Art Bell

[SciFiAuthor]

You can pick up an overpriced knockoff:
fidgetland.com
Fishy.

You won't sell me a real fidget then?

[Mr. Fidget]

^^^^^^ All ya'll are talking fidgets in Art's thread.

Art, I'm sorry, I won't contribute to the delinquency of your thread anymore.

I'll make my case, it will be irrefutable.

[coaster]

Why should Art humor this nut by talking to him? Hell, Art might as well invite his stalker over for dinner.

[SciFiAuthor]

Why should Art humor this nut by talking to him? Hell, Art might as well invite his stalker over for dinner.

No shit, who gives a fuck? Fidget should have moved on long ago.

[Mr. Fidget]

No shit, who gives a fuck? Fidget should have moved on long ago.

Here you go:
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,6585.0.html
Enjoy!

Why should Art humor this nut by talking to him? Hell, Art might as well invite his stalker over for dinner.

See what you've done Art, you've got tentacles engaging in character degradation because of your ignorance.

All you had to do was look, and acknowledge.

It was never too much to ask.

Any professional would have.

[coaster]

Crazyyy talk.

[SciFiAuthor]

Here you go:
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,6585.0.html

Looks like crazy bullshit Fidge. What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Sell me a fidget. I want a kick ass one.

[Mr. Fidget]

Radio audiences are counted cumulatively for a week.  15 million is 3 million per night for 5 nights. 

You go straighten them out:
http://www.radiohof.org/art_bell.htm

[Value Of Pi]

I can't believe this nuttiness is still going on. It's on an endless loop. I suggest landing the plane -- or else everybody bail out.

[WOTR]

MF...  sci-fi brings asks a fair question- can a person purchase a genuine fidget?  I seem to recall a thread where you had posted a picture of 100 fidgets that look like they are compete.

I am not really trying to be a jerk- I am genuinely interested in the answer.

[Bonanza Pilot]

Laces out, Mr. Fidget. LACES OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SaucyRossy]

^^^^^^ All ya'll are talking fidgets in Art's thread.

Art, I'm sorry, I won't contribute to the delinquency of your thread anymore.

I'll make my case, it will be irrefutable.

You know, I didn't, don't, and will never know what the hell you've been ranting about on here because, frankly it's in the past. I have no clue who you are, I tried asking you to explain what happened and you basically were like too long to explain bro.

It's obvious you're obsessed, I wish you the best and hope that you recognize you should reach out to a professional and work through your issues and move past them. Nothing can change what happened. You don't have a Delorean, and art isn't on air any more. Face yourself and realize it's 2016, and try your best to live in the present.

This the most honest and least jerkish advice I can give, I am not trying to insult you or hurt you. Just trying to reach you. Best of luck.

[SciFiAuthor]

MF...  sci-fi brings asks a fair question- can a person purchase a genuine fidget?  I seem to recall a thread where you had posted a picture of 100 fidgets that look like they are compete.

I am not really trying to be a jerk- I am genuinely interested in the answer.

It's a totally fair question to ask. Can we buy a kick ass fidget? If not, why?

[Showroom Dummy]

You know, I didn't, don't, and will never know what the hell you've been ranting about on here because, frankly it's in the past. I have no clue who you are, I tried asking you to explain what happened and you basically were like too long to explain bro.

It's obvious you're obsessed, I wish you the best and hope that you recognize you should reach out to a professional and work through your issues and move past them. Nothing can change what happened. You don't have a Delorean, and art isn't on air any more. Face yourself and realize it's 2016, and try your best to live in the present.

This the most honest and least jerkish advice I can give, I am not trying to insult you or hurt you. Just trying to reach you. Best of luck.

you can't win       this is how i sum it up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWSh7Db-_E

[DarKPenguiN]

This entire thread has gotten really bizarre.

When I find myself agreeing with one of SciFi's posts I know something has gone horribly wrong here.

