A Firesign Chat
08/26/2004




Archive

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for August 26, 2004 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:24 AM and late as usual, it's Turd Bird, just back from Billville."
Turd Bird:                   )))((((((
Turd Bird:                   (•)   (•)
Turd Bird:                      U
Turd Bird:                     [___] - - -{Phuck Fonics}
||||||||| It's 8:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Turd Bird - dead from Intense demonic possession
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "11:07 AM and late as usual, it's Johnny Piano, just back from Billville."
Johnny Piano: Hey all - I wanted to let it be known that my absence last week (and probably this week too) is due to kidney stone passage
Johnny Piano: As I'm sure many know, this ain't no Swiss Picnic. Take care and I'll be with you in various spirits.
||||||||| At 11:09 AM, Johnny Piano vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "6:34 PM and late as usual, it's Bightrethighrehighre, just back from Billville."
Bightrethighrehighre: thought I'd show up extree early for the sound check....
Bightrethighrehighre: Johnny- if you're out there, have great convalescence, my friend....!!
Bightrethighrehighre: Check....check....one....two....test....one....two....
Bightrethighrehighre: ....dead air....hmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Bightrethighrehighre: see ya'll awhile later....
||||||||| At 6:44 PM, Bightrethighrehighre vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "7:40 PM and late as usual, it's betty-joe, just back from Billville."
betty-joe: hello?
||||||||| At 7:41 PM, betty-joe vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "7:41 PM and late as usual, it's uh?, just back from Billville."
||||||||| uh? walks away to The Sitting Room.
||||||||| uh? has arrived at the appointed hour of 7:42 PM.
uh?: damn, i have to wait till thursday?
uh?: just me , & my shaaadow
||||||||| uh? walks away to The Auditorium.
||||||||| uh? has arrived at the appointed hour of 7:46 PM.
||||||||| Outside, the 7:46 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving betty-joe coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "7:49 PM and late as usual, it's Merlyn, just back from Billville."
Merlyn: Hey folks, you're early, most people won't be showing up for about an hour and a half...
||||||||| Merlyn leaves at 7:50 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| It's 8:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| betty-joe - dead from jaundice
 ||||||||| uh? - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:01 PM and late as usual, it's Bightrethighrehighre, just back from Billville."
Bightrethighrehighre: Hello....!!!!....Hurray....!!!!....let the show begin....
Bightrethighrehighre: ....I've been ready....
Bightrethighrehighre: ....We'renot lonesome, my crickey and me....
Bightrethighrehighre: Cheeeeeeeeeezzzz-whizzzzz-eightcchhhhhhhhhh-k-REISSSSTTT!!!!, let me try that one again!
Bightrethighrehighre: ....We're not lonesome, my CRICKETTTT and me....
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:08 PM and late as usual, it's Merlyn, just back from Billville."
Merlyn: time to hose you down
Bightrethighrehighre: High, Merl!!!!
Bightrethighrehighre: It looks as if we had some chicks in the room, how could we let them get away....??
Merlyn: Johnny Piano?
Bightrethighrehighre: no!! not Johnny!!!
Bightrethighrehighre: Betty Jo!!
Bightrethighrehighre: (Bioloski??)
Merlyn: oh, that was a while ago, they were early
Merlyn: Wait, that was yesterday or something
Bightrethighrehighre: Maybe they (she) made a beer run and will be back....
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:12 PM and late as usual, it's leftrev.Tweenstormer, just back from Billville."
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Hidi ho, neighbors...
Bightrethighrehighre: How zit goin, L-T?
Merlyn: allo
leftrev.Tweenstormer: A righteous religious opening to these proceedings.
Bightrethighrehighre: say hallelujah!!!
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 9:14 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: So, how's the Boyz these daze?
Merlyn: I'm a one-eyed snake handler, myself
llanwydd: whaz real?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:15 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bubba's Brain coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: There's apparently a standing offer for them to be on Majority Report
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Sprekenzie Welsh, LL?
Merlyn: And the 2005 tour in late Jan, early Feb on the west coast
Bightrethighrehighre: Velcommenn, llanwydd, Ya!!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Bub...
Bubba's Brain: Es tut mir leid?
Bubba's Brain: Hey, all!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Mir est la joie follie.
Merlyn: Heil all?
Bightrethighrehighre: Yo. Bubs'
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Hey, el.
Bubba's Brain: Jawohl!
llanwydd: wo hast du Deutsh gelernt?
Merlyn: german chatter on the internyet
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ah, Canadian...
Bightrethighrehighre: ze schprechen zeh Svenshka???....YAH???
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Tiptoe, through the too lips....
Bubba's Brain: Next on educational TV: GERMAN FOR OLD WAR MOVIES -- repeat after me: "Jawohl, mein Capitant" ... "Actung!" ... "Schnell! Schell!!"
Merlyn: IC nothing!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: The 4th is more than a day...
Bightrethighrehighre: Ichhhhhhhh biein ikkkkk berleineir....!!!!
llanwydd: towel. bath. border.
Merlyn: I am a Danish
Bightrethighrehighre: eltriptophannnnnnnn....
Bubba's Brain: I didn't know you were a jelly doughnut!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ich bein un idiot. Would you like to come over here and solve these problems?
Merlyn: ich bien ein jellyroll morton
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Mmmmm. Danish w/cream cheese...
Bightrethighrehighre: hell NO!!!
Bubba's Brain: Whats better than Roses on a piano?
llanwydd: well, ich bin the head idiot of my country
Bubba's Brain: 2 lips on an organ!
Merlyn: naked women on my lap
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Rosy O'Donnel on a piano singing scarlet begonias.
Bightrethighrehighre: Tweenz- whut- th sacred well spring a leak....??
llanwydd: oder dumbkopf aus der vaterland
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Whazzz real?
Bubba's Brain: Fatherland Security
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Then Al turns off his TV.
Merlyn: hello muddah, hello faddahland
Merlyn: here I am at, camp guantanomoland
Bubba's Brain: here I am, invading Gredada-land....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: B-Aw, it's paisley.
Bightrethighrehighre: this is Ronnie, Kamp Grenada....
llanwydd: intimudah intifada
Bubba's Brain: anitmuddah, antipasto
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Get yer infadas, popcorn, hot dogs.
Bubba's Brain: infidels, half price!
llanwydd: may I be opening your luggage please
leftrev.Tweenstormer: CNN - the Canadian News Now
Merlyn: in fidel's backyard is gitmo
leftrev.Tweenstormer: If it isn't now, who cares?
Bubba's Brain: Musketeers! All for one, and three for a dollar!
Bightrethighrehighre: y gitmo later...
leftrev.Tweenstormer: I'll take two of those infidel burghers.
llanwydd: and three for five and six for a quarter
Bubba's Brain: and some freedom fries, please.
Merlyn: infidel burgermeisters?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: May I see your grey pupon, monsier?
Bightrethighrehighre: freedom fries out da window, who wan seconda- worl war, you so smart....??
llanwydd: I wonder if high school kids have to take intermediate freedom these days
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Who won Things To Come?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Yu so smartt...
Bubba's Brain: Triumph, the insult-comic dog, sez: "I got your Gray, for me to Poupon!"
Merlyn: luxury...when I was in high school, we DREAMED of having intermediate freedom...
||||||||| Outside, the 9:28 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving klokwkdog coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bightrethighrehighre: learn how to fill out a tax form in government propaganda kamps (high skool)
llanwydd: but you have to take freedom 1 first
Merlyn: Looks like it's the Night of Long Names
llanwydd: evenin klok
Bightrethighrehighre: I used to thimpk that it was MY skool....
Merlyn: better than knives, I guess
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Oh, that's nothing. When I was in high school we had to eat Quakers! For breakfast...
Bightrethighrehighre: poor quakers....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Hey dogman...
klokwkdog: hi all
Merlyn: I ate Jehovah once, but there were no witnesses...
Bightrethighrehighre: Hi Klok!!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: A bowl of hall & oats?
Merlyn: sowing your wild quaker oats
Bightrethighrehighre: italians don't like jehovah witness ( you guys know the rest)....
llanwydd: I used to call it goatmeal
leftrev.Tweenstormer: We're going to make an offal you can't refuse.
llanwydd: hall and oats sure were corny weren't they?
Merlyn: Ben Franklin is on the $100 size Quaker Oats
klokwkdog: LOL
Bightrethighrehighre: If it's an italian cooking we probably wouldn't want to....
llanwydd: thought it looked like ben
leftrev.Tweenstormer: H&O had a sax player w/MIDI pickup. Pretty impressive.
klokwkdog: it's from his modeling period
Bubba's Brain: from his green period
Bightrethighrehighre: Tween-when was this h and o show....??
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Modelo. Las Cervasa Mas Fina.
klokwkdog: pretty soon, he decided that everyone should know what he looked like
llanwydd: Italian style oatmeal? Does it have parmesan cheese or something?
klokwkdog: best way: put your own face on money
Bightrethighrehighre: Si !! muy sabrosa!!!....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Market Square Idnianapolis around mid-80's.
klokwkdog: luckily, he was also a printer...
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Don't know much about eating indians hearts.
klokwkdog: nah, Ilan -- it's just in a very, very nice Memphis box
Bightrethighrehighre: and then she puts her money between her big american BREASTS!!
llanwydd: I thought he was a bookbaker
Bightrethighrehighre: eliminate the middle man!!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: gone for a few minutes
klokwkdog: except for "man in the middle" attacks...
