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And thanks for dropping by! LICENSE PLATE FRAMES ARE BACK IN STOCK! We have resumed shipping frames and bumperstickers as of Saturday 3/31. If you placed an order between 3/15 and 3/30/2012, you should be receiving it shortly. Thanks for your patience, and happy motoring! -Bernard Flapdoodle, President, Funny Names Club of America |
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NEW FIRESIGN BOOK: Anythynge You Want To: Shakespeare's Lost Comedie (Paperback edition) More than just a rousing send-up of Shakespeare, ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO is a full-length theatrical entertainment, written and re-written continually throughout The Firesign Theatre's long performing career. This volume collects every iambic double entendre and silly soliloquy into a surreal comedy opus, complete with Firesign's "scholarly" introduction, tongue-in-cheek footnotes, diagrams, and even recipes! Firesign has infused the classic Shakespearian scenes of hurricanes at sea, witches capering about a cooking pot, apparitions on the battlements, graveyard passion and mortal combat in ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO with their notoriously twisted political and social humor - a devastating oil spill, alchemical terrorism, sleezy politics and Hollywood shenanigans are all part of the laughs. As Firesign tells it, the legendary writing/acting quartet has been around, writing and performing plays since 1600 when they collaborated with the Bard on ANYTHYNGE before taking their act on the road to the New World. Reborn in the Old West as "Dr. Firesign's Theatre of the Plains," these fighting clowns have since worn many disguises and had countless high adventures on stage, in movies and over the radio. The tales told here fill in the comic mythology of Firesign's most popular recorded worlds, connecting Nick Danger and George Tirebiter to Hemlock Stones, The Electrician, and "Everything You Know is Wrong." Bonus scripts include 1967's radio saga "The Armenian's Paw" and an early club-act favorite, "Waiting for The Mount of County Crisco." Filled with photographs from performances, along with graphics by Bruce Litz, ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO is truly Firesign's major work of high comedy. (Also of note: the companion Anythynge You Want To CD, available here in the Firesale store!) $30.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $35 for International orders.) |
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Ralph Spoilsport License Plate Frame
Back by popular demand! Your car is just begging for one of these license plate frames. Or two, even. The top of the frame states: "Head In Any Direction On The Freeway Of Your Choice!" - the bottom of the frame is emblazoned with our favorite new used and used new automobile dealership: "Ralph Spoilsport Motors". These frames are guaranteed to make you the envy of every harried commuter, hopped-up joy rider, Sunday driver and mother-trucker on the interstate. $10.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $15 for International orders.) |
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Ralph Spoilsport License Plate Frame + "Bozos" Bumper Sticker
A nice pair... You can buy the Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame PLUS the "We're All Bozos On This Bus" bumper sticker as a set. Your car is naked without these high-end deluxe accountrements. The top of the frame states: "Head In Any Direction On The Freeway Of Your Choice!" - the bottom of the frame is emblazoned with our favorite new used and used new automobile dealership: "Ralph Spoilsport Motors". Paired with the "We're All Bozos On This Bus" bumper sticker, you'll be the envy of every driver on the freeway of your choice. $15.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $20 for International orders.) |
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Firesign Theatre Duke Of Madness Motors: The Complete "Dear Friends" Radio Era 1970-1972 NEW! It's been such a long exposition, you know. Countless hours spent poring through the personal archives of Firesign group members and devoted fans alike. Fragile, aging reel-to-reel tapes handled with great care and transferred to digital media for restoration. Information and images gathered, processed and refined. Interviews conducted, transcribed and edited. The whole enchilada cubed, reheated, inspected, injected, detected, filtered, digitized, edited and assembled to perfection. Yes, thanks to the tireless efforts of official Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen, we are proud to present, for the first time anywhere, the complete, mammoth, authoritatively definitive and totally awesome Duke of Madness Motors: The Complete "Dear Friends" Radio Era 1970-1972 book and DVD-ROM combo pack. The DVD-ROM disc contains high-resolution MP3 audio files of every Firesign radio broadcast from their three series' of the early 1970's:
The full color 108-page 7"x10" book contains:
$45.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $50 for International orders.) |
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Firesign Theatre: Anythynge You Want To The casual Firehead may not know that today's fab Firesign is merely the latest incarnation of a writing/acting troupe that's been bringing avant-garde laffs to the swells since 1600! From the nethermost regions of their traveling trunk, the Fyre Sygne Theatre unearthed this, the oldest script in their repertoire, to record for NPR in 1980. Knock your lobes to the Bard-basting play that had Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Coffeebean audiences alyke in stitches. This CD features the full NPR Earplay version of Anythynge, complete with wraparounds. Soon to be a fully-annotated book! $10.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $15 for International orders.) |
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Firesign Theatre: Fighting Clowns Wow, fer sher, totally, whatever! It's the start of the Reagan era Contra-temps, and the 101st Fighting Clown battalion brigade wants you! This album combines Firesign's full-frontal live "Eight Shoes" vaudeville-style song & revue show with additional studio segments, captured just as the Sappy Seventies gave way to the belligerent and self-satisfied Empty Eighties. War is the answer, but what was the question? Just stare at the incredible Phil Hartman (yes, that Phil Hartman) cover art and maybe you, too, will remember. Includes the songs "Oh, Afghanistan" and "This Bus Won't Go to War". $10.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $15 for International orders.) |
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Firesign Theatre: Just Folks Keep working, drink as much as possible, and take your television's advice... Definitely the goofiest Firesign release of the 1970s, this freewheeling documentary peek at the ordinary men and women of Ducktown, USA features favorite clips from Firesign radio shows of the "Dear Friends" and "Let's Eat" era, electronically enhanced for maximum surrealism. Includes essential Firesign commercial parodies "Voiceprints of the Sixties" and the still way-too-timely "Confidence in the System". $10.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $15 for International orders.) |
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Firesign Theatre: RadioNow Live! (2-CD Set) Recorded in 1999, this two-disc collection captures Firesign just after the release of "Boom Dot Bust" performing live at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland. As the world awaits the premillennial punchline, the RadioNow crew of Bebop, Dwayne, Hal and Ray mix it up with Joe Camel, Princess Goddess and Dr. Winkiedinque, plus we visit the Wall of Science, buy a new car with Babe, melt some dry ice with Nick Danger, and please the groundlings with a full staging of "Anythynge You Want To". $15.00 Click to order direct from FIRESALE (Please note: price is $20 for International orders.) |
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Firesign Theatre Box Of Danger: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook turns the spotlight on the legendary comedy troupe's most famous creation: Nick Danger, Third Eye. This 4-CD box set assembles for the first time such legendary skits as "Cut 'Em Off at the Past," "The Case of the Missing Shoe," "The Three Faces of Al," plus a wealth of rare and unreleased items from Nick's tattered casebook. Danger is Firesign's take on the hard-boiled detective character, with firstperson narration and crazy adventures that often involve mistaken identity, and of course there's always a dangerous dame. The skits spoof the conventions of those old detective radio shows, right down to the special effects, the sponsors, the on-air host, the convoluted plots and just about anything else that one might have heard on a classic serial. $31.99 (+ shipping & handling) Box set available through the Shout Factory online store |