Weekly Firesign Chat Log

A Firesign Chat
02/12/2004

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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for February 12, 2004 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 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?"
||||||||| Dexter Fong sneaks in around 9:13 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood leads C. Simril inside, makes a note of the time (9:14 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Dexter Fong: There's always an unpleasant incident when Catherwoods around.....and he can't tell time either
C. Simril: Hi Dex
Dexter Fong: Hey Cat =)
||||||||| Merlyn sneaks in around 9:14 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
C. Simril: tell time what?
Dexter Fong: Hi Merl
C. Simril: hey time, how's it going?
Merlyn: hello
C. Simril: got any spare strings?
Dexter Fong sings "Turn back the hands of time"
Dexter Fong: I got string...you got a theory?
C. Simril: hey merl, you didnt answer my question and i'[m stuck with the google interview with dimento wedded to my desktop
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo', just granted probation at 9:15 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
C. Simril: ugly motherfucker too
C. Simril: hi yammi
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Oi
Merlyn: hey, I use a PC, you're on your own
Dexter Fong: Greet with OI you must
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Who ugly?
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: OI
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Better?
C. Simril: well i'll wait til someone who knows something about computers to show up
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: That's not me
C. Simril: klok or kend or doc/lili maybe
Dexter Fong: Ah it's computers you want to know about is it Timmy? Let's ask Bill down at the bank...
Merlyn: just call me babbage
Dexter Fong: Uncle Miltie!]
C. Simril: at your age? you're far too young to babble
C. Simril: hey dex, it's nice to be in the same chatroom with someone old enough to remember jack paar and eric severeid, both rip, alas
C. Simril: both heroes of mine/mind
Dexter Fong: Thanks Cat, but you know? Most of all I remember Mama
Dexter Fong: and Lars
C. Simril: if you had mine, you would not
Dexter Fong: and Bill down at the bank
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: I saw Jack Parr and Eric Severeid on TV
Dexter Fong: Live Yam?
Dexter Fong: Them not you
||||||||| Dr. Headphones sneaks in around 9:19 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Dr. Headphones: hello, dear friends
Dexter Fong: Hey Ken
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Actually he cameoed in a depressing end o the world movie
C. Simril: wonderful speech on pot-tv by pollan, nytimes/harpers writer on nature and such, about the wonderful forgetting effects of marijuana and how civilization could not have occurred without it
C. Simril: hi kend
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Testament IIRC
Dr. Headphones: obi-wan-yam. domo arigato
C. Simril: hi kend
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Ya
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: and OI
C. Simril: mr. robota-yaki?
Dr. Headphones: cat: if you haven't read his book (title escapes me at the moment) then by all means do so
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: An alias of my evil twin Mitsubishi Fuso
Dr. Headphones: "the botany of desire"
C. Simril: which one?
Dexter Fong: If Tori Amos married Terry Yaki, she'd be Tori Terry Yaki
C. Simril: i've read more books than i've eaten meals
Dr. Headphones: dex: and i bet she would taste yummy, too :)
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo P rather
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: oh nuts
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: :P
C. Simril: ah yes, he quoted from it in the talk, which you really have to watch. i read the part of it that was in harpers
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: ha
Dr. Headphones: post link here, or send by email, i will do so
C. Simril: actually the talk was a kind of update on the research he had when he wrote it
C. Simril: go to pot-tv.net
C. Simril: i think the section is called entheogens 101 or something.
Dexter Fong: Update's are a lot better than those down dates...bummers
C. Simril: oh by the way, the conference i went to last week is now on line there
Dexter Fong: Cat: How was the Conf and how was your presentation
C. Simril: y'all should take a listen. cost me $125 Canuck, which is like a couple of your smaller bills
C. Simril: i didnt present but hung out with those that did.
Dexter Fong: You had to pay to represent?
Dr. Headphones: entheogenesis conference?
C. Simril: i was vastly impressed with the high (no pun intended) level of consciousness and scholarship throughout,
C. Simril: yes it was here in van last weekend. amazing
C. Simril: i am mentioned on the front page of pot-tv today however
Dexter Fong: Fame!!! =)
C. Simril: i loaned chris, the station manager some dvds of ancient anti-drug films that used to be shown to school kids in your country
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Уамамото
C. Simril: got em from doc
C. Simril: fuck fame.
Dexter Fong: Very Nice Yam San
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: I've never missed it
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: plying w/character map
C. Simril: it never missed you
Dr. Headphones: cat, there are 19 segments there, i don't see pollan unless i looked too quickly
Dr. Headphones: dex: good vacation, i hope?
C. Simril: ok i'll go look
Dexter Fong: Ken: A great deal of fun, and warm weather
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: pollan makes me schneeze
Dexter Fong: Love Key West
Dr. Headphones: yes, one of my friends in florida regales me with stories of his flowers and trees blooming while i watch snow out my window
C. Simril: dex are you looking at Entheogens 101? there it is
C. Simril: cannabis, forgetting and the botany of desire
Dr. Headphones: my last trip to key west wasn't remembered well. tequila struck with full force
Dexter Fong: Kids got married on a 35 foot 2-masted Catamaran sailing out into the atlantic
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: regale me not, pirthee
C. Simril: better outside your window, kend
Dexter Fong: Cat: Believe it's Ken that's looking
Dr. Headphones: ah, cat, did search of site, turned up immediately
C. Simril: ok, well everyone should watch that. as well as the conference
Dexter Fong: Ken: Those Tequila fronts can strike suddenly
C. Simril: amazingly interesting and empowering
Dr. Headphones: yes, i will listen to that later. thanks for the tip (but next time make it 15%!)
Dexter Fong: Speaks there an ex waitperson?
C. Simril: i'm hoping to volunteer there in the near future when i finish my course, which starts next weeek so you wont see me til end of march
Dr. Headphones: no, but i believe in rewarding them if they deserve it
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: 20 % and ya got yrself a deal
||||||||| Elayne enters at 9:30 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Dr. Headphones: hey el
C. Simril: hey el
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Dexter Fong: Hiya E!
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: OI E!
C. Simril: i'n not nearly stoned enuf yet
Elayne: Me neither, Cat. Then again, I'm utterly sober at the moment.
Dr. Headphones: E - I - E - I - O
Dexter Fong: Half stoned is a fream denied
Merlyn: hello E
Dexter Fong: dream
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: E-I-I-O-OI!
