||||||||| 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 July 08, 2010 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts FlexicalDexsticle in through the front door at 5:05 AM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
FlexicalDexsticle: Oh! I'm terribly sorry, .that's not correct! .You didn't "Beat The Reaper!" .. Doctor, bring the Patient out and show the amphitheater audience. and all the folks at home just what he's contracted... According to my careful prosthesis,. this man has The Plague.
FlexicalDexsticle: Ed, .it's an amazing scene here... Like lemmings, .the crowds are waiting. on the shore,. torches blazing, .as the long line of shrouded funeral rafts. drift lazily into view, .great black candles .flickering at helm and stern... The excitement is contagious,. and so are the Black Cross Volunteers,. as they pass from family to family, .pausing now and agian. to touch a child's head. ..I wish I could . . ... but I can't... So long, Ed [Remote transmission breaks off]
FlexicalDexsticle: Hurry,.. Over here... This way... That's it!.. You've made it... Welcome to Side Six ..Follow in your books .and repeat after me, .as we learn our next three words in Turkish:.. Coffee . . . .Delight . . . .Border . . . ..May I seeeee [slowing as the power is cut] .yooouuuurr . . .. passspooorrtt . . . .pleeeaaassssee . .
||||||||| FlexicalDexsticle rushes off, saying "5:06 AM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| RedPillTweeny enters at 4:58 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:37 PM and ah,clem steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| New CNI streaming notice: '"a few minutes with FireSign Theatre" at about 9 eastern'
||||||||| At 8:38 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...
||||||||| Merlyn sashays in at 8:57 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Ubuntween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:58 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Merlyn: hey tween
Ubuntween: Evenin'
Ubuntween: Trying out chat from Ubuntu
Ubuntween: Mongo like Ubuntu
Merlyn: how does Tor feel?
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Dexter Fong', 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, July 08, 2010 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Merlyn: hey fong
Ubuntween: Evening, Dexter
||||||||| 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 Land Squid falls out at 9:01 PM.
Land Squid: good evening
Dexter Fong: Hi Merlyn
Dexter Fong: I see Firebroiled has left me a very large but insignificant msg
Ubuntween: Hey Squid
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'cease', just granted probation at 9:02 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Land Squid: hey cat
Merlyn: hey cat & squid
Ubuntween: Yo cease
Land Squid: and everybody else
Dexter Fong: Hi Tween and Cat
cease: greetings
Dexter Fong: And welcome Squid
Land Squid: we're early this time
||||||||| ah,clem steals in around 9:04 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Dexter Fong: Hi clem
ah,clem: land squid? lol
Land Squid: hey clem
cease: holy calamari
ah,clem: hi all
Merlyn: the whole south coast is oily
ah,clem: I smell a rat
Merlyn: to bed and to rise
cease: vancouver has been invaded by summer
Land Squid: sumer is icumen in
Dexter Fong: Congrats Cat
Merlyn: fort summer? We did that 150 years ago
Land Squid: that's fer sher
Dexter Fong: A whole week without woolens
cease: i'm not happy about it at all
cease: at least i'm not in new york
Dexter Fong: Love your wollies do yah?
Land Squid: I like the heat. I don't get enough of it the rest of the year
Ubuntween: A lady in Ontario was saying that they were baking, cease
cease: ontario has real summer. it's more of a novelty season here
Land Squid: baked ontario
Dexter Fong: A baker in Quebec said he was a lady
Land Squid: LOL dex
Merlyn: du barry was a lady, I think
Merlyn: i Hope
Dexter Fong: A mademoiselle to be exact
Land Squid: at least I have cold places to go swimming
Land Squid: that's one great thing about lake george and lake champlain
Land Squid: I couldn't possibly champlain
Dexter Fong: Squid, Nino has you placed in Kentucky...could Nino be wrong? Again??
cease: i'd rather cease baking than cease being baked
Land Squid: he always is, dex
ah,clem: Nino is never wrong, just creative
Land Squid: lol
Merlyn: Nino is PREDICTING!
Land Squid: I've never been in kentucky
Merlyn: Mark Twain said if the world was coming to an end, he'd go to Kentucky, because they're 20 years behind everybody
Land Squid: that and alabama are the only southern states I have not visited
ah,clem: you will be
cease: all i know of kentucky is from hunter thompson bios
Land Squid: I'm finally going to be on tv next week
Land Squid: Turmoil and Triumph will be shown in 3 parts. I am in the first and third
ah,clem: we went through Kentucky, and ended up in a dry county, thought that odd for a state known for bourbon
Land Squid: starts monday night. If you watch it, don't blink
Dexter Fong: What NETWORK llan?
