Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
11/23/2006

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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 November 23, 2006 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Firebroiled into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:05 AM, then departs.
Firebroiled: I want you to pick those plates and eat of those condiments, then I want you to fill your bodies and your mouths and your minds with the thoughts and realities of food. Dear Friends, Jesus said, “Let’s us be as children.” And what do children do? They stuff themselves from day to night. They eat. They fill themselves with the reality of existence, my friend. The one common bond that holds the world together. The bond of food, the need for food, the void of emptiness. We must fill it and fill us with the fullness of it. We must eat of our friends the birds, of our friends the cows, of our friends the pigs. Yes, it’s good to eat a friend, my friend. And when the duck comes down with the magic word, what is the word? Is it too much, friends? (Pull the curtains, Fred) Look at this, look a
Firebroiled: Look at this, look at this steaming heap. Too much of Admirable Bird’s crackly brown French-fried Chicken Fingers? Too many cuts of Mother Baker’s Deep-Dish Sheep Dip Cherrystone Pie? Too many Tubs of Slaw?
Firebroiled: Pass the dinner mints, please
||||||||| Firebroiled departs at 9:07 AM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "10:20 AM and late as usual, it's BobDCaterino, just back from Sterling."
BobDCaterino: Where natives were restless and did what they can.
||||||||| It's 10:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| BobDCaterino - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood leads ah,clem in through the front door at 8:54 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| New CNI streaming notice: '"a few minutes with FireSign Theatre" at about 9 eastern, pass the Indian, please'
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Merlyn', just granted probation at 9:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, November 23, 2006 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Merlyn: Hey dere, pass the indian please
||||||||| "9:02 PM? 9:02 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Dave should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Dave enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Merlyn: hey dave, you missed David Ossman last week
Merlyn: and phil proctor, who I missed also because he showed up late and unannounced
Dave: evening all! so the first time I get a good chunk of time to join the crowd, it's thanksgiving, right? figures, no choir rehearsla for awhile though so I can at least be here for the next month or so
Dave: well...it was my birthday last wek so I went home to have dinner, I wanted to come though, figures again
Merlyn: maybe they'll show up a few more times in the future, now that they've tried it
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Bambi', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:05 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Dave: it's a bambi! hugs
Dave: I hope so Brian, I would like to chat with them
Bambi: hi Clem, Dave and Merlyn! Pass the Indian Please! ;-)
Bambi: thanks Dave ... hugs back at cha!
Merlyn: hi bambi
||||||||| 9:08 PM: doctec jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
Bambi waves to Merlyn
Bambi :-)
Merlyn: hey doc
doctec: squeeze the indian right there, maybe he'll pass another one
Dave: another turkey! gobble gobble
doctec: lili may or may not join us this evening - although she is here on the couch, we had a big tg dinner out and she's pretty wiped out
Bambi: hey doc! Got the DVD and have since installed first Kubuntu yesterday and played with that, and then installed Ubuntu this morning and have all kinds of transparency and customizations in Gnome which I normally hate lol but am really enjoying it in Ubuntu with all the transparency and stuff! Thanks!!!
doctec: you're welcome! i'm glad all the bits and bytes arrived intact and functional. good to hear.
Dave: mmmmmm, I love transparent things, I can see right through them
doctec: opacity quotient = 0
Bambi says Hi and Happy Pass the Indian Day to you and Lili, Doc
Bambi: LOL good one Dave
doctec replies in kind: happy tg to you, ah clem and yours
doctec extends that sentiment to those who are here, and all those who are not here
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:13 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Bambi: crack people lol
Bambi: hi Cat ... pass the Indian, please ;-)
cease: im still using her
doctec: hey cat
cease: hi doc, et al
cease: you get the data dvd yet doc?
Bambi: lol Cat
cease: we're in our 8th day of our boil water advisory here
cease: thankfully fumiyo has just returned from japan
Bambi: brb ... need something to drink
cease: is this the dear friend with pass the indian on it?
Merlyn: hi cat
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:16 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom.
cease: as long as it isnt vancouver water, bambi
doctec: hey tween
cease: we all want you to survive, at least til next week
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Happy Turkey Day all...
cease: hey merl
cease: yo missed proc last week
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Still boiling the water in Van, eh Cat?
cease: yes, its a whole new boiled world for fumiyo
cease: i was complaining to ossman that proc never shows up to chat, and as soon as ossman leaves, proc shows up
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Nothing like living in the 3rd world ;-)
Bambi: Happy Turkey Day, Tween!
cease: yes the 3rd world has come to vancouver, and brought its water
doctec: dang, wish i'd known that cat. did he stay long? any indication he'd join in again in the future?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Really sorry I missed Proctor. Hope the guys will make themselves more welcome here.
cease: turkey day? istambul was constantinople
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Hey Bambi...
Merlyn: most people missed him, he showed up pretty late
doctec: last thursday was proc's first appearance on chat - am i right about that
cease: proc was here looking for ossman. didnt really come here to hang out, unfortunately
Bambi: you've been having to boil your water Cat?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Follow after me, as we eat three more bites of Turkey...
cease: yes i was here with schoolboy until the end. most of you have never met him, but he's the guy who got the boys into the library of congress
cease: i helped him in a minor sort of way when we met in dc last year
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Didn't know that...
cease: boil and then britta filter, just to serve the animals. we all drink bottled water
Merlyn: he had the library card?
Bambi: was sorry I missed Proctor too, but I did get two copies of his newsletter since last week ... including the special holiday version. Fun reading
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: They absolutely are an American icon.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol, or not Cat
cease: i think im off his ailing list
cease: doc tec, did you get dvd?
Dave: I showed up really late las week
cease: you were here with proc, right dave?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: You're not feeding the animals Perrier?
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:21 PM and Bubba's Brain bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Bubba's Brain: Hey all
cease: hey bub
Dave: anyone heard from ken? haven't talked to him in probably a month
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Yo dere Bubba...
cease: did you get that neal amid off to the guy who wanted it?
