Weekly Firesign Chat Log

A Firesign Chat
10/28/2004

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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 October 28, 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 Mind Cloud disembarks at 8:51 PM.
||||||||| Mind Cloud, spotting Bradshaw, runs into Public Address System.
||||||||| Mind Cloud walks in and says "It's 8:55 PM, has anybody seen Nancy?"
||||||||| Mind Cloud sneaks away to Public Address System...
||||||||| Mind Cloud has arrived at the appointed hour of 9:13 PM.
||||||||| 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 Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto disembarks at 9:13 PM.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: You're Under Arrest!
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Wait, They're all gone
Mind Cloud: Telegram for anyone..do I have a taker
||||||||| Tweening Of The Shrew waltzes in at 9:15 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Sure
Tweening Of The Shrew: Yo...
Mind Cloud: Looking for a Gov. Tweeny!!
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: I'll take yr tellegram and raise ya 5
Tweening Of The Shrew: Just another gov't Tweeny, at your service. May I take your hat and goat?
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: oy
Tweening Of The Shrew: Ok, suit yourself...
Mind Cloud: My hat sure.....the goat stays with the front desk.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Well I had fun today
Tweening Of The Shrew: Is the circus in town, or what?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Do tell, Yam.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: They're running homeland insecurity cheques on local feeways
Tweening Of The Shrew: Route 95?
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: If you call em on it, you get a ticket
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Thruway
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:18 PM, dragging klokwkdog-IAEAsealed by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Tweening Of The Shrew: Dog man...
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: good evening, fellow citizens
Mind Cloud: Arf!
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: BTW, yr public servants don't believe they're accountable to you anymore
Tweening Of The Shrew: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: at least not in NY
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: they can't even account for themselves...
Tweening Of The Shrew: Wee, this close to the general erec, er election they're pulling out all the stops to get people afraid. Very afraid.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: I wasted my youth in the Military, to see this country come to this
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: I'm afraid of Bush; it worked
Tweening Of The Shrew: The only thing Bush's got going for him.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: I don't fear this fiction, it just pisses me off
Tweening Of The Shrew: Let's hope sanity prevails, but I'll bet you it's late December before the election is finalized.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Thiit liitle ape spawn will do anything to stay in power
Tweening Of The Shrew: Already all sorts of problems with the new voting machines. 50k + absentee ballots lost in Florida.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: I think all polls are a lie
Mind Cloud: The election is bought and sold.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: What a surprise
Tweening Of The Shrew: They are inaccurate.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Bush gets reelected, he may not have to ship our boys abrod for insurgent action
Tweening Of The Shrew: Already voted. One of the new machines, but supposedly Austin's got good ones.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: We'll have it here
Tweening Of The Shrew: Lawyers in love for at least a couple of months, that's my guess.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: sure
||||||||| 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 Bubba's Brain disembarks at 9:25 PM.
Tweening Of The Shrew: It'd be intersting to see where MoveOn and people like that go if Bush is re-elected.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Bubba...
Bubba's Brain: Hey, all.
Mind Cloud: Kerry has to win or I'm leaving the country!!! BTW hows your Bro.????Nancy's fine.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Well I'd say that would be the time to start enjoying our fine 2nd amenddment rights
Tweening Of The Shrew: A ha! A crab-eater among us! Dana's doing great. Healing fast.
Mind Cloud: cuse me Bubba....think I know the Shrewish one....missed your call
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:27 PM and cease steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Bubba's Brain: my call?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Decist...
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov
Tweening Of The Shrew: Mine.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: hi cat
cease: greetings bushies
cease: or maybe not for much longer
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Cat, Got a spare room for like 209 million or so of us?
Mind Cloud: Meow
Tweening Of The Shrew: Bubba's from Bloomington. We're talking about my bro who lives nearby in Nashville.
Bubba's Brain: ah ha.
cease: well we got a pretty big house, but dont know if we can fit all 209 million
Tweening Of The Shrew: MC's from Mary's Land.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yam - they have whole buildings empty for us. we just have to fit in-between the grow lamps
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=987
Bubba's Brain: How bout just the fire-heads, cat? Room for all them?
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: cool
Tweening Of The Shrew: A few million of us got together in my living room. We threw I Ching. Out the window...
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto may smoke what's under them lamps
Mind Cloud: Bay Bridges and hours of traffic on the Isle of Kent.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: vancouver uses 25% more juice than other cities its size...
cease: and into My living room
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Anybody got an I Ching?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Things secure in AC/DC?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yeah, they made a mess out of it with all that concrete, didn't they, MC. I can see the Golden Corral, but darned if I can GET there! ;-)
cease: nader on abc news.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Watch out for the Electrician there, dog.
cease: what a sad excuse for a human he's turned into
Mind Cloud: They messed up on Bay Bridge Repair and I'm still in the car...
cease: a parody of what he used to be
||||||||| "9:31 PM? 9:31 PM!!" says Catherwood, "doctec should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as doctec enters and sits on the couch.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: nice view, though, isn't it, MC
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: The I Ching Sez: The present is embodied in Hexagram 19 - Lin (Approach): There will be great progress and success, while it will be advantageous to be firmly correct. In the eighth month there will be evil.
cease: hey doc
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: if Bush re ups
doctec: if you're lookin' for me - better check under the sea - 'cause that is where you'll find me
Tweening Of The Shrew: If he's resposible for Bush winning the election, I say let's find a flagpole.
cease: pool halls closed tonight?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Yo, doc...
cease: i agree tween, and i'm in another country
Tweening Of The Shrew: Any predictions about the 9th?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: in Vancouver? breathe deeply and you're on another planet ;-))
cease: is that the election i ching, yammy?
doctec: cat: nope, just chatting from home (first time in a long time - usually i'm either at lili's having dinner around this time, or we've gone out for dinner and/or pool and/or a movie...)
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: http://www.facade.com/iching/personal/?UID=808173&Name=Anonymous&Query=What+happens+if+Kerry+Gets+Elected&Deck=coins
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: If kerry gets elected
cease: i'm gonna have to do just that, klok
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Y it is
doctec: evidence of my cultural inclinations - two new dvds i just bought: ingmar bergman's persona and sealab 2021 first season
||||||||| "9:34 PM? 9:34 PM!!" says Catherwood, "antoine giuseppe chang should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as antoine giuseppe chang enters and sits on the couch.