Land Squid: interesting, clem. I've heard of people being arrested just for being drunk in public in KY
Land Squid: PBS, Dex
Dexter Fong: Ooh..PBS Posh indeed
Land Squid: I appear in three roles, an iranian weapons smuggler, a russian interpreter and Yassir Arafat
ah,clem: homeland security is watching you
Merlyn: are you in any of these clips llan? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U5yTHnBFGE
Land Squid: many famous people were interviewed in the film, most of them former secretaries of state
Land Squid: I can't do youtube with msntv2, I'm afraid, Merl
Land Squid: but all those famous people are going to see me on tv
Land Squid: with the exception of ted kennedy
Merlyn: ok llan
Land Squid: but I have probably watched those clips elsewhere
Land Squid: if you see one of some shady characters loading boxes onto an airplane, I am one of them
Merlyn: hmm, looks like that trailer has mostly the real talking heads, not much re-creation
Land Squid: interesting that tween hasn't spoken in all this time and still hasn't gone grey
Land Squid: oh, now he is. spoke too soon
Land Squid: so, where are bambi and elayne and princi and stones and bubba and bunnyboy....
ah,clem: Bambi here, watching a movie
ah,clem: as to the rest I don't know
Land Squid: aha, please tell her I said hi
ah,clem: ok
Merlyn: turning gray is based on how many lines ago you spoke, not time
ah,clem: had noticed that, as you grey faster in busy room
||||||||| 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 Elayne falls out at 9:25 PM.
Elayne: Evenin' all!
ah,clem: there she is
Dexter Fong: hi e
ah,clem: hi E!
Elayne: Sorry I'm a bit late, had to fill out my Previews comic book order form, as I'm going to the shop tomorrow.
Land Squid: Hi Elayne
Elayne: Evenin' Land Squid! Are you new or just a new pseudonym for an old regular?
Elayne never did get the hang of pseudonyms.
ah,clem: ll
cease: hi el
Elayne: Hey Cat, Dex, Jimmy, Brian!
Dexter Fong: E: Squid is llanfyll er uh llanwydd
Land Squid: yes, elayne. my name usually starts with 2 Ls
Merlyn: hey E
Merlyn: E, you follow fullmetal alchemist by any chance?
Elayne would use Dex's non-pseudonym too but she knows he prefers Dex in-chat.
Elayne: Ah, okay, so it's Llan.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bambi into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:27 PM, then departs.
Elayne: Brian, I've never HEARD of Full Metal Alchemist, I'm afraid.
Bambi: hello Dear Friends :-)
Elayne: Evenin' Fran!
Land Squid: Hi Bambi
cease: i want to plug my blog, which y'all know is at www.seemrealland.blogspot.com
Merlyn: you're in comics and you've never heard of it?
Dexter Fong: Elayne: I really don't care 'cept in real life situations where I *do* prefer me given moncker
Ubuntween: Hello Elayne. Hear the East Coast is a tad warm...
Elayne: Any particular reason, Cat?
cease: posted a vid of my cats and dog to the tune of round round world
ah,clem: want me to patch you in Bambi, or are you still watching a movie?
Elayne: I'll give you a monicker next time I see you, Dex. Provided you have a paperback for me, as previously discussed. :)
cease: you can tell me if you hear freberg say "itralian friends"
Elayne: Good lord, Tween, is it ever! Actually, the worst of it seems to have broken earlier today; I could actually breathe when I got out of the office this afternoon.
Dexter Fong: E: I finally got first volume back so soon
cease: our dog won't be chasing any more tennis balls. it was hard for him when i shot the vid about 3 monthes ago
Bambi: patch me Clem :-)
Dexter Fong: Clem doesn't have a patch on Bambi
Bambi: lol
Elayne: Cat, it sounds like he sings "Itralian" (probably a flub that they decided not to do a re-take on), but you should really ask Mark Evanier, he's the expert on all things Freberg (as he's friends with the man).
ah,clem: ok, patched
Elayne: Sounds great, Dex!@
cease: i'll do that, el
Ubuntween: She was leaking?
