Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
01/05/2006

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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 January 05, 2006 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 7:19 AM: Hambergere & Hiphugger jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Hambergere & Hiphugger: Here's a little ditty called 5 minutes in the House. It's your nickel, start talking.
Hambergere & Hiphugger: The CURRENT HOUSE FLOOR PROCEEDINGS on the
Hambergere & Hiphugger: LEGISLATIVE DAY OF JANUARY 3,
Hambergere & Hiphugger: 2006, 109TH CONGRESS - initiating the SECOND SESSION's first recess or adjourment.
Hambergere & Hiphugger: Note: Mister Wolf was the temporary speaker, and the Reverend was Dan Coughlin.
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger: 12:00 P.M. -
Hambergere & Hiphugger: The House convened, starting a new legislative day.
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger: 12:01 P.M. -
Hambergere & Hiphugger: The Speaker designated the Honorable Frank R. Wolf to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger: 12:02 P.M. -
Hambergere & Hiphugger: Today's prayer was offered by the House Chaplain, Rev. Daniel Coughlin.
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger: 12:03 P.M. -
Hambergere & Hiphugger: PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - The Chair designated Mr. Kildee to lead the Members in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger: 12:04 P.M. -
Hambergere & Hiphugger: ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE CHAIR - Pursuant to section 2 of H. Res. 619, 109th Congress, as amended by section 2 of H. Res. 640, 109th Congress, the Chair announced that organizational and legislative business is dispensed with on this day.
Hambergere & Hiphugger: The Chair further announced that the House would follow the practice announced by the Speaker at the convening of the 2nd Session of the 106th Congress under a similar order and that bills and resolutions introduced today will be numbered today but would not be noted in the Record or referred by the Speaker until January 31, 2006; in addition, executive communications, petitions, and memorials will not be numbered or referred until January 31, 2006.
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger: 12:05 P.M. -
Hambergere & Hiphugger: On motion to adjourn Agreed to by voice vote.
Hambergere & Hiphugger: Mr. Kildee moved that the House do now adjourn.
Hambergere & Hiphugger:
Hambergere & Hiphugger: The House adjourned pursuant to H. Con. Res. 326. The next meeting is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. on January 31, 2006.
Hambergere & Hiphugger: And that's the news! No calls, Catherwood, until just before Groundhog's Day.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to Hambergere & Hiphugger and yells "Stop typing gibberish, Hambergere & Hiphugger!"
||||||||| Hambergere & Hiphugger is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 7:29 AM.
||||||||| Firebroiled steals in around 8:05 AM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Firebroiled: Ha, ha, ho! You bet, Dear Friends, it is going to be all right. It's going to be all right tonight, here at the Powerhouse Church of the Presumptious Assumption of the Firesign Chat.
||||||||| Firebroiled leaves to catch the 8:06 AM train to Pennsylvania.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 6:25 PM, dragging Hemlock Stones by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Hemlock Stones: Cool it Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood pretends not to hear Hemlock Stones
||||||||| It's 6:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Hemlock Stones - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:06 PM: Firebroiled jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Firebroiled: Whatcha gonna do?

I'm gonna turn my badge!

Yeah, yeah!

Yeah, yeah! I'm gonna burn my uniform! . . .
||||||||| At 8:06 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Firebroiled!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:50 PM and late as usual, it's ah.clem, just back from Virginia."
||||||||| New CNI streaming notice: '"a few minutes with FireSign Theatre" at about 9 eastern, Dear Friends,'
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| "9:04 PM? 9:04 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Bambi should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Bambi enters and sits on the couch.
Bambi: howdy
||||||||| Merlyn sneaks in around 9:07 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Merlyn: hello
ah.clem: hi Merl,
Bambi: hi Merlyn
Bambi: hello ah,clem :-)
||||||||| Dexter Fong steals in around 9:12 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Dexter Fong: Hi Gang...let's put on a show
Merlyn: I'm not sure if the chat announcement is getting out widely; I found out today that AT&T has the firesign IP on a blacklist
Bambi: Catherwood please pour me some Vicks 44D
||||||||| Catherwood gets Bambi some vicks 44d.
Dexter Fong: Hi gang, let's put on a show!
Bambi: hi Dex
Merlyn: How about 'The Producers'
Bambi: LOL ... yeah!
Dexter Fong: Merl: We won't tell 'em
Dexter Fong: WHy should they get all the money
Bambi smiles
Dexter Fong: Merl: Just read about AT&T..I didn't know Firesign was a minstrel type show
Dexter Fong: Away to tune in CNI
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'cease', just granted probation at 9:16 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Dexter Fong is kicked out just as the clock strikes 9:16 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 Dexter Fong disembarks at 9:16 PM.
Dexter Fong: I'm stuned in
Bambi: ok, Dex ... hi Cat
Dexter Fong: Hey Cat...how yah doin'?
Bambi: boy that was quick Dex
cease: hi bambi
cease: as poorly as you can expect
Dexter Fong: Bambi: That's what all the ladies tell me
cease: lol dex
Bambi: brb ... Catherwood's Vicks 44D isn't helping ... can't imagine why lol
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to Bambi and says "Stop typing gibberish, Bambi!"
cease: are we getting firesign on cni tonight?
Dexter Fong: Bambi wears a 44D? hubba hubba!!
||||||||| Catherwood enters with TheTweenpireStrikesBack close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:18 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary.
cease: i will be delving into the goons later for comic relief
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Hey all...
Dexter Fong: Hiya Tweeny
cease: i listened to the first goon show that appeared on my itunes when i loaded the disc into this lappy
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Lapping up those discs again, hey cat?
Dexter Fong: Cat: My advice is just listen to a whole bunch and don't examine too closely till you get used to them
cease: hey tweeny. can you hold off on sending me any more emals til i get baack to vancouver?
cease: i think ill do just that, dex
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Sure will Cat. I'll take you out of the lineup for now.
Bambi: hi Tweeny
cease: thanks
Dexter Fong: How can clem watch two chats at once when he's in Dendron?
cease: fumiyho has enough to delete in my inbox dailoys as is
Bambi: don't ask Dex LOL
cease: hey bambi let me know when the discs i sent you arrive
Bambi: will do Cat
Dexter Fong: everything stops when clem talks
cease: i wonder if doctech ever put my adbusters stuff up yet?
Merlyn: The 1972 is the year of the album, not the review
ah.clem: well, not everything
||||||||| 9:23 PM: bonemeister jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Merlyn: the symantec 'review' is undated, but it has month/day indicators
Dexter Fong: Hi Boney
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Hey bone...
cease: hi boney
Bambi: hi boney
cease: im in your part of the world again
bonemeister: uh
Bambi: MS has now released the WMF patch for Windows after earlier today saying they would release it on Patch Tuesday
cease: unfortunately
Bambi: Get the WMF patch from MS here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Is the the prophet still on the burning shore?
Dexter Fong: Patch Tuesday...isn't that the day after Virus Monday?
Bambi: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001 Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919)
Dexter Fong: 3 weeks later
bonemeister: There's a large group of aging Firesign fans at The WELL. They're better known for their Grateful Dead community
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: GD's from San Rafael, isn't it?
