A Firesign Chat
03/12/2015




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 March 12, 2015 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 4:47 PM and hey waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| hey - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 5:54 PM and Elevator Boy sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elevator Boy - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| DJTweeny waltzes in at 7:30 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - visit Firesign’s web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com **'
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 7:48 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - warm up music (Little Feat - Happy Birthday Bill Payne!) - 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) **'
||||||||| "8:37 PM? 8:37 PM!!" says Catherwood, "lily should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as lily enters and sits on the couch.
lily: evenin Tweeny and thanks in advance
DJTweeny: Hi lily :)
lily: first lol
DJTweeny: and how are you doing this fine evening?
DJTweeny: Nino has you in Australia again
lily: catherwood two dirty martinis please
||||||||| Catherwood walks up to lily and asks "Did you want me?"
lily: blimy put another shrimp
lily: sad about Pratchett
lily: but got to sit in sun
lily: I will just talk away
DJTweeny: Don't think I've read any of Pratchett's stuff
lily: more cow bell
DJTweeny: :-)
DJTweeny: from one of my all-time fav live albums, Waiting For Columbus
lily: great for a belly laugh
lily: you stir old memmories
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:44 PM and Govslugwell bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
lily: ;
DJTweeny: Bill Payne's 66th birthday today, so I thought appropriate
DJTweeny: Hello slugwell
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Mudhead', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:45 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
lily: coooool
DJTweeny: Hey Mudhead
Govslugwell: Howdy, Dear Friends
Mudhead: Evenin all
lily: hey
Mudhead: Feats dont fail me now!
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
Govslugwell: Anythynge new?
DJTweeny: no anythynge tonight
lily: same bat ime
DJTweeny: lots of Dear Friends, though :)
lily: lost a tee
DJTweeny: will be heard to use a driver on that golf ball, then
||||||||| "8:50 PM? 8:50 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cat should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cat enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
lily: wedgie it
DJTweeny: Hey Cat
lily: hey cat
Cat: Hey all
Govslugwell: "Who do you think you are, Bebe" Rebozo?"
DJTweeny: Proc is a busy guy, apparently. According to Facebook, appearing in yet another play
lily: we are all bozos of some sort
DJTweeny: That would be a great FST chat name :)
Govslugwell: Nixon's ONLY friend.
lily: that it i'll change me name will my location change lol
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
DJTweeny: and having a person with such a name so close to The Resident was just way too ironic
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'EWeston', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:52 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Govslugwell: Rebozo, A Firesign seqal recording.
DJTweeny: Hi EW
Govslugwell: That was a line in Down by law that just got me.
EWeston: Hello fellow kids
lily: debozo
DJTweeny: Would be a cool name for an album, for sure
Govslugwell: I have to drive home now... finsihing a 12 hrs shift. Will check chat latter on down the line....
Mudhead: Sir, it's called fly soup for a reason.
Govslugwell: later
lily: ultra bozo (somebody stop me)
Govslugwell: Don't stop!
EWeston: Tripe Face Boogie next?
lily: semibozo
Cat: good flick, gov
EWeston: Parabozo
lily: gonzobozo
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'pinholeF200', just granted probation at 8:56 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Beaters bounds in at 8:56 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
EWeston: garbonzobozo
Govslugwell: off I go, thinking silly putty, slinky, super ball....we interupt the program for a news bulletin ... lights just went out black out ....
lily: this joint is jumpin
DJTweeny: Hi pinhole, Beaterss
lily: great ew
EWeston: Theses that mysterious lite
DJTweeny: uh oh, slugwell
pinholeF200: Greetin's to Tween and all
Govslugwell: pinhole camera camera obscura stairway to heaven david niven....
lily: hey pin
lily: greenwich mean
EWeston: And marrying your toaster
DJTweeny: "That's why greenwich is so _mean_..."
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:58 PM and late as usual, it's foggybottom, just back from Hellmouth."
EWeston: Greenwich got da gout
Mudhead: Nearly beloved, we are gathered here..
DJTweeny: Hi foggy
lily: it takes a beach whale to know a beached whale
foggybottom: greetings
EWeston: Bearly deluded...where are we?
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 12, 2015 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
pinholeF200: metaphysically absurd ew, how could we know where you are?
Cat: bear whiz and qualudes?
||||||||| Lil tiptoes in around 9:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
lily: ask nino
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Cat: Lil, others
Lil: Who's a beached whale?
EWeston: Damn, caught me on that one.
Cat: a rich gambler in vegas who just lost all his money
lily: you would not know if it bited your nose
EWeston: Moby Taupe
Lil: Hi Cat
Cat: Not yet, Lil, but I'm getting there.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Nabby into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:02 PM, then departs.
EWeston: Good man
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Lil: Had a feeling lol
||||||||| Catherwood enters with shoes for the dead close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:02 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom.
EWeston: Heez Nabby
||||||||| Catherwood leads Beet in through the front door at 9:02 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Lil: Hi's all around!
