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Bermann

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If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
FBE...@ix.netcom.com
Thanks!

GWLucky

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Album title I remember best is "Don't Squeeze That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers".
Absolutely nutso stuff. I can still quote a lot of it even though it was early
70s when I heard it.

He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Roccoco's pocket.

You can sit hear in the waiting room or wait hear in the siting room.

William J. Evans; mail protected by spamgard{tm}

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Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
:Thanks!

You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.

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Eurasmus B. Black

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Or due yew just want to weight rite hear for a spel?

bob_jenkins

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In article <1998041505452...@netcom.com>, w...@netcom.com says...

>
>Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
>:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
>:Thanks!
>
>You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
>

Quit clowning around!

GWLucky

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"It's our sacred mountain."
"It's a beaut!"
"No, it's a mountain."
"And right purty, too!"

All out for Fort Stinking Desert, ya got 10 minutes.

Come in out of the cornstarch and dry your mucklucks by the fire.

He's coming one, he's coming too, he's coming around to play Beat The Reaper.
Nurse, give him the shot. "I feel sick, I, I, I'm turning yellow. I've got
jaundice!"

we...@ezo.net

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Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers!


Bryan

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We need Nick Danger Privat Eye

M. Smith

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Bermann wrote in message <6h1g1p$r...@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>...


>If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
>FBE...@ix.netcom.com
>Thanks!

I've still got most of their albums. What "info" do you want?

- Mitch


Chip Taylor

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In article <199804151322...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, gwl...@aol.com (GWLucky) wrote:
>Album title I remember best is "Don't Squeeze That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers".
>Absolutely nutso stuff. I can still quote a lot of it even though it was early
>70s when I heard it.
>
>He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Roccoco's pocket.
>
>You can sit hear in the waiting room or wait hear in the siting room.


How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You Are Really Nowhere At All

Your quotes are from "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye" which
was "side 2" of the above album.

"Do you have a key?"
"No, only half a key. I had to split it with the sound effects man"


"There she was, lying spread-eagled on the carpet. I beat the eagle off of
her..."

"Listening to the rain drum on my desk top"

"Oh, you mean Nancy! She's in the aviary, stunting trees"

"Nick, we can't talk here"
"What?"
"We can't talk here"
"What?"


Chip Taylor

"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant."

Chip Taylor

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Apr 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/15/98
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In article <353501ff...@news.ezo.net>, we...@ezo.net wrote:
>On 15 Apr 1998 10:37:14 -0700, bob jenkins wrote:
>
>>In article <1998041505452...@netcom.com>, w...@netcom.com says...
>>>
>>>Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
>>>:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
>>>:Thanks!
>>>

>>>You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
>>>
>>
>>Quit clowning around!
>Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers!
>
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him

"Awwwwww! It's PAISLEY!!!!"

"Nice horsey! Give the horsey a sugar cube"

Ron K. Hulen

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Apr 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/16/98
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* bob jenkins wrote:

>In article <1998041505452...@netcom.com>, w...@netcom.com says...
>>
>>Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
>>:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
>>:Thanks!
>>
>>You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
>>
>
>Quit clowning around!

That would be a boring bus ride.

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Gaven Miller

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bobjenkins wrote in rec.humor:

> w...@netcom.com says...
> >Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
> >:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
> >:Thanks!
> >
> >You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.

> Quit clowning around!

Yeah - you know we're only allowed to clown a square.

--

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John N! Swegan

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In article <6h3vko$k3r$1...@newshost.comnet.co.nz>, gmi...@inca.co.nz (Gaven Miller) wrote:
>bobjenkins wrote in rec.humor:
>> w...@netcom.com says...
>> >Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> >:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
>> >:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
>> >:Thanks!
>> >
>> >You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
>
>> Quit clowning around!
>
>Yeah - you know we're only allowed to clown a square.
>

As long as we must get mathmatical, is it true that the Clown * Pi =
Cream?

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Nomad

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GW....good gosh!DId not know there was anyone beside me in here that
old.....LMBO
GWLucky wrote in message
<199804151322...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...