Bambi: they should join us here :-)
cease: indeed bambi
Dexter Fong had hopes the "Well" was code for the "Fountain of Youth"
Bambi: maybe Boney could invite them
bonemeister: That's not a bad idea, Bamb. I'll see what I can do.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: They've jumped into the biggest well anybody's ever seen...
Dexter Fong intones "Bring Out Your Dead"
Bambi: ah, not likely ... The WELL was one of the originals on the Internet
Bambi cool Boney
Dexter Fong: There was a book from many years ago called The Well of Loneliness" which definitely had Lesbian Under and over tones...shocked the nation
cease: is that the sun in the centre?
Dexter Fong: Nah..it's only the Holy Ghost
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: It's only 60 feet deep!
Bambi says cool Boney
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Hemlock Stones into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:29 PM, then departs.
||||||||| 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 Principal2006poop disembarks at 9:30 PM.
Dexter Fong: Hey 6
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Hey Stones, Poop...
Principal2006poop: HNY
cease: poop and stones
Hemlock Stones: Hi there
Dexter Fong: Hi Hemlosk (Brian) =))
Bambi: hi P2006p
Dexter Fong: lock
Bambi: hi Hemlock Stones
Hemlock Stones: How you all doing
Principal2006poop: howdy and load
Bambi: wow, you leave Catherwood a big tip there Stones ;-)
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to Bambi and inquires "Something I can help with?"
Principal2006poop: which cheese log is the topic tonight?
Dexter Fong: THis lovely altered goat cheese aged for 5 years ina manure pile
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Dug out from the snow, Stones?
Principal2006poop: sounds like johnny carson being Fern
Principal2006poop: mmmm and still warm
cease: yeah kinda
Hemlock Stones: yes thanks we hardly had any
bonemeister: It would be cool if the buoys fell into the Inkwell. http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/ They could maybe, possibly, not inconceivably do a text thing in cyberspace.
Principal2006poop: no snow here, almost hot
Hemlock Stones: a couple of snowflakes and Limelyland grinds to a halt
bonemeister: Or not
cease: too hot for me i la
cease: in
Dexter Fong: e la?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Not exactly your cuppa java, I suppose. Like a thunderstorm on Phoenix. People forget how to drive.
bonemeister: Gonna be over 80 degrees tomorrow, cease.
||||||||| klokwkdog bounds in at 9:34 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Just another rubber band from e la.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Ruff...
cease: isnt "i" italian for and
Dexter Fong: Klok, you bounder
Dexter Fong: si
cease: i gotta go shopping for shorts
Principal2006poop: when I was an undergraduate, I could smoke and drink in the library, one summer I lived in the science fiction section, I remember a cool story about a well, it came alive lol
cease: rtz too
Dexter Fong: don't forget the quarts
Principal2006poop: yes please cat
cease: oxnard again
Bambi: hey Klok
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: make sure you get the right size, Cat. 40 too tall...
Principal2006poop: klick clock HNY
cease: quartz
Bambi: ah so Klok had the door knocker this time
Principal2006poop: boxers, briefs or tanga?
cease: lol
klokwkdog: 'i' is eytie for '&', Cat
Dexter Fong: I thought Bottles had the knockers
Principal2006poop: yes, he got my knocker
klokwkdog: hi Bambi
klokwkdog: 'lo Ash
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Stickman close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:36 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom.
Dexter Fong: 'hi Brian
Principal2006poop: a balcony you could do shakesphere from
cease: thot so
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Evenin' stick...
Dexter Fong: Hey STICK
klokwkdog: hey Poop; HNY
Stickman: Greetings, My Droogies. Happy New Year!
cease: klolk,stick
Dexter Fong: speaking of stuck...the shift key did
cease: like a cs lewis story: the clock, the stick and the firefan
Principal2006poop: stick stuck stack stoke
klokwkdog: WD-40, Ash
Stickman: He he. I hope everyone is sufficiently medicated?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Not if you're a friend of Jack Abramoff, stick ;)
klokwkdog: howdy Stick
||||||||| doctec enters at 9:38 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:38 PM, dragging Elayne by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
bonemeister: The New Year isn't until the 29th... That's if you're speaking Chinese
doctec: hi gang, can't stay long tonight
Elayne: Evenin' all! Not staying very long, rather tired this evening.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Doc, E...
Principal2006poop: hny doc
cease: hi el
Principal2006poop: HNYE
doctec: have to leave in a half hour for bradley airport in hardford to pick up lili
Elayne: Say hi to her for us, Tom!
Principal2006poop: ahhh nice doc, but late
Stickman: It's the ever-youthful Elayne!!
cease: hi doc
doctec: i sure will - she said to say hi to y'all
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: They only come to your knees...
Dexter Fong: Hiyah Doc and Elayne (who enter conveniently together
klokwkdog: The Rev. Pat Robertson said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being punished by God for dividing the Land of Israel.
cease: ?
Principal2006poop: tanks :)
bonemeister: My Mac mini came from People's Republic of China... But it seems to understand the English language
Bambi: Hi Elayne!
klokwkdog: welcome Doc/E
Bambi: hi Doc!
doctec: how are things in el lay cat?
Elayne: If there were a God, he or she would have long since punished Pat Robertson.
Principal2006poop: bad joke klok, unless it is true
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: What else would you expect, Klok?
cease: true, el
Dexter Fong: Anyone see Bill O'Reilly on Letterman show Tuesday Night?
Bambi: hi Stickman
Stickman: It's damn near 80 today in LA.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: You've got a Mini, bone? How do you like it compared to a PC?
cease: i thought i had enough practice talking with crazy people on this chat
cease: but apparently not
Elayne: Dex, loads of websites are mirroring the footage...
Principal2006poop: woop woop woop
doctec: dex: no, do tell
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I'd like to see O'Riley on The Daily Show.
klokwkdog: I saw the outtakes, Ash. They're on the web. Dave done good!
Dexter Fong: E: Wasn't it great =)))
doctec: cray z, the chaos theory supercomputer
Stickman: I saw the video of the Letterman/O'Riley bout on the Huffington post.
Dexter Fong: Doc: Better if E can give you a sight (if she can)
Principal2006poop: the little guy from mash? I thought his first name was radar
cease: yeah its on hujffington, i thihnk
klokwkdog: Poop - no, this is some talk show guy on the State News Channel
Elayne: Oh sure, hang on and I'll get an URL...
doctec: thanks - i like the HuffPo site - lotsa good stuff there
Dexter Fong: PP: You must be thinking of William Bendix "The Life of O'Reilly"
Elayne: Best place to look for these types of things is a blog called Crooks & Liars, by the way.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Did Dave drive O'Riley baba?
Principal2006poop: I never watch that, I skip over it like the god squad channels
doctec: didn't william bendix invent the bicycle?
Elayne: Eh, I skim half of HuffPo, way too much to read daily...
cease: oh really?
