A Firesign Chat
05/09/2013




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 May 09, 2013 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| RedPillTweeny enters at 3:41 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| It's 3:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 4:35 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving RedPillTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| It's 4:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "8:19 PM? 8:19 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| 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 DJTween falls out at 8:26 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 8pm CST this evening, with music beginning at 7:45pm CST. 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood enters with IAMU FUZZY close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:44 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
DJTween: lo dere
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - Warm Up Music (Happy Birthday Billy Joel :-)- 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'forescore', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:48 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| mrme tiptoes in around 8:48 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
forescore: ducks as the canon fires
DJTween: welcome fourscore
DJTween: hope you make five
||||||||| Catherwood enters with nowhereman close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:53 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
||||||||| TitaniumBob steps in at 8:54 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'seriousprofessor', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:54 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| Catherwood ushers EWeston in through the front door at 8:57 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| "8:57 PM? 8:57 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Merlyn should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Merlyn enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:57 PM and late as usual, it's Jules, just back from Billville."
EWeston: Just another day riding fench posts and chasing down despirate inlaws
||||||||| "Hey Jules!" ... Jules turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:58 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:58 PM uptown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Woody coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 8:58 PM: dirtwolf jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:59 PM, dragging NickyNikNikNik by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
DJTween: Hey Merlyn
DJTween: Hi Woody
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, May 09, 2013 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| 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 CS disembarks at 9:00 PM.
Merlyn: hey tween, woody
NickyNikNikNik: Hello Friends...
Merlyn: cat
CS: Hi all
DJTween: Hey cease
seriousprofessor: Good evening.
Merlyn: NickyNikNikNik!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:00 PM and shoes for the dead bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
EWeston: Hi Cease, looks like a crowd today
shoes for the dead: howdy
||||||||| 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 Principalpoop plummets into the garden at 9:01 PM.
DJTween: new 16k stream up for the bandwidth-challenged :-)
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'dherrenvt', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:02 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
NickyNikNikNik: Howdy shoes
EWeston: Interesting entrance PP
||||||||| "9:02 PM? 9:02 PM!!" says Catherwood, "whoamusanyway should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as whoamusanyway enters and sits on the couch.
Merlyn: good stuff tween
whoamusanyway: i forgot the key
Principalpoop: who me? how did I get in?
EWeston: Psst C minus
shoes for the dead: are you sure you are in?
EWeston: I have you here plummiting into the garden
Principalpoop: i have not plummetted in years
NickyNikNikNik: PrinciplePoop is so in he's out man
Principalpoop: i thought the thumpa thumpa thumpa frightened you, like the tell tell heart
EWeston: How bout plumbs do you plumb? No messy details please.
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE - 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 - this album can be purchased at: http://laughstore.stores.yahoo.net/phauromafrou.html'
Merlyn: did you leave the key with the sound man?
Principalpoop: red greenback and the blue boys, yassir
NickyNikNikNik: Thanks! Rocky...
EWeston: Comon Jesus!
Principalpoop: i stuck in my thumb and pulled out a plum
||||||||| NickyNikNikNik hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's NickyNikNikNik?! It's 9:06 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
DJTween: Sorry for the intro. As Robin Williams would say, "rented lips" lol
shoes for the dead: stop for gas!!
Principalpoop: come on come on jesus
CS: sounds like something mary magdalene would say
EWeston: A Grim tale no doubt
Principalpoop: just put the mouse on line you are reading tween hehe
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Deputy Dan inside, makes a note of the time (9:07 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
whoamusanyway: did we pass one?? no no , but the fox did
DJTween: I'd be interested to know if anybody is trying the 16k stream
Principalpoop: i almosted did, but didn't
DJTween: Hey P, it works!
Deputy Dan: Works on my iPad
Principalpoop: mary margarine, give me butter
||||||||| Catherwood escorts SunnysideTurner inside, makes a note of the time (9:09 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTween: and btw Mr. Smart Arse P, I can do Skype if you like :)
seriousprofessor: Yes, I'm on the 16K stream. It's doing fine.
Principalpoop: not with me, and the dogs wants out too, brb
DJTween: Would love to hear Skype from anyone who wants to talk about their FST experiences :-)
DJTween: kewl serious
||||||||| It's 9:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Woody - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| TitaniumBob - dead from measles
||||||||| mrme - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| IAMU FUZZY - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Merlyn: can we IP into the 16k stream?
||||||||| "9:10 PM? 9:10 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Shadow should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Shadow enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bones into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:10 PM, then departs.
shoes for the dead: the 16k is a little muted
DJTween: ohhh, you very need robot protocol to do IP
||||||||| Catherwood leads Porgy into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:11 PM, then departs.
