A Firesign Chat
04/01/2021




Archive

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 01, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "4:08 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood enters with Commando Cody close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:36 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
Commando Cody: Good evening Rufus.
Commando Cody: I might have to run out rela quick so I might miss the beginning.
Commando Cody: *real
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:39 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
DJTweeny: Hey Cody
DJTweeny: Y'all come back, ya hear?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – Blackmore's Night
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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Commando Cody: *real
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and llanwydd gets out at 8:47 PM.
llanwydd: good evening folks
DJTweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: looking forward to seeing cats new script
llanwydd: he was hoping to send it to us tonight
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease in through the front door at 8:50 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: should be fun
llanwydd: Hey Cat
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: Hi all
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:51 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary.
llanwydd: Howdy Dang
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners!
Cease: Another reason to celebrate April 6 besides Austin's birthday: on that day our province will finally have an online service to get reservations for vaccines
llanwydd: Cool
llanwydd: I got mine. Im safe.
Cease: Yeah, Canada is running way behind.
Rufus_T_Firetween: My mother shares a birthday with Phil. She will turn 104 years old
Cease: had some trouble getting vaccines
llanwydd: no kidding!
Cease: amazing, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: yep, born 1917
Rufus_T_Firetween: grew up during The Great Depression
Commando Cody: Wow. Tell her happy birthday from the chat.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Will do :)
Deputy Dang: wow, 2 pandemics for her!
Rufus_T_Firetween: she swears the first one wasn't her fault
Deputy Dang: lmao
Commando Cody: LOL!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ;)
||||||||| Catherwood escorts coda in through the front door at 8:57 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hey coda, great to see you here :)
Cease: coda
DJTweeny: coda's from the RFD radio bunch
coda: hi all
||||||||| 8:58 PM: The Butler jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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Cease: The Butler
DJTweeny: allo Butler
llanwydd: Welcome Butler
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 01, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Commando Cody: Hello Coda. And everybody else I missed. I'm back and forth here right now.
coda: since the firesign stream is down, after this show, i'll have to download more of dj tweeny's shows, and listen to them on a loop, lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: heheh
Rufus_T_Firetween: Which firesign stream is down?
coda: the one on the official firesign theatre sight
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“KEEPING THE WOLVES AWAKE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
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Rufus_T_Firetween: "Fresign Radio Is On Hiatus", OK
Rufus_T_Firetween: didn't know that
coda: yeah, from what i gathered, the streaming provider went belly up on the firesign station
Cease: good while it lasted
coda: if i hadn't have found that station 2 years ago, i wouldn't have bought the duke of madness motors collection
Commando Cody: Well it's a good thing we've still got this to count on.
coda: i was also informed that they were going to try and bring it back at some point, but it wasn't a huge priority at the time
Cease: http://www.radiofreeoz.com/index.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “KEEPING THE WOLVES AWAKE” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
Cease: there's also ossman blog and lots of other firesign radio stuff there.
Cease: they're releasing a hurricane of new stuff on bandcamp
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
llanwydd: middle school lol
llanwydd: dcfvgbnhjmk,l.
Rufus_T_Firetween: gesundheit
llanwydd: lol
Cease: this is from pete's rfo site above
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO FREE OZ” at >> http://radiofreeoz.com/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** CBC Ideas programme on Wolves: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/from-scavenger-to-household-royalty-how-dogs-evolved-from-wolves-to-pampered-pets-1.5930345
Cease: bergman spouted a lot of garbage
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| The Butler - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by, butler
Commando Cody: Catherwood give The Butler a drink.
||||||||| Catherwood gives the butler a drink.
Commando Cody: Everybody must be tired this evening.
Cease: we had a very scary week here.
Commando Cody: Hey Coda, do you have a slot on Dishnuts we might want to check out?
Commando Cody: What happened Cease?
Cease: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/woman-dead-6-others-injured-after-stabbings-at-north-vancouver-library-1.5365190
Cease: this is my local library. i go there all the time. about 8 blocks away
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow :(
Commando Cody: Good grief! At the library?