Cat: Nab B. Nab C. Nab em all
shoes for the dead: Howdy
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - “DEAR FRIENDS” - 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 - YOU CAN PURCHASE THIS ALBUM AT >> http://laugh.com/product/firesign-theatre-dear-friends-cd-audio-only/ **'
DJTweeny: Hi shoes, Beet
Lil: Gesundheit EW
Beet: Toad Away. One of my favoretest
Cat: now we can make borcht!
Nabby: I'm down, I'm grounded, safe and sound, trailing clouds of glory!
DJTweeny: Hi Lil
EWeston: Without underpants, shoes. and that organic sensation bett
Nabby: Cheers Tween
Beet: Don't forget the sour cream
Nabby: Hey Cat
lily: Nabby made me cry
Nabby: & all!
lily: lol
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Beet: Evenin' all
shoes for the dead: where am I?
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DEAR FRIENDS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-ln
Cat: the only word of Ukranian I know is smetana, the word for sour cream. My Ukranian grandma was always telling me to put more of it in my bowl of borscht.
EWeston: I;ve already asked
pinholeF200: reversible cups, so you can put the balls on the other side
Nabby: This sermon is very meaningful to me
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "9:04 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Elmertown."
DJTweeny: Wonder what's happened to Dexter
DJTweeny: Hi Dang
Lil: The sour cream's the best part
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Nabby: Hi lily don't cry
shoes for the dead: hey DD
Nabby: Hi Deputy
Lil: And what about PPoop?
lily: I will always have his books
Deputy Dang: good morning
Beet: Holy Work
DJTweeny: Yeah, PrincP for that matter
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Cat: Did you know Ossman is actually a "reverend," ie, able to conduct marriages?
||||||||| Zooky Fogg tiptoes in around 9:05 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
pinholeF200: glaubner strikes again
Nabby: Really Cat
Cat: i was visiting my bar tender cousin on tuesday and he told me he can perform weddings, just be being a certified bar tender.
shoes for the dead: Gad Zooks!
EWeston: Zookies in
R> ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Nabby: Hi Zooky
Cat: i think dave married phil and melinda, could be wrong.
Zooky Fogg: Broad hello Fire Heads
Mudhead: Im a Justice of the Peace
DJTweeny: I tried email PrincP but the address I have is apparently no longer good :/
Beet: Yo Zook
shoes for the dead: laws are different in Canadia
DJTweeny: Hi Zooky
Cat: you can marry the world, mud
pinholeF200: Hey Fogg
Cat: sometimes that's good, sometimes not, shoes
Zooky Fogg: Good to see you all.
Nabby: jubilee!
Lil: Zooky
Mudhead: Anywhere...Poof your now married
Zooky Fogg: Thanks Tween
Lil: Rats on that Tweeny
Nabby: Head idiots
Cat: I've been married for 40 years. and married by a bureaucrat in the dept of marriages here in vancouver.
Mudhead: What Ive recently learned is I can marry people in other states than CT
DJTweeny: was there a lot of red tape involved, Cat?
shoes for the dead: they sell liquer picenses there too
Cat: actually it's called the dept of birth, death, marriage and venereal disease.
lily: sometimes you have to swallow the toad whole
shoes for the dead: licenses
DJTweeny: Nobody should tell you who you can marry, Mudhead
EWeston: Head idiots, a quantity we've improved on over the years
Cat: there was a gigantic line when we showed up, but it turned it they were all waiting for their VD medication. my wife and i were the only people getting married that day
Zooky Fogg: Zooky is baking cookies.
||||||||| It's 9:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Govslugwell - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJTweeny: That's a joke title, Cat
lily: hes not dead yet
shoes for the dead: bigger heads, bigger idiots
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Cat: i think it cost $15.
Cat: no, that's true, tween.
DJTweeny: Sounds like a Monty Python government dept
Mudhead: Ive just got to contact the state and get notice, then I can proceed with the ceremony
Cat: probably more formal than that, but that's what the dept did
Cat: indeed, tween
Mudhead: so contact me if you want to get married
EWeston: I'm a big fan of the Veteran's Tap Dance Administration
Zooky Fogg: I'm competing with the girl scouts. Mint anyone.
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
lily: never never again mud
Mudhead: there, thats my advertising budget for 2015
Cat: i think they need a big fan, ew
Nabby: I'd bite mud but it would be wrong
shoes for the dead: careful, Zook, messin with the gsa
Nabby: do it on television!
Cat: you had a bad experience, lily?
||||||||| lily hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's lily?! It's 9:13 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| lily sneaks in around 9:13 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Zooky Fogg: They've won year after year. I'm due.
Mudhead: I performed a ceremony at the Submarine Museum
shoes for the dead: Lily!
lily: oh yeah cat not a fun time had by all
EWeston: They maybe distracted with their conflict with Fox News
DJTweeny: Will have to remember to ask Elayne if she's heard from Dex lately
Nabby: How did you do that?
lily: I was gonna change my name shoes lol
||||||||| Catherwood leads Bob in through the front door at 9:14 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 9:14 PM: Elayne jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
Zooky Fogg: Still perfecting recipes here.
