Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/05/2010

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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 August 05, 2010 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts foobar in through the front door at 4:40 AM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| It's 4:50 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| foobar - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts ah,clem inside, makes a note of the time (8:23 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| New CNI streaming notice: 'no few minutes tonght, t-storm took out power, see ya next week'
||||||||| It's 8:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ah,clem - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Dexter Fong inside, makes a note of the time (8:43 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| "8:51 PM? 8:51 PM!!" says Catherwood, "cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as cease enters and sits in the comfy chair.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Bambi', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:52 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Bambi: Hello Dear Friends
cease: hi bambi
cease: thunder is not your friend, eh?
Bambi: Can't stay long. Wanted to say hello but am on the iPod in safari and to hard to type and see the scroll at the same time
cease: see any lions?
Bambi: Well not in this storm or last night when lightening hit something very close
cease: rain promised here on saturday. it's been bone dry for a month
Bambi: Electricity has been out for 1 to 1.5 hrs so far ... Was going off and on like a crazy monkey before
cease: i was trying to do some weeding but my lawn is like cement now
cease: air is so bad we're told not to go outside today. many fires around the province makes vancouver air as bad as tokyo or la
Bambi: Like Clem is fond of pointing out ... Nature catches up with the odds in time...been in a drought here since beginning of June
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
cease: just watching news now, we're told to stay indoors and avoid exercise
Bambi: Heard that ... We have been in 90s-100s since Beginning of May!
Bambi: Some days have been over 100F and that's not counting the heat index
Bambi: It was 95F today before the storm with a heat index of 108F
Bambi: We have only had 3 day in the 80s the whole spring/summer and they were in the last 2 wks
cease: i avoid places like that
Bambi: This is not normal weather for here
cease: i try and avoid temperature extremes
Dexter Fong: Hello Dear Friends
Bambi: Well better shut it down now ... Don't know how long our power will be out ... Please pass the word ... Great to see ya Cat
cease: we had company from japan the past few weeks and they were enchanted with how cool van is compared to japan
cease: best of luck with the power, bambi
cease: hi dex
Bambi: We are fully on battery since power went out and storms not done yet either
cease: i wonder if today's chat will be as sparsely attended as last week
Bambi: See ya next week!
Dexter Fong: Night bAMBI
cease: hopefully with new firesign show on cni
Dexter Fong: hOW DO cAT?
cease: looking forward to promised rain this weekend
Bambi: Hey Dex Sorry didn't realize you were here... Missed ya last wk ... See ya next wk
Dexter Fong: S'kay Bambi, I missed you last week and I'll miss you again this week
Dexter Fong hums "I've been missing you so long
Bambi: This darn screen is too tiny to see all the page
||||||||| At 9:13 PM, Dexter Fong vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Catherwood leads Dexter Fong inside, makes a note of the time (9:14 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Bambi: ByE for now
||||||||| Dexter Fong departs at 9:14 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Dexter Fong sashays in at 9:14 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
cease: few people here last week, even fewer tonight
cease: i wonder where everybody is?
||||||||| It's 9:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bambi - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Dexter Fong: Perhaps everyone's gone to the myune
cease: last week merl lamented that no one shows up for tuesday chat so i showed up this tuesday and no one was there
Dexter Fong: I suspect that twice a week is a bit too much for most folks
Dexter Fong: at least at this time of the year
cease: yes, 4:00 is inconvenient chatting time for me
Dexter Fong: as is &pm for me as I seldom get home before @7:so and then have dinner to make
Dexter Fong: So......the terrific chat drought continues
cease: indeed
Dexter Fong: yep
cease: and no cni
Dexter Fong: nope
cease: have you heard any of the hour hours on radio jive or the new jersey station?
cease: i'd put one on but i'm enjoying new tv
Dexter Fong: No, Cat, I don't think so although I have a few of them myself
Dexter Fong: New TV set, or tv show?
cease: our 4 year old tv died at the begininng of the week so had to be replaced.
cease: smaller and vastly cheaper but the picture is actually better. amazing
Dexter Fong: Jeeze, 4yrs is not a very long time for a tv to last....was it plasma by chance?
cease: no, the new one is plasma. the old was a samsung, something called DLP
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Elayne inside, makes a note of the time (9:30 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Elayne: Evenin' Cat, Dex!
