A Firesign Chat
03/17/2011




Archive

||||||||| 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 March 17, 2011 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 5:48 PM: Caterino jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Caterino: I sneak past Catherwood. He smells my feet but thinks it is something burni9ng in the kitchen. I am safe. I will wait behind the sofa until the others get here. Sofa so good.
||||||||| Catherwood gets here sofa so good.
Caterino: Catherwood grabs Caterino by the shirt and throws him out into the snow
||||||||| Catherwood rushes over to Caterino and queries "Did you want something?"
Caterino: I say no, and let m,yself out only to try the front door when others arrive.
||||||||| It's 6:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Caterino - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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 8:32 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 time, Rats'
||||||||| At 8:34 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, ah,clem!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 17, 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?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "9:03 PM and late as usual, it's Seamus_O'Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| cease bounds in at 9:04 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Seamus_O'Mudhead', just granted probation at 9:05 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| "Hey Seamus_O'Tweeny!" ... Seamus_O'Tweeny turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:06 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with ah,clem close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:06 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary.
||||||||| 9:06 PM: Seamus_O'Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
ah,clem: good evening
cease: ah, the clem voice
ah,clem: how does he do that?
Seamus_O'Tweeny: faith and begonias, the gang's not all here (because we're not all there)
cease: good choice for st. paddy's day. lots of irish refs in this
ah,clem: was Tweeny's idea, if you need someone to blame
cease: i always enjoy this album
ah,clem: this is the cd, much cleaner than my old recording
cease: yes i bought the cd too. sounds great
cease: i wonder where everyone is. maybe they're all taking a spring break, in Sendai
ah,clem: lots of detail
Seamus_O'Tweeny: hehe
ah,clem: too much green beer?
Seamus_O'Mudhead: green tees
cease: hi muddy
Seamus_O'Mudhead: I would like a massage also
ah,clem: one fancy ale, coming up
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:17 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
llanwydd: hello dear friends
cease: hi llan
llanwydd: how's everybody?
ah,clem: playing the tale of the giant rat, ll
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Hey LL
llanwydd: quite fright, rank
ah,clem: that's the one
llanwydd: quite jazzed to be here
ah,clem: where there's smoke, there's work
llanwydd: I love that line
ah,clem: a power so great it can only be used for good or evil
cease: lots of great lines in this
ah,clem: one of the most often quoted lines, often by those who don't know the source
llanwydd: I went to see Yes in Orlando last Saturday
cease: how were they?
llanwydd: I hadn't seen them since before I saw FST
llanwydd: fantastic show
llanwydd: I last saw them in 1980 at MSG. this was the first time I saw them outdoors
llanwydd: they played in the middle of a downtown street
ah,clem: what's cheese for the mouse is a snack for the Rat.
cease: was there a big crowd?
llanwydd: yeah it was a big crowd but everybody had to stand unless they brought chairs which I didn't
llanwydd: they only had seating for "VIP"s whatever they are
llanwydd: I counted 400 "VIP" seats
llanwydd: great to see Yes again after 31 years
cease: i used to like them in the early 70s
Seamus_O'Tweeny: I'll bet :)
llanwydd: now I've got to see FST again
llanwydd: next time they come to florida
Seamus_O'Tweeny: I happened to catch the Relayer tour 3 times, but that's the only time I've seen them live
llanwydd: I heard the Relayer show was really elaborate
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Moraz's keyboard rig surely was
llanwydd: dfghjkl
Seamus_O'Tweeny: geshundheit
ah,clem: it's a keyboard, ll
llanwydd: lol
cease: i think the firesign are as likely to play florida as they are to play japan
llanwydd: I think fst would go over the heads of the japanese somewhat
llanwydd: they really aren't into california jokes
