got to hear a lot of Al Franken today as I had errands to run at lunchtime.
llanwydd: I predict the electoral college will keep Bush and Cheney in office
llanwydd: although I hate to say it
Elayne: Did everyone vote in the Osama bin Lotto?
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Kerry 230mil votes, Bush 1
Dexter Fong: Then don't say it son
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Bush wins in a landslide
Elayne: http://www.ericblumrich.com/lotto.html
Piano John: Case of Jagermeister...
Bubba's Brain: And everyone else loses.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: If you could guarantee the landslide, Yam, I'd be all for it
Dexter Fong: Case of Angadream
||||||||| It's 10:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dave - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
justanotherTweeny: Bush is my favorite governor of Burmuda.
Elayne: Well, before there's a landslide there's bound to be a mudslide, what with all the right-winging slinging.
Piano John: Case difference, Dex
Piano John: Brain fart - SAME difference, Dex
c ease: more likely Burma
Dexter Fong: Burma shaves Bush
justanotherTweeny: Moore likely Wisconsin.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: hey, Mission of Burma is TOURING again!
llanwydd: This will be the first time I've ever voted for a democrat.
Dexter Fong mutters 'bout time
llanwydd: I didn't get a chance to vote in the last election
c ease: that'll cost you a slim fast comercial, dex
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: I'm seriously thinking of just pulling the all-D lever!
Piano John: Bush is the opening act for Mission of Burma?
justanotherTweeny: A Democrat? No true Mississippi cowhard...
llanwydd: Would you believe I voted for Perot in 92
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: I doubt it, PJ
justanotherTweeny: There
Dexter Fong: Ilan: Sadlly, yes
c ease: wasnt that a particularly good year for perot? very full bodied
Piano John: True, Gavin Rossdale wouldn't do that...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: it made sense, Ilan
justanotherTweeny: There's a telephone in my shoe...
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: good video\
Bubba's Brain: Anyone see last sunday's Doonesbury -- http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20040711
Piano John: Who is it, Barbara Feldon?
Dexter Fong: ...the fax machine's been drinkin'
Elayne: Good interview with Garry Trudeau in the latest Rolling Stone, the online version has an excerpt.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: people have been screaming at me about Nader and 1932 Weimar. I've finally started screaming back 1912 Bullmoose
Bubba's Brain is picking up from a conversation about 1 page and a half ago
Elayne: I didn't realize he went to school with so many of the contemporary political power players!
c ease: about yale with bush?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: C'mon, PJ, get smart
llanwydd: I haven't had a chance to vote in many elections but I've never liked the candidates
Bubba's Brain: I'll check it out, E
Elayne: Yeah, and Kerry, and Howard Dean.
justanotherTweeny: Probably a Microsoft hole. Sorry, that Kobain's wife.
c ease: i read an interview with him in rs decades ago
Dexter Fong: Bullmoose and Rocky in 2004
Piano John: PJ can't hear you - inside the Cone of Silence
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: you'll have to Wait, Dex
llanwydd: courtney hole?
Bubba's Brain: "Im Osama Bin Laden, and I approve of this message"
Elayne: He talked a lot about the "BD loses leg" storyline, and how he visited a lot of injured troops at the hospitals.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: ew
llanwydd: can't stand her
Dexter Fong: ILan: You don't have to like them, just vote for the one that isn't worst
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: PJ - what?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: she won a fortune on $64K question game
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Lesser of two evils=stilkl evil
Piano John: What?
c ease: that was a great riff for him. he hasn't touched that sort of thing much before
justanotherTweeny: The Wurst? Probably the E street band.
llanwydd: that was rough in 2K. Didn't know Bush's plans
Bubba's Brain: Yeah, E, Trudeau seemed out of form for several years there, but lately seems to be back in true form.
Dexter Fong: Yam: Weell, when Jesus returns or whoever, then we can do it differectly
Piano John: Knockwurst?
justanotherTweeny: Coney Islanders.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Ilan - Bush didn't know Bush's plans. They hadn't given him the script
llanwydd: good one klok
Dr Headphones: ok, i'm back. have inserted all the veggies into the roasting pan with the dead cow, just a few minutes now
c ease: yeah, gw is reagan without the acting ability
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: I guess
justanotherTweeny: Bush has a plan, other than to feed his family and warship Jesus?
llanwydd: I thought Gore was a complete phony.
Piano John: Polisux Ticks!
Dr Headphones: gw is reagan without the brain
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: GW=Reagan Lite, none of the acting ability and 33% less brains
Dexter Fong: but with the Alzheimers
c ease: as opposed to bush, a complete phony company?
Dr Headphones: not that ronnie was an einstein clone, but he did have a few original thoughts
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: but you know, if the Dems move far enough right, they sure can co-opt all the Republicans' issues and steal their voters. a wonderful strategy
c ease: less? is that possible?
Dexter Fong: Ken: There you go again
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: The problem is Reagans henchmen were buffons, WMD's arent
llanwydd: I voted for Reagan in 1980. Looking back, Carter is my favorite president
Dexter Fong: Reagans guys wore bouffants?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: the Plan seems to be to re-enact the later parts of the Book of Revelations
Demonbusters-Yamamoto wonders if he'll get asylum in france
c ease: worked for clinton, klok
Piano John: Buffons? Is that Canadian?
Bubba's Brain: None of the inspiration, none of the perspiration, none of the intelligence.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: eh?
c ease: no, i am
Dexter Fong: KLok: YOu be John and I'll be the seventh seal
Bubba's Brain: I was a Carter fan, too.
Dr Headphones: i wanna be the 15th walrus
Piano John: So you mean a standard run-of-the-mill politician...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: We're about at Def-seal SIX now, Dex
Dexter Fong: Sorry, only 14 to a customer
c ease: yeah, joe carter's world series winning homer was one of the highlights of my life
Elayne: I'm still a Carter fan. Much more now than when he was pres, and I voted for him.
Elayne: Twice.
Bubba's Brain: Okay, Dex, here's a ball to bounce on your nose....
Piano John: Goo goo g'joob
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Come back, Woody Guthrie
Dexter Fong: Arf!! Arf!!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Come back to us now
Piano John: Throw him a fish!
Dexter Fong: Gimme some o dat red herring
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Tear your eyes from Paradise
Piano John: This computer kills fascists
llanwydd: I wasn't old enough to vote in 76
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Herring?
c ease: Arlo's late for church!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: And rise again, somehow
Bubba's Brain: Ladies and Gentlemen -- Holy Ghost and the Seven Trained Seals
Dexter Fong: Yam: What?
justanotherTweeny: Tuna fish?