Elayne: Dex, I'm done with the three books you loaned me.
cease: hey it's el.
Dexter Fong: That's dissapointingly short life...I'd complain to Samsung
cease: i thought this was going to be the dex and cat chat
Dexter Fong: Hi Elayne
Elayne: No, this is the New York City October Planning Session. :)
cease: yeah, suddenly it began howling, like it was about to explode.
cease: i called the dealer and he said it was a flywheel and would cost as much to replace as a new tv
cease: happy with a.rod's 600th homer, el?
Elayne: He was from Shyster, Shyster, Flywheel and Shyster, wasn't he?
Dexter Fong: Flywheel...like hamsters?
Elayne: Oh Cat, it's about damned time. If I had to hear Michael Kaye intone one more time about the Changing of the Balls, I might have thrown something through my TV's flywheel.
cease: i think so, el
Dexter Fong: So Elayne, how's the Dresden FILES?
cease: too bad it was against my team. but we did win the first 2 games
Elayne: I haven't actually watched the TV show yet, Dex, but as I said I finished all the books you gave me. Not bad. Definitely "white guy's POV" but I wasn't expecting anything else.
cease: we rarely beat the yankees, or anyone except orioles
Dexter Fong: E: Who did you say that too....not me
Dexter Fong: to
Elayne: Yeah Cat, the Yankees played really subpar baseball those first two games, they deserved to lose.
Elayne: Yes Dex, that's the first thing I said when I came on tonight, that I read all your books.
cease: i never know if jays pitching is good or just lucky
cease: we hit lots of homers though.
Elayne: So, gents, let's talk October.
Dexter Fong: As the great Van LIngo MUngo once said "It's good to be lucky"
Elayne: Dex, you didn't make reservations for me and Robin and Cat at The Spotted Pig, did you?
Dexter Fong: Not yet
Elayne: I didn't know if you wanted Saturday or Sunday night for that one, Cat.
cease: i visited its website, el. looks like some good food
cease: i leave monday so either sat or sunday is fine for me
Elayne: Do you and your bride want to join us for that one, Dex?
cease: yes its close to the casa dex
Dexter Fong: We've got previous engagement LElayne
Elayne: Ah, okay.
Dexter Fong: Long standing weekend
cease: spoke to doc on phone over the weekend and they'll be picking me up from dex's on wed and taking me to your place on saturday, el.
Elayne: The West Village used to be close to the East Village, Cat, but I think they've done away with the crosstown bus (the M8) now due to budget crapola.
cease: so maybe i won't need a cell phone after all
Elayne: Oh Cat, it'll be nice to see Tom and Lili again!
cease: havent you seen them since 05?
Dexter Fong: E: The bus yet runs
Elayne: And I'll call the car service for Monday, just let me know your flight number and time.
cease: lili is taking classes to upgrade her skills and sounds very upbeat
Elayne: Oh, that's good, Dex, I thought that was one they cut.
Dexter Fong: Just another threat scare
Elayne: Cat, I may have seen them once or twice but it's been awhile.
Elayne: Dex, is it easier if I make the Spotted Pig reservation?
cease: i doubt they take reservations this far in advance, el
Dexter Fong: Makes no difference to me Elayne, once you''ve done Per Se, it's all downhill
Elayne: For the famous-type places? They probably do.
cease: maybe a month before, like most places i want to go to
Elayne: 'Kay, I'll do it, then. I'll let you know what I find out, Cat. What time, around 7 PM? Earlier, later?
Dexter Fong: Per Se is a minimum of 5 years
cease: actually Daniel is higher rated now, dex. and MUCH cheaper
Elayne: LOL, Dex!
cease: 7 sounds great, el
cease: i'll be hungry
Dexter Fong: Ah the politics of fine dining
Elayne: 'Kay. If I do it for Saturday night that's a good excuse to stroll around the West Village.
cease: sounds delightful, el
Elayne: What time were Tom and Lili planning on dropping you at the Riggs Residence?