Elayne: Evenin' all!
shoes for the dead: Hey Elayne
DJTweeny: as if by magic...
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Elayne: No, I haven't heard from Dex lately.
Nabby: Hi Bob Hi Elayne
DJTweeny: Elayne, have you heard from Dex lately?
Elayne: I'll drop him an email.
lily: hi e
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
DJTweeny: k
shoes for the dead: hey Bob
EWeston: Bob and Elayne um coinkie dink?
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
pinholeF200: locally here, Ferguson police chief (Deputy Dan's cousin) resigned
Zooky Fogg: Even the hippy crowd defected for theirs.
Cat: Fumiyo should be listening to this. she'll be in spain next month.
Mudhead: It was just the bride, the groom, my driver was witness and me. Noone even noticed.
Cat: Hi El
Deputy Dang: no taxi aqui
Cat: Proc is speaking Spain-ish, as opposed to Mexican Spanish.
Elayne: This is from record #6,isn't it? DocTech finally found me the album, it was the only one I was missing.
DJTweeny: What is wifey doing in Spain, Cat?
Elayne: Don't follow the balls when they make the street.
Cat: walking 800 km.
Zooky Fogg: But I'm committed and have time.
EWeston: Let's rock an roll
Cat: seems to be a popular thing. the camino de santiago. people have been doing it for a thousand years.
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lily: if you love someone find their guru spot
Cat: used to be a big pilgrimage thing. now it's just a thing.
Zooky Fogg: Reminds me to pick up some jalepeno poppers.
pinholeF200: supposedly there's a bar called the G Spot at St. Louis Ballpark Village, but nobody can find it
Nabby: Ohm
shoes for the dead: Watt?
EWeston: Watt
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DEAR FRIENDS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-ln
lily: amp
shoes for the dead: echo in here
lily: ac dc
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cat: Allan Watts?
Zooky Fogg: I can't Ohm without falling to sleep.
EWeston: It looks good in here
shoes for the dead: grid willing
Nabby: echo in here
Nabby: Let's leave it in here
EWeston: Give it a coat of bald paint
shoes for the dead: bouncing off the walls
Elayne: Okay, email dashed off to Dex.
Beet: Lick A Boot
Zooky Fogg: Best advice ever. Lick a boot.
Nabby: Cool Elayne
Cat: has dex been here in the last month?
Mudhead: Louis Hamburgers next to Yale U in New Haven
Elayne: I have to admit, I haven't been keeping track.
Zooky Fogg: Where has the boot been?
DJTweeny: Elayne, do you have a current address for PrincP? The one I have is no longer good
shoes for the dead: Elayne, wrong chat but Bjork exhibit at MOMA
Cat: i wanted to talk to him about Jane Jacobs. I read her book while i was in vegas. much of it takes place in his neighbourhbood, where she used to live
Elayne: Uh, okay shoes...
Nabby: OK Knox!
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Elayne: I don't work near MOMA any more, I'm on the East Side now...
Cat: love the 5th floor at MOMA.
Cat: the monets! the monets!
Elayne: Tween, I have very few email addresses for Firesign folks.
Elayne: Mostly because I don't know y'all's real names for the most part.
pinholeF200: give me monet! that's what I want
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
Cat: i may or may not have dex's. i sent him an email but never heard back
Mudhead: Ive not been to the new Moma, I went before it updated
Elayne: I know yours, and Cat's, and Dex's, and DocTech's and mine... that's probably about it.
Nabby: Har har har
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bob - dead from measles
||||||||| foggybottom - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Zooky Fogg: Now available. The clown store has restocked size 19.
Cat: when was that, mud?
Mudhead: last time I was in NYC was 1989
Nabby: Gary Puckett?
Mudhead: Now Im in my chair so Im apprehensive about going there
lily: the bronx is still up mud
Cat: i was there in 2005 and 2010
Mudhead: an the batterys down
Zooky Fogg: Noses are going fast.
Beet: recharge it
lily: november is new york
Mudhead: Id visit if the Fireheads organized a meet up
shoes for the dead: il vino confuso
pinholeF200: the duke's duet from Il Schzophreno
Zooky Fogg: Make up sale all week end.
Nabby: Never been to MOMA saw the Crazy House in Lubbock tho'
EWeston: I saw a variation of this in eugene Ore.
Cat: i hit the wrong button and was lost.
Nabby: I would like to raise the level of my home
shoes for the dead: this is still very funny
Mudhead: If we all want to the meeting could be at The Sun casino, its close and convieient
||||||||| "9:28 PM? 9:28 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llanwydd should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llanwydd enters and sits on the divan.
llanwydd: good evening folks
Elayne: What a lovely idea, Mudhead.
Elayne: Hey Llan!