Dr. Headphones: i'm not sober--i'm full of folgers
Dexter Fong: Ken: What's in those Folger's?
Dr. Headphones: pure colombian beans, roasted to perfection after picking by juan valdez
Dexter Fong: We used to pick on Juan Valdez...called him a Burrito man and like that
Merlyn: crystal folders
Dexter Fong: Ben Folds 5 crystals
Dexter Fong: can I get 6?
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: that's no mean Feet
C. Simril: but they;'re only Little Feet
Dexter Fong: I'm not mean to Feet, he likes it that way
Merlyn: most crystals are too hard to fold, except billy
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: He has eyes in em ya know: Spud Valdez, but nobody's laughing at him now
C. Simril: depends on your chemist, merl
Dr. Headphones: merlyn: i hear you can fold him up small enough to fit in your pocket
Merlyn: fold it into a flowsnake
Dexter Fong: Yam: That's cause he can see behind his back...eyes all over
Dexter Fong: Fold it into 16 dimensions
Dr. Headphones: how can you be in 16 dimensions at once when you're not anywherer at all?
C. Simril: watching news spot on the passion. makes me embarassed to be a film maker
Elayne: Argh! My Google toolbar just Valentine'd itself!!
C. Simril: good one, kend
Dexter Fong: Ken: It's just a theory...Im kinda stringing you along
C. Simril: hows the job search, el?
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: If you had more than two eyes and could look intoyour other eyes, what would you see?
Dexter Fong: Eternity Yam
Dexter Fong: or maybe some string
Dr. Headphones: i (picture of heart) google
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: or yr soul
C. Simril: a portable eternity
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: just add water
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: makes it's own gravy
Dexter Fong: In Key West it's potable eternity
Elayne: Alas, Cat, I didn't get the job at the Village Voice.
C. Simril: bummer
Elayne: Still looking, but I haven't been very mobile this week.
Elayne: Nasty bug or something, all muscle aches and spasms and exhaustion.
C. Simril: you feeling any better?
Elayne: Winter can't be over soon enough for me.
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: It's making the rounds
C. Simril: yeah, fumiyo and i are draped in lethargy.
Elayne: A little better, I'm going to be attempting some stretching exercises tonight to see if I can't loosen my lower back muscles a bit...
Dr. Headphones: didn't "the who" sing about being mobile?
Elayne: It really is, Yam, and it's lingering.
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Careful w/that E!
Dexter Fong: E: Sorry about not getting the job, however...the VV is an incestuous hotbed of political and social and sexual politics
Elayne: Is it some sort of mass Epstein-Barre or something?
Elayne: Not on the executive floor, Dex. :)
C. Simril: she just went to meet friend's friends about funeral preparations.
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: I avoid those things it seems
C. Simril: it takes a lot out of you
Dr. Headphones: i had whiskey at epstein's bar once
Dexter Fong: Ken: Re: Who..."Tommy...Can you here me now?"
C. Simril: who's on first
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Too much republicanisim, it is
Merlyn: documentary on the history channel all about moonshine
||||||||| "9:40 PM? 9:40 PM!!" says Catherwood, "doctec should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as doctec enters and sits on the couch.
doctec: hi gang
Elayne: Hey Tom!
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: OI
Dexter Fong: Hey Doc...Rack 'em up
C. Simril: i'm looking for mr. bronfman
Dr. Headphones: howdy, doc, we've been lurking for you
C. Simril: hey doc
doctec: prolly won't be able to stay too long, lili is prepping dinner and apart from that i'm f**king exhausted
C. Simril: i was just quoting neal amid
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: rickup rackum ruckum take that ball and...fight
Elayne: Gah, you too?!
Elayne: We're all too exhausted to be f**king...
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: It's making the rounds
Dr. Headphones: e: what's that? i don't remember....
Elayne: It can't be just flu-aftermath, I think it's a separate pathology.
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: I'm fine but have no one available for copulation
Merlyn: that's a "good kind" of tired
Dexter Fong: It's rounding the far turn and here it comes...that really big disease
||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd in through the front door at 9:41 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Dr. Headphones: i'm on a non-christian path, ollie
llanwydd: howdy
Elayne: Hey llan!
Dr. Headphones: hey llan
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: oi
Dexter Fong: Hi Ilan
llanwydd: \i'm on a real computer this time.
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: Moving up
llanwydd: no webtv
Dexter Fong: Yeah..wondered about that Il
Dexter Fong: I Love Jack Web tv
Dr. Headphones: "...to the east side..."
Dr. Headphones: "just the fax, ma'am"
C. Simril: as opposed to fantasy computer?
C. Simril: a harry potter 2000
doctec: first course is ready, so have to take a break but will be back...
C. Simril: ok doc
llanwydd: my regular setup is webtv, but \i'm on a computer tonight
doctec: help me test cat's email form: http://www.seemreal.com/cgi-bin/emailcat.cgi
Dr. Headphones: llan: is it really like aol only worse?
llanwydd: don't know aol too well
llanwydd: just looked at seemreal.
llanwydd: Seems real
C. Simril: looks good to me. and i'm cat
Dexter Fong: Ken: It's like AOL but worse and less
Dr. Headphones: doc: just fired one off. DUCK! INCOMING!
Merlyn: me too
Elayne: Just tested it, Tom.
Dexter Fong: I vas dere
C. Simril: Test Id Tom, sounds like a great name for a group
Dexter Fong: Testy Dcom
C. Simril: like Ben Folds 5
Dexter Fong: But not as many
Merlyn: teste D'.com
llanwydd: \i'm in Daytona Beach right now. Flew south for a couple of weeks
llanwydd: great weather
Merlyn: how about "hitler's other testicle" for a group name
Dr. Headphones: llan, i hope you're enjoying it!
Dexter Fong: Il: Why the\ before "i"
Dr. Headphones: merl: i don't want to play *anything* in that group
llanwydd: don't know how \it happens
Dexter Fong: Incoming Ducks will open for them
C. Simril: in the furor's face
Elayne: Now that's a good name for a band.
Dexter Fong: PPPPPPPPPPpppppttttttttthhhhhhhhhttttt!
Dexter Fong: Oops, forgot the Heil
llanwydd: that would create a furor
||||||||| stephnfosterkane-klok sneaks in around 9:50 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
llanwydd: hey klik
Dexter Fong: Klok-Kane, Hiya
llanwydd: er klop
llanwydd: klack
stephnfosterkane-klok: hello everyone; welcome bak dex
Merlyn: Though it would be tricky to talk about them: "I really like Hitler's Other Testicle"
Dr. Headphones: the elusive mr klok has arrived. all rise....