Eurasmus B. Black

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John N! Swegan wrote:
>
> In article <6h3vko$k3r$1...@newshost.comnet.co.nz>, gmi...@inca.co.nz (Gaven Miller) wrote:
> >bobjenkins wrote in rec.humor:
> >> w...@netcom.com says...
> >> >Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >> >:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
> >> >:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
> >> >:Thanks!
> >> >
> >> >You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
> >
> >> Quit clowning around!
> >
> >Yeah - you know we're only allowed to clown a square.
> >
>
> As long as we must get mathmatical, is it true that the Clown * Pi =
> Cream?

As Gacy (Gacey?) said - "Let's stop clowning around and get down to the
meat of the subject."

we...@ezo.net

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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:53:48 -0500, "Nomad" <NO...@NOSPAM.COM> wrote:

>GW....good gosh!DId not know there was anyone beside me in here that
>old.....LMBO
>GWLucky wrote in message
><199804151322...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...

>>Album title I remember best is "Don't Squeeze (Crush?) That Dwarf, Hand Me The

David J. Scott

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To avoid any further confusion, "GWLucky" wanted us to know that:

>Album title I remember best is "Don't Squeeze That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers".

>Absolutely nutso stuff. I can still quote a lot of it even though it was early
>70s when I heard it.
>
>He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Roccoco's pocket.
>
>You can sit hear in the waiting room or wait hear in the siting room.

Hello, I'd like a pizza with no anchovies....
Vive L'avenir
Dave
(Comments & questions welcomed, flames blatantly ignored)
(Remove SPAMNOT to reply via email)

Rich Van Ollefen

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Bryan wrote:
>
> We need Nick Danger Privat Eye

I sat with my feet up on the desk and looked at my
name on the door: regnaD kciN.

Rich Van Ollefen phone : (847) 413-3058
LSI Logic Corporation
1450 E. American Lane
Suite 1610 internet : dutc...@lsil.com
Schaumburg, IL 60173

GWLucky

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It has been a long time, but wasn't it "Nick Danger, Third Eye"? Not to be
critical 'cause as the saying goes if you can remember the '60s you weren't
part of them...

I went out the door and took a right, then a left, then a right to the body...

DB Cooper

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Apr 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/16/98
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Holy Mudhead, Mackerel

Earl Westerlund

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Frank Pineau wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:53:14 GMT, we...@ezo.net typed this with two
> fingers:

>
> >On 15 Apr 1998 10:37:14 -0700, bob jenkins wrote:
> >
> >>In article <1998041505452...@netcom.com>, w...@netcom.com says...
> >>>
> >>>Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >>>:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
> >>>:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
> >>>:Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Quit clowning around!
> >Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers!
>
> Didn't I say that line on the other side of the record? Where am i?

"This is the quietest room in the house. No one can here us in here."
"WHAT??"
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Bill Guy

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Porgy Tire-biter
He's a spy and
a Girl Delighter
Porgy Fire-fighter
He's a student like you!

If you're lookin' for the captain of the ringball team
you can bet he won't be there.
You'll find him poppin' up in Pop's Sodium Shop
Treating a Red with red hair!

(Dooby do wah!)

...

"Porgy's upstairs with the maid porcelain making the bed.
PORGY! PORGY TIREBITER!"

"Uh, uh, uh ... Coming, mother!"
(or is it: "... cumming, mother!")

"He's so good with the help."

...

"Oh, that son of mine."

"He's not your son, Fred."

"Stop torturing me, Ethel."

...

"Doesn't Bottles count?"
"Only to 10, Mudhead."


DB Cooper wrote:
>
> Holy Mudhead, Mackerel


>
> Bermann wrote:
> >
> > If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
> > FBE...@ix.netcom.com
> > Thanks!

Yes! That's right!
Everything You Know Is Wrong!
(but you know that already.)

--
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"In statu quo ante bellum." - J. Caeser, 44 BC
"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose."- F. M. Voltaire, 1778 AD
"Meet the new Boss! Same as the old Boss!" - P. Townshend, 1971 AD

Bill Guy

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Los Angeles!
He walks again, by night!

Out of the fog,
and into the smog.

