The term “monstrous moonshine” was coined by Conway, who, when told by John McKay in the late 1970s that the coefficient of {q} (namely 196884) was precisely the dimension of the Griess algebra (and thus exactly one more than the degree of the smallest faithful complex representation of the Monster group), replied that this was “moonshine” (in the sense of being a crazy or foolish idea).[1] Thus, the term not only refers to the Monster group M; it also refers to the perceived craziness of the intricate relationship between M and the theory of modular functions.
However, “moonshine” is also a slang word for illegally distilled whiskey, and in fact the name may be explained in this light as well.[citation needed] The Monster group was investigated in the 1970s by mathematicians Jean-Pierre Serre, Andrew Ogg and John G. Thompson; they studied the quotient of the hyperbolic plane by subgroups of SL2(R), particularly, the normalizer Γ0(p)+ of Γ0(p) in SL(2,R). They found that the Riemann surface resulting from taking the quotient of the hyperbolic plane by Γ0(p)+ has genus zero if and only if p is 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 41, 47, 59 or 71. When Ogg heard about the Monster group later on, and noticed that these were precisely the prime factors of the size of M, he published a paper offering a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey to anyone who could explain this fact.[2]
Meanwhile, 50 minutes in their meeting, the members of The Table find themselves in the VWX Town cemetery examining a fountain encompassing a chair. The chair of Baker Bloch.
VWX Town political cartoon prepared by Cardboard (C.) Derek Jones for the meeting.
The town slowly but surely gathers at the Church of The Diagonal in Westside.
Everyone had to walk past Jones’ Westside propoganda to get to The Table on the second floor. This was certainly no accident.
Baker Bloch sits opposite Central’s Carrcassonne, who surprised him by showing up. He doubted she was actually alive.
Carrcassonne begged to differ. A comparison could be made with SCTV’s Allan “Crazy Legs” Herschman. Extending this further, is *she* also the actual leader of the Table like Herschman was for SCTV at his own table? Is Carrcassonne the *new* Crazy Legs? Is VWX Town a reincarnated SCTV? Eh… probably not.
And where is Hucka Doobie in all this? Surely he must show up as well.
What’s with the Poisoned Gate? Who came up with that? A negatively charged gateway in Whitehead Crossing?
bb:
Just a story[ mind you].
Hucka D.:
What happens when I, as a bug, pass through the gate?
bb:
Probably nothing. Again…
Hucka D.:
It *can* be used as a portal, if you know the magic words.
bb:
What of the Diamond Rock at Diamond Beach, Hucka?
Hucka D.:
Another rock for you to find. Piecing together the whole story. Slowly.
bb:
Is it the tale that wags the dog?
[no answer]
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As explained in the Whitehead X-ing, Late Spring 03 I found a rock on a Whitehead Brook beach shaped like an almost perfect diamond rhombus, perhaps of a 4×7 variety. This happens to be the base shape for my old Opus 1 drawing from my college art class days. I’ll have to dig up a picture of the work, which I still have downstairs in the basement somewhere. Maybe I should take a new pic of it in light of finding this diamond rock. What would filmmaker Gene Fade think of this discovery? Did his “Fade to Moss” subject matter Rock Meadows know of this particular rock? Many questions to be answered.
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05-26-2008 07:45 AM
I was just watching my 12 oz. Mouse DVDs (yeah, again) and I noticed that neither of the two piano songs from the episode “Booger Haze” were put in the special features. Does anyone know the titles and artists/composers were for those two songs?
For the record, these are the two songs that Spider plays inside his cave SPOILER! after he kidnaps Roostre SPOILER!
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Baker Bloch (Baker Blinker? Hucka Doobie?)
Keraz (“Key”)
Patsi Rubi (together: Rubi Key)
Cokoala (more of an outsider: from Rosieri)
Flynn (?)
Headburro? (to add mythological depth)
Blinkerton?
—–
Baker:
So we begin. Greetings to all variants present, and thanks for attending the first meeting of the Council of the Sylver Forest.
Keraz:
Call me Key.
Baker:
Thank you Keraz. I will. You were always a champion of the Rubi Forest. Now you know of the larger Sylver Forest in the past.
Karoz:
What is the relationship of the Sylver Forest to the Square Forest of Frank Park?
