Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
09/09/2010

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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 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for September 09, 2010 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 8:51 PM: SoggyTween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and announces "Presenting 'cease', just granted probation at 8:56 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
cease: you still here, tween?
cease: have you been sogged away?
SoggyTween: Allo, monsieur
cease: wet in austin?
SoggyTween: Hermine paid us a visit
SoggyTween: Yeah, lots of flooding in the area
cease: usually visits by women are to be looked forward to
SoggyTween: On high ground here
SoggyTween: Usually
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Bambi in through the front door at 8:59 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
cease: hi deer
Bambi: hello dear friends
cease: are you and clem well?
SoggyTween: Hey Bambi
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 09, 2010 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Bambi: clem has a cold or flu but wanted to do the show anyway
cease: hopefully fluless
SoggyTween: Grid Bless the trooper clem
SoggyTween: Yes, and may it be something simple
Bambi: yep
||||||||| Outside, the 9:02 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving ah,clem coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
ah,clem: hi all
SoggyTween: Hi clem
cease: hi clem. best of health to you
Bambi: so that's why you aren't feeling well and coughing ... cloud of diesel fumes lol
ah,clem: thanks Cat
Bambi: Catherwood please pour everyone their favorite drink
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone their favorite drink.
cease: mmm, favourite drink
SoggyTween: Catherwood, please show her up
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside SoggyTween and queries "Something I can help with?"
||||||||| New CNI streaming notice: '"a few minutes with FireSign Theatre" '
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'Principalpoop', just granted probation at 9:04 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
SoggyTween: Hey P
Bambi: hello princep
Principalpoop: hey all
Principalpoop: feel better ahhhh, clem!
cease: the swollen sock. my favourite sock
Principalpoop: don't start being nice to me bambi, the shock would stun me
Principalpoop: oh holy sock
cease: bergman was kicked off radio for saying, "get your hands up a toyota and you'll really turn on" or something like that
Bambi: I am always nice to you and everyone princep lol
Principalpoop: sure it was not a suburu? or audi?
Principalpoop: you forget to say to hi to me all the time, that is ok, i will be suing you for mental anguish
Principalpoop: my lawyer, art holeflapper jr says I have a case, only have a case, I drank the rest
Principalpoop: what is the word tonight?
Bambi: or maybe a ferrari
ah,clem: don't be mean to Bambi
cease: hi poop
Bambi: or mazaratti (sp?)
Principalpoop: was I being mean? only you get to tease her? gosh
cease: i could drink a case of you, and still be on my feet, quoth joni mitchell
Bambi: lol princep ... so sorry ... when I get busy with stuff I forget to say hi to folks coming in
Principalpoop: she was not talking about keith richards, that is sure
Principalpoop: it was a standing joke, let it keep standing, it sits all day anyway
Bambi: ok... might be best lol
cease: dex told me he wouldnt be here tonight
Principalpoop: what is dexter up to?
cease: jewish holiday
cease: ah, canadian
Principalpoop: five eight, five nine?
Bambi: well hi to Dex if he reads the cheese log
Principalpoop: ahhh shalom then
Principalpoop: why is this night different from other nights?
cease: i didnt know he was jewish. and i'll be staying at his house in 2 weeks.
Principalpoop: that might be from a different holiday, i have no idea
cease: they are all equally dif, poop
Bambi: because it's tonight?
cease: the law of something
Principalpoop: no no no, it is part of a jewish ritual, for one of their holidays, they ask that question
cease: maybe elayne is observing the holiday too.
cease: her health situatiion this week has been precarious. all the best to her
Principalpoop: elayne bennet, she is a goy
Principalpoop: yes, best to all, take care of yourselves, or else...
Bambi: Rosh HaShana
cease: the founder of the chat, poop. be more respectfull
Principalpoop: oh E
cease: roshi hash? that's usually called zen
Principalpoop: my bad
Bambi: could be Cat (RE: Elayne)
Bambi: yes, all the best to Elayne
cease: she doesnt show up here much, but we are all here because of her
Bambi: did you hear back from her after her test?
Principalpoop: i did not know shanana was jewish
cease: just her blog, bambi. do you read it?
cease: not about the biopsy, but she's had other hideousness
Bambi: occasionally but been a crazy week
Principalpoop: i need to get organized and look at my favorites again, she is in there, bambi too, and cat
cease: i learn what i know of her from that, though i'l lbe seeing her in nyc soon
Bambi: by the way, there's a new site that maybe you all could check out and hopefully join in on ... http://www.5buckreview.com
Bambi: will have to check her blog later after the show ... thanks Cat
cease: is that another of your identities, bambi?
Principalpoop: looks cool, i was going to do something like that with my sci-fi paperback collection, it turned into work, and so I stopped lol