Relentlessly,
Ruthlessly, ("I wonder where 'Ruth' is?")
Doggedly, <bark, bark>
Towards his weekly meeting with;
The UNKNOWN!

At Fourth and Drucker he turns left,
At Drucker and Fourth he turns right.

He crosses MacArthur Park
and walks into a great sandstone building. ("Ooof, my nose!")

Groping for the door,
He climbs the 13 steps to his office.

<phone ringing in background>
He's ready for excitement,
He's ready for adventure,
He's ready for anything!
He's ...

"Nick Danger, Third Eye!"
"Hello, I'd like to order a large pizza to go with no anchovies."
"No anchovies? You've got the wrong man.
I spell my name: 'Danger'! " <click>
"What?"

...

"I assume you're here to see my mistress, Mister Danger."

"I don't care about your private life or what his name is.
I'm here to see Nancy... uh Mrs. Underhill."

"Mrs. Underhill?"

"Audrey Farber."
"Audrey Farber?"

"How about Betty Jo Bialofski?"

"Oh! You mean Nancy! She's in the aviary, stunting trees.
I'll fetch her for you, straight away.
You may wait here in the sitting room, or
you can sit here in the waitting room."

...

There was something fishy about the Butler.
I think he was a Pisces.
Probably working for scale.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<........>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Back in College years, there were a few of us who could go
through the entire album and not miss a beat.

But, that would be 25 years ago.

We'd spend hours just identifying references to lyrics from
Beatles songs.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<........>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

"Who is he talking to?
and how does he make his voice do that?"

"Everyone knew her as: 'Nancy'."

Bill Guy

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William J. Evans; mail protected by spamgard{tm} wrote:

>
> Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> :If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
> :FBE...@ix.netcom.com
> :Thanks!
>
> You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
>
> -- Captain Nitpick Kansas is at the center of the universe.
> Bill Evans/Box 4829/Irvine, California 92616/(714)551-2766 _ /| ACK!
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"Read Me Doctor Memory!"

"Could you state that as a question?"

"Read Me Doctor Memory?"

"Hey, man! He broke the President!"
...

"Excuse me, worker, I be with you in just a nanosecond.
Close B Close mode on Deputy Dan."
...

"Hello, doctor! Nice to see you operating again.
I'm going to ask you a question that you're not going
to be able to answer.

Are you ready?

Why does the Porridge bird lay his eggs in the air?"
...
"The Doctor is unhappy."

"Is the Doctor turned on?"

"Yes."

"Well, if you're 'turned on', aren't you happy?"

"No."

"Please choose, Doctor!"

"No shoes, Doctor. No!"

....

Fudd's First Law of opposition: "If you push something hard enough,
it will fall over."

And Teslicle's Deviate to Fudd's Law: "If it goes In, I must come out!"

How can we best illustrate the stubborn consistency of this
eternal principle?
By walking down a shady New England lane on Wednesday, 1875.
We stop beside the grounded Iron gates of
Dr. Meadows Pneumatic Institute.
...

We know for certain, for instance, that for some time,
before the beginning, there were Hot Lumps. Cold and lonely,
they whirled noiselessly through the immense space.
...

Ya Know? I think we're all bozos on this bus."

GWLucky

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For a moment I thought Bill Guy must have been my grad school room mate. I
mean get him started and you couldn't stop him. In college it was the same
with Catch 22.

GWLucky

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My absolute favorite background line:

"Will the real Doctor Finnerman please report to neurosurgery!"

Some of the best background stuff had to be heard with earphones on and, shall
we say in a "relaxed" state. Ergo a series which started with:

You've got dual FM white stereos speakers with two competing frequencies, right
under the handy laminated wild west gun rack, with the look of real wood for
the channel of your choice (evolving into a drive and in the background you
could hear) "Santa Monica Freeway 1 mile, Santa Monica Freeway 1/2 mile, Santa
Monica Freeway 1/4 mile, etc" I once followed it down to about 1/128th mile.
Had to be helped up, though.