Bightrethighrehighre: eating the heart of and Indian....you know....
Bightrethighrehighre: man in the middle can git his own....
klokwkdog: who you callin' a Christian?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Mr. Christian. Flog this man.
Bightrethighrehighre: noen of us, we're all catholics here, domino, domino, domino....
Bubba's Brain: Mister Christian, oh your time has come....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ah, Cashmire. The new nuke testing range...
klokwkdog: let's keep van morrison out of tonight's chat...
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Anybody here like Mark Fiore?
Bightrethighrehighre: man-I-FEST destiny, HOOOOOOOOO....
klokwkdog: me
klokwkdog: it's shaping up to be one of those astral weeks
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Small nukes? Cute.
llanwydd: I don't know mark
klokwkdog: www.markfiore.com
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Flashmovies on Alternet.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Proctor probably likes....
klokwkdog: animated karthoums every week. 98% of the time are ROFL, dead on and I really hate that guy for putting out such good stuff so consistently
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Now why don't the boyz show up more often?
Merlyn: yeah, I've seen his stuff before
klokwkdog: they are busy
klokwkdog: fiore intimidates the heck out of me
llanwydd: busy? that's good news
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Hope they're makin' the big $$ in Cal. We sure could use 'em down here in Austin. Several VN vets showed up at Crawford with a petition asking Bush to stop the ridiculous ads.
klokwkdog: no, not so much at FST stuff as at stuff that keeps wolf from door, supports families, etc.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:41 PM and late as usual, it's Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong, just back from Billville."
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ahoy
klokwkdog: is that a swiss army boat, Dex?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ah, you can never leave la familia.
Bubba's Brain: Or is it just full of holes.
klokwkdog: good abend Ash, welcome to our flotilla
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: YOu bet Klok..Wanna see my Papal Uniform?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Fong. The time is...
llanwydd: hey dex
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: right for fighting in the street?
Bightrethighrehighre: I still have my vinyl copy of "Just Folks"
Bubba's Brain: Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Merlyn: 17
Bightrethighrehighre: good news since I found out it was out of print....
klokwkdog: tween: Catherwood is confused. He's old...
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Prophet rev 3.2
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Had to sell it.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Just an estimation, of course.
llanwydd: I recently had JF on cassette but the player ate it
Bubba's Brain: Player ... you mean the guy from EOBE?
Bightrethighrehighre: llanwydd: I can get it to you if need be....
llanwydd: but I still have a cassette of How time flys
leftrev.Tweenstormer: They say love is blind. They didn't say it was Cheney & Scalia shooting ducks.
llanwydd: Yo, Player. Eat my cassette
llanwydd: or be eaten
llanwydd: big, I'd love a copy!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: The names Hawkmoth.
llanwydd: it's egyptian
Merlyn: And we're the ducks
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:46 PM and late as usual, it's kosh, just back from Billville."
Bightrethighrehighre: No prob LLan
llanwydd: I've got eobe on cassette too
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Gosh! it's kosh
llanwydd: hey kosh
klokwkdog: hawkmoth like an egyptian?
Bightrethighrehighre: Kosh, by Gosh, I'm buyin'....!!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: And they're coming back! Xenos Paradise, sell you child too day!
||||||||| At 9:48 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, kosh!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: By kosh he's gone
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Kosh, are you part of the conspiracy to keep the information from the truth?
Bubba's Brain: EOBE was my first Firesign... but I still learned to like them eventually.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Pravda, mon capitan.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:49 PM and late as usual, it's Kosh, just back from Billville."
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bubba: I'm really surpirsed to hear that..I thought you were here from before the beginning
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Only just the start.
Merlyn: back again
Bubba's Brain: Late convert... really didn't hear most of their stuff until the 90's
llanwydd: 2Places was my first FST
klokwkdog: what's it like over in the Shadows, Merlyn?
llanwydd: but I didn't hear it till 75 or 76
Merlyn: too dark to tell
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Listened to Hendrix's ELL recently. Forgot how good it was. House burning. Watchtower.
klokwkdog: that must be where they're keeping the foreshadowing
Bubba's Brain: Bought EOBE in mid 80's --- didn't get it at first, grew to like it. But after hearing the early stuff in 90's, I understood.
Bubba's Brain: ... what the fuss was about.
Merlyn: ask the shadow, maybe he knows
leftrev.Tweenstormer: All I have to say is, throw the first stoner.
llanwydd: liked dylan's watchtower better
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bub: EOBE prolly not the best introduction to their work
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: It's good you got it though
llanwydd: can't we get off the subject of jehovah's witnesses
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Me not. Dylan rocks as a songwriter. Like Kristofferson. Try "The Highwaymen".
Bubba's Brain: Hey, what can I say. It was in the cutout bins.
llanwydd: that's a pun
||||||||| Outside, the 9:53 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bunnyboy coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Bunnyboy: lo dere
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Cash, Kristofferson, Nelson, Jennings. Really quite good.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hey Bun
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Hippity hop, there....
klokwkdog: buncha outlaws
llanwydd: hi bunny
Bubba's Brain: Favorite EOBE line: "If you were a Dylan fan.... and who WASN'T...."
Bubba's Brain: Lo Bb.
Bunnyboy: short visit. I have a sleeping spaniel in my lap.
llanwydd: dylan at the met! I love that one
Bightrethighrehighre: welcome, Bunnyboy....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Nice music, nice production. Worth having in your 5-CD collection of country nusic.
Bunnyboy: "That's right, he's singing OPERA. Really high class..."
Bightrethighrehighre: llanwydd: Got it!!!! gimme a week or two....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: The 3 Folk Singers
Bunnyboy: "You can't understand a word he's saying, and that's when Bob's at his best!"
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Elvis impersonaters up against the wall at Abu Grave.
klokwkdog: if they weren't in Heartworn Highways, I don't wanna hear them...
llanwydd: I've bought one country album in my life. Nashville Skyline
Bubba's Brain: Elvis has left the prison....
Bunnyboy: Any sign of EOBE in the near digital future?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:56 PM and late as usual, it's Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush, just back from Billville."
llanwydd: thanks big!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ah, fresh air. PBS.
llanwydd: Big thanks
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hi Lili
klokwkdog: yea Lili
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ribbit.
Merlyn: it really IS the Night of Long Names
Bubba's Brain: Not that I've heard.
klokwkdog: welcome to the USA
Bunnyboy: It'd make a great bundle with THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOW.
Bubba's Brain: Hey Lil.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Hey, the guy who made the phrase "elvis has left the building" died the other day.
llanwydd: hi lil
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Or The Pink Hotel Burns Nasdac
Bubba's Brain: I didn't know that....
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Hi, guys. Not sure if you all know this, but doc is in Vegas competing in pool.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: That's the other one before - Ringo
klokwkdog: first elvis dies, now everyone who knew him who dies gets a special NYT obit...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Lili, Butterfly or freesy\tyle?
Bunnyboy: Or, it could be a 2 CD set with THE 3 FACES OF AL. Just title the comp DAVE'S NOT HERE.
Bightrethighrehighre: llanwydd: no prob, we FST'rs gotta keep it going....
llanwydd: I actually lived in a pink hotel in Florida for a few weeks
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Butterpie?
klokwkdog: which one?
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Yep, BB, it was on NPR, and he had been making a living introducing Elvis impersonators and then saying, "Elvis has left the building." I believe he was 83.
Bubba's Brain: Hmmmm... might be interesting... take EOBE and Pink Hotel and make a Flash game much like the original intent.
Bunnyboy: And Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. RIP.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Left: Butterpie and Apple Pan Dow Dee
klokwkdog: denial
klokwkdog: anger
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Rip Torn, Nixon. RIP.
Bunnyboy: "This CHICK, man, without the benefit of dying herself, has broken the stages of death down, Now, dig..."
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Dex, doc is always freestyle. But he did spring for a $250 lesson with Allison Fisher, one of the top female players, and it really made a difference in his game. He's been winning!
llanwydd: got mail. brb
klokwkdog: and then Paranoise's "I wish that God would take Bush"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:59 PM and late as usual, it's Dr. Headphones, just back from Billville."
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Cherchez la femme!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Welcome to Dr. Firesign's surgery room. We're going to give you angerplasty.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bunny qoutes himself...whatta style
Bunnyboy: Students? Anybody able to identify that (somewhat paraphrased) quote?
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Kosh - dead from jaundice
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hey Ken
Dr. Headphones: aloha, dear friends
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Headphones? Koss?
Bubba's Brain: Hey, DRH.
klokwkdog remembers Dances With Wolves..."Why is he shooting like a woman?"
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: I wish anyone would take Bush, and get him the hell out of the White House.
klokwkdog: what quote? it scrolled off
Dr. Headphones: nope, not here. i have a set of the cheapies that came with portable cd player
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Because he doesn't speak Jovitas.
Bunnyboy: lo Ken
klokwkdog: circus?
