A Firesign Chat
07/07/2022




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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 July 07, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Rufus_T_Firetween steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 8:45 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 strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 07, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?"
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks 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 anteroom...
||||||||| "Hey Rufus_T_Firetween!" ... Rufus_T_Firetween 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!"...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and DJTweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
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||||||||| Catherwood enters with Rufus_T_Firetween close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries 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
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.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
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 johan amadeus myjetski close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi johan
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music HAPPY BIRTHDAY RINGO STARR
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)
'
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Rufus!
DJTweeny: sizzling hot here, going to be 106 w/o the heat index on Sunday
johan amadeus myjetski: we call it hot here, too, but it's mid-80s
Rufus_T_Firetween: heh, sweater weather
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ringo's birthday today
johan amadeus myjetski: thre was a one minute youtube yesterday of ringo giving his world view for his birthday. love & peace, mostly.
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
johan amadeus myjetski: hullo Cease!
Cease: Hey all
Cease: Got the sound
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
johan amadeus myjetski: an old tibetan monk told me sound was consciousness...
Cease: Ringo, eh? Spent a lot of time listening to Octopus's Garden for last week's collage
johan amadeus myjetski: so, if you got sound, that's good. very goodindeed.
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, Ringo's birthday is today
Cease: something happened to my computer a while back and it's taken me awhile go get everything back on track, as it were
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Bottles coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: glad you have it working again
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
Cease: I'd rather have bottles infront of me than frontal lobobotimes
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's ModeratelyGinchie(MG), just back from Hellmouth."
Cease: kind of a tom waits quote
johan amadeus myjetski: greetings, Bottles!
Cease: Hi MG
DJTweeny: Hi Ginchie
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Hello everyone. Are newbies allowed?
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Hi!
DJTweeny: absolutely!
johan amadeus myjetski: warmly welcomed, MG!
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Cool
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Looks like fun
DJTweeny: Come one come all...
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Was listening to Catherwood in the pool today
||||||||| Catherwood rushes over to ModeratelyGinchie(MG) and inquires "Something I can help with?"
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Just roll a couple bombers and leave em on the table, Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside ModeratelyGinchie(MG) and queries "Did you want something?"
johan amadeus myjetski: none for me catherwood, i'm tired of waking up on the floor
||||||||| Catherwood fors johan amadeus myjetski i'm tired of waking up on the floor.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): LOL
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) lol
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Just found the merch link - lots I didn't know I could buy.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Typing : at the beginning of a sentence in here is the same as typing /me in an IRC chat
johan amadeus myjetski: i'd like to hear Ringo sing What a Wonderful World
||||||||| 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)
'
||||||||| 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 morlog plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: aloha morlog
morlog: hey there
johan amadeus myjetski: hey morlog
Cease: Morlog
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Catherwood do you have a watch?
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's precisely 8:00 PM!"
morlog: hey there
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is from NPR 8/21/02
morlog: stupid andro8 browser
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Forgive me but... the links to the stream... are they live? I got a 30-second portion
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, this is live
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Beet steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Listening to the 128k stream here and it's working fine
Beet: Howdy, gang.
DJTweeny: yo Beet
johan amadeus myjetski: pulse... check, deep breath... yep i'm live!
Cease: I'm thinking of putting all the mutt and smutts together. maybe in a week or 2, with the new (to me) stuff on Water
Cease: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
DJTweeny: That'd be cool, Cease
johan amadeus myjetski: greets, beet!
Beet: Greetings, DSr Cease.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): I will try again. Thanks, Rufus
Beet: Dr.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Deputy Dang coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Got it
johan amadeus myjetski: hi DD!
Beet: Hey, JAM
morlog: ha
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
morlog: ay question while im still sobe
Cease: DD
morlog: ahhhhhhh
Deputy Dang: Howdy pardners! I apologize for not joining the chat for the last few weeks.
