A Firesign Chat
04/02/2015




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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for April 02, 2015 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:05 AM and RedPillTweeny waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 9:25 AM, 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...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "7:01 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| 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 sneaks in around 7:13 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - you can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected) 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) **'
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - warm up music (The Rutles) - 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) **'
||||||||| Mudhead steals in around 8:41 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| "8:41 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Mudhead, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
||||||||| Mudhead tiptoes in around 8:45 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hey Muddy
||||||||| 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: and how are you this fine evening, Mudhead?
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cat in through the front door at 8:47 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Mudhead: Howdy Cat
Mudhead: Im more here in spirit tonight, I'll be monitoring but otherwise involved
DJTweeny: OK Mud
Mudhead: More of a lurker than a jerker
DJTweeny: ooooooooook
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:51 PM and late as usual, it's EWeston, just back from Elmertown."
EWeston: Hey Tweeney Cat Mudster
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DJTweeny: Hi EW
Cat: I il ve in the same dictionary as sobriety
Cat: live
Cat: hi ew.welcome to nothinbg
DJTweeny: lol
EWeston: The Rutles tonight um?
||||||||| "8:54 PM? 8:54 PM!!" says Catherwood, "''Bob'' should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as ''Bob'' enters and sits at the bar.
DJTweeny: really fun Beatlles parody group
EWeston: Cheese and Onions is good
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
DJTweeny: Eric Idle & Neil Innes, with help from George Harrison
DJTweeny: They movie is hilarious
''Bob'': Hey there Tweeny!
DJTweeny: Harrison loved it, McCartney sued them
EWeston: Neil being a major X Bonzo
DJTweeny: I didn't know he was in Bonzo
DJTweeny: kewl
||||||||| Catherwood escorts lily into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:55 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hi lily!
Cat: Worse musci than usual, tween
DJTweeny: It's supposed to be bad, Cat lol
Cat: hi lily
EWeston: With Viv Stanishawl the major writiing talents for the Bonzos
lily: ''Bob'' Cat DJTweeny EWeston lily Mudhead eveeen all and thanks to you DJT for the laughs
DJTweeny: it's a _parody_ of The Beatles ;)
DJTweeny: What music would you like to hear next week, Cat?
EWeston: Hi Lily Hi ho
Cat: i reallly truy to0 spend my ilfe listeng to msuci that doesnt want meomake nme kill myelf
Cat: this is harder tha you' thinkgk
Mudhead: I must say it to all, HI! Will be in the ethers tonight, but Im still lurking. Sorta like your Old Uncle Seymour.
lily: hey ew cat you all look so preddy tonight
DJTweeny: lol Cat
EWeston: Sounds more like Aunt Martha
''Bob'': OK. I've got my low-carb frozen treat and a Diet Coke(R). So I'm ready to PARTY!!
DJTweeny: Seriously Cat, who would you like to hear?
Cat: i can send you my collage of zapp[a and firesign
Cat: or now
DJTweeny: You're waaaay out there Bob
Cat: i think zappa's widdow may sue me
DJTweeny: I'll play some Zappa for you next week
||||||||| shoes for the dead sashays in at 8:59 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
''Bob'': Mmm Zappa + Firesign.. sounds tasty.
DJTweeny: and please do send the collage
shoes for the dead: Howdy
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
lily: tween I have moved lol
Cat: for like, a fuck of a lot money.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:59 PM, dragging Nabby by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
lily: back in the good ole
''Bob'': Been listening to the 4 CD "Mofo" release of Freak Out this week. Good stuff.
EWeston: The Fuller Brush shoeman arrivith
DJTweeny: You do get around, lily
shoes for the dead: hey Nabby
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 02, 2015 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cat: hi \nab. i can bsatrely see. that's not sayintg much
Nabby: Ouch! My iron lung is working again!
EWeston: Lo Nabby
Nabby: Hello ALL
lily: I like it tween
EWeston: You can play the organ again? Excellant!
shoes for the dead: is All here too?
lily: tulip
Cat: hi lilyu
Nabby: All who is anybody
''Bob'': and then some.
Nabby: Capm Equimoxt
lily: nobdy here but some squirmmy frogs
EWeston: Brothe of equivilantox
shoes for the dead: vault of mindless fellowship
||||||||| 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 euphoriafish falls out at 9:02 PM.
