||||||||| 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 February 10, 2011 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 10, 2011 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?" : Well, the disk is full : so we don't have names : and I don't know how long the chat can last : and there won't be any login messages : huh? : well that is interesting... : see ya when the disks aren't ful : have a great week : ok stranger : Merlyn wanders around and looks up : "anyone home?" says Merlyn : (taps microphone...) Is This On....? : "who's thar?" asks Merlyn : no_anchovies : It's pitch black...you're likely to be eaten by a grue : so we're chatting Merl, it's just not functioning normally? ||||||||| New CNI streaming notice: 'playing something by Firesign'
the disk is full so it can't write names : yeh, strange. : no colon? : who's in charge of taking out the trash? : I had to patch the code so it wouldn't auto-log you out : anybody home? : if it can't find your name in the list, it figures you're dead : Merlyn here : ah... you're the chatroom admin? : yep : but I can't stop the disk from filling up : testing : so we got no names : ok, let's identify ourselves. I'm llanwydd : would it help you if i log off temporarily? : nope : the disk is full, and something is probably keeping it full : hey Llano. : no_anchovies here. : I've sent email to the sysadmin, but no telling when it will get fixed : lol : How can you be in NO place at once when we're not anywhere at all? : we're metaphysically absurd : llan: ok, here's what we do. we put our names at the beginning of each "send" : llan: good idea, me : Merlyn laughs : no_anchovies: worth a try. : lol : Merlyn: anyway, FT is on CNI : Merlyn: Hello Mr Lol, can I call you "ha"? : no_anchovies: i wasn't expecting a "D.I.Y." kind o' night. `_~ : Merlyn: we're the Man With No Name : llan: it read "no name" with this curious epitaph... : no_anchovies: i almost didn't log in. perhaps others are thinking along those lines? : Merlyn: "Not from around here" : Merlyn: earlier, you'd get logged right back out, so maybe they gave up : Hi, I'm CLASSIFIED, and I'm a : llan: I bet they'll try later : Merlyn: Welcome to the first meeting of Fireheads Anonymous, strictly enforced : no_anchovies: no more zizzing 'n' dripping, like with the tropical fishes... : llan: I guess : Merlyn: I don't know if this chat will get saved or posted if the disk is still full : no_anchovies: prolly not. : : it's weird, it adds the chat text OK : which is just appending a file : Merlyn was here : no_anchovies: the classic chat that wasn't there. : Hi, I'm CLASSIFIED, and I'm a : no_anchovies: yeah, i noticed that. : llan: I'm CERTIFIED as they say in britain : Merlyn: I'm glassified : no_anchovies: a conundrum. : llan: I'm GLASSY EYED : Merlyn: A Conan Drum? : Merlyn: I can see that the disk continues to slowly fill up : no_anchovies: Barbarian, or O'Brian ? : llan: with what? : : Merlyn: Conan the O'Barbarian : Merlyn: or maybe Conan O'Canada : no_anchovies: "even Kathy Berbarian knows, there's one roulade she can't sing..." : llan: you remember the movie UHF with Conan the Librarian? : llan: that was hilarious : no_anchovies: Al Yankovic ? : Merlyn: vaguely : llan: yeah, that one : no_anchovies: that movie reminds me of the one Proctor was in... "Tunnelvision" ? : Merlyn: It could've had a sequel, VHF : llan: I never got to see Tunnelvision : no_anchovies: worth seeing. i think it was on VHS, but never DVD. : llan: I remember seeing the ads for it on tv when it came out : I saw it when it came out, I think, but I didn't know what Phil Proctor looked like : 1976 : no_anchovies: then we're older than you (lol) ! : Merlyn: Howard Hessman and Ron Silver too : Merlyn: I'm 53 : llan: well I started on fst when I was in high school : Merlyn: I knew Firesign Theatre back then, but not really what they looked like : no_anchovies: gotta start young, if you're gonna stick it out. : I saw their albums in stores before I ever heard them. I loved the album titles : llan: I wrote that line : llan: then I saw Big Mystery Joke Book in a book store and read most of Giant Rat : no_anchovies: (hands Llan his ten-percent) : llan: then when I was a sophomore or junior in high school an english teacher played The Further Adventures of Nick Danger for our class on the last day of school : llan: the teacher had to work at the school after the students were out so I went up there to