Rufus_T_Firetween: didn't know it was where you lived
Commando Cody: I hadn't even heard about it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: a random attack, or so they say
Cease: https://news.yahoo.com/man-arrested-arson-attacks-masonic-005729646.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: no news on the motive that I've heard
coda: no, i am just doing test streams, but if i do i can relay the stream to mr. tweeny, i don't have a dezignated timeslott yet
Cease: this happened here too.
Cease: the stabbers seems crazy. the pyro had an agenda.
coda: actually, my program would encourage voicechatting perammiters
Rufus_T_Firetween: If you plan to do a stream coda, you can always announce it here
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, definitely didn't like Masons
Commando Cody: Oh Ok. Thanks for the info. coda.
Cease: i've been watching new adam curtis series recently, and one of itrs stories is the guy who invented the illuminati
coda: thanks for the platform, my anouncement might be lengthy, with instructions in joining if people wish to voicechat as well as irc
Cease: thinking that it was so absurd, no one could believe it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “KEEPING THE WOLVES AWAKE” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** CBC Ideas programme on Wolves: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/from-scavenger-to-household-royalty-how-dogs-evolved-from-wolves-to-pampered-pets-1.5930345
Rufus_T_Firetween: email me coda, and we'll see if we can come up with an advertisement
Commando Cody: I never wanted to join The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
Rufus_T_Firetween: Wasn't that Jackie Gleeson?
Rufus_T_Firetween: their 'lodge'?
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Commando Cody: The Flintstones.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ah, OK
||||||||| Mr. Bark Bark sneaks in around 9:42 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Commando Cody: Gleason's was The International Brotherhood Of Loyal Raccoons
Cease: hi bb
Mr. Bark Bark: Hello, Cease!
Commando Cody: Now I certainly would have loved to come up to Cease's hood to become a member of the Possum Lodge.
Mr. Bark Bark: I've never heard this one!
coda: i'm off to bed, i'm still recovering from a sinus infection, and the medication i'm on makes me a little drousey at times
Cease: get better, coda
Commando Cody: Adios coda.
DJTweeny: be well coda
DJTweeny: Ruff Bark
Commando Cody: Howdy Bark. Good choice of evenings to join us.
Mr. Bark Bark: Indeed!
coda: oh, i'm much better than i have been in 8 days, when my alergies act up, sinus infections always get me, don'
coda: don't crush that dwarf, hand me the plyers, goodnight all
Cease: nitre, coda
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** CBC Ideas programme on Wolves: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/from-scavenger-to-household-royalty-how-dogs-evolved-from-wolves-to-pampered-pets-1.5930345
||||||||| Catherwood leads johan amadeus myjetski into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:51 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: allo coda
DJTweeny: allo Johan
Cease: hey jammy
johan amadeus myjetski: 'allo, allo!@
Cease: just in time for the end of my collage
Rufus_T_Firetween: there's always te archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “KEEPING THE WOLVES AWAKE” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: *the
johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, I am a dog lover, was a professional dog sitter for 14 years, & can't believe i missed this! will catch it on the flipdise
Commando Cody: Howdy JAM.
johan amadeus myjetski: Hiya, CC, DJT
Cease: you'll like it, jammy. austin loved dogs
Cease: this is part of a 2-part austin birthday celebration
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN at Wikipedia >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Austin
Commando Cody: I like dogs well enough to have had a few over the years but I'm more on Cat's wavelength with the feline crowd.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN at the Firesign Theatre web site >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN'S “Blog Of The Unknown” >> https://philaustinblogofunknown.wordpress.com/
Commando Cody: All Dogs go to Heaven.
Commando Cody: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjtq-LYut7vAhWCX80KHZieAvMQFjABegQICBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0096787%2F&usg=AOvVaw2Ck6IXmQFHt-NReahS-bjI
johan amadeus myjetski: and all heavens go to the dogs. why, just look up at night, & there's the Dog Star...
Commando Cody: Oops, sorry. Didn't know it was a very long URL.
