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From: dtuttle@uw-june (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Metahumor: Firesign Theatre
Message-ID: <191@uw-june>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 14:09:50 EST
Article-I.D.: uw-june.191
Posted: Fri Dec 13 14:09:50 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Dec-85 05:34:08 EST
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
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Ah, at last, references to what I consider the best example of media
metahumor ever concocted... "The Further Advantures of Nick Danger"
(Side 2 of "How can you be in two places at once when you're not really
anywhere at all?", also known as "All Hail Marx & Lennon") by...
the FIRESIGN THEATRE!

Check this one out, folks, it has so much metahumor it's almost impossible
to pick it all up in one listening...

An example: Rocky Rococo, the villain, confronts Our Hero:

Danger: "So, you have a key..." [or something to that effect]
Rococo: "No, only half a key -- I have to split it with the
         Sound Effects Man."
Sound Effects Man (in background): "Thanks, Rocky!"

And, of course...

"No, no, no, no!  You don't understand how radio works!  This is *my*
 flashback; all I have to do to bring us back to the present is fade my
 voice out like this and cue the organist [cue organist]..."

Find it!  Listen to it!  It's 20+ minutes of sheer fun!!!  [Gush, gush...]
(The other side of the record is OK, too :-)

"He continues on... Ruthlessly (*"I wonder where Ruth is?!?"*)...
 Doggedly... (*"Arf arf arf"*)... at 4th & Drucker he turns left...
 at Drucker & 4th he turns right... he crosses the street and walks
 into a sandstone building (*"Ow! My nose!"*)..."
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David C. Tuttle   Department of Computer Science, University of Washington
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