Bubba's Brain: Speaking of Doc, Lil.... where is he tonight?
klokwkdog: circuits
Dr. Headphones: klok: i'm an on email list with a character called "dances with werewolves"
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Circus, circuit.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Circussss
klokwkdog: behind the 8 ball, no doubt
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Wolfsie. Amadeus. Rock me.
klokwkdog: as long as he doesn't get too close, I guess it's safe, Ken
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: I'm going to step away for a few, guys. One of my cats had oral surgery yesterday. Lost 12 teeth. Refuses to look at me. You wouldn't believe the instruction I got from the
Bubba's Brain: Sounds like Lambada for Lycanths....
Bunnyboy: OK, so the Kubler-Ross ref is The Comic's signature act in ALL THAT JAZZ. Cliff Gorman, also sadly departed, a few years back.
llanwydd: bread and circuits
Dr. Headphones: klok: i think he's in a suburb of phillie, so you're in more danger than i
klokwkdog looks at his modem light, still on solid ;-) Sorry, Ken
Bubba's Brain: oooh... I feel your pain... and your cat's pain....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Close to the... our new new edger from Popiel.
Dr. Headphones: klok: np, go for it
klokwkdog: I wouldn't look at you, either! Thanks for stopping by!
leftrev.Tweenstormer: I feel you're acid rain.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: vet to lure her out: Pureed Figaro tuna, liver tea (no, not liberty) made with boiled chicken livers , and sweetened condensed milk.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers WCGuy into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 10:03 PM, then departs.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Lili, will you have to put like Cat Treats (soft naturely) under the Cat Box?
llanwydd: close to the edge. I get it
leftrev.Tweenstormer: WC, lost a wheel recently?
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: BB: She lost 12 teeth. She only has her lower incisors left. Massive eriodontal disease.
Merlyn: hey WC
Dr. Headphones: lili: try boiling some dry catnip and let the aromas waft through the house
klokwkdog used to live in Warminster, just down from the base, with that decrepit old F-8 Crusader marooned out front
WCGuy: No, you got an extra one?
llanwydd: hi guy
Dr. Headphones: hi, john/wc
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: periodontal
Bunnyboy: Anybody else dead, recently?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hi JR
leftrev.Tweenstormer: How incisive.
Dr. Headphones: bunny: millions, but most weren't famous
WCGuy: Love the name, Dex.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Thanks, Dr. H, I'll give that a try, too.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: This is war, Mr. Tolkien.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Thank JR =)
Bubba's Brain: Congratulations on being alive on this day. Millions didn't make it.
Bunnyboy: "Sounds like a law firm. 'Hello, Anger, Bargaining, Denial, Depression and Acceptance!' "
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Indeed. Very incisive. To the previous question about doc, he did go to Circus Circus.
Dr. Headphones: lili: once it's done boiling, cool, strain, then put in spray bottle (well rinsed windex works well) and spray its toys, scratching post, carpet, your leg if you're a masochist, etc.
Bubba's Brain: Ah....
klokwkdog: Circuits!
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: He is in a match as we type. He will be calling me around midnight, EDT.
Bubba's Brain: Circuits Circuits -- Radio Shack?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Cirque de Sol (Wakeman)
Dr. Headphones: you sure he's in a match or is it a bic lighter? :)
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Dr. H: I may be a masochist, but I'm NOT INSANE.
WCGuy: So, a politcal question: Anyone going to a 'Vote for Change' concert?
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: BRB, guys.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ah, Radio Shak. Basketballs with transmitters.
klokwkdog: of COURSE you aren't!
Dr. Headphones: tween: soleil, side 4 of TFTO
llanwydd: I haven'theard any of wakeman's new age stuff
klokwkdog: they would be preeching to the converted
Bubba's Brain: The transmitter is so that they can track it and show a trail for the viewers at home.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Singing to the chorus
Dr. Headphones: wakeman isn't new age, he has to be nearing 60 now.....
klokwkdog: coals to Newcastle
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: It's a new age every birthday
Bunnyboy: Here's my favorite editorial cartoon of the week:
Bunnyboy: http://borgman.enquirer.com/weekly/daily_html/2004/08/082404borgman.html
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ya missed me on that one Dr. H. Send me an e-mail. I've been listening to Wakeman's 2/LP gig for the 1984 winter olympics.
WCGuy: ....and the FST are younguns?
Bightrethighrehighre: singing to the preeecher....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: back in a few
Dr. Headphones: dex: got your email, promptly marked it "important" then forgot about it as new email came in and scrolled it off the top of the screen. i'm a bad boy, will look it up after chat.
klokwkdog: that's new age, Ken -- like New Wave. KEXP is having a special series, "explaining" New Wave to the college frosh, like some sort of damn historical marker on the highway. sheesh
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: TYT Ken..I've got it filed in my documents..I'll send you a fresh copy every week
llanwydd: wakeman lost it after "Criminal Record"
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Shit. After making my kitchen smell like a cat food factory, she hasn't touched it.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Love the poli cartoon, BTW.
Bunnyboy: "Yeeeeeeeeew, HAH! Yew yew yew, HAH! Yew gonna wake up shakin' like a DOG, HAH! On a COOOOLD, Frosty Mornin', hah-hah!"
klokwkdog thinks he lost it about 3 years after Yes...
Dr. Headphones: hell, if i had a criminal record, i'd try to lose it also
Bightrethighrehighre: that's new age teaching....
Merlyn: yeah, good cartoonie
klokwkdog: Ken - no, you sell it on eBay. There's a big market for David Allen Coe
Bunnyboy: "Yeeeeew, HAH! Can't drive a Cadillac-HAH! down the streets uh HELL-HAH!"
leftrev.Tweenstormer: I'm back, and I'm bootyfull...
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Time for me to make myself some dinner. Back in a while, guys.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bunny is back in quotes
klokwkdog: OK
Dr. Headphones: bootyfull? you mean...you're actually...j.lo?
Bunnyboy: I'm like tofu. I take on flavors.
Bubba's Brain: Flava Flav?
Bunnyboy: Merl: You've seen ANIJAM?
llanwydd: actually he made one fantastic piece of music in 1990. A soundtrack for the silent film "The Phantom of the Opera"
leftrev.Tweenstormer: "DAC comes to Nashville. Double parks on Music Row" - Jennings
Dr. Headphones: enjoy, lili, i just finished some nice ham, baked beans, garlic toast, and baked potato.
WCGuy: Gotta run, kids.
Bubba's Brain: L8r
Bunnyboy: nite WC
Dr. Headphones: i have heard a couple of coe's renditions, quite funny if you aren't the FCC or a christian ;)
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Come back soon JR
leftrev.Tweenstormer: And a partidge family in a pare tree.
Dr. Headphones: so long, wc
Merlyn: what, bb?
llanwydd: nite guy
WCGuy: Will do....here's a tease. Write down these dates....Oct. 11, Jan. 28.
klokwkdog: nite WC
Dr. Headphones: will there be a testicle later?
Merlyn: anijam?
klokwkdog: no leetspeek!
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Now divide those dates by your racial category
Bightrethighrehighre: back in a feee-yeeewwww....I'm "multi-flasking"....
Bightrethighrehighre: ....op...eeeeppp-p-p-p....eck-RICIAN....!!!!
Bunnyboy: Merl: You said "great cartoonie". Vas ist loss?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Write down these dates. Lisa, Stephany, Gilda ooops
WCGuy: See ya....(and be near a radio)
Dr. Headphones: ok, biggie
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Multiply by the Gross economic indicator
Merlyn: the link you posted, bb
Bunnyboy: Oct 11? Jan 28? Oh, what could it be?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Don't forget to carry the 1.3 million new bums
leftrev.Tweenstormer: And you can't lose! If 5 will get you 10, 10 will get you 20. Yo can't lose!
klokwkdog: also we'd very early been talking about www.markfiore.com
llanwydd: brb
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: me 2
Dr. Headphones: fiore is a national treasure
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Except for making other peoples into American slaves. Oh, that's OK. We've got stealths and air craft carriers.
Bunnyboy: We don't call them bums any more. We don't call them at all anymore. No shoes and no phones.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: WC forever...
Dr. Headphones: he's like george carlin with a pencil
Bunnyboy: Merl: Ah, yes. Borgman is a wit, he is.
Bunnyboy: And a fine cartoonist.
Dr. Headphones: no shoe phones? i'd sell my sole for one ringy-dingy....
||||||||| Bightrethighrehighre walks away to The Sitting Room.
leftrev.Tweenstormer: I'd rather talk like rather.
klokwkdog: If I was News Hour, I'd run his cartoon every week, no matter what it cost
Bubba's Brain: Resistance is futile -- you will become one with the Borgman.
Dr. Headphones: tween: i will admit i like rather's down-home pontificating on erection nights
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Rest in pieces, McNeil.
llanwydd: just got an email titled "How to attract ladies" from somebody named Chick Hunter and I'm not too happy about it. I'll bet some of you have it in your inboxes too
leftrev.Tweenstormer: There's a joke about the Washington monument in D.C. There's an exactly sized hole in the ground. It's called the Martha Washington Monument. Hello Iraq.
klokwkdog realizes, having said this, that he can't see News Hour, since his PBS affiliate is too poor to carry it
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:17 PM and late as usual, it's The Tildsome Beet, just back from Billville."
Dr. Headphones: llan: probably won't make it past the spam filter, thank grid
Dr. Headphones: hi, tillie
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Welcome to the Monkey House.
llanwydd: I ought to get paid to read spam
Bubba's Brain: Hey, TB.
