Comments on: Butterfingers

By: AW

AW — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:54:22 +0000

When the man said “one of a kind” I assume he recorded something on it himself, thus making it unique because only it bears those unique marks that give the sound. I’m guessing that his next task was to place it in the Edison phonograph and play it for the show. When he shattered it though, there went his demonstration and out came the swears.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 May 2005 11:26:57 +0000

Reggie is actually Chris after a very smokey visit to Haiti. That's how he sounds when he is mellow. The first person to guess how many joints he smoke to get that mellow wins the remains of the dictation cylinder.
;-p
Don Park

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2005 21:06:26 +0000

That's an Edison Dictaphone wax dictation cylinder that was commonly used as one of the first commercial business dictation devices.
I actually have two Edison recorders that use those wax cylinders and even more rare, an Edison cylinder shaver that allows one to re-use the cylinders over and over by literally shaving away the top layer previously cut by the audio head.
A great stunt nonetheless.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2005 08:05:54 +0000

Yah, I was there live. Not there there live, but there watching on my television, live. The Call For Help-a-thon was a one of a kind event. It was damn entertaining during those long hours, and family friendly until the guy broke the priceless recording and let one fly from his lips. I can't say I blame him. I do blame Reggie for editing the video and inserting his mug.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2005 20:50:35 +0000

I'm with the first comment and the trackback on this I've never heard of MSNFound…
Any who, yeah I have that saved in my hard drive somewhere, its priceless.. literally.
But I'll never forget the first time I saw it live during the Help-A-Thon.
Good times.
-Dan

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2005 16:51:23 +0000

Wow … I love that bit. I was suprised when I saw it on a blooper show a while back.

By: nwistheone

nwistheone — Thu, 05 May 2005 16:11:50 +0000

absolutely amazing. thanks for the link :P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2005 16:06:01 +0000

That clip has been all over the place. Here in DC, DC101 (Howard Stern's first major station) have been talking about it for months. Personally, I hope it was staged… if not, then there is PLENTY of hope out there for the rest of us clutzes…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2005 13:59:54 +0000

Who the hell is Reggie and where is his website?