Bambi: Happy Turkey Day Bubba :-)
doctec: cat: if you sent it to 68 pierce, it's probably there waiting for me to pick it up (i haven't been there in a while)
cease: wasnt he here last week?
cease: oh 8i see doc
cease: how is lili?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I've been getting a few bits of email, Dave. Nothing particularly personal. Jokes & such.
Merlyn: hi bb
Bubba's Brain: Yes, Cat, he sent in an order by mail, filled some time ago.
doctec: lili is hanging in there. we went out for t.g. dinner, she's wiped out at the moment.
Bubba's Brain: Happy TD, Bam, all.
cease: bambi, A Shadow Moves UPon the Land would be perfect to play tonight
cease: good to hear, bub
doctec: she's due to go in for another bronchoscopy tuesday
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I'l bet it's a remarkably draining experience, Doc.
doctec: the v.a. docs still don't know why her left lung is all blocked off - especially since her right lung is fine
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Was listening to that yesterday, Cat.
cease: im watching a comsumer reports analyses of drain cleaners rigiht now
doctec: we've been in medical limbo ever since she started having breathing problems in mid october
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: You guys didn't happen to visit New Jersey or anything...
doctec: with any luck this upcoming hospital visit will result in the docs figuring out what's going on - and know what to do about it
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Well, they're bound to figure it out, Doc.
doctec: and yes, the experience is draining for both of us - on many fronts :-/
cease: hope so, doc
doctec: i hope so tween
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Don't doubt it...
cease: the two of you are due for some good things to happen to you
Bambi: sure hope so Doc ... that's really a tough nut to crack on what's going on since nothing conclusive so far.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: The Karma wheel must turn sometime...
doctec: in a way, working on the mtbf chronicles bits for jimmy lee & bambi's saturday computer-oriented cni radio show has been therapeutic
doctec: gets my mind off all the problems
cease: i can see how it would be, doc
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: They're really good bits, Doc.
Bambi: so glad to hear that Doc! :-)
Bambi: they have been great pieces too!
doctec: thanks all
Dave: brb need to take the puppy out
Bambi: I love the name of your contributions too... can't beat that
doctec: k dave
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Not a Windoze user, but I know enough to know that's some really good info and advice.
Bambi: yep, very true Tween
doctec: tween: what audio software are you using on your linux system to do your 'roadkill minute' bits?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: My meantime between failures seems to be constantly shrinking (or at least that's what my creaking joints tell me).
doctec: re joints: lol
Bambi: Hi to Katie ... a scratch behind the ear to her
cease: i wonder if we'll ever see all those folks who showed up to meet tirebiter last week again
Dave: I loves my dog, oh Brian can I send you a pic of us so you can put it up here? send me a pm please with the answer since it will scroll by before I come back
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Not Linux. Mac OS 9 & X. Digital Performer in OS 9.
doctec: i figure i'm the odd man out on cni - everyone else seems to be firmly entrenched in linux land
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Yeah, let's check out Dave's pup :-)
doctec: ooh, d.p. - hell of a system
cease: yes, they are lovable, dave
Bubba's Brain: Tween -- thanks for your note about receiving the catalog. Good to know it got there before Thanksgiving.
Bambi: hard to say Cat ... but it was a very nice crowd
cease: i was hoping for more interesting interaction with our esteemed guest but one cant be picky
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Older version, but still quite powerful. Haven't scratched the surface. No processing of the bits so far, just dry narration and editing.
cease: i was part of a panel that interviewed ossman for a sf radio program in van about a decade ago
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Yeh, Bubba. Great idea having it on paper to peruse.
Bambi: I use Win2K, FC5 and now Ubuntu...and hopefully soon to be Mac OS 8.6 and/or Ubuntu PPC lol
cease: the other panel members were only vaguely aware of firegisn
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: We'll make a Mac person out of you yet ;-)
ah,clem: ...
Bubba's Brain: Hopefully it will help people find stuff they might not otherwise have considered.
cease: how are firesign sales thru lodestone, bub?
Bambi: lol Tween
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: FST hasn't received nearly the press they deserve.
Bubba's Brain: about as usual. they are the bulk of my biz.
doctec: yeah bb - any sign of a spike in sales resulting from the 40th anniversary promo efforts?
cease: thats good
Bambi: I am one of those people that likes to use the proper tool for the job ... somethings I really like Windows best for but most things Linux does just as well or better.
cease: i wonder how ossman's publisher, bear whiz books or whatever, will publicize the book?
Bambi: and I can't wait to try out the Mac to see how I like that
cease: thats why he came here last week. hope it netted a few sales
Bubba's Brain: no, doc, not yet. I've got Christmas boost, and catalog arrival boost, and none of them have spiked like I expected.
Merlyn: dunno cat
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Have you considered getting the mailing lists from i/net stations like Mystery Play Radio, ACB and such? I'll bet they'd be interested in the catalogs.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: We'll get on it after the holidays, Bambi :-)
cease: it owuld be great if tirebiter could do lots of radio interviews. terry gross, all the locals who know firesign, which would me those over 50
doctec: i started with cool edit '96, then cool edit 2000, then a (purloined) copy of cool edit pro (i did cat's red shift with that pgm), and became a legitimate owner and user of adobe audition (after adobe bought syntrillium, the cool edit pro company)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Yeah, Fresh Air would be a natural.
cease: thakns again, doc. off in search of cubes for a few minutes, theyre getting rarer than jewals in van
Bambi: many love Adobe Audition ... bet that's very expensive too
doctec: i used 'reason' (propellerhead.se) for the mtbf theme music
doctec: k cat
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Don't know from Cool Edit.
Bambi: but it's obviously a great program
Bubba's Brain: Didn't they do Fresh Air about 8 years ago?
doctec: oops, make that propellerheads.se
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Julia sure didn't have very good luck using it for her bit...
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: No idea, Bubba.
doctec: i got a break on the price of adobe audition because i bought into cool edit pro and still had a copy of the license # and the install executable
doctec: i had to install cool edit 2000 before my copy of audition would install
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: The latest version of Digital Performer retails for $495. I'll wait ;-)
Bambi: I used to use CoolEdit as well before they were bought out by Adobe
Bambi: really Doc...that's weird
doctec: has anyone here used audacity yet? am curious as to opinions of it
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Bought DP 3.11 for OS 9 for $35 on eBay. More my speed lol
Bambi: ah, ok, that's why
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dave - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bambi: yes, I use it and JL uses it extensively (Audacity)
doctec: i bought the audition upgrade package, it wouldn't install unless it found a copy of cool edit 2000 installed on the machine - not that weird really, kind of a ce2000 'proof of ownership' scheme
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: But then CNI always was audacious...