cease: if they were into it, i think they could put on a really good show in japan. but they're not into it and austin doesnt travel by plane
ah,clem: Cat can explain it to them
cease: austin, bergman and proctor all speak some japanese
cease: austin used to work for JAL in Frisco before the Firesign days
cease: When Proc met my wife, he began conversing with her in Japanese
ah,clem: nice
cease: when one considers how much the firesigtn were into things japanese in the dear friends era, it could have worked
llanwydd: you think the japanese would be impressed with Young Guy? I wonder
cease: i used to have some connections in japan, to radio stations and record companies, that could probably have made that happen
cease: but the lads weren't into it. they're barely into performing at all, and it had better be on the west coast of the us
llanwydd: not to be torturing me!
ah,clem: on and off like a crazy monkey, another quote often used by folks that can't site the source...
llanwydd: if austin doesn't fly, how did he get to Town Hall in NYC?
cease: when rhode island's joe auger asked austin when he would be coming east at the langley show last jan, austin said they had a 2 year plan to get there
ah,clem: as Cat said, this record is full of great lines
cease: he USED TO fly.
cease: on the hour hour shows, there is austin talking about his flights to and from nyc in 1971 for their east coast tour then
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bunnyboy in through the front door at 9:44 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
cease: maybe phil and austin and their dogs will drive accross country for the next east coast tour, if there is one
Bunnyboy: lo dere o'dere
llanwydd: Hi Bunnyboy
cease: hi bun
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Well, that's up to him
Bunnyboy: Are folks out at the bars, instead of church...ehrh, chat?
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Mmm, time for some rarebit!
llanwydd: ferlin husky died. anybody remember him?
Bunnyboy: I'm in the last half hours of Ep 21, of Hour Hour.
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Sure, the country singer
cease: sled dog?
ah,clem: oh yes, I remember many of his songs
Bunnyboy: I gotta admit, they lean too heavily on the echo FX, this ep.
Seamus_O'Tweeny: North To Alaska?
llanwydd: yeah
cease: they sure did like their echo
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Don't know Bunny, works for me
cease: bunny, you know fantagraphics?
Seamus_O'Tweeny: They're supposed to be in a cavern, right?
Bunnyboy: And I'm glad they managed to polish and redeem Dr. Memory, but the "Doctor....ahhhh, ummm..." bit starts to loose it's flavor, after the 18th or 19 iteration...
cease: indeed, bun. that is tiresome.
Bunnyboy: cat: Yes, local publisher.
cease: you familiar with Harold Hedd, great comic strip of the 70s
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Vaguely, cease
cease: i just bought a bio of rand holmes, the creator of rand holmes
cease: creator of harold hedd and other highly salacious comic work.
cease: published by fantagraphjics. odd in that he's a vancouver guy but i guess no publishers up here for that work
cease: an absolutely beautiful book bun, you might want to add to your collection
Bunnyboy: Cool. Unfamiliar with Holmes/Hedd, but I'll take a peek, sometime.
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Thanks, clem :)
cease: called The Artist Himself, Rand Holmes, a Rand Holmes retrospective by Patrick Rosenkranz
cease: thanks again, clem
ah,clem: have a great week, nytol
cease: harold hedd was kind of a canadian fab furry freak bros but more hard core, and much, much more erotic
llanwydd: nite Clem
||||||||| ah,clem dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's ah,clem?! It's 9:51 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
cease: absolutely beautiful art work
Bunnyboy: Hey! Where'd that clem go?
Bunnyboy: What's on the CNI feed tonight?
cease: if only he was still alive, i'd ask him to illustrate my graphic novel idea
llanwydd: that's a novel idea
Seamus_O'Tweeny: clem played Giant Rat
cease: just giant rat tonight, bun
Seamus_O'Tweeny: but he's off the air now
cease: asking dead people to work for you is always a novel idea
Seamus_O'Tweeny: kinda tricky
Bunnyboy: CGI can do anything...within and/or without reason.
cease: although it can be done. the last 2 harold hedd comics were a 2 part story called Hitler's Cocaine. and hitler's been dead for a long time, but it helped rand holmes sell some comix