Cat: Hi llan
Beet: hi llan
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
shoes for the dead: hey Llan
Zooky Fogg: I have a brother with ass-o-phrenia.
pinholeF200: yo llan
Nabby: Hi Llan
Beet: One of the best ever
DJTweeny: Hey Llan
llanwydd: Ah, I love this album
pinholeF200: is Alistair Blue related to the Blue Brothers who build the drones?
llanwydd: haven't heard the whole thing in several years
Nabby: No chinchillas were harmed
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Cat: sounds scary, fogg
Mudhead: If theres anyone interested in a greet an meet at the Sun casino here in CT please contact me at adds@adds.cc
Lil: Hello Llan
llanwydd: is the guys name Bloo or Belew?
Zooky Fogg: LEO drones are on the rise.
Lil: I have this one on vinyl
Cat: the next time i'm in ct, i'll take you up on that. doc tech and lily live in milford,
Nabby: synchilla
pinholeF200: lil, the album or the chinchilla?
Zooky Fogg: It is Cat especially as roomies.
llanwydd: I had this and most of them on vinyl
llanwydd: I miss vinyl
llanwydd: burbank to oxnard! LOL
lily: vanilla chinchiila diller
Nabby: vinyl is good for the ears and soul
Mudhead: I will really love that, its hard to find places I can roll to
Zooky Fogg: Never knew what was coming.
Cat: and vinyl misses you
shoes for the dead: rotate the vinyl regularily
Lil: Me too Llan
llanwydd: the visuals were the important part of vinyl
Lil: Agreed Nabby
llanwydd: you could hold what you were hearing
Lil: LOL Llan
Zooky Fogg: Poppies for Pappy.
Lil: Profound.
Beet: Electric Wee Wee Room sounds painful
shoes for the dead: antilost
lily: herman miller
llanwydd: beer brat? is that an underage drinker?
Mudhead: The album visuals on Fighting clowns I was reminded of in the partial animated movie The Congress.
Cat: theatre of the mind
Nabby: Electric wee wee IS painful
Cat: the first thing the firesigns ever did was play made up movies on the radio
Zooky Fogg: Cheapest form, Cat.
llanwydd: my favorite FST album cover by far is Forward Into the Past
lily: Raleigh never made it to Raleigh
llanwydd: right on right off
Cat: Kingfish was neither a king, nor a fish
Beet: Aaaaah how peaceful
Zooky Fogg: Take it anywhere and where the net has yet to venture.
Mudhead: If you see only one movie this year try The Congress with Robin Wright. And then tell me what the "22" is all about.
Cat: is that the one based on the lem novel? good novel
llanwydd: part of my noise?
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Zooky Fogg: Was he a fisher?
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
shoes for the dead: apartment noise
Nabby: lem ashhauler?
llanwydd: is it really that? apartment noise?
EWeston: His apartment;s nose
shoes for the dead: think so
llanwydd: I always thought it was "part of my noise" which is very confusing
Cat: what has happened to your noise?
Cat: i've just returned from roaming
llanwydd: I've just returned from tokyo
Zooky Fogg: The Orifice just called.
Nabby: are your arms tired?
shoes for the dead: Toyko
||||||||| 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 Ice Cream Mister falls out at 9:40 PM.
EWeston: My hearts playin boogie woogie, but my spleen keeps playing the blues
Cat: irrasshai
pinholeF200: howdy ICM
shoes for the dead: hey Mister
lily: how ia old tokyo llan?
Cat: i played this piece on japanese national radio in 75,
llanwydd: hmm?
DJTweeny: Hi Mister
pinholeF200: Nikola Tesla
Cat: from a building in tokyo that was 3 bustops long.
Zooky Fogg: I dream in day and walk at night.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DEAR FRIENDS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-ln
Nabby: lol Cat do tell
Beet: It's the Extinct Radio Show
llanwydd: I'd love to see japan some day
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lily: NE Shee
llanwydd: it's probably hard to walk down the streets without being trampled
Mudhead: They'd think I was a sumo wrestler in a wheelchair
Elayne: Sorry, fading a bit.
Cat: once in the building the NHK HORU (supposed to be Hall, but they don't care) you can't see the other end of the building.
llanwydd: I haven't heard this album in so long I don't even remember this track
DJTweeny: yes Llan, but they'll step on you really politely
Zooky Fogg: If anyone asks, I'm not Hank Sperlman.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Bobbelieu into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:42 PM, then departs.
Nabby: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4900318,136.4664008,6z
llanwydd: I can hardly believe I have forgotten any FST
Cat: what brought you to tokyo, llan?
llanwydd: LOL Tween!
llanwydd: you mentioned it, cat
llanwydd: hey Bobb
llanwydd: wow, I almost wrote boob
Cat: and my mention caused you travel a vast distance?
EWeston: As long as no one asks me to pronouce it Zook
llanwydd: why not, cat
Nabby: you can't say boob on the internets--and live!
llanwydd: we won't weigh em. LOL
Cat: what did you do there? probably not teach english
shoes for the dead: send me to Jakarta, Cat!
Beet: tit for tat
pinholeF200: if you spell boob backward it is "boob"
Cat: 20 years ago, i probably could have done that, shoes.
Zooky Fogg: I do answer to hey you sometimes.
Beet: so is tit
Cat: i was running the canadian chapter of the orangutan foundation at the time.
