A Firesign Chat
04/30/2015




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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 30, 2015 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Mudhead into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 4:10 PM, then departs.
Mudhead: Thanks Cathy
Mudhead: I will be attempting to visit tonight, things are different from every other Thursday as I'm in a nursing home not far from where the hamburger hit the highway in mystic cy
Mudhead: I broke my back in a fall so will be laid up a few weeks
Mudhead: I shall try to check back, if not keep it weird Austin
||||||||| It's 4:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Mudhead - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 6:36 PM downtown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 7:01 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| 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 - visit Firesign’s web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com **'
||||||||| 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 (Todd Rundgren) - 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) **'
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:48 PM and alabastermaster? steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hi alabaster
alabastermaster?: the grape IS DELICIOUS
||||||||| alabastermaster? leaves at 8:49 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..."
||||||||| "8:55 PM? 8:55 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Mudhead should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Mudhead enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
DJTweeny: Hi Mudhead
DJTweeny: can you get the stream?
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'lily', just granted probation at 8:56 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Mudhead: Hi all
lily: DJTweeny Mudhead hi you twoos and thanks tween for all
DJTweeny: Hi lily
Mudhead: I fell over and didn't get back up
lily: still in minni soda lol
Mudhead: I broke myl back
lily: no mud no
DJTweeny: Yeah, a broken vertebrae is nasty, Mudhead :( So sorry...
DJTweeny: Heal quickly old friend
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'cease', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:58 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: Hi cease
Mudhead: Yeah, will be in bed for 6to 9 weeks
DJTweeny: wow
lily: no mud no
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 30, 2015 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Mudhead: Yeah, so I'm on my iPad as long as the power stands up
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:00 PM, dragging Nubby by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Nubby: Cheers
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'MadGello', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:01 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: Hi Gello
||||||||| 9:01 PM: Cat jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
MadGello: Boy, Howdy, Firesign Theater ROCKS! yay and live, too
Nubby: lily, cease, mud, Gello
DJTweeny: Yes they do :-)
lily: lurkin is fun for the whole family
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: first time, MadGello?
lily: welcome gello
Nubby: More sugar!
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet in through the front door at 9:03 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
lily: helllooooooooo
||||||||| Zooky Fogg waltzes in at 9:03 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: And the crowd gathers. Hello everyone.
Nubby: Hi Kurt!
Nubby: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049967/
Nubby: Hi Beet & Zooky
Beet: Yo Nub and Zook et al
||||||||| shoes for the dead enters at 9:04 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
shoes for the dead: Howdy
Nubby: Hey it's shoes
Nubby: I'm having a psychic breakthrough Tweeny
Beet: Hi shoes
Zooky Fogg: Hey Nub. Thanks Tween. Bcclmms. Eve folks.
Nubby: Just yolks!
lily: I wish
DJTweeny: Hi Zooky, Beet, shoes
||||||||| New notice: '** currently playing - “JUST FOLKS” - 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://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#JUSFLKPFTFTJ **'
shoes for the dead: hey Tween
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Nubby: https://youtu.be/f1la0LBNFEY
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
shoes for the dead: Facca Mall
Beet: Uckem Mall lol
lily: got it runnin together nubby
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Lil inside, makes a note of the time (9:08 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
cease: ok, i have to go give out an award in a few minutes so i can't stay
DJTweeny: Hi 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!"
Nubby: Waz real?
Zooky Fogg: Busy week. My old Mayor is running for President.
Nubby: Hi Lil
Beet: Hi Lil
Lil: Hola Fireheads!
cease: i have to go put on a suit, which is a very strange thing for me to do.
shoes for the dead: Hey Lil
lily: hi lil
DJTweeny: Papoon was your mayor?
Nubby: thumbs up lily
shoes for the dead: the old gray mayor?
Zooky Fogg: Bernie Sanders but I'm voting Gracie Allen as much as I really just like Bernie.
Lil: Thanks for the hi s everyone
Beet: George Burns for vp
Lil: Me want Bernie Sanders
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing '''Bob''', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:10 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: good choice, Zooky
Zooky Fogg: No one trumps Gracie.
DJTweeny: Burns/Allen 2016!