Bambi: it is one of my sites
cease: do any of you listen to radio free oz?
Bambi: heard that princep
cease: the podcast or whatever it is
Bambi: took about 20 hours to get it going and setup
Bambi: maybe it was much longer than that
Bambi: worked on it all day and all night and part of the next day lol
Principalpoop: i will put up some comments, if not tonight or tomorrow, probably never, I lapse
Bambi: LOL hope you do princep
cease: yes, its hard to pay attention, poop
Bambi: as well as anyone else who likes movies (dvd movies in particular)
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:19 PM, dragging Merlyn by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Principalpoop: there is M
Bambi: the name came because most of the dvds I have bought were from the 5 dollar bin at walmart
Bambi: hey Merl
cease: wow, its a reel magician
Merlyn: cat, you're in calgary now
Principalpoop: it is sad, when the music I like is not in that bin
Merlyn: hey all
Principalpoop: oops now
Bambi: cool, I am in MD tonight
cease: not if i can help it. it's full of yankees
Bambi: Nino is great
Principalpoop: getting a lot of emails, about the shows, I wish I lived near tinsel town
cease: if i ever live elsewhere than north van, its because my ashes has been moved. alive, it wont happen
Principalpoop: i am back to unknown, poor nino
cease: poop, even bergman is tired of it. moved to rural whidbey island.
Principalpoop: oops, west coast
cease: at least you're close to md, bambi
cease: i'm a thousand miles and several centuries from calgary
Principalpoop: didn't jesus do something at calgary?
cease: have any of you seen new kids in the hall series?
cease: best joke about calgary ever, and that's saying something
Principalpoop: i told you about it, and then missed it
Merlyn: is that like new kids on the block
cease: merl you live in a big city. you must have seen old kids tv series
cease: i think it was on your comedy channel
Principalpoop: howdy, eyes de new naybor
Merlyn: new kids in the hall on the block
Merlyn: oh sure
cease: not as good as sctv, but what is?
Bambi: Clem told me about Kids in the Hall...he used to get it on satellite
Principalpoop: i thought they were about the same
cease: or maybe you avoid tv like other addictions
cease: pretty good, bambi
Principalpoop: i saw the repeats someplace
Merlyn: joe flaherty would post in the sctv newsgroup sometimes
Bambi: we don't watch commercial tv ... us or canadian lol
cease: new series by them, called Death comes to town. quite good
Bambi: sure we would enjoy it
Principalpoop: i saw that movie, monty python and the fish
Bambi: is tv in canada like tv in usa? commerials with programming breaks
cease: a little better.
cease: one of my fave shows is called This Hour has 22 minutes
cease: political comedy show
Bambi: I didn't like commercials when you got more programming than commercials, now it's impossible
cease: but gives you idea of our commercialiization. and it's on cbc, our tax dollars at work
ah,clem: yes, that was on the anik bird as well
Principalpoop: anik bird? ahhh, clem is delerious
ah,clem: there used to be 3 cbc channels in the clear on that bird
Bambi: lol
Bambi: used to be able to get canadian satellites
cease: i wonder what happened to dr. headphones
ah,clem: anic 1 and 2 were primary com sats for canadian tv of the time
cease: canada has satellites like la has trains
Principalpoop: i thought somebody had talked to him and just working hard, sleeps
ah,clem: anik
Principalpoop: anik at night too?
Bambi: think you are right princep
ah,clem: yes, we still get email from him once in a while (dr headphones)
Bambi: about dr headphones
cease: i hope kend is well
cease: tween sometimes forwards humour pieces but i'm not sure if they are for or from kend
Principalpoop: tween is kinda soggy and faded, flooding in austin too?
ah,clem: he did get alot of rain
Principalpoop: dry here, only thing good, grass slowed down how fast it was growing
Bambi: yeah, texas was flooding quite a bit
Bambi: like 10-12" rain!
Principalpoop: lordy, how highs the water papa?
SoggyTween: ...
Principalpoop: there he is
cease: souunds like an old musical
cease: how high's the water?
cease: you'd expect some negroes singing a song written by white men about the flood a comin
Principalpoop: i saw hemlock on msn today, i forgot his name was brian, I did not remember knowing a brian for 30 years
cease: who?
Principalpoop: i thought it was johnny cash
Principalpoop: brian
cease: who is brian?
Principalpoop: exactly, that is what I said
cease: i think westly may be
Principalpoop: hemlock stones
cease: you mean honey's boy friend?
Principalpoop: right
cease: i talked to them on skype last week
Bambi: yeah, Honey's honey
cease: you have skype?
Principalpoop: i have it somewhere
Principalpoop: have not turned it on in years
Bambi: clem has skype on his rig, I have it on lappy
Bambi: don't leave it running except when needed
Merlyn: I'm Brian and so is my wife
ah,clem: may want to update it...
||||||||| 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 plummets into the garden at 9:38 PM.
llanwydd: good evening
Bambi: hey llan
Principalpoop: ahh llanwydd
ah,clem: hey ll
Principalpoop: we mention skype and you appear, strange but true
cease: it's actor man
llanwydd: good evening dear friends
Bambi: how's it going llan?
llanwydd: missed last week
Principalpoop: now that is a better entrance
llanwydd: what's skype?
Principalpoop: look how fast bambi greeted him
Principalpoop: the very next line, gosh