Dexter Fong: you 2 chat amongst yourselves while I refrech my refreshing beverage
cease: el, do you remember when i was visiting and looking at your Peanuts books and asked if you and robin remember the very intricate strips shultz drew about shroeder's visit to beethoven's home town?
cease: i have to talk to doc again soon el, so i'll ask
Elayne: Oh dear, your beverage isn't self-refreshing?
cease: its from a book of sunday strips from late 50s or very early 60s
Elayne: I vaguely remember, Cat.
cease: i promised to send it to you, but i can bring you the actual book if you don't have it
cease: i got way into peanuts around 58-59 and have some books from that era
Elayne: Robin has everything up to the '70s, he's been collecting those volumes.
Dexter Fong: I'm into Cashews myself....and Macadamias
Dexter Fong: But peanuts brickle *is* rather nice
Elayne: He has through the 11th book, it goes up to 1972.
Elayne: There are more books out but we can't really afford everything we want to buy at the moment.
cease: you mean the original books?
Dexter Fong: E: Did robin show any interest in the Dresden Books?
cease: the kind of fine drawing one expects from robin but not shultz. that's why i mentioned it to you 2 5 years ago
Elayne: No Dex, he didn't.
Dexter Fong: But Cat: YOu didn't know Robin 25 years ago
Elayne: No Cat, the collections from Fantagraphics.
Elayne: Heck, I didn't know Robin 25 years ago.
Dexter Fong: Only Bruce Wayne did, and he called him Dick
Dexter Fong: In a positive sense that is
Elayne: Because he WAS a Dick. It's really that simple.
Dexter Fong: See
cease: was he tricky?
Dexter Fong: He was also a Grayson = Gray Son eh/
cease: if he was an Earl, he'd be...
Dexter Fong: A member of both the White and Black Councils
cease: probalby my least favourite blend of tea
Elayne: Oh, I like Earl Grey. Makes great iced tea.
cease: i like many kinds of tea. just not that one
cease: but i'll be bringing you some of that Fruit Garden tea from Japan i was teling you about. Fumiyo has lots, at leatst for now
Elayne: Oh, thank you!
cease: did anyone see the japanese player leaping up to catch ball?
Elayne: You'd have to be more specific than that, Cat.
cease: looks like something one of my cats does in jumping for a fly, but not a human for a fly ball
Dexter Fong: Not see Japanese play leaping up to catch ball
cease: today's news on bright new tv
cease: you're not a baseball fan are you, dex/
Dexter Fong: I am in fact...Mets fan
cease: i remember seeing manny mota then of the dodgers make a great catch once but this is ridiculous
Dexter Fong: First Big league game I ever saw was when my grandmother took me to see the Washington SENATORS PLAY THE Yankers
Elayne: Mets aren't doing too badly now, they're at .500 ball.
Dexter Fong: Mickey Vernon, Eddie Yost, Big Johnny Mize...and Van Lingo Mungo
cease: sounds like the script for Damn Yankees
Elayne: VAN LINGO MUNGO? I love it. Is that a real thing in the world?
cease: was that the Babe Ruth yankees, dex?
cease: i have a cd of baseball songs and one of them is about him, el
Dexter Fong: E: It's the name of a baseball player. Dave FRISCHBERG wrote and sings a song that is nothing but a recitatioan of players names from the 40s and 50s
cease: and he would have to have been a white man. weird
Dexter Fong: And every chorus ends with van's name
cease: yes that's the tune, dex
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:59 PM, dragging Bunnyboy by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Dexter Fong: Cat: Remind me to play Orchestra Luna's version of "You Gotta Have Heart"
Bunnyboy: Anyone for Bridge?
cease: and then there were 4
Bunnyboy: Who...ehrm, fluffed?
cease: we're multiplying, like bunnies
Dexter Fong: Hiya BBoy
Elayne: Evenin BB!
Bunnyboy: I was in the "Heart" quartet, in DAMN YANKEES, in college.
Dexter Fong: Then you've got heart BB
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Elayne: Every time I hear that song I think of the Allan Sherman parody. Sherman ruined me for so many songs of that era.
Bunnyboy: Not just Heart. Har-AR-ar-eart!