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
Mudhead: Fell backward
shoes for the dead: hey Bob
Nubby: Hey Bob
Beet: Hi Bob
Nubby: All power to nobody
''Bob'': hallo, dear vrienden!
Zooky Fogg: That's the ticket Tween
DJTweeny: Mudhead has decided to greace a local hospital with his presence for a few weeks
DJTweeny: *grace
shoes for the dead: grease
Lil: Catherwood, please bring us a plate of cucumbers
||||||||| Catherwood brings us a plate of cucumbers.
Nubby: I like it better the other way Tween
DJTweeny: yum yum!
Mudhead: If we were in Greece we'd be there by now
Lil: Hope it's not serious with Mudhead
Nubby: delish!
Zooky Fogg: He'll have them chewing on him,Lil
lily: catherwood please five mudhead a new back
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to lily and inquires "Would you like something?"
lily: catherwood new back for mudhead
||||||||| Catherwood rushes up to lily and yells "oh, fuck off lily!"
DJTweeny: just a broken back, Lil :/
Nubby: lol
Mudhead: Since when? oh about a weak back.
lily: catherwood I am crushed
||||||||| Catherwood pretends not to hear lily
DJTweeny:
DJTweeny:
Lil: If you are in touch Tweeny please give him my wishes for a speedy recovery
Nubby: catherwood get everyone stoned
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone stoned.
DJTweeny: (rimshot)
shoes for the dead: char 'em
DJTweeny: He's with us here tonight, Lil :)
shoes for the dead: char 'em stiff!
DJTweeny: via phone
Lil: I see now LOL
Nubby: yellyfish
||||||||| 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."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Zooky Fogg: Parumpapum Rum
Mudhead: I'm listening, I bbl
Lil: Don't trip up now Mudhead ol friend
Nubby: Be here now
Zooky Fogg: I love the smell of gas-oline myself.
cease: I sent Austin Billville the Mountain.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:18 PM, then departs.
Zooky Fogg: And burning leaaves.
llanwydd: evening folks
cease: Hi Llan
shoes for the dead: doesn't Ram Das get royalties on that?
Zooky Fogg: Hey, llan
Nubby: hi llan
DJTweeny: Hi Llan
shoes for the dead: hey Llan
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Elayne', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:19 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Elayne: Hey Llan!
Beet: Hi Llan
llanwydd: hi elayne
Beet: Hi E
DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
shoes for the dead: hey Elayne
Zooky Fogg: Eve E
Nubby: Cheers Elayne
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Elayne: So I'm all psyched for CT this weekend.
llanwydd: comic something or connecticut?
lily: loverly weather e
Elayne: Nope Llan, it' thr Milford Duck Race!
||||||||| 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!"
Elayne: And an excuse to see DocTech and Lili.
llanwydd: lol
DJTweeny: kewl
Elayne: I know Lily, it's supposed to be gorgeous.
''Bob'': Apparently, that's not the only duck race that takes place in Conneticut.
''Bob'': Lived here all my life and never knew about either until last week, tho
Elayne: Do tell, "Bob"!
Nubby: the duck race has rights too
Elayne: http://www.milfordduckrace.com/
Elayne: There's like, what, a circuit?
Zooky Fogg: The Ducks don't know which way to fly here.
''Bob'': http://www.cometoduckday.com/
shoes for the dead: sack-a-duck
lily: my mom lived new milford e
DJTweeny: So I guess a FST album about Ducktown was appropriate :)
''Bob'': http://www.greatduckrace.org/
Elayne: Cool! I'll have to tell DocTech and Lili about the Naugatuck one.
Nubby: https://youtu.be/PFGcQNhSQUk
''Bob'': One right here in my home town, even: http://www.norwichrotaryduckrace.com/
Elayne: Holy crap, Westport too?!
Lil: You gotta put down the ducky
Zooky Fogg: I want to attend a frog jumping contest. I got a theory I want to try.
lily: conn has gone to the ducks
Elayne: I used to only go to Norwich during the Chfristmas holiday, I had no idea.
''Bob'': ...and https://www.facebook.com/PequabuckRiverDuckRace/info?tab=page_info
''Bob'': Who knew this was a thing? Not me!
Nubby: gruck gruck gruck day gruck
cease: Hi El
Nubby: hokay.....