DJTween: volume-wise, shoes?
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:12 PM and late as usual, it's PickinUpThings, just back from Funfun Town."
DJTween: 11khz is pretty muted
shoes for the dead: yes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Roller Maidens at Firesign Media - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Charles Throat close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:13 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary.
Rufus_T_Firetween: yes volume, or yes high-end?
Porgy: This is probably better listened-to with headphones...like back in the day.
PickinUpThings: shout. i can't hear you.
shoes for the dead: volume
Rufus_T_Firetween: like Ossman's How Time Flys, all the FST on this solo album
Porgy: Actually, this is one of the few FT albums I've never heard.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with cctops close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
DJTween: wow Porgy
DJTween: a must-have
EWeston: Some really good lines in this...thing.
||||||||| George Stevens sneaks in around 9:14 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
shoes for the dead: lissen close now
George Stevens: SWITCHBLADE PITCHFORKS!!! Yay!
PickinUpThings: everything is full volume what am I doing wrong listened two weeks ago
Principalpoop: okay back
Porgy: Unfortunately, I can't stick around for long. I do a morning radio show, and 3:20am will come WAAY too soon!
Principalpoop: burn that candle at both ends
PickinUpThings: aha. everybody WAS having more fun...
EWeston: And nibble onthe middle
Porgy: I'm afraid my wick just isn't as long as it was back when...
Principalpoop: hehe he said nibble on the middle hehe
Porgy: Good band name!
PickinUpThings: yay
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:17 PM and Beet sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Principalpoop: when you wake up and it feels like the morning after, but there was no night before, that is aging
Beet: Howdy! Let's have some fun
DJTween: ** If you'd like to Skype-in to the show, just give me your Skype name in private and you too can be a radio star
PickinUpThings: ethel's been spending a lot of time in that time machine
Principalpoop: ok, guess what?
EWeston: Hey its fat free, sugar free, and comes in purty colors
||||||||| Outside, the 9:18 PM downtown bus from Quebec pulls away, leaving Koyemsi coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Porgy: Who are they talking to? And how do they make their voices do that?
DJTween: she's lost her octane?
||||||||| Catherwood escorts AhClem into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:18 PM, then departs.
Koyemsi: I think I've stumbled upon the origin of "Malmborg in Plano"
DJTween: Hi Clem
AhClem: Shoes for Industry, Compadre!
||||||||| Outside, the 9:19 PM bus from Washington pulls away, leaving Elayne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Principalpoop: don't be koy, tell us
DJTween: oops, wrong clem
Principalpoop: hi E
DJTween: Hey E
EWeston: Now only sectane around the house now
CS: Hi El
Koyemsi: An old issue of the Saturday Evening Post has a list of all the insurance firms in Illinois
CS: This time next week, we should have a new provincial government, a Good one for a change
DJTween: Hi Sunnyside
seriousprofessor: Koyemsi, What about "quid malmborg in plano?"
DJTween: I grew up in Bowie, MD
EWeston: Yow She made it.
PickinUpThings: are we dreaming the same dream now?
Koyemsi: And there's a Malmborg Insurance Agency in Plano, Illinois
Beet: Plano had something to do with Plano, Texas I theeeenk
Principalpoop: oh koy, oh boy
Koyemsi: We know that Phil Punter lifted the phrase off a lighter he found
Principalpoop: that is it
Koyemsi: Maybe it was a freebie from that insurance agency?
CS: Good thing you didn't grow up inside David Bowie. That would have been uncomfortable
Koyemsi: MALMBORG IN., PLANO
PickinUpThings: must have been a heavy lighter
Elayne: Dang, i cant join in until im home. sorry folks
PickinUpThings: YOU'RE SOBER ELAYNE GO HOME
||||||||| Artie enters at 9:21 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Principalpoop: oki doki
DJTween: Wakeman played keys on Ziggy. I like that one
DJTween: Hi artie
Principalpoop: the guy from warehouse 13, cool
Artie : Hiya
PickinUpThings: catherwood's been spending a lot of time in the barn
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 9:21 PM"
PickinUpThings: and talking about the time
Deputy Dan: Works on my iPad
EWeston: Three 45's upcoming
PickinUpThings: what'd you get in?
DJTween: a whole 135?