DJTweeny: You're excused ;)
DJTweeny: Hope everything's OK with you
Beet: Howdy, Deputy
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
morlog: i have no pez
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): I'm just ordering two of those now
DJTweeny: kewl
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): cool
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s BOOM DOT BUST
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Boom Dot Bust at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bdb-rv
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johan amadeus myjetski: Doom Bot Rust!
||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanguidd inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cease: LLan
llanguidd: good evening, dear friends
Cease: I once had the script for this. Don't know what happened to it.
johan amadeus myjetski: llan!
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Got a 503 Service Unavailable message when trying to order. Bummer.
llanguidd: is this about the guy with the lewd nose:
Rufus_T_Firetween: ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Got a 503 Service Unavailable message when trying to order. Bummer. << FST is migrating to a new web site, so a lot of the links posted here may no longer be valid. Try shopping at the new www.firesigntheatre.com site
DJTweeny: Hey llan
Beet: Hi, llan.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll remind Doc Technical that the ads here need to be updated or removed
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Thanks Rufus but I went through there -- got to the purchase button button and received the 503
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Will keep checking back - though if you have another link, let me know.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): thx
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) lol
||||||||| 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 Elayne gets out at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Cease: Hi El
johan amadeus myjetski: Hi El!
Beet: Hey, Elayne.
Elayne: Nice to see chatters new and old this evening!
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) waves
Elayne waves back
morlog: hey there
Elayne: I think Deng and morlog are also new(ish), yes?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Thanks Rufus but I went through there -- got to the purchase button button and received the 503 << I've alerted Doc Tech, thanks for letting us know
Elayne: Sorry, Dang, dang it!
morlog: kind of
Rufus_T_Firetween: morlog is a friend of mine from a music chat
Elayne: Tween, is DocTech the one to alert any more if it has to do with the new site?
Cease: If not Doc, who?
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Hey! The sale is going through this time!
Cease: Maybe Proc's daughter.
johan amadeus myjetski: Doctor Who?
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) crossing fingers
DJTweeny: afaik El
Elayne: Per DocTech's recent email to me, "Kristin Campbell and Taylor Jessen are taking the site reins."
DJTweeny: He's in contact with them and has been working on the migration
Elayne: Oh, that Kristin! Thanks Cat, I didn't put two and two together there.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Seems it was just a temprary glitch
DJTweeny: Ah, then I will get with Taylor as well
Cease: Yes. I have Taylor's address, not hers. He's usually pretty good at gettng back to me and sometimes he visits here
Elayne gives Tween a thumbs-up.
DJTweeny: So it's working now MG?
Cease: Austin sure could write good songs!
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): It is, yes!
Rufus_T_Firetween: OK, I'll let DocTech know
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Sent successfully.
Cease: You purchase will be appreciated
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: More great music from Austin.
Cease: Great to see him getting jazzier later in his career
Elayne: I had no idea David hated Weirdly Cool so much. I almost feel guilty for having that party when it came out.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Might go poor... there's a lot I still don't own.
Elayne: I know the feeling, MG!
Cease: You heard him complain about it? Yeah that was a surprise to me too.
Elayne: Fortunately the internet makes it easier than ever to own stuff, and lots of stuff is still free!
DJTweeny: Hey folks, the private message system doesn't seem to be working. I've altered DocTech
Elayne: https://doctechnical.com/falafal/
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Altered? B-roll booty?
Elayne: Don't alter DocTech, I like him the way he is!
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) lol
Elayne: I miss him, but That Darn Pandemic has still put paid to any plans to travel up CT-way to see him and Lili.
Cease: Have so much Firstuff it needs to be in my will.
Cease: When Dex died, his wfe called me to see if I wanted his Firestuff.
DJTweeny: Dang apparently my PM didn't go to you. Just wanted to let you know I'm sorry about the situation.
Elayne: I was just thinking that, Cat. I want to bequeath stuff, but that necessitates contemplating my own demise and I'm not quite ready to do that yet.
Cease: We're at the point of updating the will me made 16 years ago.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Wow. Must be cool to own original stuff.
Cease: One really can't bequeth stuff your own age
Elayne: Well, NY baseball awaits. Mets shellacking their opposition, Yankees-Red Sox... well, let's just say (as I always do), not the final score.
Elayne: Next week, all!
||||||||| "Hey Elayne!" ... Elayne 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!"...