Dexter Fong: klik klop, the hands of time move on
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: bah
Dexter Fong: TY Klok
Elayne: Hey Klok!
Merlyn: or maybe "Hitler's Secret Testicle"
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo: bragging about weather to the cold is Bad Karma, ya know
C. Simril: klokman
Dexter Fong: Mein Kamf and Testicle
C. Simril: deviant
doctec: ok cat, you should check your email box & see if you received any of the test msgs that the gang just sent you
||||||||| Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo leaves to catch the 9:51 PM train to Hellmouth.
Dr. Headphones: hitler's nuts: the sequal
C. Simril: ok doc
Dexter Fong: lol Ken
Dr. Headphones: sequel. can't spell
||||||||| Catherwood ushers The Уамамото Conundrum into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:52 PM, then departs.
doctec: dr. h: good one!
llanwydd: I'm not bragging about the weather
Dexter Fong: or capitalize either =)
llanwydd: to do with it
C. Simril: excellent. i feel like mr. burns
Dr. Headphones: an enigma wrapped in a riddle, yam?
Dexter Fong: George Burns?
Merlyn: a conan drum?
C. Simril: coming, gracy?
doctec: cat: so you got msgs from everyone?
The Уамамото Conundrum: At least, mental sushi
C. Simril: yes i did doc. great stuff
Dexter Fong: Cat =))))
llanwydd: ever had Blimpies enigma wraps\/
C. Simril: we'll speak on phone this weekend sometime, eh?
Dexter Fong: Full Metal Sushi
Merlyn: cat, is it just to have a feedback page that gets forwarded to you?
The Уамамото Conundrum: Hard on the Tef that
Dr. Headphones: llan: haven't been there much lately, but i'll put that on my "to eat" list ;)
C. Simril: guess doc would know. i can barely kn
llanwydd: impressive cyrillic yamma
doctec: merl: yeah, we want to replace the 'email cat' links (with cat's old email address) on all the seemreal/bitsite pages
The Уамамото Conundrum: Y, I have the full support package
The Уамамото Conundrum: Most languages.
Merlyn: yammy, all I get are "????????"
Dexter Fong: Yamamoto, master of the alphabet
doctec: cat: glad the test works, now all i have to do is replace the email links on your pages - brian's handy 'recursive grep' unix command has pulled up the list for me
Dr. Headphones: yam: with elastic band to hold it in place?
C. Simril: thanx, merl
C. Simril: you are good for Something
The Уамамото Conundrum: Yep
The Уамамото Conundrum: hold on
||||||||| Around 9:55 PM, The Уамамото Conundrum walks off into the sunset...
stephnfosterkane-klok: unicode? Can you do Klingon, Yam?
C. Simril: oh, tell your radio partner about the Red Shift appearance on line
Dr. Headphones: i'm holding.....
Dexter Fong: I sense another Yamamoto Coming
Elayne: Now hold it over here.
Merlyn: ok cat
||||||||| "9:56 PM? 9:56 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Full Metal Yämamøto should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Full Metal Yämamøto enters and sits on the couch.
C. Simril: in case you all didnt know yet, Red Shift, starring Elaye, Doc Tech, Tiny Dr Tim and most of the firesign is now on line at www.seemreal.com
Full Metal Yämamøto : Bet I hold the reccord for nicknames
Dexter Fong: Hey Sarge! What are we gonna do, huh?
Elayne: I should really plug that on my blog. Hang on, Cat.
C. Simril: and dex too
Merlyn: so, are you a sunken japanese warship?
Full Metal Yämamøto : That's Leiutenanat
C. Simril: do so, el. you and robin did a wonderful job.
Full Metal Yämamøto : and stuff
C. Simril: revel in it
Dexter Fong: Hey Sarge! what are we gonna do to the Lieutenant, huh?
C. Simril: dex, you too
llanwydd: lock and load, private
Dexter Fong: Gracious El Senor Gato
Full Metal Yämamøto : rats I shoulda put in a sound byte
C. Simril: wish tiny could be here to hear it, link it with his unfailing sense of communiyt
Dexter Fong: Il; I always lock and load privately
Dr. Headphones: cat: i downloaded it, listened to part, but haven't finished yet. i'm impressed so far. only thing on my wish list is real names next to character names (like "marlon brando plays fluffy, the dog")
Full Metal Yämamøto : Now my privates are locked and loaded, what to do?
C. Simril: i'm not sure myself, kend.
Dr. Headphones: yam: dont' fire until yousee the eggwhites of their eyes
Dexter Fong: Yam: Let htose boys fight it out
C. Simril: it would take a lot of investigative work
Elayne: Okay, it's done.
llanwydd: sir what are we gonna do man
Full Metal Yämamøto : Send Bush
llanwydd: ki ki ki ki
C. Simril: for example, i thought richard arnold did the voice of rover but doc later told me he changed it when producing.
stephnfosterkane-klok: to MARS!!
Elayne: http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_elayneriggs_archive.html#107663882369019661
Dexter Fong: Kiki Dee?
Elayne: The Red Shift plug is all the way on the bottom of that post...
C. Simril: thanks el
C. Simril: seems timely, with the rovers on mars and stuff
Full Metal Yämamøto : You're linked from my photo page
C. Simril: thanks yammi. hey did you see the japan pix?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: am unable to look at this blogspot for some reason
Full Metal Yämamøto : yes
Full Metal Yämamøto : I posted them
C. Simril: one of the photos i sent you is now part of a set of 45 images of the japan trip. also on the seemreal.com site, in the travelling ishikawas section
Elayne: llan, it might be Haloscan, that comment section tool has been cutting in and out like a crazy monkey for the last half hour or so.
Elayne: Have a bit of patience, should load okay shortly.
llanwydd: aha
Dexter Fong looks for Catherwood for a refill, has unpleasant incident
llanwydd: \i'll try again
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Elayne Riggs', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:02 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Elayne Riggs: Sorry, I moved the wrong way and kicked myself out...
C. Simril: two, two, two elaynes in one
Elayne Riggs: How can I get rid of the other one?
Full Metal Yämamøto : ow
Merlyn: I can
Dr. Headphones: e: remember what you did so you can't do it again ;)
Elayne Riggs: Yes, Yam, you'd think that anatomically impossible, wouldn't you?