Nabby: Help it's the police lol
DJTweeny: Hi fish
EWeston: A man with a fin
Nabby: Fish
euphoriafish: Hello! What's interesting?
Nabby: squirmy worms blech
shoes for the dead: Euphoria
EWeston: More fission
shoes for the dead: catfisf balls
Nabby: 5000 more
||||||||| 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!"
Nabby: What?
EWeston: More catfisk
Nabby: catfisk and husk puckers
EWeston: No lip balm for you
Nabby: Hellooooooo Tween
''Bob'': HONK!HONK!
EWeston: Signal before passing the lard
Nabby: Bergman!
lily: and Dick Tracy is real
shoes for the dead: pass the lard and praise the margarine
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - “TV OR NOT TV” - 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/proctor-bergman-tv-or-not-tv/ **'
Nabby: Duck Twacy Israel
shoes for the dead: jew betcha
lily: frog on it
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TV OR NOT TV” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
EWeston: Not they's in tha pond
EWeston: Never kiss a toad
lily: lily on the lily pad
Nabby: Never lick a toad
EWeston: I see more lickless toads these days
shoes for the dead: it's the drought
Nabby: lickless is the saddest of all cruelties or not
EWeston: I thought it was the zombie shortage
lily: they are movin east at a snail pace
lily: be openn with me lol
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Watson inside, makes a note of the time (9:12 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Nabby: what do you call four zombies in a jacuzzi
DJTweeny: Hello Watson
shoes for the dead: hey Watson
Nabby: Hi Watson
EWeston: Sauce?
Rufus_T_Firetween: dead, Nabby?
shoes for the dead: soup?
Nabby: yes--SOUP
lily: brainless bisque
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TV OR NOT TV” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: yipes @ soup
euphoriafish: "Pax domini"... may there be curses if our peace does not dominate over epedemics?
||||||||| Catherwood leads Beet inside, makes a note of the time (9:14 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: Hi Gand
Cat: mindless and fellowship go together
EWeston: Gand say sod arf
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Nabby: but eat it with a spoon, you wouldn't want to miss a drop
||||||||| 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: hi beet
Beet: That's "Hi Gang"
Nabby: Hi Beet
shoes for the dead: beet!
EWeston: I can't speak for gang
Beet: The sound is particularly clean tonight, Tween
lily: so southern could eat cha with a spoon
DJTweeny: merci
Beet: Hi Cat, Nab, Shoes, Tween
Nabby: Clean as a whistle and resoundingly resonant
Beet: EW
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TV OR NOT TV” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
shoes for the dead: cept whistles are spit into......
lily: 4 by 4 or 8 by 10 whatever it takes
DJTweeny: "It's very clean here..."
EWeston: And proud as a freshly washed child
Cat: i really dont want tobe eaten by a spoon
Nabby: Beet, Cat, Tween, Eufish, EW, lily, RTF, shoes, Watson --an expectant crowd gathering now
Beet: Toulouse change
shoes for the dead: fork you, cat?
Nabby: We don't want that either Cat
EWeston: Maybe an entrenching tool?
euphoriafish: I wonder what it is to be "Eufish" I hope it means to take joy in everything as though it were new
shoes for the dead: free, just a dollar
Nabby: That was my assumption
||||||||| 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!"
lily: chop stick panic
EWeston: Ewefish are often confused
Nabby: a dollar's worth of free is still free
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:20 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
euphoriafish: Is EWeston pronounced Ewe-ston or EW, eston?
shoes for the dead: Dang it!
EWeston: DD yerself
Deputy Dang: Hang it!
euphoriafish: Or E. Weston?
Nabby: this is some silly silly stuff
Cat: being confused is a lot better than, uh...
lily: whats the inflation on free Nabby?
||||||||| "9:21 PM? 9:21 PM!!" says Catherwood, "pinholeF200 should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as pinholeF200 enters and sits on the couch.
EWeston: Eweston has a problem
Cat: pin
shoes for the dead: hey Pin
DJTweeny: Hi pinhole
||||||||| 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: seventy-free percent!
