Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
09/03/2015

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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 September 03, 2015 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 6:49 PM: Rufus_T_Firetween jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast Replay starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:50pmET - visit Firesign’s web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com **'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:05 PM and late as usual, it's markhd, just back from Billville."
||||||||| It's 8:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| markhd - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:33 PM, dragging Timeghost by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| 8:35 PM: jack2at jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Timeghost: I need a new audio link, the one I have no longer works.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast Replay starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:50pmET - 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) **'
Timeghost: Than'x
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!!
currently RE-playing – Firesign's “THE TALE OF THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA”
plus the unreleased live performance in London “OUT OF THE FOG”
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
CHECK OUT THIS ALBUM AT >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gros-ln
See you next week! ~ DJTweeny'
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'lily', just granted probation at 8:51 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cat inside, makes a note of the time (8:52 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
lily: jack2at Timeghost hello and Mr Tween thanks for all you do
lily: hi cat
Cat : hi lily, others
lily: hows by u's
||||||||| 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 EWeston plummets into the garden at 8:54 PM.
||||||||| It's 8:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| jack2at - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
EWeston: Howdy Bramachari
lily: hey ew
Timeghost: Greetings to all
Cat : what are we listening to?
Cat : this is rather funny
EWeston: Mz Lily, TG and Cat. It is a football evening
lily: end of dome also
lily: anybody watch robot
Cat : it starts in canada on fri.
Cat : plan to watch. Fumiyo watches Dome, I just tape it for her.
lily: great end there
Cat : ah, gaffigan.
Cat : tween a sudden no show tonight?
Cat : i suspect we'll have far fewer chatters.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 03, 2015 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| shoes for the dead enters at 9:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
||||||||| Beet bounds in at 9:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
shoes for the dead: Howdy
EWeston: Resoled?
Beet: Evening everyone
Cat : beet, shoes
EWeston: An Beet
shoes for the dead: yuppers
Beet: Hi Cat, EW, lily, shoes & Time
lily: mor pork o
lily: hey beet
Cat : Now we can make Borscht!
Beet: Glad to contribute
EWeston: More immoral art!
lily: but its so red
Cat : red beans and reds! every indian's fave
lily: the can vas speaks
Beet: Hi down there!
shoes for the dead: tastes like pork
Cat : it's march eh? feels like it outside.
Beet: Hi Tween
lily: yeah
lily: yeah
EWeston: Then rolls over
Beet: Tweeny just went dead
Cat : speaking of the london firesign show, i had planned to use the first part of it as an intro to my collage Sgt. Pep Pills but as of yesterday have abandoned that project.
shoes for the dead: then the audio goes dead
EWeston: Just on vacation maybe
lily: all I ever wanna do
EWeston: I'm back to the music
lily: long walks on the deck
Cat : out where an indian's your friend?
lily: music souls the sooth
Beet: and you can pee into the stream
EWeston: Bit high speed jazz right now
lily: that good wiz
Beet: even though it's not streaming
lily: mary martins peter pan
Cat : nothing here.
Beet: Hey, Tween! The sound's off
EWeston: In other newts I'm getting an old bass refurbished
Cat : no tweeny tonight
shoes for the dead: didn't know bass had fur
Beet: Should we all individually play our own copy of "Giant Rat"?
lily: blame it on lily catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside lily and inquires "Did you want me?"
EWeston: A very tuff mold maybe
||||||||| Catherwood enters with COtech close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:10 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
EWeston: Its a Guild M83 ll sebenty tree vintage
Cat : CO
shoes for the dead: sound now
Beet: Someone could say "GO" and we could all start at the same time
shoes for the dead: hey Cotech
Beet: Sound back now
lily: thanks tween
EWeston: I'm imagining a firehead foot race. People are going in every direction
Cat : oh it's by the light of the silvery
shoes for the dead: eclectic or accositc?
Cat : syrian ambassador in a jar, more prescient now than ever.
Beet: he found the door ajar
EWeston: Lets Paul hallo bodied
shoes for the dead: meune
Cat : one might be washing up on a beach in turkey at any moment.
shoes for the dead: bassicly a sound instrument
lily: I see calving in our future
EWeston: It had the nice warm tone you expect from a Les Paul body. Two humbuckers, and a bit heavy
Cat : is the war with the cows over?