Dexter Fong likes the Puff Ho Site
doctec: cat: lol
cease: did you get adbusters stuff up, doc?
doctec: (cue rimshot)
Stickman: I think he invented the coaster brake. hehe
Dexter Fong: Doc: Give me a brake
Principal2006poop: read it every other day then
Stickman: You guys are way too fast for me.
cease: hes a clown, that charlie brown
Elayne: Here you got: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/04.html#a6571
klokwkdog: DocT - silly you. The Wright Brothers invented the bicycle. William Bendix invented the self-starter for cars
Dexter Fong: Read it on Mondays...It's patch day
Principal2006poop: duck duck duck of earl
doctec: cat: no, will have to do it this weekend. too much going on at this end, with the holidays and getting the place prepped for lili's return - i put in extra effort to straighten up the place, it's the most organizeed it's been in ages
cease: speaking of long gone holywood types, andy devine lived accross the streeet from the nursing home i tried to inject my paets into today
Elayne: Read it on a Monday and my heart stood still / da do ron ron ron, da do ron ron...
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I always duck when someone throws corn at me...
cease: sounds good for lili, doc
Dexter Fong: Well done Elayne
cease: owulnd not believ how much work would have to go into cleanikng this place up to sell
Principal2006poop: yes it is illegal to send playing cards to the canary islands
klokwkdog: cat - "tried"? They balked?
Stickman: I loved Andy Devine. He has some of the best teeth in HWoood.
cease: mother wants to move, father doesnt
Principal2006poop: andy is still alive?
cease: to canada. poor fools
klokwkdog: In the Canary Is, is it illegal to send canaries to playing card companies?
Elayne: Just watched last night's Daily Show - didn't realize they were back, I didn't think they'd only do a 2-new-shows week.
Elayne: Colbert's back next Monday.
doctec: can you get mother to move father?
Stickman: I'm barely alive. I don't know how Andy could still be hanging on.
Elayne: And TCM is having a Miyazaki Marathon, but I can only take so much of that before I fall asleep.
Principal2006poop: the air conditioned card factories are ok
cease: i dont hink the comjedy netowrk is on the rents cable
Elayne: Robin thinks it's because he seems to omit every other frame so everything slooooows dowwwwnnn...
cease: 30 years at least
cease: her sister comess in tomorrow so manyh voiices wwikll be encourageinig him to move
Elayne: But I was still thinking of you as I was watching it, Cat. :)
doctec: cat: you get daily show on the comedy channel right? i would think they also carry the colbert report - or if they aren't, they will soon
cease: but she wants to move to vncouver
Principal2006poop: tell him it is temporary
||||||||| Catherwood says "9:47 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs bonemeister by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Elayne: Hey Boney!
doctec: so far the colbert report is the best thing comedy central has come up with to follow the daily show on weeknights
cease: he is rightfully worried about the cold
Elayne: Tom, does the Colbert thing remind you a bit of that old Martin Mull show America 2Night? I think it's our modern equivalent.
Hemlock Stones: Heres the ten dollars i promised you Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside Hemlock Stones and inquires "Something I can help with?"
Principal2006poop: drop your load on the giant toad
cease: theyve lived in la for 50 years, don think they could survive a coldspell, evne a Vaancouver coldspell
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: A bit of difference between LA and Van, I should think.
Bambi: Catherwood please pour me a triple Toasted Almond
||||||||| Catherwood gets Bambi a triple toasted almond.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Mull was great in "Serial".
Principal2006poop: they have thin blood that is sure
cease: a bit
Bambi: thank you Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood answers "It was a pleasure to serve you..."
doctec: e: i always thought of fernwood 2night as more of a goof on typical low-rent talk shows of the era... colbert report is more like the o'reilly factor. that said i always loved fernwood
Stickman: Elayne? Is that Tom person you're referring to of the Gedwillo persuasion?
doctec: he and fred willard were great together
Dexter Fong: Catherwood please pour me a Ripple Roasted Albanian
||||||||| Catherwood gives Dexter Fong a ripple roasted albanian.
cease: yes shearer used to be a writer on that, as i recall
Elayne: Well yeah, Tom, they're satirizing different formats, but the main character is kind of similar to me...
Elayne: No Stick, it's DocTec, aka Tom O'Neill.
Dexter Fong: Gratzi Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Dexter Fong
Principal2006poop: colbert seemed too contrived, I was going to wait a few months and let him calm down
cease: doctec=tom
Bambi is hoping the triple will help bronchitis lol
doctec: now that you mention it e, i see the resemblance - mull and colbert both had that 'unctious' thing going
ah.clem: catherwood, bring me more ale
||||||||| Catherwood gets ah.clem more ale.
Stickman: You can't tell Tom from Tom without a program.
Principal2006poop: it is the weather bambi ugh
Elayne: The thing was that Mull's character was Barth/Garth Gimble, whereas Colbert's character has the same name as the guy who plays him, so I think that confuses some people.
doctec: bone: i can't see you in the chat room participants list, i'll send you email
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I like to melt cheese on my bronchitis. Hope, you're not feeling too badly, Bambi.
cease: mull had a song about the 50s
Bambi: yes, it sure is Pp ... sad ... no sir, I don't like it.
Stickman: It doesn't take anything so complicated to confuse me. I'm pre-confused.
||||||||| 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 bonemeister disembarks at 9:51 PM.
bonemeister: 'k
cease: i forget lyric but it wa something like, i went thru the 50s, bee thankfull you didnt
Principal2006poop: welcome backbone
Bambi: could be worse Tweeny ... lol
bonemeister: who do I send a bug report? There are bugs crawling all over this chatware. Moths, I think
Dexter Fong: PP: YOu're on
bonemeister: a moth may be somebody's mother... Sorry
Principal2006poop: 2006 bingo
Dexter Fong: Boney: Could be Hawkmoth
klokwkdog: bone - you really have to be running a RAID configuration to be in this chat...
bonemeister: to whom do I send a bug report, I should say. The bug reporting is named Benway.
Elayne: Sorry, concentration shot. Next week, maybe.
cease: mark time vs the mothmen
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: The twin bugs sing Mooooothra.....
||||||||| At 9:54 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Elayne!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Bambi: are you chatting outside boney?
doctec: ok, i have to take off now - have one more thing i have to take care of before i head to the airport. glad i could stop by, if only for a brief moment or two
Principal2006poop: abdul benway? I went to school with him, or her
cease: i think that really was a marc time episode. merl wold know
Dexter Fong: Night Elayne..Keep your concentration down
doctec: i'll give lili all your good wishes
klokwkdog: nite Doc
cease: by doc
Bambi: night E! be well!
klokwkdog: nite E (belatedly)
Stickman: Say goodnight, Doctor.
doctec: thanks gang - g'nite (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzip
Bambi: night Doc!
||||||||| doctec says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, doctec exits at 9:54 PM.
Hemlock Stones: Take care Doc
Dexter Fong: Night Doc...best to Lili
bonemeister: You've seen Men in Black II?
Principal2006poop: glad to see you doc, yes, give her a liplock and oops wrong chat
Bambi: hi to Lili!
Bambi: thanks Doc
bonemeister: I liked it better than Men in Black I
Principal2006poop: is that the johnny cash movie? he was alien you know
Bambi: MIB I and II actually ... great fun
bonemeister: alienated
Stickman: So long kids. Keep 'em flying!
Dexter Fong: PP: He was "alienated" by an early prison experience
Principal2006poop: tick stick
Bambi: night Stickman
Dexter Fong: Night Stick
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Speaking of the grim reaper, bone, have you checked out the latest Fiore animation? Really good... http://www.markfiore.com/
Principal2006poop: I shot a man just to see him die, nice john, step away from the guitar
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Bye, S-man.