Piano John: Nah, tuna me!
Bubba's Brain: But Eli's Coming....
Dr Headphones: my band director in high school was named herring
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Come back to us Malcom X
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: And Martin Luther King
Dexter Fong: Joe Ely's coming...let's pick and grin
c ease: nyro's been dead for years, and eli's Still coming?
Bubba's Brain: Rhett Herring?
Piano John: Hide your heart, girl...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: We're marchin' into Selma...
c ease: gave my cats some herring cat food today. they may now be junkies
c ease: no, that's Shibboleth
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: ...while the bells of freedom ring
justanotherTweeny: There's a good Fox show. Who want's to marry a Republican?
Dexter Fong: ...and the Eagle lands
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: they've probably become commies, Cat
c ease: up, up and away
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: genetic testing has revealed that a lot that's sold as "herring" is actually Red herring
justanotherTweeny: We'll give you vouchers for Cal Energy.
Dexter Fong: out, out damned Herring
c ease: there was a beautiful nyro song on that salon compilation. somebody's church?
Piano John: My beautiful, beautiful buffoon...
Dr Headphones: damned commie fish
Elayne: Cat, are they boy cats or girl cats? You don't want to give boy cats too much fish.
Bubba's Brain: "... sayeth thou 'Shibboleth' and he said 'Sibboleth' for he could not feign to say it correctly."
Piano John: Probably working for scale...
Dr Headphones: i can't afford to buy the herring in cream sauce, so when i see them on a salad bar, i load up on it
c ease: Goman Herring, the nazi fish propagandist?
Bubba's Brain: I may not know my Old Testiment, but I sure do know my West Wing.
c ease: boys
Dexter Fong: Faintly he whshpered "Sibboless"
justanotherTweeny: Sufferin' succotash...
Dr Headphones: e: very true! many urinary problems ensue from that. personal experience speaking
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: LOL, Bubba
Piano John: You're dethpicable!
c ease: it was a mix of herring and chicken my pet store said was really good for them. and they tell me that 2/3 of the stuff on their shelves is to be avoided so i trust them
Bubba's Brain: Sibboless -- you mean you're an only child?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: that's true; donkeys have kidney trouble when running on too much fish
Dr Headphones: pj: i am too, and i like it that way
Elayne: Boy cats milk, girl cats fish, that's been my experience. Oh, and cats of either sex love them their chicken and pig meat...
Dexter Fong: I tought I taw a Pianno man
Elayne: Okay Cat, if they say so...
llanwydd: the British eat herring for breakfast. ecchhhh
c ease: i give them a wide variety of food. my dog eats herring on occasion from the dog food speciality store F spends most of our money at
Piano John: ...a-sneakin' up on Dex
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: I llike kippers
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Ilan - you don't want to know about Scots
Elayne: Well, kippered herring.
Demonbusters-Yamamoto: Haggis!
Elayne: Hey, hang on, I've eaten herring for breakfast too. What else would you eat it for?
||||||||| Demonbusters-Yamamoto leaves to catch the 10:36 PM train to Hellmouth.
Elayne: Breakfast and kiddush. Every Jew knows that. :) Oh, and bar mitzvahs.
c ease: i have never given the kittens raw or human food, just cat food thus far. F keeps Icy on this raw food diet and it works for him
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: whiskey 'fore breakfast
||||||||| Charles Foster Dudley waltzes in at 10:36 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Piano John: Sounds like E is fishing for answers
c ease: pickles?
Dr Headphones: kiddush? vat is dot?
Piano John: down the rat hole
justanotherTweeny: Guuga Din, get me a stock option.
Dexter Fong: Hi Dud
llanwydd: fish in the morning?!!!
Elayne: It's the reward at the end of a boring Shabbos service, Dr. H. :)
c ease: a ginzberg poem
Elayne: Well, llan, not sushi in the morning (at least not usually), but yes, lots of people eat fish in the morning.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: gad, I was brought up in the wrong church...
Elayne: Bagels and lox?
Piano John: Oh fishy fish fish...
Elayne: I love my salmon-flavored cream cheese, it's perfect in the AM.
Dexter Fong: I saw the best Fish of my generation swim naked for scale
c ease: ask a dane, el.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: if you eat a live fish in the morning, nothing worse can happen to either of you for the rest of the day
justanotherTweeny: Well, not every cheese. Certainly not Gouda.
Charles Foster Dudley: Dex!
llanwydd: I like bagels and lox but not for breakfast
c ease: and she'll say: to be, or
c ease: and she'll say: to be, or
c ease: and she'll say: to be, or
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: LOL, Dex
Piano John: And he went wherever I did go
Dexter Fong: here's an echo in here
Dexter Fong: 'eres an echo in here
c ease: no dilled cream cheese?
Piano John: echo in here
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: or a darn good simulation of one, Dex
Dr Headphones: i have been to one jewish service in my life. a bar mitzvah. part of comparative religion course. didn't know anyone there and had to wear a beanie hat
Dexter Fong: chilled cream cheese
c ease: i treid garlic cream cheese this week and it didnt work at all
Elayne: Robin likes his kedgeree too, he tells me. (Which is not the same thing as a didgeridoo).
justanotherTweeny: Blessed are the cheese-makers?
Charles Foster Dudley: Dex Mr. Mucckle has a cartoon in the mag this week. Just about Jim Hightowers column.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: and klok just got dragged to a revival for his comp r
Elayne: Yes, Dr. H, those beanie hats come in quite handy afterwards when you need to let off a little steam and play some Frisbee...
Dexter Fong: Kedge is like an alto Didgeridoo
Piano John: Not just cheese, any dairy product
||||||||| 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 Bightrethighrehighre disembarks at 10:39 PM.
justanotherTweeny: Bug nose.
Charles Foster Dudley: oops above .. Roadapple Red heap good kimosabe!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: play your didgeridoo, sport
Dexter Fong: Big
Bightrethighrehighre: k-pasa, kidz....?
Piano John: What up, Big?
Dexter Fong: Kellogs Pasta
Dr Headphones: i thrive on dairy. made real alfredo sauce last night. heavy cream, real butter, real (american, not imported) parmesan, fresh sautéed mushrooms and schwimps over fettucine. mmmm, delicious!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: just shootin' the breeze, dude
||||||||| 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 Bunnyboy disembarks at 10:40 PM.
Dr Headphones: hey biggie
Bunnyboy: lo dere
Piano John: Bun!
Bightrethighrehighre: I was razed presbyterian....any condolences out there....?
c ease: lo bun
Dr Headphones: and bunny too
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: OK, we have a quorum now
Bunnyboy: Rhode Island Red!