EWeston: Photo staulkers back
DJTweeny: Hi Dang
Nabby: Hey pin
pinholeF200: Greetins to Cat, shoes, Tween and all
Cat: hi armenians
pinholeF200: u2 Nab
EWeston: Hello hairlips
shoes for the dead: kaff kaff
Beet: Hi Pin
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TV OR NOT TV” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
Nabby: It works
Beet: Hi dang
Cat: depends on what you call work
shoes for the dead: hi NSA guy
pinholeF200: where there's smoke....
Nabby: Procmer sings!
EWeston: calling it erk can help, or no...
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Watson - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: i've lived so long that the work portion of my life is trivial
lily: square eyed ot not square eyed
shoes for the dead: red square eyed
Cat: nabby, its realy hard to get phil from not singing
EWeston: Fuzzy eyed and defoliated tail
Nabby: haha Cat well that's alright
Nabby: Great track
DJTweeny: yeah :)
Cat: i always wanted to say,"Phil,shut the fuck up": buy you don't do such thihgs.
shoes for the dead: buy the pres some hash
DJTweeny: Phil said this is about an actual relationship he had in the USSR
DJTweeny: when he was over there with the Yale Men's Choir
Cat: so he did,tween
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: here's your picture back
||||||||| 9:29 PM: mmhatton jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Nabby: everyone should have one relationship with a Moscow girl, or boy, or yak for that matter
Cat: that's not my back
pinholeF200: sorry about that gum on your picture
Rufus_T_Firetween: The interview I did with Phil Proctor is here >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/ (10/13)
DJTweeny: Hi manhatton
Cat: my grandpa was born in st. petersburg in 1855
lily: everybody yaks
Nabby: Hi mmhat
EWeston: Its an interesting approach, to body hair
DJTweeny: oops, mmhatton
Nabby: Tanx RTF
DJTweeny: that's a long time ago, Cat
Nabby: don't talk back
Cat: indeed,tween
DJTweeny: When Russia was still a monarchy
shoes for the dead: yackety yak
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TV OR NOT TV” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
Cat: i love the fact i am related to a distant past
||||||||| Elayne sneaks in around 9:31 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Nabby: two three four
Cat: hi el
EWeston: The serfs were still revolting though
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Elayne: Evenin' all!
shoes for the dead: Hey Elayne
lily: hi e
pinholeF200: one of my grandfathers was born in Prussia
EWeston: Elayne warming up out there?
DJTweeny: and hard to put up with, eh Cat?
Nabby: Hello Elayne
pinholeF200: Howdy El
Beet: Hi E
Elayne: Well, spring's here at last, which means I won't last long tonight. Allergies are already making me sniff and yawn.
DJTweeny: Lots of pollen in the air for sure, E
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “TV OR NOT TV” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
Elayne: I think so, Tween. But I'm still kind of excited. Saw my first opening flowers today...
Cat: We are always happy to see you here El
shoes for the dead: we got snow today, El
DJTweeny: After last winter, it's nice indeed to see the flowers
Cat: I saw a photo exhibtions from AlanGizberg yesteray.
lily: springyish
Cat: My PLay Neal Amid came to life.
DJTweeny: I guess Dex's computer is still kerflunkt
Nabby: Flowers rock
DJTweeny: That's no fun at all, shoes
Cat: I keep worrying than Dex is dead, I'm noy that alive
Elayne: Oh dear shoes, where are you again?
DJTweeny: It's officially Spring. No fair snowing
EWeston: I have some swamp cabbage if anyone needs some starters
Nabby: puts some sproing in your step (spring + boing)
shoes for the dead: fun to watch, tho
Elayne: I think we should start calling spring "boing." Just to make life interesting.
Cat: typing and me do not always coexist
shoes for the dead: Montana
Nabby: Bergman!
DJTweeny: this is a fun tune :)
shoes for the dead: Nasi!!!
Nabby: two three four
''Bob'': It took me about 20 years to get that joke (Nasi Goring)...
Cat: we are all bettert from him
''Bob'': I love the long-delayed Firesign joke effect.
Elayne: Well shoes, there you are then. If you will live in Montana, you must expect this sort of thing...
Nabby: Happens lots Bob
Cat: bob, you are slow
Nabby: lol Cat
Elayne: I like me some Nasi Goring in polyunsaturated ghee.