Chip Taylor

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In article <35366E...@kodak.com>, Bill Guy <wg...@kodak.com> wrote:
>GWLucky wrote:
>>
>> It has been a long time, but wasn't it "Nick Danger, Third Eye"? Not to be
>> critical 'cause as the saying goes if you can remember the '60s you weren't
>> part of them...
>>

>


>Back in College years, there were a few of us who could go
>through the entire album and not miss a beat.
>
>But, that would be 25 years ago.
>
>We'd spend hours just identifying references to lyrics from
>Beatles songs.
>
><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<........>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Use to drive down the highway back then with a car load of friends trading
lines from FST. Our favs were:

Nick Danger
How Can You Be In Two Places At Once (when you're really nowhere at all)
- "I'm tired! The sun is going down!"
- "No no, you're mistaken. The horizon is moving up"
- "I know, let's stand him on his head"
- "See? It's morning already!"
- "awwww! He's no fun, he fell right over!"

- "Did I pass a gas station?"
- "No but the fox did. Squeeze him right there and maybe he'll pass
another one"

Waiting for the Electrician (or someone like him)
Beat the Reaper
Forward Into the Past
- "You mean the ... eggs sir?"
- "Let's just call them the ... phenomena"
Don't Crush That Dwarf (hand me the pliers)
We're All Bozos On This Bus
In Search of the Giant Rat of Sumatra

and of course, our favorite movie "Reefer Madness"!

We knew them all.

Bob Danielson

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"You stupid TOAD! I ought to beat your BRAIN out!!!"

"NO!!!! Put down that pickle!!"
---------------------------------------------
"Today's problems were yesterday's solutions"

Delete the 999 to email


GWLucky

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A bunch of the guys were raising the devil. Had him about three feet off the
floor...

GWLucky

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Apr 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/17/98
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Mitch: Can I have the albums?

Chip Taylor

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Ummm..... that was "Antelope Freeway".

The album was "How can you be in two places at once (when you're really
nowhere at all)

"And now, back to the freeway, which is already in progress"

Bryan Morris

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GWLucky wrote:
>
> Album title I remember best is "Don't Squeeze That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers".
> Absolutely nutso stuff. I can still quote a lot of it even though it was early
> 70s when I heard it.
>
> He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Roccoco's pocket.
>
> You can sit hear in the waiting room or wait hear in the siting room.

as many of you know, the firesigners are just about finished with
another album (or rather CD) called "RadioNow".
i'm still in touch with phil proctor often.

what a good group of guys!

GWLucky

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Thanks for the correction "Antelope Freeway". hey, a few brain cells were
moderately damaged back then, but I'm fine, REALLY fine and the doctors say I
can go back to work at the Post Office any day now.

Eurasmus B. Black

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> as many of you know, the firesigners are just about finished with
> another album (or rather CD) called "RadioNow".
> i'm still in touch with phil proctor often.
>
Are you a proctorologist?

Kevin Allen

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There is a Firesign Theater newsgroup

--
"It is I, Ensign Pulver, and I've just thrown your stinking
palm tree overboard. Now what's this I hear about no
movies tonight?" -- Jack Lemmon in "Mr. Roberts"

end


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Mike Sherry

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GWLucky (gwl...@aol.com) wrote:
: Thanks for the correction "Antelope Freeway". hey, a few brain cells were

: moderately damaged back then, but I'm fine, REALLY fine and the doctors say I
: can go back to work at the Post Office any day now.

The great part of the "Antelope Freeway, 1/256th mile..." is that as the
fractions of a mile got smaller and smaller, the pacing of the
announcements stayed exactly the same.

"Rocky Racocco, at your cervix.."


--
Mike Sherry

GWLucky

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...and how many of us were in any condition to notice!

John McCluer

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Bill Guy wrote:
>
> Porgy Tire-biter
> He's a spy and
> a Girl Delighter
> Porgy Fire-fighter
> He's a student like you!
>

LIKE ME?????

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Gaven Miller

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GWLucky (gwl...@aol.com) wrote in rec.humor:

> Thanks for the correction "Antelope Freeway". hey, a few brain cells were
> moderately damaged back then, but I'm fine, REALLY fine and the doctors say I
> can go back to work at the Post Office any day now.