The Tildsome Beet: Allow me to introduce myself: Tildsome Beet at your cervix
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: cough cough
leftrev.Tweenstormer: It's a government job, and they're hard to...
klokwkdog: oops, gotta see the video on this MBE interview with "The Brazilian Girls"...soundin' hot...
Dr. Headphones: llan: you can get paid to read spam. just send me $99.95 (small unmarked bills in a brown paper bag) and i'll send you my program
Dr. Headphones: hmmm, beets in the cervix? kinky!
Bubba's Brain: Welcome, Mr Beet.
llanwydd: hello Beef. or is it beet?
Bunnyboy: ANIJAM was an collaborative animation short, in the style of the old "Exquisite Corpse"-style surrealist parlor games. Marv Newland of BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA fame comissioned a couple of dozen animators from several different countries, and had each animator run up about a 30 second scene, improv style. The animators only had the last frame of the sequence preceding their scene to go on. Wacky short.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Beets in the cervix...that's below the Borscht Belt
Dr. Headphones: if a sugar beet, it's sweet and kinky
The Tildsome Beet: That's Miss Beet to you, and thanks! glad to be here
leftrev.Tweenstormer: You've a favorite Firesign album?
Bubba's Brain: I can just hear Clara Peller now.. Where's the Beet?
Merlyn: is it on the web, bb?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:19 PM and late as usual, it's Woody One, just back from Billville."
The Tildsome Beet: yep, the sugar beet part is correct, sir
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Mine's "Everything You Know Is Wrong".
||||||||| At 10:19 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Woody One!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Dr. Headphones: she's not a favorite firesign album. at least i don't have one named "tildsome beet"
klokwkdog: bambi... was an all-time fave of mine. Saw the orig. in college...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Clara related to Aka Peller
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Woody, what's kept you?
klokwkdog: hey, woody
||||||||| It's 10:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| WCGuy - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dr. Headphones: i'm not a sir, never made it past E-3 in the USAF
llanwydd: hi one
Bunnyboy: lo woody
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: Then I outrank you..E-4
The Tildsome Beet: 'lo all
leftrev.Tweenstormer: What to do if there is an alien invasion...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Check their green cards
llanwydd: I was an A1C in the USAF too. what a drag
leftrev.Tweenstormer: I'm the matador!
Dr. Headphones: tween: skin, baste, broil
Bubba's Brain: Where do you hail from , if I may ask, TB?
Dr. Headphones: sgt. fong? i saw you in "the apples of iwo jima"
The Tildsome Beet: my fave fst album....icould be 2 Places; sometimes it's Bozos
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Muddy knees...
Bunnyboy: I gotta feed the locals, and wake this dog.
klokwkdog: that's part of Bush's platform for re-election, isn't it? let 'em in w/o a card?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: I was the guy on the wrong end of the flame thrower
Dr. Headphones: how can you have two favorite albums if you're not sure at all?
klokwkdog: enjoy, BB
llanwydd: mine is 2places
klokwkdog is old enough to have heard them as they came out, in hysterical sequence
The Tildsome Beet: Bozos is from whenst comes the Beet reference, as in "I'm the Whisperin' Squash...
Bunnyboy: nitey
Dr. Headphones: ah, a flame catcher! (as the ump says, "STEEERIKE ONE!")
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Welcome to your new wife...
The Tildsome Beet: ..and i'm the Lonesome Beet
||||||||| At 10:23 PM, Bunnyboy runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
llanwydd: where do you live, beet?
klokwkdog will defer to Josef Conrad -- as for his fave album, "It depends on the day"
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Flapball windows, easy spin through sidewalls...
The Tildsome Beet: in sugarbeet land...aka Minnesota
Dr. Headphones: josef? hey, you're not one of "them", are you?
Merlyn: I'm in st. paul, beet
Dr. Headphones: land of minnie lakes. i'm slightly east of you in michigan
klokwkdog: used to be, Ken
Merlyn: can I call ya joe beets?
Bubba's Brain: Ah... we have multiple Minnesotans....
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Ah, I once had a minnie pearl. They paid me to mix.
Dr. Headphones: you're in st. paul? necrophila AND sodomy. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
llanwydd: I don't know of any other midwesterners among us
The Tildsome Beet: yo, Merlyn! from the town with roads designed by herds of cattle! I love St. Paul
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Houston, we have a whitney.
klokwkdog: *&^%$ beet subsidies. no wonder Hershey's is going out of business. ten-cent Finnish chocolate bars made with penny-a-pound cuban sugar...
Bubba's Brain: I had a mini pearl... if they'd left it on the sea bed longer, it would have been bigger.
llanwydd: ah yes, michigan is sort of midwest isn't it?
Dr. Headphones: speaking of midwest: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040826/ap_on_sc/big_spiders_1
The Tildsome Beet: sugar beets in michigan too. Don't ask how I know this
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Michigan is where Faulker MS-222s come from.
klokwkdog: yeah, it's on the northeast coast of the Midwest, Ilan... ;-)
Dr. Headphones: faulkner MS-222? not sure what that is
Bubba's Brain: Ilan -- yes, I'm a Bloomingtonian.
klokwkdog: yeah, I heard some of that, spiders every 3 inches. at least they're not camel spiders
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Oh, yeah. I've got that address. 1600 Enron Street.
llanwydd: I thought Faulker was from Mississippi
The Tildsome Beet: from yoknapatawpha county, michigan?
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Bloombergs are perennial.
Dr. Headphones: nope, st. joseph county, michigan. we're almost ready for the aspirin harvest here
The Tildsome Beet: or wherever faulkner came from,,,duh...
klokwkdog: hopefully not in NYC, tween
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Thanks klok
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Agreed
leftrev.Tweenstormer: Not gouda... Certainly not.
The Tildsome Beet: ahhh, i remember it well. the advils were in bloom , and the motrins gimled in the wabe...
Dr. Headphones: those little plants are just loaded with orange pills. if only the rain holds off another few days......
klokwkdog: i still hope the networks do us a favor and televise the Rick Santorum speech to the faithful instead of these MOR types the Republicans ignore the rest of the time
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: The Cialas lillies are in bloom
Bubba's Brain: Meet my backup singers.. Levitra, Ciallis, and Viagra.
klokwkdog had wondered why drugs are so expensive...
Dr. Headphones: dex: yes, and they are standing up straight, too :)
The Tildsome Beet: such a strange flower. Analgesic, too!
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: Their little pistils are all engorged
klokwkdog: this motif is giving me a headache
Dr. Headphones: bub: they could replace channel 85's trio of urethra, clitora, and diarrhea
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bightrethighrehighre - dead from the fiddlers
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: I'm in the far northern part of the state of New York and I believe some others of us are not very far from me
The Tildsome Beet: huh ...you said 'engorged'
Bubba's Brain: Urethra Franklin?
klokwkdog: some other parts of NY?
Merlyn: I'm going to do some programming, might be back later...
||||||||| At 10:30 PM, Merlyn vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
klokwkdog: this continental drift thing is getting out of hand. wasn't that what Kyoto was supposed to fix??
Dr. Headphones: with the little antlers screaming "give me pollen or give me death!"
klokwkdog: happy code, Merlyn
klokwkdog: LOL Bubba
The Tildsome Beet: reunite gondwanaland. let's put a stop to this continental drift
Bubba's Brain: Merl has a code in his node.
The Tildsome Beet: if you catch my meaning, if you get my drift..
Dr. Headphones: pangaea for the pangaeans!
klokwkdog: free avalonia!
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Atlantic for the antler
Dr. Headphones: free? gimme two!
The Tildsome Beet: give me them, or i'm going over there!
klokwkdog: i think they want you over there. lots of yous...
The Tildsome Beet: yes, and veteran's day
llanwydd: strange not to see cat here. did you notice?
klokwkdog: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040901faessay83505-p0/larry-diamond/what-went-wrong-in-iraq.html
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ilan: I did and wondered about that
Bubba's Brain: Here's an ode I composed years ago, during my one semester as a Computer Science major: I think that I shall never see / A program structured as a tree / But one that's messy as spaghetti... / That is what I see before me.
Dr. Headphones: i didn't hear from cat. i knew doc was in vegas, but lili told you all before i had a chance
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: It scans
Dr. Headphones: not quite up to shakespeare's work, but then, nothing is
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Roger that Bacon
Bubba's Brain: Yes, that was in my logout -- it showed on various VT100's across campus.
The Tildsome Beet: tasty, those bacon bits
Dr. Headphones: hmmm, bacon. let's all eat some pork
Dr. Headphones: i just found where the "welcome" and "motd" sections are in linux :)
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ummmmmmm bits
The Tildsome Beet: ummmmmmm...bitty
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Congrats Ken: YOu can now wear the Red hat
Dr. Headphones: itty bitty ti...., er, not now, dr. h, there are ladies present
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: and laddies too
Dr. Headphones: wear it? hell, i eat 'em for lunch
llanwydd: I know a lot of shakespeare. I thought it was pretentious of him to put ten syllables in every line
The Tildsome Beet: isnt; there pork in moo shu? or is it moo goo? ..gai pan
Bubba's Brain: You got moo shoo in my guy pan.....