Cat: Gee?
shoes for the dead: deadly bowl of Aji-no-moto
EWeston: The yak butter didn't thrill then?
lily: butter luck next
Nabby: And a glass of meat
EWeston: An interesting nest of spiders on the side
Nabby: Ghee whiz heehee
Cat: l ived in the land of aninotmoto for many years. that's not really a good thint
shoes for the dead: tastes like pork
lily: nutz I see it in your future
Cat: ajinlomoto. thing
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| mmhatton - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Nabby: Can I get rack of clever Hans tonight EW?
Cat: pork only tastes like pork if you're really, really lucky
EWeston: Only with the nylon bunnies
Nabby: pork: another white meat
Cat: good pork in japan is as good as food gets.
Nabby: are they in season??!!
lily: pork what everyone needs
Cat: beef used to be. fuck fish.
pinholeF200: it's bunny season, Good Friday tomorrow
euphoriafish: HEY!
lily: garame
EWeston: Its easter time, they're in season, with wallpaper seasoning
Nabby: fish is for seals
Cat: not you, euphoria. preserve your viginity.
euphoriafish: I *AM* a seal supporter. SEALS 2016!
lily: chocolate ears season
Nabby: okay okay
Nabby: lol
EWeston: fish can blow seals
Elayne: Dang. As I suspected, overcome and goodly stretched way too soon. Gotta time it better next week.
lily: need a new o ring
Cat: thee aren't enough fish for all the hungry seals
Elayne: Have a lovely PassovEasterWhatever, everyone!
euphoriafish: Ooh, other kinds of ears include tree ears. Anybody know what those are?
Nabby: Can I get a side of meatless hot creatures?
lily: bye e
EWeston: Good evening elayne
shoes for the dead: have a fun week Elayne
Beet: Be well, E
Nabby: Take care Elayne!
pinholeF200: see ya soon El
EWeston: Its next to the toad in a hole in a stump
Cat: Are you celebrating, El?
lily: whats a tree ear?
euphoriafish: bye, nice to meet you!
Cat: by euphoria
shoes for the dead: pliers jammed into the board
Nabby: in a bun under a blanket in a basket
euphoriafish: Oh, no I'm staying I meant bye Elayne!
shoes for the dead: and tubs of slaw
Cat: hi euph
Nabby: take care eufish
Nabby: Oh well never mind
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Cat: el; started this chat
EWeston: That jam can really set
Nabby: slaw? count me in!
lily: laughing gulls
Nabby: Catherwood serve slaw
||||||||| Catherwood gets slaw.
EWeston: And mother bakers deep dish sheep dip cherry stone pie for afters
lily: if ya get the pit ya win
Nabby: My cat Steve says hi
pinholeF200: hi Steve
Cat: Thanks for requesting this Lily
Nabby: Yep it's a goodie
shoes for the dead: insert here
EWeston: How fast is Steve in a pit stop
DJTweeny: Lil requested it
lily: lil did not me I go with the flow cat
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Majetski sneaks in around 9:48 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hi Johan
Cat: good flow
Nabby: Hey Johan
shoes for the dead: JAM!
EWeston: You, you are excentric, I like that!
pinholeF200: guten tag Johan
Nabby: Nocturnal Intermission!
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Hey Nabs, shoes!
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
euphoriafish: Wow, I may be in the last generation to get that static joke
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Hi pin!
EWeston: Down shift your dark energy
lily: I am eliptical
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD” Here >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Greets DJT
Cat: I try and visit sobriety, that that's a strech
euphoriafish: Like, now we interrupt this program to bring you a minute of web stream mindfulness buffer, right?
Nabby: I'm confused, mostly
shoes for the dead: What?
Nabby: What?
EWeston: More amps!
Nabby: More sugar!
shoes for the dead: ohm
||||||||| Outside, the 9:51 PM crosstown bus from Tel Aviv pulls away, leaving squeeze_the_wheeze coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - from the DOMM Dear Friends Broadcasts “BEING ON RADIO IS MORE FUN THAN WATCHING TV”- 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 **'
Johan Amadeus Majetski: What do you mean we can't talk in here?
squeeze_the_wheeze: better late then never
squeeze_the_wheeze: hi'ya'll
shoes for the dead: hey Wheeze
Cat: pete was amzaing. we should all be as smart
Beet: hi squeeze
EWeston: This a yelling only zone
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Squeezer!
Cat: wheeze
Nabby: Mode of Dukeness Matters
lily: sing the guest book
Nabby: Honk!