Elayne: Here's another one: http://www.centralctchambers.org/events/Pequabuck-River-Duck-Race-6277/details
Zooky Fogg: Go in any direction and there you go
Elayne: Hey Cat!
Elayne: So this must be a thing unique to Connecticut.
cease: I'm off to give out the annual Monique Ishikawa Memorial award in a few minutes
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cat - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Elayne: Good on you, Cat.
cease: its always been in the aftnernoon but first time in evening tonight
cease: my friends are picking me up in a few seconds
DJTweeny: What is the award for, cease?
cease: Fumioy has been gone since Monday and I seem to have survived her absence.
Zooky Fogg: Be well by it, Cease.
Elayne: Poor Fumiyo-less Cat!
Elayne: How long is she gone for, Cat?
cease: The Beatles song When I'm 64 spoke to me a few weeks ago,now it's A little Help from my Friends
cease: 6 weeks, El
Nubby: Who am us anyway?
llanwydd: non-euclid LOL
Elayne: Yikes! I'd go nuts if Robin went away for that long.
cease: she walks from France to the Atantic Ocean on thie pilgrmiage tihngie
DJTweeny: only Nino knows, Nabby
Zooky Fogg: Does anyone know Hikahiroshito of Washaluka?
cease: yeah, i'm happy that she is happy, something she really wanted to do.
Nubby: No but if you hum a few bars....
shoes for the dead: humm a few bars, Zook
Elayne: Is this a Japanese thing, Cat, or a religious thing, or a Fumiyo thing?
Nubby: Indeed Tweeny indeed
Beet: I have seen several docs on that pilgrimage. Takes alot of stamina.
shoes for the dead: what?
Zooky Fogg: Give me a moment.
cease: not religious for her but it has been religious pilgrimate tihng for a thosand years. recently made popular by books, one of which Fumiyo read
Nubby: what?
cease: several of our friends have done this trek. it's a thing now.
Zooky Fogg: Can't find my key hummer helper
DJTweeny: What's the ostensible religious purpose?
Elayne: Is it this thing? http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/17/walking-to-find-the-way/
Elayne: Camino de Santiago?
Beet: Getting the blessings of the Christian apostle who is buried there at the end
||||||||| 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: he's full of bull
lily: who summoned the bull
Zooky Fogg: Tea time, yet?
llanwydd: sdfghjkl testing
Nubby: ride the bull
llanwydd: I meant edward m taurus, lily
DJTweeny: It's hard to test thise, Llan
shoes for the dead: roll us some bummers, catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood ignores shoes for the dead
DJTweeny: *those
Zooky Fogg: I've seen the light and drawn the curtains.
lily: llan I am bull by birth lol
||||||||| 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: at least you are down to earth
llanwydd: like me, I'm a virgo
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s new video with Jamie Alcroft - BOOMERS ON A BENCH - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiqBtMJY3o
lily: a lover llan
Nubby: Catherwood roll shoes' bummers
||||||||| Catherwood snubs Nubby
Zooky Fogg: Yeah. Them Virgos are earthly.
||||||||| At 9:34 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, lily!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| lily steps in at 9:34 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
lily: wee
Beet: I checked out two movies - Mirage and Way Out West - recommended on this chat. Both very entertaining. Thanks.
Zooky Fogg: I'm a 55 year old Virgo.
shoes for the dead: hey Lily
Nubby snubs Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside Nubby and mumbles "oh, fuck off Nubby!"
Nubby: wee
||||||||| Bobbelieu enters at 9:36 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
llanwydd: I think I saw mirage long ago and I have definitely seen way out west
Lil: Don't worry Zooky there's still time
Beet: hi lil
shoes for the dead: hey Bobby
||||||||| 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!"
cease: how's it going, llan?
Zooky Fogg: I plan on being a Virgo for the rest of my life.
DJTweeny: Hi Bobbelieu
llanwydd: great, cat. how you doing
Lil: Hey Beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “JUST FOLKS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
Beet: Hi Bobbelieu
cease: i'm going to give out an award in a few minutes
llanwydd: what is the award for, cat?
||||||||| 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: Who ets the award, cease?
DJTweeny: *gets
cease: just waiting for my ride
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Zooky Fogg: It's just easier staying a Virgo.
cease: in the first year japanese class, students are asked to write an essay. the best essay gets the award.