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Bye Elayne
Cease: Have fun, El. My team not so good
||||||||| morlog tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: G'Nite, Miss Elayne. Nice to see you.
DJTweeny: wb morlog
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about BOOM DOT BUST at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bdb-ln
morlog : stupid android browser
DJTweeny: those androids are none too smart
Cease: but they dream of electric sheep
DJTweeny: I use FIrefox, even on Android
DJTweeny: *Firefox
morlog : me too
DJTweeny: ah, OK
DJTweeny: haven't tried it with the chat
morlog : on android it sucks
Deputy Dang: I'm not an android, so how do I explain my dreams?
Tweeny: heheh
Deputy Dang: Shocking, I say! Showkcing!
Tweeny: you dream of electric sheep?
Deputy Dang: Well... sometimes...
johan amadeus myjetski: aye, sheep, now there's an aminal!
Cease: Ewe too
Deputy Dang: Maybe it's the Dos Equines.
morlog : i like goats better
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and androidtweeny sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: did a collage about goats
Beet: I'm with Firefox also.
Deputy Dang: I like goats butter.
androidtweeny: hewwo
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): <--- FF too
Beet: hi, android.
morlog : fire farter?
Beet: gas explodes.
androidtweeny: we'll see if I stay conneced
morlog : hey there androidtweeny
johan amadeus myjetski: only if you can afford it, beet...
Beet: Eat some beans.
morlog : its the typing and page refreh thats the issue on android
||||||||| 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!"
Deputy Dang: I depends on the gas. Most combust, but many comboomdotcom.
Deputy Dang: It
Cease: stayed at that pyramid in vegas a few years ago. deilghtful place.
johan amadeus myjetski: palinfrome gas?
Deputy Dang: Luxor?
Cease: yep
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): did you shop at ankh pharoah's?
androidtweeny: I have to make the type really huge to use the text box
Deputy Dang: Yes, I had to zoom in to use my phone. That's why I don't usually chat when I'm on my phone.
Rufus_T_Firetween: exactly Deputy
Deputy Dang: I haven't looked at the code, but I'm guessing it could be made "mobile friendly" with some magical CSS.
Beet: Making money from Evil. Has that ever been tried before?
Cease: lol beet
johan amadeus myjetski: that's not the question, beet, rather ask: has it been done successfully?
Cease: i was at chat while out a few weeks ago. couldnt listen and chat at the same time.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Deputy Dang: I haven't looked at the code, but I'm guessing it could be made "mobile friendly" with some magical CSS. << That would be up to Doc at this point, and he hugely busy with the new site. If someone wants to volunteer however...
Cease: in fact, i couldnt listen at all.
Rufus_T_Firetween: sux, Cease
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: glad it's working now
Cease: i'm on one of my home computers. i expect sound from them. the phone is too obscure to me to care about.
Deputy Dang: Okay, I'll look at the rendered code to see what's there.
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl
Cease: merchant of hamlet
morlog : ive wanted to ask for the code so i can maybe fix it but i dont have a means to do so right now
Cease: i'd like to see that.
llanguidd: none dare call it evi.l..for if it
Deputy Dang: One of the browsers has an option/setting where you can see how it renders on different devices. I used to teach it, back before the world ended.
Rufus_T_Firetween: heh
Rufus_T_Firetween: nice feature
llanguidd: begin the begin is and RlE.M.song
Deputy Dang: Ctrl+Shift+M on Firefox
llanguidd: I mean REM
johan amadeus myjetski: alas poor Guildenstern, i knew his well, horatio - good water
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
llanguidd: the grass is always greener under the astrodome
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about BOOM DOT BUST at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bdb-ln
||||||||| 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!"
johan amadeus myjetski: but, uoi can't grow good hotdogs indoors
johan amadeus myjetski: you, not oui
Rufus_T_Firetween: from 2010 :)
johan amadeus myjetski: exposed, rufus!
Rufus_T_Firetween: "which mustard?"
johan amadeus myjetski: brown...
Rufus_T_Firetween: "It's important."
johan amadeus myjetski: that's important
johan amadeus myjetski: LOL!
Deputy Dang: oui can't grow good hedgehogs indoors
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
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Yay
johan amadeus myjetski: lol, DD!