Zooky Fogg: Thanks EW
EWeston: Sideways its obbo
Nabby: inside out, it's "obbo"
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Betty Jo Bialowski into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:46 PM, then departs.
llanwydd: did you get the impression that I have been to tokyo, cat
Nabby: heehee
llanwydd: I must have misspelled or something
Beet: Nancy!
shoes for the dead: hey Betty
llanwydd: cheese dancing must be boring
lily: bur everybody has two boobboob
Nabby: Hi Betty
DJTweeny: Hi Betty Jo
Cat: wuddya know, Jo?
Zooky Fogg: Sitonapotaopanotis.
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Nabby: It's as if food was meant to be danced with
Nabby: or not
pinholeF200: llan, especially in Switzerland
llanwydd: LOL
shoes for the dead: it's a holey rite there
llanwydd: you keep falling into the holes
pinholeF200: home of the Holey Cheese
lily: a rose between your teeth for dancing
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shoes for the dead: chicken whitener
Cat: weather any better in your area, el?
llanwydd: necessity sent me
Nabby: chicken isn't the other white meat
llanwydd: man, I'm loving this. I haven't heard this album since the 1970s
llanwydd: I used to listen to it a lot
DJTweeny: fun stuff :-)
Zooky Fogg: I have been greatly amused since I found you folks here.
Nabby: He was a potato, awww
llanwydd: I remember most of it though
pinholeF200: Zook, glad to be of service
DJTweeny: we are an amusing bunch
shoes for the dead: mindless fellowship
Beet: Hello NSA guy
llanwydd: of course I have heard parts. some of it was on Shoes For Industry which came out in the 90s
lily: friend with typing skills
Nabby: right on!
pinholeF200: almost had to have my vinyl copy regrooved, played so often
DJTweeny: mine in extremely worn
Cat: firesign planted the seeds. we are the weeds.
DJTweeny: lol
llanwydd: I've never like this track though
Nabby: I forgot this one lol
llanwydd: liked
llanwydd: how many bricks can a brick breaker break...
EWeston: Farm out
lily: someday I'd like to tour your lower intertine
Nabby: How many knees can a negro grow? etc.
shoes for the dead: right arm
llanwydd: I did an improv on this with a friend of mine in the 80s
DJTweeny: :/
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ice Cream Mister - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Elayne - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Zooky Fogg: It's always been on periphreals. I only had AM for the longest time.
EWeston: I've had it redecorated for just...just an continjensie
Cat: on stage, radio, tv? llan?
llanwydd: I remember the improv I did with my friend Jim. I told him he was leaking out of his ear
llanwydd: on cassette, cat
Betty Jo Bialowski: The canary's dead.
Nabby: lol these guys are nuts
llanwydd: incidentally, Jim was on Pan Am flight 103, the one that was bombed over Scotland in 1988
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
llanwydd: that affected me badly
Cat: did you distribute it, or is it just for you two?
Cat: no shit, llan.
||||||||| SlugBugDoug tiptoes in around 9:57 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Cat: hi slug
DJTweeny: Hi Doug
llanwydd: Hey Slug
Nabby: Hi SBD
shoes for the dead: hey slug
pinholeF200: hi sbd
SlugBugDoug: hi
Lil: 'Lo Slug
EWeston: Nice bug pure protein
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Beet: yo bug
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
lily: is it the bug thinking or me
Nabby: what a blast!
llanwydd: what a blast! LOL
Nabby: lol
llanwydd: great minds think alike, nabby
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Zooky Fogg: It's been a slow wake.
Nabby: indeedy do llan
Beet: It's a Mgik-al experience
Nabby: I'm shorter than I used to be
DJTweeny: Doug, are you pechance Blair's friend?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: *perchance
lily: stand up nabby
Cat: one of their most surreal bits. and that's saying a lot
llanwydd: MARK TIME
shoes for the dead: Mark time!
Cat: good name for the radio collection
Nabby: TiMe WaRP 2
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, would be
Betty Jo Bialowski: What? What?
EWeston: I gguess if I'm not in orbit now Mr. Time, I'll never be
Nabby rises.
Cat: tween: this is a good place for you to share one of your DOMM ads
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have been, Cat :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Will gladly do so again...
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Zooky Fogg: Mark Time with a hemp rope.
Nabby: What have you been Rufus?
llanwydd: is this supposed to be like Flash Gordon?
lily: well lopk nabby grew 3 feet
Betty Jo Bialowski: I've seen this movie.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I've been making a contribution here and there, Nabby ;)
llanwydd: is arcturus supposed to be ming?
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: I let the DJ do most of the talking
Nabby: a classic Betty
Zooky Fogg: This is worthy stuff.
Nabby: Good, good, Ruf
EWeston: Check the lethiality of his eyebrows to be sure
Betty Jo Bialowski: Well if that don't take the ring off a boomer
llanwydd: this is either flash gordon or buck rogers
Cat: hey, have you all seen the animation brian westley did with this?
shoes for the dead: blast off!!!
Nabby: please say micturate instead thank you
llanwydd: no, cat, but I'd love to
Nabby: blast off!