Elayne: He's at m...@evanier.com, you can tell him I sent you.
Dexter Fong: "Itralian" is a common comedic expression
cease: i gave the dvd to ed bullington who also knows freberg, but havent heard back from him
Elayne: Mark knows everyone (including Proctor, with whom he works occasionally).
Dexter Fong: Like Prolish
Bambi: how's everyone doing this evening?
Elayne: Fran, I'm thanking Grid for my air conditioning.
Dexter Fong: Still kinda hot in NYC
Merlyn: that's like 6 billion people Bambi, how long can my answer be?
Elayne: At least at the moment, the Grid is still on the job here in Da Bronx.
Bambi: Heard that Elayne!
Bambi: LOL Merl
Elayne: Brian, Robin has a question tonight. Is there an intro-outro for Hour Hour #4 the way there was for #3? He just finished recording #4 for me.
Dexter Fong: Do you take the Wheatstone Bridge to get to your house Elayne?
ah,clem: it does not have the capacity
Elayne: I have my nose to the Wheatstone, when it's not in the Wheaties, Dex. But no, that's a bridge too far, wherever it is.
cease: they seemed to start each show differently, el
Dexter Fong: Thank you Colonel Bogie
Elayne: Usually the expresso bus takes either the RFK Bridge to the Deegan, or winds through the city a bit and takes the Harlem River Drive.
Land Squid: wheatstone, lol
Dexter Fong: What the hell is the RFK bridge
Land Squid: I remember fred feldman saying all those name on wor
Dexter Fong: These assholes in the city keep changing the names of streets
Elayne: Ah, poor poor Dex! It's what you Very Old People call the Triborough.
Land Squid: I grew up with wor
Dexter Fong: It was good enough for Irving washinton...or is it washington Irbving
Land Squid: then later it was george mead
Elayne: I think we pass the Irving Washington houses on the way to the Harlem River Drive.
Dexter Fong: Then it was Meade Lux LEWIS
cease: margaret or lake?
Elayne: Either that or Irving Washington keeps crossing the street against the light as the bus bears down on himj.
Bambi: The Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Bridge, better known as the Triborough or Triboro Bridge, is a complex of three separate bridges in New York City, United States.
Ubuntween: Beat me to it, cease :)
Dexter Fong: Magrait or veronica
Bambi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Bridge
Elayne: Oh, Dex knows from the Triborough, Fran. He just doesn't remember after they changed the water.
Ubuntween: lol E
Bambi: LOL ah, ok
Land Squid: for those who don't know what I'm talking about and/or have forgotten, it was fred feldman who flew over NYC in a helicopter and gave a live traffic report on WOR
Dexter Fong: It all started with the changing of the Interborough to the Jackie Robinson xpressway
Elayne: I'm surprised, there was actually quite the to-do because a lot of folks didn't like how much money NYC spent on the new signs.
Land Squid: then he retired apparently and george mead did the report
cease: i thought it was a lord of the rings character
ah,clem: should just call it Bobby's bridge
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:38 PM and late as usual, it's Fred Plegm, just back from Boston."
Elayne: I once found myself on the Jackie Robinson Expressway and felt totally lost. But in truth I would have felt equally lost on the Interborough.
Dexter Fong: I've got Bobby's bridge in a glass of water near my bed
Land Squid: good evening plegm
ah,clem: lol
Elayne: Evenin', Phlegm!
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Woody 1', just granted probation at 9:39 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Merlyn: theatrical entrance
Fred Plegm: good evening all
Elayne: Evenin', Woody! Wow, lots of new names here tonight.
Land Squid: Hey Woody
Dexter Fong: Come on in Fred, and close the curtain
ah,clem clears throat
cease: hi fred, woody
Woody 1: Helloooo
Bambi: hey Woody
Land Squid: no, elayne. woody is a semi-regular
Dexter Fong: Hi woody
Fred Plegm: hi Woody
Woody 1: Hey Bambi and all.
Merlyn: new names, same people, it's like that FBI witness program
Land Squid: fred phlegm showed up as soon as I mentioned fred feldman. it's probably him
cease: like ethyl and regular?
Fred Plegm: lol...noobie.
cease: white ravens on the telly. must portend something
Dexter Fong: Don't forget Vin Diesel
Merlyn: ethyl and juicy
Dexter Fong: Annamaria kerosena
cease: i much prefer to forget him, dex
Dexter Fong: Baxter NAPHTHA
Woody 1: Anybody make it to the Firesign shows?