DJTweeny: kewl
||||||||| 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: good deal, Cat
cease: my daughter was enrolled in 1st year Japanese at Capilano University at the time of her death in 1998 so the award is in her memory.
Lil: More power to ya Zook
DJTweeny: very nice memorial
Zooky Fogg: I might start Virgo Airlines.
cease: helps young kids pay some bills, that's always a good thing. these are very motivated kids
llanwydd: branson would sue you
||||||||| 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: Vertigo Airlines might not work so well
Lil: We'll have to come up with a good slogan
Zooky Fogg: I've thought of crossing over to Capricorn.
llanwydd: LOL
Nubby: bronson?
Nubby: oh branson
Lil: Bahahaha good one Tweeny
llanwydd: that's still pretty down to earth, zook
cease: corn. now we can make whiskey
lily: corrnie mash
Zooky Fogg: Right, Tween.
Beet: Tom Collins
Nubby: I believe it's spelled whiksey
Zooky Fogg: It fits, lllan.
lily: he was the punk that lite the fireworks
lily: live in bursts
shoes for the dead: this is incomprehensible!!
||||||||| cease leaves at 9:43 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..."
||||||||| Hemlock Stones (Genuine!) enters at 9:44 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
DJTweeny: Hail and well met, Stones
Beet: Nite cease
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'not Ed', just granted probation at 9:44 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Zooky Fogg: My humble is veiled by my humor.
shoes for the dead: hey Stones
Beet: Hey Hemlock
||||||||| 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."
''Bob'': that's an oversimplification
shoes for the dead: and notED
Elayne: Hi Stones, and not Ed!
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Hello my Dear Friends! And a special hello to you, Tweeny!
Elayne: Stones, did I mention we'll be in CT this weekend?
not Ed: I am not ED
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: 'lo noted
Zooky Fogg: I'm doing my best Jaclie Gleason saying that.
Nubby: Hey not and Stones
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Hello Beet! And Hello Elayne! Did I miss anyone?
Zooky Fogg: Yo Stones.
llanwydd: I like how that album ends
Nubby: those guys are crazee
''Bob'': I, also, am not Ed
llanwydd: I had both those books
lily: nubby nup nabby
Zooky Fogg: Your Bob, Bob
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Elyane, what does CT mean? Does that mean Connecticut? Or does that mean cute?
llanwydd: I think one of them got stolen
lily: hi stone
Beet: Hi Peter
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Elayne, did you go to Yale? After all it is not just a Clinton thing, but a Firesign thing.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD” Here >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Hello Lily!
lily: this is your last past life
Zooky Fogg: I ken tu' tok dat vay
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Dear Freuds: HOW ARE WE GOING TO BRING BACK THE 1960s?
Nubby: Must exit stage left
Nubby: Thanks Tweeny
Nubby: Take care everyone and that means you too!
shoes for the dead: lotsa good acid, stones
Beet: See you, Nub
DJTweeny: yw :)
lily: bye nubby come back as nabby
shoes for the dead: see ya nabby
DJTweeny: have a great week Nabby
Zooky Fogg: Later Nub
||||||||| Catherwood leads Merlyn inside, makes a note of the time (9:49 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): I was talking to some of my "coffee friends" and they said: "Freeze dry them [the 1960s], Stones! Freeze dry them!"
Elayne: Bye Nubby1
shoes for the dead: Good choice, Tween
Merlyn: heya
Beet: yo merl
DJTweeny: :)
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
shoes for the dead: hey Merlyn
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): We must revitalize what is best from the 1960s -- but not freeze dry! I like my coffee authentic!
Elayne: Hi Merlyn!
Zooky Fogg: It's not possible to write "There are three to/too/two's in the english language accurately by it's own rules or lack of.
lily: no snorkeling in the baptsimal font
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): So, Elayne, what is that cryptic "CT" mean?
Zooky Fogg: Hey Merl
lily: e is in connetecuit stones
llanwydd: is that true, rosicrucianism was invented by albert grossman
lily: stones check nino
llanwydd: ?
