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This article is from the Firesign Theatre: Lexicon FAQ, by Niles D. Ritter ritter@earthlink.net with numerous contributions by others.

Firesign Theatre Lexicon [S]

SAME OLD PLACE: The Old Same Place, in Santa Barbara, where {NANCY}
and Catherwood, her butler/husband lived. See also {NICK DANGER}.

SEPULVEEDA: A mis-pronounced street in Los Angeles in {NICK DANGER}.
The actual street is Sepulveda. See also {PICO}, {ALVARADO},
{TAJUNGA}, {LOS ANGELES}.

SEEKER: There's a seeker born every minute! See {EYKIW}!

SFX: A standard radio term for "Sound Effects" man. Also known
as "foley" in the entertainment/movie biz. {ROCKY ROCOCO} had to split
his "half-a-key" with the SFX man. The tools used in
SFX are often mixed up in FT plays with the real things they're
supposed to imitate: see, eg, {CELLOPHANE}, {CORNSTARCH}.

There are often SFX-reference jokes in FT, For example:

NICK: [MUFFLED VOICE] Rocky Rococo, that sleazy weazle, how did
he get in here? And... How do I make my voice do this?

or:

NANCY: [SLAPPING NOISE] Oh Nicky, Nick, Nick, Nick! Are you all
right?
NICK: [Coming To] Uhhh..Yes.
NANCY: Then stop slapping me!

SHAKESPEARE: What you can do from Louise Wong's {BALCONY}.

SCHICKELGRUBER: One of Hitler's father's family names. This is from a
document pulled off of gopher:

B. Hitler's childhood contacts with Jews are almost
entirely unknown

1. However, at some time before he left home, he
heard a story that may have great relevance
for his later beliefs

2. And that story was that he had a Jewish grand-
father

3. His father's mother, Anna Maria Schicklgruber,
had worked as a servant in the house of a
Jewish family, the "Frankenburgers" in Graz

SHOES: Shoes are ubiquitous in FT plays. "Shoes for industry!" "Don't
take off your shoes!" (Porgie {TIREBITER} did), or if you're a {BOZO}
you can inflate them. In the liner notes for the Bozo CD, Philip
{AUSTIN} says,

"By now, any serious Firesign Theatre listener knows that 'taking
off your shoes' serves us as an an anology for childhood itself and
its attendant dreams of freedom."

From the back page of the Variety Section of the Minneapolis Tribune,
Oct. 28, 1993. An article written by Mike Harden, Scripps Howard News
Service.
Headline:

FOR DECADES, SHE'S HELPED SUPPLY SHOES FOR DEAD

It's about Alyce Maddox who's worked over forty years for Practical
Burial Footwear, a company that makes special shoes for mortuaries
to bury people in. Bottom of third column:

"Shoes for the dead? Why bother?"

Holy mudhead, mackerel! Life immitates art.

SUGAR: A popular phrase in FT is "More Sugar!". We hear a voice yelling
"More Sugar!" during Pastor Flashes' Hour of Reckoning, in the {DWARF}
play, and mention is made of the "More Sugar Foundation" in the
"Not Insane" album.

From THE LAST BATTLE by C.S. Lewis, (c) 1956
Book 7 in the Chronicles of Narnia
page 10 of the 1970 Collier edition:

"But isn't everything right already?" said Puzzle.
"What!" cried Shift. "Everything right? -- when there are no oranges
or bananas?"
"Well, you know," said Puzzle, "there aren't many people -- in fact,
I don't think there's anyone but yourself -- who wants those sort of
things."
"There's sugar too," said Shift.
"H'm, yes," said the Ass. "It would be nice if there was
more sugar."

SWELL: Swell {CHEESE}, which is put on Nick's Swell {PIZZA}.

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