Dexter Fong: Hey Bunny
Elayne: But do we have a minyan?
Piano John: What did we have before?
Elayne: Hi Bunnyboy!
Bunnyboy: I had enough uh that loudmouth in college to last me for life!
justanotherTweeny: Always look on the bright side of life...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: everyone ready to approve the resolution? Vote "AYE"
Dexter Fong: I wa raised on Robery...Catholic priests
Dr Headphones: quorum? are we voting for anything?
Bubba's Brain: Hey bun
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: we didn't PJ, that was before the beginning
llanwydd: presbyterians aren't bad. I've k nown a few
c ease: joni mitchell?
Merlyn: check with P'nisnose
Bightrethighrehighre: "....snickers and a coke....?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: didn't you get the Prospectus, Ken?
c ease: the daughter you had with this priest is here
Piano John: Then we had a turtle, Klok
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Ilan - we knew you'd say that
justanotherTweeny: Eric isn't Idle. He's discovered Protestant.
Bubba's Brain: Heck I was a PPK.... a presbyterian preacher's kid.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: that is NOT on the agenda, PJ
Dexter Fong: Let the turtle soar
llanwydd: I was raised a baptist and I do have some regrets
Dr Headphones: klok: no prospectus, but i DO live on prospect street
Bunnyboy: I saw a "Prayer Station" outside Westlake Center today. It was all I could do to keep from scrambling over there and imploring: "Please, God! Keep abortion legal!"
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: sympathies, Bubba
c ease: sounds like a communist army
Piano John: Gamera!
Dexter Fong: Rights
c ease: people's patriotic kore
Charles Foster Dudley: Pox filuchi exume!
justanotherTweeny: Uncle John's Band. I have no regrets.
Dexter Fong: Action Figures!
Bunnyboy: "And send our troops, and the Great Dunderhead in D.C. , home where they belong!"
c ease: you're all cattle-lick now
Dr Headphones: plant a shrub in texas
Dexter Fong: Don't get slaty Cat
Bightrethighrehighre: domino, domino, domino....
Piano John: Pillars of salt
Elayne: Hey llanwid: http://www.recipezaar.com/r/84/219
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: send Bush back to God
Charles Foster Dudley: No what de father means is, what is the cross made of?
Dexter Fong: salty
Bunnyboy: No Skybird link tonight?
justanotherTweeny: Get them back, Houston.
Dr Headphones: biggie: my parents play with double 12's. what size do you use? :)
Dexter Fong afk for another refill
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: JL & Bam seem Otherwise Occupied defending POP4 against its clients or something
Bightrethighrehighre: forget the gold, got any peyote....?
Dr Headphones: bun: i listened for a while, but no firesign on skybird. finally turned it off
Charles Foster Dudley: Still got some corn left ...
Piano John: William Hurt has all the peyote
justanotherTweeny: No, but I've got a butter pie.
Dr Headphones: no illegal drugs here at all, sorry, can't help you out (or in)
Piano John: Hands across the water...
Charles Foster Dudley: I got some roadapple red Dr!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert can't even afford legal druggs
Bunnyboy: Didja see where that congresswoman from Florida was gavelled mid-tirade today. Seems there was a vote to keep the U.N. from spending any money monitoring U.S. elections. Hmmm...
Bubba's Brain: William Hurt is still bangin himself against the door frame trying to keep in the present.
c ease: she was in 911 saying the same thing
Piano John: Him and the guy from A-Ha
Dr Headphones: bun: didn't hear about that, but i'se fir it!
justanotherTweeny: McCain is no friend of Bush. Despite the ads.
Bunnyboy: And the Congress folks got upset at said individual from Florida referencing 2000's "coup d'etat".
Bubba's Brain: Yeah, but the A-ha guy put in a 2-dimensional performance.
llanwydd: just checked out the recipes, elayne. The smoked salmon looks good. Maybe I could take it with eggs
c ease: the insane are running the asylum, quoth nation peron on maj rep
Piano John: Both kinds!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert is thinking, "What kind of dirt do they have on McCain???!"
Bightrethighrehighre: Mc NO brain....
Bubba's Brain: x AND y axes....
justanotherTweeny: I'll take the gafiltafish in white sauce.
c ease: person. peron, they dead now
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: is he for LPFM or agin it??
Piano John: Gimme the shark steaks
||||||||| 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 doctec disembarks at 10:48 PM.
Bunnyboy: It's not a kosher night tonight at Chez Bun. I'm making a Garlic Shrimp and Oyster Pasta, with Langostino subbing for the Shrimp.
c ease: the roofer going upstairs to the roof saw our big dog on 2nd floor carpet and said he vanishes into the carpet.
justanotherTweeny: Mmmmm. Sharks.......
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: hey, DT
Bightrethighrehighre: no mre viceroy....no more K Y ....
Bubba's Brain: Hey , doc!
Piano John: doctec
Merlyn: hey doc
Bunnyboy: So, you'll understand when I depart, shortly.
doctec: evenin' all
llanwydd: I like gefilte with nothing but itself
Dexter Fong: Hiya Doc
c ease: i'll be full of roofing stories for the rest of the month
Bunnyboy: lo doc
c ease: morning, some
c ease: how's it pooolin, doc?
Piano John: Sounds yummy, Bun
Dr Headphones: hey tom
doctec: hope i haven't missed all the exposition
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: definitely, Bun. Aren't those shrimp done yet?
Bunnyboy: Fresh Oregon Coast Oysters. Mmmmmmmmmmm...
justanotherTweeny: Ruff, ruff.
Bightrethighrehighre: the good doctor is in....
Dexter Fong: The old shell gamed
doctec: re pool: i got beat tonight - kinda sucked, the guy was two handicap points below me but played at my level - i had no chance against him
Piano John: Reminds me of my time in Florida - fresh seafood...ahhhh....
Bunnyboy: We just spent half our week's vacation, just south of Cannon Beach, in OR.
Bubba's Brain: The exposition hall is closed, but the training sessions are still going.
llanwydd: Funny. I dreamt about lobster last night. I usually don't
c ease: you can still expose yourself, doc
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: it's just getting wound up, DT. we only reached quorum a few minutes ago. expect to raise Goshen afore midnite, yep
justanotherTweeny: Are we already gone?
Elayne: Yow, is that the time already? I'd best go, I need to rest up and get better for vacation...
||||||||| At 10:50 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Elayne!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Dr Headphones: later, e, get well soon
doctec: (this isn't even a regular pool league night, it was a makeup session postponed from july 5 - part of the independence day holiday weekend)
Bubba's Brain: I dreamt I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you or me.
