||||||||| 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 December 29, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Rufus T Firetween enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger. ||||||||| 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 visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com' ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 29, 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 10:15 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... ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Tweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Tweeny enters and sits at the bar. ||||||||| Rufus T Firetween tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging DJTweeny by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?" ||||||||| Merlyn enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex. Merlyn: hey Rufus T Firetween: Hey Merlyn!! DJTweeny: How are you, guy? DJTweeny: I thought maybe we lost you Merlyn: t an ok Merlyn: but i am ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's a seeker born every minute!" DJTweeny: Great to see you :-) ||||||||| 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)' Merlyn: ya ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN NEW YEAR ** Currently playing: warm up music – BILLY JOEL-2000 YEARS: THE MILLENNIUM CONCERT 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)' Merlyn: hey DJTweeny: hey hey :) ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?" Cease: Merl! DJTweeny: allo Cease, look who's joined us :) Merlyn: hey cat Cease: The ultimate Firesign chat Christmas present DJTweeny: yes indeedie ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Bottles by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?" DJTweeny: Hi Bottles Bottles: Hiyas Cease: Hey Bottles Merlyn: yep ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600" DJTweeny: our web magician has rejoined us :) Cease: are you visiting us from the astral plain, merl? Merlyn: hey botte Cease: there's quite a bit about that in my Firesign Christmas carol Bottles: I just read that Billy Joel has has the same sound guy for 50 years. Wow. Rufus T Firetween: wow indeed Merlyn: ? cat Rufus T Firetween: Cat's got a new Christmas collage for us tonight Cease: that's me Cease: part one Bottles: Cool! Rufus T Firetween: A Firesign Christmas Carol Bottles: When's Kwanza? About now? Cease: next week I include a slice of the Seance, from the mushroom plays Merlyn: ok ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Cat', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Bottles: With the original President Johnson! Great. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I think we're all Bozos on this bus." ||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... Cat: Hi Dang Bottles: Or not DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy Deputy Dang: Howdy Dude, eh? Merlyn: hi Cat: Where've you been, Merl? ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN NEW YEAR ** 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)' Merlyn: recovery Bottles: I finally got Linux. Steep learning curve. But it pulls in this show. DJTweeny: kewl, Bottles Bottles: Recovery? Cat: good to see you've recovered enough to join us. ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "''Bob'' should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as ''Bob'' enters and sits in the comfy chair. Merlyn: ya ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Beet: Evening, Folks. DJTweeny: Hi Bob Cat: Bob Bottles: That sounds cool Merlyn Cat: Beet DJTweeny: Yo Beet Beet: Hi, Dr Cease, Dr Tween. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" Bottles: ..that you've recovered ''Bob'': Howdy folks! DJTweeny: This is from The Boss Sound RFO 1970 Bottles: They grip the road? Merlyn: right side Beet: Howdy, "Bob", Bottles, Deputy and Merlyn. Deputy Dang: LSD, lol DJTweeny: A stroke, right Merlyn? Merlyn: right DJTweeny: So glad you've recovered enough to join us again :) Merlyn: ya ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. Beet: I second that, Merl. llanwydd: good evening folks Cat: Llan DJTweeny: Hey llan Beet: Greetings Llan. Cat: ok, I'm looking for the bit abuot Steel Hat, Nebraska. Cat: speaking of hard hats Merlyn: hey loan DJTweeny: vaguely familiar, but I don't know where it's from DJTweeny: DOMM probably Cat: yeah i've been going through the book today. couldn't find it. DJTweeny: llan, look who's joined us this evening Deputy Dang: Are these available for replay, after tonight? Merlyn: me llanwydd: who? Bottles: Cat, do you have to pay monthly for Audition? llanwydd: ah yes. Merl has ben absent for quite a while Cat: no Merlyn: mean Bottles: I think we have to pay $20 a month. Deputy Dang: Hi Ho Tantrick! Bottles: Yay! Just now got a New Years gig. Bottles: Doing sound Cat: good for you, bottles Deputy Dang: Excellent! Double plus good! DJTweeny: congrats Bottles llanwydd: doing sound at the Doll Drop? Bottles: No money this time, but it will be fun, and won't have to shell out $40 for the event, a masquerade bash. ''Bob'': HONK HONK! ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN NEW YEAR ** Now playing: Firesign Theatre's GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u Check out IMMORTALITY at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv' llanwydd: sounds lie a lot of fun llanwydd: like Deputy Dang: So... it's a $40 event, but you're using a masquerade to enter surreptiously. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600" Bottles: Doll Drop? No llanwyd, a place called Axiom theater. Bottles: Exactly, Dang. Beet: Would love to be able to go. Bottles: The theme is Thru The Looking glass I guess. I'll have to re-read that. Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about IMMORTALITY at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln llanwydd: thanks for the link tween DJTweeny: yw Merlyn: ok ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "No, no my boy, you're confused. The horizon's moving up!" Bottles: Drinking sake, produced in Folsom. Cat: any good? llanwydd: I first tried sake in a japanese restaurant in rome, ny Deputy Dang: Folsom Prison? Bottles: Meh, it's ok. llanwydd: I was impressed Bottles: Maybe, Dang. Cat: i had some excellent sake in japan. Beet: It's hard to beat a good quality sake. Heaven in a cup. llanwydd: that was the first place I ever tried sukiuaki as well. I was quite impressed with that llanwydd: or however you spell it Bottles: Never had sukiyaki. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!" Cat: beef, vegies Bottles: Does it taste like pork? llanwydd: not at all Cat: no Beet: lol Bottles: Sorry, just echoing the feed. Cat: there is a similar pork dish called Shabu Shabu Deputy Dang: My first sake experience was awesome. I worked for a Japanese company, and there was some big event shortly after I started working there (Silicon Valley). Under the tents of food and drinks, there was a sake dispenser, where you could also select warm or cold. I really loved the warm, and ran into one of the upper mgt from Japan who also liked warm sake. He pointed out that warm alcohol makes it into the bloodstream faster than cold. But he was cool, and it was a good time. I ran into him some years later when I visited Japan and he joined our group at a karaoke club. Deputy Dang: Sorry--I didn't know where to stop. Rufus T Firetween: Cat: there is a similar pork dish called Shabu Shabu << Sounds like a dog breed Cat: good story, dang Cat: that's Shiba. We used to have a Shiba Bottles: That sounds like fun. Rufus T Firetween: Nice, Dang :) llanwydd: cool dd Bottles: i didn't know that. Bottles: I knew its supposed to be warm, but not the reason. Deputy Dang: Is Shabu Shabu the pork version of wagyu beef? I think I've had shabu shabum but not wagyo. Cat:http://moniqueishikawa.com/animals/2.html Cat: no, shabu shabut is the name of a dish. pork dipped in broth. Cat: wagyu is a kind of beef. the word means, wa: japan, gyu: beef Deputy Dang: ah Bottles: So it's "Japanese beef? llanwydd: one appetizer they served in the place I mentioned was likeapple and cabbage sliced in straws with a cider dressing Beet: ha ha heh heh hoh hoh heh heh Deputy Dang: Are we allowed to send links? http://www.mindspages.net/site/blog/uploaded_images/beforegoogle-762469.jpg llanwydd: recognize anything like that, Cat? Deputy Dang: That's not the original source of the image. I apologize. Rufus T Firetween: Of course, Deputy Rufus T Firetween: We share links all the time Deputy Dang: Cool. Shoebox.com is the site for the creator of that comic. Cat: tonkasu is usually served with sliced cabbage, which is great to soak up the sauce llanwydd: share links? you guys having sausage or something? llanwydd: lete night breakfast? Bottles: Apple and cabbage, interesting. Deputy Dang: i went to an ihop for the first time in maybe 20 years, just the other night. Cat: well, tonkatsu sauce is made from apples. llanwydd: thats what it might have been cat Cat: tonkatsu is deep fried pork cutlet. my favourite japanese good. Cat: my last trip to japan was a constant search for the best tonkatsu