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) claps
johan amadeus myjetski: not even good hedgefunds
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Now playing: from the DOMM Radio Hour Hour broadcast collection
“WE'RE HAVING AUTHORIZED POSSESSED MOLLUSKS FOR DINNER”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?
'
Deputy Dang: But if you're interested in growing mushrooms, I can share legal sources.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): I'm interested. If you can link publically.. would appreciate it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> http://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm not sure the new site has either of these yet, let me check...
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Wow, from my past KRLA.
Cease: This is from their KPPC show. the KRLA show was 67.
johan amadeus myjetski: japanese logger?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nope :( Neither of tonight's offerings are available yet at the new web site
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Just heard the call sign
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Oh ty!
Rufus_T_Firetween: However, they do have several new offerings:
Cease: the mushroom shows are from that. we play them here. new firesign product
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER– Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/beforetheychangedthewater?rq=before%20they%20changed%20the%20water
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - FOOLS IN SPACE – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
||||||||| "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!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| androidtweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 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
Cease: it did sound like the KRLA call sign.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** New Music Release from David Ossman – NO BAND IS AN ISLAND - https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/no-band-is-an-island-live
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Thx, Deputy Dang
Deputy Dang: I only (re)learned tonight that they were on KMET in LA. KMET is where I discovered Dr Demento when I was in high school.
Cease: yes i used to listen to that show on sunday mornings. i was a student of radio at USC at the time.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): I listened to it, too... also discovered Dr. Demento there... though friends in TN were listening too... syndicated.
Deputy Dang: Back then, Weird Al Yankovic would play live in the studio.
Cease: i only recorded their jack poet ads, not the shows, alas. the jack poet things have been endlessly re-issued, but the shows seem lost.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): I thought I saw the remaining members would come to Fox Theater in my hometime pre-Covid. Was that just a rumor?
Deputy Dang: I lived in FL, but had a pen pal (remember those?) in LA who would put a tape recorder next to his radio and then send me cassette tapes.
Cease: Weird Al was born in 59 so it's unlkely he was on dr demento in 68
johan amadeus myjetski: that's some class!
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Very cool. I have a nephew who is making a living off doing mix tape cassettes and selling them. Here's to mechanical royalties, again.
Deputy Dang: These tapes were in the late 70s early 80s.
Cease: i used to live in sapporo. great place.
llanguidd: I didnt discover dr demento until 1973
llanguidd: wnew nyc
Cease: this is the Berkely concert.
Deputy Dang: MG what??? making a living???
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
Cease: 74.
Cease: this is an interesting mix.
johan amadeus myjetski: if you haven't got what it takes, it takes what you got
Cease: sounds like one of mine.
||||||||| Bottles rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
llanguidd: wondah why dey be called chappy knees
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Bottles coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) lol Deputy Dang. Well, it's a sidegig
Deputy Dang: I'm waiting for them to come out with Tetrahypercannabinol, so it doesn't make me so drowsy.
Deputy Dang: But I suppose it will give me more dry mouth. :-/
Cease: Make butter, Dand. no dry mouth
llanguidd: just make a pot of coffee with a coffee of pot
Deputy Dang: Hmm... does that "work"?
llanguidd: it can
llanguidd: you would need to maked irish coffee
Cease: i'm sliding on butter now.
llanguidd: you lucky Canabian
johan amadeus myjetski: anybody for half a cup of jamacian coffee?
llanguidd: sure
Deputy Dang: I'm thinking about the termperature needed to estherize (sp?) the active ingredient. It's significantly higher than 212F/100C.
Deputy Dang: I mean, not moltenly more, but significantly.
johan amadeus myjetski: Catherwood, give everyone half a cup of Jamacian coffee
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone half a cup of jamacian coffee.
||||||||| 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."
llanguidd: esherize? does she swim?
llanguidd: esther gets around
Deputy Dang: Canabian, lol.
Deputy Dang: that's what i'ze hear, too.
Cease: we use that terrm a lot here.
morlog : how about hawaiin coffee
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease would be a Canabian, ehh
llanguidd: ever hear the expression Beester?