Mr. Bark Bark: Having terrible connection problems, will check back later! Night all!
Commando Cody: Adios BB.
Rufus_T_Firetween: later Bark
Cease: by bb
Rufus_T_Firetween loves his Google Fiber
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
johan amadeus myjetski: adieu,BB!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 10:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| coda - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: great, cat
||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL AUSTIN!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“A PHIL AUSTIN STORY”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
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Rufus_T_Firetween: oops, no introduction, sorry
Cease: no, no introduction for this. i made before i was doing introudctions
Cease: this is you talking to proc
Rufus_T_Firetween: right, forgot about that
Rufus_T_Firetween: yes 'tis
Cease: this has been in the archives for years.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A PHIL AUSTIN STORY” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: this is bit is from the firesign live in nyc in 1970
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S VIDEOS at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S BLOG at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
Cease: this is from phil's yet unpublished novel, Beaver Teeth
Commando Cody: As yet unpublished?
Commando Cody: That's no fun.
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "10:11 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Funfun Town."
Beet: Hello all.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Commando Cody: Hey there Beet.
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Commando Cody: What are the odds it ever will Cease?
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween, Commando
Cease: hey beet
Beet: Greetings, Dr Cease
Cease: i know a lot of firesign product will be released. talked to ossman a few days ago.
Beet: Great news!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A PHIL AUSTIN STORY” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS
Cease: our tiny chat is considered valuable in luring folks in to buy all their new stuff
Commando Cody: That's good to hear.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN THEATRE DOWNLOAD STORE at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Cease: some of you may remember i used this same story last week in my cowboy collage
Commando Cody: Yep, I caught that.
johan amadeus myjetski: hey, beet!
Beet: "Stacked body" You don't hear that expression any more.
Beet: Hi JAM
||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Mr. Bark Bark - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
johan amadeus myjetski: I once heard a Brit use the expression 'stacked like a brick chicken house'
Rufus_T_Firetween: Beet: "Stacked body" You don't hear that expression any more. << thankfully
johan amadeus myjetski: not sure what he actually meant by it, if anything...
Beet: In Texas it was a "brick s***house.
Commando Cody: Our colloquillism was "Built like a brick shithouse"
Beet: Exactly
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Commando Cody: HA! Jinx, you owe me a ke Beet.
Commando Cody: *Coke
Beet: OK
Commando Cody: Of course once we heard the balcony you could do SHakespeare from....
johan amadeus myjetski: Oh, you mean Bottles!
Rufus_T_Firetween: great line
Commando Cody: Yep!
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'Merlyn', just granted probation at 10:20 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new video DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Merlyn: hi
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi Merlyn!
Cease: Merl
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
Commando Cody: Merl. Good thing you showed up.
Commando Cody: This show has gone to the dogs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Just in the nick of time!
Beet: Hey, Merl.
Commando Cody: God one Rufus.
Cease: One of
Commando Cody: *Good
Cease: Austin's wonderful tales
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Cease: here's another.
Cease: htis one is true.
Commando Cody: Or Maybe Dog
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: kinda
Cease: i went in search of this house when i was last in frisco, 03
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN at Wikipedia >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Austin
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN at the Firesign Theatre web site >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** PHIL AUSTIN'S “Blog Of The Unknown” >> https://philaustinblogofunknown.wordpress.com/
Cease: The Graduate
Commando Cody: Hey Cease, given your penchant for collagess and cats have you seen the Owlkitty videos on You Tube?
johan amadeus myjetski: someone should write a 'Guide to Being Crazy in the Army'...
Cease: no
Commando Cody: https://youtu.be/nf7GsKFepDg
Commando Cody: There are a bunch of them. Pretty well done video/CGI work.
Cease: just had a peek. looks great
Beet: FM was a miracle in those days.
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a somewhat different situation with an all-volunteer army
Commando Cody: Hey JAM, somebody already did. It's called Catch 22.
johan amadeus myjetski: LOL, CC!
Rufus_T_Firetween: heh, great book
Cease: indeed, beet. i was lucky enough to be in la when that happened.