Zooky Fogg: Who invented free thought? Perculee's?
shoes for the dead: Hey NSA guy
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Lily: Agreed. There must not be any snorkeling in the Baptismal Font except in Florence. They have a Baptistry which can accommodate snorkeling. If it's OK with John the Baptist, it's OK with me.
lily: sorry I am on the wrong side
llanwydd: I don't think john the baptist would approve of snorkels
Zooky Fogg: Or Ugg
llanwydd: I'm getting a hilarious mental image of seeing snorkels in a baptistry
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| not Ed - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Bobbelieu - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Merlyn: they have a baptistry you can do shakespeare from!
llanwydd: LOL merl
lily: the first chuch of the goeey death
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Thanks, Lily. So what's going on in Connecticut? Something at Yale? Or are you snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean which has recently been relocated to the East Coast.
Merlyn: Merchant of Venice is a favorite
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Elayne: Stones, it's the Milford Duck Race this Sunday. We're going to be there with DocTech and Lili.
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Merlyn: I will have to meditate on that one!
llanwydd: I've done merchant of venice. there was no baptistry or snorkels
Zooky Fogg: Don't smoke any wooden nickles is what I was told.
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): OK Merlyn, I am slow tonight. You are quoting my good friend, Mudhead.
shoes for the dead: you didden't beat the goat
Zooky Fogg: Or pickles.
DJTweeny: Mudhead is in the hospital, Stones
DJTweeny: broke something in his lower back
DJTweeny: says he'll be in bed 6-9 weeks
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Elayne, thanks for the information regarding the Milford Duck Race. I do hope that your duck wins!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Zooky Fogg: Nobody said anything abouth the eregano
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Oh! Dear Mudhead! Where is the infirmary which he is infirmed?
DJTweeny: dunno Stones
Zooky Fogg: Normal is a condition of the majority
DJTweeny: he's in chat and said he'd be back
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): NB: "in which" above!
lily: lol tween
llanwydd: sorry to hear that. I hope he makes a full recovery
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): I do wish him well! His girlfriend, Bottles, visited us in London a few months back. She is very fond of Soho!
Zooky Fogg: But that grass was as high as an elephants eye
DJTweeny made a pun and didn't even realize it!
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!): Well, Dear Ones, I am off! But I hope to see all of you back next week!
llanwydd: that's a pretty stupid line actually. there are no elephants in oklahoma
||||||||| At 10:04 PM, Hemlock Stones (Genuine!) vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
llanwydd: rather lame metaphor
lily: byr stones
Zooky Fogg: And the elephant was as high as the grass at it's eye
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:04 PM and DoubleEdmund sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
lily: ivory coats
llanwydd: they should be riding elephants when they sing that in the play
shoes for the dead: when it eats mouldt rye
llanwydd: elephants pulling tractors through the cornfield
Zooky Fogg: I tickle the polyethyleurothane
DJTweeny: Hi DoubleEdmund
Mudhead: An elephant high on rye
DJTweeny: oops, forgot to change the banner...
Beet: Hi Edmund Edmund
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Zooky Fogg: That'd be good LLan
shoes for the dead: het Double E
lily: no cats were injured in those strings
DoubleEdmund: Coo-ee all!
Mudhead: Batteries down to 17%
Zooky Fogg: It's digital.
DJTweeny: Nino says Edmund is from Australia
shoes for the dead: call the crash cart, Mud
Mudhead: Batteries weak in this version 1ipad
Lil: Don't fade awat Mud
Lil: away
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DoubleEdmund: How long have you been chatting tonight?
lily: heal well mud
Mudhead: I'll listen as long as I can all
shoes for the dead: about an hour, E
Mudhead: Was fun cya next e
Zooky Fogg: John Wayne on an Elephant Drive.
DJTweeny: DoubleEdmund - ** Remember folks. the chat/show starts officially every Thursday at 9pm Eastern, with warm-up music on the streams starting around 8:45pm Eastern
Lil: Good Mud
Mudhead: Week
Beet: May you heal quickly, Mud
DJTweeny: What Beet said
lily: and lurking whenever
Mudhead: Thanks, ni ni all
||||||||| "Hey Mudhead!" ... Mudhead turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:08 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
shoes for the dead: yuppers
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Lil: Take care Mud
llanwydd: hog killing in austrailia. LOL
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Mudhead in through the front door at 10:08 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Zooky Fogg: I know an elephant who runs a china shop owned by a bull/
lily: what under that kilt
Lil: Forgot something
Beet: Donuts anyone?
