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Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal

-- A newsletter of, about, and for

The Firesign Theatre...

...and their loyal fans

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Four-Alarm FIRESIGNal #28
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FALaFal is produced thrice yearly, in fire sign months (April, August and
December) for the members and dear friends of The Firesign Theatre, by
Elayne Wechsler-Chaput, who can be reached by "snail mail" at 1747 65th
Street, Brooklyn, NY 11204 or by E-mail at fire...@panix.com (preferred),
72672,2714 (on CompuServe) and ElayneWC (on America Online). Electronic
FAlaFal is free of charge, the hard copy version costs $5 for a year's
worth, and both our electronic and hard copy version are freely
reproduceable. Printing and mailing services were performed by Roger
Snyder at The Print Shop; EFAlaFal was organized by Jamie Schrumpf at
Monrovia Communications; Richard Fish, Fred Wiebel and the 4or5 supplied
news; thanks also to Richard Arnold, Tim Shell, Jerry Stearns, Chris Ward
and our letter writers for their contributions this issue!

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No. 28 of ? TABLE OF CONTENTS DECEMBER, 1995
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[[1]] THIS IS WORKER SPEAKING: Words from Elayne, Our Founder

[[2]] RUMORS BEHIND THE NEWS: The latest on the 4 or 5 Crazy Guys

[[3]] TAKEN APART, STACKED UP, AND LABELLED: Archival news from Fred
Weibel about his Firesign Theatre project. Collector alert!!!
You don't want to miss this!

[[4]] REVIEW: Jerry Stearns' reportage from this year's Midwest Radio
Workshop, which included Phil Proctor and David Ossman. Thrill to
Jerry's exploits with his "first job of consequence!" Experience
the queasiness as he attempts to maintain the all-important
Continuity!

[[5]] SAVIOR IN A BOX: Being an unfinished tale of Action and Adventure
in a Strange Land; come with us now to those exciting Days that
Never Were...

[[6]] EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: Quiz #3 from Richard Arnold to
challenge the self-proclaimed FT "expert" fan. Do YOU have what
IT takes? Also: answers to quiz #2 and a WINNER IS ANNOUNCED!

[[7]] POSTMARK: DEEP SPACE -- Letters to the Editor

[[8]] SEE YOU ON THE FUNWAY... It's a wrap! Endnotes & stuff from
Jamie, Your Electronic Editor.

