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| A lost soul, SEAHAG, fruitlessly works at her rotting sailboat. Her doom is due to her past embrace of the Internet, trapped by the enticing but noxious sailboating newsgroup, On-sailing'Net-today! She connects us, taking us back in time, and the members of the newsgroup appear... |
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Credits: (c) 1996,2001 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| Gilligan, Flying Tadpole and Lady Sailor explain to an innocent
Seahag the cruel realities of the Internet. [Synth only] |
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Credits: Lyrics & Music ©TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) 2001-2002 All Rights Reserved |
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| Seahag is delighted to find herself amongst madmen and is eager to learn. She becomes the archive of the newsgroup, despite some foreboding from Katysails. [Synth only] |
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Credits: Words & Music Copyright (c) 2001-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| Gilligan extol's Capt. Neal's virtues in a barrage of sycophancy. The newsgroup complains of the heavy yoke Capt Neal lays on them. |
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| The newsgroup complains of Capt. Neal's heavy yoke, but Tadpole points out that itās their own fault: they're all in love with fighting with The Frightening Captain Neal. Capt Neal enters, expounding his simple philosophy of manliness, Real Sailing, misogyny and political incorrectness. He regards all as "putzes!", yet bends to his toilsome duty to educate them. |
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Credits: Words and music this version © 2000-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| Capt Neal expounds his version of an ecologically appropriate combination of Cedar Bucket and catfish, strongly applauded and supported by Gilligan and Tadpole. [Early vocal version] |
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Credits: Words & Music Copyright (c) 1999-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| Bobsprit and his Ghost Girls dance on, very nautical, and display their
limited sailing ability with much yo-hoing, to the disgust of the assembled
newsgroup [synth only] |
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Credits: Words & Music Copyright © 2001-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| Katysails returns. Conscious of the need to clean up the Newsgroup, she ponders how it would be, If Only people were decently behaved on the Internet. [Synth only] |
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Credits: Words and music Copyright © 2002 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| There appears a nattily dressed, re-invented and plausible PC, to Katysails' and Lady Sailor's joy, and Gilligan's and Tadpole's fear. He sweeps away the Newsgroup to his pleasant land, boasting he's posted Capt Neal to Cuba. Gilligan and Tadpole, devastated, collapse in despair. |
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Credits: Words & Music Copyright © 2001-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) Singers:TJ Fatchen, C Haight |
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| To the sound of Waves of Cyberspace, Seahag smiles at the junkie-like Internet habit she's developed. [Synth only] |
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Credits: Word and music Copyright © 1996-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| We find PC, Katysails, and Lady Sailor at virtual dinner on PC's virtual yacht. Katysails' virtual galley duties are heavy, and, despite this joyous trio, her spirits sink further as PC and Lady Sailor leave her with the flying monkey cookery. [Synth only] |
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Credits: Word & Music Copyright © 2002-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| Seahag suggests that life might be spicier if Capt Neal were allowed back. Katysails is horrified at the suggestion, and makes Seahag see the harsh and cruel reality of newsgroup virtual life, and the need to keep injury and hurt away. But she admits that the flame of life has dimmed. Seahag tempts her to exchange moralising for fun, but Katysail's conscience wins out. [Synth only] |
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Credits: Words & Music Copyright © 2002-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| On the main Internet stage, Gilligan and Tadpole worry about Capt Neal's continued absence. Bobsprit joins them, repenting of all his past attacks on Capt Neal, and seeking his return. [Early vocal version] |
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Credits: Words & Music Copyright © 2001-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) |
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| The couple remaining of the newsgroup begin a discussion of such gravity that it forms a black hole, which swallows them. Only the Seahag remains, a hag again, doomed to live on as the archived newsgroup memory. As instruments only sadly play The Waves of Cyberspace, the stage slowly fades to blackā¦ [Instrumental] |
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Credits: Music Copyright © 1996-2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole_ |
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| Instrumental: piano, harp, organ, jazz guitar, drums (ha!), a bit o' brass. |
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Credits: Flying Tadpole (everything) |
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