Bambi: it's a great little program that's come a long way ...does a great job ... need lame dlls to export to mp3
Bambi: heard that Tween!
Bambi: lol Tween
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: brb
doctec: ah yes, the lame encoder - i worked with a very early version of it, i imagine it is much better now than it was way back when (1998, 1999 ... ? )
Bambi: not quite as stable as CE was ... but if you figure it out, it's pretty stable and works well
doctec: when i get ubuntu going, i will have to download and install audacity
doctec: is this thing still on?
cease: nairobi, doc. isnt everybody
Bambi: Good idea doc ... there are many things in Linux for the various parts of production
doctec: i remember the nairobi trio - always loved that bit
Bambi: even ogg does a great job on video
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Didn't know .ogg did video...
Bambi: didn't realize it could do that till I looked at the Examples in Ubuntu
doctec: i wanna know how to create m4a audio files
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Ask Apple ;-)
doctec: they sound friggin' great, and you can create indexes within the files - a neat feature missing from mp3
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Actually, I guess theirs are M4P.
Bambi: LOL, gonna need something from Apple for that, I would imagine
doctec: m4a is apple exclusive? i read it was just the audio component of mp4 videos
ah,clem: high sample rate mp3 sounds quite good too
cease: you know the song bridge over troubled water? it was used in an air america show today an dit sounded like it was recorded ina gym
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: No Doc. M4P is their DRM format.
Bambi: M4a = unprotected M4P = protected media (DRIM) blech!
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: _serious_ reverb on Bridge
Bambi: yes, sure does JL ... and ogg is great too
Bambi: DRM
Bambi: ogg has come a very long way!
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: One thing I didn't realize Clem, is that the quality very much depends on the encoder being used. Apparently, some encoders are better at high res and some better at lower.
doctec: drm = dungeon-required media
doctec: all encoders are not created equal, that's for sure
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: digitally recorded manure
ah,clem: very true Tweeny
Bambi: that's a fact (regarding encoders)
doctec: btw tween: i enjoyed the snl celeb jeopardy mpeg - thanks for that
Bambi: then you have flac and aac too
doctec: i don't always take the time to respond to everything i receive via email, but it's all appreciated
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Glad you liked it. They did a wonderful series of Jeopardy parodies.
doctec: yeah, i think there are a couple celeb jeopardy segments on youtube
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: No sweat whatsoever. Can't respond to every email ;-)
doctec: not the one you sent tho'
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Wouldn't surprise me at all if they'd been posted. Will be interesting to see if they can still do things like that when Google takes over.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Since you liked that one, I'll send some others...
doctec: so, how many people are champing at the bit to go out and buy a zune player? (he asks, rhetorically - none, he imagines)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Mrs. Prominent...
ah,clem: this is an old sample, and not well encoded, but thought it was a good one to play for this show
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Doc
doctec: what a piece of crap - i can't imagine zune sales ever taking off
Bambi: Merlyn what does 'hear red' mean?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: At 16k, it sounds just fine Clem ;-)
Bubba's Brain: Not very zune, doc.
cease: to the great white north
||||||||| Hemlock Stones waltzes in at 9:54 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Bambi: Zune stinks
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Yeah, all the DRM they're including. Vista and a Zune - that's what I want for Christmas...
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Sir Stones...
cease: its prominant stones
Bubba's Brain: Bam, it means you see only messages posted in red -- i.e. posted by firesigners.
Hemlock Stones: Greetings and a Happy Thanksgiving to you all
Bambi: hi Stones! Pass the Indian, please.
doctec: lol bub! they added the cool transmission feature, but crippled it with the drm - probably to appease the record companies they had to make deals with for their catalogs to be available through the 'zune store'
Bubba's Brain: Hey stones.
Bambi: ah, ok, thanks Bubba
Hemlock Stones: (grunts and sweats as he passes overweight Indian to Bambi )
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: You celebrate your dining with the Celts, Stones?
Bambi: yeah, like I would ever buy anything that's laced with DRM
ah,clem: Happy Thanksgiving, Mr. Stones
Merlyn: hey stones
Bambi: lol Stones
cease: Picts? Pixies?
Hemlock Stones: the celts dont exactly dine, Tween, they hunt and they gather
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Except theirs have turbans.
ah,clem: so did the Indians, lol
Hemlock Stones: anyone care for another Indian, i have a couple left ?
doctec: i bought an ipod, but i've never bought anything from the apple store and i never load it with anything other than mp3s
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:57 PM and Gypsydoctor sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: What's on your right?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Hey Gypsy...
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:57 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Bambi: hi Gypsydoctor
doctec: hey gypsydoc
llanwydd: happy thanksgiblet
doctec: hey lland
Hemlock Stones: it looks like a Navajo but i cant say for sure in this dim light
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I was wondering if we'd pick up and new folks from the Ossman chat.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Hey LL...
Bambi: we have another friend that also has an ipod and never puts anything but mp3s on it
Merlyn: hhi llan
||||||||| Gypsydoctor leaves at 9:58 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
cease: maybe yes, maybe no
Hemlock Stones: hi llan
Bambi: hi llanwydd ... Happy Turkey Day
Bubba's Brain: Hey gypsy, llan
llanwydd: just got back from harlem
llanwydd: 300 mile trip
cease: in turkey, with Armenians
Hemlock Stones: incidentally, if anyone has run out of turkeys, we have more than 600 to spare in our government !