Elayne: "You gotta have skin, all you really need is skin, skin's the thing that when you got it outside, it helps keep your insides in...."
cease: shine on harvey bloom, up in the moon
Bunnyboy: Somebody (Shout! maybe?) is re-releasing all the Sherman albums this fall.
Dexter Fong: Hey Cat, have you gone outside at night to see the great Aurora show?
cease: i saw him doing a tv show in la once.
cease: he was very good
cease: i tend to Sleep at night, dex
cease: maybe it's just me.
||||||||| Ben Bland steals in around 10:03 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Elayne: I already have My Son, the Boxed Set, Bunnyboy.
Elayne: Evenin' Ben!
Dexter Fong: Like when it gets dark, cat...not at fucking 3 in the morning
cease: wow. they are trickling in.
cease: hi ben
Elayne: I was going to give that boxed set to my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary, but my dad was killed three weeks before that.
Dexter Fong: Good evening Ben
Elayne: So I don't even know where it is now, I can't bring myself to look for it.
Elayne: My dad was soooo into Allan Sherman.
cease: bummer, el
Bunnyboy: lo Ben!
Dexter Fong: My dad was into General Sherman
Ben Bland: Elayne, Dexter, cease. Do carry on.
Elayne: Well, if it weren't for stuff like Sherman, who knows if I would have been primed for things like Firesign?
cease: did your dad see him live, el?
Dexter Fong: Hated them reb boys
cease: i thought your dad WAS general sherman, dex
Elayne: I just got a Molly Goldberg CD (MP3) for my mom.
cease: indeed, el
Dexter Fong: No cat< President Lincoln
Elayne: She really likes Gertrude Berg.
Dexter Fong: He was a lifelong Republican
cease: the firesigns are still paroding old songs. on the last few rfo's, they're ripping off Mr. Sandman with a tune they called Dr. Blowjob
Ben Bland: ...and Mr Peabody?
cease: they could rip off the Sandman comix, but it really woulndt work on the radio
Dexter Fong: General Sherman and the Peabody Institute
Elayne: No Cat, I doubt Dad ever saw Sherman live. Unless he played the Borscht Belt, I have no idea what Mom and Dad saw when they went to the Catskills.
cease: I would be surprised if he didn't, El. i saw him in la
Elayne: They saw a lot of shoes in AC and Vegas, but Sherman was long gone by then. My mom still likes to see shows in AC and Vegas when her friends treat her. :)
Bunnyboy: Elayne: Didja see the doc on the lady who played/created Molly Goldberg?
Elayne: Well, I'll ask Mom on Saturday. I'm actually curious about the shows she and Dad went to.
cease: and if i were a jewish comedian in the 50s/60s, i'd much rather be in ny than la
Elayne: I've seen various docs on Gertrude Berg now and again, Bunnyboy, I probably saw that.
Elayne: But Cat, LA! And it's a dry heat!
cease: when did sherman die?
Dexter Fong: 1872
Bunnyboy: It's a recent documentary. Title starts out "Yoo-Hoo!".
Elayne: Lot sof Jews in the pre- and post-war eras migrated to the Hollywood area.
cease: not enough jews to support a comedian, at least a successful one, unless he was on tv/movies
Dexter Fong: Sioux arrow took him out
Elayne: LOL, Dex!
cease: ny has nightclubs and such
Bunnyboy: Literally came out late last year, or early this year.
cease: and the catskills
Bunnyboy: It's slated for a DVD release, sometime within the next month.
cease: i grew up in a jewish area of van nuys.
Dexter Fong: I've heard about your cat skills, Cat
cease: lol dex
cease: what's happening, ben?
Dexter Fong: Like to dump in a box
Ben Bland: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking
Dexter Fong: very clean
Ben Bland: http://virtuallyspeaking.ning.com
cease: you're broadcasting on 2nd life, ben?
cease: talk about narrowcasting
Ben Bland: I'm looking for signs of life is Second Life. This is what I found.
Ben Bland: No, I'm not broadcasting.
Elayne: I'm afraid I still don't have the hang of Second Life. And my first one is fading fast this evening.
Dexter Fong: All I can say is in the next life, you're on your own
Ben Bland: I tend to shy away from, you know, the content thing.
