New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for December 11, 2010

Wow … firesign theater! Are we all bozos on this bus?

Awesome! I didn’t know there were any FT fans left in the world.

I’m a bozo, my wife’s a bozette! C’mon, give the wheeze a squeeze!

Yup, I was corrupted around the time I learned of Python back in the early mid/late 70’s.

How can you be in two places at once, when you’re not anywhere at all?

Shoes for industry!

I always thought it was “close B clothes mode”… since Deputy Dan’s pants disappeared… anyway, good to know FT is still alive . Up against the Wall of Science!

I confess! I don’t know what FT is, or what this means.

FT is Firesign Theatre–a surrealistic ,american,comedy troupe that began performing and making albums in the las 60’s. They are still performing together. “I thing we’re all Bozos on this bus” and “Everything you know is wrong” and “Take off your shoes for industry” are popular catch phrases among FT fans.

I listened to a lot of FT in college. For some peculiar reason, I can’t remember any of it… but it sure made me giggle a lot.

Catholicism makes SO much more sense if you view it in the FT prism…

Firesign Theatre’s first few albums (still, in my opinion, their best) are still available. Waiting for the Electrician (or someone like him), All hail Marx and Lennon (the further adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye), Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, and I Think We’re All Bozos on this Bus. All highly recommended for anyone who likes this comic strip.

I believe Firesign Theater is America’s answer to Britain’s The Goon Show and Beyond the Fringe

mr president i’d like you to meet…EH Clem

Okay, must explore Firesign Theater, and try it out on the next telemarketer who calls…

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“Back from the shadows again, Out where an Indian’s your friend, And the vegetables are green And you can pee in the stream (and that’s important!) Yes, we’re back from the shadows again!”

I discovered the Firesign Theatre back in ‘73 when I really needed some good laughs. They may have saved my life. I got the chance to thank them when they came to Portland a few years ago.

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“As my Daddy said “Son, it’s in the water. That’s why it’s yellow”. “Bear Whiz Beer”.

If you go to their Web site, they have links to where you can get all of their available CDs (some of their work is out of print). Don’t overlook some of their more recent work: Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death has some brilliant pre-Millennial humour.

I actually appeared in a local production of Don’t Crush That Dwearf, Hand Me The Pliers.

Back in the day I was one of those guys who had large chunks of their albums memorized. I auditioned for a college production of Waiting For The Electrician and got the part largely because I already had all the lines memorized and could do all the voices.

In the late 60s and 70s you could run into a complete stranger on the street or in a store and have an entire conversation exchanging FT lines, and no one would have any idea what you were talking about.

unhappy magnam! unhappy magnam! uh clem you’re making the doctor unhappy/happy.

bunnyman09: Either that or you got an audience for a half hour of street theater. I think I can still do 90% of Nick Danger, THird Eye.

I still can not fathom what the heck any of you are talking about. :)

“If you dig a hole deep enough, everyone will want to jump in!”

“Everything you know is wrong!”

I flew from NC to the San Francisco area in Feb-2008 and caught them LIVE 2 nights in a row at two different cities.

Wow - the hours I’ve spent turned in and dropped out with them!

Ah, Firesign Theatre! I saw them live last year in Tacoma and they were absolutely hilarious! Don’t miss them if they perform near you. Now hand me those pliers…

Firesign Theatre ! I used to listen to those guys on catnip and think I was in college……..

“Big light in sky slated to appear in East. Sonic booms scare minority groups in Sector B. And there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.”

Also, there’s snow all over the ground in Chicago, Illinois.

“Oh blinding light, oh light that blinds, I cannot see, look out for me!”

Shoes for industry!

Dear Friends - Everything you know is wrong!

Part of the BVM’s quote also references one of the Firesigns’ least-liked albums (although I like it a LOT), Not Insane .

“Next question postmark-a Deep Space! Rittle Bobby Bunny fifteen year old … . Bobby ask question he first read carve into Great Waw of Mars: Why does-a Porridge Bird ray his egg in air?”

It was a jackal-headed woman with her eyes akimbo. A king sitting sideways on his throne, a chip-ped nose a’drip with gold uplifted thusly. All engraven on a pyramid of massy sighs with the body of a lion, paws that refreshes, a tail told by an idiot, and the head of a fox.

The pyramid is opening!

Which one?

The one with the ever-widening HOLE in it!!!!

runar & bunnyman09, I read only good books, over.

If you look to your left, you can almost see to the bottom of the Grand Canyaaaa-aaaaaah-ah-ha-ha-haaaaa!

Clean up Armenia! Get a harelip!

I know I was on the planet Earth at the appropriate time, so how is it I never knew anything about this at all?

Honey, they’re in everybody’s eggs.

No soap, radio.

“The Mayor is THE PROBLEM! The flagpole is THE ANSWER!” – Firesign Theatre http://www.saintmarymo.com/SaintMaryMO/The%20Saint%20Mary%20Grapevine38.pdf