llanwydd: seriously, I wouldn't know. it sounds familiar
Principalpoop: early text messaging and internet phone software
cease: you gotta upgrade your computer situation, llan
Bambi: he's lucky ... I hadn't fallen asleep yet or had to leave my desk
Bambi: or in this case the lappy
cease: skype is a way to talk to all your firends in other coutnries for free
Principalpoop: hehe
llanwydd: maybe soon, cat
Principalpoop: i tried a lappy, you must have skinny fingers bambi
cease: i wish i could pay you thousands of dollars for your work on my play, llan
Principalpoop: or mine are too fat
Bambi: it's very nice software ... talked with a friend in the uk this week
cease: i thought lappies didnt involve fingers
ah,clem: skype has come a long way in the last few years, works pretty well if you have a good connection
Bambi: just need a headset
Principalpoop: much better than msn thing
Bambi: can also do video calls if you have a webcam
Principalpoop: hehe, do you have a webcam bambi? hehe
Bambi: have seen our granddaughters that way
llanwydd: well, there is a guy in connecticut who is talking about giving me a computer
cease: fumiyo and i talk to our friends in europe and japan on skpe, for far less than phone.
cease: does he have a doctorate, llan?
Principalpoop: it takes some of the mystique away
cease: maybe when you come to visit us in milford
llanwydd: hmm?
||||||||| Elayne tiptoes in around 9:44 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Elayne: Evenin' all.
Bambi: that would be nice llan .. then you cold do much more than on msn
Principalpoop: there is E
cease: happy holy days, el
llanwydd: Hey Elayne!
Bambi: hey Elayne!
cease: and all possible health to you
Bambi: great to see ya
Bambi: how are you feeling?
Elayne: L'Shana Tova. Hope this year begins better than the last one ended, at least for e.
ah,clem: hi E!
Elayne: A bit better, Fran. At least I'm not in the hospital any more.
cease: we are on your side, el
Bambi: glad to hear that!
Elayne: Oh Cat, the restaurant doesn't take reservations, but any time after 5:30 we can wait at the bar, etc.
Bambi: too many have been in hospital lately
cease: is it stil ok for me to come to your place?
Principalpoop: that is true bambi, not fun
Elayne: Also, you may be interested in the New Yorker Festival going on that weekend. Neil Gaiman mentioned on his blog that he'd be speaking on the Saturday.
cease: doc and lili will take me to your place on saturday, or meet at restaurant.
Elayne: I hope so, Cat I'll have a follow-up procedure but I don't think that will require a hospital stay.
cease: you turned me on to neil, el. i love his work
Bambi: Neil Gaiman ... cool ... have read some of his books and heard him read one of Cory Doctorow's
Elayne: Right now I don't even know if I'm well enough to go to work on Monday. I'm taking this recovery day-to-day. Looking for my first fever-free 24 hours.
llanwydd: not familiar with neil gaiman
cease: i can go back to milford with doc on sat and maybe get hotel near la guardia on sunday
cease: whatever is most convenient for you
Elayne: Plus, no appetite at all yet. I've barely eaten in days, and my body doesn't seem to care.
Elayne: It may be necessary, Cat. We'll see as the date approaches.
Bambi: he also read part of one of his and it was fun story
cease: your body knows what it needs, el
cease: i do hope you and robin are healthy enough to meet while in in the area
Elayne: Does it, Cat? I wish it would tell me. :)
cease: bambi did you watch babylon 5/
Elayne: Me too.
Elayne: Must go, this is stressing me too much Next week, all.
cease: elayne turned me on to it. great 90s sf tv show
cease: all the best, el
llanwydd: Nite Elayne!
Bambi: I saw one episode when it first came out ... I liked it. but we don't watch commercial television and with bandwidth limitations can't watch hulu etc.
Elayne: Tx for all good wishes.
||||||||| Elayne rushes off, saying "9:50 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Bambi: so haven't seen it in years
Bambi: we worry about you Elayne :-)
Bambi: oops
Bambi: there she goes
Bambi: have a good and restful week Elayne
Principalpoop: not eating, that is not good
Principalpoop: poor thing
Bambi: I feel like I have a major allergy issue ... my eyes are watering like crazy
Bambi: or a cold starting or something
Principalpoop: those are called tears, guilt from delayed greetings for the poop
Principalpoop: weather is changing here, maybe that
Principalpoop: we got in the 40s the other night
cease: its gotten much colder and wetter here
cease: auguwst was quite hot
Principalpoop: yes, still in 90s in the day, that sun is hot
llanwydd: I only like hot weather
Bambi: lol princep
Bambi: yeah, could be weather changing
Bambi: started last week
Bambi: yesterday it was sneeze city for no apparent reason
Principalpoop: my sinuses tell me when the weather is going change
llanwydd: rain is just starting here
Principalpoop: i have become a barometer
Bambi: one time it was like 10 sneezes in a row
cease: we dont get weather in farenheit but it feel like early 60s
Bambi: very unusual
Principalpoop: i have done that
Principalpoop: the first 2 or 3 are funny
cease: i need a coat when i go downtown, all that wind thru buildings
Principalpoop: then I worry about my neck
ah,clem: barometer and thermometer, and it seems to get worse every year
Bambi: for me worst case is usually 3 in row
cease: usually 2 for me. freaks out my cats
Principalpoop: thanks for the warning, old man hehe