Elayne: Next week, all.
Dexter Fong: Night ELAYNE
Ben Bland: But these folks at Virtually Speaking are different.
||||||||| 10:13 PM -- Elayne left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
cease: by el
cease: see you soon
Bunnyboy: Night, El!
Dexter Fong: Ben: YOu mean they're not like you and me (gulp)
Ben Bland: Long time no... Nite.
Ben Bland: They're not like me.
Dexter Fong: Not sure how to take that Ben
Ben Bland: I thought it might be of interest to you, Dexter. Because you're not like me.
Dexter Fong: Ah...the corallary to "The enemy of my enemy is my firend.......(for now)
Ben Bland: /me blinks confusedly at the camera.
cease: as long as he isnt a fiend
Dexter Fong mutters "Close the curtain Fred"
Ben Bland me worries about his colon.
Ben Bland worries about me.
Ben Bland: The characters are different in every chat space.
Dexter Fong: 'mutters "By Jove, I think he's got it"
Bunnyboy: It's a font choice.
Dexter Fong mutters, "But I've lost it"
Bunnyboy: I gotta go BBQ some poultry parts. Nitey!
Dexter Fong: Low and slow BB, low and slow
cease: by bun
Bunnyboy: It's what kept the 2000 year old man alive. That, and a stuffed cabbage.
Ben Bland: I'll try to get here early next time.
Dexter Fong: and a little spring water and some clouds
Ben Bland: Poultry parts are better than no parts at all.
Dexter Fong: Ben: You could have been here hours earlier when only Cat and I were here
Bunnyboy: But why, when I eat asparagus...
Dexter Fong: and I eat corn
Bunnyboy: ...such an odor...
Ben Bland: Is it free range asparagus?
Dexter Fong: shows up weeks later
Dexter Fong: on the north forty
Dexter Fong: hiding in the succatash
cease: just like various chatters
Bunnyboy grabs the tongs.
||||||||| "Hey Bunnyboy!" ... Bunnyboy turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:23 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Dexter Fong: your velcome, BB
Ben Bland: You're a free range Bunnyboy?
cease: no caged rabbit he
Dexter Fong: He's a fwee wange wabbit!
Ben Bland: My dream of bringing the Future Fair to Second Life seems... Remote.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with RumpleTweenSkin close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 10:26 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom.
Ben Bland: Distant.
Ben Bland: Fading.
RumpleTweenSkin: Hey all
cease: did you talk about it with merl, ben?
cease: hi tween
cease: he does stuff like that for the firesigns
Ben Bland: You need a shave, Rumple.
Dexter Fong: And a Bris brother
cease: i havent shaved since march, 1976.
cease: so the concept of "needing" a shave is unknown to me
Dexter Fong: Who's that talking behind that beard and sunglasses?
Ben Bland: Sleeping until it all blows over. Tried it. But I kept waking up.
Ben Bland: I keep waking up and nothing has changed.
Dexter Fong: Have you tried Flavolex
RumpleTweenSkin: Yeah Ben, it didn't work
Dexter Fong: The Flavolax
Ben Bland: Something changed for you. Now you need a shave.
Dexter Fong: Could be lice
Dexter Fong: Even mice
Dexter Fong: Wouldn't be nice
Dexter Fong: Use Old Spice
RumpleTweenSkin: lol
Ben Bland: You'll always look keen.
Dexter Fong: Does any of yez recall the old Burma-Shave signs?
cease: i do indeed, dex
RumpleTweenSkin: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your beard?
Ben Bland: The movie Idiocracy had a similar concept.
RumpleTweenSkin: Somehow just doesn't seem the same
cease: when i was a kid my parents travelled alot. the burma shave signs were a pleasent diversion from their endless tedium
Dexter Fong: I flashed on it when I noticed my little ditty thing kinda looked like a series of BShave signs
RumpleTweenSkin: Idocracy has some pretty good moments
Ben Bland: Burma Shave. I'll see if I can get them as a sponsor.
cease: one of my favourite poems is based on burma shave signs observed in oregon by earl birney
cease: do they still exist?