places. Bottles: I ysed to love deep fried pork tenderloin burgers! Bottles: They don't seem to have them in Calif. Beet: Sounds yummy Deputy Dang: I miss livining in Silicon Valley. Mountain View was so close for hand pulled noodles and tonkatsu. Cat:https://seemrealland.blogspot.com/search?q=Tonkatsu Deputy Dang: Livining, yes. Bottles: What year is this recording? Just wondering ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out." Cat: 1998 Merlyn: ya i look forward Cat: more useful than looking backward, merl llanwydd: this restaurant was called Shogun. I think I first walked in there when I was 20. llanwydd: I never ordered anything but sukiyaki and tempura Rufus T Firetween: Good deal Merl :) llanwydd: and a few sides llanwydd: tdcfyvgbunhijmftgyhiunji Rufus T Firetween: sorry llan, we don't speak Welsh llanwydd: testin testing tes llanwydd: anybody going to the doll drop? Bottles: Funny, Rufus. Merlyn: where is it llanwydd: thats not welsh actually its a language called bzfgt Rufus T Firetween: lol Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about IMMORTALITY at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln Beet: fgt about it? llanwydd: some skilled typists can type it with one left hand smash ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Zen Cosmos', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. llanwydd: back of the hand. its all in the knuckles llanwydd: Howdy Zen DJTweeny: Hi Zen Cat: Zen Beet: Hey, Zen. llanwydd: Hi Zen Merlyn: hey zen Deputy Dang: Hello, Zen. Bottles: Hello Zen Zen Cosmos: Namaste' llanwydd: I'm gonna stay too Zen Cosmos: Happy new orbit, everyone... llanwydd: same as the old orbit Bottles: Yes indeed. Better than the last one. Deputy Dang:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yah_Mo_B_There Beet: I just want a new year. Cat: less covid, russian invasions llanwydd: and to all a prosperous kali yuga Deputy Dang:https://www.antscanada.com/ has a YouTube channel. Bottles: Kali yuga? That sounds familiar. Deputy Dang: (Do you regret me discovering I can send links, yet? Mwahahaha! lol) llanwydd: that was an ironic one-liner Deputy Dang: Cuyahoga Bottles: Is kali yuga a Lovecraft character? Rufus T Firetween: ** Read about IMMORTALITY at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln llanwydd: no, it is a dystopian era which some people believe we are living in ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..." Beet: Andit's the time period we're living in. Bottles: Cuyahoga, the ruver that caught fure? Cat:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga Beet: Llan beat me to it. Cat: Firesign ref to kali yuga in one of their early bits Bottles: Fire that is Bottles: Oh. llanwydd: thanks for the link, cat llanwydd: kali yuga is also a minor character in tv or not tv ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?" Cat: right, llan Bottles: Ok. I missed that part. Bottles: We used to trip to TONT in 1974. Deputy Dang: one turkey, one drop Bottles: There is NOBODY like the firesigns. I love this. Deputy Dang: I concur. Bottles: Manuel Typewriters, I remember him. Merlyn: i concur Cat: true 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 interjects: "Get on it and do it every day!" ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN NEW YEAR ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s ”A FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS CAROL” 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/' Deputy Dang: Another long story: in high school, I was getting into computers before most anyone else. In my senior year, someone suggested I should take a typing class, since my typing was definitely non-standard. The teacher had me drop the class because I typed faster than what she expected in her advanced class. Yay me. Sorry for bragging. It's not always about me. Ouch. I'm sorry. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Deputy Dang: (faster and omre accurate) ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room." Cat: i watched this flick 4 times last week, twice on christmas eve Cat: and again on outube when i was making this. Bottles: I heard a hilarious xmas bit by Alex Adelman on Xmas morning. About his Orthodox Jewish family hosting a Christmas celebration for a gentile friend. Deputy Dang: I love those horns Beet: For you time nerds out there, it's 10 O'Clock in New York. Rufus T Firetween: That's cool, Dang :) ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right." Bottles: Oh, from the movie starring Alistair Crowley? Bottles: Oh, wait, we went through this, didn't we Cease? Rufus