borrow 2 Places from him : llan: a few days later he lent me Electrician : llan: so how did you get into FST? : follow along as we learn our next three words in......Egyptian ;-) : Merlyn: I think one of my older brothers : no_anchovies: heard "Electrician" circa '70? older brother of a friend had it on. : llan: let me try something here. Hey, how's Catherwood? ||||||||| Catherwood lets try something here hey how's. : LOL : Catherwood, can you still function ? ||||||||| Catherwood strides up to and queries "Did you want something?" : llan: well, the problem isn't catherwood taking the night off ||||||||| Catherwood walks up to and asks "Someone mention my name?" : far out Catherwood, just roll a couple of bombers and leave them on the side table. ||||||||| Catherwood fars out just roll a couple of bombers and leave them on the side table. : LOL : no_anchovies: Merl, you obviously neglected to close the clothes mode. : Catherwood: Read Me Doctor Memory ? ||||||||| Catherwood reads doctor memory. : Catherwood, was your mother a Bozoette at school? ||||||||| Catherwood strides up to and queries "Do you have something for me to do?" : Merlyn: open clothes mode : llan: so what's on cni? : what? : Merlyn: not sure right now, Mark Time was on earlier : principlepoop says mothermayI : llan: wilkommen, princ : pp danke : pp so the recession has hit the firesign chat too : llan: you might say so : pp I just did : llan: as no_anchovies said, its DIY night tonight : no_anchovies: Obama has failed to sufficiently stimulate, apparently. : pp strangely biden stimulates me : llan: yeah, I'm getting tired of obama : Merlyn: it's the economy, we can't give out free names any more : llan: wasn't he supposed to stop the war and bring peace and prosperity? seems to me that's what I heard before the last election : BYOName : pp or just close gitmo for christs sake : llan: just another politician : pp he could do that in 10 seconds, he is the effing president : pp with the billions spend every month on those wars, i give up : pp but don't you give up : Merlyn: give updoc : pp senator webb gave up : llan: I haven't voted for a republican in many years but who knows : pp open memram : pp a new england republican is no republican lol : no_anchovies: irony is, the U.S. has been beating the crap out of everybody for so long, it actually is, in some danger. : no_anchovies: they've created their own threat. : llan: and not Nick : pp as we told each other in the navy, paybacks are a bitch : no_anchovies: self-fulfilled. : pp the illusion of control is intoxicating : Merlyn: So USA needs AA? : pp I know why we are nobodys tonight, cat is not here, the nexus of our reality : no_anchovies: ICH meinen wir sind alle Bozos fort dieses Autobus
: llan: fascism is coming back into vogue in america : pp yes M : llan: now who the hell is Autobus? : pp yes ll : pps no anchovies : Merlyn: is it coming back into Cosmo too? : no_anchovies: doesn't recall when it wasn't? : pp beep beep : llan: LOL Merlyn : Merlyn: "hand me the fascist section" : pp http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/27/an-end-of-an-era-the-incandescent-light-bulb/ : Merlyn: that's from a jack poet ad; Bergman says it so it sounds like "fashion section" : no_anchovies: hands Merl "The Book Of Punter" : llan: I never made the connection. Fashion/Fascist : pp yo and i say unto thee yo : no_anchovies: this is the best non-chat ever. : pp how about fashionistas? : pp up yours : no_anchovies: close the clothes mode on the fashionistas. : llan: so how's the weather in your part of the world : Merlyn: also, the names are swapped in the sense that the woman has a man's name and vice-versa : no_anchovies: 70's here. : pp snow last night, all melted today, still cold : llan: where are you, no_anchovies? : no_anchovies: Farenheit, not the decade. (San Diego) : pp name swappers, wasn't that a tv show? : llan: aha. are you paul? : pp all my brothers and sister were born in coronado : no_anchovies: it's me, from P.E., Llan. : llan: I thought so : oh, it's Breakfast with the Brunts : Merlyn: http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/fstads/jp_breakfastwiththebrunts.ram : Dick and Jane Brunt : no_anchovies: i think i've settled on "no_anchovies" as a nick, now. : pp i cannot use my headphones now : Merlyn: ok no : llan: I'm in Florida lately. 