Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/08/2024

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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 February 08, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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, February 08, 2024 - 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Deputy Dang by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| Beet sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Good evening.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
||||||||| ddywnall enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
ddywnall: good evening
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!"
Beet: Oh, there's nobody here yet. I'll wait for everyone to check in.
Beet: Hi, Deputy, ddywnall.
Beet: Houston hamfest?
ddywnall: hmm?
||||||||| 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..
Beet: I never understood "pee into the stream."
Deputy Dang: Well that's important!
Beet: "peeing" must mean something and the "stream" must mean something.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
Beet: Hey, Cease.
Cease: no, it means what it says. piss in a river
Beet: Why is that important?
Cease: i did a collage about canadian scientist/broadcaster david suzuki exhalting in doing just that
Cease: it's freedom
Cease: also adding your nutrients to the stream
Beet: OK, I'll go with that.
Cease: good
ddywnall: so, how is everybody tonight?
Cease: this album has a certain charm.
Cease: hi llan
ddywnall: ossman hated it
Cease: i'm still awaitng word from the library of congress.
ddywnall: but it does have a certain charm
Cease: understandibly, llan
Beet: It is unusual and hard o grasp certainly the first time hearing it.
ddywnall: ossman called it incomprehensible
Cease: they were fucking around with shakespeare almost since before they began
Cease: not wrong, llan
Cease: hi dang
Cease: there are so few of us.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Tweeny 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.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
Tweeny: Evenin' folks
ddywnall: yeah the live shakespeare parody is the funniest part of the album
Cease: our host
Beet: Hey, Tween.
ddywnall: Hi Tweeny
Tweeny: Got home from work a little while ago
Deputy Dang: Well there's lots more of me here I come from!
Cease: good to hear, dep
Deputy Dang: w
Cease: how is work, tween?
ddywnall: back in the 70s I bought a copy of the original script of Anythynge from the Young Tom Edison Club
ddywnall: I still have it
Cease: good for you
Tweeny: The store was pretty quiet today, Cease
Tweeny: much easier to stock the shelves when you're not surrounded by customers
Cease: is that a good or bad thing, tween?
Tweeny: It's hard to stock the shelves when you're competing with customers for the floor space
Tweeny: so yeah my job was much easier today, as opposed to this weekend when the place will be crawling
Cease: if they didn't buy, you wouldn't stock
Tweeny: esp with people stocking up for Superbowl parties
Tweeny: This is true Cease, this is true
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!"
Beet: I recently purchased "Jack Poet Loves You" collection. Very interesting.
Tweeny: I hope to get a copy of that from Taylor so we can play it on the show
Cease: i have it all, except the alaskan airilnes ads
Cease: used jack poet ads many many times in my collages
Cease: i think the lads thouhgt of themselves a modern shakespeare
ddywnall: they were certainly influenced by shakespeare
Cease: indeed and all the orther great sources
Cease: genius stands on the shoulders of othre geniuses
Cease: i didt edit that out
Cease: alas
Tweeny: Happy Birthday Jules Verne (born 1928)
Tweeny: ooooops - 1828
ddywnall: he is doing rather well for...
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: i had dinner at a restaurant in the eiffel tower named aftrer him.
Cease: it was a memorable meal
Tweeny: cool, Cease
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
Cease: did dang leave?
Cease: we are shrinking
Tweeny: a small but appreciative crowd
Cease: lol
Cease: my thumbless hand has a good collection of fingers
ddywnall: I wonder how many people have eaten in that restaurant
Cease: hope more people access this stuff in the liibrary of congress, over the centuries
ddywnall: must have a magnificent view
ddywnall: I remember I saw groucho marx on the dick cavett show. he was very proud to announce that he have a book in the library of congress
Cease: https://www.restaurants-toureiffel.com/en/jules-verne-restaurant.html
Beet: Ben up in the tower but didn't visit any businesses. It truly is a spectacular view.
Beet: Been
Cease: llan, you and me too.
ddywnall: he said if ever you are in washington you can read my book for two cents a day
ddywnall: I wonder how much it costs now
ddywnall: thanks for the link cat
Tweeny: What an amazing place to have a meal. Bet it was expensive ;)
Cease: i should find out
Cease: it was, tween. but worth it.
Cease: how many opportunites does one have, eh?