Bambi: clem will wait for the third one before saying bless you lol
cease: clem is vastly younger than some of us
Principalpoop: i was pulling his leg
cease: it may come off
Principalpoop: you guys are so touchy, goosey almost
llanwydd: goosey?
Bambi: lol
Principalpoop: be like llan, a duck, water off his back
cease: colbert needs a sign from a goose god to hold his truthiness rally
Principalpoop: you never goosed anybody llan, never been goosed? lol
Principalpoop: i saw that cat
ah,clem: catherwood, please give Principal a goose
||||||||| Catherwood gets principal a goose.
Bambi: *quack*, *quack*
Principalpoop: wheee
cease: goose gossage? pitcher
Bambi : smiles
Principalpoop: that is duck, geese honk
Bambi: right, right
llanwydd: harpo sound
Bambi: *honk* *honk*
Principalpoop: no, that is a car lol
ah,clem: so do Bozos
Bambi: lol
Principalpoop: yes we do, my mother was a bozoette
Bambi: we're all bozos on this bus...
cease: does anyone else have the feeling that chat is fading away?
cease: it was bascially me and dex for most of last thurs
llanwydd: only tween has faded away actually
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Principalpoop: i don't, my life has gone to hell, but I still get here when I can, seems the same to me
cease: merl preferred to program and everyone else just came by to say they were illl
cease: its always great to see you poop
Principalpoop: not just me huh? ahh that is not good, good luck everyone
Principalpoop: thanks, you too guys
cease: and EVERYONE ELSE
Bambi: great to see you and everyone who comes to chat
Bambi: whatever they have to say is great
Principalpoop: too late cat, now I know I am your favorite lool
Bambi: great to see old friends
Principalpoop: yes indeedy
Bambi: and new friends too
ah,clem: "bless this chat and all who enter here..."
Principalpoop: amen
Principalpoop: this is almost approaching serious, stop that
Bambi: but sometimes it does seem to not be too many folks ... many very busy now, or unwell, or other life experiences tug at them ... they will be back when they can
llanwydd: so what made tween soggy tonight?
Bambi: amen clem
ah,clem: rain, lots of it
Bambi: tons of rain...
llanwydd: aha
Principalpoop: he was trying a milk bath llan
Bambi: lol
Bambi: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129733198
llanwydd: so, Cat, can you give a date for the Milford event?
llanwydd: php?storyld
cease: i'll be in milford on thursday and friday, maybe sat. but let's try for eiethe thrus or fri, which ever works for you
Principalpoop: you seriously need to upgrade your computer
llanwydd: cool
Principalpoop: this thursday? this friday, already? oh my
llanwydd: how about Friday then?
Principalpoop: what happened to the calender?
ah,clem: "that old Tweeney's nothing but a damp rag"
ah,clem ;)
Principalpoop: every party needs a pooper, thats why we invited you for
ah,clem: does the CNI feed sound ok?
Principalpoop: i can't listen, have to listen for my brother, just in case, i miss it
Bambi: sounds good here Clem ;-)
ah,clem: well, almost over now
llanwydd: so, cat, will I hear from you by email or should I check back here next week to get the details?
cease: no llna, i'll email you soon
Bambi: for those that came here later ... there's a new site that you might enjoy reading and hopefully participating in: http://www.5buckreview.com
Principalpoop: any live chat during the milford fiesta?
llanwydd: cool
cease: hope so, poop
Principalpoop: i can reinstall skype too hehe
llanwydd: the rain is a starta to fall but the corn is alla dead
cease: any more acting work lined up, llan?
Principalpoop: think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?
cease: a hole of the black persuasion
llanwydd: I just finished a History Channel documentary. it's going to air next spring
cease: maybe the funniest thing ever said about race in america
Principalpoop: i am beat and the dog wants out, best to all and thanks again, ciaooo
cease: by poop
llanwydd: hole of the black persuasion? that's from HTF isn't it?
llanwydd: Nite Princ
cease: yes, clem is playing it on cni now
ah,clem: yes, running on CNI
llanwydd: dr progresso sweetheart
cease: wolfman. good to hear your voice again.
cease: as a kid in la, i loved listenig to him
cease: circuits circuss successful
cease: amaging soundplay
cease: by clem
cease: thanks for illluminating our thursday evenings
ah,clem: nytol
ah,clem ;)
ah,clem: my pleasure
||||||||| ah,clem is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 10:29 PM.
cease: i hope it was a pleasurable ejection
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Principalpoop - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: well, I'm checking out. I look forward to hearing from you, Cat
Bambi: have a great week folks :-)
cease: you'll here from me by this time nesxt week, llan. i have your email address
Bambi: see ya next time
cease: by bambi.
cease: talk to you soon, llan.
||||||||| "Hey Bambi!" ... Bambi turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:30 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| cease says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, cease exits at 10:31 PM.
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| At 10:46 PM, SoggyTween vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Merlyn: byeeee
||||||||| At 10:53 PM, Merlyn runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'SinSwordSum', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:13 AM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
SinSwordSum: b>