Mr Fidget, can we get a condensed version of your story? I really dont understand how Art 'blacklisting" you from 20+ years ago has any bearing to you selling fidgets today on the myriad of ecommerce sites that have been here for well over a decade.

And what is a fidget, exactly?

[Showroom Dummy]

i think  its here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlTDExQwhk

[WOTR]

This entire thread has gotten really bizarre.

And what is a fidget, exactly?

I warned you that this site would eventually suck you in...  Too late now.

Here is a picture from Fidgets thread.  Most of them seem to be a couple of links of chain and some rings that you can push / pull to "fidget."  I'm actually not joking- I would like one (or even a couple.)  They seem like the perfect size to toss in a pocket and screw with for fun.  Back when I was a bouncer, we used to have little boxes of wooden matches.  I would grab two most nights and "shuffle" them while I wandered around... I sort of like "fidgeting" for fun...

[SredniVashtar]

Yes I will still do the Cast. The price for Dental work is nuts.

Art

They normally just ask for money where I come from. I remember being a bit strapped for cash once and offered to wash the dentist's dishes for a week, and my mother once paid for my retainer with a couple of goats and a wheel of cheese. But nuts? Is the big reveal that you are really Heather Wade, and you're a bit embarrassed that the operation to get them removed has left you singing soprano in the choir?

[effluenza]

Y'all can buy your genuine fidgets here.

http://fidgetland.com

You snooze, you lose Mr Fidget.

[analog kid]

^^^^^^ All ya'll are talking fidgets in Art's thread.

Mission accomplished.

[onan]

When a train wreck happens, no one talks about the sunshine.

[Roswells, Art]

It's a totally fair question to ask. Can we buy a kick ass fidget? If not, why?

He said in his thread http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,1643.0.html ages ago he doesn't want to make anymore fidgets. From what I can gather, 20 years ago after taking peoples money (25k at $5 a pop) and not sending them what they ordered (fidgets) Art refused to talk to him. In doing this Mr. Fidget believes Art sent out a curse over the airwaves everywhere resulting in everything bad that has ever happened to him. He wants Art to lift the curse so that good things will start happening to him again.

I think that is it in a nutshell.

[Gruntled]

He said in his thread http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,1643.0.html ages ago he doesn't want to make anymore fidgets. From what I can gather, 20 years ago after taking peoples money (I think it was 25k at $5 a pop) and not sending them what they ordered (fidgets) Art refused to talk to him. In doing this Mr. Fidget believes Art sent out a curse over the airwaves everywhere resulting in everything bad that has ever happened to him. He wants Art to lift the curse so that good things will start happening to him again.

I think that is it in a nutshell.

O.K.
Thanks for the info.
I do remember vaguely Mr. Fidget from way back when but was unaware of all this^^^^^.
Yikes!
By the way, when is the Podcast with Art scheduled for?
Have to admit I'm hooked on the madness here.

[SredniVashtar]

While I initially found the idea of being with a hunchback adventurous, the reality of it proved otherwise.

It's true that I occasionally beguile my leisure hours with descanting on mine own deformity, even if those barking dogs get tiresome after a while, but you've never been the sort of guy to turn down a hump, if those begging emails you send me are to be believed.

At some point, a cigar just becomes a cigar. The reports were posted by the sheriff's office. To conflate that further is to begin to leave the realm of likelihood.

Try telling that to Monica Lewinsky. When he was asked if he had any regrets, Bill Clinton said, 'well, I still wish I hadn't splashed out on that dress.' A report is not a sworn affidavit, it's another iteration of Art's story, no more than that.

No, he didn't make it up. He just knew how unlikely it was for anyone to act on it.

Uh-huh. So, a guy gets a death sentence imposed on him by a Muslim theocracy, which mandates every member of the faithful to kill Rushdie as an act of piety, and it's no biggie. Someone else decides he's being hassled by the tooth fairy and he quits his job and acts like he's under siege.

If Rushdie was really concerned about it, he'd have hung up the writing career. Instead he made a fortune from the fatwa. I don't blame him for that, but it simply is what it is. He risked it to continue making a comfortable living. 