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Gypsy has travelled onward..
cease: if you dont come to harlem, one day soon harlem will come to you
Bambi: the ipod is great ... it's the DRM that stinks ... and as long as one can still put mp3s on it, it's worth having ... but the Zune, forget it.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: You had dinner in Harlem? Must have been quite an experience ;-)
doctec: sorry stones, we've got more than our fair share here - won't be running out anytime soon
llanwydd: I work with a group that goes down there every thanksgiving to feed the needy on the corner of morningside ave. and w125th
Bambi: lol Stones
Hemlock Stones: dammit Doctec, was counting on offloading this flock ASAP
Bambi: very true Doc
doctec: harlem comes to cotton?
Hemlock Stones: i cant afford the corn as i have to save it for here
Bubba's Brain: Corn?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bubba's Brain: Now we can make tortillas
doctec: stones: didn't england offload a bunch back in the 1600s?
||||||||| 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 Honey Sanchez disembarks at 10:01 PM.
Hemlock Stones: yes i think we did Doc
cease: hi honey
Bambi: hi Honey ... Happy Turkey Day
Hemlock Stones: Hi Honey
llanwydd: hi ms sanchez
Merlyn: hi hs
Honey Sanchez: shalom namaste aloha hello
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Ms. Honey...
Bambi: sounds like another purge is due, huh Stones?
Hemlock Stones: indeed it is
Hemlock Stones: this time we will supply a boat with a hole in the bottom
Hemlock Stones: if we dumped this lot on you we could never look you in the eye again
Bubba's Brain: Yes, just what we need -- a good purge after this day of binging.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: A free vacation to Basra, perhaps?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Stones
Hemlock Stones: good idea Tween i hear its delightful this time of year
llanwydd: seems to me we've had bigger crowds on thanksgiving
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: And the natives are so polite...
Bambi: heard that! and like Doc was saying, we have enough problems with our current crop lol
Honey Sanchez: probably passed out from the l tryptophan in the turkey
Hemlock Stones: yes they are, excuse me would you mind if i exploded here ?
cease: was that an ossman poem?
doctec: stones: gotta tell you, they'd probably blend right in with the idiots we have here already - we'd never notice the difference :-)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Let's hope the Dems get some cojones. They have no excuse now.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: A la Mr. Creosote in The Meaning Of Life?
Hemlock Stones: Tween what are cojones, is it something like haemarhoids ??
llanwydd: so was that really proctor who logged on after ossman left last week?
llanwydd: I hope it was
doctec remember that great eddie izzard bit about thanksgiving ... "pardon me, but do you have any food? love the feathers, really ..."
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Gar�on, get Mr. Stones his bucket...
cease: yes izzard does american history better than anyone
doctec became an instant izzard fan when 'dressed to kill' appeared
Bambi: yes, Tween ... they are being laughed at now because they have backed down and do not seem to even have an idea of what's important to fight for
cease: except firesign
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Izzard's great. Love his concerts.
Hemlock Stones: no thanks Tween you get them from sitting on your arse too much, not talking through it
Bubba's Brain: Freberg does it pretty good too.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: A Corporate Transvestite lol
doctec: izzard: "i'm from england - where the history comes from"
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Exactly, Doc
Hemlock Stones: sorry Doc they cleaned the past already
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: It's been regrooved.
cease: the dif between firesing in izzard is that he expects ignorance, firesigns expect knowledge of all sorts of esoterica
Merlyn: Amsterdam group scraps plans to smoke world's largest joint: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/od_nm/dutch_cannabis_dc
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: By the Ministry of Information.
cease: sounds like the arlo guthrie tune, alice's rainbow coloured roach
Hemlock Stones: if you lived in England you would expect ignorance too, cease, even the dumbing down has been dumbed down now
Bubba's Brain: Bombers, not bombers....
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Hello, I hear you have "cafes" in your country :-)
Bubba's Brain: Are they up to cafe standards.
cease: for some reason, i expects brits to be more knowlegeable than yanks, at leatst about their history
Honey Sanchez: "You can get anything you want in Alice's Cafe" just doesn't sound right somehow
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: They watch TV too, Cat ;-)
doctec has no problem with lowest-common-denominator thinking .... it's just not for him, that's all
llanwydd: cafe means coffee
Hemlock Stones: a survey published today showed that 50% of british kids could not point to England on the world map, i know its a small place but really .......
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: _that's_ where LCDs come from!
cease: i dont agree that watching tv makes you stupid or reading books makes you smart
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Jeeze, Stones...
cease: stones i think its higher than that in the states
Honey Sanchez: kaffe too
Merlyn: You can get anything by Raffi at Alice's Cafe
Bubba's Brain: At the center, isn't it?
llanwydd: I find that statistic a little hard to take seriously, stones
Hemlock Stones: beleive me its only a slight exaggeration
Merlyn: those british kids are too close to the continent, they can't see the shape - no wonder they can't find it on a map
cease: my frined huddart worked for raffi. luckily he does no lnoger
llanwydd: 60 percent of what age kids?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Well, if you read the Collected Essays of Dan Quayle, Cat...
cease: doc know him. he was in all of my plays
Hemlock Stones: i dont even think they have realised its an island, especially since the built the Channel Tunnel
||||||||| Catherwood leads Dave in through the front door at 10:11 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
doctec: 50% of religious conservatives think the other 50% are heretics
Merlyn: hey
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: We're all in Italy!
doctec: hmm, let's see if i can turn off these italics
Honey Sanchez: hi dave
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: wb Dave
Merlyn: I'd better fix that (again)
doctec: merl beat me to it
llanwydd: 2 year olds?
cease: growing up in la in 50s-60s i found the general atmosphere to be profoundly anti-intellectural
Bambi: wb Dave!
Dave: well so much for my earlier request, I got distracted
cease: but there were always a few, and thats all you need
Merlyn: dave, you can send a picture to me at westley@visi.com
Hemlock Stones: to be anti-intellecltual, presupposes that one possess an intellect so its not all that bad
doctec: lili will tell you: i am easily distracted :-)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: C'est vrai, Cat.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Stones
Hemlock Stones: (waves arms wildly in an attempt to distract doctec)
llanwydd: cherchez le vrai
doctec: most anti-intellectual americans don't know they are anti-intellectual - they just think the liberals are godless and therefore evil
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Mais oui :-)
Bubba's Brain: Over there, doc!
doctec: brb
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Vraiment
Hemlock Stones: (no, over here !)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Stones
cease: i know very literate anti-intellectuals.