EWeston: Maybe Duck Dodgers!
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cat: elayne has but she split
DJTweeny: and all the Dear Friends broadcasts they came from are included in DOMM, as well as the Let's Eat and Hour Hour broadcasts, plus a bunch of extras like interviews
shoes for the dead: yes Cat, it's very good
lily: I see stars
llanwydd: I didn't know merl was an artist
DJTweeny: you really want to have DOMM in your collection
DJTweeny: he is, Llan?
Cat: he shows up here as Meryln. actually he created the platform we are now on
Cat: ah, good for you, shoes
lily: VW OLDS
Zooky Fogg: Nobody loves the piano player at a house of repute.
Cat: plus a great book about the guys, with interivews with their collaborators and great imgery by proc
llanwydd: did you say they were in an oldsmobile?
DJTweeny: Yes, Merlyn made this cool HTML-based chat for us to use :)
Cat: book is by fireisgn factotum Taylor knon here as Sir Fudd
DJTweeny: Yes, forgot to mention the book
Cat: it didnt seem to do louie armstrong any hamr, fogg
Cat: harm
Nabby: chump
Rufus_T_Firetween: about DOMM - "This is the complete, mammoth, authoritatively definitive and totally awesome book and DVD-ROM combo. Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) is included on the DVD disc, along with a few extra goodies and surprises. The book contains an essay by Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen, new interviews with all four group members, producer Bill McIntyre, engineer "The Live Earl Jive", complete show run-downs and Phil Proctor's collage artwork. This is a must-have for any serious Firesign fan."
Zooky Fogg: Just a lingering thought.
llanwydd: never heard "champ". probably pete made it up
||||||||| "Hey SlugBugDoug!" ... SlugBugDoug turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:07 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Rufus_T_Firetween: nah Llan, they never make stuff up ;)
pinholeF200: the burrito
Cat: llan, they listened to and absorbed vast amounts, so what is created and remembered is not easy to say
Zooky Fogg: I've been playing at the wrong houses then.
llanwydd: de buurito
Cat: i bean there before
llanwydd: the indian god. LOL
llanwydd: that reminds me very much of a steven wright joke
lily: mein
Cat: they inspire you to use your brain
EWeston: Where "they" live
Cat: do tell, llaN
llanwydd: I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before
llanwydd: love wright
Cat: best joke teller of our age, llan
shoes for the dead: you were probly in two places , llan
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
llanwydd: that's for sure, cat
Zooky Fogg: De ja huh?
Nabby: deja voodoo
llanwydd: I was surprised to hear that steve is from boston. he doesn't have an accent
Cat: ok, the few of us still here, obviously we're here cuz we love firesign, but is there anyone else in comedy that definitive of the past half century?
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Nabby: Carlin, Pythons
shoes for the dead: meat cult?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Lil: Carlin
lily: the overpass is closed take the underpass
EWeston: The Goon Show
Lil: Pryor
Cat: wright does his kind of joke better than anyone i've heard. for example. firesign too, but those are narrom categories
pinholeF200: Robin Williams was incredibly quick, but not based in jokes
Nabby: the underpass less traveled
lily: Key and Peele
llanwydd: I met a guy very recently and knew he was from boston just from his accent
EWeston: Bob and Ray
llanwydd: Old Frent LOL
Cat: goon was a bit before my time, when i listen to them i dont understand most
Cat: but python, yes, the best tv comics of our era.
Zooky Fogg: How about the bypass?
Lil: I have a Goons on vinyl
Nabby: vintage SNL
Cat: robin wiliams as quickest wit, since groucho, only groucho never had coke
Lil: SCTV
shoes for the dead: too clod
Nabby: clod lol
lily: it was never complete zook 2016
EWeston: The Goons were incredibly surreal, and there were roots beyond them
llanwydd: this track is on one of the FST books from the 70s
Cat: also SCTV almost as good as python. a good race
Zooky Fogg: Ah. Thanks Lil.
shoes for the dead: the mason's face is ajar
Betty Jo Bialowski: The mason's face is a jar
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
llanwydd: but groucho had pot and acid
Cat: i nominate the simpsons for the best tv series i've ever seen.
lily: live from ny
Cat: that reminds me, i need to buy a mason jar.
Nabby: It's
Lil: Welcome Zooky
Zooky Fogg: and lily and fellow world citizens.
EWeston: The Red Green show has some charms, and wierds
Nabby: Yep need jars too
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
DJTweeny: you found a mason you want to store?
Nabby: And cork
llanwydd: did you know groucho did acid?
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Beet: Hi Zooky
lily: cat ya gota buy thme by the gross
Cat: never cared for it, ew. now kids in the hall had some great stuff
Nabby: And pork
Zooky Fogg: Hey Beet
llanwydd: never head kids in the hall
Cat: yes, the guy who did the acid with him is my friend paul krassner
llanwydd: you know krassner, cat? Cool!
Cat: he certainly is, llan.
