# The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2007, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643 "2007-07-21T07:12:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DevNull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@DevNull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DevNull)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/1 "2007-07-21T07:12:24Z")
Things I have learned because of the Freaks: Who Marinus Van Der Lubbe was What a “lid” was Hippies thought Chairman Mao was glorious. A swell foop = a fell swoop. That dude’s hawn goes “bleat bleat”. Things that have confused me about hippie counterculture: Why would anyone put a wire in a joint? What is so funny about comparing cockroaches to prolific socialists? If amyl nitrate is so powerful then why didn’t our (80’s) generation use it? ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/2 "2007-07-21T10:20:04Z")
The wire in the joint was used as a “built-in roach clip”. They even sold papers with a little wire already attached. The rest I cannot answer. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/3 "2007-07-21T10:29:57Z")
_“dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through time of no dope. …”_ ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/4 "2007-07-21T10:33:10Z")
I learned (sort of) what a “lid” is from listening to Firesign Theater. But my dad always says “a swell foop”. (I’m going to steal my Dad’s FFFB shirt from the bottom of his drawer…) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/5 "2007-07-21T10:56:55Z")
I now know how many people I’ll have to bribe to get inside a Mexican prison - including “José”. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/6 "2007-07-21T11:59:10Z")
I learned that in Mexico they have bushes covered with little sausages. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/7 "2007-07-21T12:04:29Z")
I learned that cockroaches live in organized societies, with kings and courtiers and all. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/8 "2007-07-21T17:33:22Z")
I learned that it’s a really bad idea to pee on a typewriter–it might be electric. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/9 "2007-07-21T20:02:13Z")
What’s a “typewriter”? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/10 "2007-07-21T20:18:20Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] What’s a “typewriter”? [/QUOTE] I think that’s the job title of someone who worked with the movable type or something, back when Gutenberg just printed his Bible. That era. How that became electrified, I have no clue. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/11 "2007-07-21T22:12:30Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] What’s a “typewriter”? [/QUOTE] A boat anchor. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/12 "2007-07-23T15:25:29Z")
I learned that those comics are ^%$#@ addictive. A friend of mine gave me a collection when I was in high school and I stayed up all night, reading and laughing so hard I cried. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/13 "2007-07-23T15:49:55Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I learned that those comics are ^%$#@ addictive. A friend of mine gave me a collection when I was in high school and I stayed up all night, reading and laughing so hard I cried. [/QUOTE] …and eating bags of Cheetos? 😉 I think it was “Idiots Abroad” that taught me that Amsterdam had semi-legal drugs. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/14 "2007-07-23T17:08:56Z")
If they came out with all-new Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comix, I’d subscribe. The softball game episode, where their team was trying to lose but Fat Freddy wins with a home run because he’s so goddamned high the ball looks like it’s the size of a pumpkin, had me in tears. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/15 "2007-07-23T19:58:04Z")
• Don’t mix the cocaine in with the hashish unless there’s plenty of food in the fridge, or you may face the wrath of the hunger-crazed were-hippie • Don Longjuan knows everything • Sticking a quarter in the jukebox and playing “I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee” is _not_ good insurance against the hostility of short-haired blue-collar bar clientele • Do not ask the public librarian where the fuck books are kept ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/16 "2007-07-23T21:12:24Z")
Always confirm the hot chick who brought you back to her place is _not_ your sister _before_ she gets in the tub with you. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/17 "2007-07-23T21:27:31Z")
Make sure the cat is on your side. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/18 "2007-07-23T23:54:24Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] … How that became electrified, I have no clue. [/QUOTE] Dood, we plugged it into his amp! CMC fnord! Who, somewhere, still has his copy of the FFFB’s board game “Feds & Heads”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/19 "2007-07-24T00:21:16Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] If they came out with all-new Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comix, I’d subscribe. The softball game episode, where their team was trying to lose but Fat Freddy wins with a home run because he’s so goddamned high the ball looks like it’s the size of a pumpkin, had me in tears. [/QUOTE] [Would a movie do?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YINWUjFQRDU) Remember-keed spills! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643/20 "2007-07-24T01:19:28Z")
Heh. I discovered the FFFBs at the same time that I discovered Fearless, Fighting, Foulmouthed Wonder Warthog. Good times, good times. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/412643.md?page=2)