Bubba's Brain: Oh, look at that pretty pattern....
Dave: agreed doc, glad to be part of the intelectual crowd, ok thanks Brian will send asap
Bubba's Brain: Doc left suddenly -- he must have been distracted by something.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: You have to have an Intel processor to be smart
Merlyn: ok dave
cease: you;'re right about the religious divide, doc. its much more severe in your country than here or other places ive visited
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:16 PM and oldiesfan sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
cease: hi oldies
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Evenin' oldie
llanwydd: howdy of
Merlyn: hey again oldiesfan
oldiesfan: yo room
Honey Sanchez: hi oldies
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I hear that there some US ultra-conservatives in your contry trying to win people over, Cat.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Grid help ya...
Hemlock Stones: theres a new comedy sketch program on BBC Radio Four, if anyone wants to hear it, i already stole it and stashed it here
Hemlock Stones: https://www7.sendthisfile.com/d.jsp?t=jhbPhzQW9wf7sQ8cpiFcoJ1c
llanwydd: I got rained on all day in herlem this afternoon. what a nightmare
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Religious conservatives, that is...
llanwydd: all worth it though. I actually enjoyed it
Hemlock Stones: it will keep the dust down llan
llanwydd: I mean harlem
cease: i went thru there on the bus when i was at elaynes' last year. seemd to have a lot of very attractive older buildings
cease: at least from the outside. looked like europe
Bubba's Brain: harem?
Bambi: hi oldiesfan
llanwydd: yeah some of it's rather unique
Bambi: Happy Turkey Day
oldiesfan: harlem, as in "harlem shuffle"--bob & earl, 1964 gold
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Now that's where you want to spend Thanksgiving, Bubba.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I might have to say Grace ;-)
Bubba's Brain: Or do something else to Grace.
oldiesfan: is grace slick?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Well, this is going downhill quickly, lol...
llanwydd: grace is amazing
Hemlock Stones: its accellerating
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Still love listening to Ms. Slick.
Bubba's Brain: She saved a wretch like me.
Hemlock Stones: she told me to feed my head so now i am a fat head
llanwydd: I've heard of grease slick
Bubba's Brain: One pill will make it small, stones.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Sunfighter's not bad for its time.
Dave: I am realizing how much I missed this crowd, we sang a verse of amazing grace in our choir performance
oldiesfan: and then there was griesedick beer in st. louis years ago
Bubba's Brain: I've just got the ones mother gave me, they don't do anything.
Hemlock Stones: the cold weather does the same for me Bubba
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Dave
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Welcome to Heathen Chat (sorry Bambi)
Honey Sanchez: in these here parts, that's heathern tweeny
Bubba's Brain: Fadin fast -- see y'all later.
Hemlock Stones: i wore a sprig of heather in my hair but never a heathen, i would have noticed
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I've got some spare parts, if you need 'em...
Honey Sanchez: lol stones
llanwydd: night bub!
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Bye Bubba...
ah,clem: if you can stay up for the goat sacriffice at midnight...
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Stones
cease: why does this sound so unfamiliar?
Honey Sanchez: night bubba
Hemlock Stones: TTFN Bubba
Bubba's Brain: Nytol.
cease: bub
||||||||| At 10:25 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...
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Clem
oldiesfan: hello mr. ah clem
Honey Sanchez: ya hi ah, clem =)
ah,clem: hi Oldiesfan
Hemlock Stones: Yo Clem
ah,clem: hola, Honey
Bambi: night Bubba
Honey Sanchez: I hope Bambi stuffed you like a turkey today, ah clem it's a tradition you know
Dave: heyya clem
cease: the lads sure enjoy making up products
Dave gobbles
Hemlock Stones: Wrong room again Dave
oldiesfan: such as loostner's castor oil flakes?
Bambi: actually my brother stuffed us today lol
llanwydd: got mail. probably spam. brb
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: We're all turkeys on this flatbed...
ah,clem: actually works the other way around, Honey, lol
Merlyn: ok, I should have improved the unterminated HTML problem; when people type in wrong HTML, it can get confused, so now it tries to terminate HTML in more cases
cease: this has a sort of mad mag, lampoon mag imaginery product feel to it
Honey Sanchez: lol clem
cease: almost, tween
Hemlock Stones: passes Cease a new potrezebie
Merlyn: I think it's ok...
ah,clem: hiya Dave
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: (Tweeny eats his Radio Dinner)
cease: are you still in radio prison, tween?
Merlyn: I think I'll assemble a Firesign montage for Shockwave on saturday (kfai.org, 3:30 pm central, also will be in the archives for 2 weeks)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Not to be torturing me!
Merlyn: for their 40th
cease: isnt that a redundancy, merl?
Honey Sanchez: great, merlyn
cease: "firesign" and "montage"
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: A Firesign montage? Probably...
Hemlock Stones: Merlyn, i have listend to FT stuff on KFAI in the past, are they still broadcasting it ?
oldiesfan: they're going to surround us!
Dave: ooooooooo shockwave! too visual sadly otherwise I would partake
Honey Sanchez: quick, oldiesfan get the wagons into a circle
Merlyn: it's a radio show dave
oldiesfan: why do you always do that?
Dave: my big guide dog is chasing my little dog around, the little one doesn't sound too happy about it
cease: ive got a circle.
Merlyn: not the browser plug-in
Honey Sanchez: i mean flatbeds, oldies
Dave: reeeeeeeeeally, where is this going to be?
Merlyn: hemlock, KFAI broadcasts Firesign whenever any show plays firesign, mostly mine and jerry's show
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: With Firesign, you can make up your own visuals, Dave ;-)
cease: the word flat has taken on new meanings in van this week
Merlyn: you can listen online at kfai.org, either live or after saturday in the archives for 2 weeks
Dave: lol! well hey I just assumed
Hemlock Stones: ty for that Merlyn i will make a note of it
cease: a unit of bottled water
oldiesfan: KFAI...Fairbanks?
cease: do we know the url, merl?
Merlyn: we were called shockwave long before those browser upstarts
Dave: ok thanks brian will check it out
Bambi: Dave, you have two dogs now?