Porgy: I was born in Fresno!
DJTween illuminates the illuminati
Beet: The Ultimate distraction of Twin Bulges
CS: Austin was born in Denver, so that makes you more Fresnon than him
PickinUpThings: euell gibbons references. we're officially old.
Principalpoop: what was bowie famous for tween?
PickinUpThings: that DOES look like ethel!
Principalpoop: a knife? hehe
||||||||| Outside, the 9:24 PM bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving uncle willie coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Charles Throat: Porgy did you listen to Jackie Globenfelt's dad on the radio?
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bones - dead from the yaws
||||||||| dirtwolf - dead from the yaws
||||||||| dherrenvt - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Artie : Hew Tween, how long should it take to load Roller Maidens in my player?
Charles Throat: Happy Harold Globenfelt
EWeston: A fine Bergman rant
Principalpoop: try the 16k if the 128k keeps buffering
shoes for the dead: hey! that Jamaican works, this is starting to make sense!
||||||||| 9:27 PM: Mudhead jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
DJTween: depends on your connection, Artie
Principalpoop: hi mudhead
EWeston: Porgy hide the booze
||||||||| George Stevens says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, George Stevens exits at 9:28 PM.
PickinUpThings: aw mudhead is that all you think about, talkin about things??
DJTween: Happens with a few seconds here in Austin, but then I have broadband and I'm broadcasting to another computer locally
AhClem: 128K is working fine here in Sector N
Principalpoop: mister stevens, arriving
PickinUpThings: catherwood's a cab from way back
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to PickinUpThings and mumbles "Something I can help with?"
Charles Throat: He the king where I come from!
CS: better a cab than a cad
PickinUpThings: does this look indected?
DJTween: probably returns pretty fast from ATT Texas
EWeston: RB&TBB does honky tonk.
DJTween: _great_ country music parodies on this album
DJTween: nice work, Mr. Austin :-)
CS: better than the music it's parodying
Koyemsi: Anyway, just wanted to tell somebody about my Malmborg theory; I've never done the Firesign chat before
CS: is that austin on guitar?
DJTween: yeah, often lol
EWeston: Yaz!
Principalpoop: parodying? parodolizing?
DJTween: excellent production
CS: welcome, koyemsi
EWeston: A new one for me K
Charles Throat: I'm here about once every 5 years
Koyemsi: Thanks :)
Principalpoop: you fit right in, I thought you were an old shoe
EWeston: Only during the mating season then?
Charles Throat: Exactly E
DJTween: P, have you seen the movie Wag The Dog?
DJTween: highly recommended
Principalpoop: like a cicada throat?
PickinUpThings: don't be mean to koyemsi
||||||||| 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 doctron gets out at 9:32 PM.
Principalpoop: it was a good one
Charles Throat: I confess I never made it through this LP, not a country fan
CS: lots of new folks here of late
PickinUpThings: let me know when you've seen the dog wag the movie
Charles Throat: He likes it that way
Koyemsi: Doctor Dog?
shoes for the dead: i like nick exxon talking out of both sides of his mouth
PickinUpThings: that looks like ethel
shoes for the dead: or is one his ass?
PickinUpThings: I'dlike to know who they're in the grip of too
Rufus_T_Firetween: Roller Maidens at Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_Maidens_From_Outer_Space
PickinUpThings: worried about ethel? join the club
Porgy: Catherwood?
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside Porgy and says "You rang?"
PickinUpThings: that damn fresno
CS: whatever happened to ethyl?
Charles Throat: She got regular
PickinUpThings: waterboarded
Principalpoop: Mertzed
Porgy: Roll us up a couple of bombers and leave them on the side table.
DJTween: Wag The Dog - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
PickinUpThings: the devil season
Principalpoop: country people city people
DJTween: Infirmo!
EWeston: We're doomed!
Porgy: Catherwood, please escort me to the door.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Porgy to the door.
||||||||| Around 9:36 PM, AhClem walks off into the sunset...
Charles Throat: Aaaand that's enough of that lol
EWeston: Bye guys
Principalpoop: always walk on the sunny side of the street
Porgy: Good night, everybody! I really have to go.
Principalpoop: night night
Principalpoop: you too porgy
CS: by porge
PickinUpThings: you gotta start early if you're gonna stick it out
Koyemsi: my mother didn't talk to me much
Beet: bye porg
PickinUpThings: staslling
Charles Throat: Poor kid
EWeston: When invited to a long walk down a short pier, waterwing are an approve dating acessory
Principalpoop: who was the officer on west side story?