Zooky Fogg: SNL/SCTV of the 70's hybrid
llanwydd: lol
EWeston: Krassner has been a good voice for a while
DJTweeny: I have his Irony Lives album
DJTweeny: love it
||||||||| Nabby dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Nabby?! It's 10:18 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| 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 Nabby plummets into the garden at 10:18 PM.
lily: Beet Betty Jo Bialowski Cat DJTweeny EWeston Lil llanwydd Nabby shoes for the dead Zooky Fogg what fun thanks Tween you da best
Nabby: Huh? Wha' happen?
DJTweeny: Have a great week lily :)
EWeston: Good eve Lily
pinholeF200: Nite lily
Nabby: Later lily!
llanwydd: Nite lily! have a great week
Cat: by lily
Beet: G'Nite lily
shoes for the dead: take care, Lily
Zooky Fogg: Try red sweet peppers and peanut butter. Seriously.
llanwydd: the only thing standing in the way of alaska is canada
Zooky Fogg: Later Lily
DJTweeny: sounds like an interesting combination
Lil: Niters Lily
Nabby: anti-matter
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
shoes for the dead: why not eat in fun?
llanwydd: sweet red peppers and peanut butter. hmm. on white bread?
Zooky Fogg: Cheese optional. Again serious.
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - from the DOMM Let’s Eat Broadcasts “THE UNDERWORLD OLYMPICS”- 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 - YOU CAN PURCHASE DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS AT >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ **'
Nabby: lol
Zooky Fogg: Toasted muffins.
llanwydd: this is one recording I have never owned, "Let's Eat"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD” Here >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
llanwydd: I understand the album was very expensive on vinyl
Nabby: I'm changing my name to Nabby Flapdoodle
EWeston: Don't let them drive
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Nabby: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: again, all the Let's Eat broadcasts are on DOMM :)
shoes for the dead: Llan. it's om DOMM
llanwydd: I hate injokes
Beet: It's great to hear this stuff where something gets invinted through improv and cracks everyone up.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I don't believe they were released as an album, nor was the Hour Hour broadcasts
Cat: http://www.seemreal.com/aq/aq11_krassner1.html
Nabby: I'd never belong to an in-joke that would have me as a punchline
llanwydd: especially when the "in" guys are the only ones laughing
Nabby: what?
Zooky Fogg: Hikahiroshito of Washaluka.
llanwydd: Hilary of Walla Walla
Cat: interviewed paul by fax when i was with adbusters. later we met and he asked me to edit one of this books and submit stories to 3 others.
Nabby: John Q. Pubic
Cat: we're still in touch.
llanwydd: you know there is a groucho interview I often watch on youtube
DJTweeny: that's very cool, Cat
Zooky Fogg: Dinty Ornot
llanwydd: september 5, 1969 with dick cavett
llanwydd: check it out sometime
Cat: llan, buy paul's autobiography. it's really good and he could use the money.
llanwydd: really? I might do that. what does it cost?
Cat: his story of doing acid with groucho for the movie Skidoo is vastly better than the actual flick
Zooky Fogg: Anybody seen Don Wrinkles lately?
llanwydd: Charro actually called him Don Wrinkles once
Beet: You mean Rickles
Nabby: http://www.paulkrassner.com/
Zooky Fogg: I can see that.
llanwydd: she was talking to merv griffin as I remember
shoes for the dead: can you see this?
Zooky Fogg: I see far
Nabby: No!
Cat: http://paulkrassner.com/
llanwydd: slush hockey! LOL
Zooky Fogg: Not much but a glory cresst blazing.
EWeston: hat's a brown paper bag
shoes for the dead: how about over here?
llanwydd: slush hockey reminds me of trying to drive in ticonderoga in the winter
EWeston: That's a pickle
Nabby: roll up for the mystery tour
Cat: I was at the last meal of the fanciest restaurant in town and reading this book between courses, I laughed so hard they almost kicked me out.
Zooky Fogg: I miss Merv
pinholeF200: tierra del fuego--almost sounds like the end of the world
Cat: all the foodies were in tears but i was always gigling.
llanwydd: Cat, you spoke once about making an audio play about groucho. do you still forsee that possibility?
Cat: the waitresses were very impressed and maybe bought copies of the book.
Zooky Fogg: He's was another rare one.
llanwydd: who was rare, zook?
Zooky Fogg: Merv Griffith, llan
Cat: llan, here's the idea for that. two of my uncles were dragged into the russian navy to fight japan, and when their ship had to deliver stuff to sf after the earthquake, they jumped ship and helped rebuild the city.
llanwydd: no, fogg. griffin
Nabby: Must go! Must away! Great to see you all! Thanks Tween & co.! (Sleepy me!)