EWeston: I had my peice of Humus bronzed
shoes for the dead: cows with guns...........
lily: oyster
EWeston: Oysters with lazers
lily: meaan beaches
EWeston: Do not go down to the beach, this year
shoes for the dead: lost my whey
EWeston: Espicialy with an oyster gun in your hands
Beet: Puntastic
lily: only fire when you see the guck of the guc==
EWeston: Cheeze it chedder breath
Cat : in your eyes, leftenent.
EWeston: Might morphin big white cheese wrench powers, activate!
shoes for the dead: let's be off
EWeston: A quantum impossibilty
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| COtech - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat : 23 skidoo, mr. bombardier.
EWeston: Who ordered the hot karma?
lily: chew prints
shoes for the dead: eschew prince
EWeston: Then points and larfs
lily: silly lily e que
EWeston: We are trying to trace your shadow now
lily: washed and pressed
EWeston: and returned to water before your ready
lily: 10 to 12 hours
shoes for the dead: watched and depressed
EWeston: Dry cleaned in water
lily: its a wringer
EWeston: We can do it in gasoline for extra
Cat : yes tween on tape, they are called the mushroom plays because they were broadcast from the magic mushroom, a club in la.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts COtech inside, makes a note of the time (9:32 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cat : i wish i wasn't the only person who knows this kinda stuff. this is, after all, Firesign chat.
shoes for the dead: petro porn
lily: bur you are teaching all of us cat
shoes for the dead: I knew, cat
Cat : welcome back CO.
Cat : takew it straight.
Beet: yo tech
EWeston: No its the Extra family. They have the local sponge warehouse franchise
Cat : i havent had a paycheck as a teacher since june, 2002.
Cat : but i can't stop being pedantic.
Cat : very annoying.
shoes for the dead: must be a Canadian thing
lily: sen se
EWeston: Not in the cringe please
Cat : no, there are lots of annoying americans too.
lily: lily waves her hand
shoes for the dead: most of us, Cat
lily: pick me
shoes for the dead: we're #1!
Cat : what a pretty hand.
EWeston: One is now calling for a wall on the Canadian border, Governor Walker
Cat : this was the first album where they began using "canadian" as a joke. lots more of that in the Fools in Space shows.
lily: it puts you in the drivers seat
Cat : saw cartoon online, or reagan saying to gorbachev, mr. gorby, lend us your wall.
EWeston: A sublte nod to David's Canadian ancestry I'd thought
Cat : david has canuck ancestors? he told me not of that.
lily: how to wall in a continent is less than 1000 years
Cat : his mother told me the family had vacationed in victoria once.
||||||||| 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."
lily: be the brick in the wall
EWeston: I visited Casa Ossman once. He said his family Moved from there to La during WW2
shoes for the dead: step one, get lotsa Mexican masons
Cat : where's pink floyd when you need them?
Cat : on facebook recentlyk someon asked if there was a underground comix influene on the firesign and ossman said this scene was right out of zap comix.
EWeston: LA. War work I believe
Beet: Ummagumma
Cat : yes he did mention having lived in mexico city at one point. but dave was born in santa monica in 1936. his poem about that is the greatest poem i've ever encountered.
EWeston: Uma guma goo!
EWeston: Earlier than I thought.
Cat : his knowledge of spanish is obvious on the deputy dan piece.
Cat : speaking of that piece, the collage i'm working on now is called Deputy Steely Dan has no friends.
shoes for the dead: good one, Cat
EWeston: He has clients
Timeghost: I'd like to hear that
Cat : i'm gonna throw in a bunch of firesign riffs inside some steely dan tunes.
Cat : i should give myself a deadline of the end of october for this as we're going south in november.
Cat : not sure when
lily: a bad head of steam
Beet: Frank is flushed with pride
EWeston: And later flushed himself
Cat : i read that in the Toilet.
lily: flush the medow
Beet: trashy novel
shoes for the dead: is that the Montreal paper?
Cat : The Daily Merde?
Beet: three times a day
lily: boquet garnis times
shoes for the dead: all the shit that's fit to flush
Beet: swirling to the goal
Cat : ive been watching Boaredwalk Empire, from the same era as this.