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This Is Worker Speaking...
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You're reading the words of one tired Worker. In an effort to
better concentrate on the things I've deemed important in my life, I've
been trying, these past four months, to eliminate the effluvia. I have,
admittedly, not been very successful at this, with a severe case of
near-burnout the result.
These things go in cycles. I still love the works of The Firesign
Theatre, of course, and I adore interacting with fellow fans, but I'm
perhaps less enthusiastic about FAlaFal than I ought to be, considering I
coordinate the whole thing. This doesn't mean I'm going to give up the
newsletter before issue #30 - when I took a year's worth of subscriptions
from you all, that was the implicit promise. But I am seriously
considering handing the whole thing over to whatever conscientious person
wants to take it from here, come next December. (This is one reason -
aside from wanting to see what kind of financial shape we're in when I
re-evaluate things next August - on why I'm only accepting one-year subs,
which perhaps I should have made clearer last time. New folks who
subscribe to our hard copy version as of this issue will have a "31"
marked on their label, but should be informed that I don't know at this
point if I'm going to publish beyond #30.)
Here's the deal on the printed version of FAlaFal: We sent out
around 2320 copies of #27, which got to everyone in record time. I made
about 150-200 address changes and remailed a whole bunch. I received a
little over 200 subscriptions, not counting donations above and beyond the
$5 rate I set. This is good; it means we can keep our bulk rate status.
It also signals to me that most folks are either getting their Firesign
news, ads and other info via the 'net (which is great) or they're not that
interested any more. It necessitates a lot less work on the back end for
me and Roger - he only prints 500 copies now, and I can label and bundle
everything myself so there's no need for FAlaFal parties (not that I'm
necessarily going to stop throwing them).
I'm grateful to Richard Fish and the LodesTone folks for taking on
the task of news gathering, and to Fred Wiebel and Chris Palladino for
their archiving work - both have been given extensive space in this issue
to tell you what they're up to. This issue's online-only bonus is Jerry
Stearns' MTRW report; this issue's print-only bonuses include the latest
Chris Ward Crossword and an oldie-but-goldie from Jim Middleton. As most
of you received #27, I don't need to rerun the SPARKS ad (except to remind
you SPARKS head Michael Packer is the one to whom you should send a
52-cent SASE to receive our audio archives list), and as everyone on the
"snail mail" list should have gotten the LodesTone catalog, I trust I
don't have to run their stats in this issue either.
Unfortunately, the record/CD exchange service Frank Bland and
Taylor Jessen were hoping to start never got off the ground due to lack of
participation. I'm afraid anyone seeking to buy, trade or sell
out-of-print Firesign stuff is on their own. The best suggestion I can
think of for those on line is to place your own ads in the
alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre newsgroup.
I'd like to thank Dave Axler, Keith Bayard, Chuck Bradley, Ken
Croatman, Keith Dick, Jody Forest, Tom Fronczek, James Garner, Rob
Kinmouth, David Koster, Louis Krasser, George McLaughlin, G. David Parker,
John Steinberg, Steve Urban, Chris Vaughn, Doug Wakil and Mike Wilkinson
for their donations this time (which covered our printing costs!), as well
as everyone who continues to purchase Abkhazian Marx/Lennon stamps from me
at $10 a pop (I'm about to place another order with D&G to raise
additional FAlaFal funds). Also thanks to everyone who showed up at my
December party to make Le Trente-Huit Elayne a little less traumatic.
I'll leave you with a couple snippets (not enough to warrant their
own column this time): Entertainment Weekly continues to abound with
Firesign fans, as Ty Burr recently spoke of "Firesign Theatre-esque
background babble" when reviewing a recent CD-ROM. Also, Bud Webster
<bweb...@freenet.vcu.edu> writes, "Just wanted to let you know that I've
signed the contracts with ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION for the above-mentioned
story, in which, as usual, I inserted several FT references: first, one of
the charcters - an artificial intelligence housed in a small,
Etch-a-Sketch sized box - is described by the main character as 'not from
around here, but a real square little feller. Well, rectangular, anyway.'
Second, as the main character and his alien companion are stepping out
onto the alien's home planet, Bubba says 'Once more into the breach, dear
friends, for Grid, for Goofy, and Saint Walt!' Third, near the end when
Bubba and the artificial intelligence are discussing a recording made by
UFO-nut Howard Menger called Authentic Music From Another Planet in 1955,
the AI says 'Howard Menger? My reluctance to talk about him has little to
do with whether or not this mindless dweedling on a piano in the middle of
an enormous echo chamber is gas music from Jupiter.' It's a fun story, and
one I hope you'll hunt up when it comes out (dunno the publication date,
but if you like, I'll be happy to let you know)." Thanks Bud - and thanks
to everyone else who helps carry the torch! Enjoy this issue, and happy
holidaze...

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Rumors Behind the News
by Richard Fish (LodesTone)

Here's More Sugar!
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* Triviata: Allen Daviau, cinematographer on Everything You Know Is
Wrong, was one of the interviewees on the recent "Alien Autopsy" special.
Make up your own joke!