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from measles
||||||||| Nubby - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Zooky Fogg: oh the imagery is underwhelming. Must puff.
Lil: lol
lily: a breath of unfresh air
Zooky Fogg: undoubtedly
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'squeeze_the_wheeze', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:11 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
shoes for the dead: Wheeze!
Beet: I remember air raid siren tests every Friday at noon
squeeze_the_wheeze: in at the last...hi all
shoes for the dead: duck and cover
Beet: Yo Squeeze
lily: cover yer duck
squeeze_the_wheeze: cluck the duck
lily: duck muckin
Zooky Fogg: hey wheezy
Beet: pluck the duck, who have I got to lose
DoubleEdmund: Aluminum antenna on yonder peak keeps falling over in the light zephyr we call a tropical cyclone.
||||||||| 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!"
Zooky Fogg: What's left on those Donuts?
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: well, I must be going. probably see you all next week
lily: tri duck in
||||||||| "Hey llanwydd!" ... llanwydd turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:15 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
lily: by llan
Beet: only the sprinkles
shoes for the dead: sounda nasty, EE
squeeze_the_wheeze: see ya later llanwydd
Zooky Fogg: Just don't shuck the duck.
Beet: Nite, Llan
Zooky Fogg: Take care llan
DoubleEdmund: Need to know, how long you've been chatting, so I can turn up on time next week.
lily: spherical duck sauce
Beet: Do your thing,Tween
DJTweeny: ** Remember folks. the chat/show starts officially every Thursday at 9pm Eastern, with warm-up music on the streams starting around 8:45pm Eastern
shoes for the dead: we started about an hour and a quarter ago, EE
DJTweeny: the chat starts at 9pm US Eastern time
DJTweeny: that was 1hr 15min ago
DoubleEdmund: Thanks, Shoes and DJTweeny
squeeze_the_wheeze: I have an exscuse
Zooky Fogg: I bid 319
DJTweeny: yw :)
DoubleEdmund: That's 11am here
DJTweeny: Yes squeeze, why so tardy?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
lily: leg eggs
Beet: I'm guessing these guys were so buzzed after one of these sessions.
shoes for the dead: tommorow
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: so Edmund really _is_ from Australia :)
squeeze_the_wheeze: my fiancee from the philippines just arrived on Monday...trying to get things organized....try to translate fst to engliash as a 2nd language LOL
Zooky Fogg: If anyone finds 15 points, I lost them somewhere.
lily: cccoool but I am not from minnasota
squeeze_the_wheeze: I have an escuse this week lol
DoubleEdmund: Yes, I'm in 'Straya.
Beet: Do you speak Tagalog, Squeeze?
Zooky Fogg: They look like Indian Heads.
squeeze_the_wheeze: only the bad words
Lil: Ow my head hurts
''Bob'': i'm guessing they were buzzed during the sessions
Beet: salamat po
shoes for the dead: my points have bozo heads on them
Zooky Fogg: Crazy Ass Heads to be specific.
Zooky Fogg: I am guided by Harold.
lily: purple crayon ho
Beet: Never not buzzed
Zooky Fogg: I missed the bus this week and had to rollerblade.
shoes for the dead: are you listening at work, EE?
lily: oz
DoubleEdmund: I'm a perennial student.
lily: phil lol
Zooky Fogg: I miss my Gallagher Big Wheel Big Wheel
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Mudhead - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
lily: bestt to mudhead
Lil: Awwww we lost Mudhead
Zooky Fogg: Harmonic possesion will get you
shoes for the dead: i'll betcha a nurse came in and........
Beet: the zuchini girl was squashed
Lil: Will get me what?
Lil: If it's two for one I'm in
Zooky Fogg: A grinder of your choice Lil
shoes for the dead: did you wash this mask?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
lily: hoo
Zooky Fogg: In the key of G
Lil: Too many of you to chose from Zook
DoubleEdmund: ...sounds like M.
lily: there ya go punks
Zooky Fogg: You'll have that
Lil: The one with chalk on his back DoubleE?
Zooky Fogg: I get that feeling when confronted with red or black licorice
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shoes for the dead: What?
lily: is it time to atep into the caulk outline?
DoubleEdmund: Not quite with you, Lil.