Tweeny: We inform you that an elegant outfit is required, short pants and sportwear will not be allowed. Suits jackets are mandatory for gentlemen, and we reserve the right to refuse access to the restaurant in case of non-respect of this dress code
Cease: wioll be in vegas soon, eating amazing food and experiencing great stuff.
Cease: when i was leaving my ancient hotel to go the jules verne, the hotel guy said i looked like a classical actor.
Cease: i liiked that.
Beet: Paris is such a wonderful place.
Cease: tiz
ddywnall: I saw that little blurb, tween. I have never seen a restaurant with such a dress code
ddywnall: the food looks ultra-elegant, though
Cease: some restauranrs in paris wouldnt' let me in cuz i was a single. they only took couples
Cease: tha'ts fucked up
Beet: They are keeping Papoon's name off of the ballot in Colorado.
ddywnall: lol
Cease: lol beet
ddywnall: probably the only candidate who is halfway sane
ddywnall: Not Senile!
Cease: good
Tweeny: haha
Cease: the lads got a lot out of mark time in the xm shows
Beet: And Nick Danger.
Cease: mick danger
Cease: i cant' get no 3rd eye action
ddywnall: lol
Cease: this is good writing
Cease: and then it isntl no one in the future will care who tom cruise was
Beet: You don't think they'll be watching Top Gun in the next millenium?
Cease: hsvent seen it
Cease: only tom cruise flcik iv'e seen was minority report. an old pck fan
ddywnall: they might have it in a film museum somewhere
Cease: phliip k dick
ddywnall: I saw that too
Beet: Great movie.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: pkd was someone worth reading
Cease: total asshole as a person, but important writer
ddywnall: I tried to read A Scanner Darkly but it was too unpleasant
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!"
Cease: yeah some of his books really sucked. that was one.
Cease: they best for me, are Ubkik and Electric Sheep
Cease: Flow my tears also really good. Man in the high castle
Cease: others
Cease: the short stories The Electic Ant and Faith of Our Fathers,
Cease: probably the most importrant short storeis i've ever read.
ddywnall: I got through about fifty pages
Cease: dont waste your time with bad shit
Beet: Haven't read any of his books. Sounds lke I am missing out.
Cease: what i learfned from
Cease: Electic Ant was a wau of reconciling finite and infiniite
Beet: Pretty amitious.
Beet: ambitious
Cease: Faith asks me if it possible to reconnect with the original unity
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "She's no fun, she fell right over."
Cease: important stories
Beet: Gotta go. This has been fun. See everyone next week. Have a great evening. G'Nite.
ddywnall: nite beet!
Cease: by beet
Tweeny: laters Beet
Tweeny: 'And Then There Were Three...'
Cease: we barely exist
Cease: yet still i creatre collages
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
Cease: new one next week, about creativity
Cease: bend boys bend, is in my new collage
Cease: anyone here?
Cease: you think we're only talkng to ourselvfes,tween?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed enters and sits on the divan.
Not Ed: Oops.
Cease: Hi NOt
Cease: you must be bored
Cease: how's it going?
Tweeny: Evenin' Not Ed
Tweeny: That's OK Cease, the attendance ebbs and flows
Cease: like life
Cease: i'm not depressed about this. it as always existed
Cease: i am depressed for other reasons.
Tweeny: :-(
Cease: we do what we can
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, 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...
ddywnall: whats wrong, cat?
Cease: more unsure than depressed. i am about embark on 2 voysages in weeks. can i accompllish them? 'i worry if i'm capable of these excusrions
Cease: i do exercises every day, but wil i wil capable of such prodigous walking?
ddywnall: I would rent a car
Cease: i barely drive here
Cease: i take Lyft in Vegad. Don't know what to do in Spain but will find out
ddywnall: ride a bull
Cease: lol
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!"
ddywnall: I dont know what it is but lately I have to open two windows to chat and get audio both at once
Cease: first world problmes
ddywnall: true
Cease: thanks for this tween
Cease: new collage next week
ddywnall: yes indeed great show!
ddywnall: thanks
Tweeny: yw all :)
Tweeny: looking forward to it, Cease
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Tweeny hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Tweeny?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
ddywnall: nite folks!
||||||||| ddywnall rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Clark Cable jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Clark Cable - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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
ddywnall
Deputy Dang
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://www.restaurants-toureiffel.com/en/jules-verne-restaurant.html