A Firesign Chat
06/02/2022




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||||||||| 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 June 02, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| 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 *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com
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||||||||| Catherwood leads Not Ed into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| It's 7:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 02, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Tweeny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| DJTweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: warm up music – JOHN LENNON-ROCK 'N' ROLL
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 enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Cease
||||||||| Catherwood ushers johan amadeus myjetski into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hey johan
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Bot', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: Finally got in.
Cease: HBI Bot
DJTweeny: Hi Bot
johan amadeus myjetski: jola!
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
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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johan amadeus myjetski: greeets, bot
Cease: John Lennon was good even when he wasn't.
johan amadeus myjetski: met him in '74
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Beet: Hi all.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: cool
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Howdy,Dr Tween
johan amadeus myjetski: camping on the beach in Bahia Honda, FL. in the keys. in the campsite next to us.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bottles coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
johan amadeus myjetski: yoyo, beet!
DJTweeny: wow
Beet: Hey, Jam.
Bottles: Love this album
johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, bottles!
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: Firesign on National Public Radio in 1980
THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES
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
Visit The New Firesign Theatre Web Site at >> http://www.firesigntheatre.com/
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Beet: Hello, Dr Cease.
Bottles: Hey yal
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi cease!
Cease: hey bottles. you must be enthused about your Firesign show tonighrt, eh?
Cease: Bottl3w is going to premiere a long lost firesign play tonight.
Cease: bottles is kind of the whole idea of, passing it along.
Cease: so they dont dissappear
Beet: This is great news.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: Bottl3w is going to premiere a long lost firesign play tonight. << during your collage?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lili's play is next week
Bottles: That's at https://kkrn.org/broadcasts/4309
Rufus_T_Firetween: ah OK
Bottles: It's listenable at that link
Bottles: But don't listen till Tweens show is over!
Bottles: Not getting updated chat.
Bottles: Am I all alone in this bus?
Tweeny: working here
Bottles: Oh goody.
Beet: All good here.
Bottles: Cat helped me on the play, providing some FT sound bites saying Here.
Bottles: And supplying the Firesign script.
Bottles: Because I didn't know about, being unrecorded on LP.
Cease: Uh,helped.that's what i do, eh?
Bottles: You made it possible, Cease!
Cease: my idea was, the play has dissappeared but bottles and her actors coyuld recrewate it.
Cease: they did
Cease: i boughtr it into possibility, lili
Bottles: Exactly. Never woulda been done if not for you!
Cease: i resurrected the dead. what more can one do?
Bottles: All I did was assemble it.
Bottles: Carter wasn't a nutso. He was a legumo.
Tweeny: lol @ 'legumo' The peanut farmer who was a nuclear engineer for the Navy?
Bottles: Yes, this commentator called him a nutzo.
Bottles: How many cups of coffee did these guys chug before these recordings?
Cease: they drank a lot of brandy, i know that.
Bottles: Amy Cart should run for prez.
Bottles: Carter that is.
DJTweeny: /me voted for Carter
DJTweeny: in '76
Cease: I'm a canuck so never voted in US elections
Cease: my basevball team the Torontoi Blue Jays are winning these days. I'm happy
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “THE CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES” at >> https://www.discogs.com/release/11871392-The-Firesign-Theatre-The-Cassette-Chronicles
Bottles: So did I. But the hostage situation screwed it all up
Beet: It's nice to have a winning baseball team.
Rufus_T_Firetween: or ringball, for that matter
Bottles: You need a Vancouver team.
Bottles: A Vancouver rainfall team!
Bottles: Dang smellcheck! Dumbbell team
Bottles: Ring ball!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign's PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out PINK HOTEL at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-rv
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Bottles: We have enough dumbbell teams.
DJTweeny: This bit starts out the new Mushroom shows
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
DJTweeny: Laugh.com has apparently gone down, so FST has to find a new manufacturer/vendor for a bunch of their CDs
Bottles: That might be a good cottage startup.
Rufus_T_Firetween: new link >> ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
DJTweeny: It's going to take a while to get everything ironed out during the transition to the new site
Beet: Sorry to hear about laugh.com. Made many purchases there.
Bottles: Artunian. Where have I heard that name before?
DJTweeny: Mark Time episodes, Bottles?
Bottles: Maybe, or maybe he was a tunnler
Bottles: Tunneler.
DJTweeny: Prince Arcturis is what I was thinking of
Tweeny: What a great soap opera parody
Tweeny: one of my favorite FST bits :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
llanwydd: good evening dear friends
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Beet: Hey, llan
DJTweeny: just in time for Cat's new collage
llanwydd: Cool
llanwydd: I love pink hotel
DJTweeny: me too
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
llanwydd: that soap opera parody is my fvorite part
DJTweeny: it's excellent
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – www.firesigntheatre.com **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
SAINT FIRESIGN
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.net/cat/
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llanwydd: st firesign COOL
llanwydd: same usual trouble with my audio
llanwydd: dont know why the hell that happens
Rufus_T_Firetween: ehhh :(
Rufus_T_Firetween: the stream is working fine
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “SAINT FIRESIGN” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#jukebox
llanwydd: managed to find saint firesign on tweens cat page
llanwydd: sxe
llanwydd: mkl,
Cease: i hope y'all enjoy tihs
llanwydd: gbhnjmoipk,ol[p.;[/
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, it's posted
Rufus_T_Firetween: gesundheit
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Bottles: Sometimes I have to reload the page.
Rufus_T_Firetween suspects llan has a cat
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: I dont know if I am on the same part of the collage as everyone else
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have chat friends who do and they often decide to help with the typing
llanwydd: raze the level of the house is what I just heard
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's about 27 minutes in now llan
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops soory 13
Rufus_T_Firetween: *sorry
Rufus_T_Firetween: I was looking at time left
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: 14:30 now
Rufus_T_Firetween: 16 now
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “SAINT FIRESIGN” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#jukebox
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
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/
Bottles: Cat's collages blend together. What a great road trip CD these would make as a Car collage marathon.
Bottles: Cat collage I meant.
Bottles: I just War spelled backwards is Raw.
Bottles: Kinda makes you think.
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Raw Raw Raw, that's the spirit..."
Cease: hi bottles i hope you enjoy this
Cease: bottles, youy and me can do good things, eh?
Bottles: But don't think too hard..Don't want to blow a cerebellum.
Bottles: Yes Cease.
Cease: proimote today'd show, pleased, botgtles
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Bottles: Ha, Rufus, exactly.
Cease: wil be on soon, eh?
Bottles: Thoroughly enjoying it Cease.
Cease: good, bottlles
Cease: you know i spend all week creating these shows, eh?
Rufus_T_Firetween: a good occupation
Bottles: Perfection is time consuming.
Beet: Hardest working man in show business.
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice work, Cat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign's PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out PINK HOTEL at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-rv
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||||||||| 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.net/firesign
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Beet: Enjoyed the services this evening. Thanks everyone. Great collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for the usual excellent guiding us bozos, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| "Hey Cease!" ... Cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Bottles - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Bot - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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
Bottles
Cease
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#jukebox
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatre.com/
www.firesigntheatre.com
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
https://kkrn.org/broadcasts/4309
https://www.discogs.com/release/11871392-The-Firesign-Theatre-The-Cassette-Chronicles
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zFfC24DuakAbRIRpbPnxQ?view_as=subscriber



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