50s at night, 60s in the day : Merlyn: no head? : no_anchovies: i've never liked "Real Player." i don't load it. : pp better than quicktime : llan: LOL, Merl : pp always hated quicktime : no_anchovies: screw proprietary files. : Merlyn: can't please everyone : pp no ears, they keep slipping down : Here's the MP3: http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/fstads/jp_breakfastwiththebrunts.mp3 : pp hard to wear my glasses too : llan: I used to love stereo headphones : no_anchovies: quicktime plays MPEG tho'. that's something. : no_anchovies: ah, thx. : llan: great for listening to FST : pp yes : no_anchovies: yup. you can wait in the sitting room, or sit in the waiting room... in STEEEREO Hi-Fi. : Merlyn: who's the narrator in that anyway? : Merlyn: Dick and Jane are Bergman and Proctor : pp run bergman run : pp see proctor see : llan: that's the second time tonight I've been redirected to "amrad" : Merlyn: so who's the narrator? : do i really need to write pp? you cannot tell it is me writing what I write? : the narrator is on first : Merlyn: yer just a colon otherwise : who's on first? : pp belches, good idea m : pp the narrator, moron : the narrator is a moron? : is he a polygamist too? : pp i don't know, no headphones : no_anchovies: Ossman usually does voice-over parts, but yeah, that doesn't quite sound like him. : pp who is asking that? : Merlyn: I think it was pp, there was no name : no_anchovies: how many times do we have to polygamize? : pp you got my dander up, do it some more : pp I would not have asked if it was my, I know when I ask something : Merlyn: we need polymers for polygamy : no_anchovies: Nino sez, no one is chatting. it may be true that we are not here? : Merlyn: welded for life : no_anchovies: it boggles the mind. : pp now I am scared : Merlyn: correct, we are undetectable by Nino in this diskful state : Merlyn: Nino's mind is already boggled : llan: this is like the twighlight zone : llan: or however you spell it : pp oops, we are ok, the cheeselog exists, that was close : Merlyn: The cheeselog is just this same file : pp so if that file was not there, then we would not be here : llan: he must have a qulte in his hed : no_anchovies: interesting that the log records, but we're not actually logg'd in. : pp that is why I said whew : Merlyn: for some reason, our names can't be written in : pp quilt : pp like quill with a t at the end : no_anchovies: i also suspect that this state of unfairs, is keeping our fellow bozos at bay. : llan: a helt in your cud : Merlyn: but the text we type can still get appended. I don't know why they differ : no_anchovies: Merl, can you change the message on the homepage to say "Log In Anyway" ? : pp it is an enigma wrapped in a puzzle shoved up the ass of a riddle : pp tickled himself : no_anchovies: instead of "Disk Full, Working on it" ? : pp, ahhh, my waiting room link in my favorites jumps here with my name and chat options already set : pp i have not seen the log in page in 14 years : Merlyn: I can, but I was also going to leave : pp if you leave, we are lost : no_anchovies: i thought the Cap'n goes down with the ship? : Merlyn: stuff will still work as well as it does now : pp 2 or 3 men sailed, from the san francisco bay chat : Catherwood, flog that Merlyn. ||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside and says "Did you want me?" : flog merlyn catherwood ||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside and says "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?" : principlepoop says flog merlyn catherwood ||||||||| Catherwood strides up to and mumbles "Stop typing gibberish, !" : Catherwood, hit principal poop with a lash ||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside and asks "Do you have something for me to do?" : no_anchovies: i suspect Catherwood's never heard of flogging... just frottage, perhaps? ||||||||| Catherwood walks up to and queries "Did you need me?" : llan: well, I'm takin a powda : Merlyn: me too : pp thinks catherwood requires a speakers name to respond properly ||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside and mumbles "Stop typing gibberish, !" : llan: Nite Folks : no_anchovies: okay fellers. same bat channel. : ahh the bus huh? ok ok, super week all : pp says night night, week week : Merlyn: And so ends the first meeting of Firehead Anonymous, strictly enforced : name? : No name. I was CLASSIFIED, myself. : AKA FireHeadObject. : AKA Bunnyboy
crawls back into the bag ||||||||| 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."
