Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/04/2012

Archive

||||||||| 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 October 04, 2012 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:45 PM and late as usual, it's Bill, just back from Elmertown."
Bill: Ah, my bony boy! In the Estonian Mountains, we used to go to sleep leaning up against a wind-fall. I was but a mere pratt then. I’ll never forget the time a snake slithered into my wife! I wasn’t but knee-high to a married grasshopper then. Never saw the woman again. . . .
||||||||| Bill is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:46 PM.
||||||||| DJTween steps in at 8:58 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| "8:59 PM? 8:59 PM!!" says Catherwood, "cs should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as cs enters and sits in the comfy chair.
DJTween: Hey cease
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 04, 2012 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
cs: hi tween
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:00 PM and late as usual, it's RedPillTweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| New notice: 'Now Playing - School For Actors - http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u'
DJTween: Hi Red Pill
DJTween: How does it sound, cease?
cs: i pasted it into windows media player and hit ctrl U but no sound
cs: it says cannot support the file
||||||||| Dexter Fong sneaks in around 9:04 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
DJTween: Fong, can you hear the stream?
cs: welcome back, dex
Dexter Fong: Hi guys, yes I read you loud and clear Tween
DJTween: IO don't have any way to check it here
DJTween: *I
DJTween: Must be something on your end, cease
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:06 PM and Principalpoop sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
cs: speaker is on
DJTween: Hey P
cs: hi poop
Dexter Fong: Hey Poop
Principalpoop: hey all
Principalpoop: he is talking too fast, slow it down
DJTween: I have a program which could do that
DJTween: and wouldn't change the pitch
DJTween: So Red Pill, where ya from?
cs: it worked the past 2 weeks. i wonder why not tonight?
Principalpoop: i worked at an oearthorpeadic clinic and the x-ray transcribers had that too
DJTween: Have you checked your sound settings
DJTween: You said it shows that the stream is playing, right?
cs: its a windows media player problem
cs: ctrl u, right?
DJTween: yeah
DJTween: Does WMP show that the stream is playing?
cs: no
DJTween: Try recopying the URL. Maybe there are some characters missing
DJTween: Wish I knew more about how to set up .m3u in Windows
||||||||| Merlyn enters at 9:14 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Dexter Fong: The characters are missing because the actors are missi ng
Dexter Fong: Hi Merlyn
Merlyn: hey all
DJTween: Aha! Dexter has solved the mystery!
DJTween: Evenin' Merl
cs: wmp cannot play this file
cs: hi merl
cs: any firenews?
DJTween: That's the error message you're getting?
Principalpoop: M will tell how to association m3u with WMP
cs: yes
DJTween: Merlyn, are familiar are you with WMP? Cease can't play the stream
cs: worked before, dont know why it wont work now
Merlyn: no firesign news that I know of
Merlyn: what are you using to play the file cat
cs: windows media player. worked fine the pas 2 weeks
cs: i pasted the above url into it and hit ctrl u which worked before. not today
Merlyn: what browser
Principalpoop: hit control u first?
DJTween: CTRL-u should bring up a dialog. THEN you paste in the URL
Merlyn: yeah ctrl U erases the line usually
cs: ok i[ll try that.
cs: wow it works
cs: i had to replace the url but it wlorks
cs: sounds great
Dexter Fong: CONGRATS CAT
Principalpoop: i have spent hours trying to fix sounds problems, when the speakers were not plugged in...
cs: goat's head pipe tobacco
cs: reminds me of the story proc tells about being in the studio while that album was beig recorded
cs: sharing a girl friend with jagger at the time
cs: 100 years ago probly my favourite stones tune
Dexter Fong: Pipe Tobacco?
cs: if you're listening to radio tween, dex
Dexter Fong: I am, I am
Principalpoop: I see a red door and I want to paint it black
cs: the stones album is of course, goats head soup
Dexter Fong: with a side of Pipe Tobacco?
cs: i have a pipe, but no tobacco
Principalpoop: nick oh teen
Dexter Fong: I'm sure you have a suitable substitute
cs: any of you fans of pk dick?
Dexter Fong: somewhat
cs: i'm reading an interesitng book about an android made to look like him and with all his books and interviews in its mechanical brain
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cs: the book is called How to Build an Android
cs: the android's head dissappears on a flight to vegas. very much out of oneof his tales
DJTween: That's PK's book, cease?
||||||||| "9:26 PM? 9:26 PM!!" says Catherwood, "H Stones should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as H Stones enters and sits on the divan.