Baker:
Thank you Karoz. Didn’t see you back there behind Keraz.
Keraz/Key:
Actually I have to go to another meeting. Karoz can have my seat, then, so he can see better and you can see him better and hear him better. Thank you for inviting me, Baker.
Baker:
Um, no problem. No other remarks before you step out?
Keraz/Key:
Only: Good luck!
[Keraz/Key leaves the building. Where is the building?]
Cocoala:
Actually I must leave as well. Must get back to creating my houses. Nice gallery. I prefer landscapes.
Baker:
Yes, I like landscapes too. Sorry we never got around to creating that interview I promised, Cocoala.
Cocoala:
Call me Coke. Yeah, no big deal. Where’s the exit again?
[Baker points to the exit, and Cocoala/Coke exits through it]
Baker:
Hope she can find her way home through the Rubi Forest.
Patsi Rubi:
She doesn’t live there any more. Remember? It’s only you and me. Keraz is gone too. Key, I mean. And I’m…
Baker:
Leaving too?
Patsi Rubi:
I am ill.
Baker:
I remember that.
Patsi Rubi:
I am the forest more than anyone. I am the forest more than you[ for example].
Baker:
Could be. My main chunk of time here was still in 2008. Long time ago. So what happened to the ring of galleries you were going to build around the forest? The Forest?
Patsi Rubi:
Let’s see… Sylver broke me down.
Hucka Doobie:
What does that mean, Patsi?
Baker:
Hi Hucka D. [seeing Hucka’s head emerge from behind where Patsi is sitting]. You know everyone here, I assume. Everyone that’s left.
Hucka D. [ looking around]:
Hi Goodnight Violet [nods to Goodnight]. Hi Barbury Castle [nods to Barbury]. Hi [delete name].
Baker:
Yes, hi to you as well, [delete name]. But Hucka, all the rest you were nodding to were just empty seats.
Hucka D.:
*I* see them.
Baker:
Okay, I’ll just go along with that now. I wonder if you, [delete name], have any comments?
[delete name]:
Questions. What is the Korean Channel?
Baker:
It’s the central shaft of water at the Jeogeot continent, the largest landmass of Second Life as a whole. You know that, don’t you?
[delete name]:
Not really. Or I forgot.
Baker:
Do you want to say anything about the idea of the Sylver Forest?
Barbury Castle [suddenly appearing to Baker in a formerly empty seat]:
Do we get to walk The Diagonal?
Baker:
You *are* real. Well, sure we can do that.
Barbury Castle:
I want to disappear at the one hundred and twenty-five.
Hucka D.:
That’s one-eighth of a thousand to you, Baker. 1:8.
Patsi Rubi:
Yes The Diagonal is nice. I created it. I am taking over, Baker.
Baker:
Well, um…
[delete name]:
The Korean Channel is what?
Hucka D.:
Furry Carl! (Hucka D.’s eyes follow an imaginary person coming into the hall and sitting in another empty seat, an empty seat to Baker.)
Baker:
Does anyone else see Furry Carl besides Hucka D.?
(But then Baker *sees* Furry Carl, and *everyone else* has disappeared.)
Furry Carl:
Merry fucking summer have a beer!
END OF MEETING
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POST MEETING NOTES
That was not a really successful meeting, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
I enjoyed it. I thought it was great. Wonderful, even. What was wrong with it?
bb:
Well, most of the people left. A lot of the remaining people were *imaginary*.
Hucka D. (countering):
They *all* were imaginary. Are imaginary.
bb:
Delete name was there and not there at once.
Hucka D.:
On off, black white, Zebra.
bb:
The actual place of the meeting was not clarified, even to me.
Hucka D.:
You said it was a hall. The Hall.
bb:
I don’t have a hall. Not yet, I suppose you’re going to add…
Hucka D.:
Not *yet*. (smiles; pauses) So what else disappointed you?
bb:
Nothing got done (!)
Hucka D.:
You were thinking about a map.
bb:
A map of the Sylver Forest, thank you. I think I’ll prepare one for the next meeting. Invite Coke and Key back. Think they’ll like[ it].
Hucka D.:
Barbury Castle said he wanted to walk The Diagonal[ as well].
bb:
Okay we can do that. Don’t know really who that is but we can acommodate him.
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