Land Squid: it was too far to drive, woody
cease: which ones?
Dexter Fong: Alas not me...They never come down from the hills, those guys
Fred Plegm: They've all been on west coast, haven't they? Wanted to go to the halloween shows in Burbank, but it wasn't to be.
Elayne: White ravens, Cat? I thought it was a penguin. Which reminds me: BURMA!... sorry, I panicked.
cease: merl and i saw them in langley, washington in january
Woody 1: any of them. i think they only had a few on CA
Fred Plegm: was fortunate to see them at Carnegie Hall in the mid-seventies.
Land Squid: have you seen a firesign/nick danger clip called Frame Me Pretty? I saw it on youtube. its hilarious
Woody 1: Were they awesome, cease?
Dexter Fong: CA? Caw
Dexter Fong: Cawsome
cease: i'm waiting for more news, now just sports
Land Squid: I saw it live already but it was great to see it again. I've watched it several times at the public library. I can't watch youtube here
Dexter Fong: Cat: Where's Lebron goin?
Elayne: Oh, I love that Evening at the Improv bit, Llan. I'm glad someone uploaded it to YouTube.
Merlyn: looks good llan, I'll make sure Taylor knows about it
Merlyn: it starts at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5qFN0ImjoU
Land Squid: taylor who?
Dexter Fong: Lord & taylor
Dexter Fong: How long is it?
Dexter Fong: (no naughty jokes)
Land Squid: my tailor wouldn't care
Dexter Fong: The clip that is
Woody 1: Cease? Was Washington great?
Merlyn: taylor jessen, the FT archivist
Land Squid: aha
Dexter Fong: oho
cease: it was. they were hilarious
Merlyn: trying to get all FT material anywhere
Land Squid: there's a part where proctor is doing sound effects by hitting a cabbage with a stick
Fred Plegm: Anyone use Realplayer? you can use the free version to download youtube videos in .flv format.
Woody 1: I envy you. Wonderful.
Land Squid: the cabbage rolls into where the audience are sitting and somebody picks it up and puts it on their table
Dexter Fong: He vas makink sauerkraut
Bambi: hi Fred
cease: that's good to know, fred
Dexter Fong: Halfway, not neccessarily
Fred Plegm: (been collecting the videos myself, including Martian Space Party.)
Ubuntween: ...
Land Squid: I haven't seen MSP yet
Dexter Fong: Tween: FAKE THE BUNT AND SLAP IT BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND
Dexter Fong: sorry
Fred Plegm: The quality's a little ruff, but viewable.
Elayne: Honestly Dex, sometimes you get way too excitable about sports.
Woody 1: That's a good one. Remember that opened for Magical Mystery Tour at an old theatre in Indiana.
Dexter Fong: I saw it in the theater (Beacon I think)
Elayne: Which reminds me: Spain or the Netherlands? Ordinarily my love for certain things Dutch would have me rooting for the orange, but I don't much like these players, I think they're kind of rude.
ah,clem: tell it to the X-Mas bunny, kid
Woody 1: Have it on VHS.
Dexter Fong: Elayne; WHO'S ESSCITED MAN?
cease: i bought a copy from laugh.com or whatever firesign site seller is called now
cease: maybe lodestone
Land Squid: I have an awful lot on vhs that I may never watch again
Dexter Fong: llan: Get it transferred to digital
Dexter Fong: before the tapes disintegrate
cease: i think the funniest thing the firesign ever did was an interview in ann arbor, and that was just proctor and bergman
Land Squid: well, none of what I have is important enough to transfer
Dexter Fong: It's all *important*
Dexter Fong: They ain't makin' it anymore
Elayne: Too much new stuff in the world to rewatch old stuff...
Dexter Fong: Bah
Woody 1: I will. Believe me. Don't want to leave anything on VHS to deteriorate.
Dexter Fong: The old stuff is good, the new stuff is all technical and dangerous and sucks
||||||||| Eythyl tiptoes in around 9:53 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Land Squid: I taped so much stuff off tcm its hard to get rid of it all. I was obsessive
Eythyl: HOla
Land Squid: Ethyl! How's Regular?
cease: rare genetic defect leads to white ravens
Fred Plegm: I know the "official" site is looking for any and all bootlegs, hoping to find some gems among the detritus.