Merlyn: Or, you can usually just log in over yourself
stephnfosterkane-klok: send her on an errand 50 blocks away
llanwydd: the other Elayne will go away in her own time
Elayne Riggs: LOL, Dr. H!
Full Metal Yämamøto : It's interesting seeing you both in that dress
Elayne Riggs: Thanks Merlyun.
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off Elayne at 10:03 PM
stephnfosterkane-klok: is that like Chicago time?
||||||||| At 10:03 PM, Elayne Riggs vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| "10:03 PM? 10:03 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Elayne should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Elayne enters and sits on the couch.
Elayne: Thanks Merlyn!
Full Metal Yämamøto : cool
C. Simril: for the mamaries
llanwydd: there's two of everybody except me
Elayne: Oh, haven't we had just about enough boobie talk?
Dr. Headphones: that merlyn is great with the scythe
stephnfosterkane-klok: hey, hey, I can't keep up. can we go back to one of each of us?
Elayne: There's two of them too.
Elayne: Must get smokables. BRB.
C. Simril: loved title of salon article, Hello Titty. and i didnt even see the offending breast
Dr. Headphones: klok: only time there's two of me is when i'm in front of mirror. no, i am NOT vampire :)
stephnfosterkane-klok: this hasn't happened to me since The Seventh Seal
C. Simril: a splendid cartoon on pot-tv today about that
Dexter Fong mutter's "and fuck you too Catherwood, stay outta my booze
Dr. Headphones: nor to me since the fourth walrus
Full Metal Yämamøto : I saw it, was not impressed
stephnfosterkane-klok: was the fourth walrus Ringo?
Elayne: Oh, speaking of vampires, try to catch next week's Angel if you can. Some of the characters turn into puppets, the preview looked very cute.
Dexter Fong: Ken: I was the fourth walrus
C. Simril: ive now read the whole sandman series, el
llanwydd: saw what, the 7th seal?
Dexter Fong: Then I was the fifth beetle
Dr. Headphones: did anyone read about the wayward sea lion in california? turned up in a farmer's field
C. Simril: i cant imagine a better series
llanwydd: I was not only not impressed, \i didn't get it
C. Simril: but i thought that about the first 4 firesign albums
Elayne: I should think it would be much better read all at once, Cat. Glad you liked it.
Dexter Fong: Lately, I've felt like a sixth sense
C. Simril: hye, anybody here remember the firesign theatre? old comedy group. old guys
Elayne: I haven't read it in a long long time, but I was into it when it was coming out monthly, and it doesn't have the same flow.
stephnfosterkane-klok: the fifth beetle, the fourth walrus and the wayward sea lion? what a concept! get me casting!
Elayne: I'm kind of liking 1602 so far, but he took like 5 issues to get to the point.
llanwydd: the subject comes up sometimes
stephnfosterkane-klok: but very young at heart
Merlyn: hey cat, where are the chipmonks in the old school bldg picture?
C. Simril: no iread volume 9 last,, last week. i read The Wake last month so ....
Dr. Headphones: louie b. mayer calling for klok, please pick up the white courtesy phone
Elayne: Fireside Theater? Didn't FDR used to do that?
stephnfosterkane-klok: we meet in their spirit, not their documentation!
C. Simril: i bought a couple of volumes when you turned mne on to it but that was long ago and it was too depressing to buy more. also really expensive
stephnfosterkane-klok: yeah, let's all wheel ourselves closer to the fyre
Dr. Headphones: we have nothing to fear but pay records themselves!
C. Simril: louis be mayor? is penisnose dead?
Full Metal Yämamøto : spirit's I niether drink or believe in Ghosts
Dexter Fong: Hello Mr. President
llanwydd: FDR? Fourth Dimension Radar. \new invention
stephnfosterkane-klok: only in the third dimension, Ilan; only in 3D
C. Simril: mr philadelphia, your project is waiting
Dr. Headphones: pbs "frontline" coming on now, new (not repeat) i think, about WMD
Dexter Fong: Then I was with The Fifth Dimension
C. Simril: yer kidding?
llanwydd: as if there is anything new about WMD
stephnfosterkane-klok: does anyone not already know enough about WMD now???
Full Metal Yämamøto : More Non WMD's?
stephnfosterkane-klok: sheesh
C. Simril: ok i just put on frontline
Dr. Headphones: not WMD, thing i read was wrong. but IS about iraq and ethnic quarrels
Merlyn: wmd.com is west michigan digital
Dexter Fong: Hey...as long as they criticize GWB..I say OK
Full Metal Yämamøto : The AM crowd is going nuts re Kerry
C. Simril: no, different shit.
stephnfosterkane-klok: I got sent to Iraq to find WMDs and all I found was this lousy T-shirt
C. Simril: hey, when are they gonna do a show about bush's military service
Dexter Fong: Klok puts on a bold face
doctec: did you guys see that the foos bros have started a dvd label - http://www.shoutfactory.com
Full Metal Yämamøto : Cat: That would be a 2 minute show
Dexter Fong: Cat: They can't, can't find the record
C. Simril: the revolution's just a t-shirt away, to quote my fave billy bragg song
doctec: they decided to start a new label after leaving rhino records
stephnfosterkane-klok: (or more to the point: http://www.cashncarrion.co.uk/?listPos=&productID=105&search=&op=catalogue-product_info-null&prodCategoryID=5)
Dexter Fong: Doc: Who are the Foos Bros?
stephnfosterkane-klok: one step forward, two steps back...
C. Simril: like foo fighters except brothers?
stephnfosterkane-klok: I think something put a paren on that link; it should've been http://www.cashncarrion.co.uk/?listPos=&productID=105&search=&op=catalogue-product_info-null&prodCategoryID=5
Full Metal Yämamøto : If Bush nipped off w/o reporting to duty, he's violated article 86 of the Uniform Code of Military Toughness
Dr. Headphones: £14.03? why not £13.95?
Dexter Fong: Fuse Bros, work for the Electrician
C. Simril: klok, when you send me urls in your emails, i cant open them
doctec: richard and garson
stephnfosterkane-klok: the heavier the better, Ken
C. Simril: since i cancelled opera, cuz i got some virus from it
Dexter Fong: Richard Rogers and Greer Garson?
doctec: and harold bronson is involved in the new label too
Full Metal Yämamøto : musta been a Wagnerian Version
stephnfosterkane-klok: that's part of the plan, Cat -- I have a URL frustrator option built into my mailer that totally futzes them all
doctec: cat: i expect it wasn't opera's fault directly but a setting within regarding how attachments are handled
Dr. Headphones: i LOVE the smell of pay records in the morning!