Lil: Twizzlers for Zooky please Catherwiid
Lil: Catherwood, sorry
||||||||| Catherwood walks up to Lil and says "Something I can help with?"
Beet: the "i" is right next to the "o"
lily: ''Bob'' Beet DoubleEdmund Lil Rufus_T_Firetween shoes for the dead Zooky Fogg nite nite and tween you make me laugh
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies govslugwell in through the front door at 10:32 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Zooky Fogg: Yes. Twizzlers. I'm in that place next to Heaven.
Lil: Twizzlers for Zooky please Cathrwood
shoes for the dead: nitey, Lily
Beet: See ya, lily
DJTweeny: have a great week, lily :)
Lil: True Beet
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Zooky Fogg: How much chalk you use for that outline?
DJTweeny: A little late there, governor
DJTweeny: ** Remember folks. the chat/show starts officially every Thursday at 9pm Eastern, with warm-up music on the streams starting around 8:45pm Eastern
Zooky Fogg: Take care lily
Lil: If you were with me DoubleE I wouldn't have to type it
Lil: Nite Lily
govslugwell: yie know.
Zooky Fogg: Time is but a stream
Beet: Which identity am I?
shoes for the dead: and you can pee into the stream
Zooky Fogg: It branches like a tree
Lil: Just mark it Zook
DoubleEdmund: The string on me tin can is frayed. Line keeps dropping out.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Beet: that's important
govslugwell: and that's important
Zooky Fogg: I already have. Don't get the bottled water.
Zooky Fogg: Yes Lil
govslugwell: there's and echo in here.
Lil: Rats Double E
shoes for the dead: echo in here
Zooky Fogg: Hoohooharoocoo
||||||||| 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!"
DoubleEdmund: Yeah, it bites. I'll come back next week. On time.
shoes for the dead: see ya EE
govslugwell: new used
Beet: Nite double
DoubleEdmund: 'Night all.
Lil: Night EE
govslugwell: walk again by night
Zooky Fogg: Yee EEE
DJTweeny: Until next time, Edmund...
||||||||| DoubleEdmund leaves to catch the 10:39 PM train to Elmertown.
||||||||| 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
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Merlyn says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Merlyn exits at 10:41 PM.
Zooky Fogg: Thanks for the madness retreat folks. Back to the other world. Enjoy. Ad Astra FireHeads. Thanks Tween.
shoes for the dead: by Zook
Lil: Niters Zook
DJTweeny: Have a great week, Zooky
Beet: See ya Zook
govslugwell: Night, see you out on the Funway.
Beet: Nite Merl
Beet: This was a good one. Thanks to everyone. And of course thanks to the man - Tween. Nite all.
''Bob'': Thanks, Tweeny!
shoes for the dead: Thanks Tween!!
squeeze_the_wheeze: see ya you all next week...on time i hope...for me
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it !
Lil: Lovely show Tweeny, and thanks for the fun all
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
Lil: You too Tweeny sweetie
Lil: Nite all be good
DJTweeny: :)
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| DJTweeny rushes off, saying "10:49 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| 10:49 PM -- Rufus_T_Firetween left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Lil: Off I go,wind me up Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood winds Lil up.
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| MadGello - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from the common cold
||||||||| ''Bob'' - 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 dengue fever
||||||||| Zooky Fogg - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| squeeze_the_wheeze - 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..
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| govslugwell - dead from measles
||||||||| 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:
alabastermaster?
Beet
''Bob''
cease
DJTweeny
DoubleEdmund
Elayne
govslugwell
Hemlock Stones (Genuine!)
Lil
lily
llanwydd
MadGello
Merlyn
Mudhead
not Ed
Nubby
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
squeeze_the_wheeze
Zooky Fogg
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=jf-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tcotrw-rv
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/17/walking-to-find-the-way/
https://www.facebook.com/PequabuckRiverDuckRace/info?tab=page_info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiqBtMJY3o
https://youtu.be/f1la0LBNFEY
https://youtu.be/PFGcQNhSQUk
http://www.centralctchambers.org/events/Pequabuck-River-Duck-Race-6277/details
http://www.cometoduckday.com/
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#JUSFLKPFTFTJ
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
http://www.greatduckrace.org/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049967/
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.milfordduckrace.com/
http://www.norwichrotaryduckrace.com/



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