Bubba's Brain: Hey, Doc. LTNS (long time no see)
cease: oh, did you get that bushvs bush thing i sent you today, klok? a swiss friend sent it to me
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: http://www.facade.com/iching/
antoine giuseppe chang: good evening
doctec: sealab is my favorite these days
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: oi
cease: i thought it was hilarious, but couldn't figure out how to just send the link. i couldnt find it on google
doctec: hi bubba
cease: admiral chang, how goes the fleet?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yes i did cat, thanks!
doctec: things have been busy at work, but i saw your email the other day
Tweening Of The Shrew: Now there's ethnic diversity. Hey antoine...
doctec: figured we could talk about it tonight
||||||||| At 9:35 PM, Mind Cloud runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Bubba's Brain: Cool.
doctec: (now that i'm off the company firewall -grin-)
Bubba's Brain: he he he
Bubba's Brain: been doing various minor updates
cease: pass it around, klok. you know how to do that far better than i
antoine giuseppe chang: I'm llanwydd usually but I wanted to be somebody else tonight
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Don't bogart it
cease: are there any red sox enemies here?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Welsh/Chinese. Now there's a cuisine.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: you should be cchang then
Tweening Of The Shrew: Talk about some serious baseball...
cease: a friend of mine, who played Babe Ruth in my play Neal Amid, actually played for the red sox in 72.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Not me, I'm sox-friendly
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Yeah
cease: that wasn't serious, it was ebullient!
doctec: cat: i am glad for the sox, i think it's a harbinger of the direction the election will take
Tweening Of The Shrew: Sox the cat?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: if so, they will be shot with pepper balls
cease: i sure hope so, doc
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: the file is just a tad large, Cat
cease: i first wrote hopi. maybe they predicted it.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Pepper Balls-yr too young to think about those
cease: yeah i know, it tooka while to send you. that's why i wanted to just send a link but couldnt figure out how
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: well, if it came to you as an attach, you'd first have to PUT it somewhere to link to
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: http://mryamamoto.topcities.com/zappa/zappavsbor.htm
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: goddam Macris sold out
cease: i gather none of you are in swing states?
antoine giuseppe chang: I knew Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth was a friend of mine and...
Tweening Of The Shrew: Viva Zappa!
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: nope
cease: i was astonished/appalled to see michigan as even in the electral college poll site today.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: NYC lost because they hosted the RePOObliedupe convention
antoine giuseppe chang: New York is a pretty swinging state
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto is a swinger no matter what state he's in
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: ri will hold a festival 3 Nov at which they'll burn the 10 republicans discovered on election day...
cease: have the repubs supressed the detroit vote that much?
antoine giuseppe chang: and hang the mayor
cease: last week it was minnesota. no merlyn tonight? is he out campaiging?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: big article in The Economist last week about Great Lakes states alll being swing
Tweening Of The Shrew: I think they should let the Canadians vote in this one. After all, they're our most important neighbor to the north.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: i guess that includes Canada...
cease: i agree, tweeny
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: yep
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: that's not a neighbor, that's a colony. like Puerto Rico. we learned about it in school
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: http://mryamamoto.topcities.com/zappa/crew.htm
Tweening Of The Shrew: Whoa, there klok.....
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: also
cease: not quite, klok
Tweening Of The Shrew: Quite sure Quebec doesn't feel that way.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: they give us basic raw materials and we send back television shows, movies, and musical groups
Tweening Of The Shrew: More than a few really good musicians from CN, I do believe.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: I gave em 3 ears of on, they gave me 3 sitcoms
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: corn
cease: mcgill gave joni mitchell a doctorate yesterday. and she doesnt even speak french
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: gah
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: i have an assistant
cease: speaking of eninem, did you see his video? i never paid any attention to his music before, but this was quite good
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yeah, mcgill, good french name, that
||||||||| 9:46 PM: Elayne jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
antoine giuseppe chang: every few years Quebec votes on the secession issue. But they end up staying Canadian
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: oi
Tweening Of The Shrew: Am I missing something or is American television in a cultural free-fall?
cease: hey el!
Tweening Of The Shrew: Hey E...
cease: great pix of the leaves near your place on your blog today
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: america is in a fre fall
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: since 1948, Tween
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: actually, it's not free
Elayne: All taken with Robin's Olympus C2100, Cat. Really nice camera. I love being married to a pro-level photographer. :)
Tweening Of The Shrew: Don't worry, Pat Robertson will bring us around to the true path.
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: We're falling and we can't get up
cease: indeed, el
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yeah, anybody in the way, better watch out as America comes down on 'em ;-)
Elayne: I hit the blinding light this morning. Sun shining right in my eyes as I tried to turn from our driveway-road onto the street...
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: ow
cease: thomas frank is on pbs news. i'd never seen him before
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: welcome to fall
Elayne: Almost got me into an accident. Fortunately I have fast braking (and fast-breaking) reflexes.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yeah, kinda like seeing Ray Suarez for the first time
||||||||| 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 400tonsHDX Fong disembarks at 9:48 PM.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Gen. Frank is not a favorite these days.
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!
antoine giuseppe chang: hi dex
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: of George Bush he is
cease: this is the guy who wrote What's the Matter with Kansas?
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: an explosive personality enter
Tweening Of The Shrew: Your tax dollars at work.
cease: dex
Elayne: Hey Dex! Are you busy two weeks from Saturday? We want to take you out to dinner at Sharaku if we can get there early enough.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Dr. Headphones in through the front door at 9:49 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: those 400 tons have to be around here somewhere
Dr. Headphones: hello, dear friends
Tweening Of The Shrew: A, sorry, different guy...
Elayne: Hi Dr H!
Tweening Of The Shrew: Dr. H...
cease: good one, klok
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: is this the face that launched a thousand ships?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: E: Dunno will have to check with wife re: social calendar
cease: hey kend. how's it truckin?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: hey Dex, Ken
Tweening Of The Shrew: Dr. H & Yam, did you get the Eric Idle MP3?