Dexter Fong: Hey stones
DJTween: Hail and well met, Stones
Principalpoop: Your highness
cs: no its a brand new book about an android made to look like him and converse with a database of his work
H Stones: Hello gaz guys and otherwise
cs: hi stones
cs: both of us came to vancouver in 72, only i am still here
cs: what is this, tween? i dont think i have this
H Stones: listening to radio four extra on the steam radio with an archive recording of The Kenny Everett show, much beloved by the beatles.
DJTween: See the notice, cease ;)
DJTween: From Box Of Danger
cs: oh this is from the danger set. yes i do have this, just not listened to it sufficiently
DJTween: Great collection
cs: i have to listen to it mre
cs: you sound a bit like doc tech there, tween
H Stones: i rememenbr Pete bergman talking about wanting to form what became Firesign theatre or the Beatles of Comedy, its a pity Pete is no longer with us because hje would have loved this
cs: i remember when this was first on fools in space
DJTween: A great loss, for sure :/
cs: we have to keep the bergman android alive in our minds
Dexter Fong: Nuances means clouds lol
cs: just like this pkd android
cs: we've all heard enough bergman babble to do that
H Stones: if you can find it on BBC radio four listen again or maybe the world service, you will see how far ahead of the rest of radio Kenny everett really was
cs: you wanna give us a url, stones
H Stones: i will try
cs: i used thsat canadians line in a vid i made of the museum of anthropology tour ala firesign
cs: i have topost that that on youtube one of these days
Merlyn: this bit was all improvised
cs: really?
Merlyn: yeah
cs: vefry impressive
cs: they had been playing with nick danger for so long
H Stones: sadly untill my new super duper computer arrives next monday i am very limiteed nby thispiece of shite cfalled a laptop hihas all the versatility of a dried turd
H Stones: and crappy little keyboard not designed for arthritif fingers
DJTween: lol
Merlyn: If I linked here, I'd be $HOME by now
Principalpoop: abu hawk
Principalpoop: nick is going to kabul?
cs: there's a character in a piece i'm writing named Moe Hawksbreath
cs: based on a tv character/vewgas food reviewer who has a rainbow coloured mohawk
DJTween: Sounds like fun
Principalpoop: who was it that had a reversed mohawk?
cs: hope so
cs: fun to write
H Stones: try this url
H Stones: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n4h2n/Kenny_Everett_Heres_Kenny/
H Stones: it mmay not work of course
Principalpoop: yes that works, i will look at it later
cs: thanks stones
Merlyn: goudas for Buddhas
H Stones: excewllent
DJTween: oops, forgot the notice
DJTween: Now Playing - Shack Out On The Alien Highway - http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
H Stones: it is a recording and docukentary anboujt a true innovator
||||||||| New notice: 'Now Playing - Shack Out On The Alien Highway - http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u'
||||||||| 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 falls out at 9:48 PM.
Principalpoop: emily pond left the doctor, when does the new era start?
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Dexter Fong: Hi Elayne
Principalpoop: HI E
cs: hi el
H Stones: he did live interviewss with the beatles an friends
H Stones: and most of this was on pirate radio ships
DJTween: Don't have the Flash for it, Stones :/
Principalpoop: bear naked lager
DJTween: Hey E
cs: i canuse this beer ad for my japanese firesign project
DJTween: kewl, Stones
cs: was he a pirate?
H Stones: yes
Merlyn: Austin couldn't make it to the studio, so he's on the phone, and XM radio didn't like the running gag of "degraded audio"
Merlyn: this was also improvised
Merlyn: mostly, maybe a half sheet written stuff
Principalpoop: i have gone deaf
cs: was he in fox island?
Merlyn: cutting in and out
cs: i can understand why xm wouldnt, merl
Merlyn: I don't recall, cat
Merlyn: may have been the weather
cs: ah
cs: too bad they couldnt continue this series on xm, they were reallyl on a roll
DJTween: Yeah, the XM series was great
Principalpoop: my little numnum
DJTween wonders if Red Pill Tweeny is Ossman
H Stones: when something is good or innovative there is always some fat twat in a suit somewhere who forces its closure, its the same the world over it seems
cs: if ossman would show up here, he'd appear as himself
cs: hows it going, el?