Dexter Fong: Night Elayne
c ease: are you there now, bun?
llanwydd: Speaking of Florida, John. I've worked on commercial shrimp boats down there
Piano John: Bye, E
Bubba's Brain: well, uh, bye E.
c ease: get well, el
llanwydd: nite elayne
doctec: klok: wasn't "raising goshen" the title of a coen bros movie? oh, wait, ...
Dr Headphones: llan: it's amazing how cheap shrimp are when you go to the docks and buy them. i did that when i lived in tampa
c ease: did you meet forest gump?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: I dreamed I saw Ray Charles last night...
Dexter Fong: Hi, i'm not a shrimp but i play one in commercials
Bunnyboy: Anybody who hasn't seen it, or doesn't have BBC America, do yourself a favor and rent or buy both series (i.e. seasons) of THE OFFICE.
justanotherTweeny: Night, all. See you last time, again.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: you mean working title??
c ease: was he busted?
Bubba's Brain: nite tween
llanwydd: true doc
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: nite Tween
Bunnyboy: They sold the rights for a U.S. version, but I expect it will be dreadful.
Piano John: Bun, you heard about the Marx Bros box coming in November?
c ease: odd, how that word has changed its meaning since that song
Dexter Fong: Night Tweeny
Charles Foster Dudley: Ta ta Tween
llanwydd: never met the gumps
c ease: by tween. keep it clean
Bubba's Brain: I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
Piano John: See ya Tweeny
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: too much a luxury, Bun; time and $. I thought the US version already ran & bombed. Or was that another show
Dr Headphones: bye for now, tweeny
Bunnyboy: PJ: Why, yes, just today. THE MARX BROTHERS SILVER SCREEN COLLECTION, with all 5 Paramount era films, on Nov. 9.
llanwydd: nite tweeny
Bunnyboy: And ED WOOD has a new street date of 10/19.
c ease: imagine a cop busting into ray's dressing room as he's mid-spliff before his big tv show, saying, "you're busted"
llanwydd: I've seen every Marx Bros film
Piano John: Saw that earlier this week on Digital Bits...
Merlyn: I was just reading that; I wonder if they'll have more "Horsefeathers" footage
Dexter Fong: Ray Goulding was smoking a spliff?
Merlyn: Or "The Incredible Jewel Robbery" as a bonus
llanwydd: that collection would be worth getting
c ease: that's not something to be proud od, llan. some of them sucked
Charles Foster Dudley: Isn't that father, further?
Bunnyboy: klok: That would be COUPLING. Each OFFICE series is just 6 half-hour eps. Not too spendy, and quite enjoyable.
Piano John: Merl, I assume you're referring to the edits made to the "seduction" of Thelma Todd scene
llanwydd: Horsefeathers was a short film wasn't it?
Merlyn: yep, Piano
Merlyn: A short-ish feature
Charles Foster Dudley: Thelma was hot!
Dexter Fong: Horsefeathers truncated version of Ida Gets Down
Piano John: Most of the Paramount Marx films were short.
Bunnyboy: c ease: No one bats 1.000. That's why the M's dumped Olerud. : (
llanwydd: I don't think any Marx Bros film sucked
Merlyn: You can see harpo's feet under a coat before the scene fades out before he's uncovered
Piano John: Well, LOVE HAPPY wasn't all that...
Dexter Fong: Cat: With some sympathy have noticed that Lakers have pretty much come undone
Bunnyboy: The same day as the next Marx invasion, Universal is also releasing a bunch W.C. Fields gems.
llanwydd: Love Happy was really a Harpo film
Merlyn: Fields has been on TV much for decades now
Dr Headphones: guess i've lived a sheltered life, only seen the occasional part of marx bros. movie, never an entire one
Charles Foster Dudley: Ya know this reminds me very little of a time in the Estonian mountains ...
Piano John: True, llan
Merlyn: has=>hasn't
Piano John: Do yerself a favor, Ken - rent 'em
Dexter Fong: now=>then
Dr Headphones: cfd: are there really mountains there?
Merlyn: arrow=>shirts
Bunnyboy: Head: The Marx titles creep onto TCM every now and again.
Dr Headphones: here==> there
Dexter Fong: Donny=>Hathaway
Bightrethighrehighre: back later kidz, gotta powder my kneeeezzz....
Bunnyboy: And underwear!
Charles Foster Dudley: Yes Dr their are ...
Merlyn: the fog creeps in on little cat feet, sometimes
Piano John: Wait a minute! You can't get there from here
c ease: yes very Little mountains
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: har
c ease: but Rich
Piano John: careful not to inhale, Biggie
Dr Headphones: pj: might do that some day. i never seem to get off the outside wall (new releases) and into the old stuff at video store
Dexter Fong: LIttle
Bunnyboy: Finally caught a bit of SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST the other day. That there was funny!
||||||||| "10:58 PM? 10:58 PM!!" says Catherwood, "shoes for the dead should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as shoes for the dead enters and sits on the couch.
llanwydd: mountaynes
c ease: never seen it. austin raves about it
c ease: for Industry
Bunnyboy: lo shoes
Piano John: Shoes for Industry, compadre!
Dexter Fong: Leave your shoes by the door, prease
Bightrethighrehighre: too late, P John, 35 years....too...late....
Charles Foster Dudley: Shoes for the dead ...
Dr Headphones: hi shoes, 9 1/2 wide here
||||||||| Bightrethighrehighre departs at 10:58 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
shoes for the dead: whew!!! hotter'n hellmouth here today!!!
c ease: prease the lord, and play the ammunition
Piano John: I'm always late, Big
Merlyn: are dead shoes soleless?
Dexter Fong: The tongue can never be told a lie
Bunnyboy: I had to giggle when they revealed that Space Ghost's neck is 48''...radius!
shoes for the dead: 1/2 of what head??
c ease: after the loafer rapture, merl
Piano John: When you're sitting in a tree, Merl
Dr Headphones: all soles go to heaven?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: what is a radius?
llanwydd: bigtrethighrehighre just left and I didn't even know he was here
Dexter Fong: Pastor; do dogs go to heaven?
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| justanotherTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert is still wondering where PJ Soles went...
Dr Headphones: ok, shoes, i'll wear a 10 just for you. you know about loose shoes, don't you? :)
Piano John: Something that we don't listen to anymore, Klok
c ease: saw bumper sticker today: in dog we trust
Merlyn: I'll check in later, I'm going to play spiderman2 for a bit
||||||||| At 11:00 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...
Charles Foster Dudley: I got some PJ Probey wine clock ...