Beet: great show
EWeston: Bonzo dog line. Y'see the natives had it their novels that if a chaps soul is pure then the sanke bite wouldn't harm him. Poor old Hargreves died almost immediatly, horrible agony
Cat : i just watcdhed a series on amc called The Making of the Mob NY or something like that, mstly about Luciano, so boardwalk is a good thing to watch after that.
||||||||| Catherwood leads kevin inside, makes a note of the time (9:54 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
shoes for the dead: hey Kevin
Beet: howdy kev
Cat : something that confuses me is that heroin went from something you could buy legally at any pharmacy at the beginning of the century to the sort of junkies portrayed in Boardwalk. how did that happen?
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| COtech - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat : kevin
lily: baby mobsters
shoes for the dead: all the housewives got hooked first
Cat : CO keeps coming and going like a crazy monkeyh
Cat : al capone is a character in my play Neal Amid, starring Phil Austin as time/space travelling Neal Cassady.
Cat : my famiy had some involvement with that world.
Cat : there's a scene in season 5 where capone is told he just lost some canadian club. that he got from my home town, probably from my relatives.
EWeston: Someone made a political windfall making it illegal. xenophobia of the yellow people threat qas a part of it.
Cat : read superb book recently called Chasing the Scream, the hundred year drug war and major characters are rothstein, who created the heroin netowrk and anslinger, who died and opium adict.
EWeston: Peril. that was the word
lily: des guys
Cat : but threw every other user in jail, as continues to this day, to some extent.
Cat : that may change with canadian election.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
lily: everybody has their coroner
EWeston: Part of the same idea with marihuana had to do with Dupont needing to sell wood pulp based paper
Cat : you snuff em, we stuff em
Beet: Right on time, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 10:00 PM"
shoes for the dead: Anslinger hated Mexicans,so the pot went with it
Cat : hearst wanting to protect his forests too
Cat : anslinger seemed to hate everybody.
EWeston: The profits from those trees
Cat : turned into newspapers
lily: can we re dress the statement
EWeston: A prototype of our current teabagers
shoes for the dead: the beating goes on
EWeston: Something off the shoulder lily?
Cat : without a dress, you're naked, miss dudley.
lily: under the cuff ew
EWeston: A sleeve job eh?
shoes for the dead: cuff Em
EWeston: An gag me
lily: sppon
EWeston: Ben fun listening to the intro umteen times, but it begins to pale. See you all next fire time.
lily: tic tock doc
||||||||| At 10:06 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, EWeston!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Cat : by ew
: Ben fun listening to the intro umteen times, but it begins to pale. See you all next fire time.
: An gag me
shoes for the dead: see ya EW
: A sleeve job eh?
: A prototype of our current teabagers
lily: ew took the chat with em
shoes for the dead: he speaks from the beyond
Beet: See ya EW
Cat : maybe we'll be getting a new cd from austin and bergman, laughs from beyond the grave.
lily: wow that is just it
Cat : there is a spider robinson story that ends with a dead john lennon dropping a cd on the main character, from heaven.
Timeghost: What story is that?
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| kevin - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat : forget. google would know.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "10:10 PM and late as usual, it's NikolaiTesla, just back from Illinois."
Cat : he blew his fuse and tesla shows up.
NikolaiTesla: lol
Beet: Hi Nik
shoes for the dead: hey Tesla
lily: weird
NikolaiTesla: Hi folks btr l8 or never
shoes for the dead: wired
lily: lazy money
NikolaiTesla: did the fog happen yet?
Cat : what a magnificent album.
lily: grand
Cat : giant rut?
Beet: Includes Giant Rat
shoes for the dead: it's a big ass book
Cat : well said, tween.
NikolaiTesla: Giant Rat one of the best fst works!
Beet: Hi Pete
Cat : that's my job. i think all firesigns thought of their work as educational
Cat : revolutionary
Cat : brain training.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Nabby', just granted probation at 10:17 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: Almost forgot: Hello NSA guy
shoes for the dead: hey Nabby
Nabby: Jello shoes
Beet: I'm a cult follower
Cat : the nab man.
Beet: Hi Nab
shoes for the dead: I was up at lake Vermillion
Nabby: Yo Cat
lily: cool
Cat : i thought there weren't enough people from the northwest here yet.
Nabby: Cheers Beet
lily: hi nabbt
Cat : the mc 5 of comedy.
lily: ugh
Nabby: hey lily, Tween
Cat : i had wanted to use that intro, up until he says The Firesign Theatre and replacing it with Sgt Pepper intro.
NikolaiTesla: Kick out the laughs brothers and sisters!
lily: doggy dudes
Nabby: Tryin Cat tryin - but late 2 nite
Cat : nik the kick
Nabby: Hey Niko
Cat : better late than not.