Charles Throat: Krupke
CS: krumpke?
Principalpoop: officer crumpet, i had it tough
Principalpoop: ahh yes, thanks lol
PickinUpThings: gotta go folks abysinnia
CS: by pick
Principalpoop: ciao now brown cow
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| SunnysideTurner - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| whoamusanyway - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| cctops - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Elayne - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Artie - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| uncle willie - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
EWeston: Chow! now, or soon.
Principalpoop: the plot thins
Charles Throat: Anyone care for a little krumpke and coffee?
||||||||| "9:40 PM? 9:40 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Anus_Buttwhumper should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Anus_Buttwhumper enters and sits at the bar.
Principalpoop: anus has returned
EWeston: Its that new para miricle diet.
seriousprofessor: I like October Blind, the duck-flavored coffee!
Beet: Holy Book of Holes!
Charles Throat: Smells like real pork
DJTween: Catherwood, please give seriousprofessor some Duck Soup
||||||||| Catherwood brings seriousprofessor some duck soup.
Principalpoop: catherwood, give DJTween some Mock Soup
||||||||| Catherwood brings djtween some mock soup.
seriousprofessor: Thanks, Catherwood. That'll help clean up the karma.
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to seriousprofessor and says "Do you have something for me to do?"
EWeston: Regular just doesn't do sexy
DJTween: Who you callin' a mock turtle?
DJTween never mock turtles
Charles Throat: Duck!
Principalpoop: I just like the word mock, mock mock, I sound like penguin on batman
EWeston: Never boar a turtle
seriousprofessor: says to Catherwood, "the foxtrot."
||||||||| Catherwood walks up to seriousprofessor and queries "Did you need me?"
DJTween thinks Charles is a quack
Principalpoop: cs is goosey
EWeston: A western canvasback I believe
Charles Throat: My passing worries UCLA
EWeston: That's some serious gas
Principalpoop: a relation of daisy
Charles Throat: Ethyl?
shoes for the dead: on, regular
EWeston: Her sister Methel
Charles Throat: Methyl and the Ketones
||||||||| At 9:47 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, seriousprofessor!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'seriousprofessor', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:47 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Beet: High Octane?
EWeston: Damn, I played with them!
Charles Throat: (that's a bit of an academic joke there, for the professor)
shoes for the dead: did ya have a gas?
Principalpoop: nitrates are cheaper than day rates
Charles Throat: Never say yes if a bass player invites you home
Beet: did ya have gas?
EWeston: Do to the pressure they remained in a liquid state
Principalpoop: or a bass fisher
Charles Throat: Yes krumpke always makes me bilious
Principalpoop: ok, i know billowing, what does bilious mean?
Charles Throat: Stand back, I'm having a rerligious experience
Principalpoop: i will place my face on the monitor, to share
Principalpoop: ouch, my nose
Charles Throat: Yes Mistress
EWeston: I keep mine in my hand
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:54 PM and Elayne waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Charles Throat: I did too until I got arrested
Elayne: There, that's better. Evenin' all!
Principalpoop: like the guy in the movie, where he sings happy birthday at the wake
EWeston: She's baaack
Charles Throat: Hi Elayne
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Anus_Buttwhumper - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| PickinUpThings - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Porgy - dead from the common cold
||||||||| forescore - dead from measles
||||||||| nowhereman - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Mudhead - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Principalpoop: WB E
Elayne: I really, really can't do chat from my phone, don't know why I tried.
Charles Throat: Ahhh someone I remember lol
Elayne: Three beers, that's probably why I tried.
CS: welcome back
CS: goldilocks too?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:56 PM uptown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Ralph Spoilsport coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Principalpoop: hey ralph
DJTween: I need a new car!
Ralph Spoilsport: Hiya Friends...
EWeston: Because otherwise I msyteriously vanish
Koyemsi: Bye, Nobles
||||||||| Koyemsi departs at 9:57 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Elayne: Of course, now that I'm home I keep yawning and I can't see straight, so there's that.
EWeston: How's the used body parts business Ralph
Beet: The Three Beers
Charles Throat: What about Barnes?
Elayne: My closest friends! I think I left a couple of them behind in the ladies' room.
Elayne: But that third one went right to where my head would normally be.
EWeston: Lets leave the children out of this
Elayne: Grid bless Guinness. I have lots of iron now!