Bunnyboy: And pasta is being demanded. Au revoir, mon amis! I go to glory!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: hope you win, Merlyn
c ease: the firesign have a riff on that in hour hour, dex, as you well know
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bunnyboy strangles on a scarf
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: enjoy, Bun
Bunnyboy: Ack!
Dexter Fong: Be careful Merl, and be sure to fill up your web shooter
Piano John: Where did Merl go when the lights went out?
shoes for the dead: they don't slink slips?
llanwydd: nite bunny
c ease: spiderman bites? funny salon cartoon on spiderman 911 today
Bunnyboy: Is a Dora dunkin'?
Dexter Fong: Bunnyboy=>Martha Graham
Charles Foster Dudley: Down the rat hole PJ
c ease: only for applesauce, bun
Piano John: Do nut on accounta me?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: i didn't like it that much, Cat
Piano John: With the pickles...
c ease: i think his superhero parodies are great. godman, the kid, etc
Dr Headphones: macadamia to you too
llanwydd: is a dora! LOL
Charles Foster Dudley: Whats pickles Bush doing down a rat hole?
Dexter Fong: hmmm: lessee now....Bunyboy=>Isadora Duncan
c ease: and i dont appreciate that kind of comic genre at all.
Piano John: Keep yer pinky up, Bun
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: yeah, but this one was a lot of work for very little payoff, Cat
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: i know carol lay is having a tough time, but WayLay is getting kind of boring, too
c ease: take what you can get, klok. expect better next week. or dont
Bunnyboy: Dex: No, that's actually how Isadora Duncan died. Freak accident. She was bidding her partying friends adieu, threw a scarf over her shoulder...and into the spokes of her departing vehicle, that her boyfriend was driving. Oops!
c ease: i see maybe 1-2 zippy a week that makes me laugh. i count on salon for at least that much. they usually come thru
Dexter Fong: but if you try sometime...
Dr Headphones: ok, dear friends, dinner is served. 11pm, rather late, but i'm outta here. next time
c ease: yeah, carol is fucked. maybe she should take a vacation or something.
Dexter Fong: Yeah Cat; I mispoke meself
Bunnyboy: It's even in that biopic with Vanessa Redgrave.
shoes for the dead: bye DR
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: nite Ken
Dexter Fong: Night Ken
||||||||| At 11:04 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Dr Headphones!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Piano John: Night, Ken
c ease: kend
Bunnyboy: Soupcon' in a little bit. Chow!
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: only Mark Fiore seemed to have week after week of dead-on commentary; very few misfires
||||||||| At 11:05 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Bunnyboy!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Dexter Fong: Night Bun
llanwydd: Vanessa Redgrave is too old to play Isadora Duncan
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: and he's not there on Fri. anymore (but on his own site still)
Piano John: See ya, Bunny
c ease: by bun
Charles Foster Dudley: Nite Doc Nite all keep'em flying. Catck Mr. Muckles new toon...http://issuesandalibis.org
c ease: the party's poopin out on me. where's papoon when we need him?
llanwydd: nite again bunny
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Isadora Duncan would be too old to play Isadora Duncan, too
Dexter Fong: Night Dud
Piano John: Bye Dud
doctec: nite charles
||||||||| Charles Foster Dudley says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Charles Foster Dudley exits at 11:06 PM.
Piano John: Not as fun w/o Skybird...
c ease: dud
Dexter Fong: tHROWN ON OUR OWN DEVICES
c ease: so, neh?
Dexter Fong: bleah
Piano John: Guess I got used to it.
c ease: but actually, it's always fun. in it's own way
llanwydd: didn't even know Dudley was here
doctec: what happened to skybird tonight anyway?
Dexter Fong: Cat: Commented before on the sad plight of the Lakers
Piano John: good point, cat
doctec: (i'm too lazy to look thru logs)
c ease: i think they're on the road
Dexter Fong: And the scary plight of the East
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Doc - JL and Bambi too busy defending POP4 against clients to do the show and Gary can't
Piano John: Clem said he wouldn't be on for a while last week.
c ease: kobe jailbird bryant and what, miami rejects and luke walton?
Dexter Fong: Cat: Yeah and no Phil Jackson 5
Bubba's Brain: what's this about looking through legs?
c ease: they'd be lucky to beat a good UCLA team. but then, i'm spoiled
shoes for the dead: too hot and tired, dr. memory is shutting me down. my cues are scorching......
Bubba's Brain: I'm never too lazy for that.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: only if you have a camera phone or ringside seats at a Lakers game, Bubba
c ease: i was actually at UCLA with Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name
||||||||| Catherwood says "11:09 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs shoes for the dead by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Piano John: I too am going to vacate - I have towels to darken
doctec: a ha - well thanks for the reality check
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: be well, shoes
Dexter Fong: Shoes: Put the bubblewrap down and back away from the faux fire
c ease: i was also at USC with OJ but somethings are best left forgotten
Piano John: See ya next time
c ease: keep em playing, john
||||||||| Around 11:09 PM, Piano John walks off into the sunset...
Dexter Fong: Night PJ
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: noche, PJ
llanwydd: well I must be goodnighting, as they say.
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: bye, Ilan
Dexter Fong: Night Ilan: Vote Democrat =))
c ease: off you knight
llanwydd: So I will goodnight until nest weak
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Ilan - just VOTE
Dexter Fong: Democrat
llanwydd: night good
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: day good, too
Dexter Fong: Day bed
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: depends on your point of VU
Dexter Fong: Voters undecided?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: and out of time
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: Walter Waggoner, reading the NYT on 1/27/04
Dexter Fong: Chuck Waggoner eating at recommended restaurant 1/28/04
||||||||| 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 Dave disembarks at 11:13 PM.
c ease: hey dave
Dexter Fong: Dave
c ease: how's your summer?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: he's going away
Dave: well people, lots of packing to do, see you all in two weeks, wish me luck that I don't drown or die
Dexter Fong: summer good..sumer are just ok
c ease: you have to be school age to have that concept
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: not only that, tonight, he KEEPS going away
Dexter Fong: Dave: Don't drown and/or die =))
c ease: i was a teacher for a long time so that worked too
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: is that in the cruise brochure, Dave?
Dexter Fong: Depart with a full complement of guests..Return on an empty ship
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: lashed to the wheel
Dexter Fong: 30 Lashes
c ease: sounds like a pentagon plan: the cruise brochure
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert was thinking of Dracula
Dexter Fong: Can I have some salt on those wounds, Cap'n?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: that's for ossifers, Dex
Dexter Fong: Depart with a full load of grunts...