Dexter Fong: afk for refill
klokwkdog: Bambi -- I heard that many of the aliens in the MIB series didn't have SAG cards and were paid less than scale, not to mention no credits
Bambi: actually that was Elvis ... he just went home. ;-)
klokwkdog: Bambi -- he didn't go home, he just left the building
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: But Bush wants to give them a guest monster program.
Principal2006poop: he was big as a building, not easy for him to leave
Bambi: well, it's better than shooting them where it doesn't grow back
Bambi: lol
Bambi: (couldn't resist, another line from MIB)
klokwkdog: nite Stick
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I don't know the name of the actor who played "the bug", but he's pretty good to be able to do that flick and then do a serious cop role on TV.
Dexter Fong: braack
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bubba's Brain inside, makes a note of the time (10:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Hey Bubba...
Principal2006poop: that new cartoon is brutal
Dexter Fong: Hi Bubba
Bambi: Officer Bugley?
Bubba's Brain: Hey, all!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
bonemeister: Currently in the Inkwell is Bruce Sterling's annual State of the Universe address
Principal2006poop: brack fong brain ahhh, clem
Bambi: hi bubba
Hemlock Stones: A fave album that was, Clem
Principal2006poop: HNY
Dexter Fong: hello to you Clem
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: People forget what's going on over there, P.
Bambi: or woudl that be Officer Green (for the green spectral trail)
bonemeister: Wait a minute. Who am I talking to...?
Dexter Fong: HNY = Helloooo New York?
cease: is the well still reachable thru salon?
cease: salon an outgrowth of the well?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: There's two of everyone except US!
Principal2006poop: hong nong yong fong, it means seasons greetings
Dexter Fong: But we'e US Plus
bonemeister: When you're at Thursday Nite Chat, you're never talking to yourself. Or at least you can pretend you're not talking to yourself
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Weeeeee....
cease: us minus these days, dex
Principal2006poop: pound cni, add some ginger and leave overnight to rise
cease: lol bone
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Minus a few Senators & Congressmen this fall if this Abramoff thing goes like it looks.
Principal2006poop: I have been found out, you have collapsed my world boney
Dexter Fong: Cat: It's bad..gonna get worse (like the final writhings of a dead, venomous creature expiring) but things are looking up
Hemlock Stones: Have not heard the ads from Give us a Break for ages Clem
cease: only with Reaally Goood Drugs, dex
bonemeister stands in the corner staring at the intersection of walls
cease: lemon car?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: The TX Baptists don't allow that, bone...
Principal2006poop: whatever happened to drug fair? now they are cvs or something like that
Bubba's Brain: Drug fair?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: They have to be married first. And why are you looking at them?
Dexter Fong: No fair at drug fare
bonemeister stands in the most obscure corner of the room, looking like an idiot talking to himself.
Bambi: lemon tree, oh, so pretty...
Principal2006poop: yes, drug fair
Dexter Fong points Boney to the facilities
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: A fair for all, and Vioxx for everybody!
Bubba's Brain: Had a fleeting thought of putting out a new Firesign item... Firesign branded 7-day pill minders for aging boomers.
Dexter Fong: Hi! I'm Vi Oxx and I'm here to give you drugs
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Pas tres facile, Dex...
bonemeister: We are a Nation at War on Drugs, Terrorism, Poverty
Dexter Fong: Aging Bombers?
cease: youre turning blue, babe
klokwkdog: cat - the Well's been around since before the beginning. Salon just stepped in to help them out since they were in worse shape than Salon was
Principal2006poop: have you been with sunnybrook fair? paisley, margarine and tabasco
cease: i see
Hemlock Stones: Most Bombers dont get to age Dexter
cease: i knew a guy who was invovled wwith the web
cease: ing i forget
Dexter Fong: PP Don't forget to tell 'em about the summer sausage
cease: from my adbusstgers days. hhe was an adbusters fan. fairly fmaaous as i recall
Bubba's Brain: Day 1 -- heart medication... Day 2 -- halucinogens, Day 3 -- Back pain, Day four .....
Bambi points at Dex (with the Body Snatcher's look) and says SPAMMER! LOL
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: We haven't been a War on Poverty for some time now. The new budget is unconscionable.
bonemeister: Salon.com is spinning off the WELL
Principal2006poop: ing is super, change anything into an action, I am ING man
cease: howard rheingold?
klokwkdog: Hemlock - sure they do: they have a short service life and a long retirement out in the desert
Dexter Fong: Hemlock: Aren't you thinking of Tail Gunners...not neccesarily named Thompson
cease: something like that
bonemeister: Boy, am I dizzy
Principal2006poop: howard rheingolding
klokwkdog: Dex - how about ones named Joe?
cease: not enough drugs, bone
Principal2006poop: walter?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Unless they go to the Iraq desert, where unranium has a long life and people a short one.
Dexter Fong: Klok: Joe? YOu must mean Arizona
Hemlock Stones: but the training was painfully short klok
cease: true, tweeen
bonemeister leaks into a bucket provided by Dexter Fong.
Bubba's Brain: The prez IS named Schickelgruber.
Dexter Fong: The Kid got a Dear John Letter Yesterday...and his name is Arizona
klokwkdog: Stones - it was certainly sufficient to get one into Congress to look for Reds
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Sunning themselves on the London Bridge at Havasu, doubtless.
Principal2006poop: we are winning the war on poverty and war on drugs and war in iraq
bonemeister: Do you have problems with ideas leaking out of your brain?
Dexter Fong: Ah> The Congressional Seconal Hunt held every Friday
Hemlock Stones: Ok look, there goes another low flying pig
Principal2006poop: yes boney, please help
cease: i hear he wants tyo run, his supporteres want to change us law making it possible
Bubba's Brain: Bone, I just put caulk in my ears....
cease: only in your mind, poop
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: We've certainly won the war on drugs in Afghanistan ;)
bonemeister: The old doctor can help you out
cease: nathan arizona?
Principal2006poop: I don't mind my mind, it is the others in there, like a mine field
klokwkdog: cat - you obviously don't watch the State News Channel
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Hail, AZ. Visited there once...
cease: all those firesign opium jokes
Principal2006poop: oops I forgot that war, yes, we are winning that one also
Dexter Fong: Tempy...His name was Tempy short for Temperance...his folks was tee-totalers
Principal2006poop: they played golf?
Bambi: sheesh, as if there haven't been enough constitutional and law changed already ...
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I'll bet Tempy is a Scot...
cease: i went tothe grand canyon once. all the pix i took there turned out green
Bubba's Brain: I thought it was cause he worked for Kelly Services, Dex.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Bush ignores it all anyway, Bambi.
cease: must have been the aliens
bonemeister: brb
Principal2006poop: oki bone
Dexter Fong: Tween: Right...Arizona is Scottish for Nurns
Principal2006poop: it is the moss cat
Dexter Fong: Burns
Bambi: particularly when they can charge children and their mothers thousands of dollards, backed by the government for copyright infringement lawsuits
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Always thought Kathy Mattea looked a little funny. There's a grand canyon, between you and me...
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Were they Raising Arizona?
Dexter Fong: Tween: Yeah..But they're Buttes
Principal2006poop: aye, play your bagpipes for us fong
Bambi: dollars even
Dexter Fong: PP: Can't do it..don't have my SAGpipe card yet
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: That's our sun alter...