* DAVID OSSMAN and PHIL PROCTOR spent a week in Columbia, Missouri at the
Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop this year, and had a blast! In keeping
with the Firesign tradition of pushing the envelope, this year's MRTW
performance made radio history: the first time anyone on the planet has
ever done radio theatre live over the Internet! Thoughtport, Inc., in
Columbia provided the link with the CU-SeeMe system (developed at Cornell
University), and indications are that we had about 750 cyber-listeners.
Not bad at all, considering that this came together at the last minute and
we only had 2 days to promo it on the Net.
David directed, and Phil starred in, a play called "Not Another
Talk Show," written by Jon-Erik Villesvik. Phil played an abrasive
talkshow host after the manner of Guess Who, and the results were
hilarious! MRTW hopes to have a tape of this show available in a couple
of months. Our own Tony Brewer was featured as Geronimo, an
eco-terrorist, and Canada's George Plumley (Stuffed Moose Productions)
played a psychologist.
Workshops with Phil and David included one on the Firesign's
techniques, one on Norman Corwin's material (and Corwin's direct influence
on TFT), Radio Poetry, and others. Phil's influence was felt throughout
the show in comedy performances, and it was one of the best Workshop shows
ever. By the way, MRTW will be moving to a spring date, when hopefully
more people will be find it easy to get away -- June of 1997 will be the
next one. Both David and Phil plan to come back, and we sure hope this
time we can bring out the lovely and talented Melinda (Mrs. Proctor)
Peterson as well!

* David and Judith are hard at work on a new project, a production of
e.e. cummings slated to be ready by Valentine's Day. David Ogden Stiers
will be playing cummings, and Phil-and-Melinda will be doing voices, and
some lovely original music has just been laid down.
David reports that "The Ronald Reagan Murder Case" is still in
search of a publisher, but continues to collect the most enthusiastic
rejection slips since Gutenberg. He's now hard at work on the second
George Tirebiter novel, "The Flying Saucer Murder Case," and hopes to
premier that in April at Minicon, as a reading... If you're going to be
on Whidbey Island in the upcoming future, you might catch David on stage
in "Wings Of The Termite."

* Phil Proctor continues to get lots of work in Hollywood doing voices
for both cartoon and live-action features. He did voices for "Toy Story"
(listen carefully to "all the other toys" and see how many you can pick
out!) He was featured 11/19 on KCRW Playhouse's one-hour radio drama "Dear
Diego," about Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Daniel Zwerdling interviewed
Phil on Weekend Edition, Sunday before last, during a story on ADR work
that Phil helped him put together. Phil had a very interesting time working
on "Up Close And Personal," a Robert Redford/Michelle Pfeiffer film due out
soon; reports being very impressed with the film and says, "Redford is
ageless," muttering something about the "T-shirt of Dorian Gray." Also
radio spots for Disney World and a very funny one for Cadillac with Bert
Berdis, and a cameo in a music video upcoming on VH1 -- a song by The
Foremen (satirical group) called "Ain't A Liberal No More." Look for PP in
the congregation.

* Here's one on Phil -- walking down the street in Columbia, he was
telling me how every time he & MP go to visit his Mom in Goshen, Indiana,
they fly in to South Bend or Chicago and rent a car, and every time he
manages to get lost somehow. We suddenly realized that for Phil, "which
way's Goshen?" has become a way of life!

* PETER BERGMAN reports that he and Proctor are moving right along on
that CD-ROM, but it's still under wraps; when the green light goes on for
publicity we'll get the info out in this column -- over the net first. He
notes that TFT is in this month's Vanity Fair, as part of a giant
comedy-influences tree on page 116. PB will be keynoting the AFI Digital
Storytelling Conference in Kauai in April (having attended one last month
in Crested Butte). He's got a new one-man show, "Sobriety," which has
nothing to do with W.C. Fields, either now or Forever, but is a rhymed
spiel and very well received. He's just done radio for "Desperado" and
"Money Train."

* PHIL AUSTIN and Oona have been peripatetic between LA and Fox Island.
Phil's new audiobook, Tales Of The Old Detective And Other Big Fat Lies,
is now in the new edition of our catalog!