C. Simril: also, merlyn gave me url of dr. dimento/firesign interview and as i couldnt open it, i saved it as a shortcut on my desktop, thinking i could easily get rid of it from there. proves not the case
doctec: the only way you can get a virus from an email is if you open an attachment
C. Simril: must be, doc
doctec: if opera was set up to automatically open all attachments that came in with your other mail, then that would cause the virus to launch
C. Simril: i nver open attachments
stephnfosterkane-klok: Doc - I thought that some Windows settings would automagically open some scripts that could do nasties, all the better reason to avoid Outlook Express
Elayne: Oh, speaking of attachments - Cat, did you get my e-mail earlier? I think I got a phantom attachment/virus with your name and e-address faked.
doctec: not directly, but if opera was set up to open them for you (ms outlook does the same thing)...
C. Simril: wow. bummer, el
Elayne: I wanted to be sure it wasn't an actual attachment before I deleted it.
Elayne: Okay, then you didn't e-mail me anything this morning?
Full Metal Yämamøto : These Japanes snaps are alternately beautiful and depressing
C. Simril: i was just telling you where to see the pix from japan and you and robin in red shift
Dr. Headphones: i tried updating my winxp from mozilla, billy boy won't allow that. MUST use msie
doctec: ...and there may be a windows xp setting (the operating system itself) that launched it
Elayne: Oh, then it's a legit attachment. Hang on, I'll read it. :)
doctec: i dunno, i wasn't there to witness what happened
C. Simril: i got an email from you saying you got a list from me and i responded to that, maybe around noon
Elayne: It just says "index.url" - is that okay to open, Tom?
doctec: when cat sends a url in an email, for some reason it comes across as an attachment
Full Metal Yämamøto : Ken-use the auto update
doctec: e: yeah, if he says he sent it
Elayne: Okay, it's safe then. Hang on, BRB.
C. Simril: ok, that's another bummer. it shouldn't do that
C. Simril: this frontline's pretty good
llanwydd: going to have a late dinner. be back in a while
Dexter Fong: Cat: How's the secondary?
Elayne: All I got was the Sidney Blumenthal article at http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/02/12/kerry_nixon/index_np.html
doctec: also cat: while you may not want to use opera's email client, the browser part of it still kicks major ass
doctec: imho
C. Simril: ok doc. maybe if i reconnect to it, i can start opening urls in my mail from klok, et al
C. Simril: kend or someone recommended mazilla. i gather that isnt a gorilla
stephnfosterkane-klok: enjoy Ilan
Full Metal Yämamøto : I use firebird
doctec: e: the link cat sent jsut takes you to the Travelling Ishikawas section of the seemreal.com site - there's a link to it on cat's home page, which is why the link he sent you is 'index'
Dexter Fong: Cat: It all comes in a plain mazilla envelope
doctec: yammy: didn't they just change the name to firefox?
C. Simril: did he say "fucking chaos? on frontline?
Elayne: My people call it corn. (Now we can make whiskey!)
doctec: hic
Dexter Fong: I just invent the Bud Collins
doctec: i've just invented alcoholism!
Dexter Fong: Take 12 steps back please
C. Simril: that's one small step for man
Full Metal Yämamøto : Firefox? I hope not
doctec: and don't hang over...
Dr. Headphones: yam: i do, but heard that there was urgent critical, didn't know if i was totally up to date
Full Metal Yämamøto : have an older build
C. Simril: one lurch into the sea of tranquility
Dexter Fong: The stars, man, there's so many of them
doctec: yammy: http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Full Metal Yämamøto : Bah on XP
doctec: ok, i am being paged here - dinnah is suhved
Dr. Headphones: cat: i'm missing parts of it, got phone call, can't watch tv, chat, and talk at same time
Dexter Fong: Forget that foxfire thing, get the new 2006 Fruitbat
stephnfosterkane-klok: enjoy dt
stephnfosterkane-klok: remember, if you add more memory, you won't keep getting swapped out!
doctec: so i gotta go - don't know if i'll have an opportunity (much less the energy) to get back on
Dexter Fong: Ken: Get some icecream into your man!
C. Simril: good to see you doc
Dexter Fong: Night doc and best to your chef =)
Merlyn: buy dock
Merlyn: I'm being phonetian
stephnfosterkane-klok: yeah, it's been awhile, come to think of it. don' be a stranger, Doc!
C. Simril: sell quay
Full Metal Yämamøto : nite
Dexter Fong: Weir but\ying now
doctec: cat, i think i'm caught up on all the site things you wanted me to get done - though you prolly have more for me - let me know
stephnfosterkane-klok: buy low
C. Simril: we'll talk
Dexter Fong: Lo' dere
Full Metal Yämamøto : I'm happy w/firebird
doctec: i may have some time to work on it this weekend (monday is dead president's day, so go out and spend some!)
Dexter Fong: Firebird is Suite
Merlyn: "hi noon. 'lo tide."
doctec: y'all take care, gotta split (not net split!) ... nytol!
stephnfosterkane-klok: don't make a Stravinsky out of it!
||||||||| "10:24 PM? I'm late!" exclaims doctec, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the garden.
Dexter Fong makes sounds of seagulls hanging out in dry wind
C. Simril: off goes doc
C. Simril: a prince among men.
Elayne: Think I'm splitting as well. Gonna try some of those exercises. Next week, all!
||||||||| At 10:25 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Elayne!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Dexter Fong: See yah E!
stephnfosterkane-klok: nite E
C. Simril: by elle
Merlyn: byE
Dexter Fong: Buy 'elle
Dr. Headphones: better to be a man among princesses
stephnfosterkane-klok: what exercises? did we get homework again? Darn!
Dr. Headphones: klok: the even numbered ones on page 154 of your text
Dexter Fong: Bummer Klok, I was gonna copy from you
stephnfosterkane-klok: that's odd, they're missing!
Dexter Fong: ...and give you back your lunch moeny too
Dexter Fong: or money
C. Simril: lunch? naked for two, please
Dexter Fong: Hey, I lost my locker cobination
Dexter Fong: and ability to type
C. Simril: 6 6 6
Dr. Headphones: cohabitation in a locker? kinky!