"... work at the Post Office ..."

OOTW (Oxymoron Of The Week)

--

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contacted via an intermediary : gem at tos pl net. I would like to
apologise to the genuine respondents that this may inconvenience.


Ron K. Hulen

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* gmi...@inca.co.nz (Gaven Miller) wrote:

>"... work at the Post Office ..."
>
>OOTW (Oxymoron Of The Week)

Geez, Gaven, give 'em a break. Of course they work there. How
else could they produce all those cedar posts, fence posts, lamp
post, Post Toasties . . . .

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steve rendle

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Apr 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/19/98
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Message from Gloomland errrr.....

>GWLucky wrote:
>>
>> Album title I remember best is "Don't Squeeze That Dwarf, Hand Me The
>> Pliers". Absolutely nutso stuff. I can still quote a lot of it even though
>> it was early
>> 70s when I heard it.
>>
>> He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Roccoco's pocket.
>>
>> You can sit hear in the waiting room or wait hear in the siting room.

Ah u must be the vista i've been expecting.


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Tim Cook

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Chip Taylor wrote:
>
{snip}

> Beat the Reaper

"And now for the REALLY big disease!"

Tim
{;o)}

Bill Guy

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Apr 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/20/98
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Mike Sherry wrote:
>
> GWLucky (gwl...@aol.com) wrote:
> : Thanks for the correction "Antelope Freeway". hey, a few brain cells were

> : moderately damaged back then, but I'm fine, REALLY fine and the doctors say I
> : can go back to work at the Post Office any day now.
>
> The great part of the "Antelope Freeway, 1/256th mile..." is that as the
> fractions of a mile got smaller and smaller, the pacing of the
> announcements stayed exactly the same.

1. The distance to the Antelope Freeway is incrementally halved in each
time interval. This is a reference to Zeno who hypothesized that
you can't reach your destination, ever, by halving the distance.
This was a problem of infinite time to reach zero.

(Note to GWLucky: "Zeno", the philosopher,
is not to be confused with "Xena", the cleavage-of-the-century. ;-)
and I've never been a room-mate to anyone in Grad school. )

2. If you try to envision an over-all, story-line to this side
of the album, The car runs out of gas on the Antelope Freeway on-ramp.
Our hero falls asleep at the wheel, and is inundated by an incredible
dream sequence stimulated and influenced by the TV, which he has left
on.
Most of the content are references to 40's and 50's style movies,
and 60's sytle American commercials.

>
> "Rocky Racocco, at your cervix.."
>
> --
> Mike Sherry


Shadow Valley Condoms -- If you lived here, you be home by now!

GWLucky

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Apr 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/20/98
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I am familiar with Zeno's paradox where he cleaves the number one in half, then
again, etc. So "cleave" and "cleavage" and there you have Zeno and Xena.

BTW I taught university mathematics for a long time. I tried animal husbandry
but they caught me and made me stop.

Eurasmus B. Black

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Apr 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/20/98
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So was that famous dog who answered to the name 'Lucky" any relation?

Neal Hamel

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Apr 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/21/98
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:21:06 GMT, w...@netcom.com (William J. Evans; mail
protected by spamgard{tm}) wrote:

>Bermann <fbe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>:If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
>:FBE...@ix.netcom.com
>:Thanks!
>
>You'll get no help from us. We're all bozos on this newsgroup.
>

[ said eerily ]

Hello! I am the strange Doctor Wierd.

Welcome the the Vault of Mindless Fellowship!!

Bwahahahahah!

[ I love those guys - check out the Organization in my header lines. ]

-Neal H.


Mike Sherry

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Apr 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/21/98
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Bill Guy (wg...@kodak.com) wrote:
: 1. The distance to the Antelope Freeway is incrementally halved in each

: time interval. This is a reference to Zeno who hypothesized that
: you can't reach your destination, ever, by halving the distance.
: This was a problem of infinite time to reach zero.

This is cool to know, but since the pace of the announcements doesn't halve
itself (get quicker), it's just plain old funny to me. :D

: 2. If you try to envision an over-all, story-line to this side


: of the album, The car runs out of gas on the Antelope Freeway on-ramp.