Cat: i'm not yellow, just my name
squeeze_the_wheeze: go ahead and give it a squeeze...many people like to
Johan Amadeus Majetski: It's in the water...
Cat: lily, good song choice
EWeston: Modal homes for everyone
Nabby: 3 days and 9 hours! Yeah!
shoes for the dead: three daze!!
lily: its got a beat and ya can dance to it
EWeston: four dace
Mudhead: Was my name mentioned?
Nabby: this one threw me when I first heard it
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
Nabby: Mud!
Cat: mud, you are never mentoned
EWeston: Maybe mumbled proudly
Nabby: two three four
Mudhead: Hi all, Im engaged this evenin, but I'm here, sort of
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: a panful, EW
lily: phone e tics
EWeston: farfignugin!
Nabby: foam ethics
Beet: Hi Mud
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: mud you're never more here than that
lily: beehive betty
Nabby: farfignugin to you too pal
Cat: hi lily.
EWeston: ventilated moncouch
Nabby: Who is, Cat. Who is.
Cat: or even low lily
Johan Amadeus Majetski: I'm thinking of raising chinchillas for fun AND profit!
lily: middle lily cat
Cat: i'm just tryingto be happy
EWeston: There's one crawling up my leg
Nabby: glad the wasp hive didn't catch on
Cat: likstening to fireign usually helps
lily: there is not enough hairspray in the world
shoes for the dead: or the DOA Ant farm
squeeze_the_wheeze: must be deer season
lily: blood moon fungus
Nabby: but not with Raid or we could smoke them out
Cat: i was bitten by a chinchilla in 1956 nearly killed me. apparently i'm not dead
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Dear season!
EWeston: It's Elmer Season!
shoes for the dead: just a long chinchilla coma, Cat
Nabby: I bit a chinchilla in '58 and it died in my arms *sniff*
lily: chinchilla scars
DJTweeny: was it the mutant blue variety, Cat?
Nabby: deeply
Cat: that was dumb, nab'
DJTweeny: was it tasty, Nabby?
EWeston: He thinks he sees a gap in the treamill
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
pinholeF200: just an illusion Cat, we're all pretending you're still alive
Nabby: You head to be there *sobs*
lily: like chicken
Nabby: Delish
shoes for the dead: didja singe it?
DJTweeny: The Firesign Chat is where dead Firesheads go
Cat: yeah, it always surprises me
DJTweeny: it's so etherial
lily: I am not dead yet
pinholeF200: it's like Field of Dreams but more like Field of Hallucinations
''Bob'': Not dead. Just smell funny.
DJTweeny: well lily, it was going to be a surprise...
Cat: i was here on the first firesign chat
DJTweeny: good one, pin
Nabby: Care for some chin-chili?
lily: lol
Nabby: lol pin
Cat: 19 years ago
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: has it got lots of hot peppers, Nabby?
EWeston: Dang it Tweeney. Now what amI going to do with all this dry ice
Deputy Dang: I just bought new shoes.
DJTweeny: That's a while, Cat
||||||||| 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!"
lily: use the tail for dental floss
Nabby: of course, just for you Tex-Mexicans
DJTweeny: use it to put out the cellophane, EW
pinholeF200: have a tshirt from Spamalot that says "I'm not dead yet"
||||||||| Deputy Dang hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Deputy Dang?! It's 10:02 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
DJTweeny: kewl pin
pinholeF200: wore it to my oncology appointment
Nabby: I'm jealous pin
EWeston: I had my eyes on a tex messican though
DJTweeny: triple cool, pin :)
Nabby: indeed, triple
Nabby: I got some RPG
lily: head stone
Johan Amadeus Majetski: That dmt, lily?
EWeston: remotely piloted ganga
Beet: Rocket Propelled Grenade?
Nabby: really pukey goo
Cat: i'm a head and i'm stoned
lily: dmt majet?
shoes for the dead: Real Potent Ganga
Nabby: it's disgustav
lily: a river in india
EWeston: It's Badinov!
shoes for the dead: De-Empty
EWeston: Filler down
Nabby: I only know the verne ganges
pinholeF200: Not Responsible! Park and lock it!
Nabby: What?
lily: took the toke right outta ya
shoes for the dead: What?
EWeston: The vernal ganges
Cat: pork and lock it
pinholeF200: Watt?
Cat: pigs can indeed flu
euphoriafish: Is pluto water safe?