Dexter Fong: lol Cat
stephnfosterkane-klok must go reheat last piece of pizza
Full Metal Yämamøto : Like living in a sardine can
Dexter Fong: Don't nuke it Klok
Dr. Headphones: klok: i had 2 reheated cheese-stuffed crust with pepperoni for my dinner
Dr. Headphones: i didn't nuke mine, used my laser
Dexter Fong: We just licked the pizza box at our house
Dexter Fong: OUr house *is* a pizza box
Full Metal Yämamøto : I use a death Ray Myself
Dr. Headphones: our house, is a very very fine house, with two dogs in the yard, life used to be so hard.....
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
stephnfosterkane-klok: these are pre-built 3" x 8" pieces from the grocery store, a RI tradition
C. Simril: ray wallmart? you old devil
Dexter Fong: Pit Bulls Ken?
Dr. Headphones: dex: named crosby and nash ;)
Dexter Fong: Klok: Sicilian style thick crust pizza?
stephnfosterkane-klok: actually, the tradition is crust+sauce, and you jazz them up yourself, but I sprung for the pre-jazzed version
Dexter Fong: Ken: Be still
Dexter Fong: Klok: That would be the Rag=time version I believe
C. Simril: the frozen noses. any of you know that group?
Dr. Headphones: pre-jazzed has pepperoni AND miles davis
stephnfosterkane-klok: no, it's a thin, thin 1,5 cm shell
C. Simril: crosby stillls and nash before they chose that stupid name
Dexter Fong: Cat: We'rnt they originally "The well Digger's Ass"?
Dr. Headphones: cat: i never heard that before
stephnfosterkane-klok: didn't they open for The Drive-By Truckers once on the crossAmerika tour?
Dexter Fong: Cat: I suspect it's a drug reference =))
C. Simril: i may still have recording from old la radio where crosby identifies his new group as the frozen noses and then plays wooden ships. a crrystaline moment of radio time
stephnfosterkane-klok goes to reset the toaster oven
Dr. Headphones: dex: everything is if you look deeply enough
C. Simril: yeah crosy damn near od's on coke
Dexter Fong: Right Cat; and what are todays chemicals...Anthrax....Ricin...etc
Dr. Headphones: that particular song has line about placing flowers in the vase, it's maryjane in a waterpipe
Dexter Fong: Chickens with the flu
stephnfosterkane-klok: civets with the cat
Dexter Fong: Infected Civet Cats
Dexter Fong: lol klok
stephnfosterkane-klok: an epidemic of associations!
Full Metal Yämamøto : kenny rogers?!?
Dexter Fong: The Association, wasn't The Epidemics their first name
Dr. Headphones: don't stop at associations. there are councils, institutes, foundations, .......
C. Simril: and then along came mary
stephnfosterkane-klok: was listening to Steve Earle deconstruct the attack on the Dixie Chicks today, interesting POV
Dr. Headphones: rogers was first edition
C. Simril: jane that is
Dexter Fong: ...tell 'em about the cults Ken
Dr. Headphones: after "the new christy minstrels"
Full Metal Yämamøto : Same to me, goddam hippies
Merlyn: basically clearwater, right?
stephnfosterkane-klok: yeah, their Newton got juiced for sure
Dr. Headphones: steve earle has a unique perspective on almost everything!
C. Simril: got any pay oh tay?
Dexter Fong enjoys Yamamoto's snarling re-entrance
stephnfosterkane-klok: you mean Everclear? mmmmm
stephnfosterkane-klok: pay for play? no payola here, buster
Dexter Fong: Trade you some Pay O La for some pay oh tay
Dr. Headphones: can't buy everclear in michigan, but i'm about 4 miles from indiana should i ever for some ungodly reason want it
Full Metal Yämamøto : I gave him 3 ears of corn....
Dexter Fong: Is that for Pimple's Ken?
stephnfosterkane-klok: what the heck is wrong with Michigan? (except the lake's full of ice)
Dexter Fong: Three beakers of Anthraz please
Full Metal Yämamøto : Everclear would make a fine astringent
Dr. Headphones: dex: no, but after a pint of that, you wont' care if you have acne
stephnfosterkane-klok: mother's milk, Dex, mother's milk
Dr. Headphones: all liquor here is state controlled. no matter where you buy it, same price.
Full Metal Yämamøto : If yr mother were a moonshine still
Dexter Fong: I Remember Mama, and her milk
Dexter Fong: Yam: She'd live on Thunder Road
C. Simril: you've got a still i can invent taoism from
||||||||| 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 Bunnyboy disembarks at 10:40 PM.
Bunnyboy: lo dere
Dexter Fong: Whoa! The Heavy Thought award goes to Cat
stephnfosterkane-klok: it's probably fine, but Stri-dex or isopropyl is one heck of a lot cheaper
Full Metal Yämamøto : hey cat: that Kamagay street scene is nice: can I add that?
Dr. Headphones: re: stills--listen to jimmy buffet's "god's own drunk" sometime. hilarious
Dr. Headphones: hi bun
Dexter Fong: Hi dere Bun
C. Simril: its a line from my play Neal Amid, dex, which you should know
Bunnyboy: Just back from the Goyim Cutoff. Ouch!
C. Simril: hey bunny. how's it bunning?
stephnfosterkane-klok: they never play that, Ken. I remember it, but nobody will play it anymore
Dr. Headphones: know why jews are circumcized? they like anything if it's 20% off!
Bunnyboy: Catacular, Meester Seems.
Dexter Fong: Got cut-off by a Goyim again Bun?
C. Simril: hey, you can hear yourself and your tasty tunes on the www.seemreal.com site
Dexter Fong: Ken: Lol
C. Simril: doc put the whole play up
stephnfosterkane-klok: i thought it was a widespread cultural attack on inbreeding-hemophilia
Bunnyboy: Good news for Marx Bros. fans: All the MGM Marx Bros. titles are going digital on May 4th.
Dexter Fong: Still hate those Ruski's Klok
C. Simril: good news bun
Dr. Headphones: rasputin lives!
Bunnyboy: C. : Been there, loved that.
C. Simril: no he doesnt.
Dexter Fong: Romanov dies
Dexter Fong: Restaurant under new management
Dr. Headphones: strokin' off is fun
Dexter Fong: Ken: Thanks for sharing
Bunnyboy: Bad news: Still no re-release in sight for the Paramount Marx Bros. titles. Evil Universal is sitting on them, for some reason.