Hemlock Stones: I know some Dullards Bambi
Principal2006poop: cents are odd
Stickman: Back is beautiful as we used to say back in the day.
Bambi: lol Stones
Bubba's Brain: They're mounds... no, almond joys.
Principal2006poop: strategic air group?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Weren't they a 60's group, Stones?
klokwkdog: bambi - yeah, see this week's User Friendly strip: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060103
klokwkdog: (and, so far, the next two days' strips)
Stickman: That was Ginger Baker's Air Force.
Dexter Fong: Bubba: Try these "MaryJanes" they're habit forming
Hemlock Stones: yes i think you may be right, but of course i cant remember cos i was there
Bubba's Brain: Oh, the first one's free, I bet.
cease: a bit of advice from my father, mohammed ali and michael j fox: never get parfkiknsons
Principal2006poop: new york state is suing the music companies for immoral acts, hah
Stickman: Been sniffing at the Rat cheese again, Stones?
Dexter Fong: Bubba: No, I'll just take your lunch money
cease: makes shufflng off to buffalo a lot more sinister
Bubba's Brain: Sumatran Swiss?
Hemlock Stones: my teeth were growing too long again Stick, i had to do it
Dexter Fong: Port Arthur Albanian?
Bambi: and did you see what the judge did with the Santangelo case? First the cost too great and she has to drop lawyer, then the judge says there is merit to the way RIAA is doing things ... gawd...really makes me sick.
Principal2006poop: those kids today need to learn big business is serious
Dexter Fong: Big Business is mindless
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Aren't they flooded out, Dex?
Principal2006poop: and heartless
Bambi: Parkinson's is bad for sure Cat
Dexter Fong: and heedkless
Dexter Fong: Tween: Who's flooded?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Port Arthur, LA...
Hemlock Stones: and dickless
Principal2006poop: a bea arthur flood
Dexter Fong: PP: Oh! You mean Golden Shower Girls?
Principal2006poop: but they have all the money and politicans, power corrupts
Stickman: Janis Joplin came from Bea Arthur?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: How maudelin...
Principal2006poop: thats them
cease: there used to be a port arthur in canda. changed its name to thunder bay
Bambi: wish it was mindless Dex ... there would be a chance ... they spend billions on entire 'suites' of lawyers and the little guy doesn't stand a chance against them ... and they know and try to exact extortion money based on that knowledge and fear. Disgusting.
Dexter Fong: Stick: Yeah but she didn't get the tall gene
Principal2006poop: scott joplin missouri
Stickman: I thought Port Arthur was in Texas.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I do believe Paul Schaffer is from Thunder Bay.
Principal2006poop: why is it significant to you ahh, clem?
Dexter Fong: Tween: Correct Sir!
Hemlock Stones: there is something to be said for being a man of straw, if you havent got anything they spend a fortune not getting it
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Could be, Stick. Right on the border.
Principal2006poop: I have an old cassette player you can repair ahhh, clem
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: They got et alive by Katrina.
Principal2006poop: no more calls, we have a weiner
Bambi: I can not believe that they are being allowed to submit John Doe lawsuits based on IP addresses!
Dexter Fong: This Portion of Firesign Theater is sponsered by ah,Clem's small appliance repair
Dexter Fong: We have Small tools
Principal2006poop: that is not what bambi says fong hehe
Stickman: Speak for yourself, Dex!
cease: dont tell us, dex
Bubba's Brain: I wouldn't admit to that in public, Dex.
Dexter Fong: Bambi *does* not kiss and tell
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: It's all the bottom line, Bambi. As long as business moguls can buy the government...
ah.clem: PP, significant because it showed their gift for seeing the future`
Principal2006poop: don't kiss that, it is illegal in virginia bambi, stop!
Dexter Fong is just reading the ad
Stickman: Oh Nicky! You're such a ...
Dexter Fong: Private Dick?
Principal2006poop: it is super cool ahh, clem
cease: i love this record
Bubba's Brain: Small Tool.
Dexter Fong: Big Brain
Hemlock Stones: Confidential Dick
Dexter Fong keeps himself zipped up
cease: hey bambi and uh, ii have a great interview with ossman and tiny on sf show on la radio when this cam out
cease: wheni get into myh cassettes, ill copy it for cni
Bubba's Brain: Who's the private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks?
Principal2006poop: shaft?
Dexter Fong: talking about Richard SPADE
Stickman: I heard an interview with David on KPFK when this came out.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Do you listen to Le Show, Stones? Shearer's "Dick Cheney Confidential"s are hilarious.
Hemlock Stones: lol
ah.clem: would love to have that
cease: dick private?
Bubba's Brain: damn right...
Bambi: data can be sliced any which way they want to make it look good to their favor ... and then set the huge media machine spinning their web for them.
Principal2006poop: he's a mean mother..
cease: it is indeed, twen
Bubba's Brain: They say that cat Shaft is one bad mother...
Dexter Fong: hush yo mouf
ah.clem: great
Principal2006poop: but i'am talking about shaft
Dexter Fong: Scott
cease: shearer is what the firesign would be if they were all One Person
Bambi: Awesome Cat!
Bubba's Brain: But I'm just talking about Shaft.
Dexter Fong: PP: Show a little respect for west Virginia
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Talk about versatile...
cease: souds like bart simpson
Principal2006poop: oops, my bad, they are alive, oops, nope
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Sees like there's a mining disaster every other week in China.
klokwkdog: cat - he can't do accents
Bubba's Brain: Alive... Alive!!!!
Hemlock Stones: Reston is a minor disaster
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Groan, Stones...
Dexter Fong: Tween: Headline crawl on ABC building said China to close 5,000 coal mines for safety reasons
||||||||| Honey Sanchez enters at 10:30 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Dexter Fong: Didn't say who they were closing it to
Bambi: I am so glad I saw the writing on the wall back when they took Napster down. I stopped buying from what was the big 5 (now the big 4) record labels and stopped filesharing. I knew where this was going, and I wasn't gonna be a part of any of it. They make me sick.
Principal2006poop: ahhh honey
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Yeah, but he's really good with MSG, Klok.
Hemlock Stones: Hi Honey
klokwkdog: Dex - that's just because they're going to start up a lot of nukes
Dexter Fong: Honey, hide that radioactive substance
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Hey Honey...
Honey Sanchez: hola senor stones
Honey Sanchez: tucks the yellowcake into compact
Dexter Fong: Habla Espanol, Hemlock?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: So, Bambi you only buy from relative indies like Laugh.com and such?
Bubba's Brain: Hide the Geiger counter! We already know how many Geigers are here.
Hemlock Stones: it ticks !
Principal2006poop: steady bambi, music will survive
Bambi: hello Honey
Dexter Fong: Oh that yellow cake is pretty...I love the pink icing
Hemlock Stones: sorry Canadian
Honey Sanchez: why thank you, dexter (blushes)
Bambi: only from Indie artists that have no DRM and no link to the big 4.
Dexter Fong: EH?
Bubba's Brain: Someone left the yellowcake out in the rain... I don't think that I can take it....
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Now, Stones... no dissing fellow members of the Commonwealth...