DJTween hands elayne some dress shirts to iron
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Charles Throat: hands DJTween some socks to aluminum
DJTween: Dress shirts are of course an odd new NY style for women lol
DJTween: al-u-minium?
EWeston: The Islamamophobes are still spewing today, some now on the liberal media
Charles Throat: Ah, Canadian!
DJTween: you can call me Al
Charles Throat: Thank you Jesus
DJTween: be careful how you pronoun ce that word, Charles. Might mean something else ;)
Charles Throat: And Susej is his only byproduct
Elayne: So Cat, I finally watched that link you sent me. I love it, I'm going go use it as tonight's Silly Site.
Beet: There should be a religion just for religious bigots from all religions. Unity based on division!
CS: maron inspace?
Elayne: For everyone else: http://www.ifc.com/shows/maron/maron-in-space
DJTween: The Unity Church Of Hate Of The Your Religion
CS: funnier than maron's actual tv show
Charles Throat: Yes mistress
Elayne: Cat, Jill (the one who originally got me into Firesign 30 or so years ago) will love it, she's a big Maron fan.
DJTween: Marc Maron was on Bill Maher's show recently
EWeston: The rose in the teeth is a nice touch
CS: we dont get hbo here, at least on my cable tier
||||||||| 10:06 PM: Captain Equinox jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
CS: maron mentioned he was on conan this week and i should be able to watch that online
Charles Throat: See you all in another 5 years... I am the real Charles Throat, accept no imitations...
DJTween: >> Charles Throat: Yes mistress << I have that if it's a request
CS: by charles
Beet: Take 5
Charles Throat: Got the entire torrent on my phone... gotta love the 21st century... maybe... later heads
EWeston: No tip? bye anyway till next we swin up stream and clack our beaks
||||||||| Charles Throat leaves at 10:07 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..."
DJTween: lol EW
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Shadow - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJTween: they're dropping like flys
EWeston: Synchronocity struck, again. :)
Elayne: Okay, I definitely can't keep my eyes open. But at least I've blogged. Night all!
||||||||| At 10:11 PM, Elayne scurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
CS: by el
EWeston: Bye E think going to check out too, So long till next time again.
Beet: Bye' E. Enjoy the sleep
CS: by EW
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:12 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs EWeston by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Beet: I really do miss this voice and this mind.
||||||||| "10:16 PM? 10:16 PM!!" says Catherwood, "JaxMandrake should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as JaxMandrake enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
JaxMandrake: good evening dear friends
Beet: Hi, Jax. Welcome back.
JaxMandrake: sorry I missed just about everything
JaxMandrake: did anything explode that I should have seen?
Beet: Several new folks. New to me anyway.
Principalpoop: listening to oz, hi jax
JaxMandrake: the thumb's an electronic sub-etha device, the roundabout's at Barnard's Star six light years away but otherwise that's pretty much right
DJTween: Bergman was a Constitutionalist? yum yum
JaxMandrake: "and the bug-eyed monster?" "is green, yes."
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Deputy Dan - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| doctron - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJTween: Rotonoto vs Godzilla?
JaxMandrake: Gorgonzola vs Cheezmonsturr
DJTween: ohhhh, very bad idea interfear Young Guy
JaxMandrake: not to be torturing me!!!
Beet: Did Bush just put on blackface?
JaxMandrake: lids of grass
DJTween: going to have to play some more modern OZ episodes
DJTween: Bergman thought Ron Paul was some sort of neo-conservative
DJTween: couldn't have been more wrong
Beet: I was rather hooked on Peter's show.
DJTween: Paul wouldn't sign the Patriot Act
||||||||| Catherwood leads Crystal Bill into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 10:30 PM, then departs.
JaxMandrake: I begin to believe that if Elizabeth Warren runs for PotUS in 2016 I just might vote
JaxMandrake: and I loved Peter's show all the way to the end
DJTween: Tirebiter for VP?
DJTween: New head of the Surrealist Party?
Beet: isn't "potus" the codeword for The President?
CS: Feed your head
JaxMandrake: an abbreviation of President of the United Snakes
DJTween: The Prescient?
JaxMandrake: obviously not
Beet: So success is built in forPotUS
DJTween: Well, we've all been here before
JaxMandrake: I think there's an album title ready to happen: "We've all been here again."
DJTween: "Were they early drug users?"
DJTween: "Let's go to the Hashfire Enne..."