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: The coppers thought it was in my white van today
Dr. Headphones: sure thing, it's a hoot (to use a dated expression)
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Y
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Ant: Who are you at other times?
Dr. Headphones: ants start as pupae and larvae
Tweening Of The Shrew: One PO'd Python...
Elayne: Sorry Dex, it's actually the 20th, not the 13th. Please do, thanks!
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Pupae and Larvae..one of the great cop-buddy-road movies
Dr. Headphones: michael powell will have his radio wings clipped in a few months (I HOPE!)
Tweening Of The Shrew: Grid willing, H.
cease: so many good things could happen if kerry wins, kend
Dr. Headphones: oops, i thought i was done in kitchen, need to go back for a few. carry on without me temporarily
cease: and you're in a swing state, oddly enough
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Klok: See we're on the same page or in the same munitions storage area
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: ok troops, at ease
Tweening Of The Shrew: Sad thing is that he was appointed by Clinton, I do believe.
antoine giuseppe chang: dex, I was llanwydd last week
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: So many bad things WONT happen if Bush loses
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: bang to you to, Ash
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Tween: That's because his daddy used to be an honorable man
Tweening Of The Shrew: Do doubt, Yam. Talk about cleaning up a mess...
Elayne: Well, Robin brought up a good point, he doesn't think there will be a civil war due to general laziness/apathy.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: where was Ilan last week, then?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Ilan: I emailed that story to you but it bounced..please msg me your email addy again
Elayne: I mean, we still have under 50% of the eligible folks in this country voting.
Tweening Of The Shrew: That's, no doubt...
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: I'm ineligible, I have a cell phone
Elayne: LOL, Yam!
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto: Tween, I figured :)
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: E - it would kill the wrong people anyway.
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Just eligible folks
cease: laziness prevents a lot of bad things from happening, and just as many good things
Tweening Of The Shrew: No matter what happens, I hope we have a voter turnout like hasn't been seen in decades.
||||||||| Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto exits at 9:54 PM.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: E - thing to do is boycott the big corporations; flatten 'em. no ak47s required.
||||||||| 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 400 Tons and Whaddaya Get disembarks at 9:54 PM.
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: ha
Elayne: Tween, we're already seeing it, lots of early voters...
Tweening Of The Shrew: I give up, whaddya get?
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get is a Yamamoto iteration
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: NOTHING!
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: BOOM!
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed is going to vote in a crowd; showing up early just makes you stand out against the background...
Tweening Of The Shrew: We own the idea of Yams.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: another day older and deeper in debt
antoine giuseppe chang: 400 tons of what?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: that's right! there was a buncha PETN stuffed in there, too
Tweening Of The Shrew: Referring to the stockpile in Iraq, I do believe.
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Wondered where those "insurgents" were getting all those roadside bombs
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: RDX and HMX, Ilan
antoine giuseppe chang: well, I own the idea of ideas
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: actually, many of the bombs appear to be 155mm cannon shells, not plastique
Tweening Of The Shrew: My ideas taste like pork.
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: I own ideas period
cease: red sox first team ever to come from 0-3 to win, and then sweep series, 8 wins in a row, another novelty, and we're all talking about other things?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Did you do that, LL?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: LOL, Tween
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: My bombs taste like pork
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: it's just a game, Cat; our lives are at steak down here for cssakes
Tweening Of The Shrew: Let's eat!
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: *we* own the idea of owning :*)
cease: that's chomsky's point. i think he's wrong
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: The exorcist owns the idea of posession
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Cat: And Pats with 21 wins in a row...Break up Boston
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: we are the world, to a first approximation
cease: actually he's wrong about a lot of things, particularly linguistics, but he's fairfly astute when talking us politics. kind of a gore vidal without the sense of humour
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: at some point, chomsky has to be wrong or the house goes bankrupt
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Chomsky is gay???
cease: i dont know who the pats are, i lived in califorinia under pat brown. reagan then took over so i moved to canada
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get hurries up and cashes in his chips
antoine giuseppe chang: did I do what, tween? I was away for a moment
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Cat: Patriots football team
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: oh boy, i can see it coming. back to worf-sapir, eh?
Tweening Of The Shrew: He does make some really good points, but I find him steering off the ramp from time to time.
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Lietenant Worf
Tweening Of The Shrew: Make my ideas taste like pork!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: add bacon bits
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: I own the idea of tasting like pork
Dr. Headphones: ok, garlic bread is toasting, all's right with the world
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Chomsky can be wonky
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: 10-4 Good Buddy
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yeah, 'way tooo far right, Ken
cease: didja all hear gore vidal doing shtique on maj report this evening?
cease: he's a regular rodney dangerfield
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: his lingo stuff i like better than what came b4
Dr. Headphones: wanker and wonker, attys at law?
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Yr garlic bread will taste like pork
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Dave in through the front door at 10:02 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Darn cease, wish I'd caught that one.
cease: what, 3 more shopping days til your election?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Dave!!!!
cease: hi dave.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Yo, Dave...
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: oi
Dave: hey all
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: and oy
Dr. Headphones: 400: probably, since it's sitting above some pork steaks. ok, all is done, i'm gone for a few again while i stuff my face
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: i mean, are you gonna believe a fireman who does linguistics on the side, or a nobel laureate?
cease: i think the shows are archived on air america place. i'm prfetty sure they'll repeat it this weekend
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: 400: Gimme a suacy oy
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: I had a nice Pizza and Creeam of spinach soup
cease: i see colorado trending towards kerry. have you been out campaigning, dave?
Tweening Of The Shrew: If you want a real linguistic adventure, go drinking with a Scotsman...
cease: that's impossible, 400
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: aye
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: Republicans have 39 words for "cheat"
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: nothing's impossible
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: I agree
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: All start with "Bush"
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: that's metaphysically absurd
antoine giuseppe chang: ever had linguisitcs with pesto? Delicious
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Clam sauce
cease: i'm diving into some wonderful local product, and imagining i'm sharing it with satch and spaceman lee
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: It's pestolicious
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: not with octopus
Dave: hey all, doing a lot of things as usual so if I get sick don't bother cheering
doctec: sory i haven't seen so attentive, got two other extraneous chats going at the moment (i get online on a thursday and suddenly my dance card is full)
doctec: hard to be in three places at once...