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: pentagon? PLAN? hahahaha
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: ...have them come back and VOTE for you in Nov.
Dexter Fong: Qouth D Rumsfeld
Bubba's Brain: ...
Dexter Fong: Should have about 1000 absentee ballots from Iraq
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert is getting viscous, er, vicious, er...whatever; time to attend to Other Matters
Dexter Fong: Mother Otters?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: yep, shud be coming up on 1K shoes of dead by V-day
Dexter Fong: If you ask Wolfowitz, he'd say "Oh, about ..what...23?
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: so will float away from the Chat now; everyone have a good evening, you hear?
doctec: good luck dave
||||||||| It's 11:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dave - dead from the yaws
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
doctec: note klok
Dexter Fong: Night Kdog
doctec: nite
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert: doesn't know, doesn't care
Dexter Fong: Doc: You still here =))
||||||||| klokwkdog-OrangeAlert leaves to catch the 11:20 PM train to Hellmouth.
c ease: they come, they go
doctec: yeah, barely
Dexter Fong: Doc: How's...where's Lili?
doctec: doing two things at once
||||||||| 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 Dave disembarks at 11:21 PM.
Dexter Fong: Quick trip Dave
Dave: I come, I go I guess
c ease: just like matteritself, dave
c ease: what do you know about string theory?
Dexter Fong: matter:doesn't matter
c ease: no mind, never matter
Dexter Fong: Cat: Like Cats Cradle?
Bubba's Brain: Likewise (2 things, that is)
c ease: brush up on your 17th century humour, dex
Dave: eh I'll stay for a bit, I need some humor right now
Dexter Fong: What do we want...Humor
Dexter Fong: When do we want it.....pretty soon
c ease: thankfully i've forgotten the name of thatr singer, dex. one of the worst i ever heard
c ease: some song about a taxi driver or something. garbage uber alles
Dexter Fong: Cat: Cat Stevens?
Bubba's Brain: 17th century.... we need to do some bloodletting to get his humors in balance.
c ease: no, some yank
Dexter Fong: Oh..Harry....
Dexter Fong: Harry...?died when crushed by a truck...started a food charity
Dexter Fong: before he died of course
Bubba's Brain: Chapin
Dexter Fong: Right Bubba
Dexter Fong: No relation to Charlie Chapin
Bubba's Brain: Cat's in the Cradle is whay you were thinkin of...
Bubba's Brain: or Charlie Chaplin....
Dexter Fong: yes
Bubba's Brain: what
Dexter Fong: or both
Dexter Fong: or neither perhaps
Dave: he did 1000 lbs of bananas right?
Dexter Fong: Dave: Yes
Bubba's Brain: I think it was 20,000 lbs.
c ease: , dex
||||||||| klono waltzes in at 11:28 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
c ease: under the sea? that a lot of coke
Dexter Fong: Yoko Klono
c ease: sounds like the harold hedd comic about hitler's cocaine
klono: you know
c ease: know, do you?
klono: no
doctec: klonopin?
Dexter Fong: know know boys..inanity is out of style
Dave: somebody shoot me
Bubba's Brain: Bang.
Bubba's Brain: Why did you want to be shot?
Dexter Fong Losks and loads one walther PK...takes steady aim...and FIRES!!!
Bubba's Brain shot first and asked questions later.
Dave: thanks
Dexter Fong points finger at Bubba and says "He did it"
Dave: least I can count on someone getting me over with quickly, you guys kick ass
Bubba's Brain quietly walks away before the police arrive.
Dexter Fong: First we shoot him, then we kick his ass...seems fair
Bubba's Brain: Still haven't answered why you wanted to be shot....
Dave: to get forever off my mind
Dexter Fong: Forever is a long long time
Bubba's Brain: and ever amen.
c ease: i was away. was i kicked into a different dimension?
Dave: yes it is, some people I know don't understand that I guess
Dexter Fong: Dave: Is the name of the cruise ship "The Flying Dutchman" by any chance?
c ease: but lets say there are infinite forevers?
c ease: ie, they evolve back into where they came from, and emerge again?
Dave: then I don't wan to see them Cat, and I don't honestly
Dexter Fong: as holidays
Dave: know what the name of the cruise ship is
c ease: that's kinda how i understand current cosmology
c ease: see what dave?
Dexter Fong: Say what?
c ease: there are lots of cool things to see. getting more and more into my new camera every day.
c ease: what?
Dexter Fong: Cat: Friad you kinda missed the boat on that last remark...as it were
Dexter Fong: Fraid
c ease: i miss lots of boats. which one was this?
Bubba's Brain pricks up his ears, still waiting to hear the name of the ship.
Dexter Fong: The last boat to Clarksville
c ease: spent last weekend filming on a boat. got some good and some bad. judge for yourself
c ease: good one, dex
Dexter Fong: Tanking speedy Tramp Steamer to Bowery Prison
c ease: i could make a joe horton joke at your expense, bub, but i'll refrain
doctec: cat: you've been hitting the klein bottle again, haven't you...
Dexter Fong wouldn't but does not know Joe Horton is
Bubba's Brain: Yes, I was aware of that possibility when I said it., cat
c ease: famous limey playwright. was writing next beatle film when his lover killed him
doctec: the more alcohol you drink out of a klein bottle, the more sober you get
||||||||| 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 Lili_extraveler disembarks at 11:39 PM.
Dexter Fong: AH...Joe Egg?
Dexter Fong: Hiya Lili
c ease: Lili? We are saved!
Lili_extraveler: Hi, all. Have I missed much?
Bubba's Brain: She's here! She's here!
Lili_extraveler: Cast, you're too kind.
doctec: lili, is that you?
Bubba's Brain: or at least under conviction....
Dexter Fong casts about for a response
c ease: just came back from squeezing lime and find...
Lili_extraveler: Well, someone has to add a feminine presence.
Bubba's Brain: , in fact we're every kind.
doctec: the zeitgeist babe?
c ease: the casts of all my plays are kind
Lili_extraveler: Doc, honey, of course it's me. In fact, I could tell you what you were doing 2 nights ago.
doctec: feminine presents! my favorite
doctec: i bet you could i bet you could...
Dexter Fong: Feminine presents...Oh boy...a amkeover
Bubba's Brain: the musk of testosterone was getting a bit strong in here...
Dexter Fong: makeover
Lili_extraveler: Uh... I didn't know you were into that. You mean I have to return your gift from Australia?
doctec: bb: you got dat rite!
Dexter Fong: So Bubba shot the Musk, in his pajamas
doctec: no, refunds, no exchanges!