C. Simril: phil and melinda do a splendid job reenaccing the death of the romonov;'s in neal amid
stephnfosterkane-klok: Was the Russian Tea Room overthrown again, Dex? I don't read the Local section
Dr. Headphones: klok: yes, in november, they think it was october
Dexter Fong: Klok: Michael Feinstine has taken over
Dexter Fong: No MOre Vulgar Boat Songs..nothing but Standards
stephnfosterkane-klok: Whew! I was afraid it would be Lizzie Grubman next
Dexter Fong: No, Lannie kazan
Bunnyboy: Any animation fans? ALLEGRO NON TROPPO is back in print, full length, Italian with subtitles.
Dr. Headphones: is that worse than lizzie borden?
stephnfosterkane-klok: ;-)
C. Simril: took an ax and
Dexter Fong: Bun: One of the really great animated films, of which I'm only mildly a fan
C. Simril: good flick, bun
Dr. Headphones: i stopped at her house when i was there, but didn't take the tour
stephnfosterkane-klok: Ken - http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/6583408.htm
Bunnyboy: Lanie Kazan! "Welcome to our humble chapeau."
Dexter Fong: Ken: Did you aks for her?
Full Metal Yämamøto : goddam thing
C. Simril: met mrs kend yet, kend?
Full Metal Yämamøto : cut me off
Dexter Fong: Hi and OI Yam
Full Metal Yämamøto : OI
C. Simril: at the past, yam?
stephnfosterkane-klok: yeah, it's hell to get her on the phone to axe anything
Dexter Fong: OI and over Lieutenant
Full Metal Yämamøto : Present and future
Dr. Headphones: klok: if i were into gossip, that would be a gold mine. i dont' know who half those people are
Full Metal Yämamøto : AOHell tried to overtake me
Dexter Fong: Klok: She worked briefy in a fast food shop but she kept saying "Necks?" and people ran
Dr. Headphones: better than undertaker
Full Metal Yämamøto : cat there are a couple of other snaps in yr Japan Collection that are useful..can I use them?
C. Simril: war what is it good for? the undertaker, whatever the fuck that lyriic is
stephnfosterkane-klok: Ken - Grubman is a real standout in that list, though
C. Simril: ya,mi, what?
C. Simril: you want snaps from my travel pix? they're yours, man
Dexter Fong: Grubs again man?
Full Metal Yämamøto : I'm running thru yr Japan snaps and have found a couple of other snaps that may interest my audience
Full Metal Yämamøto : Grubs? Grumble...
Bunnyboy: Fine Maakies strip today. Two Middle Eastern gentlemen, talking. One says to the other: "I cut a hole in the tent, so I could see her without her burqua". The other enquires, "So, did you see her 'nekkid'? " , to which the former replies: "I saw her neck!"
Bunnyboy: Haw
Dexter Fong: Great Cartoon character: Grubs Grumble
Dr. Headphones: kris kringle's cousin?
Dexter Fong runs after Catherwood who's stezling his drinkies
Bunnyboy: (sings) Barney Google is the....GIRL I LOVE!
Dexter Fong: stealin
Bunnyboy: I gotta feed this passle of homebodies. Nite!
stephnfosterkane-klok: good laurel and hardy cartoon in Al-Jazzera today: http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
C. Simril: by bun
Full Metal Yämamøto : Stealin, Pretty mama doncha tell on me
Dr. Headphones: bye, Bb
stephnfosterkane-klok: nite bboy
||||||||| At 10:56 PM, Bunnyboy runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Dexter Fong: Night Bun
C. Simril: he did a really good job on Dolphin Beer
Dr. Headphones: rye bun
Dexter Fong: Klok: Isn't it Laur-El and'har-di?
stephnfosterkane-klok: Dex - I think that's on the Smallville site...
Dexter Fong: Klok: YOu mean Wal-Tor @ smallville.krypton?
Dr. Headphones: i've heard people say how good smallville is, i've never watched it
C. Simril: a friend of mine works on that show
Dexter Fong: Ken: You need a microscope
stephnfosterkane-klok: same here; clicked through it now and then
Dr. Headphones: electron variety, i bet
Dr. Headphones: i actually have a very good microscope in basement, german optics
stephnfosterkane-klok: it's kind of like Mel Gibson's movie: I've heard the stupid story for >50 years now; give it a rest, people!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Dexter Fong: Always preferrd the Marvel Supe heroes, although I *did* like the Batman series "Dark Knight" is it?
Dr. Headphones: dex: is that the talking car show?
Dexter Fong: No Ken, that's Area 54 you're thinking about
stephnfosterkane-klok: some of the remakes now, my gawd was The Last Remake of Beau Geste inspired!
stephnfosterkane-klok: 51
C. Simril: so is area 55 where the keep the really scary aliiens?
Dexter Fong: Uh...KLok: Doing schtick here
Dr. Headphones: yeah, area 51, car 54
C. Simril: ufo 54, where are you?
stephnfosterkane-klok just finished Stephen Coonts' Saucer -- ROFL
Dexter Fong: De UFO boss, de UFO is landing
Dexter Fong: Cat: Just flashed on "Polynesia Town" the SCTV thing
C. Simril: in der ufurer's face
Dr. Headphones: klok: i read a few of his many years ago, reminded me of 2nd rate stephen king
C. Simril: yes, that too, dex
stephnfosterkane-klok: it would make a wonderful movie at just about the schlockiness of Independence Day
Dexter Fong: Ken: Since imho King is second rate, that would make him 3rd rate
||||||||| "Hey Full Metal Yämamøto !" ... Full Metal Yämamøto turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:05 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Dr. Headphones: dex: some of his stuff is very good. i loved shawshank redemption and green mile. most don't know he wrote both of them
stephnfosterkane-klok: there are some tremendous sight gags in there and it's all very up-front writing (awful dialog)
Dexter Fong: Klok: Good thing you don't need a lotta dialogue for a sight gag =))
C. Simril: green mile was good, so was the shining
Dexter Fong: "Here! Take this pie in the face"
stephnfosterkane-klok: yeah, Dex
C. Simril: heeeer's Johnnie
Dexter Fong: SFX: Splat!!!!!
Dexter Fong Audience Laughter
stephnfosterkane-klok: I mean, they park the saucer in front of a rural MO gas station at 5AM and when the help shows up...
Merlyn: I'm back and beautiful
Dexter Fong: Hubba Hubba
Dr. Headphones: klok: they make cappuchino instead of calling the air force?
stephnfosterkane-klok: they tell him a trucker dropped it off, that it's from an amusement park and...when does the diner across the street open?