Honey Sanchez: minneapolis/st. paul KFAI
Merlyn: kfai.org, and follow the lynx
Hemlock Stones: Url Merl, didnt he play with the original Basie Band ?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: The duke of url? Bumped into him last week...
Honey Sanchez: http:www.KFAI.org>www.KFAI.org>http:www.KFAI.org
cease: bumped him off you mean
Honey Sanchez: cept add the // do'h
Merlyn: yeah, Url "Fatha" Merl
Hemlock Stones: yes thats him
oldiesfan: nothing can stop the duke of url
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: So, what brand of touring car do you like to steal?
cease: 57 trombones led the big parade
doctec: kfai dot arrgh?
Honey Sanchez: yaaaaaaaaa
Honey Sanchez: lol
Hemlock Stones: 110 cornets anyone
Merlyn: and 110 coronations
Dave: and the duke of ellington was right behind
Merlyn: or 110 coronas in the smoking section
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Only with th 383 engine, Stones...
doctec: (i had to step away to help out lili for a couple minutes - we periodically have to search under the sofa for the fake mice that the cats love to play with and hide from themselves and us)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: The trumpeters from Modelo..
||||||||| "10:37 PM? I'm late!" exclaims oldiesfan, who then hurries out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
cease: lucky cats
Hemlock Stones: is that one of them new fangled hybrids Tween ?
doctec: yes, and the leonids meteor shower...
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Gotta keep those fake mice ready and available...
cease: jazz hid under the couch for first 6 hours of fumiyo's return. they are profoundly skittish kittys
Honey Sanchez: better watch out for the smug!!! if its a hybird
cease: do the leonids never bathe?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: More like 1966 Chrysler behemoth.
llanwydd: wonder if the meteor shower was named after brezhnev
Hemlock Stones: (is alarmed by what Honey says and issues immediate George Clooney Alert)
doctec: they never bathe - they just shoot through the stratosphere every once in a while
Hemlock Stones: one night whilst watching the Leonids i got hit by a piece of soap
doctec remembers with fondness those great fake auto spreads bruce mccall used to do for natlamp
Dave: I don't see no metiors!
Honey Sanchez: cead cat soap???
Bambi: lol
cease: how cleansing, stones
Honey Sanchez: dead even
cease: they;re overrated, dave
doctec: was that the "buglemobile"?
Hemlock Stones: i think they got tired of poor reviews
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I've give 'em a 5, at best.
doctec: oops - bulgemobile!
Honey Sanchez: east germans gave them a 3 1/2
doctec: http://www.marksverylarge.com/news/index0211.html
cease: is that mobile still bulging?
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: An AMC Pacer?
Bambi: was it 99.99% pure soap Stones?
llanwydd: that pacer was one ugly car
doctec: "The new cars that say, 'Get out of my way!'"
Honey Sanchez: almost as ugly as the nash rambler
Merlyn: 99 and 44/100%
Hemlock Stones: yes Bambi luckily it was but as i had a razor with me it was also a close shave
Honey Sanchez: lol stones
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Goldfish bowl on wheels, LL...
Bambi: thanks Merlyn I wrote that three times and couldn't remember the exact percentage lol
doctec: yeah, those nash ramblers were definitely nashy and rambly
Honey Sanchez: "nods in agreement with doctec
Dave: lol! the cars that spit at people going past
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I want an Edsel convertible
Dave: past the passed of passed pasts
Honey Sanchez: dave i hate to tell you but those are called "camels"
Merlyn: they didn't use decimal points back then, dewey hadn't invented them yet
doctec remembers my folks buying a used one for my brother as his first car - this was (i am guessing) back in like '66 or so
Bambi: heard that Stones lol
Merlyn: 99.44%
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Preferably convertable into a n '07 Shelby lol
llanwydd: the 2007 Edsel Sedan
Merlyn: the edsel no sel
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Honey
doctec: i once walked a camel for a mile
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Did it get tired?
cease: maybe edsel electric will make a comeback
Hemlock Stones: i still havent got one through the eye of a needle yet though
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Any day now, Cat
doctec: get a beeg freeging needle - that works!
cease: this is beautiful
Hemlock Stones: perhaps they will build a new hybrid, cease
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: You obviously need to divest yourself of your great wealth, Stones.
doctec: camels? we don' need no steenking camels!
cease: ford and gm better come up with something soon or they're gone
Hemlock Stones: our government beat me to it Tween
Honey Sanchez: lol hemlock
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Not as bad as Sweden though, eh?
Dave: a flaming pie is calling my name, bbl
doctec: i think ford and gm are past the point of recovery - they will be bought out by a consortium or possibly the japanese car companies
cease: eat well dave
Honey Sanchez: the GM camel sounds about right gm=genetically modified for the highway
Hemlock Stones: nothing is quite as bad as Sweden Tween
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Truer words were never spoken, Cat.
cease: dont be flamed
doctec: i give then 2 or 3 years tops
Hemlock Stones: except perhaps Norway,
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: McCartney is cooking for Dave?
doctec: the walrus for paul
doctec: thanksgiving walrus
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Besides the 50% taz rate, what else don't you like, Stones?
cease: my father may not live long enough to see it but he'd be delighted to see ford devoured
doctec: death and tazes
Hemlock Stones: i could cook McCartney but i only eat kosher
doctec: stones: lol
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Not a fan of ole Henry, eh?
doctec: macca and cheese
llanwydd: well, it's been a long, long day. I'll be saying goodnight until tomorrow morning
Honey Sanchez: lol doc
llanwydd: but I still won't be back till next week
llanwydd: nood gight
Honey Sanchez passes on the macca n cheese
Hemlock Stones: (reaches for extra large sickbag )
cease: he was a ford dealer, neighbouring city to ralph spoilsport. ford did bad things to him
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: We'll wait up then, LL...
Honey Sanchez: night llan have a good week take care
Hemlock Stones: ok llan take care, see you next week stay safe
cease: llan
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I see, Cat.
doctec: nite llan
Hemlock Stones: brb, time for tea
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Cheated him, did they?