EWeston: Nab on dewd
Zooky Fogg: Yes, Llan.
llanwydd: I forgot the russians fought the japanese
shoes for the dead: see ya, Nabby
Beet: Dee you later Nab
Beet: Meant Dee you
Cat: i read in a new yhorker review of groucho bio that he did benefit for earthquke in frisco. when i acutally read the book, it turned out he did the benefit in nyc, but my play idea is that he meets my uncles and others inthat post earthquake frisco.
llanwydd: Nite, Nabby. have a great week
Zooky Fogg: Take care Nab
Cat: by nab
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
llanwydd: that's a great idea, cat
Zooky Fogg: Walter Crockett is all time favorite newsman.
shoes for the dead: sounds like a good story, Cat
Mudhead: nite all
llanwydd: I've read a lot about the earthquake of '06
||||||||| Mudhead dashes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Mudhead?! It's 10:32 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
EWeston: Keep moisterized Mud
Beet: See you, Mud
llanwydd: the famous photographer Ansel Adams told an interesting story about experiencing that earthquake
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cat: i went to frisco and spent a week in the library reading newspaper accoutns of the quake, expereinceing it in theri science museum, and recording some voices. than i just got away from the project, mostly becuase i got more and more into visual stuff
Cat: by mud, keep on pouring water on dirt
pinholeF200: nite mud
||||||||| Deputy Dang says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Deputy Dang exits at 10:34 PM.
Cat: she's not mudproof
llanwydd: nite dang
EWeston: Day ding?
Zooky Fogg: Be well Mud
llanwydd: down by the schoolyard
llanwydd: I've never been to california but I have wanted to ever since I can remember
Zooky Fogg: Anybody here ever have a car with a rumble seat.
Cat: hopefully fumiyo and i willl be there at the end of the year, llan.
llanwydd: when I first heard about disneyland I begged my parents to go there
Cat: i think my parent's ashes belong there.
Cat: or somewhere like there.
llanwydd: did your parents live in california, cat?
llanwydd: my parents are still living. They live in Florida but I think they will probably be buried in New Jersey
Cat: for most of their lives, llan
DJTweeny: Yes Llan, Cat's dad was Ford dealer in L.A.
llanwydd: that
Zooky Fogg: When it was new?
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
llanwydd: that's where we all are from
Cat: that's why i know the firesign
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
DJTweeny: Cat is good at getting all the FST street references ;)
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
llanwydd: firesign is one of the reasons I wanted to visit california
Cat: the ralph spoilsport character was a rival of my dad's ford dealership in the 60s
shoes for the dead: wooden medal
llanwydd: I always wanted to meet them but I got a chance to meet two of them in 1981
llanwydd: in NYC
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| lily - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Bobbelieu - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Betty Jo Bialowski - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: you must visit sepulveda (my highschool, now an armed fort) and mulhulland drive. both oddly pronounced in nick danger
Zooky Fogg: Peace to you all folks. Thanks the respite in the night. Back to the slog. Ad Astra. Thanks Tween.
Cat: by fogg
EWeston: Nite Zook
DJTweeny: until next time, Zooky
shoes for the dead: by Fogg
pinholeF200: see ya soon zook
||||||||| New notice: 'Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, that’s www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast. Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 6-8pm EST every Sunday at www.dishnuts.net, and listen to my show archives and ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow'
Cat: tween, i should send you the poetry show, if i havent' already. bergman and all of them have vast poetic impulses
shoes for the dead: snap snap
Beet: Nite Zook
llanwydd: wtf is this
DJTweeny: lol
DJTweeny: they used this on Not Insane
DJTweeny: the previous part, anyway
Cat: i wonder if they know cheech/chong?
shoes for the dead: thanks Tween!
Beet: This was fun. See everyone next week. Thanks Tween. G'Nite.
pinholeF200: thanks Tween was a gas gas gas
Lil: Nightoll
EWeston: See yah Beet
Cat: tween always comes through
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
DJTweeny: It were fun :-)
Lil: Thanks for the bits Tweeny
||||||||| pinholeF200 departs at 10:48 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Lil: and the sermon lol
Cat: very tasty bits indeed
DJTweeny: always my pleasure
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week. See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
EWeston: And don't forhet to use regular, bah.
Lil: And mine
DJTweeny: and ethyl?
EWeston: Shw's become seriously liberated
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Lil: Only on special occasions
Lil: Nighters
||||||||| EWeston departs at 10:49 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cat: off we flee
||||||||| "10:50 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Rufus_T_Firetween, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the garden.
||||||||| Cat scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cat?! It's 10:50 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| At 10:50 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, DJTweeny!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| llanwydd is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 10:52 PM.
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zooky Fogg - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Nabby - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lil - dead from measles
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 11:28 PM and Buster steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Buster: Actually it's an olive but what's the difference either way it spells disaster for us here in occupied France!
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Buster - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 12:16 AM and Buster sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 12:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Buster - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beaters - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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 4:32 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:
Beet
Betty Jo Bialowski
Buster
Cat
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
EWeston
foggybottom
Govslugwell
Lil
lily
llanwydd
Mudhead
Nabby
pinholeF200
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
SlugBugDoug
Zooky Fogg
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
http://laugh.com/product/firesign-theatre-dear-friends-cd-audio-only/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://paulkrassner.com/
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4900318,136.4664008,6z
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.paulkrassner.com/
http://www.seemreal.com/aq/aq11_krassner1.html



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