Dr. Headphones: i finally got my up2date to work tonight, and redhat goes down for maint. until tomorrow morning 1AM
Bubba's Brain: you got gai pan in my moo shoo
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hi Guy Pangea here for bitty pork
The Tildsome Beet: oh, please. no need to be so formal. were you about to say itty bitty titty committee?
llanwydd: there are different kinds of moo shu but only one kind of moo goo
Dr. Headphones sings: "oh, i'm an infidel, i ate pork for dinner!"
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Whoooo!
llanwydd: LOL bub!
The Tildsome Beet: i ask, because i have a group of friends who call themselves that.
Dr. Headphones: moo goo is sour cream?
Dr. Headphones: beet: i likes 'em big and i likes 'em little :)
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| leftrev.Tweenstormer - dead from the fiddlers
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
The Tildsome Beet: they send out framed poems to their friends when they have their first mammograms
Dr. Headphones: RIP, rev
Bubba's Brain: mammo, how I love ya, how I love ya, my dear old mammo...
Dr. Headphones: i've never had a mammogram. but the prostate......
llanwydd: get your shoo out of the pan
Bubba's Brain: Turn your cough and head.
The Tildsome Beet: when it's time for my semi-annual mammo, the hub will always say:
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Take off your blouse STOP Take off your brassier STOP..step up to the camera STOP
Bubba's Brain: moo shoos for industry!
Dr. Headphones: no head, just a finger (THANK GRID!)
The Tildsome Beet: "Got a pressing engagement, huh?" and then laugh like a hyena.
Dr. Headphones: i bet you have to be restrained not to hit him
llanwydd: moo shus for the dead
The Tildsome Beet: you got that right, Doc
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Where there's smoke there's a wok
Dr. Headphones: is moo shu the stuff you put on the tortillas?
llanwydd: only chinese tortillas
Bubba's Brain sings "You can tell by the way I use my wok, I'm a chinese cook, no time to talk..."
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: lol Bub
Dr. Headphones: i had that once, ran out of the big flat things well before the other stuff. i like it all to come out evenly
The Tildsome Beet: moo shu was the stuff they kept ordering on the bob Newhart show
Dr. Headphones: bub: stop strutting around in your tight pants when you sing that ;)
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: YOu need the zero sum tortillas then
The Tildsome Beet: more mooshu!
Dr. Headphones: ah, a bob newhart fan? my dad says it's too dry, but i enjoy them even now after 15-20 years
Dr. Headphones: and my mom never even smiles. i have no idea where i got my sense of humor. certainly not from my parents
The Tildsome Beet: well, yeah, I guess I am a fan; whenever i happen to see an episode it still makes me laugh
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: Maybe you *did* get it from them that's why they don't have one
Dr. Headphones: lol, dex! i think it's a sin to laugh, and i lost my religion years, nay, decades, ago
llanwydd: I bought one of his albums recently for about fifty cents. Called The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
llanwydd: It's very funny but very short
The Tildsome Beet: maybe you got it inspite of them. or to cope with them?
Bubba's Brain: Classic.
Dr. Headphones: llan: a good one, you should enjoy it immensely
llanwydd: very old too. 1962 or something like that
Bubba's Brain: Theres a phone call between ______ and ______. It goes somethign like this.
Dr. Headphones: maybe it skips a generation? my grandfathers both enjoyed fart jokes even though southern baptist
The Tildsome Beet: I have that LP! OMG, it's over 40 years old. Jebus H Krauss the Baron Krauss Von Espy, I am OLD!
Dr. Headphones: beet: you're not old unless you think you are. (jonathan livingston segall)
Dr. Headphones: i rummaged through my albums the other day and found josé jiménez
Bubba's Brain: You're only as old as the [person of opposite sex] you feel.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: The Mafia's after me (Steven Livingston Segal
Dr. Headphones: bub: then i'm ageless
The Tildsome Beet: That;s me in the corner. That's me in the spotlight, losing my religion too.
Bubba's Brain: I thought that I heard you laughing.
Dr. Headphones: sorry, couldn't read that, having rapid eye movements here
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:50 PM and late as usual, it's Johnny Piano, just back from Billville."
Johnny Piano: Ow ow ow ow
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hi JP
llanwydd: hey johnny
Dr. Headphones: hey jp, hope it came out ok for you
Johnny Piano: Hi (ow) gang
The Tildsome Beet: lo
Johnny Piano: sadly, Ken, it ain't out yet
Dr. Headphones: oops, apparently not
Bubba's Brain: Hey, JP
Dr. Headphones: that'll teach you to get (kidney) stoned
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:51 PM and late as usual, it's Bightrethighrehighre, just back from Billville."
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: A tooth problem?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bigs back
Johnny Piano: But I do feel a bit better - had a marvelous Pad Thai dinner tonight
Dr. Headphones: wb, biggie
Bubba's Brain: Its Mr Big!
Johnny Piano: No Dex, kidney stone!
llanwydd: welcome back big
Bightrethighrehighre: ....pseudo-condescendingly transmitting from th' Stinkin' Desert....Gracious Greetings and Sally-U-tations, fellow Bozo-Teers....!!!!
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Yikes
Bubba's Brain: You really Thai'd one on, eh, JP
Johnny Piano: Hi Big - thanks for the nice note
Bightrethighrehighre: thanks fer keepin my seat warm....
Dr. Headphones: i had a siamese cat sitting next to me at dinner, same country
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Make it a C Note
Johnny Piano: Damn right, Bub - and your little Wok and Wol song reminded me of it
Dr. Headphones: biggie, we not only kept it warm, we flushed when were finished also!
Bightrethighrehighre: good to share a moss w ya tonight, Johnnie!
Bubba's Brain: So grad I could help.
The Tildsome Beet: my my hey hey...wok and wol is here to stay.
Johnny Piano: I could stand a good mossing, especially with these stones
Bightrethighrehighre: I didn't inhale Mr. Phones....
Bubba's Brain: And Neil is forever Young.
The Tildsome Beet: with six you get egg wol
Dr. Headphones: jp: did the doc mention lithography?
Bightrethighrehighre: Paint 'em black Johnnie, you devil!
The Tildsome Beet: lol, bubba
Johnny Piano: Doc didn't mention, but I was aware of such, Ken
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: YOu mean like the bill of rights engraved on this kidney stone?
The Tildsome Beet: scuse me, bubba;s brain
Dr. Headphones: a friend had that done once, said he's much rather pass 200 grains of sand than one rock
Johnny Piano: It was a little Indian doctor - I kept wanting to order Tandoori chicken
Bightrethighrehighre: cinnamon girl- Neil's the best one-note guitar solist any body has ever seennnnn....!!
Dr. Headphones: dex: and yes, i mean that in the william blake sense of the universe in a grain of sand also
Dr. Headphones: biggie: one of the few neil young songs i really like
Bubba's Brain: S'all right. You can call me bub. Or you can call me bubba. You can call me brain, You can call me Zimme, But you know you gotta serve somebody..... Oops, got carried away.
Johnny Piano: ..."Mr. Piano, you want to see my etchings?"
Bubba's Brain: Zimmie.
Dr. Headphones: isn't that an arficially flavored malt beverage?
Bubba's Brain: NEVER call me Zima.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong is afk for refilling
Bightrethighrehighre: Dr. Headphones:I like it, too one of the first I ever learned on guit-tarr....
Johnny Piano: Actually played three shows last week while in severe pain, too
Dr. Headphones: hey, anyone here have any contact with ah, clem or bambi lately? haven't heard from either in over a month, and i've even sent private emails
The Tildsome Beet: must go now and retrieve my ESTU [Elder Surly Teenaged Unit] from his friend's house. Glad to meet you all! You give good chat.
Dr. Headphones: jp: no pain, no gain (turn it up to 11)
Dr. Headphones: later, beet, come back next week
Johnny Piano: Sorry I wasn't here earlier, Beet - come back soon!
Bightrethighrehighre: Skybird simulcast!! Skybird simulcast!!....
Bubba's Brain: You do too, TB, come (back) anytime.
llanwydd: who's been mean to bambi?
The Tildsome Beet: thank, i bleev i will. Night, all
Dr. Headphones: i'm always nice to bambi :)
Johnny Piano: But is the Skybird simulcast our Clem and Bambi?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Night ms Beet
Dr. Headphones: jp: two and the same
Johnny Piano: Well, what da hell is dat all 'bout?
Bightrethighrehighre: *ah clem* is Jim
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: and she's not bambi
Bubba's Brain: The walrus is paul.
Dr. Headphones: and starring fran as bambi :)
Dr. Headphones: i am the egg man
Bubba's Brain: TB's gone -- we can talk about her behind her back.
Dr. Headphones: coo coo ca choo
Bightrethighrehighre: I thought Jim was Phil....
Johnny Piano: received my new P&B CD in the mail today
Bubba's Brain: Wonderful!
Bightrethighrehighre: That was my rewbie phase....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Anyone notice on the NG that Fred Z and Firezine is/are back?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Johnny Piano: ...or make that my new old P&B cd...
Johnny Piano: Nah, really? Fred's back?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: yep
Bightrethighrehighre: which P & B, Johnnie...?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: that's right pal
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Dave into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 11:01 PM, then departs.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hey Dave
Johnny Piano: What This Country Needs, Biggie
Dave: evening all, school's back in session, YAY!
Bubba's Brain: Hey dave.
Dr. Headphones: 5 cent cigar?