Dexter Fong: Ben! PLease leave that to Marketing
Dexter Fong: Haven't seen one for years
RumpleTweenSkin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
Ben Bland ?
RumpleTweenSkin: Now at least I know what you're talking about
RumpleTweenSkin: Don't recall running across those in my travels
Dexter Fong: Thanks for the leaky-wiki Tween
Dexter Fong: Ben! The SD's ask you several times to *not* contact potential sponsers in person
Ben Bland blinks confusedly.
cease: south dakota has a sponsor?
Dexter Fong: Ben!!?? Burna Shave, you said "I'll see if I can het as a sponsor"!!!
Dexter Fong: get
Dexter Fong: them
Dexter Fong: North Dakota Cat
Dexter Fong: It's a top bottom kind a thing
cease: no one goes there intentionally. Fargo was shot in Minnesota
Dexter Fong: by the same damn coward that shot Mr. Howard aka Jesse James
Dexter Fong: then them Dalton Brothers and johnny ringo too up the gun
cease: Noel damn Coward?
Dexter Fong: Quite Right!
Dexter Fong: You remeber his great song, Cat/
Dexter Fong: Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the Aurora Norealis
cease: which one?
Dexter Fong: Borealis
RumpleTweenSkin: Quite fright, Rank
Dexter Fong: Norealis sounds like some kind of experimental real niche type of drug
cease: ive seen lots of auroras
RumpleTweenSkin: The Caward bit in Meaning Of Life is pretty funny
Dexter Fong: I wont bore you with mystories of alis
cease: always look on the bright sight of meaning
Dexter Fong: the aurora is bright tonight mahster...shall I ready the hounds?
RumpleTweenSkin: I do try, cease
RumpleTweenSkin: Aooooooo
cease: werewolves of austin?
Dexter Fong: oooooooooA?
RumpleTweenSkin: Since cease never shaves, how do we know when he turns into a werewolf?
cease: a werecat?
Dexter Fong: And now on our really big shoe, The werewolves of Siegfried and Austin
Ben Bland wonders who put the words "Ben Hunter Movie Matinee KTTV channel 11 Los Angeles" on the teleprompter.
Dexter Fong: It's one of our new sponsors, Ben...You got the memo
Ben Bland: The pink memo?
Dexter Fong: No Ben...the standard white paper we've been using for the past 6 years
Dexter Fong: Here...The one with your name on it
Dexter Fong: Guys, I think we've flogged about the best out of this =)
cease: flogged? did we commit adultry in a muslim country?
RumpleTweenSkin: Using the cat-o-nine tails again?
Dexter Fong: I'm going to cut Ben's mic and just sign off......"O"....."F"....."F"
cease: yeah i gotta go watter my plants while i can still see them
cease: see y'all next week. or some of you
Dexter Fong: See yah next week Dear Friends
||||||||| At 10:53 PM, cease vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
RumpleTweenSkin: Later, catman
RumpleTweenSkin: And all
||||||||| At 10:54 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, RumpleTweenSkin!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Ben Bland: KFWB AM 98 Los Angeles "Click Here For A Preview Of Our New Look!"
Ben Bland: Nite.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ben Bland - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Dexter Fong - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "12:45 AM? 12:45 AM!!" says Catherwood, "RedPillTweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as RedPillTweeny enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| It's 1:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
Bambi
Ben Bland
Bunnyboy
cease
Dexter Fong
Elayne
RumpleTweenSkin

URL References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
http://virtuallyspeaking.ning.com
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking

Rogues' Gallery:

PP and Cat(cease)	Bunnyboy	kend^/Dr. Headphones
Merlyn and Tirebiter	DocTech	LiliLamont
FreqMan	Rotonoto	LeatherG & SO
Nin0	Tonk	Ah, Clem and Bambi
Compañero Señor Yämamoto	Dexter Fong	Elayne
Bubba's Brain	Bightrethighrehighre	Boney
llanwydd	Tween	Porgie
Bob D Caterino	Dave & Katie	klokwkdog 404 - Not Found, Not Forgotten
Peggy Blisswhips	Audrey Farber	Tiny Dr. Tim Rest In Peace, Dear Friend

And, "The Home Team"