Ha, ha, ho!
You bet, Dear Friends,
it is going to be all right.

It’s going to be all right tonight,
here at the Powerhouse Church
of the Presumptious Assumption
of the Blinding Light.
SinSwordSum:

Oh, Blinding Light,
Oh, Light that blinds,
I cannot see,
Look out for me!
SinSwordSum:

Yes, Friends,
welcome to Pastor Flash’s hour of Reckoning,
with Organ Leroy at his organ again,
and the Fifty-Voice St. Louis Aquarium Choir.

I’m Decon E. L. Mouse.
But, Dear Friends
in these days of modern time,
when you can’t tell the AC’s
from the DC’s,

well aren’t we all yearning for someone
who can turn on a little stopping power?

Dear Friends,
I mean a smokey glass.
Don’t you think I mean a lightning rod
with which to chase these spooks away?

Don’t you know I mean our own Pastor Rod Flash!

He’s been up for a week,
but he’s coming down!
||||||||| "Hey SinSwordSum!" ... SinSwordSum turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 3:14 AM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 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:
ah,clem
Bambi
cease
Elayne
llanwydd
Merlyn
Principalpoop
SinSwordSum
SoggyTween URL References:
http://www.5buckreview.com
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129733198

Rogues' Gallery:

PP and Cat(cease)	Bunnyboy	kend^/Dr. Headphones
Merlyn and Tirebiter	DocTech	LiliLamont
FreqMan	Rotonoto	LeatherG & SO
Nin0	Tonk	Ah, Clem and Bambi
Compañero Señor Yämamoto	Dexter Fong	Elayne
Bubba's Brain	Bightrethighrehighre	Boney
llanwydd	Tween	Porgie
Bob D Caterino	Dave & Katie	klokwkdog 404 - Not Found, Not Forgotten
Peggy Blisswhips	Audrey Farber	Tiny Dr. Tim Rest In Peace, Dear Friend

And, "The Home Team"