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Speaking of which, the aerial screnes from Japan looked like someone's CGI, didn't they?
cease: indeed, tween
cease: i used to live near there 40 years ago. used to go to Sendai all the time as it was the closest big city
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Someone was saying they half expected Godzilla to walk out of the ocean
cease: hitch hiked thru fukushima many times
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Sad
cease: the difference between japan and here is that there are no unpopulated parts of japan.
cease: its wall to wall people. canada, not so much
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Yeah, of course
llanwydd: I'm sure there must be some unpopulated areas on mt. fuji
llanwydd: not everybody would want to live there
Seamus_O'Tweeny: I heard that Tokyo has over 30 million people
cease: on top of mts, yes.
cease: greater tokyo, yes
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Actually, from what I've read, there is quite a bit of unused land in Japan, very much on purpose
cease: they mow down our forests instead of using theirs, yes
Seamus_O'Tweeny: right
cease: the flat land is pretty much covered in people
Seamus_O'Tweeny: pretty smart, in the long run
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Which we rarely cinsider
Seamus_O'Tweeny: *consider
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Well, let's hope they get those reactors cooled down
cease: i sure hope they do
Seamus_O'Tweeny: For all our sakes
cease: otherwise that part of japan could be uninhabitable for a long time
Seamus_O'Tweeny: Like the area around Chernobyl
cease: indeed tween, it's a small world after all
Seamus_O'Tweeny: The plume from the reactors would quickly spread into California, and wherever else the wind takes it
Seamus_O'Tweeny: My best to the people of Japan, and good night, all
||||||||| Seamus_O'Tweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Seamus_O'Tweeny exits at 10:07 PM.
cease: by tween
llanwydd: so where's dex and stones and no_anchovies and bubba's brain and honey sanchez and elayne and bambi and...
Bunnyboy: nite Tweeny!
cease: yes small turn out tonight
llanwydd: perhaps they lost their way
Bunnyboy: Or their lunch.
llanwydd: lol
Bunnyboy: Early morning binge drinking is not the answer.
llanwydd: well they'd be having a late lunch, especially stones
cease: i see news people now based in osaka instead of tokyo.
Bunnyboy: Well, now, I might have to move A SAFE PLACE up, on my viewing queue.
Bunnyboy: Since they've been talking about Proctor's time in NY, on Hour Hour.
cease: a vid store in vancouver has safe place so i'll definitely rent and watch
cease: it was delightful to hear proc babble about his work on that flick
Bunnyboy: I've been on an editing jag with WikiRococo, recently.
cease: yeah the call ins to hour hour are great
cease: i was there when it went up but not since then.
llanwydd: well, I'm heading out. see you next week
Bunnyboy: nite llan!
cease: off you go, llan
Bunnyboy: I've been working through the LP catalog, mostly, in date order.
Bunnyboy: FInally got to side B of ELECTRICIAN.
||||||||| Seamus_O'Mudhead says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Seamus_O'Mudhead exits at 10:15 PM.
cease: i dont understand bun. surely you heard side b years ago
cease: by mud
Bunnyboy: I'd like to think that the Wiki will be a longtime thing. It's one of my ship-in-a-bottle endeavors.
cease: ok the wiki. i see
Bunnyboy: Oh, no. It's not the listening. It's the documenting.
cease: i should visit. i probably have some knowledge i could contribute from the early days of fst
Bunnyboy: Certainly! It's an open pool. Dive in!
cease: you still listening to rfo?
||||||||| It's 10:20 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: it doesnt seem to be long for this world
cease: it sounds like bergman's moved back to la
Bunnyboy: I've been watching some old TV series, recently. THE FUGITIVE and THE UNTOUCHABLES.
cease: the last episode of the fugitve was filmed at a motel that became my high school in la
Bunnyboy: To be honest, I listen to RFO website stream, on Mondays...until the player on my phone hurks.
cease: never saw the untouchables but wrote about capone in neal amid
Bunnyboy: And I download 'em all. But I've been listening to the Hour Hours more.
cease: its ounds like bergman is losing interest in the project
cease: yeah hour hour is great stuff
Bunnyboy: I've only seen THE UNTOUCHABLES pilot, so far. From what I understand, they reimagine the series, after the pilot.