Crystal Bill: PotUS? I went to Pot U
Beet: Take another hit
JaxMandrake: *pow*
Crystal Bill: ouch
CS: ah, fresh air
Beet: Somebody knew the song
JaxMandrake: I'm not gonna go looking but I wonder if there's a college porn video called F*** U
Beet: Please make it so
DJTween: oops, forgot the header again
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - The Mayors Of Crazy Town - 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'
DJTween: This is available as a podcast from iTunes
DJTween: Bergman din't live in Texas
DJTween: and yes, to police, every Hispanic looks like a Mexican
DJTween: it sux
Principalpoop: oops the bus, have a super week, night all
JaxMandrake: as Gabriel Iglesias has mentioned more than once
Beet: Arizona in some ways is Texas times 10
||||||||| At 10:38 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Principalpoop!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
DJTween: We have to stop the drug war to stop the violence
DJTween: Ron Paul and Gary Johnson both want it stopped
Beet: So long Poop (longer the better)
DJTween: decriminalize, or at least legalize
DJTween: only way to stop the violence
JaxMandrake: Killer Biscuits
DJTween: (Gary Johnson was the Republican Governor of NM)
CS: our soon to be premier in BC is in favour of legalization, very popular here
DJTween: best wishes to BC
CS: BC's multitude of growers are worried
DJTween: If CO and WA can do it...
DJTween: and the world doesn't end ;)
JaxMandrake: the killer biscuit story was one of the first experiments tested on MythBusters
Beet: Biscuits for brains
JaxMandrake: guess that means tis time for me to make my escape and consider this phenomenon human beings refer to as sleep
Beet: Thanks Tween. G'Nite. I go too. See ya next week
DJTween: Thanks for listening everybody :)
seriousprofessor: Let us give up this day.
JaxMandrake: stay not insane, dear friends!
JaxMandrake: good bless you and god night
||||||||| "10:44 PM? I'm late!" exclaims seriousprofessor, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
CS: hopefully when I return next week, we'll have a good new government here
DJTween: Until last time, again...
||||||||| DJTween departs at 10:45 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| "10:45 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Rufus_T_Firetween, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
CS: see y'all next week
||||||||| CS is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 10:45 PM.
Crystal Bill: hasta las vegas
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Crystal Bill - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| JaxMandrake - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| captainbeefheart sashays in at 10:58 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'dude', just granted probation at 10:59 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
captainbeefheart: Good golly gosh! Dial-up?!? i thought i was the only one who still used it here in good ol' Montana
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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 MikeyBoi disembarks at 11:04 PM.
MikeyBoi: Just in from the Fake Moon Landing
MikeyBoi: OOPs here'smy ride
||||||||| Around 11:06 PM, MikeyBoi walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Merlyn leaves at 11:08 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..."
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| dude - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'pNose II', just granted probation at 11:10 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
pNose II: There's nothing to eat in here.
pNose II: (except Laughing Cow Cheese)
pNose II: Well, allezee come, alleze go!!
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| captainbeefheart - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
pNose II: (except Laughing Cow Cheese)
pNose II: Well, allezee come, alleze go!!
||||||||| Catherwood leads chazz in through the front door at 11:28 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 11:30 PM: DeadCat jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
DeadCat: But what about my knickers!!??
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'RedPillTweeny', just granted probation at 11:31 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DeadCat: Wow! Can you turn the volume down...the chat in this room is ...deafening!
DeadCat: I'll be on the fnway...which is already in progess in Progress!
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| chazz - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| pNose II - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DeadCat - dead from jaundice
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| 12:48 AM: L. Bill Rubbered jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
L. Bill Rubbered : Captain Equinox: due to wobble, Spring will be delayed. I've told him to out a cork innit!
L. Bill Rubbered : Equi-Gnox? Heresy on point!
L. Bill Rubbered : I go sleep now. Tah tah, boyz!
||||||||| L. Bill Rubbered leaves at 12:53 AM, 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..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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:
Artie
Beet
captainbeefheart
Charles Throat
Crystal Bill
CS
DeadCat
Deputy Dan
DJTween
Elayne
EWeston
forescore
George Stevens
JaxMandrake
Koyemsi
L. Bill Rubbered
Merlyn
MikeyBoi
NickyNikNikNik
PickinUpThings
pNose II
Porgy
Principalpoop
Ralph Spoilsport
Rufus_T_Firetween
seriousprofessor
shoes for the dead
AhClem
whoamusanyway
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
http://laughstore.stores.yahoo.net/phauromafrou.html
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_Maidens_From_Outer_Space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.ifc.com/shows/maron/maron-in-space



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