Dexter Fong: Unless he appeared as Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past Dexter Fong
Dexter Fong: Hi David
Principalpoop: i like the new game, how many seconds can I stomach watching honey doodoo... not over 10 yet
H Stones: i am itching to get my hands on my new super computer
cs: itchy hands are not fun
Dexter Fong: Try some hand lotion
DJTween: I'm sure it will be a nice change, Stones
Principalpoop: a stoner on the dell, a stoner on the dell, hiho the merryoh stoner on the dell
H Stones: sure will
DJTween: lol P
Principalpoop: are you engaged yet stones?
H Stones: its thje fasted dell they make
H Stones: with a proper keyboard
Principalpoop: posh
H Stones: we are just goood friends
Elayne: Sorry, didn't mean to fade. Nothing to contribute at present. :)
cs: how is nyc these days? getting any changing foliage?
Principalpoop: i have to have something to contribute before I write? since when?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Principalpoop: i like blurts and blurting
Principalpoop: the dogwoods and cherry trees have all changed here already, dropping leaves
Dexter Fong: worsst blurt
cs: read a long, interesting article about istambul the other day, then wached jon stewart interview some actor who jsut shot a flick there
cs: made the city seem really interesting
DJTween: I hear that the dogwood's bark is worse than its bite
Principalpoop: ahh constantanipple
Principalpoop: some song about the oaks fighting the pines or willows
DJTween: btw - turns out I didn't have a CD copy of Bozos after all
cs: good song too
DJTween: On order from Amazon :)
Principalpoop: sung by woody guthrie
cs: istambul was constantinople...i forget next line, but it ends, "blame it on the turks"
cs: they may be giants version is the one i know, though its older
Elayne: No foliage to speak of yet, Cat. I suspect we'll see it in another couple of weeks. Hoping to see DocTech and Lili then, CT should be lovely.
Principalpoop: the gentle or the other ones?
Elayne: "Why did Constantinople get the works?" is the line.
Dexter Fong: Gentile giants
Merlyn: the line is "It's nobody's business but the Turks"
Principalpoop: turkey lurkey did it
cs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQ-wjDH4F4
cs: old new york was new ansterdam
cs: great song
DJTween: forgot it was called New Amsterdam at one time
cs: remembering something i havent heard in many years is not as efficient as hitting google
DJTween: This is your brain. This is your brain on google...
cs: an intensity rivalling gilbert and sullivan and speedy dylan
Principalpoop: left brain right brain
cs: did y'all see that 3 1'2 hour interview with carlin, not longbefore his death?
cs: he talks about memorizing wordy songs when he was a kid
cs: good for the brain
Elayne: That was a fun YouTube, thanks!
Elayne: Robin adds, "Origiunally recorded in 1953 by the Four Lads, a Canadian group."
cs: they doht pay you for dead air
cs: i'm probly the only person here who heard a firesign show on kmet in late 68 that ended with a minute of dead air
Elayne: "A song called Constantinople was recorded by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra in 1928, as the city officially adopted its new name in 1930."
cs: thanks, robin
Elayne: "The tune is reminiscent of Putting on the Ritz, which was 1929." According to Wikipedia, so he says it might be a load of bollocks. :)
Elayne: "It also notes that the They Might Be Giants cover has a distinct klezmer influence." Heh.
Dexter Fong: Oi!
cs: no shit
Principalpoop: gazoo
Dexter Fong: Ritz and Constantinople both have that jazz Age syncopation
cs: ok putting on the ritz with monsters. where's that from?
Dexter Fong: Martha Stewart Cook book?
Principalpoop: casablanca and indianapolis
cs: am i wrong or is there a firesign parody of putting on the ritz somewhere?
Merlyn: young frankie
cs: a comdy record?
Elayne: Ooh, I have a good YouTube tonight: http://youtu.be/tZnMAFSNiUg
Dexter Fong: Peter Boy,le?
cs: of course, merl
Elayne: For those of you who know about the Dog Shaming site. :)
cs: yes i saw that
cs: did you see the romney style vid? that korean tune is so popular (300 million views?) it threatens of occlude korea itself
cs: for example, if i met a korean, (there are many in van and i've been there a few times) the person would probably identify him or herself as from the coutyrn of gangham style
cs: china
Dexter Fong: Gingham?
cs: will perhaps never be occluded by a tune
Principalpoop: Henna
Dexter Fong: Penna
cs: the sky is falling
Dexter Fong: No the horizon is just panning up
DJTween had to look up 'occluded'
Merlyn: that was an improved line by Proctor
Elayne: Robin has still not seen Gangnam Style. I think it's adorable.