cease: i hope Duke is selling a lot of copies
Bunnyboy: The pilot ends with Capone going to jail, for 11 years...but they bring him back to capo status, for the series.
Bunnyboy: The DePalma/Mamet film is pretty cool...and a lot of the plot elements are pulled from the original pilot.
cease: i saw that
cease: with kevin costner as elliot ness
cease: who later died of cirrhosis as i recall
cease: capone's revenge
Bunnyboy: Really?
cease: you can look it up
cease: a factoid i uncovered in my research for neal amid
Bunnyboy: WIkipedia says heart attack.
cease: i even watched scarface as part of research and it had nothing to do with capone. some cuban coke head
Bunnyboy: Of course, Wikipedia says Paul Frees died of a heart attack, and he was a suicide.
cease: i dont know who paul frees is but i could look it up
cease: i think it was in something i read about the capone era. this is pre-wiki
Bunnyboy: Voice artist. Boris Badenov, Rankin-Bass specials, literally thousands of loop and voiceover sessions...
Bunnyboy: Spike Jones sideman.
Bunnyboy: Not as a musician. Vocalist.
cease: aha
Bunnyboy: Radio man.
cease: i wonder why rocky and bullwinkle has never been brought back to tv
Bunnyboy: As were a lot of the classic voice folks.
Bunnyboy: Because R & B sells nothing, and has no cultural agenda.
cease: it was so good, and those of our generation who remember it are legion
Bunnyboy: There's no "G.I. Bullwinkle" or "Princess Natasha" doll market.
cease: is there a rocky and bullwinkle dvd set?
cease: you would know
Bunnyboy: They're all available on DVD (complete 5 seasons). Season 5 will finally be available as a standalone, month end.
cease: it would be wonderful for young peolpe to be aware of those shows
Bunnyboy: It took 10 years to happen. Season 1 was about 2001 or 2002.
cease: i havent seen them since they were first broadcast. i'll have to look for those dvds
Bunnyboy: Complete series dropped, a couple of months ago.
Bunnyboy: The complete set is subtitled 100 % COMPLETE BULL.
Bunnyboy: The complete set is worth it, for the one-stop episode guide.
cease: good subtitle
Bunnyboy: And, if you haven't read it, you should check out THE MOOSE THAT ROARED, Keith Scott's great book on Jay Ward Productions.
cease: i will
cease: i loved The Mouse that Roared, both book and flick
cease: i read a number of books by that author, whose name escapes me
cease: that's so long ago i bet few chatters would remember it, except dex
Bunnyboy: I remember THE MOUSE THAT ROARED, playing some weekend afternoons, on the tube, in the 70s.
cease: Leonard Wibberly. Thanks, wiki
cease: flick is from 59, book from 55
cease: seemed quite a good satire of the cold war to me in those days
Bunnyboy: Rocky and Bullwinkle is great, for many reasons. Amongst them: the labyrinthine adventures, and subsequent fiedish plots, that are almost inevitably complete and utter MacGuffins.
cease: i will see those dvds, bun
cease: i liked wards work with crusader rabbit but r&b was brilliant. even had canadian content
cease: hey bun have you heard anything about firesign show in seattle this year?
Bunnyboy: Yeah! And, unlike SCTV, they didn't have to!
Bunnyboy: I heard some rumblings. Nothing specific.
cease: lol
cease: as a canuck living in la in the mid 60s, having dudley doright on the telly was a big thing
cease: harold hedd has some adventures with mounties that are right out of dudley doright
cease: i'm sure rand holmes was influenced
cease: it sounds like bergman's more into getting a job in la than performing in seattle
Bunnyboy: Superlative voice cast, but Hans Conreid trumps.
Bunnyboy: Guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do.
cease: he used to have a tv show when i lived in la. i think it was called fractured flickers
cease: yes great voice talent
||||||||| Catherwood leads Principalpoop in through the front door at 10:51 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Bunnyboy: Oh, poo. The 300th Dr. Memory repetition.
cease: hi poop
Principalpoop: poo? you called?
Bunnyboy: It's delightful to hear Austin as The Electrician, though.
cease: its delightful to hear austin as anything
Bunnyboy: hiya poop!
cease: even texas
Bunnyboy: FRACTURED FLICKERS is, amazingly, *also* available on DVD.
Bunnyboy: The whole durn series.
Principalpoop: rocky and bullwinkle had shakespherian or chaucer type puns, just like the firesign
Principalpoop: is this thing on?
Principalpoop: tap tap tap
Principalpoop: no refresh
cease: as long as "on" isnt a nuclear plant in fukushima, yes
Principalpoop: hello?