Johnny Piano: Hey Dave
Johnny Piano: Dat be it, Ken
Bightrethighrehighre: Johnny: good stuff !! technibbbbballlll difficultbbbbieeeesssszzzz....
Bubba's Brain: Yep, town has filled up with students, wandering aimlessly.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: ruthlessly
Bubba's Brain: I wonder where Ruth is?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: She's in a bad partof town
Johnny Piano: I had the vinyl back in '75 when it came out, Big - but as each CD reissue has slipped out, I've bought 'em all AGAIN
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: Pretty soon you can get them in SACD 24/96 Surround sound
Dr. Headphones: and 24/7 endless repeats
Johnny Piano: Dex, tell me you're pulling my leg - that is you, right?
Dave: wait what is this?
Bightrethighrehighre: mytown has filled up with students, wandering aimlessly, running over all the presybeterian pedestrians, matriculating mothers....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: set the control for the heart, son
Bubba's Brain: Buy the SACD... rip it to MP3.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bubba why?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: Yes ..pulling
Johnny Piano: Bubba!! Sacrilege - gimme that full fidelity, baby!
Bightrethighrehighre: Arizona State University country....pedestrians DO NOT have the right a way....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: MP3 very lossy compression and encoding
Johnny Piano: I still think it would be worthwhile if Sony let someone license the quad mixes of Bozos and EYKIW for surround release
Bubba's Brain: Just commenting on the hi-fi lo-fi trend going on in music today... the industry's putting out higher and higher resolution medium, while the consumer is choosing a lower-fi alternative.
Bubba's Brain: It drives me nuts....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP" They proly would if someone made a reasonable offer
Bubba's Brain: and I'm already there.
Johnny Piano: Too many folks want to just carry their entertainment with them
Johnny Piano: Of course, when you examine the stuff that passes for entertainment for much of the general public, 'nuff said
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: I've got this 12 inch pianist I carry around
Bightrethighrehighre: I would like my entertainment to carry me with it....
Dr. Headphones: 12 inches? your wife must love it ;)
Johnny Piano: Me, I have portable swampland.
Bubba's Brain: Do you play?
Dr. Headphones: i play, but don't have 12 inches......
Johnny Piano: LOL, Big - clever and appropo
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bub: WHo you aasking?
Bightrethighrehighre: HAH HAH HAH!!!!....eck-RICIAN....!!!!
Dave: I just want to hear the stuff, I want to buy this set of Paramount recordings and as you know Paramount wasn't known for great pressings even when they were in business, I'm getting some Charley Patton and am listening to Blind Lemon Jefferson right now, sound quality isn't great but it's the music that matters
Bubba's Brain: You, or the pianist.... or perhaps duets... do you play with your pianist?
Johnny Piano: One-handed duets
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: I turn the pages and tune his instrument
Bubba's Brain: Where do you get sheet music?
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| The Tildsome Beet - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dave: I crawl underneath the rug and re-tune my piano
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: I got these itty bitty tuning forks
Bubba's Brain: TB, dead from plague?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Bub: Micro Fiche
Johnny Piano: It doesn't come in sheets, Bubba
Bightrethighrehighre: single-eyed snake aka-pella....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Clara Peller
Johnny Piano: Ooh, don't get me started on a cappella
Dr. Headphones: had thing on PBS last night, 8 pianos, 16 players
Bubba's Brain: I thought maybe it came in an extended fold out sheet in the center of the magazine....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: He does play the usual classical staples
Bightrethighrehighre: hamster jam....oopppsss....sorry....mr. gere....
llanwydd: acapulco?
Bubba's Brain: And marches... love those naval tunes.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cliff Diver's seranade
Johnny Piano: Hey Llan - whassup
llanwydd: whaz real?
Dr. Headphones: did a version of the star spangled banana that would have the boston police seething with anger
Johnny Piano: OH yeah...gotta speak NOW...
Bubba's Brain: Its that solo at the end that always gets them.
Johnny Piano: Spewed a trail of notes into the night
Dr. Headphones: i've spewed before too, but usually hit the trash can
Bubba's Brain: Milked that tune for all it was worth.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cream
Johnny Piano: Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Butter Field
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: And your monkey looks suspicious too
Johnny Piano: Monkey says "Spank me - I've been naughty!"
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Black Leather Fun
Dr. Headphones: latex for me, TYVM
Johnny Piano: Nick Exxon is lurking in the Shadows
Bubba's Brain: You are a bad monkey....
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "11:16 PM and late as usual, it's Merlyn, just back from Billville."
Merlyn: hello agin
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "11:16 PM and late as usual, it's TweenUs&Them, just back from Billville."
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Program's over I guess
Bubba's Brain: Back from the programs again...
Johnny Piano: Howdy Merl
llanwydd: welcome back moyl
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hey Tween
Johnny Piano: Tween, whazreal
TweenUs&Them: ald mac
TweenUs&Them: ald land zine
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: New raincoat
Bightrethighrehighre: howdy, Merlyn, howz the flash project going?
TweenUs&Them: crashes R us
Dr. Headphones: tween and merlyn, wb
llanwydd: which reel?
Johnny Piano: I only read online zines now...
TweenUs&Them: Real Me? Can you see it?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Yes, Virginia..there is a Reel
llanwydd: I read only good books
Bubba's Brain: A sanity clause?
Dr. Headphones: dancin' is for squares
TweenUs&Them: @nd real Glutomoto vs Mothra
Johnny Piano: Can you see the Real Me me me me me me me me me me me me me
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: Tough guys don't dance
TweenUs&Them: Ah, the 3rd World
Bightrethighrehighre: see me, reel me, cook me, eat me....
Johnny Piano: Dex, not unless they wear aluminum foil
Dr. Headphones: speaking of seeing, did you all hear about the worm/trojan which can activate your webcam and spy on you?
Johnny Piano: Do tell, Ken
Bubba's Brain: that worm has eyes....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hah! My Webcam is in the ladies room at work
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Dex, you perv.
TweenUs&Them: Every spam is worthy, each creature short and squat
Bightrethighrehighre: hackers love to watch....
Johnny Piano: Webcam at the bottom of a tequila bottle
Dr. Headphones: yes, so keep your AV stuff updated regularly and turn the camera toward the wall when not playing "exhibitionist" on line
llanwydd: where exactly is the third world and how far is it from the second?
Bightrethighrehighre: nudge, nudge, wink, WINK....
TweenUs&Them: I'll take wurm yessows
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: That's the only way I'd get a webcam.
Bubba's Brain: that worm has one eye.
Johnny Piano: Are we speaking in the third world or third person?
TweenUs&Them: And a side of bacon
Dr. Headphones: lili's back :)
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ilan The 3rd world is a lot closer than it used to be according to latest census data
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: It's a common problem.
llanwydd: wurm is not on yesshows
TweenUs&Them: Ribbit
Dr. Headphones: dex: give bush a week, he will redefine poverty as $200/yr like the outsourcing countries, then we will all be rich!
Johnny Piano: I thought wurm was part of Starship Trooper, llan
||||||||| Catherwood escorts cease in through the front door at 11:21 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Dex, it is here and growing.
TweenUs&Them: Songs of the silent (shhhhhh)
cease: wow. there are still folks here
Bubba's Brain: CAT!
llanwydd: which is not on yesshows
Bubba's Brain: Just folks.
cease: i thught you'd all be gone by now
Bightrethighrehighre: Yeahhhhhhh!!!!CEASE!!!!....
Johnny Piano: meow meow meow meow meow me-OW
llanwydd: wondered where you were cat
cease: hi Lili
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: The Norman Chubbynuckle Mime Chorus
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Cat! Good to ...uh.. see you. Or at least your name.
TweenUs&Them: Guest folks
Johnny Piano: Oh, duh - right - Yessongs, not Yesshows...
cease: i was at the first meeting of the B C Sustainable Energy Association
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hey Cat
Dr. Headphones: hey cat
Bightrethighrehighre: Cease: more CIDRE!!!!
cease: solar uber alles, as it were
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cat: Keep it up
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Hey, Cat, doc is in Vegas. I'm guessing that you were aware of that.
TweenUs&Them: Yessongs, of course. Wakeman rocks beyond humanity, wurm.
Johnny Piano: Cidre? What the hell - a Canadian?
cease: well, i have to drink this minorleague limey cidre called strongbow now
Bubba's Brain: But the meeting let out early... they couldn't sustain the energy.....
Bightrethighrehighre: res ipsa liquid-or, Cease!
cease: yes, he told me. have you heard from him? how's he doing?
Johnny Piano: Watch for Yes on PBS' Soundstage during September
llanwydd: wo hast du Deutsch gelernt, katze?
Dr. Headphones: ooh, jp, thanks for the warning :)
cease: no, it was only planned for 2 hours, 530-730. very interesting
Bubba's Brain: Yes? Noooooo.....
TweenUs&Them: Moraz on Gates, Yesshows.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cat: WCGuy was here and said keep watch for Oct 11 and January 28 and be near a radio
Johnny Piano: Full length version of show scheduled for DVD release later in the year (Yes 35th Anniversary)
llanwydd: Yes is going to be on television? Cool!
Bightrethighrehighre: YES will be in Phoenix in Sep, I'll be there....
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "11:24 PM and late as usual, it's Woody One, just back from Billville."