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: May I have the next Tarantalla
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Not for me, I'm an indian
cease: get Packin!
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Tribal Romance
antoine giuseppe chang: when you're not anywhere at all
Tweening Of The Shrew: And a one, anda two, anda three - when you're not anywhere at all...
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Bush sees spiders, Iguanas and Terroristes-goddam brown acid
cease: that's from when dylan thought he was a writer
Tweening Of The Shrew: May I have the next tarantula. Hear they're delicious barbqued.
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Crunchy
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: May I suggest the surf and turf...Sea Legs and Tarantula Legs
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: a child's christmas in whales
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Snack sized at that
Dave: dylan is a writer, better than springsteen
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: faint praise
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Yes Noah there is a Santa Claus
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: damn it
Tweening Of The Shrew: Tarantula wings at the bar?
cease: songs, yes, dave. books, well, i havent read his new one but tarantula was unreadable
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: neither can match Jimmy Page
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: You et 8 per spider, that's a value for $
antoine giuseppe chang: anybody watch the eclipse last night? Or don't you get cable?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Huh?
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: I lookeed out the window
cease: yes. it was great
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Ant: Did it arrive yet?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: "if there's a bustle in your hedgerow"...
Dave: I never read it Cat
Tweening Of The Shrew: The song on Dark Side of the Moon is pretty good :)
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: it just went on without me, chang
cease: you have better things to do with your time, dave
Tweening Of The Shrew: It's probably a hedgehog. Classic.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: i was busy trying to get some pizza at the concession stand
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get looks for hedgehogs
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: i know where sid barrett lives...
cease: they finally conceded?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Don't eat the purple pizza
Tweening Of The Shrew: He still making music?
Dave: catherwood is on speed again it seems
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Tarantuals and anchovies for me, please
Tweening Of The Shrew: Or the yellow snow.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: think he's kind of out of it
antoine giuseppe chang: yeah, I got it dex. Thanks!
cease: and beat the queen to perth?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Ant: =))
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: there, now Zappa was a poet
antoine giuseppe chang: I'll bet syd doesn't know where he lives
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: And his words work so well in other places
Tweening Of The Shrew: What a musician. Lord what talent.
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: ergo: BOR and Anne Coulter doing "Crew Slut"
Tweening Of The Shrew: Is that him actually laughing on Dark Side?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: dylan was kinda writing a musical blog about his life; listen and it's kind of like Being John Malkovich
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Twseen: Don't believe so
cease: the new dylan autobi, klok?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Coulter, now there's a wonderful piece of womanhood.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: no, his whole discography, Cat
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Annorexio coulter?
Dave: I just never could listen to Zappa, just...never appealed to me
cease: good point, klok.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Saw her on Bill Maher. Pretty funny.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: from Suze Rotello thru his various divorces, affairs, conversions, short blocks, etc.
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Viciously Stupid
cease: but i stopped listening to him after Desire. Black Diamond Bay the last dylan song for me. i know he keeps chruning em out, but never heare anything i cared to hear twice
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: each album is kind of "What I did last summer"
antoine giuseppe chang: dylan hasn't had anything serious to say in many years
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: I read half of "Treason"
Tweening Of The Shrew: Opinionated, ignorant, AND published.
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: I'd sooner read Kant or Plato
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: he said enough to begin with to get by on
cease: is he still born again? or did he die?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: 400: then you are only half misinformed
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Let's not forget insensitive
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Cat: He dies every night
Dave: true, but his early stuff is still good, Dylan's, but I'm still more in to the great Phil Ochs more, cat you and I have talked about him
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: he's probably hanging out with the kaballists now
antoine giuseppe chang: I agree cat. BDB is the best song on the album
Tweening Of The Shrew: Reminds me of the skit on TV or not TV "misinformation".
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Zappa was right "Girls, you can be an asshole, too"
cease: yes, i was a fan of phil's when he was popular. that was long ago
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: who won, tween
cease: i was really into music in those days.
||||||||| 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 Mr. Motion disembarks at 10:15 PM.
Tweening Of The Shrew: She had that Camarillo brillo...
Mr. Motion: Brrraaaaa Motion is here people have no fear!
cease: and then nothing since then, chang
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: miss information was our winner
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: bad poetry set to music or bad music expressed as words; take your pick -- lotsa poetry sucks, too
Mr. Motion: Flaming out along her head?
cease: not thaqt i'd heard
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: Here Mendocino Beano
Tweening Of The Shrew: Vroom, vrooom...
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: music is the soundtrack to my life. some songs i like. some songs i don't like.
Dave: agreed there klok, I like to write it but some of it is like, what the fuck is he talking about
Tweening Of The Shrew: I believe you are quoting Tom Hayden about the soundtrack.
cease: i mostly listen to people talking, preferrably on radio or tv. music is basically something i want to add visuals to these days
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: some tunes bring it all back home like being kicked in the head by the whole chorus line at Minsky's
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: I like the music fine, the life isn't so great sometimes
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: i listen to everything; unfortunately hear little of it and understand even less...
cease: dave, i was thinking of you when the played moondance on the radio this morning. usually i turn all tunes off, but i loved that one long ago, and you said you were into morrison
Tweening Of The Shrew: It could be worse. Bush is re-elected and we invade Iran.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: life is what happens while you're making other plans
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong makes plns for another drink
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: with what, Tween? The Boy Scouts have already been called up.
Mr. Motion: We invade Iraq on Sunday !
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: obviously Dex prefers the plan view...
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: did it already
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: actually, if you think about it, Iraq has invaded us...
Tweening Of The Shrew: No, no. We get the Coast guard off their boats and call up the veterans of foriegn wars...
Mr. Motion: Practice makes perfect, then we invade Iran on Monday...
cease: i think iran would kick america's ass, and they'd do it with iranians living in the us
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: been there, done that?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: those are on the Shah's side, Cat
cease: north van is largely persian. they all have family in the states
antoine giuseppe chang: then we can invite over a bunch of immigrants and make WMDs
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: and south Van is all siamese?