cease: we see you, poop
Principalpoop: not good about that earthquake and tusnami
Principalpoop: now I see me too
Principalpoop: i tapped refresh, and now it is refreshing automatically, this is refreshing
Principalpoop: i forgot it was thursday
cease: i think lots of people did today, poop. very small chat
Principalpoop: is fractured flickers the same as those fracture fairytales?
cease: even clem only played one firesign disc
Bunnyboy: poop: Nope. FLICKERS was Jay Ward prod., but it was laying new soundtracks onto old silent films.
Principalpoop: st patricks day? everyone out drinking?
Bunnyboy: Lon Chaney Jr. was not amused.
cease: giant rat, in honour of st. paddy's day
cease: but his hair was perfect!
Principalpoop: sounds hilarious
Bunnyboy: He thought the Ward folks disgraced his father's memory.
Principalpoop: what the hell if you cannot take a joke
cease: where's warren zevon when we need him?
cease: do you guys remember college bowl?
Principalpoop: the old jeopardy show for college students?
cease: yes
Principalpoop: no I don't remember that
Bunnyboy: I remember the repeats, on Sunday nights. I was about 7 or 8. 1968 or 69.
cease: icbc has jeopardy for some reason and i just turned it on to get earthquake news
Bunnyboy: "Margaret Meehan, Parksdale..."
cease: i think it started in the late 50s.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Principalpoop: they had actual hard questions
cease: i remember seeing the show during the kenedy administration when i was in jr high and being able to answer most of the questions on it
Principalpoop: it was not trivia, it was substantial
cease: the jeopardy show has are much easier questions
cease: i found it odd that i'd know stuff as an adolescent that top university students wouldnt know
Principalpoop: i stopped watching tv for awhile, and it is worse now, the camera jumping all the time
Bunnyboy: I'm kind of surprised that The Game Show Network doesn't play old, NBC eps of JEOPARDY. The ones with Art Fleming and Don Pardo.
Principalpoop: not for any artistic effect, just jumping to jump
Bunnyboy: Unless they wiped the tapes...which is quite possible.
cease: we have the tv on all the time here. japan and all
Principalpoop: i am mean tv shows, not news
Principalpoop: or NBC is asking too much money
cease: do find your brain recovering from not watching tv, poop?
Principalpoop: no
Bunnyboy: Speaking of footage salvaged from oblivion: Shout! Factory is releasing a promising new Ernie Kovacs box set, next month.
Principalpoop: i just don't like watching it
cease: there was just a shrink on my local news show telling peoplenot to watch tv if it depressed them too much
cease: kovacs was great.
Principalpoop: i told you, the camera jumps too much now, wears me out
Principalpoop: a genius
Bunnyboy: That's one of the "big duh" creative execises, in THE ARTIST'S WAY - Turning off the TV for a week.
cease: i didnt watch tv when i lived in japan because it was in japanese
Principalpoop: maybe I have seen one too many arcs, after watching years of mash and hill street blues and such
Bunnyboy: I have to chuckle into my fist, when every other pharmaceutical ad spends the last half of their running time, warning "...if you have thoughts of suicide..."
Bunnyboy: "...you may be watching too many Pharma ads!"
Principalpoop: and that hammer, giving a headache,
cease: maybe joan saw too many arcs but not me
Bunnyboy: Those painkiller ads could be thought of as early holistic propaganda.
Principalpoop: when they warn about anal leakage on tv, i am out of my comfortable range
Bunnyboy: "It's all connected. The body is like a machine. The body IS a machine!"
Principalpoop: you are a cog, get used to it
cease: it is no longer the politer medium of our youth, poop
Bunnyboy: When did the world become all about making sure you can have a dependable hard-on?
Principalpoop: having 2 beds for lucy and dezi was going too far the other way
cease: millions of years ago, bun
Principalpoop: it if lasts for hours, consult your doctor, yah sure that is a warning, not a come on
Principalpoop: so to speak lool
Principalpoop: a new red drawf is in the works, for 2012
Bunnyboy: Cool.
Principalpoop: stones does not like lister, I forget why
Bunnyboy: Who's lister?
Bunnyboy: Character?
Principalpoop: on red drawf, th last human alive, yes
Principalpoop: listor maybe, idk
cease: i tried to watch an episode once. unsuccessful
Principalpoop: i enjoyed it immensely, they even dismissed God, atheists show lol very unusual
Principalpoop: maybe not so much for bbc, but very rare on american tv shows, what was that angel show?