Bubba's Brain: What he was doing in my pajamas, I'll never know.
Lili_extraveler: That's a smell that's going to linger....
Dexter Fong: I give you credit Doc
Lili_extraveler: Phewwwww..... I had no desire to go back.
Dexter Fong: ...Like your Windsong on my sleeve
Dexter Fong: ..or your Stetson under my pillow
Lili_extraveler: Does anybody wear that wnymore, except for pre-teens?
c ease: is it green?
Lili_extraveler: anymore
Dexter Fong: Lili: Only around Christmas time
c ease: how's your head, lili?
Bubba's Brain: tweens?
Lili_extraveler: The gift?
c ease: i mean, besides it's obvious underpriced capacity
Lili_extraveler: I still have a small lump above my right eyebrow. The purple finally went away.
c ease: have some combs, my dear
c ease: garden, good. head, bad
Dexter Fong: Cat a combs
Bubba's Brain is still waiting to hear the name of Dave's ship.
Dave: I don't know the name of my ship
c ease: i havent used a comb since lyndon johnson was your president
Dave: and I don't think my family does either
Lili_extraveler: The real drag was that when I got home, I had a box of mail, and it included notices that my health care insurance was cancelled and my car and house insurance was on the verge of cancellation. Sheesh!
c ease: the crystal ship, a good doors song
Bubba's Brain: And you had us all on edge....
Lili_extraveler: One of my favorites.
Bubba's Brain: wooden ships on the water?
Dexter Fong: You cannot petition the Captain for the name of the ship
Lili_extraveler: Who, moi?
Bubba's Brain: "Say, can I have some of your purple berries?"
Dexter Fong: No, Dave
c ease: great csny tune
Lili_extraveler: You cannot partition the board with prayer.
c ease: maybe their best
doctec: yeah, lili's had a rought time of it (what with there being a delay in her getting paid and expenses reimbursed for the overseas gig that just ended weekend before last)
c ease: no there were lots. lee shore, the dolphin tune, almost cut my beard...
c ease: talented mothers, as opposed to talin-infected
Dexter Fong: Cat: Don't forget.Down by the Ribbah"
doctec: mothers of invention
c ease: that was just young
c ease: well, ok, on 4way street
Lili_extraveler: Ole man river... ribbah! ribbah!
Dexter Fong: But they hepped
Bubba's Brain: Ribbah! Ribba!
c ease: ohio one of the best political tunes i've ever heard, and it's a genre i treasure
Dexter Fong: Are there frogs in here?
Lili_extraveler: Damn! To many aficionados to be original.
Bubba's Brain: Lili beat me to it, but I sound more like Paul Robeson.
Lili_extraveler: Too
Dave: Ribba!
c ease: the inspiration for Toad Away, no doubt
Lili_extraveler: BB: I sound nothing like Paul Robeson. Just ask doc or cat.
c ease: Old Man ReeBar
Dexter Fong: or me
c ease: wha'ts up, doc
Dexter Fong: Old Man Graybar
Lili_extraveler: Yes, of course, Dex. Sorry for the oversight.
Bubba's Brain: I usually don't but I can get a good baritone going sometimes.
c ease: i thought bub did, but werent you on red shift, bub, with fish?
Dexter Fong: Bub: YOu shoot at him, do you?
||||||||| It's 11:50 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| klono - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Lili_extraveler: I can occasionally sing soprano.
doctec: the only time lili sounds like paul robeson is when i pitch her voice downward using an audio pitch shifter, creating that 'voice of authority' sound
c ease: i try and drag everybody and their dog into my plays
Bubba's Brain: No, I wasn't on Red Shift.
c ease: wrong chrono for klono?
Lili_extraveler: Take a wild guess.....
Dexter Fong: lol Cat
c ease: hey doc, must talk to you and everyone else reading this about audio possilbitys
Dexter Fong: Lili: The Beatles?
doctec: lili: riiiiiiight!
Lili_extraveler: Of course, Dex. And Joni Mitchell, too.
c ease: on the pot-tv.net site, the poet poet thing, this plane was flying over our boat while he was speaking. i'm wondering what can be done with that? the stations guys already took out a lot of the boat noise
doctec: actually the line "take a wild guess" is the punchline of a laurie anderson anecdote re her airport security experience a few years ago
Dexter Fong: Joni? Hmm...I would have guessed Guy Mitchell
Lili_extraveler: BRB, there's a pussycat that wants to go out.
doctec: laurie was trying to get through customs with all the electronic gear she uses in her shows, and the customs people all thought she was smuggling illegal technology
doctec: so they asked her to hook it up and demonstrate what she used it for
Dexter Fong: Welp...hopefully enough touristas have left my overly popular neighborhood and I can park my car
Lili_extraveler: Guy Mitchell?!
Bubba's Brain: YEs, the electric violin can be used as a rocket launcher...
doctec: she pitched her voice down and said, in a very male-sounding voice, "this is my voice of authority"
c ease: thats happened to me
doctec: they asked her why she called it that
Lili_extraveler: And she said...
doctec: she surveyed the scene - with all the cops, and the guns, and the guard dogs - and she said: "take a wild guess"
Dexter Fong: Night all and Night Lili..nice to have you back where you belong
c ease: as always, dex
Bubba's Brain: Nite Dex.
||||||||| At 11:55 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Dexter Fong!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Lili_extraveler: You're lookin' swell, Dexter, I can tell, Dexter...
doctec: cat: re plane flying over boat during poetry reading - i assume you want to somehow try and eliminate it?
doctec: in all likelihood, the nature of the sound of flying planes shifts too much in pitch and timbre to be removable using the cool edit noise reduction tool
c ease: doc, lets be more creative. i was thinking of the donavan line, fly jefferson airplane, getcha there on time. could not the image/sound be warped into something INteresting like that?
Lili_extraveler: In Engrish, that means.... never mind....
doctec: oh, so you want to try and USE the sound of the airplane
Lili_extraveler: BTW, has Phil shown his commentary tonight?
c ease: some dude babbling his poems on camera is about as interesting as reading a page, or less in this visual age? we talked about this alot during the shoot and we'l ltalk more. the uglt thing up on pot tv now is first draft, but the folks involved need something quick
doctec: well, depending on what & how you want to "warp" (or at the very least fade) the airplane sound into the lines of the song, i imagine it's doable. need more specifics to know what you have in mind
Lili_extraveler: Hey, doc, I'm watching Casino as we converse. Better be vewwy, vewwy careful in Vegas.
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dave - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Lili_extraveler: OMG, they're dropping like flies.
c ease: not that tune i dont think. just speculating. the idea is that plane noise is bad, it's NOise! and the imafge of poet reading loses interest within seconds. so.....