T Firetween: Alistair Crowley made a movie? Scary idea Cat: what, bottles? Beet: Hexercise Bottles: The play idea we were talking about, Cease ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy." Bottles: Where the 3 ghosts visit Crowley. Cat: about crowley? a revolting character Cat: oh, i love that. Bottles: Or four, counting Bob Marley. Beet: The inimitable voice of Jim Backus. ''Bob'': I know that voice! That's Paul Frees, isn't it? Deputy Dang: dammit... I was just about to ask about Jim Backus' involvement. Bottles: Is this the collage with Magoo? Deputy Dang: (if any--I'm not sure if that's Jim Backus' voice.) Cat:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Magoo%27s_Christmas_Carol ''Bob'': (I mean the guy who isn't Jim Backus, of course.) Bottles: It did sound like him. Deputy Dang: I concur. ''Bob'': Nice/ Deputy Dang: I wonder how much of this "old" music is stored/archived. Beet: I heard "spinach" used to be a nickname for maijuana. Beet: marijuana Bottles: I like this Cease. Brilliant Deputy Dang: There's nothing like the Firesigns, and nothing like the Pythons. Cat: yes it is pretty good, bottles Deputy Dang: ... et al Bottles: Cease have you ever uploaded your collages to Archive.org? Cat: no. is that easy to do? Beet: The Sony Trinitron used to be state of the art color tv. Bottles: They have millions of recordings archived for eternity. Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS CAROL” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES Cat: good idea Deputy Dang: Electronic eternity Bottles: Yeah, it's kind of easy. Pick a category then upload. Cat: you can keep your marxist ways, but it's only just a phase Deputy Dang: and probably electrical eternity Deputy Dang: E.g., Party Music, Benny Bell Bottles: It's a big digital storage site in SF. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory." Merlyn: ya Deputy Dang: (or skip the benny bell, and discover a large variety of other "naughty" songs Deputy Dang: ) Bottles: You could spend numerous lifetimes listening to it. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Decode your answer now." Cat: and i could just upload all my collages to the site? Bottles: Yep. All in one place. We used to put all our shows there. Cat: dont i have to make a record of all the sources for my collages? Bottles: Add relevant links, like in this case, Magoo, Dickens, etc that can be used to find it. Bottles: Well, yeah. That might be sticky.. Deputy Dang: I am an undigested piece of cheese Bottles: But check out the site, there are lots of commercial recordings there. Cat: i was going to use the "bit of beef" from the Sims version and then use the Firesign's war with the cows bit. Deputy Dang: Start with submitting it, and provide the details as needed. The submission is at least a temporary archive of the collage. Cat: good idea, dang Bottles: But radio stations pay fees for ASCAP, BMI, etc. and now your collages have been on radio. Rufus T Firetween: As I recall, you have to sing something that guarantees that what you're posting doesn't contain copyrighted material. That could be an issue Rufus T Firetween: *sign Bottles: I don't know about Roadkill.. Deputy Dang: I'm signing in the rain, just signing in the rain! Rufus T Firetween: yy Cat: is this considered radio? Deputy Dang: I don't know Bottles: Well, as I recall, I heard roadkill has to follow FCC rules. Bottles: No obscenities, etc. Deputy Dang: There are categories to exemptions from copyright claims. I don't know if/how they apply to the collages, but professionals might be. You know... before they accept it. Bottles: Maybe Kurt would know about it Deputy Dang: I'm not rambling coherently. Cat: just lilke jack elliot Rufus T Firetween: Yes, Radio Free Dishnuts tries to adhere to FCC rules, but we're not making money from playing the songs so nobody bothers us. Deputy Dang: My point is that before discovering there are copyright issues, subimt the collage and wait for feedback. There are likely exemptions for parts, if not all. Bottles: Yeah - our producer told me to upload the shows there, we had commercial bits sometimes. Cat: will look into it, dang Cat: is that archive.com? Rufus T Firetween: I don't know about how Archive.org handles that, I just recall seeing that in the account setup ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?" Cat: ah, org Bottles: There are commercial movies there. It's fun to browse. Deputy Dang: (I encourage looking for party records from the 1900s) Cat: wax cylindars? Bottles: Yeah, like from 1904. Deputy Dang: Some of them are "clearly" on wax. Deputy Dang: But not all. There's a lot of stuff on vinyl since those days. Bottles: There was a recording from 1906 or so, of Mapleleaf Rag played on banjo. Bottles: And ancient movies, like the 1919 version of Frankenstein. Bottles: Oops, I meant 1910. Deputy Dang: I haven't been there in a while, but it's something I support. Bottles: But not the whole novel, just one reel. Rufus T Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “A FIRESIGN CHRISTMAS CAROL” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#COLLAGES Rufus T Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com Bottles: I found the 1931 movie of Huckleberry Finn with Jackie Coogan & Junior Durkin. 