It would have made no difference whether Rushdie was writing or not. The rescinding of the fatwa wasn't conditional on Rushdie stopping his seditious scribblings and becoming a window cleaner. Define 'comfortable' when he was under police guard for years. And that's documented fact, he didn't just tell me about it and expect me to believe him.

If I lived in a desert that only saw snow once every few decades (how nice that must be) and it started falling, and there hadn't been an incident in a while, I'd have risked it. I think any reasonable person would understand that.

The 'stalker' might be taking a leaf out of Art's book and planning unannounced appearances. If he's that confident that he can go out in the snow, then perhaps that tells you that his caution in other aspects of his life is also misplaced, and that his reasons for staying off the air might not be the whole truth? In any case, a spontaneous decision to go out in the snow isn't the same as posting on FB for everyone to see.

So let me run this one by you. We go back to the shark idea and remake Jaws as a porno. I'm thinking about the working title "Jowls". You play the Richard Dreyfuss character, I'll be the old sea captain, and Falkie gets to be the shark. We'll keep it simple. All we need is a rowboat and the marijuana. Not sure where we'll fit Kirstie Alley, both in character and physically. But I'll think of something. What say you?

I was thinking of a remake of Fiddler on the Roof, with Falkie as the fiddler, but I don't think they have invented a material strong enough to keep him up there without some kind of wire-harness, and I don't think we have the budget. Considering Falkie's proud racial heritage, perhaps we could remake it as 'Jews' with Senda as the Kosher shark who rests from his depredations on the Sabbath, and gives needy children free water-ski rides? Perhaps I fell asleep during parts of the film, but I don't recall anyone getting stoned on wacky-baccy, but you know best. I have noticed in the past that you do tend to over-stress the drug references in our previous film collaborations. I know you are all into meta-narrative, but I thought the Driving Miss Daisy remake we did, where they were both doing bumps of coke off the hood of the car, made it very difficult to sell in the Bible Belt. 

[Roswells, Art]

O.K.
Thanks for the info.
I do remember vaguely Mr. Fidget from way back when but was unaware of all this^^^^^.
Yikes!
By the way, when is the Podcast with Art scheduled for?
Have to admit I'm hooked on the madness here.

I am too, heh. I'm not sure the exact time but I hear its scheduled for February 4th.

[Gruntled]

I am too, heh. I'm not sure the exact time but I hear its scheduled for February 4th.

Thank you. I look forward to it.

[Imconfused]

I just have one question.

Do you guys ever sleep?

[PB the Deplorable]

You go straighten them out:
http://www.radiohof.org/art_bell.htm

The US population in 2000 was about 280 million.  Lets round that up to 300 million.

15 million is 5% of 300 million.  Do you believe 5% of the country - 1 person in 20 - was up at night listening to the Art Bell Show?  A show that ran from 10PM to 2AM on the West Coast and 1AM to 5 on the East Coast? 

That's an awful lot of people up in the middle of the night, and they are all tuned in to Art Bell 4 hours a day?  Do those numbers make sense?  3 million - 1 in 100 - is a huge listenership for an overnight radio show, even that seems high to me. 

Regardless of how many are tuning in - for anywhere from a few minutes to the whole show - I really wonder how many were actively listening to a full show?  Some were only able to listen to the first hour, or maybe just a segment or two.  Certainly quite a few were police, nurses, etc, who mostly had it for background noise and listened sporadically while they were working?


That's part of the reason why the number of listeners are reported cumulatively.  It's easy for 'errors' to be made, to report the weekly numbers as daily, apparently even at the Radio Hall of Fame.  It's in the industries' interest to make these 'mistakes'.  Oops.

[SixWeekTenure(tm)]

haaahahahaha... i love the fact that i'm living in a universe where this is a folder occupying space on your hard drive. 

permanent turbo mode x4.  enabled.

[FightTheFuture]

So, anything new with our favorite former talk show host? Not that this would be the place to find out about it, mind you.