Merlyn: abour rehearsing
cs: deep deep shyte>
Principalpoop: think of concluded and drop the con
DJTween wishes The Fed would drop the con
Dexter Fong: WHo had Tweeny getting political at 1 hour 22 minutes?
Principalpoop: i am clenching my fists so I don't reply fong, talk of something else
Dexter Fong: afkfr
Principalpoop: i have not even mentioned the debate all night
||||||||| New notice: 'Now Playing - Frame Me Pretty - http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u'
Principalpoop: i feel pretty oh so pretty, i feel pretty and something and gay
DJTween: Which corporate shill gets the Presidency?
cs: you know doc's voice, tween? there are moments when he sounds just like you
DJTween: I'm all a -twitter ;)
||||||||| srsly,no_anchovies steps in at 10:24 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
DJTween: No, I don't
srsly,no_anchovies: any mail?
DJTween: Hi NA
cs: hi no. wuddya no?
Principalpoop: really no anchovies? seriously
cs: doc has many voice on my play red shift and the radio free booze thing we did
cs: you can find radio free booz (with elay, and dex) on the rfo site
DJTween: kewl, cease :)
DJTween: will check it out
srsly,no_anchovies: another nite of too much excitement, i videe?
Elayne: Hey No-Anch!
srsly,no_anchovies: hey.
Principalpoop: listening to frame me pretty, it is new to me, so I must pay attention
Elayne: Was Doc here earlier? I haven't seen him in chat in a couple of weeks.
DJTween: Gotta get Box Of Danger, P. Really excellent compilation
DJTween: Nope
srsly,no_anchovies: ah. yeah, sorry, can't stream when i'm on dial-up.
DJTween: I can lower the stream to dial-up quality, NA
DJTween: Let me know next time
Dexter Fong: Tween: Can you stream it to me in HD and color?
Dexter Fong: and surround sound of course
DJTween: That would be the Owsley setting
Principalpoop: shockwave, so I can interact with it
H Stones: i demand 3 d
Dexter Fong: I hate owsleys
srsly,no_anchovies: thx twee. if it's archived, i can fetch it later on?
DJTween: Sorry, FST doesn't want archives
Principalpoop: just 3? get more
srsly,no_anchovies: srsly?
Principalpoop: no archivees
DJTween: That's what I was told by ah,clem
Elayne: No archivees? They never come up into the hills.
Dexter Fong: Gimme a piece to go and no archives
H Stones: ok sorrry i must away, see you some time after wednesday
srsly,no_anchovies: okeedokee. well, one o' these days, we may regress to wi-fi?
Dexter Fong: Night STONES
Principalpoop: good luck stones, love to honey and your new gf
H Stones: stay wonderful uyall
Dexter Fong: oops
Elayne: Bye Stones!
cs: hope you get new computer soon, stones
H Stones: thankkz all
H Stones: byeeee
srsly,no_anchovies: nite, Stonze.
Merlyn: bye stonez
Dexter Fong: Tween: Is this from Box of Danger?
cs: its not from Box of Time
DJTween: yep
DJTween: All BoD tonight :)
Dexter Fong: Thanks Tweeny
cs: http://seemreal.com/boxoftime/
DJTween: yw
srsly,no_anchovies: Box Of Rain.
DJTween: Will check it out, cease
cs: austin has a small role as Mr. Disner in Box of Time
Elayne: Sorry gents, I've started uncontrollably yawning again. It's not the company, I assure you. Thursdays seem to be my overtime days... next week, all!
cs: i vaguely remember that tune, no. dead?
Principalpoop: night e
Elayne: Oh, maybe next week, as we'll be at the NY Comic Con (table BB2) and I might be too tuckered to talk...
cs: ok el. sleep well
Principalpoop: the happiest day of bradshaws life
||||||||| Elayne leaves at 10:42 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
cs: bradshaw has a life?
Principalpoop: he is going to be da
srsly,no_anchovies: comic con. one needs diplomat status or something to get into those these daze.
cs: da da?
srsly,no_anchovies: especially the one in SD.
Principalpoop: south dakota, bizmark?
srsly,no_anchovies: yep. real sprawlin' metropolis.
cs: that's not a bizmark, that's a birth defect
DJTween: Billville, South Dakota
srsly,no_anchovies: a real nice place to raise yer kids.