* We here at MORE SUGAR have been working our tails off getting out the
new LodesTone Catalog, which has made a big jump this year: in 1994 we
had 12 items, one page, one color, and a mailing list of about 5000; this
year we have 70 items, 8 pages, full color, and over 9000 on the list! If
you haven't gotten one in the mail, call, FAX, write or email and we will
cause a government employee to deliver it personally to your address. The
great majority of items in our catalog, we find, were created by, inspired
by, or influenced by The Firesign Theatre. There's only a few exceptions
and most of those belong to Norman Corwin, who was an influence on TFT.
The two big new releases from More Sugar are very exciting: we
are now taking orders for Nick Danger in The Case of The Missing Yolk, and
also for -- hold onto your hats -- Martian Space Party! PLEASE NOTE: we
don't have either one in stock yet, but we will be shipping in time for
Christmas. At the last minute, it was decided to put MSP out on a
separate tape, leading to an overstamp correction on page 1 of the
catalog. Nick Danger (MS-004) is priced at $19.95, MSP (MS-005) is
$15.95, and we're offering a special deal on both of those products for
just $29.95 as MS-003, the combination deal. So: we'll take orders for
both these items now, but we will NOT cash any checks or process any
credit-card orders until we're ready to ship the product. We anticipate
that both videotapes will be shipping by December 12 (before if possible,
you bet!) and thus in time for Christmas.
Steve Gillmor, the original director/cinematographer on Martian
Space Party, has come up with a 35 mm film print. This is great -- we'll
certainly have the best quality copies of this film that have ever been
seen in decades.. Steve is enthusiastically working on the video transfer
now, and will be helping to promote the film out there in cyberspace --
he's now a well-known writer in a number of major computer publications.
Thank you beyond words, Steve, for all your help and faith!
The re-release of this film is especially timely with the
elections coming up: NOT INSANE IN 96 is our motto! And we are trying to
track down and license useable prints of a some very cool photos -- John
Lennon in 1972, wearing one of the original Not Insane buttons.
Future plans for More Sugar include the Latest Firesign Product:
The Holey Script for Anythynge You Want To is really coming together. I
saw a printout of the current version at MRTW, and it's wonderful. The
guys have had a ball writing annotations and annotations to the
annotations. The only problem is that they're still creating! When it's
ready, plans are to publish two versions: a special collector's edition,
and a popular-priced version in lesser binding (The Coarse Book, sez
Proctor). We'll be putting this up on the Net and the Web when it
happens.
Special commemorative editions of three items are in the works,
and we're looking for ways to afford the upfront costs. These would be
signed and numbered limited editions, with material not available
elsewhere -- memorabilia, pics, notes, fun stuff and amazing trivia. The
three items are: The Holey Script for Anythynge; Martian Space Party; and
the last CD's of Don't Crush That Dwarf. Yes, we possess 100 CD's of
Dwarf and want to make the ultimate collector's edition thereof. We held
this up when Sony/Columbia was talking about a re-release, but now they
haven't done that and we can't find out if they will or not, so we'll do
this anyway..
The big hurdle on these is the upfront costs, so here's a
marketing survey question: how many people would be willing to subscribe
in advance for these very special items? The price would be relatively
high -- $50 to $100 -- but we'd make it worth the money as a collector's
item. There would be a deadline for subscriptions, and if we don't
collect enough by then, we'd return the money. Anybody who might be
interested, please write FAX call or email us, SEND NO MONEY NOW!, and let
us know. Suggestions welcome for commemorative inclusions, too.
One other thing about money: LodesTone/More Sugar has got a bear
by the tail, and we're looking for additional capital. We're feedin' this
thing with a teaspoon and ought to be using a frontloader. Our product
sales revenue went up tenfold last year, and the enterprise justifies
expansion way beyond our means. Anybody want to buy in and help out? We'd
be happy to talk about a general investment or a venture on a specific
product.
NOT INSANE IN 96!!
Thanks -- Rich

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Taken Apart, Stacked Up and Labelled
More archival news and advertising from Fred Wiebel!
=============================================================================