Dr. Headphones: jp: i have the 3 CD set, 3rd is all acoustic, very good stuff
Dr. Headphones: hey woody
Bubba's Brain: Its wood!
cease: should the radio be tuned to any particular station, dex?
Woody One: Yello, Fireheads.
Woody One: Doc.
Johnny Piano: Ken, that's the recent best of thang, right?
Johnny Piano: Woody!
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cat: He was pretty vague
Bubba's Brain: Yello? I'm orange.
Woody One: Bub,
llanwydd: there is some small chance I will get to see them in Colchester, VT on the 4th
Dr. Headphones: yes, jp. i think i have it on my server if you only know where to look
Bightrethighrehighre: Hi, Woodrow....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: I'm assuming it's something firesign but what, I have no idea
cease: hopefully we'll get something more definite on the firesign site or alt.firesign group in time to tune in
Bubba's Brain sings "Oompa loompa doopidy doo...."
Johnny Piano: I will peruse for the acoustic Yes stuff - I have all the other studio material
Woody One: Hi Biggy. We've met before.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Helooo Woodrow
Dr. Headphones: jp: i have several DVDs of their performances, but have only ripped one to computer as mp3 files
Bightrethighrehighre: yeah, aren't we fishin' buddies....?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: YOu know Cecil Stool
Johnny Piano: What up with the Wonka, Bub?
llanwydd: Yes Unplugged. That's an idea!
Woody One: Have you seen Doris Drane?
cease: lili, doc siad there was a chance the 2 of you might come out here for the firesign seattle show next year
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Isn't she out with Carol Clock?
Johnny Piano: The Yes Unplugged DVD is to street Oct. 5
Bubba's Brain: He's such a policy Wonk.
Johnny Piano: Same date as the next 4-disc MST3K Collection
TweenUs&Them: I'm a little fishi, and I'm so smart noone can catch me.
llanwydd: I can imagine Squire playing an upright acoustic bass
Woody One: Yes Unplugged?
Johnny Piano: Yep Acoustic
cease: swiming in the sea
Woody One: Wild. Interesting.
cease: maybe spaulding was trying to swim to cambodia
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: "cept for Jon Anderson who uses an octave doubler to get his voice down out of the infra-sonic range
Bubba's Brain: Fishi, fishi, fishi, fish.....
llanwydd: swimming in the topographic ocean
Johnny Piano: Obviously couldn't hold his breath, Cat
Woody One: That Stephen is the greatest.
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dave - dead from pneumonia
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bightrethighrehighre: Squire playing an upright acoustic bass with that high kick he does....Hmmmmm....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: This has been a Mercator Projection
Woody One: One of my favorites.
Bubba's Brain: on the wall?
Dr. Headphones: mercator died for your geographic sins
TweenUs&Them: Imagine. Rick is ambidextrous. Hands insured by Lloyds of London. Ambidexdrious Rex (python).
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ambirextrious Dex
Bubba's Brain: I got a Mercator Projector once, but all my movies showed upside down and distorted.
TweenUs&Them: May the fire burn bright.
Johnny Piano: I have never seen Wakeman live...saw the TALK tour - they were great, but have always wanted to watch ol' Rick
Dr. Headphones: oh, to be both ambidextrous and bisexual at the same time. think of the fun you could have ;)
Johnny Piano: Why, Ken - what are you thinking?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Ken: Something else you didn't get from your parents?
Dr. Headphones: saw rick a couple times in early 70s
llanwydd: I've seen wakeman twice
Bubba's Brain: I had a walkman in the 80's. Is that similar?
TweenUs&Them: Wurm. Dune. Pretty good choice for making a yes trilogy. (Starship Trooper-Yessongs)
Bightrethighrehighre: how many ambidextrous dyslexics does it take to wercs ni a thgil blub???
TweenUs&Them: I've seen Moraz x3 (Relayer)
Johnny Piano: I don't think you want to strap on a Wakeman, Bub...
TweenUs&Them: That's our sun temple.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Wakeman goes on walkabout....Covers Abo songs
Bubba's Brain: Hard to carry around, and no skipping protection?
llanwydd: I saw them in the very first (front) row at Madison Square Garden in 79
Woody One: Starship Trooper. Wondeful/
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Big: Appreciate the effort =))
Johnny Piano: Siberian Khatru for me, please
cease: it's a beaut
Bubba's Brain: No, its a mound.
llanwydd: hell of a place to discuss yes
Johnny Piano: No, it's a mound
Woody One: Siberian, quite the progression.
cease: i preferred wakeman when he was with Nice
Bightrethighrehighre: I saw them in the very first fourteenth row at Long Beach sports arena in 79
Johnny Piano: Break out the Mellotrons!!
Dr. Headphones: llan: would you like to talk about no? :)
Johnny Piano: That was Emerson, Cat
Bubba's Brain: Why, you feeling mello?
cease: fine version of My Back pages, though not nearly as good as Jarrett's
Woody One: And You and I.
llanwydd: wakeman was actually never with nice, cat
Bightrethighrehighre: starship trooper...!!
cease: you're right, johnny. i forget my piano players
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: I never forget my 12 inch pianist
Johnny Piano: I won't let you forget, Cat
llanwydd: I would have liked to see the nice
cease: good
Dr. Headphones: lethe beckons you
llanwydd: I like their sibelius rendition
Bightrethighrehighre: fun, round little fellow....
Johnny Piano: Maybe you should change the handle to "Swiss Knife", Dex
TweenUs&Them: Can you move it?
cease: i wonder if they had a brother band The Nephew
llanwydd: I'm a serious sibelius fan as well
Woody One: Saw the Union tour. In the round revolving stage with Wakeman and all.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: It *does* have a little compass i it
Bightrethighrehighre: ska-weeeeze him right there....
Johnny Piano: Actually, Emerson plays these days with the original Nice (other than the guitarist)
Dr. Headphones: finlandia to the rescue!
cease: i'd rather be libelous than sibelious
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: a pair of scissors
TweenUs&Them: Jeesseee, Union. I wish.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: a plastic thing to pick your teeth with
Johnny Piano: Nephew?! Gesundheit!
cease: i only know their version of MBP which i only heard once.
Dr. Headphones: look for the union label......
cease: is it blind?
TweenUs&Them: It can only be used for good or evil...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Finalndia brought to you by Polar Projection
cease: sounds like one of doc's fave vodkas
TweenUs&Them: The expergated version?
cease: i was thninking of The Zeppelin Tube at tonight's meeting.
llanwydd: finlandia gets played to death. Great piece though
Johnny Piano: The one without the gannett
cease: the firesign were quite obssesed with "power" in their early days, thank grid
Dr. Headphones: auk! auk!
TweenUs&Them: It's a mystery to me.
cease: i bet most of you don't know bergman's dream of the electrician, although it might be in one of their books
llanwydd: the 2nd and 7th symphonies are exquisite
Johnny Piano: WITHOUT the gannett, Doc
Bubba's Brain: The Union Label: Calories 300. Fat grams .... all of them. Contains: worker bees, mafiosos, wannabe politicians....
Johnny Piano: Oh, that reminds me - earlier this week there was a copy of Big Book Of Plays on eBay
cease: he spoke of it on the xmas eve radio free oz show in 1967.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cat: One of those moments of insight..when I realized that the line "Power is everybodies business" was meant seriously
Dr. Headphones: jp: what was bid?
cease: what a great introduction to Waiting for the Electrician which came out soon after
Bubba's Brain: e-bay, she-bay, we-bay. You pay.
llanwydd: I've had both those books
Johnny Piano: At the time, quite low - only a buck
TweenUs&Them: Arnold the aardvark goes quantity surveying. Sorry, we don't have it.
cease: they were Way into that back n the 60s dex, and i assume it is something they remain interested in.
Johnny Piano: Original edition cover, unlike my copy
Dr. Headphones: ah, just wait until 10 min before closing time
llanwydd: I lost the big Mystery Joke Book and my Big Book of Plays got stolen
cease: may be it was the Whole Earth Catalogue influence or something the lads ran into in europe or wherever
Woody One: I slither away. G'night folks. Yer beautiful. Let's do lunch. My secretary will contact yours.
Dr. Headphones: g'nite, woody, take care
cease: by wood
Bubba's Brain: Wow.. a belt buckle http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15661&item=8127694406&rd=1
Bightrethighrehighre: nite, wood
Woody One: Night kids.
TweenUs&Them: Bhree. Camulbear?
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cat: I'm thinking that "power" meant to them political power..you agree?
cease: i haven't been a kid for a long time
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: niGHT wOODY
||||||||| At 11:42 PM, Woody One vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Johnny Piano: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=377&item=6921588349&rd=1
cease: no dex, electricity
llanwydd: nite woody
Bightrethighrehighre: is that b b of plays still on e bay, JP?
Johnny Piano: Yeah, I just saw that Just Folks era belt buckle, Bub...
cease: bergman's dream was that the electrician we've all been waiting for finally comes and turns off all the power
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cat: I think maybe both meanings of the word
llanwydd: how about a little read less stir
Johnny Piano: The link be above, Biggie
cease: well that's true of all firesign.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Cat: Yes =)
Bightrethighrehighre: thanks, J P....
TweenUs&Them: I m l'trician. You can knot vote...
Johnny Piano: I vote for square knot
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Go Granny
Dr. Headphones: bowline for me
Bubba's Brain: frayed know, jp....