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Klok: That makes me a plan tangenet
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: LOL, Ilan
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: Dex - groan
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Klok: Groin
Tweening Of The Shrew: Which is exactly what Iran is doing now. Doubtless at a fevered pitch with their own Manhattan project - and I'm not talking NY.
cease: good one, llan
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: do not beat me over the head with obscure English history on the Thursday before a major Presidential election, Dex!!!
cease: first we take manhattan....
Mr. Motion: I'll take Manhattan ...
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Bush plans to drop 40,000 copies of "SHort People" on North Korea
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get: That'll cost ya $24
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: did Dex make his Manhattan yet?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Speaking of poets. Love that song, among others.
antoine giuseppe chang: Mr. Motion! How are the Multiple Rebendables?
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: according to what I heard on "Weaponry" Tue nite, Cohen has a new album out, spozed to be good
cease: they'd rather have Naked Lunch. ANY lunch
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Vato: The idea is to piss of kim
Mr. Motion: With a little A1 sauce they're yumy.
||||||||| 10:23 PM -- 400 Tons and Whaddaya Get left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
cease: the songs will be when sung by others, klok
Tweening Of The Shrew: What, new mixes of unreleased material? Quite dead, you know...
Dave: I love that song Cat, the Leonard Coin or however ya spell it tune,
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Dave: Cohen
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: Cohen is dead?
Mr. Motion: Cohen Waiting for the miracle...
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: yep, coin of the realm
cease: cohen ? no, hes very much alive. just celebrated his 70th, on the raido a lot here
Tweening Of The Shrew: Everybody Knows is also a great Cohen tune.
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Like a Bird on a high tension wire
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: but then, he has to be, right, Cat? ;-))
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: Cohen? Canadien eh
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: In Canada, they have to, Tween
Tweening Of The Shrew: Leonard Cohen? Could swear he died years ago. If not I'm very glad. He gave a great concert on Austin City Limits.
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: nasty Montrealer, too
Mr. Motion: Ah yep a hoser...
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed: I'm so glad, I'm glad...
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong: I'm glad, I'm glad
||||||||| klokwkdog-IAEAsealed says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, klokwkdog-IAEAsealed exits at 10:26 PM.
||||||||| 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-Mossadeq'ed disembarks at 10:26 PM.
cease: there was someting on radio about him fucking judy collins and janis joplin while he lived in nyc. they all wanted to sing his songs
Mr. Motion: Where'd all the kids go???
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:26 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| 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 Al Qaqaa Fong disembarks at 10:27 PM.
antoine giuseppe chang: I've only bothered to watch ACL once. When Chet Atkins was on. He was amazing!
Tweening Of The Shrew: Nice revolving door here...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: gad, bedeviled by this doppelganger wherever me go
Tweening Of The Shrew: Wonderful venue. Only problem is they won't sell tapes of the show.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: shoes for government! shoes for industry!
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: More than two can play that game my friends
Mr. Motion: You're twice the fun Klocck!
Tweening Of The Shrew: There's two of everyone but me!
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: the life of the party is alive and well in Mexico City
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: Tween: Just cue the organ and press that little chromium switch
cease: you're in mexico?
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: South of the Border.....
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: ...down Oaxaca way
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: i'm in 7th heaven. SOMEBODY TURN THE LIGHTS ON SO I CAN GET OFF THIS *#$#& SET!!!
cease: i'm north of al borders
Tweening Of The Shrew: Hope the phone service has improved in the last decade or so. Guess you're a testimonial.
Mr. Motion: Oaxaca Gold Yum Yum
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: Nothing but Amazon eh Cat?
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: no, you're north of US border
Dr. Headphones: pork steak gone the way of dead animals, i'm back at the keyboard again
cease: shoes for the dead
Tweening Of The Shrew: Turn your head and say Oaxaca.
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: Kend^: Keep the greasy side up good buddy
Mr. Motion: Goses in tight Shrew...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: look away, look away
Dr. Headphones: yep, you qaqaa-head :)
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: I *am* the head Qaqaa
Mr. Motion: I head the Qagaa department...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: bring me the head of Alfredo Qaqaa
Tweening Of The Shrew: And the president of the district.
Dr. Headphones: i *know* where the explosives are hidden: el-poopooie
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong sings;"Look for the Qaqaa lining..."
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: LOL
cease: Queequeg, have some qat qat
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: a little bit of Al Qaqaa is coming to you soon...
Dr. Headphones: dex: i damned near qaqaa-ed in my pants driving yesterday. close shave, missed another by a whisker
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: ..."whenever UN Inspectors get in the way"
Mr. Motion: Dex you're beginning to fade away...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: get thee a hill-holder
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: old fongs never die...
Dr. Headphones: "i dreamed i was joe hill last night....."
Tweening Of The Shrew: What do you drive, Dr. H?
Dr. Headphones: saw, not was. damned lysdexic fingers
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: Odd, I only see my second char on the list of occupants
Mr. Motion: Dr. did you do her nibs?
Dr. Headphones: shrew: it's a freightliner. old one, '96
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: dyslexics have more fnu
Tweening Of The Shrew: That wouldn't have been a fender-bender, eh?
||||||||| 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 10:36 PM.
Bunnyboy: lo dere
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: mick jagger is Ned Kelly
Bunnyboy: Ready, Set...VOTE!
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong: Hey Bunny
Tweening Of The Shrew: Follow that rabbit!
Mr. Motion: Lo BB
Dr. Headphones: uh, no, more like a fender-cruncher
antoine giuseppe chang: hey bunny
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: lo' b-boy
Dr. Headphones: hi bun
cease: hey bun
cease: dems gonna win wash?
Tweening Of The Shrew: What engine, Ken?
Dr. Headphones: big yellow one, tween. it has the standard alternator, air compressor, and turbo
Bunnyboy: Dex: SCTV V.2 yet?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Used to help make Cummins Diesels, just wondered.
Dr. Headphones: tween: i don't know the diff between them. i will look next time we do a vehicle inspection and try to figure it out. being yellow, i'm thinking cat, maybe
Dave: anyone trust me to drive anything?
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed makes mental note to spec. Allison on next rig...
||||||||| 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 (no alternative) disembarks at 10:39 PM.