I have just completed the first draft of the Chrono-Histography of The
Firesign Theatre. It's 109 pages of small type and really covers a lot of
ground, from the births of the members up to the present. I've including
everything I could find from all of the fanzines, newspaper clippings from
your press archives, and various additions and corrections from the group.
It's an ongoing task as more info continues to trickle in every day.
What I've decided to do is to take everything I've assembled for my
"book" so far and divide it up into separate booklets to sell to help fund
the entire project as I'm already several thousand in the hole. I'm offering
it to the fans as a prepublication service and for any corrections or
additions that they may come up with. Anyone who contributes will be fully
acknowledged in the credits. Chris Palladino has been helping me gather info
and has made some phone call interviews with Tiny Ossman, Bill Malloch, Buddy
Zellman, you, and others that we will drop into the Internet group from time
to time. Any of these that you wish to carry in the fanzine, you will be more
than welcome to.
I want this to be a fan's project as much as it is mine. I've already
spent over a year working on it, and feel that I'm in too deep to quit now.
The group has been very helpful and forthcoming, but the info has slowed down
in the last several months as I'm afraid I've inundated them with tons of
material and requests. It's a major project that I hope to assemble and offer
to a publisher when finished, hopefully sometime next year. All elements
combined, it's already over 400 pages, depending on the type size.
The discography has really come into shape but there are a few items that
I need photographs of. Any collectors can contact me and I will send them a
list of needed items.
Mark Garland also from Hagerstown, MD has been digging in his unlabled
archive of photographs and negatives from the '70s and has come up with
many rare shots of the Firesign from their 1974 appearance in DC, and also
Proctor and Bergman from the next year. He's still looking for some of the
"Fighting Clowns" tour photos from the Celler Door in DC, and I have some
from the 1993 Warner Theater show. Anyone wishing to contribute photos can
also contact me.
I recently got a call from WETA's Debra Lambertson, who was the producer
of Ossman's Sunday show in the '80s, worked on "We Hold These Truths," and
the upcoming e.e. cummings NPR project, and she gave me a lot of good info
on the show and has indicated that she will let me go through her files.
I sent out numerous copies of the Discoveries article to peak people's
interest in providing info, but have received nothing yet. Anybody wishing to
relate interesting anecdotes or info can also contact me.
I've started to run off some of the orders that I've gotten so far, and
they should be arriving in the mail soon. The deluxe copies I'm printing
individually on the computer and am assembling in various orders and colors
so that each numbered edition is unique.
I'm sorry I can't give away any copies, as the prices barely cover
printing, postage and an occasional pizza, etc. If I get a lot of orders then
I hope to show some profit. Mark Garland has lent me a computer and has also
lent me some money to keep the project going. I just bought a new
Hewlett-Packard 600C Deskjet printer that does a fine job, though the ink
cartridges are expensive. Anyone wishing to contribute cash can do so and will
be paid back in full when the project shows a profit, if ever.

THE FREDERICK C. WIEBEL, JR. FINE ARTS STUDIO is proud to present for a
limited time, the following Firesign Theatre related items:

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18 PAGES ......$ 5.00
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MRTW 1995 Review - short version
by Jerry Stearns <jste...@mtn.org>
=============================================================================
It was my first year as a director at MRTW. In fact, my first
time with a job of consequence. I was the Director of Continuity, which is
everything between the three plays. I was to write and direct it. Whew! I
worked with my friend, Brian Price to assemble a script that played with
the concept of radio today. It included a lot of channel switching.
I'd written a Ralph Spoilsport commercial into it, and asked Phil
Proctor to perform it. Of course, he accepted. We also wrote in two
promos for the third play in which Phil played a radio talk show host. So
he did those, too. During our rehearsals, Phil used his experience to help
my cast find their voice and the comedy in the script. He's very good. He
also made suggestions for the script, some of which we incorporated into
it. As Brian said, the script "passed the Proctor test."
After one rehearsal David Ossman told one of my cast that her
portrayal of a community radio DJ dealing with technical problems was
"priceless." I appreciated his complimenting her, a local college theater
major doing her first radio show. I also accepted some praise for the
scripting of that bit.
One thing I want to mention that is worthy of Firesign minds. The
band had ideas we put into the continuity, especially doing a skipping
record, Live! It took them a while, but they did create a piece that
worked - it was identifiable as a record skip even before we said so, and
wasn't more than ten seconds long. A brilliant silly concept, and well
executed. I love it.
The most fun was working with Brian Price to write the script,
hacking it out line by line. Twisting ideas and words to get something
unexpected. Second most fun was directing the performance. It wasn't
perfect, but it worked, and it got a few laughs.
I felt all through the experience that everyone just expected that
I'd do a good job. They were confident in me, probably more than I was in
myself. And they supported me when I expressed my apprehensions. At the
workshop party afterward, David O. told me it was "the best continuity
we've ever had." Others agreed. "A signature idea," he said, whatever that
means. I'll ask him.
I had SO much fun, I plan to go back next year - if there is one.
And I look forward to working with David in next spring's Science Fiction
convention here in Minneapolis. It's too much fun, dear friends.