Ahh. Unfortunately I've only taped, er bought [yeah], the "Ralph
Spoilsport Motors" part of it, off the "Shoes 4 Industry" best-of CD.
Lots of bits I'm sure are out of context (and all that more weird).

So far the albums I have are "Dwarf" and "Bozos". The "Bozos" reissue CD
I found at a Half Price Books has great liner notes & I'm grateful for the
backstory.

: Shadow Valley Condoms -- If you lived here, you be home by now!

"...and here we say farewell to Rancho Malerio Clowndominiums..."


--
Mike Sherry

georg

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Apr 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/21/98
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GWLucky wrote:
>
> I am familiar with Zeno's paradox where he cleaves the number one in half, then
> again, etc. So "cleave" and "cleavage" and there you have Zeno and Xena.
>
> BTW I taught university mathematics for a long time. I tried animal husbandry
> but they caught me and made me stop.

I thought that was from Tom Leher- of Masochism Tango and Poisoning
Pigeons in the Park fame.

One of my favorites, that I adore singing, clasping tightly to a
stranger's hand, is the waltz "I Hold Your Hand in Mine". But would
that make me the stranger? Hmm.

"I hold your hand in mine, dear.
I press it to my lips.
I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips.
My joy would be complete, dear, if you were only here,
but still I keep your hand as a precious souvenier.
The night you died I cut it off.
I really don't know why.
For now each time I kiss it, I get blood stains on my tie.
I'm sorry now I killed you, for our love was something fine,
and until they come to get me
I shall hold your hand in mine."

-georg
non ani sunt permittendi
lyrics and music by Tom Leher, from the An Evening Wasted with Tom
Leher album.

ZenoPus

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Apr 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/21/98
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:33:10 GMT, Lenny Schafer <sch...@netcom.com>
wrote:

>Bryan Morris <mor...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
-snip-
>Turn your head and cough, girls. Please step this way to G-Spot
>inspection....
>
>
>"G-Spot?, I was told that H-Spot was as far as you had to put out?"

As far as? ... H is just behind G - aaah now I see.


--
ZenoPus mailto:zen...@bigfoot.com.spam.not

B Braun

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Apr 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/23/98
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At Drucker and Fourth they turned left.

Brian


> Bermann wrote:
> >
> > If you have any information about Firesign Theater please e-mail me
> > FBE...@ix.netcom.com
> > Thanks!

--
Remove the animal after "worldnet" to properly send me email.

Sorry for the extra trouble, but SPAM is too much of an annoyance. I
actually prefer to read UseNet postings, if you can post instead of
emailing.

Mike Sherry

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Apr 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/23/98
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georg (the.whichway...@servtech.NARF.com) wrote:
: > BTW I taught university mathematics for a long time. I tried animal husbandry

: > but they caught me and made me stop.
: I thought that was from Tom Leher- of Masochism Tango and Poisoning
: Pigeons in the Park fame.

I've heard the 'New Math' tune. Snappy & funny, though not as twisted as
some of his other stuff.

BTW, have you heard the Animaniacs' tune "Multiplication"? It's another
one that's quickly sung, almost an update to Leher's (they sing the
praises of the calculator in the chorus)


--
Mike Sherry

georg

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Apr 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/24/98
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Yes, I have. I like the "All the Countries in the world"- "United
States, Canada, Mexico, Panama..."; "Every Word in the English
Language"; the senses song; the 2 note song; Pinky's "Cheeses of the
World" and "Brain Scan!" And of course, anything performed by the
Great Wakkorotti.

Who says cartoons aren't educational!

"We want to perch on Scorsese's head!"- the pigeons, in the version of
West Side Story

"Dig down! Dig Deep! Animals unite!" -from Rita & Runt's redo of Les
Miseranimals.

Webmaster

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Apr 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/24/98
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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<BLAH BLAH BLAH>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>
>"Dig down! Dig Deep! Animals unite!" -from Rita & Runt's redo of Les
>Miseranimals.

You forgot "Lake Titicaca!!"

RS

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