Cat: fly
lily: cock and rocket
Nabby: Everything from Pluto is safe.
lily: opps I studdered
shoes for the dead: safe as clown's milk
EWeston: Avoid the plutonium pizza though
Cat: safe from what?
EWeston: The kettehs
lily: bozoette juice
lily: teeton tremmers
euphoriafish: Can I get Pluto water in Pb tabs?
Nabby: with extra tritium!
pinholeF200: had amnesia once but I don't remember much about it
EWeston: Extra for hydronium
shoes for the dead: the Eye of Light
''Bob'': YES, MISTRESS!
EWeston: Hangnail of newt
lily: das ve danube
Nabby: Be sure to attend plutonium pizza meltdown night. Banjo music!
pinholeF200: ya don't have to bake a plutonium pizza-self heating
Nabby: yeah!
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Those who don't remember the future are condemned to repeat it.
lily: you made the dog cry
EWeston: Respirators are availible if you forget yours
shoes for the dead: what's wrong with Jo music?
Nabby: We sure will JAM
pinholeF200: what kind of explosives are in blow up women?
DJTweeny: ** There's an hour/fifteen minute version of Martian Space Party on DOMM. Would you all like to hear that next week?
Cat: Hi Johan
pinholeF200: Party! Party! Party!
Nabby: that would be awesome Tweeny
EWeston: Its a special emulsion y'know
Beet: I am in favor of just desserts
DJTweeny: from a Let's Eat broadcast
shoes for the dead: got my vote, Tween
DJTweeny: OK, will do then :)
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Hi Cat! Thing's alright w/ u?
shoes for the dead: horizontal colon
Johan Amadeus Majetski: ..= horizontal colon
Nabby: What is reality?
pinholeF200: and they probably found out that it was by this time
EWeston: Famous spelunkers school
lily: pull a nose hair nabby
Nabby: ow!
lily: catherwood get nabby a tissue
||||||||| Catherwood gets nabby a tissue.
Cat: My wife is off to Spain in a few weeks. Tha6'e a trip
Nabby: i see the truth of it lily
shoes for the dead: most peiople pay a church for that, Nabby
lily: will she be runnin with the bulld cat?
euphoriafish: Laughter is definitely the best proposition you can make ever
Beet: Spain is such a wonderful place.
Cat: i'm sure we are all better cuz lily is here.
EWeston: Most people don't use the BBQ tongs
DJTweeny: here's one that went to the Dear Friends album
Cat: sh4's doing the 800 km walk
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Yep! Love it! Sgt. Illuminato
Nabby: moist people do pay a church for that--I see
lily: I like moist prople
DJTweeny: hope she inflated her shoes, Cat
Nabby: everybody like-a the juice
EWeston: They are rounding up more moist peole
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Duputy Dan has no amigos
DJTweeny: does it rain a lot where you are lily?
Nabby: lol Tween
pinholeF200: would walk 1000 miiles if I could just be with you.........tonight
Cat: i'm gonna reinterpret that, lily
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Lil close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 10:20 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the sitting room.
euphoriafish: "Don't you think God knows you're suffering?" ...and then they just. Move. ON!
lily: LOL DJT
Nabby: Hi Lil
Lil: Drat.
Beet: I have seen documentaries about that pilgtimage. I'd love to do that.
euphoriafish: If there was an answer to that point I missed it
shoes for the dead: thanks for the show, Lil!
Beet: pilgrimage
lily: thankks lil
Lil: Well, it'll be the archives again for me I suppose.
EWeston: peas porridge pilgrim?
lily: stationay kiss
Lil: What did I do now?
lily: all good all good
EWeston: Hit the time machine with a hammer
Lil: Missed my own request album :-P
pinholeF200: go thru Time Warp 2
Nabby: Mud, Bob, shoes, pin, lily, Lil, JAM, EW, eufish, Tweeny, Cat and Beet, I must exit stage six! Keep the fire and don't forget to pump your shoes!
lily: djt will let ya listen to it tomorrow
DJTweeny: You can always catch the replay from the archive, Lil - www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
pinholeF200: nite nab
shoes for the dead: by Nabby
Beet: Happy Trails, Nab
||||||||| 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!"
lily: Be what you do best nab
DJTweeny: should be up by tomorrow evening at the latest
EWeston: Mine's leaking, by nabby
DJTweeny: bye Nabby, have a great week
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Lil, I did that a few weeks ago with Dear Fiends. Can't control all the perametters
shoes for the dead: drug ususerer
Lil: Yep I know but missed all the fun
Nabby waves!