Principalpoop: top 10 for years, not charlies lol
Principalpoop: my brain is mush
Bunnyboy: I'm 2 eps into DOWNTON ABBEY. Fun series.
Principalpoop: no time for angels??? lol ahh touched by an angel, i think
Bunnyboy: Created and written by Julian Fellowes, Oscar winner for GOSFORD PARK.
cease: i never got into it, poop.
Principalpoop: shameless is too brutal for me
Principalpoop: i will look for it bunnyboy, thanks
Bunnyboy: SHAMELESS - BBC version or Showtime?
Principalpoop: both
Bunnyboy: Joan Cusack is brilliant, in the new series.
Principalpoop: fine acting, i do not dispute that, and gripping stories
Principalpoop: just too cruel, what word do I want
cease: unfamiliar with this
Bunnyboy: Allison Janney was cast, in the pilot. I think she jumped, for the Matthew Perry sitcom, instead.
Bunnyboy: Ooky?
Principalpoop: maybe hardcore is the word lol
Bunnyboy: cat: It's about a wildly functional disfunctional family.
Principalpoop: if I was younger, maybe fun, now I have seen those families a few times already
Bunnyboy: Dad's a smokehound, and has been for several years.
cease: this is a tv show? maybe i dont get that channel
Principalpoop: BBC and then HBO, I think
Bunnyboy: It took me the first ep and a half to get into the Showtime show. When William H. Macy wakes up from a bender, and finds out he's in Canada, it all clicked, for me.
cease: i dont get either
cease: and i'm already in canada
Bunnyboy: The BBC show ran (or has run) for at least 5 series. Obviously popular. Spotty stateside home video representation.
Bunnyboy: Sundance has been showing the BBC series, sporadically.
Bunnyboy: The Showtime series is on about Ep 9 of...12 or 13, I think.
Bunnyboy: And I'm 2 eps behind. It's OnDemand until July, so I'll catch up.
cease: i can probly rent the dvds
Bunnyboy: I imagine the Showtime Season 1 eps will be on disc, come Fall.
Principalpoop: watch red drawf, from the start, it is fun
Bunnyboy: Just winding down Ep 22 of Hour Hour. 2 left.
Principalpoop: what is your vibe?
cease: ok folks. see you next week.
||||||||| At 11:33 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Principalpoop: night cat, courage
Bunnyboy: yeah, me too. Wanna jump out together, poop?
Principalpoop: lets do it, 1 2 3
||||||||| Principalpoop dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Principalpoop?! It's 11:34 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Bunnyboy hops
||||||||| 11:34 PM -- Bunnyboy left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'RedPillTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 1:30 AM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
ah,clem
Bunnyboy
Caterino
cease
llanwydd
Principalpoop
Seamus_O'Mudhead
Seamus_O'Tweeny
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Rogue's Gallery:

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PP and Cat(cease)

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Bunnyboy

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kend^/Dr. Headphones

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Merlyn and Tirebiter

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DocTech

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LiliLamont

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FreqMan

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Rotonoto

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LeatherG & SO

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Nin0

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Tonk

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Ah, Clem and Bambi

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Compañero Señor Yämamoto

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Dexter Fong

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Elayne

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Bubba's Brain

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Bightrethighrehighre

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Boney

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llanwydd

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Tween

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Porgie

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Peggy Blisswhips

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Audrey Farber

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Tiny Dr. Tim
Rest In Peace, Dear Friend

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klokwkdog
404 - Not Found, Not Forgotten

And, "The Home Team"