Dexter Fong: Not without a receip[t you can't Bubba
Stickman: Outta here once again. Bye
||||||||| Stickman leaves at 10:33 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..."
klokwkdog: nobody can take it without a lead-lined suit and a lead box
Hemlock Stones: someone must be to blame Tween
Dexter Fong: Bye Stick
Principal2006poop: a fish stick
Hemlock Stones: bye
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Have you a list Bambi? Please forward it to my e-mail, if you would.
Bambi: night Stickman
Dexter Fong: Get the lead out you guys, it's inspector Klok
Bubba's Brain: ... cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have clearance for that recipe again.
Honey Sanchez: bones nachos, stick
Dexter Fong: And he's got his bold face on
cease: stick
cease: hi honey
Honey Sanchez: howdy cease
Principal2006poop: glengarygary had some leads
Dexter Fong goes to Cookster for forbidden recipe, file shares with Bubba
Honey Sanchez: lounges languidly against the bar and inhales second hand smoke sultrily
Bambi: will try to collect what I have into one place Tweeny LOL
bonemeister: bone's nachos?
Principal2006poop: hehe she said sultriliy hehe
cease: my rental car was last rented by a smoker. i have to dirve wwith windowss open to get rid of it
Bambi: I usually just try to look up labels to see how they are linked before purchasing
Dexter Fong: Bonnes Nocho's senorita Sanchez
Principal2006poop: hola ciao
Dexter Fong: Holy Chow...Let
Dexter Fong: eat!!
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: You mean go to their sites, Bambi?
cease: i dont think honey is a senorita
bonemeister: buenos noches?
Bambi: I don't mind doing a little leg work to make sure I don't fund the RIAA's lawsuit frenzy
Principal2006poop: that is la smog
cease: or if so, only in the Crying Game sense
||||||||| Honey Sanchez rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Honey Sanchez?! It's 10:37 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Dexter Fong: Cat: I'm not judgemental..perhaps sentimental...who knows maybe incremental
||||||||| Honey Sanchez sashays in at 10:37 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
bonemeister: You
cease: igts filling my lungs as i type, poop
bonemeister: You're interfacing with my Amiga?
Principal2006poop: ahh honey went out to get the knocker, thanks
Honey Sanchez: i forgot this
cease: better than Mental. too much of that here
Bambi: wb Honey
cease: old slang for Crazy
Honey Sanchez: thx, Bambi
Bambi: lol
Principal2006poop: lala land is a different place
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Amiga was a great machine for its time. Only with OS X is Apple able to perform true multitasking.
Bubba's Brain: La la la la la la la live for today....
bonemeister: Buenos nachos. Nite
bonemeister: Adios
cease: how is lodestone sales, bub?
Dexter Fong: Night Boney
Principal2006poop: la dreaming
cease: bone
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:39 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs bonemeister by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Bambi: night boney
Dexter Fong: La Suena
Principal2006poop: boney maroney really gotta go now
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Oh resevoir, bone...
Bubba's Brain: Okay, cat. Still struggling.
Principal2006poop: suet fong?
cease: only good things about being from here is you understand the firesign refs.
cease: you get the jokes in randy newman's song I Love LA
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Newman's great...
Principal2006poop: they had referees? I thought they spoke their minds...
Hemlock Stones: you cant get there from here Cease, the president wont let me
cease: i was on both sepulveda (nick danger) and victory blvd (i love la) today
Bambi: Lodestone has Indie artists in the list right Bubba?
Bubba's Brain: I love it!
Principal2006poop: crenshaw, pico and alvardo, ahhhh
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Won't let you bring your prayer rug, Stones?
klokwkdog: neat, Cat
Dexter Fong: Cat" Did you come Straight outta Compton?
cease: ta junga canyon
Bubba's Brain: Yes, Indie audio theater Artists.
Hemlock Stones: and someone stole my Menorah too
cease: no, Yorkton. youve heard neal amid
Dexter Fong: Ca Chinga Canyon..we now charge entrance fees
Principal2006poop: did you take the harbor freeway or what?
Dexter Fong: Were you on Mulholland Drive?
cease: just the san diego and ventura
Honey Sanchez: ventura and van nuys now that was one corner, back in the day
Bambi: well, that's another place to be able to buy music certainly :-)
Principal2006poop: I use antelope
Bubba's Brain: Any particular reason for asking, Bam?
cease: mulhuland drive is about 500 feet from wherei sit
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I look for it in a congressional inquiry in the near future, Stones.
Principal2006poop: ahh ventura highway in the summertime
Dexter Fong: Do you have a "no-kill polict"?
Honey Sanchez: ahhhhhhhhh i love America
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Do they still race on mulhuland?
Bambi: well, you might want to post the link here for those who may not know how to get there
cease: horse with no nname was good.l thata about it
Dexter Fong: Ventura Highway in the pouring rain
Principal2006poop: that is a horse with no name honey
Honey Sanchez: it is not our way to name horses
cease: there is no such thing, only ventura freeway
Bubba's Brain: You mean a link to http://lodestonecatalog.com ?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Saw America live. Not bad for a pop band.
Dexter Fong Thinks the horse's name is honey and PP is obfuscating
Hemlock Stones: no wonder it wouldnt come when i called it Principal
Bambi: yep :-)
Bubba's Brain: Home of the worlds best selection of contemporary audio theater?
Principal2006poop: if I obfuscate, I will clean it up
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Dim out the sun, Manny...
klokwkdog: Vic-tor-i-a
Bambi: why, yes, that would be the place Boney :-)
Dexter Fong: U-ber All-es?
cease: one of my fave players of all time: manny mota
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Is that next to Terrapin Island?
Bambi: Bubba!
Honey Sanchez: close to the station
Bambi: all those B names confuse me LOL
Principal2006poop: wait, I am in coudersport, pa, I do not exercise
Dexter Fong: Vote with your feet,
Bubba's Brain: You mean the place you can find all Firesign that is in print, and then some, Bam?
Dexter Fong: some what? Bubba
Bambi: now that would be mostly to the point, Bubba!! :-)
Principal2006poop: I tried dex, the buttons on my mouse are too short
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I'd vote, Dex, but I'm in the bath tub trying to lose weight.
Dexter Fong: Eureka!!
Bubba's Brain: Sure, Bambi, I would be happy to post a link to the Lodestone catalog at http://lodestonecatalog.com !
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Now, Dex... Let's not get personal...
Dexter Fong: No Tween: It's the adverpoirs
Principal2006poop: your eek? ahhhh
Bambi: LOL
Dexter Fong: afk for weigh in
Principal2006poop: he is weigh out there
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Where did all these flies come from?
cease: i wish i had some company and good dope too
cease: a klein bottle, twween
Bubba's Brain: But, gee, Bambi, do you really think there are Firesign fans out there who DON'T know about http://lodestonecatalog.com ?
cease: many bub
Principal2006poop: head down to sunset and something, look for somebody have naked and get directions
cease: ow abouut the last 3 albums or weridly cool
Bambi: ya never know Bubba ... ya never know ... never good to make too many assumptions :-)
Principal2006poop: half enven
Principal2006poop: even even
cease: i sometimes meet them at parties
Bubba's Brain: Well, we'll just have to find a way to spread the word about http://lodestonecatalog.com !