Commando Cody: I had forgotten about White Brains on Toast.
Commando Cody: I think they did a great job of getting it right in the movie as well.
llanwydd: I always thought white brains on toast was a reference to the song white punks on dope
Cease: makes sense, llan. tubes did gigs with firesign
Commando Cody: Cease? Any comment on llan's chat.
llanwydd: a song a never cared for but it was an interesting reference
Cease: see above
Commando Cody: You read my white brain Cease.
Cease: this was the kind of audio austin grew up with
Deputy Dang: bulbous bouffant
Cease: his mother was a high school drama teacher
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: makes sense, llan. tubes did gigs with firesign << didn't know that, would make sense that brains on toast was influenced by them
Commando Cody: Dang is that a reference to the Vestibules?
Cease: they were, are sponges
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A PHIL AUSTIN STORY” at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS
Commando Cody: Stripper named Hailstone.
Beet: Most dicks are private.
Commando Cody: I can't get Stormy Daniels out of my head now.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Commando Cody: I can't get Stormy Daniels out of my head now. << as a lady Jj at RFD would say, "Which head?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: *DJ
Commando Cody: Well Beet, if it's nice out, maybe you should leave it out.
Commando Cody: LOL! I think I'd better start listening to more RFD.
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Beet: I never tried that.
Cease: i forgot how hissy this was. i should re-do it for the archives, tween.
Cease: 3 collages in a row i used this.
Cease: it's worth hearing 3 times
Rufus_T_Firetween: sure cease, let's make it as good as it can be
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
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Cease: i will listen to and fix the next austin collage for next week. the other piece is Roller Maidens
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Deputy Dang: tonight was very educational
llanwydd: great fun as always
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Beet: I enjoyed this. Thanks to everyone. Great collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding us, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
johan amadeus myjetski: Nite all! Thanks Cat!
Commando Cody: Thanks Cease and DJTween
Cease: you would have learned a lot about dogs and wolves
Commando Cody: Adios gang. CU next week I hope.
Deputy Dang: Good night all!
llanwydd: thanks tweeny and cat
||||||||| Deputy Dang says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Deputy Dang exits at 10:53 PM.
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| Around 10:53 PM, llanwydd walks off into the sunset...
Cease: we do our best
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin was a really good musician. Great Kristofferson parody :)
Commando Cody: I've never heard this before.
Cease: weird al but more surreal
Rufus_T_Firetween: from Roller Maidens
Commando Cody: I was going for Kinky Friedman.
Cease: do we have room for some Daily Feed next week, Tween?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin in the chat said it was Kristofferson :)
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Commando Cody: It's on my list now.
Cease: 2 minute pieces.
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll see Cat
Cease: if you are already in the desert, how can you be headed towards the desert
Rufus_T_Firetween: lots of great country music parodies on Roller Maidens
Commando Cody: I was thinking Friedman before I knew it was Austin (doing Kristofferson)
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: off we flit
Commando Cody: Bye.
||||||||| Commando Cody hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Commando Cody?! It's 10:57 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Merlyn: bye, thanks catween
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Merlyn!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Cease - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Cease
coda
Commando Cody
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Mr. Bark Bark
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES
http://kurtericson.com/cat/#FIRESIGN_AUDIO_BIOS
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://radiofreeoz.com/
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.radiofreeoz.com/index.html
http://www.seemreal.com
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/woman-dead-6-others-injured-after-stabbings-at-north-vancouver-library-1.5365190
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Austin
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://news.yahoo.com/man-arrested-arson-attacks-masonic-005729646.html
https://philaustinblogofunknown.wordpress.com/
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/from-scavenger-to-household-royalty-how-dogs-evolved-from-wolves-to-pampered-pets-1.5930345
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjtq-LYut7vAhWCX80KHZieAvMQFjABegQICBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0096787%2F&usg=AOvVaw2Ck6IXmQFHt-NReahS-bjI
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber
https://youtu.be/nf7GsKFepDg



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