Dr. Headphones: lol, dave, yep, climb on in, good buddy, and take her for a spin
cease: we hope not, dave
Bunnyboy: I am thrilled with all the SCTV material I HAVEN'T seen before. As memory serves, I was starting college during the last 2 NBC cycles of SCTV, and wasn't watching any TV at the time. Joy!
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: sure Dave, I trust you
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Bun: Not yet
Dave: if it's a woman, no problem? specially the one I'm with
Tweening Of The Shrew: At the salt flats? Ray Charles did it...
doctec: sorry, just wrapping up the other chats
doctec: now i can turn my attention here again
doctec: bb: i saw that sctv v2 was out
Bunnyboy: lo doc
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: drive anything you want as long as you're 1000 miles from me ;-)
Tweening Of The Shrew: Heees tuuuurrrning.....
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Don't point your finger at me daddy-o
Dr. Headphones: slowly the attention turns. step by step......
doctec: will have to put both vol 1 and 2 on my xmas wish list
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: (DT makes it sound like the Gaze of Sauron...)
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Where's Merlyn tonight?
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: one from Column A and...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: lurking somewhere, no doubt (sorry Gwen)
Bunnyboy: doc: I'm catching up on vintage NBC-era SCTV eps. Vol. 2 was released a couple of weeks ago.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Early Middle Kingdom pottery..the Glaze of Suaron
Bunnyboy: (sings) Hey, Giorgy!
Tweening Of The Shrew: SCTV can be really funny.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: ming the magnificent
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Tween: Sctv is imho the best ever sketch comedy show that ever was
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: each vase now comes with a real hobbit fossil inside
Tweening Of The Shrew: What'd y'all think about the second song on SNL last weekend?
Bunnyboy: There is a purported plan to put ALL the SCTV material out, at some point, including the early syndicated eps, after the NBC stuff.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: Ernie Kovacs was not bad, Dex
Bunnyboy: Vol. 3 is slated for January.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Klok: Do you have any idea how much that vase is worth today?
cease: maybe python, dex. but there were a lot more sctvs, as i recall
antoine giuseppe chang: klok, when you mentioned Sauron, it reminded me of a question that's been bugging me to death lately. Where is Middle Earth? Did Tolkein ever say? Or did Peter Jackson?
||||||||| 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 10:43 PM.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: was that the one by In Sync, Tween?
cease: yes, kovax was great
Mr. Motion: Merl!
Merlyn: I'm just popping in to say I can't stay long
Merlyn: hello, I must be going
Tweening Of The Shrew: As if in answer...
Bunnyboy: Tween: Sounded an awful lot like the first one. *snicker*
Merlyn: (playing GTA san andreas)
cease: in some other where
Dr. Headphones: yo, merl! howzzit gwine?
doctec: hey merl
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: was it on Price is Right last night, Dex? or Antiques Roadshow; missed both of them dealing with the local election
Bunnyboy: lo Merl
Merlyn: Unless somebody has something specific they need to ax me
antoine giuseppe chang: hey Merl!
Tweening Of The Shrew: Sync had nothing to do with it, klok :)
Merlyn: doc, know anything about podcasting?
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Klok: Kovacs was great but SCTV again imo was better, because of the group writing
doctec: i'm pretty maxed too
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: give that man an axe
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: Kovacs couldn't use group writing due to Hoover -- any group of more than two writers could be arrested
Merlyn: you say axe, and I say ax, you say potatoe, and I say you're dan quayle
Mr. Motion: Merl whats the deal behind podcasting? They said I needed a new puter to see it I have OS 9 but need OS 10 to run it?
Dr. Headphones: praise the hoove!
cease: i only have half and axe. i had to split it with the set designer
Merlyn: see you next week
Bunnyboy: doc: I'm a happy pig, these days. Twiddling with Gigastudio 3 and Sonar 4 Producer Edition.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: who you callin' a dummy?
doctec: the only reason i haven't already snatched up the sctv stuff (same reason for not getting python dvds) is i taped all that stuff and have seen it numerous times
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: nite Merly
Dr. Headphones: bye bye, mr. merlyn
Merlyn: motion, it looks that way. I still have OS 9 and I couldn't find anything that ran on it
Bunnyboy: brb
Bubba's Brain: here I come to save the day.....
cease: merl. hope we see you in kerry's america then
doctec: i got a kick out of the gigastudio demo rodriguez stuck on the 'once upoin a time in mexico' dvd
Mr. Motion: Bummer!
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: it'll be like Casablanca at MIT, with the audience shouting out the dialog lost in the many splices...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: good one Cat
Merlyn: hey cat, who says we'll know by then? That's only 2 days after the election
Dr. Headphones: play it, klok
Merlyn: bye again...
Tweening Of The Shrew: Unless it's extremely clear who the winner is, I dare say we're talking December.
||||||||| Merlyn says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Merlyn exits at 10:48 PM.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: that's right, Mr. M -- the new H3 Hummer is coming soon! More fuel-efficient. More intimidating. Get your new urban assault vehicle now.
cease: oh we naive canucks
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: while they last, a free Karen Hughes targeting kit with every new H3
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Naive canoes
doctec: bb: as for me, i'm basically working in reason & adobe audition (formerly cool edit) - have not had the time to really delve into all the other new s/w i bought this year (ni komplete, ableton live 4)
Mr. Motion: Give me two Klock!
Tweening Of The Shrew: THere's one bigger than the Hummer. Think made by International. Stands 9 feet tall.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: just go to the sign of the great glass Quonset, Mr. M!
Dr. Headphones: tween: saw that on the web. don't think i will be buying one for myself any time soon
||||||||| It's 10:50 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Ken: Why down size?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Why not, Ken, you could probably tow the Peterbuilt with it...
Mr. Motion: Oops gotta go keep'em flying...