Bambi: Weirdly Cool :-) Seems someone mentioned that to me just the other day, didn't they Cat?
cease: i make a firesing joke and peole remember it and say, whatever hapend to them?
cease: happened last weeek. a dude from indiana, oddly
Dexter Fong: BRCK
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: BTW, thanks again to Stones for the London download. Missed Austin, but a really good show.
Principal2006poop: I found a firesign reference in the book Kiln People by david brin
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Half elven?
Principal2006poop: thck as a brck fong
Hemlock Stones: glad you enjoyed it Tween, my pleasure
cease: i never got that. is it still, online somewhere? i cant capture stuff with this lappy have to wait til i get back to vaan to capture stuff
Principal2006poop: our hobbits become our vices
Dexter Fong: Tighten those vices
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: What were once vices are now hobbits.
Principal2006poop: hurry cat, they are bulding a fence
Dexter Fong: Raise your vices in song!
cease: usee to be la bookstore called A Change of Hobbit
cease: new ageey sort of place
Bambi: hairy feet and all
Dexter Fong: Cat: Who'd have guessed =))
Principal2006poop: virtue is its own reward, same for vice
klokwkdog: ...and angry voices?
Dexter Fong: And an Angry Voice shall be heard throughout the land
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I'm putting out a reward for kerchoos.
Principal2006poop: smoothies and ageeys, I had marbles, I lost them
Dexter Fong: It's a Presidential news conference
Dexter Fong: Or O'reilly and Letterman
Honey Sanchez: VICE PRESIDENTIAL
Principal2006poop: hehe angry voice said grrrrrr hehe
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Everyone seen the SNL skit with Will Farrel doing Bush on global warming? Exxxxxxcellent....
Dexter Fong: The Vice President has a Presidential Voice
Principal2006poop: what that snl? i saw the clip, fabulous
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I assumed it was. Live audience in the background. Gimme your address and I'll see you get it.
cease: yes tweeny sent me that
cease: very funny
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Will do. Any other takers?
cease: and snl rarely rates more than a chuckle
Principal2006poop: I got it from you tween
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: That's true. I send so much stuff...
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Must have been on the regular list.
cease: ok i wont be back in la til next weekend so maybe then
cease: i have an ftp thingie but theres no way id ask my wife to open it
Principal2006poop: good luck with your parents, courage cat
Principal2006poop: oops ok
Bambi: so we will see you here before you leave next week then Cat?
cease: yeah, madness is no fun
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
cease: im here till at least next friday, bambi
Dexter Fong: Nice try Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood rushes up to Dexter Fong and says "My ears are burning..."
Principal2006poop: catherwood, you are slipping
||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside Principal2006poop and mumbles "My ears are burning..."
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: He does Bush to the T. The Craford background is excellent. Watch the animals in the background. I love it when he catches the frisbee from Condi and says, "Not now Condi, we'll play later".
cease: i was talking to hemlock about the bbc show but anyway
Principal2006poop: I said oops
Bambi: good deal Cat
Bubba's Brain: Well, I gotta catch some zzzzz. Catherwood's clock confirms it.
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 11:02 PM"
Principal2006poop: don't go because I am a moron
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Alley Oops...
Dexter Fong: PP: YOu want us to wait till midnight when you change?
Principal2006poop: night dobba troubbba bubba
Bambi: night Bubba!
Dexter Fong: Nigth Bubba
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Guess NBC's coming after me now, eh, P?
Bambi: have a good one
Principal2006poop: of course
klokwkdog: nite Bubba
cease: bub
Honey Sanchez: nite, poop buenos suenos
Bubba's Brain: Thanks. Nite all.
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Bye Bubba...
||||||||| At 11:03 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Bubba's Brain!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Principal2006poop: a few more clips and I will collect my reward for dropping a dime on you tween
||||||||| "11:03 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Honey Sanchez, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
||||||||| 11:03 PM: Honey Sanchez jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Dexter Fong: (Catherwood's ten minutes fast)
||||||||| Catherwood pretends not to hear Dexter Fong
Principal2006poop: greasyass honey
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Only a dime?
Dexter Fong: Hey, Catherwood..that was in paranthesis..you can't hear them
||||||||| Catherwood rushes up to Dexter Fong and queries "Did you want something?"
Honey Sanchez: day notta
Principal2006poop: I smoked the rest
Bambi: ha! Honey is funny tonight ... one again, off again :-)
Principal2006poop: already ahhh, clem?
Dexter Fong: Night Clem
Bambi: benediction already huh?
Principal2006poop: one of those nights, go ahead and rant, get it off your chest, clear the air, ahh let the cat out of the bag
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Thanks, Clem...
Bambi: thanks Clem :-)
Honey Sanchez: si
Dexter Fong: Thank youas always
cease: yeah really clem
cease: see y'all next week
||||||||| Catherwood says "11:06 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs cease by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
klokwkdog: Good Show, Clem!
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Bye, Cat...
klokwkdog: nite Cat
Principal2006poop: you are the man ahh, clem, thanks and HNY, have a super week too
Hemlock Stones: Good night and thanks Clem
Principal2006poop: ahhh toaaaaad away
Dexter Fong: Night Cat: As someone said here, courage
ah.clem: good night all
klokwkdog: nite Clem
Principal2006poop: there is nothing to be done except live through it, poor cat
ah.clem: g us on
Honey Sanchez: harmonizes and whispers adios ty clem
Principal2006poop: yes ahh, clem
Dexter Fong: Guess i'll take the opportunity to move my car...night to those who leave before I return...later to the rest of you
Bambi: night Clem, see you soon
ah.clem: thanks for turning us on
Principal2006poop: hail rita fong
Principal2006poop: lucky ah, clem :D hehe
Principal2006poop: it is nice to be turned on JL
Merlyn: see youse next week folx
klokwkdog: nite, Merlyn!
Principal2006poop: thank M, super week toi
Hemlock Stones: good night Merlyn
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Bye, Merl...
Merlyn waves
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "11:09 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: So, are there a fair amount of Fireheads in London, Stones?
Hemlock Stones: i know a couple in London but Manchester and Liverpool seem to have more Tween
Bambi: night all!! Great to see ya! See ya next time it comes around on the guitar :-)
Principal2006poop: does that couple like photographs? wink wink nod nod
klokwkdog: hey Stones -- Nino sez you're in North Oxford, MA. A bit off from London... ;-)
klokwkdog: nite Bambi
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Night, Bambi...
Hemlock Stones: i first heard Humbolt County in the late sixties and we passed the albums around
Principal2006poop: keep warm bambi :D have a super week
klokwkdog: Don't forget the FST segment at 10PM EST on Saturday
Hemlock Stones: good night bambi
Bambi: thanks :-)
||||||||| "Hey Bambi!" ... Bambi turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:12 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
ah.clem: how could I , a forget that, and yes, yes, well worth a dollar
klokwkdog: OK, everyone, I'm outta here. Have a great week. Gotta get the flamethrower and run the deer off the lawn again...
Hemlock Stones: ok bye for now Klok
Principal2006poop: I have listened to some of the current radio shows BBC4, I wish we had shows like that here
klokwkdog: nite Dex when you get bak
Principal2006poop: venison for everyone, click klok
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Bye, Klok...
||||||||| ah.clem rushes off, saying "11:13 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
klokwkdog: poop -- no one would understand them :-)
||||||||| At 11:13 PM, klokwkdog vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Principal2006poop: i meant made here, with american references
Principal2006poop: many of the jokes are just about words, I spek english
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Is there still such a thing as Second City Comedy?