Lil: Thanks JAM
DJTweeny: Lil, do you get the show announcements?
Lil: Take care Nab
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews
Lil: Yes LOL
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Nite Nabs!
EWeston: Duck for the chorus
Lil: Well time for my dog's walkies TTFN
Beet: G'Nite Lil
Cat: By Lil
EWeston: Get him a blue tooth Lily, see yah.
pinholeF200: so long Lil
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Lily, dog folks are good folks
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: by Lil
EWeston: Get your pause off me
Johan Amadeus Majetski: I like to tinkle up and down my spine
EWeston: What kinda yoga is that?
pinholeF200: it's Greek yoga
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Kundi-tinkle-ini
EWeston: With neogoat cream?
lily: Beet Cat DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Majetski Lil lily Nabby pinholeF200 Rufus_T_Firetween shoes for the dead I fade thand for everyervyeverything DJT
DJTweeny: have a great week, lily
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Fare thee well, lil!
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
EWeston: Abide Lily
pinholeF200: be groovy lily
shoes for the dead: take care Lily
lily: chow cumcawumbas
Cat: by lily
Johan Amadeus Majetski: It's my birthday today
DJTweeny: Happy Birthday Johan :)
shoes for the dead: Neato, JAM!!!
EWeston: Early Apirl can be a good time to be born
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Thanks, djt!
DJTweeny: how many times have you circled the Sun?
Cat: happiest of birthdays
Beet: Happy BD. Mine last week
pinholeF200: the perfect date, all you need is a light sweater
shoes for the dead: here's a balloon for ya
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Thanks, everyone- very kind!
shoes for the dead: (or a heavy moaner)
||||||||| New notice: 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY Johan Amadeus Majetski!!'
pinholeF200: Wish Johan a happy birthday Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to pinholeF200 and mumbles "Something I can help with?"
pinholeF200: apparently not
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Catherwood, give everyone a slice of birthday cake!
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a slice of birthday cake.
Cat: oh dear
EWeston: Wait a minute. This cake maybe druged!
pinholeF200: we can only hope
DJTweeny: why, yes it is!
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Only the icing, EW
EWeston: LSD or STP?
||||||||| 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 intense demonic possession
||||||||| Nabby - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: i have not done enough drugs
DJTweeny likes the powder on the top
pinholeF200: lol
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Third red eye icing
EWeston: I see a lot of media people who could use a good acid trip
shoes for the dead: I wonder about the royalties on this one
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Aa milne on acid
||||||||| 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'
EWeston: Think you over shot there
''Bob'': https://archive.org/details/winniethepooh01miln
Beet: It goes in and out like anything - Bozos source
''Bob'': (public domain)
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Fudd's 2nd law?
shoes for the dead: Thanks Tween!!
pinholeF200: Thanks Tween, always many laffs and snickers
Cat: Thanks again, Tween
squeeze_the_wheeze: awesome night
Beet: Enjoyed the evening. Thanks everyone. Thanks Tween as always. G'Nite.
squeeze_the_wheeze: See ya'll next week
''Bob'': nite tween!
Cat: off we flee
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week. See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
||||||||| Cat departs at 10:45 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Gratitudes, DJT, & everybody!
''Bob'': cu around dear friends
||||||||| pinholeF200 says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, pinholeF200 exits at 10:45 PM.
EWeston: Cezh waiter pleeze. Hasty lumbago y'all
||||||||| "Hey EWeston!" ... EWeston turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:46 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Ok, you're a cab?
Johan Amadeus Majetski: Hey mister, I got a nickel...
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:47 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Rufus_T_Firetween by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:47 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs DJTweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| squeeze_the_wheeze - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| euphoriafish - dead from the yaws
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Mudhead - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 jaundice
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Majetski - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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
''Bob''
Cat
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Elayne
euphoriafish
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Majetski
Lil
lily
Mudhead
Nabby
pinholeF200
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
squeeze_the_wheeze
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/
http://laugh.com/product/proctor-bergman-tv-or-not-tv/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
https://archive.org/details/winniethepooh01miln
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow



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