Dexter Fong: Damn good Cappucino in MO
stephnfosterkane-klok: no, they have breakfast, then walk back over and take off...
Merlyn: I missed BB
Dr. Headphones: yeah, dex, because of all the eyetalians there :)
Dexter Fong: Take off eh?
stephnfosterkane-klok: just don't drink the Cappucino in VT -- in the convenience stores, it's full of MBTE now...
Dexter Fong: Arri Verdecci
Dr. Headphones: ok, dear friends, time to punch the time clock and check out of here. see ya's next week, same firetime, same firestation
stephnfosterkane-klok: nite Ken
Dexter Fong: Klok: As you're always up on tis stuff, whats MBTE?
Merlyn: seeya headphones
||||||||| Dr. Headphones runs out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Dr. Headphones?! It's 11:09 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Dexter Fong: Night Ken
stephnfosterkane-klok: ach! 'tis true, the little hand points to...hmm. well, it's late anyway
stephnfosterkane-klok: methly tetra something something ether. nice stuff
stephnfosterkane-klok: oxygenator for unleaded gas, to reduce pollution (strange...)
Dexter Fong: Ether is good....Tetra means there's a lot of it, and methly for your breath
stephnfosterkane-klok: made from petroleum, so the oyl companies fought to have it, and not ethanol be the additive for that
stephnfosterkane-klok: i thought it meant there were little tropical fishes in there somewhere, Dex
Dexter Fong: ...and it's addictive
stephnfosterkane-klok: then they got GWB's bunch to get them off the hook for any leaks, since about a fifth of the stations in the country have leaked MBTE or something and it's going into our water
Dexter Fong: Wanna come over and see my MBTE fluffy-tail?
stephnfosterkane-klok: so they are legally not liable for anything that goes wrong and they get $$$ otherwise.
Dexter Fong: Klok: It's not a leak, it's a feture
Dexter Fong: feature
C. Simril: i was off eating.
C. Simril: i may soon be more off yet
Dexter Fong: ..and how did you find your dinner, Sir?
stephnfosterkane-klok: methyl tertiary-butyl ether) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (over 200,000 barrels per day in the U.S. in 1999) and is almost exclusively used as a fuel additive in motor gasoline. It is one of a group of chemicals commonly known as "oxygenates" because they raise the oxygen content of gasoline
C. Simril: reheated tuna casserole. more of substanance thwn dinner
Merlyn: well, DUH
Dexter Fong: DUH= another acropnym?
Dexter Fong: acronym?
stephnfosterkane-klok: you should always eat "on", to avoid biting of the tongue, etc. Unless you're being served tongue, of course. Then you might check to see if dessert is Humble Pie (with MTBE)
stephnfosterkane-klok: acropym = abbreviation for dead dutch politician?
Dexter Fong: 'es so, Klok I get your point
stephnfosterkane-klok: hasn't been sent yet, but queued, Dex
Dexter Fong: Gimme another Pym's Cup shoemaker
C. Simril: catch my drift
stephnfosterkane-klok: up on the roof?
Dexter Fong: Under the Boardwalk?
stephnfosterkane-klok: down by the Sea!
Dexter Fong: Oh!
stephnfosterkane-klok: (two if by land)
Dexter Fong: Three if by charter bus
stephnfosterkane-klok: Paul Revereware's horse slept here
stephnfosterkane-klok: LOL
Dexter Fong: Hiyo Copper Bottom
stephnfosterkane-klok: that's chatah-bus to you, new yawk boy!
Dexter Fong: The Reds Sock it too me agian
Dexter Fong: agean?
stephnfosterkane-klok: well, time to fire up the TV application and watch BBC news to see if they've picked up the Drudge rumour about Kerry and the Intern or Kerry and the Pirates or whatever
Dexter Fong: Night Klok
Merlyn: or that WMD rumor
stephnfosterkane-klok: later, folx; if the 4 or 5 show tonight, wish 'em my best and pray for earlier apparitions eh?
Dexter Fong: Or that exciting slow-speed chase they had in Miami last week
stephnfosterkane-klok: one a week, like bombings, clockwork, calling UN weasels...
Merlyn: looks like things are about over for tonight, though
C. Simril: i'll se y'all again in 5 weeks
C. Simril: keep well
Merlyn: ok cat
Dexter Fong: Cat: Enjoy the ..Sabbatical?
stephnfosterkane-klok: have fun, Cat! we'll miss you!!!
stephnfosterkane-klok: OK, bye
Dexter Fong: Yes
||||||||| stephnfosterkane-klok is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 11:22 PM.
Dexter Fong: Night also from here, in the Fabulous Time-Warner building looking out over Columbus Circle where the shoppers are getting down and dirty
Merlyn: night fong
||||||||| 11:25 PM -- Merlyn left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Dexter Fong - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| C. Simril - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 11:48 PM: Don jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Don: late again, i guess
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Woody One', just granted probation at 11:53 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Woody One: Hey Don. Dexter, & Merlin.
Woody One: C. Simril
Woody One: Sleepytime in Puttyvile. That's okay. See ya next week. Woody One signing off.
||||||||| Around 11:57 PM, Woody One walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Don - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
Bunnyboy
C. Simril
Dexter Fong
doctec
Don
Dr. Headphones
Elayne Riggs
Elayne
Full Metal Yämamøto
llanwydd
Merlyn
Obi-Yäm-a-møŧo
stephnfosterkane-klok
The Уамамото Conundrum
Woody One

URL References:
http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_elayneriggs_archive.html#107663882369019661
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/
http://www.cashncarrion.co.uk/?listPos=&productID=105&search=&op=catalogue-product_info-null&prodCategoryID=5
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/6583408.htm
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/02/12/kerry_nixon/index_np.html
http://www.seemreal.com/cgi-bin/emailcat.cgi
www.seemreal.com
http://www.shoutfactory.com

Rogue's Gallery:

PP and Cat(cease)	Bunnyboy	klokwkdog	kend^/Dr. Headphones
FreqMan	Merlyn LeRoy	DocTech	LiliLamont
Rotonoto	LeatherG & SO	Nin0	Tonk
	Compañero Señor Yämamoto	Dexter Fong	Elayne
And, "The Home Team"	Peggy Blisswhips	Audrey Farber	Tiny Dr. Tim Rest In Peace, Dear Friend