Johnny Piano: From Pasadena?
Bubba's Brain: knot
TweenUs&Them: Chuck D's grammy, maybe knot.
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: From Pasadena to Tucumcare
Bightrethighrehighre: my idiot friend cooked my "Giant rat" vinyl in the back window of his car in AZ, years ago....
Johnny Piano: Awlrighty then, howzabout Hangman's Noose?
Dr. Headphones: mmm, cooked giant rat with bbq sauce :)
Johnny Piano: Or for that matter, King's Nose?
llanwydd: only in arizona
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Pope's appendix
TweenUs&Them: Noose Knot here. We're going to vote for the mayor.
Bightrethighrehighre: rat tart!! call the church policcccceeee....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Hang 'em High
cease: someday i hope to hear Profiles in BBQ sauce, one of the mushroom plays i never heard
Dr. Headphones: i have a cooked copy of "lost in the ozone" by commander cody and the LPA
Johnny Piano: What's all this then, amen?
TweenUs&Them: Fine champaign from northern indiana.
cease: that was the play they were performing when rfk was killed, as he is in the play
Dr. Headphones: champaign is in illinois
Bightrethighrehighre: I'll be strong....I'll get over it....someday....
llanwydd: 'ere, is that rat tart?
Johnny Piano: Don't remind me, Ken...
cease: the good stuff is all in france, kend
TweenUs&Them: Look, thre's a little doggie door...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: 'ooh you callin' a tart Bobby
Dr. Headphones: sham pain for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends
Dr. Headphones: and don't even talk about sham poo ;)
Bightrethighrehighre: oysters, scared by chickens, freshly SHUCKED....
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Sam the Sham for Everyone
TweenUs&Them: Are, I'll bet you've got a big box to putin in har, har , har. (and some people wonder why women don't frequent the chat)
Johnny Piano: You guys just reminded me I need to transfer the 1980 Campaign Chronicles cassettes to digital sometime
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: Do it soon..then rip it to MP3 =))
TweenUs&Them: Uncle Martian?
cease: taylor jessen asked to compile a list of al lthe firesign i have. that'll take a long time
Bightrethighrehighre: friggin' matilda, friggin' matilda....
Johnny Piano: I will make a point to do something like that, Dex
Dr. Headphones: jp: cassette actually easier to do than LP, but sometimes hissy
Johnny Piano: Have done LP with much success, Ken - ProTools is easy to work with
TweenUs&Them: We'll do it hurricaine style...
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong wonders where that little cabin boy is
TweenUs&Them: again, the mac. 'cuse moi
Dr. Headphones: my main problem with LP to digital is that it goes through 45 feet of unshielded cable to computer, i have to filter the hum out
Johnny Piano: Do you like sea horses?
Dr. Headphones: cassette can plug into 3 foot cable at computer
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Sea horses for Sea courses
cease: give the nice paisely horsey some sugar cubes
Bightrethighrehighre: I got a new camera phone, guys- can I legally and unethically take pictures of girlie girls at "Christies Caberet or Minske's, for that matter....??
Johnny Piano: Ken, not a problem here - we have receiver in general proximity to the ProTools system...easy patch
Dr. Headphones: biggie: are one of those upskirt mavens?
llanwydd: horse corsets? You're insane!
Dr. Headphones: horse corsets made from whale bones while you watch
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: I'm not amy more insane than all those other equestrian under garment designers
Bightrethighrehighre: no, I wanna do it with their knowledge, think it makes 'em HOT...
Johnny Piano: Well, my tender innards say it's time to flee - however, I will recommend a new music CD for one and all - new Finn Brothers
Dr. Headphones: finn? i'm into norse myself ;)
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: I got Fins
Dr. Headphones: take care of the kidneys, jp
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: JP: Ultrasound
Johnny Piano: Don't make me laugh, it hurts too much!
cease: by jp
Johnny Piano: Hope to "see" you all next week...
Bightrethighrehighre: bueno saludo, JP!!
||||||||| At 11:54 PM, Johnny Piano vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Good salad JP
llanwydd: nite johnny
Merlyn: back to programming
||||||||| Outside, the 11:55 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving msr.Tweenway coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| At 11:55 PM, Merlyn vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
msr.Tweenway: 1994 mac, sorry
klokwkdog: happy code Merlyn
Dr. Headphones: must be that time of night. almost midnight here, and i'm starting to yawn. see you in september..........
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Well..about this time next week, the barbarian..er um Republicans will be at the door
msr.Tweenway: F7 Merlyn
Dr. Headphones: good luck to you dex! shoot one for me
klokwkdog: nite ken
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: Heh Thanks Ken
||||||||| At 11:56 PM, Dr. Headphones vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
cease: by kend
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: ..and I'll send you another copy
msr.Tweenway: (MIDI fan)
llanwydd: nite ken
msr.Tweenway: Oh, Afghanistan
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong: It's time to move my car...se y'all next time
Bightrethighrehighre: musical instrument digital interface....
cease: by dex
llanwydd: this wave of narcolepsy is taking us by storm!
cease: it'
cease: it's late in your part of the world
llanwydd: I think I'm going to be next, I'm afraid
msr.Tweenway: Storm Thurmounds? I love 'em.
cease: off you fly
Bightrethighrehighre: c ya Dexter
Bubba's Brain: still here, just looking something up...
llanwydd: see yall next thirsty
msr.Tweenway: Still raining, still dreaming...
cease: hope so, llan
Bightrethighrehighre: who's gotta little staying power....??
cease: sounds like a dave mathews song, mrs
Bightrethighrehighre: llanwydd: c ya in th snail mail, ka-beeeshhh??
cease: what are all these mexicans doing here?
msr.Tweenway: Nice tour, Dave. Not exactly what people are going to put up with. Geeeese....
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| TweenUs&Them - dead from the common cold
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
msr.Tweenway: Same address. Hmmmmm.......
||||||||| 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..
Bightrethighrehighre: somos durmiendo, orale!!!
cease: i seem to be fading. it was nice seeing some of you
msr.Tweenway: Just another government Tweeny. Wishing all the firesign well.
msr.Tweenway: 10:52
msr.Tweenway: condition green
Bightrethighrehighre: I get know kickkkkk....from champagne....
msr.Tweenway: 2010
Bubba's Brain: Hey, Sorry I got sidetracked. I thinks I will be going. Sieze you all next week.
||||||||| Bubba's Brain leaves at 12:08 AM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
klokwkdog: so Wakeman's version of "My Back Pages" is worth hearing?
klokwkdog: did Doc. T ever show?
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| cease - dead from measles
 ||||||||| llanwydd - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong - dead from dengue fever
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
klokwkdog: hello?
klokwkdog: hmmm. well, goodnight anywone ho comes bak...
||||||||| At 12:12 AM, klokwkdog vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Bightrethighrehighre: I drink therefore I SLAM....
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Arghhhh! I was on the phone and I missed everbody! Did Phil A. drop in at all?
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Oh, dear, I guess I will have to bail as well....
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Good night, all. Bon nuit.
||||||||| Bone-E-Boi sneaks in around 12:17 AM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| At 12:17 AM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Bone-E-Boi: It's too bad Phil Austin isn't here. I'm caught up in a brouhaha over in MiscWritingVille in which I've likened 527 TV commercials to psychological warfare.
Bone-E-Boi: I could use his expert opinion.
||||||||| 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, vet vs. vetsforbush disembarks at 12:20 AM.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Hey, Bone. You are absolutely right. A lot of the guys have gone, and I never saw Phil. But on the other hand, I wasn't here consistently.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: FWIW, I'm actually a Viet Nam era vet, and the 527's, especially put out by the Bush cabal, are just sickening and total bullshit. That's my $0.02.
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush: Okay, no one is saying anything, so I will bail and hit the shower. Goodnight again, gentlemen.
||||||||| At 12:25 AM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| msr.Tweenway - dead from The Plague
 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bightrethighrehighre: hey bone, are we it....?
Bone-E-Boi: Sorry. I'm finishing up the usenet post.
Bone-E-Boi: cojones. adios.
||||||||| At 12:43 AM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Bone-E-Boi!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bightrethighrehighre: ....the sigh-lence of a falling star, lights up a purh-ple skahhhh....
Bightrethighrehighre: and as I quafff another moss....I'm so low...n...some I cud cray-eee....
Bightrethighrehighre: *ow-ow-OW-WOOOOOOOOOO*....
||||||||| "I'm going to The Portrait Gallery" says Bightrethighrehighre, and leaves.
||||||||| 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:
betty-joe
Bightrethighrehighre
Bone-E-Boi
Bubba's Brain
Bunnyboy
cease
Dave
Dexter Swiss-Boat Fong
Dr. Headphones
Johnny Piano
klokwkdog
leftrev.Tweenstormer
Lili, vet vs. vetsforbush
llanwydd
Merlyn
msr.Tweenway
The Tildsome Beet
Turd Bird
TweenUs&Them
uh?
WCGuy
Woody One
 URL References:
http://borgman.enquirer.com/weekly/daily_html/2004/08/082404borgman.html
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15661&item=8127694406&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=377&item=6921588349&rd=1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040826/ap_on_sc/big_spiders_1
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040901faessay83505-p0/larry-diamond/what-went-wrong-in-iraq.html
www.markfiore.com


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