Bambi: we had homemade creamy (pennsylvania dutch style) macaroni and cheese friday night
Merlyn: Give me some more turkey, Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood gives Merlyn some more turkey.
Merlyn: thanks, catherwood!
||||||||| Catherwood answers "You're very welcome!"
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Stick-to-the-ribs stuff, eh Bambi?
cease: here, have ankara
doctec: ooh nice bambi - primo comfort food
Bambi: Catherwood please poor me a toasted almond
||||||||| Catherwood poors Bambi a toasted almond.
Honey Sanchez: did ford beam yer dad up, cat and roadtest the ford anal probe?????gosh!!!
Bambi: thank you Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood answers "You're very welcome!"
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: cat's giving away land in Alaska?
Bambi: pour even lol
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Honey
ah,clem: catherwood please pass the Indian,
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to ah,clem and mumbles "Do you have something for me to do?"
cease: something like that, honey
Hemlock Stones: back
doctec: i'm gonna take off too - drowsies are coming on fast
Honey Sanchez: catherwood please pour me a flaming indian
||||||||| Catherwood gets Honey Sanchez a flaming indian.
Merlyn: catherwood, pass al, clem the indian, please
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to Merlyn and says "Someone mention my name?"
Bambi: doc, been making it like that for over 30 years lol
Hemlock Stones: with global warming you will soon be able to give away Baked Alaska
doctec: good thing daily show is in reruns this week, otherwise i'd be hard pressed to stay awake through it
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: You and Lili rest up, Doc.
cease: yes this was originally a thanksgiving piece
doctec: bambi: send me your mac & cheese recipe sil vous plait. thanks!
cease: yes doc, absence of daily show is a bummer
Bambi: have a great night Doc and Lili :-)
cease: d and l
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: have you seen "An Inconvenient Truth", Stones?
Honey Sanchez thought mac and cheese was mccartney and geldof for some reason hmmmmmmmmmm
doctec: y'all enjoy the rest of your t.g. weekend - and check out cni radio saturday evening
Merlyn: ok doc
Bambi: sure thing Doc
Honey Sanchez: nite doc n lilli have a blest week
doctec: honey: lol
cease: will do doc
doctec: nytol (zzzzzzzzzzzz.............
||||||||| 10:53 PM -- doctec left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Bambi: thanks Doc :-)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Can't wait for that Danger boxed set.
Bambi: ouch! mic definitely acting up!
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Well, tell mic to stop it right this minute!
Bambi: ah, all fixed
Hemlock Stones: i cant stand mics that ad lib, Bambi
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Ah, the one about the Indians getting sick...
Hemlock Stones: sounds like the lazer got clem
cease: aha
Bambi: lol
Bambi: must have been one of those leonids lol
cease: everyone should have this. it must be on thier next box set
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Has Adam been playing with his GPS again?
cease: last week ossman said there'd be a mushroom play set
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: kewl
Bambi: Yep, he sure has Tween and he got it working in Linux so he didn't have to reinstall Windows ;-)
Bambi: GPS will have Adam home by tomorrow ... he's in TN tonight
||||||||| 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 The Plague
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Dave', just granted probation at 11:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Bambi: wb Dave
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I was wondering if you remembered what I said in the chat after he said he had "tellemetry". "A lazer on a space platform turns and aims at Adam..."
Dave: MORE SUGAR!
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Hey houndman...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Dave
Honey Sanchez heard dave moaning in the cart "i'm not dead" as he was wheeled out of here with the plague
cease: less wold be better, dave
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol
Hemlock Stones: Plague you say ? Luxury !!!
Honey Sanchez: wb dave happy ressurection
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: "i"m happy... I'm happy...."
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: We would have given anything to have the plague...
cease: what happend there
cease: was that my file?
Bambi: it's a miracle ... died of the plague and raised from the dead by sugar ... go figure lol
Honey Sanchez: lol bambi
Hemlock Stones: thats nothing Tween, we were wiped out every night
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: I seem to remember that it does that on the copy I have as well, Cat.
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Thought it must have been the original recording.
cease: ok that means its either degraded on the copy or on the source. i'll check the cassette tomorrow. i think doctec copied them on his dat recorder when he ifrst came here in 99
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Wiped out? We had to dig our own graves before we died!
cease: there have to be clean copies of thisstuff, somewhere
Hemlock Stones: we died every night and had to dig and clean our own graves every morning before dawn
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Stones
cease: how very sisyphusian of you, stones
Hemlock Stones: and pay the cemetary for the pleasure
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Of course, if you tell that to the young people today, they'll never belive you...
Hemlock Stones: its true
cease: that realy sounds like austin writing
Honey Sanchez: thats nothing tweeny we had to wipe out the graves everymorning with our tongues half an hour before we went to bed
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: lol Honey
Dave: I don't believe you
Hemlock Stones: mind you Honey, we had it tough
Honey Sanchez: it's true
Honey Sanchez: that we did
Honey Sanchez: aye
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Back in a bit...
cease: dyaln yells that at audience in albert hall concert
Hemlock Stones: starts timer
cease: as i recall
Honey Sanchez wonders eggzackly how long a bit is
Bambi: and we had to walk both ways up hill...in the show...for the pleasure
cease: you see where this play comes from? its so much better in context here
Honey Sanchez: Luxury!!! Bambi
Hemlock Stones: we had to build our own hill Bambi
Bambi: show=snow
Bambi: yes, it's great Cat! Thanks!
Bambi: lol
cease: pass the indian is so much more discordant when in other situations
Honey Sanchez: we had to haul in the snow after we built the hill, stones
Dave: I still don't believe you
||||||||| Outside, the 11:10 PM uptown bus from New York pulls away, leaving Hideo coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Hemlock Stones: we used to dream about snow Honey
Honey Sanchez: it's true!
Bambi: hi Hideo
Honey Sanchez: hi hideo
Merlyn: hey hideo
Dave: did this chat start in 2002? I mean the one we're using now? cause I think I was 16 when I showed up here first right?
Hemlock Stones: after we had got up and cleaned the mass grave we had to build a refrigerator to make snow to put on the hill we built the previous day
cease: 1995 i think, dave
Hideo: I get brain freeze from that stuff, hiya you fellowz
cease: i was here on the first night
Hemlock Stones: Hi Hideo
cease: it was elaynes idea
Honey Sanchez: lol stones
cease: hideo silver!