Principalpoop: da bronx, da chicago, da kotas
Dexter Fong: and a plausibly deniable suburb of Williamsburg
cs: if your kids are indeed goats
srsly,no_anchovies: & how about dem A's, eh?
Dexter Fong: never ewe mind
Principalpoop: are you kidding?
srsly,no_anchovies: salvages a rather lackluster baseball season.
cs: my jays won their last few games, but lost most of the games before
Principalpoop: salvages or savages?
cs: worst season ever, since i've beenfollowing them
Principalpoop: pick a new team, be rational...
cs: money ball actually makes money?
cs: ive been a dodger fan until i moved here in 88 after their last series win
cs: was an expos fanbut they died
cs: now only fucking jays
cs: it takes a lot of work to be a fan of a team. putting up with all their losses, etc
srsly,no_anchovies: Brooklyn Dodgers.
DJTween bets on his kid's junior high soccer games
cs: elayne has a great dodgers joke. the dodgers are just on a really long road trip
srsly,no_anchovies: i remember the A's from Philly.
cs: i can't imagine betting
srsly,no_anchovies is old
DJTween: Thought the A's were from Oakland
Principalpoop: lots of A's in Philly
DJTween: Join the club, NA :)
cs: i'm 61, and dex is old enough to be my dad
Principalpoop: they boy the kids that don't find easter eggs
Dexter Fong: Connie Mack was my Godfather
Principalpoop: boo
DJTween: I hear their Philly Alphabet Soup is really good
Dexter Fong: It's all cheese steaks now
Principalpoop: fong recalls when basketball was played with actual peach baskets
DJTween: Early Halloween, P?
srsly,no_anchovies: A's moved from Philly to Oakland in the early 60's, as i recall?
DJTween: lol P
Dexter Fong: and with the actual peaches
Principalpoop: philly fans are famous for boos, even booing their own team
DJTween: lol Dex
cs: my grandfather was born in russia when they still had serfs
cs: 1855
Principalpoop: fong used to go drinking with babe ruth
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| H Stones - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
srsly,no_anchovies: Hey Boo-Boo, don't forget that Pik-a-nik basket...!
Dexter Fong: for the record, my absence last week was due to the passing of my mother at 102 and 10 months
DJTween: lol
Principalpoop: what a marvelous long life, marred only by having fong as a son....hehe
Dexter Fong: lol
DJTween: So sorry to hear, Dex
cs: http://www.ojhasmagazine.com/octber-2012/cat-3/
Principalpoop: that is no fun fong, you will miss her more than you know, be strong
Dexter Fong: I suspect there were a few other mars along the way =)
cs: i'm sorry to hear that, dex
Dexter Fong: It was well past time for her to leave. The last couple years were of no quality to speak of
cs: maybe my 93 year old mother will live that long. i'm told she's in good health
Principalpoop: ahh that is a shame, and yes she is at peace now
srsly,no_anchovies: THE CENTURY OF FONG
Dexter Fong: hanks so much Tweeny
Dexter Fong: The Fong Dynasty as we call it
Merlyn: yeah, thanks tween, see you next week people
cs: a turtle's age
cs: by merl
DJTween: Later all...
Principalpoop: courage
||||||||| Merlyn says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Merlyn exits at 10:58 PM.
||||||||| DJTween hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's DJTween?! It's 10:58 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Principalpoop: night all, I guess that is the bus
Principalpoop: courage all
||||||||| Principalpoop is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 10:58 PM.
Dexter Fong: See y'all next week
cs: off we fly
||||||||| cs says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, cs exits at 10:59 PM.
srsly,no_anchovies: die nasty? condolences Dex.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Dexter Fong: Thanks NA and ta ta to everyone
||||||||| Dexter Fong says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Dexter Fong exits at 11:00 PM.
srsly,no_anchovies: ok... i'm clocking out as well. cya next time.
||||||||| At 11:01 PM, srsly,no_anchovies vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| 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:
Bill
cs
Dexter Fong
DJTween
Elayne
H Stones
Merlyn
Principalpoop
srsly,no_anchovies

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://seemreal.com/boxoftime/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n4h2n/Kenny_Everett_Heres_Kenny/
http://www.ojhasmagazine.com/octber-2012/cat-3/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQ-wjDH4F4
http://youtu.be/tZnMAFSNiUg