Cease: there is a firesign character named Beester
Rufus_T_Firetween: I hear Hawaiian coffee is quite tasty morlog
johan amadeus myjetski: MauiWowie to go, please
Cease: indeed, tween
llanguidd: Beester is a strain of cannabis and also a British Columbian person
johan amadeus myjetski: i did not know that, llan
llanguidd: both grown in the same place
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): I just thought they called British Columbian people 'wealthy'
Rufus_T_Firetween: haha
||||||||| 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!"
llanguidd: lol
Cease: lol, MG
Cease: only the land owners
johan amadeus myjetski: how can you grow twothings in the same place, when you're not anywhere at all?
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): When I dream, I surf realty sites for BC
Rufus_T_Firetween: "Cease's a lumberjack and he's OK...."
ModeratelyGinchie(MG) lol
johan amadeus myjetski: lolol
Cease: drugs didnt do nothing for me. meaning they did something. maybe everything. just not nothing
Deputy Dang: I'm partial to warm weather, but I don't think that's going to be a problem in the near future. I should look into American expatriot procedures for Canabia.
johan amadeus myjetski: very Zen, Cease
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): <---has looked into it during prvious election
||||||||| 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."
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): ABout $2K to apply
Cease: i was born here so moving here has never been a problem for me.
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): and best if you're bringing in a business
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): even small business
johan amadeus myjetski: DD, it takes 6 months to go through the procedure to expat to Canada. looked into it myself 3 years ago
Cease: lots of yanks moved up during viet. actually, almost an equal number of canadians moved to the states. usually canucks move south for jobsa and weather
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): In So Cal and the ground is very nearly lava... so, would love to go north
Cease: Vancouver is well worth moving to.
Cease: we had a heat dome end of june last year that was vancvouer suddenly bcomes death valley
Deputy Dang: I've only been to Montreal for a day trip, and Niagara Falls for a different day trip. That makes me an almost-expert, right?
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): a day tripper :smiles
Cease: better Beatles song than proof of expertise, dang
johan amadeus myjetski: higher ground takes on a whole new meaning...
Deputy Dang: lol both of these days were before weed was legal, even in CA
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| morlog - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Is it dengue fever?
ModeratelyGinchie(MG): Dinner calls... was fun. Thanks for being kind to the newbie!
Cease: come visit us again. we're here every week
Rufus_T_Firetween: We're here every Thursday :)
Deputy Dang: Hve fun MG
Beet: See ya, MG
johan amadeus myjetski: nitey-nite, MG
||||||||| Bottles walks away to The Sitting Room.
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||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ModeratelyGinchie(MG) - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm going to fall out of chat now, thanks everyone! se ya next fire week!
Cease: new collage next week, jam
johan amadeus myjetski: looking forward Cease!
Beet: Nite, JAM
Cease: this is proctor being interviewed by a st, louis dj
||||||||| Zen Cosmos tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: just in time, zen
DJTweeny: Hey Zen, a tad tardy tonight ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: BANNER: ** 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
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Beet: Hi, Zen.
Deputy Dang: wb Zen!
Cease: syncrhonistic appearenace here, zen
Cease: zen
Cease: this is one of my hour shows for firesign radio.
Beet: This was fun. Thanks to all. See you next week.
Cease: new collage next week
Rufus_T_Firetween: and apparently was based on a FST DOMM file, as it had the same metadata :(
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Deputy Dang: Thank you all! I know I'm not always as chatty as I should be, but you're all important to me, and I'm glad when I'm here. Cheers!
Cease: we're glad when you're here too, dang
Rufus_T_Firetween: llan has suggested that we change this chat to Zoom
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: i dont think that would be any mroe successful than mvoing the day, tween. anyway, we'll speak anon
||||||||| Cease says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Cease exits at 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Let's talk about it next week
Deputy Dang: I'm not adverse to using Zoom.
Deputy Dang: Okay.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from jaundice
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| KnoxPooley enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger.
||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanguidd - dead from The Plague
||||||||| morlog - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| It's 4:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:

androidtweeny
Beet
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
llanguidd
ModeratelyGinchie(MG)
morlog
morlog
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
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