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: ** Check out Bottles' SCRATCHED UP RADIO THEATER at >> https://kkrn.org/shows/scratched-up-radio-theater Deputy Dang: On Archive? Please send me the url in private. Deputy Dang: Chore! Bottles: Umm, I'd have to look up the URL Deputy Dang: No worries--there's gotta be a Google out there somewhere. :-D Deputy Dang: I'll find it. Admitting it exists is the first step. Rufus T Firetween: lol Bottles: You can search for it, Huckleberry Finn 1931. Should pop up. I first saw it on TV when I was about 7. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!" ||||||||| New notice: '** HAPPY FIRESIGN NEW YEAR ** Currently playing: Doc Technical’s “DEAR FRIENDS TOO” 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/media/media.php?item=domm-ln' Beet: cool Deputy Dang: I love that... "Any year... we'll _print_ it." Cat: hilarious stuff Cat: hope y'all enjoyed Part 1 ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names." ''Bob'': Can't believe I'd never heard Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol before! Rufus T Firetween: some seriously creative fun, Cat :) Cat: you can find it on youtube Cat: that's where i got it for this collage Rufus T Firetween: I remember it from the old days Deputy Dang: John Carpenter's "It"??? Bottles: I watched a terrible movie on Youtube, called "Skidoo", from 1968. Otto Preminger, with Groucho Marx, Mickey Rooney, Carol Channing. Cat: i actually bought the dvd in order to watch that, botles. piece of shit Cat: paul krassner tells the story of doing acid with groucho in prep for this movie, in paul's autobi Bottles: Absolutely awful, about a lot of people dosed on LSD. Cat: stunningly bad Bottles: Doing acid with Groucho, that must have been a real trip! Deputy Dang: Dammit, after all of this bruhahaa, I definitely need to watch this/these. Deputy Dang: lol Bottles Cat: paul had a good time. Deputy Dang: I don't understand the laughter. Beet: Just imagine - no Winter. Bottles: We should write a review of Skidoo, "Piece of shit, stunningly bad, terrible, absolutely awful... Deputy Dang: Is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnmPnmebKBw ||||||||| 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' Bottles: I can't believe Leonard Maltin gave Skidoo two anna half stars! Merlyn: ok DJTweeny: Best possible wishes for Merlyn's continued recovery :-) ''Bob'': Wait. Slim Pickins and Jackie GLeason are in this movie, too? Beet: Absolutely. Bottles: Yeah that's it. Frankie Avalon too. Deputy Dang: Yes, yes, please to be recovered ASAP. Thank you for visiting. I hope to see you here again soon! Rufus T Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Beet: This was fun. Welcome back, Mr. Merlyn. Fabulous collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for guiding, Dr Tween. Happy New Year, everybody. G'Nite all. ''Bob'': Thanks, Tweeny! Nice to catch you in real-time for a change! Though I did miss the middle when I went to pick up my Chinese takeout. :) Bottles: Thank you Kurt and Cat! DJTweeny: See y'all Tuesday Bottles: Adios yall. Merlyn: gotta go Deputy Dang: Thank you Cat, Cease, Tweeny, et al. I really hope life goes well for you and those around you. Cheers! DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rufus T Firetween - dead from the common cold ||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Merlyn - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Cease - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Bottles - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from Covid 19 ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 4:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Cat - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| 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:
''Bob''
Beet
Bottles
Cat
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus T Firetween
Zen Cosmos