Bunnyboy: doc: The big, big thang with Gigastudio 3 is that it's finally Rewire compatible.
doctec: btw, i wrote myself some rudimentary blogging scripts so i can start updating more regularly - http://www.doctechnical.com/xsb (XS Baggage)
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: Mr. M: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/automobiles/27auto.html
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Go to press Mr. Birdseed
cease: hey kend. randi rhodes used to be a trucker, told tales of it on her show today. only job she could find to pay her hospital bills
Dr. Headphones: wow, cat, didn't know that. maybe one day i'll have tales to tell
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: does it have an RSS feed, DT?
antoine giuseppe chang: So where is Middle Earth? Anybody know? I won't ask again if it's an annoying question
Bunnyboy: And has (theoretically) unlimited voice count, in the Orchestra edition...taking hardware limits into consideration.
doctec: bb: yeah, more & more apps are doing the rewire thing - good to see
Tweening Of The Shrew: Ex-Air Force too, eh?
cease: she is a tale spinner
doctec: klok: no, not yet
Dexter Fong (no alternative) wonders if Kend^ can back up that big rig =))
Tweening Of The Shrew: China.
doctec: i'm going to have to look into what it will take to set up rss for my blog
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: reverse is not synchromesh, Dex
Bubba's Brain: A guy hired me recently to help him install Movable Type bloggin software (since I knew enough PERL to do it).
doctec: since i'm doing it all as a DIY thing
Tweening Of The Shrew: No, that's the Middle Kingdom...
Dr. Headphones: dex: yes i can. i did 200' straight back, have almost mastered the "back into dock 90 degrees from street" maneuver
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Ant: Somewhere between Upper montclair and Lower Mongolia
antoine giuseppe chang: Good. That eases my mind. Now I know the Chinese won't fall off
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: i was just teasing, DT. Been playing with Firefox's new features
doctec: tryign to stay away from pre-packaged s/w (DIY is more fun - it's like having a heathkit website)
Dr. Headphones: klok: nothing is synched on that xmission
Bubba's Brain: true...
Dr. Headphones: i have learned the joys of double clutching
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Doc Tech: Heathkit =)))
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: Ken - it's when you see a wooden mallet on the dash that you decide to try a different rig...
antoine giuseppe chang: I thought Montclair seemed rather foreign
Dr. Headphones: many truckers to carry a wooden mallet. use to check inflation on tires, called a tire billy
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: sigh. this is where all the old-timers admit they built their own color tv...
Bunnyboy: Yeah, part of me (the small, dark part of me) wants to pick up EVIL GENIUS, but I don't even have time to parse out with the software I already have.
Bubba's Brain: I was amazed by the complexity of the template tags -- as complicated as some computer languages out there.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Klok: lol
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: news to me, Ken
Dr. Headphones: klok: only kit i ever build was electronic analog computer. used pots and switches to become crude and/or gates
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: on logging trucks, it used to be employed on the transmission
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Welcome to Andor; may I see your instruction manual...please
Tweening Of The Shrew: A couple of Mark Fiore flash animations, for anyone who's interested: http://www.markfiore.com/animation/days.html
Tweening Of The Shrew: http://info.sierraclub.org/c.html?rtr=on&s=arz,953y,o7l,kowy,9m2f,8gk0,mckn
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed never built a TV, but built an Eico reel-reel tape recorder
Dr. Headphones: "insert tab A into slot B"
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: Fiore was interviewed on CBS Evening News last Friday
||||||||| 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 To Busy to Thunk-up good name disembarks at 10:56 PM.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): I bought slobby a Tab and he didn't buy me back
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: ezzactly, Ken
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Hi
Tweening Of The Shrew: Really? How'd it go?
Dr. Headphones: damn, i wish i had seen fiore
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: he's ex-cartoonist for San Jose Mercury News
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Happy Halloween and/or New Years
Tweening Of The Shrew: Thunk...
Dr. Headphones: hi, busy
Bunnyboy: Omigod! IMDB sez that NECROMANIA, the "lost" 1971 Ed Wood swan song, has been located. Oooooh...
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Hiya TB
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: no clue though as to his funding. that site can't be cheap
Bubba's Brain: I'm drinking a Tab right now -- what a beautiful drink... for beautiful people.....
Dr. Headphones: is tab still made? haven't seen one in decades
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: so, are you coming from 16-bit mode or 32-bit mode, Thunk?
antoine giuseppe chang: three new words in Turkish: Taffy, coffee, penguin
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Bub: You've never been more beautiful
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Oh, I'm sorrry, I meant Thunkided.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Not since cyclimates were banned.
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Did you see the article in The New Yorker?
Bubba's Brain: Marsh and Kroger's here in the midwest have it.
Dr. Headphones: damned lab rats.....
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed will only endorse Squirt, or its evil semi-grapefruit diet-demented twin, Fresca
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Kroger's 6 pack of yogurt for $2,cool.
Dr. Headphones: i eschew grapefruit drinks of any sort
Dexter Fong (no alternative) Tips his Tip to Klok
Tweening Of The Shrew: What do I know... Never liked the taste, myself. Is it still sugar free?
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: Squirt?
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Even we Woodites were mentioned in The New Yorker article, as the Freak du jour.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Who you callin' a squirt stretch
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: The patron saint of Fresca was John Hillerman
Dr. Headphones: is a woodite like a luddite? :)
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dave - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Mr. Motion - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: who you calling a weaver?
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Mountain Dew, it'll tickle your innards.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Woodite early version of Luddite...from the age of Oak
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: More like a Rudeite, Doc
Bunnyboy: Anybody see this site?
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: comrades side by side with Pete Seeger!
Bunnyboy: www.angryalien.com
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Bun No
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bunnyboy: 30 second movie re-enactments, performed by bunnies.
Dexter Fong (no alternative) heads off for drinkite
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Ob e yo yo Ob e yo yo (sp?)
Dr. Headphones: bun: i've seen some of that. interesting concept
cease: kerry gonna win wash, bun?
cease: why are kerry and bush tied in michigan, kend?
Dr. Headphones: ob e yo yo? can't place the reference
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: all the wolverines are idiots
Bunnyboy: cease: it WILL be so.
Dr. Headphones: cat: because bush is a great liar and gets people to believe him
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Bunny �unny, moi added to favorites
cease: big crowd in detroit today, wasnt it? every white person in the city, perhaps
Bunnyboy: But that's like asking if there'll be butter on the Thanksgiving table.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Their propaganda machine is brilliant. False, but brilliantly executed.
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: Ob e yo yo, a folk tale told by annnnn, NO, by Pete Seger.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: what worries me is that now they all know he is a liar and still believe him. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice...you won't get fooled again!