Merlyn: dave, yes, the web-chat started in 2002
cease: befroe it was irc
Merlyn: first chat was September 19, 2002, and Phil Austin showed up: http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/fstchat_20020919.html
Hideo: I finished making thanksfornothinggiving day dessert ham just before dinner...
Dave: ok Brian that's what I though, I was here for one of the first chats of this web thing, still owe it all to you Brian for making it accessable too
cease: this is so much better than irc
Dave: yeah I think I showed up in sept of 2002 or so, maybe I'm wrong
Merlyn: no problem, dave
cease: yes, we went to europe in october and this was up by then
cease: i could read transcriptrs
Hideo: now I start work on humboldt holiday before dinner ham apertif
cease: temporarily humbolt holiday?
Dave: god it seems so long ago, things sure have changed for me, proof of that is running around downstairs on 4 legs, smile
cease: how is your life, dave?
Hideo: yes, we like eating many sugared hams
Bambi: very true Dave ... Katie i am sure has been a god send in many ways
Merlyn: Dave, you first showed up in November, but you had contacted me about the refresh before than: http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/fstchat_20021017.html
Hemlock Stones: well i am tired and shagged out after a particularly long squawk so i better hit the road
cease: off you go, stones
Bambi: have a great night day Stones :-)
Honey Sanchez: land gently dont hit it!!!
Merlyn: yeah, getting late for me too
Dave: my life is good, just finished my first quarter of second year at the university, am going to California in about a week and a half, and have a break, so that's good, also changing my major to psycholgoy with a biology minor and an english lit minor as well, might be going in to cognitive neuroscience, which as of now I know nothing about but am taking a class on it next quarter
Hideo: my family come here many moons ago in dirty gondola, when we land on liberty statue, we make first racing rickshaw to whisk thru five towns
Bambi: thanks for hanging in with us so late for you
Hemlock Stones: yes i guess so, hope you all stay safe and well and will see you again, same time next show
cease: sounds like a productive path, dave
Hemlock Stones: see you all again soon
Honey Sanchez: time for me to sign off again see you next week same fire channel same fire place arrividerci ya'all
Hemlock Stones: Goodnight
cease: keep on stoning
Honey Sanchez: goodnight
||||||||| At 11:20 PM, Hemlock Stones runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Dave: I hope so, I'm going in to it kind of blindly as it were, but it's definitely something I had never considerred when I came to the uni that's for sure
Hideo: oh goobuy mr stones, dont forget to leave your dirty laundry by the stairs for the dwarves to wash
Merlyn: copyright infringement!
cease: ok that gets my vote as the best firesign play
Bambi: thanks Clem! Great show as always :-)
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Thanks Clem. Sorry you had to rewire the hydra...
cease: great show as always, clem
Hideo: i want to play here but my wife horrorin for me to wash dog & make more horrorday hamz
cease: horrors
Merlyn: "dogwash" is an actual computer priority term for bugfixes in software
Merlyn: see http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/computers/TheHackersDictionaryofComputerJargon/chap22.html
Bambi: and to any and all ... if you get a chance to stop by Saturday evening to listen and chat with us ... we'd love to see ya! Doc, Tweeny and Adam do some great contributor pieces for the show as well. It all starts at 6:30PM ET for Independent Artist Warm Up, 7:00-10PM ET JimmyLee and Bambi Show, 10PM ET a few more minutes with Firesign Theatre - http://www.cniradio.com for how to listen (same address as tonight) and how to Chat With Us as well.
cease: how very educational
Hideo: no, hi really take leetches & wash dog! but tank you mr merlyne
Merlyn: I'll try to be there and be square
Bambi: great Merlyn :-)
Merlyn: ¢ u £ater
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "11:28 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
cease: merl
Hideo: dogcow /dog'kow/ n. See {Moof}.
Bambi: night Merlyn
Hideo: goobuy merline
Bambi: have a great night everyone! Great fun to see you all
cease: you too bambi
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Honey Sanchez - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Bambi smiles
Hideo: c u bambini
cease: they're dropping like mars flies in a kline bottle
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny: Later, gators. Have a great week...
||||||||| 11:30 PM -- DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
cease: tween
cease: are we dead yet?
||||||||| cease is kicked out just as the clock strikes 11:31 PM.
Hideo: Moof /moof/ [MAC users] n. The Moof or `dogcow' is a semi-legendary creature that lurks in the depths of the Macintosh Technical Notes Hypercard stack V3.1; specifically, the full story of the dogcow is told in technical note #31 (the particular Moof illustrated is properly named `Clarus'). Option-shift-click will cause it to emit a characteristic `Moof!' or `!fooM' sound. *Getting* to tech note 31 is the hard part; to discover how to do that, one must needs examine the stack script with a hackerly eye. Clue: {rot13} is involved. A dogcow also appears if you choose `Page Setup...' with a LaserWriter selected and click on the `Options' button.
Hideo: i have eaten many dogcows but never a moof
Hideo: goober & farewell to u all until we meat a gain....
Dave: well I guess I will be going as well, same time next week, layter all
||||||||| At 11:36 PM, Dave rushes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood says "11:39 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs ah,clem by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bambi - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Hideo: ah,clem
||||||||| Hideo leaves at 11:40 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..."
||||||||| 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
BobDCaterino
Bubba's Brain
cease
Dave
DeliciousIndianHeartTweeny
doctec
Firebroiled
Hemlock Stones
Hideo
Honey Sanchez
llanwydd
Merlyn
oldiesfan URL References:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/od_nm/dutch_cannabis_dc
http://www.cniradio.com
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/fstchat_20020919.html
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/fstchat_20021017.html
http:www.KFAI.org>www.KFAI.org>http:www.KFAI.org
http://www.marksverylarge.com/news/index0211.html
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/computers/TheHackersDictionaryofComputerJargon/chap22.html
https://www7.sendthisfile.com/d.jsp?t=jhbPhzQW9wf7sQ8cpiFcoJ1c