Principal2006poop: I have not seen that in years
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Spreak Engrish!
Principal2006poop: snl should have shorter and more skits, more chances to hit a funny bone that way
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: We've gotten so visually oriented.
Principal2006poop: like firesign, it moves so fast, but what catches your brain, does catch your brain
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: The new video iPods may change th culture a bit. I've read that Disney is putting up more material at the Apple Store.
Principal2006poop: personal imagination is more powerful than the best computer or acting or camera
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: For that matter, I been revisitng Falukner recently. That man could write. Like putting a movie in your head reading his work.
Principal2006poop: but hollywood does not want us to know that lol
||||||||| It's 11:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Honey Sanchez - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Principal2006poop: yeppers, good authors carry you away
Principal2006poop: I am listening to a dickens audio book, ahh pleasure
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: By men in white suits?
Principal2006poop: yes, tomorrow they may let me near the basket weaving materials again, maybe
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Which Dickens?
Principal2006poop: david copperfield, with some super english speaker
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: That's Dickens with two K's, the well known Dutch author.
Principal2006poop: hemlockk might know him
Principal2006poop: that was a super show
Principal2006poop: marty feldman was insane
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Quite...
Principal2006poop: those eyes, oh my god
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: I prefer Barbara, myself ;)
Principal2006poop: I had a crush on her, and the girl from uncle
Hemlock Stones: is that the feldman bookshop sketch you refer to Principal ?
TheTweenpireStrikesBack: Well, it's time for me to say Auntie... So long, until last time, again...
Principal2006poop: the powers that be
Principal2006poop: yes hemlock
Hemlock Stones: with john cleese, absolutely brilliant
Principal2006poop: may the force be with you tween, turn away from the dark side
Principal2006poop: he had a tv show here, did not last long, but is etched in my memory
Hemlock Stones: Ethel the Aardvarrk goes Quantity Surveying
Principal2006poop: yes lool
Hemlock Stones: the one without the Gannet lol
Principal2006poop: lool
Principal2006poop: I need to google him, is he still around?
Hemlock Stones: Did you ever hear Rowan Atkinson when he was funny in the days long before Mr Bean ?
Principal2006poop: sure, I have some of his tv shows, fantastic
Hemlock Stones: i dont know for sure Principal but if i find any i will pass it to you
Principal2006poop: ahh he died in 1982 :(
Hemlock Stones: Have you heard Atkinson and Cleese do the Bee Keeping sketch from the Amnesty shows ?
Principal2006poop: no, I have not
Hemlock Stones: if you give me your email addy i will send it immediately
Principal2006poop: ahh blackadder and the other shows
Principal2006poop: you are too kind, thank you very much
Hemlock Stones: this is before blackadder
Principal2006poop: wow hehehe
Hemlock Stones: two Atkinson sketches on the way to you now, they are live on stage for the amnesty shows
Principal2006poop ) thank you so much
Hemlock Stones: when you get the email, paste the url in your browser and when you get the page clik the file retrieval link and they will download to you
Principal2006poop: like marty feldman, I love his face
Hemlock Stones: yes its correct but they have to upload to the site first then it mails you the link
Hemlock Stones: oops sorry
Principal2006poop: ahhh ok ok, I thought the nsa was watching it first lol
Hemlock Stones: lol
Hemlock Stones: no its a secure encrypted transfer
Principal2006poop: make sure it was not contraband lol
Principal2006poop: oops, that is not allowed here
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| TheTweenpireStrikesBack - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Principal2006poop: I have never heard of such a thing, through your IP or a third party?
Hemlock Stones: i have some friends in Kansas
Principal2006poop: cool :)
Principal2006poop: kansas is flat
Hemlock Stones: they run a very useful FTP site which i use when i am working on BBC projects or PBS stuff over there
Principal2006poop: super
Hemlock Stones: we have done some joint projects and we need to send programmes back and forth
Principal2006poop: ftp used to be the only transport method we had, I have forgotten everything about it
Hemlock Stones: it works fine
Principal2006poop: yes
Hemlock Stones: i often do it via messenger or skype, am doing audio with Honey Sanchez as i type
Hemlock Stones: bjackson0308@hotmail.com
Principal2006poop: both of those are much improved
Hemlock Stones: yes skype has got a lot better since ebay bought it and put money in
Principal2006poop: you just signed up for a lot of spam, this log is in the usenet hemlock
Hemlock Stones: lol
Hemlock Stones: no worries
Hemlock Stones: i have plenty of extra storage and several other email addys if i need them
Principal2006poop: oki
Principal2006poop: I feel guilty, I will rarely have files that you need
Hemlock Stones: it doesnt matter its good to share
Hemlock Stones: you should get an email about now
Principal2006poop: yes it just arrived, I already got one file
Hemlock Stones: cool
Principal2006poop: that was easy and fast, super, thanks
Hemlock Stones: yes its a good service
Hemlock Stones: my upload speed is the weak link
Principal2006poop: I will wait to watch them, lol like candy for a sweet tooth
Hemlock Stones: theres another on its way now too, its the stage version of Monty Pythons Four Yorkshiremen
Principal2006poop: you must have dsl or adsl, for an upload of mbs that fast
Hemlock Stones: sorry they are only audio but when i get the vids i will send them too
Hemlock Stones: yes its ADSL phonelink
Principal2006poop: I have cable and it is only about 400 up
Hemlock Stones: usually the uplink is only about 30% of the downlink speed
Hemlock Stones: so mine is about the same, and the transfer link up to the server is only about 160 kb top
Principal2006poop: on a good day, 4mb down for me
Hemlock Stones: mine is only 2 mb
Principal2006poop: I do not see much difference on bad days when it is 2mb lol
Hemlock Stones: where in the usa are you by the way ?
Principal2006poop: except for big downloads, I do not do that often
Hemlock Stones: transfer rate here earlier today was pants
Principal2006poop: roanoke virginia, near tennessee, west vrginia and north carolina
Hemlock Stones: sorry to hear about the mining tragedy in your part of the world
Principal2006poop: ahh thanks, it has gotten much better than the old days
Hemlock Stones: you should have another email about now too
Principal2006poop: yes, I got monty python, thanks again
Hemlock Stones: ok will call it quits in this room and see you in messenger
Principal2006poop: oki
||||||||| 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..
Dexter Fong: Night you guys =))
Principal2006poop: wb and night fong
Principal2006poop: I was waiting for you :D
Principal2006poop: have a super week and a super 2006
Principal2006poop: I am going to close this looking for bandwidth, night all
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Hemlock Stones - dead from measles
||||||||| Dexter Fong - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:20 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Principal2006poop - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
ah.clem
Bambi
bonemeister
Bubba's Brain
cease
Dexter Fong
doctec
Elayne
Firebroiled
Hambergere & Hiphugger
Hemlock Stones
Honey Sanchez
klokwkdog
Merlyn
Principal2006poop
Stickman
TheTweenpireStrikesBack URL References:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060103
http://lodestonecatalog.com
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/04.html#a6571
http://www.markfiore.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx
http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/