Nabby: cat
NikolaiTesla: (Kick Out the Jams- MC5)
Cat : this is not my fave firesign bit
Nabby: dogs love to eat dead catz
NikolaiTesla: must b a cat person
Cat : i'm not dead yet. stop eating me.
Nabby: She he is one of each
Nabby: eat it
shoes for the dead: stop eating each other! Not Insane!
lily: more sugar
Nabby: word & roll
Cat : he expects the audience to know who jack benny was.
Cat : unlikely.
NikolaiTesla: 'well'
NikolaiTesla: Don, Oh Don
lily: good one nik
Nabby: jack bunny?
lily: while rome burns
shoes for the dead: I bet the audience is old there too, Cat
||||||||| At 10:24 PM, Nabby hurries out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
NikolaiTesla: http://gregbellmedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Jack-Benny-Better-Statue.jpg
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Nabby in through the front door at 10:24 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Nabby: whoops
lily: cool nik
Cat : thanks, nik. what a great statue.
NikolaiTesla: bout 8mi east of me
Cat : is that in his home town?
NikolaiTesla: Waukegan! yup
lily: see cat we learn
Beet: Jack was a funny guy
lily: the clock is clocking
Nabby: clazzic Benny & Blanc https://youtu.be/NCCBdqBQRVw
||||||||| "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!"
lily: nabby your cues
Nabby: excues me
Beet: What a great idea
Cat : i have warm memories of listening to the benny show on the car radio while my parents drove south in the early 50s
Beet: Gimme 2
shoes for the dead: got change for five?
NikolaiTesla: Still replays on tv on the B/W stations
shoes for the dead: in steeeereo hi-fi
NikolaiTesla: shhh
NikolaiTesla: Oh it was getting quiet
Nabby: I dig the Hawaiian Hallucination Song
Beet: Trippy
lily: sing it
Cat : call your friends from the afterlife
Cat : we were just discussing that.
Nabby: Ole ohio oi la (etc.)
Nabby: what do you mean we
shoes for the dead: shit, I don't even call them now
Cat : me and the log, nabster
lily: watch out for the fox
Nabby: the hot cheese log Cat?
shoes for the dead: roll over Beethoven minutes
Nabby: squeeze a fox and get a big surprise
NikolaiTesla: what does the fox say
lily: glove
Nabby: foxes have very refined British accents
Cat : show biznss kids making movies of themselves, and then this
NikolaiTesla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
Nabby: Yes Niko
lily: and those big blue eyes
Nabby: bergman was/is not insane
NikolaiTesla: oh cool
Nabby: but he was hyperwacky
lily: floppy disc set
Nabby: https://youtu.be/tN8E1y5aRcE
Cat : pete's dead. his daughter is not insane.
Beet: Possibly my most favorite sequence of them all.
Nabby: who was the head of firesign? who was the heart? who was the spleen?
lily: good one nabby
lily: who was the toenail fungus
NikolaiTesla: no choose Dr No
shoes for the dead: the Islets of Langerhans?
Cat : me too ,neet
NikolaiTesla: zip beep
Nabby: rat own Beet
Cat : do you remember the future? forget it, tape head.
lily: ty
shoes for the dead: Thanks Tween!
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
NikolaiTesla: Thanks Ruf er tween
Beet: Love the chat. Thanks everyone. Thanks Tween. G'Nite
lily: Beet Cat lily Nabby NikolaiTesla shoes for the dead nite all and tween great great great
Nabby: Tanx lily & Tweeny & Merlin & a dish o' nutz
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
NikolaiTesla: Nit all
Cat : off we flee
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Timeghost: And another therapy session ends. Adieu, dear friends; parting is such
Nabby: bye bye Beet, Cat, Niko, shoes & TG
NikolaiTesla: sor sweeto
Nabby: off we go
||||||||| "Hey Cat !" ... Cat turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:47 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| NikolaiTesla leaves at 10:48 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..."
lily: Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nabby - dead from measles
||||||||| Timeghost - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| shoes for the dead - 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| lily - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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:
Beet

Cat
EWeston
lily
Nabby
NikolaiTesla
shoes for the dead
Timeghost

URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gros-ln
http://gregbellmedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Jack-Benny-Better-Statue.jpg
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
https://youtu.be/NCCBdqBQRVw
https://youtu.be/tN8E1y5aRcE
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com