Bubba's Brain: They're flying like drops.
doctec: lili dear: the movie "casino" is set in the '70s and depicts a las vegas that doesn't exist any more - in fact the whole end segment of the movie decries the fact that it has become so corporate-ized and family friendly
||||||||| 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..
c ease: ok, we'll discuss this outside the formal firesign chat.
c ease: how is your daughter, lili?
Lili_extraveler: I know! That's the worst part! It's Bushland!
doctec: yes cat, we can pick this thread up in email or via phone
c ease: the poet guy i was filming's day job is cabbie in hamilton. maybe she has been in his cab
c ease: she can watch the video and tell me. he need the feedback
c ease: not a poetry fan, but his pentameters were riveting
Lili_extraveler: Cat: she's doing well. She's been approved for a mortgage and she will have the house in her name I believe tomorrow, and they she can finally file for divorce. She's very excited about it.
Lili_extraveler: then
c ease: i'm exccited for her. so will be Fumiyo when I tell her
Lili_extraveler: How is Fumiyo?
Bubba's Brain: Doc -- check out the following --have been proposing bumper stickers and plate holders to the guys -- www.lodestonecatalog.com/BumperBozos.pdf and www.lodestonecatalog.com/platefram1.pdf
doctec: thx bubba i will check out
c ease: we went for a walk with Icy this morning in a vast local canyon park. so her legs are gettting much better,. she wants to start climbing moutntains agiani as soon as possible
c ease: these many therapies she's explored have perhaps cumulatively, or termporaly combined to produce results
||||||||| 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 Dave disembarks at 12:05 AM.
Lili_extraveler: I'm glad to hear that, cat. I'm looking forward to seeing both of you again.
c ease: but living in a 3 story house with a fridge size dog is a bitch
Dave: my dog is going blind, so now there's two of us
Lili_extraveler: Why didn't you get a cat? They're a lot easier.
doctec and lili are both cat lovers, or can't you tell?
Dave: I love cats too, but my dad's alergic
Bubba's Brain loves cats too -- they're delicious!
Lili_extraveler: Too bad. So is doc's dad. But doc really enjoys my cats, and they enjoy him, too. Actually, anyone that can open a pull tab can....
Dave: "strange face with your eyes so pale and sincere, underneith you know well, you have nothing to fear,"
Bubba's Brain: I took on two cats for a year while their owner was spending a year in china... that was 4 years ago, she's still there, and so are they.
Lili_extraveler: Have you become attached to the cats?
Bubba's Brain: yes... they're basically mine now.
||||||||| 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 crushed dwarf disembarks at 12:12 AM.
Bubba's Brain: more imporantly, they're attached to me.
Dave: I want to get a cat when I'm older, it's a matter of training them for the litter box that's gonna be hard
c ease: hi crush
c ease: no shit, dave
Dave: I don't have the plyers
crushed dwarf: hello, it's my 1st time in hello all
Dave: lol Cat
Lili_extraveler: Dave, you have no idea how easy it is to box train a cat.
Dave: well...no I don't Lili
Bubba's Brain: No, its actaully not hard.
Bubba's Brain: Show them where it is.
Bubba's Brain: that's it.
Lili_extraveler: Hi, crushed. Welcome to the gang of however many show up.
Dave: how do I know that they know where it is
Bubba's Brain: The rest is instinct.
Lili_extraveler: They are fastidious creatures and will dig and bury their stuff.
Bubba's Brain: Well, unless you have an open sandbox in your place, they will choose to use the litter.
Bubba's Brain: They are very different from dogs in that respoect.
Lili_extraveler: The difference between cats and dogs.
Lili_extraveler: Like men and women.
Bubba's Brain realizes the movie he's thinking about wiht Jeaneane Garroffolo is "the truth about...."
Lili_extraveler: Right, BB. Hey, doc, cat, BB, Dave, and dwarf, I have to do some paperwork and hit the sack. I have an insuranced guy coming over tomorrow morning, so I can't sleep in. (Dammit...)
Lili_extraveler: insurance
||||||||| It's 12:20 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| crushed dwarf - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Dave - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
doctec: well g'nite lili darling - don't work too late & sleep well
Lili_extraveler: Get some sleep, doc.
Bubba's Brain: Well nite, Lili. We'll uh, where'd they go?
doctec: btw: we're on for dinner w/m&j tomorrow night
Lili_extraveler: They've mysteriously disappeared, along with the servants. They were very much attached. At the wrists and ankles.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Dave in through the front door at 12:21 AM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Lili_extraveler: Oh, goody, doc. We'll talk tomorrow and you can let me know when to show up.
Bubba's Brain: Anyway, nite Lili.
Dave: well I think I'll be going
Lili_extraveler: Dave...he's in, he's out. What is this, Thunderdome?
doctec: ok lil - nitey nite
Lili_extraveler: Nite, all .
Bubba's Brain: Two men leave, one man enter!
||||||||| Lili_extraveler says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Lili_extraveler exits at 12:22 AM.
Dave: yeah I'll be going then, see you all in two weeks hopefully tanned and 20 pounds heavier! peace guys
||||||||| Dave says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Dave exits at 12:23 AM.
Bubba's Brain: They keep coming and going... and going and coming.... and always too soon....
doctec: i'm gonna check out of the chat too - have some coding i have to finish up
Bubba's Brain: Okay, me too.
||||||||| Bubba's Brain says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Bubba's Brain exits at 12:24 AM.
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| c ease - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Woody One in through the front door at 12:33 AM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Woody One departs at 12:33 AM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
doctec: nytol (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..................
||||||||| doctec says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, doctec exits at 12:34 AM.
||||||||| 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:

beTweenythelines
Bightrethighrehighre
Bubba's Brain
Bunnyboy
c ease
Charles Foster Dudley
crushed dwarf
Dave
Demonbusters-Yamamoto
DESTER FONG(SAYING A BIT
Dexter Fong(Nuff Said)
Dexter Fong
doctec
Dr Headphones
Elayne
justanotherTweeny
klokwkdog-OrangeAlert
klono
Lili_extraveler
llanwydd
Merlyn
Mudhead
Piano John
shoes for the dead
Tweeny

URL References:
http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com
http://issuesandalibis.org
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20040711
http://www.ericblumrich.com/lotto.html
www.lodestonecatalog.com/BumperBozos.pdf
http://www.lodestonecatalog.com/FireTees.html
www.lodestonecatalog.com/platefram1.pdf
http://www.recipezaar.com/r/84/219

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