Dr. Headphones: cat: that would be a small crowd
To Busy to Thunk-up good name: I'll be back.
Tweening Of The Shrew: It is saddening how people are so easily fooled and distracted.
Dr. Headphones: tween: a nation of zombies, half asleep and extremely gullible
||||||||| 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 11:05 PM.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Thru the magic of checkite-ing DF returns with drink
doctec: read my blog post re "don't think of an elephant" (http://www.doctechnical.com/xsb)
cease: are you a blogger now, doc?
Bunnyboy: Election Day is the Day of the Dead, this year. Coincidence?
Tweening Of The Shrew: Anyone hear about Mitch Kapor's (Lotus) new web site? www.ofbyandfor.org
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing '� � � � � TOR � � � � � ', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 11:05 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : Moi be back, yea!
Dr. Headphones: hey tor, you old reprobate, you
doctec: it's all in the framing, folks - it's why so many republican right-wingers are lapping up everything out of bush's mouth
antoine giuseppe chang: here's a funny story. I walked through a public park one day and heard somebody playing a song about Sigmund Freud on his guitar. I got home and typed some of the lyrics into a search engine and found out that Pete Seeger had written the song
Bubba's Brain: Did you say you have an RSS feed set up, doc?
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : I think you mean, masturbate, Doc.
cease: where's ONTO?
doctec: bubba: no, i don't
antoine giuseppe chang: pete must have written a song for every thought that ever came into his head
doctec: my blogging operation, is, how shall we say, 'nascent'
Dr. Headphones: lol, tor! if the shoe fits.....
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: I think it's a waypoint on the Great Circle route to Vladivostok, Cat
cease: and every thought that came into woody guthrie's head
Dexter Fong (no alternative): You stay here ONTO and watch the horses while I check out the Cavendish gang
Dr. Headphones: ok, dear friends, 11pm here, time for bed. see y'all next time
doctec: i've tried on and off to get into it in the past, but i was doing all the posts by hand and it was more trouble than it was worth
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : Crap, cut & paste ain't workin'.....this'll be a while.
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : Bye, Doc
doctec: night doctor head
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : Happy Pumpkin night
Dexter Fong (no alternative) flashes his lights to Kend^
||||||||| Dr. Headphones is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 11:08 PM.
Bubba's Brain: my.yahoo.com, which I use, has an RSS aggregator -- I have several blogs I keep up with using that.
Tweening Of The Shrew: Same here. Been fun. See you next week...
||||||||| Tweening Of The Shrew says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Tweening Of The Shrew exits at 11:08 PM.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: the price of RSS just went through the roof, Bubba, so lots of them are being delayed until the Arabs come around
antoine giuseppe chang: nite kend
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Night Tweeny
doctec: nite tween
Bubba's Brain: RSS can be so aggregating sometimes.....
Bubba's Brain: nite tween.
Bunnyboy: It's feeding time, again. Nite, yez.
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: nite Ken
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Night Bunny
cease: dropping like dropped flies
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : http://newyorker.com/talk/content?041025ta_talk_paumgarten
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| To Busy to Thunk-up good name - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: bye Bun, good voting day there!
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Hell, good voting day everywhere
Bunnyboy: Good voting day EVERYWHERE. Kick IT! OUT!
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : The "Necromania" New Yorker column
||||||||| Catherwood says "11:11 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Bunnyboy by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Cather wood exhibits that violent streak once again
antoine giuseppe chang: Well, if I don't go to bed now I may never go to bed again. See you next week. And you too.
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : Bye Bunny, it ain't easy fo' an ole' turd to read and type URLs, jumpin' from Corel to The Waiting Room.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Night Ilan
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : Bye
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: he's definitely gotten an attitude while retaining his complete lack of timing
� � � � � TOR � � � � � : I gotta go too, Happy SpÒÓky Nite.
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Klok: lol
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: bye Ilan
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Adios ONTO
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: OK, I suppose I too will succumb to the genral drift
Dexter Fong (no alternative) whispers, "Get'em up Scout"
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed: nite everyone
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Night Klok
doctec: i have some audio work i have to finish up tonight - i should be back next week though
doctec: y'all have a good night
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed hears the great whooshing sound of the tv aerial unfolding above him as he prepares to launch the Fusion III... ;-)
||||||||| klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed exits at 11:14 PM.
doctec: nytol (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...................
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Nigth Doc
Bubba's Brain: Nite Doc.
cease: doc
Dexter Fong (no alternative): Guess I'll slp out too, Night Dear Friends
Bubba's Brain: Guess I'll fly too -- sorry I wasn't talkative tonight -- got in a side conversation.
||||||||| It's 11:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| antoine giuseppe chang - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Dave - dead from The Plague
||||||||| � � � � � TOR � � � � � - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| At 11:20 PM, Bubba's Brain vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
cease: off we go
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dexter Fong (no alternative) - dead from jaundice
||||||||| cease - dead from The Plague
||||||||| doctec - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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:
� � � � � TOR � � � � �
400 Tons and Whaddaya Get
antoine giuseppe chang
Bubba's Brain
Bunnyboy
cease
Dave
Dexter 400tonsHDX Fong
Dexter Al Qaqaa Fong
Dexter Fong (no alternative)
doctec
Dr. Headphones
Elayne
Homeland Insecurity Yamamoto
klokwkdog-IAEAsealed
klokwkdog-Mossadeq'ed
Merlyn
Mind Cloud
Mr. Motion
To Busy to Thunk-up good name
Tweening Of The Shrew

URL References:
http://info.sierraclub.org/c.html?rtr=on&s=arz,953y,o7l,kowy,9m2f,8gk0,mckn
http://mryamamoto.topcities.com/zappa/crew.htm
http://mryamamoto.topcities.com/zappa/zappavsbor.htm
http://newyorker.com/talk/content?041025ta_talk_paumgarten
http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov
www.angryalien.com
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=987
http://www.doctechnical.com/xsb
http://www.facade.com/iching/
http://www.facade.com/iching/personal/?UID=808173&Name=Anonymous&Query=What+happens+if+Kerry+Gets+Elected&Deck=coins
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/days.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/automobiles/27auto.html
www.ofbyandfor.org

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