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SAVIOR IN A BOX
by Tim Shell <ak...@lafl.org>
=============================================================================
[Excerpt from the unfinished, unauthorized Tales Highlighted in the Snow,
seventh in the Firesign Series of Action and Adventure Books for Young Boys.]

How Many Christs Are Buried in Grant's Tomb?

High in the frog-shrouded peaks of Kashmir, the wooly, heaving
bosom of human civilization, stands a small, stoned tomb guarded by chains
and Rusty Iron. Rusty, a Fung-kyu trained fighting clown monk from the
ancient and mystical Lost Order of Deli, has but two goals in his life.
One is to guard to his death if necessary the whole, hallowed final
resting hole of the original (and some say the greatest) uncopyrighted
Christ. The other is to someday hit the Holy Trifecta at Rocky Rococo's
All-New Classy Dog Racing and Massage Emporium in Muzaffarabad.
"Faq, it's a lonely, frustrating job," Rusty hissed through
betel-stained, pox-scarred gums, separating the remaining few of his
mouldering molars. "First there was that ridiculous ascension rumor, then
we missed getting that Antelope Freeway off-ramp, then to top it all off
there was the Second Coming. Business stinks!"
An ill wind broke as he pulled a withered finger from a
posey-filled pocket and pointed it at a small, rustic kiosk piled to the
heavens with a plethora of trinkets, geegaws, gimcracks, doodads, and
hand-worked whatnot from the old growth whatnot forests of Tibet and
nearby Off-Track Tibet. Each item bore some limited-edition engraven
image or inscription of the forgotten but not yet lost holy place. "The
Constant Patience carved walnut bowels are not moving at all," Rusty
jabbered, "and I haven't sold a collector earwax spoon, Santa Jesus
snow-dome, entrenching tool magnet, mosh pit deoderant, or Crunchy Christ
Groat Cluster Bar in weeks."
As we bid adieu (and were out-bid by aquatre) to the dedicated
overseer of Christ's tomb, a Ralph Spoilsport Motors commercial chattered
from Rusty's Sumoshita portable TV, featuring respectable, reflective
chrome-plated plastic low-income student housing, friction-free fictional
fine-tuning, theoretical cable-ready capability with picture-in-picture,
and two free months of Hideo Savant on-line service with Hinternet
Infobomb access for the low low low low price of only
seventreefiftyHUNdred dollars and a buckthreeeighty per hour, per day,
basics available separately. Mint-flavored packaging not intended for
consumption.

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Everything You Know is Wrong: The Firesign Theatre Trivia Quiz
by Richard Arnold
=============================================================================
This quiz is part of a contest sponsored by FAlaFal. See the rules
in the April 1995 issue on how you can enter, or see my Firesign Theatre
Official Rules World Wide Web page at

http://www.clark.net/pub/rarnold/firesign/quizrule.html

The deadline for submitting answers to these questions is March 1, 1996.
Entries for this quiz can be sent to Richard Arnold at 1303 R Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20009 (no phone calls, please) or by e-mailing Richard at
rar...@clark.net. This and subsequent quizzes appearing in FAlaFal are
excerpted from a quiz Richard is developing for his World Wide Web page.
The quiz in its entirety will be posted in installments after the publication
of these excerpts. Prizes will be determined by Richard, Elayne, and/or the 4
or 5 at the end of the quiz.

Part Three: Questions from the album
DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS
"This Side"
1. What kind of meal did Rod Flash give George through the TV
(specific dish)? (1)
2. What was "the word?" (1)
3. Who was the founder of Morse Science High School? (1)