||||||||| 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 24, 2015 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood escorts DJTweeny in through the front door at 7:55 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| 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 Firesigns web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com' ||||||||| Outside, the 8:30 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| 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) 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: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! ** Currently playing: warm up music (The Moody Blues) Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)' ||||||||| Catherwood leads Ralph in through the front door at 8:46 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Beet into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:47 PM, then departs. Beet: The MOODYS! Howdy everyone. Beet: Hi Ralph, Tween. Ralph: Hello, friends.............. DJTweeny: Hi Beet, Ralph Beet: Early tonight. ||||||||| Cat enters at 8:49 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex. Beet: Hi Cat. DJTweeny: Hey Cat Cat : Hi all Beet: BTW the Moody Blues is/are my favorite all time group. Beet: Unmistakable sound ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:51 PM and lily waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Beet: Hi lily Cat : Lily lily: Beet Cat DJTweeny lily Ralph hi and higher thanks tween for everything lily: mine too beet I love tham DJTweeny: Hi lily DJTweeny: This album is with keyboardist Patrick Moraz lily:tween ;/ Beet: a girl after my own heart DJTweeny: Long Distance Voyager lily: vger lily: I saw tommies guitar in tokyo lily: yeah beet Beet: I don't know how you manage it, but the fidelity on the broadcast is quite nice. ||||||||| 8:55 PM: EWeston jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Beet: Howdy EW DJTweeny: only 128k, but much higher quality before the encoder lily: more volume hi ew DJTweeny: Hi EW EWeston: Rvening Tweeny Cat Lily ralph and my favorite bett, er beet lily: ty tween ||||||||| 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: love them in concert new album commin out DJTweeny: cool Beet: I have gone to three of their concerts. Amazing. lily: 6 DJTweeny: Saw them once in the early 90's, after Moraz had left Beet: Wow DJTweeny: and yeah, amazing in concert DJTweeny: with the Indianapolis Symphony lily: and they rock it ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'Merlyn', just granted probation at 8:59 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Beet: Cosmic Rockers ||||||||| Outside, the 8:59 PM uptown bus from Missouri pulls away, leaving pinholeF200 coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 24, 2015 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" Beet: Hi Pin DJTweeny: Hi pinhole Beet: Yo Merl Cat : Merl, Pin EWeston: Merlyn an That small dot of light lily: volume down DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn ||||||||| shoes for the dead enters at 9:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Chapeau Manger. pinholeF200: Hi, Beet, Cat, Tween and all of Firedom shoes for the dead: Howdy EWeston: Shoes for outdestry Cat : shoes lily: carps EWeston: Flounders Beet: Holy Crap! shoes for the dead: canadian feline DJTweeny: Hi shoes Beet: Hi shoes EWeston: Bobcat eh? lily: fertilize it lily: hiiii EWeston: Put in the holy beans shoes for the dead: and the sacred ham ||||||||| 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!" Cat : i remember michael packer playing this for me on the phone, telling me it would never become an album Cat : thankfully, he was wrong. EWeston: Pigs is fruit? lily: thankfully cat Cat : packer was their archivist in the early 90s and did several projects with them EWeston: I guess that's how well got holy shit from above pinholeF200: better than being tinkled down on shoes for the dead: trickeled on theory ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! Now playing: Firesign's PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN ** 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln' EWeston: I stick with twinkled on lily: twinkie style Cat : i didn't know the ringball they refer to is the Mayan game. DJTweeny: the skit Pink Hotel Burns Down is of course the precursor to Eat Or Be Eaten Cat : Proctor mentioned it decades later. shoes for the dead: twinkle little czar DJTweeny: ok, OK Cat lily: with severed heads lily: tinker bell syndrome EWeston: Deep fried DJTweeny: sorry about the abrupt level change shoes for the dead: tastes like Pork DJTweeny: these tracks were just too low EWeston: Whadda bout the corn smut? DJTweeny: had to change an iTunes option for them Cat : there's a scene in my play Box of Time (with Austin) that takes place at a Mayan ringball game. shoes for the dead: we're on the El now, Tween lily: cool cat Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln ||||||||| "9:09 PM? 9:09 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Johnny Dollar should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Johnny Dollar enters and sits on the divan. Cat : I know too much Firesign minutae for my own good. ||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!" DJTweeny: shoes for the dead: we're on the El now, Tween << sounds OK now? DJTweeny: Hi JD EWeston: the model has v 8 shoes for the dead: hey Johnny Cat : Johnny Johnny Dollar: hI Tweeny, all pinholeF200: yo JD ||||||||| 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!" EWeston: Hi Dollar Beet: Hi Johnny lily: spread that on it lily: holey wholie holy EWeston: A divit by any other name shoes for the dead: moley lily: spend it up Cat : On one of his podcasts, Bergman relates the story of when they did the Jack Poet ads. pinholeF200: a divot is the early stage of a hole Cat : Jack got a call from VW headquarters in Germany telling him "get those motherfuckers off the air." Cat : Jack was surprised to hear a german say "motherfucker" lily: and a hole is the start of a tunnel DJTweeny: hahahahaha Cat ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesigns XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! shoes for the dead: that's great, Cat DJTweeny: Somehow, that is very believable EWeston: VW has other problems today DJTweeny: I sure couldn't believe they were real commercials when I first saw them lily: what emits DJTweeny: indeed, EW DJTweeny: big problems Cat : True, EW. But it sounded like Bergman was quite proud of that. Johnny Dollar: Those hacks lily: they are giving them away EWeston: My sister bought one of them DJTweeny: someone told me today that VW had already set aside $7bil 'to address the issue' pinholeF200: now you can only drive a VW at night, nocturnal emissions Cat : a motherfucker? what did she do with it? lily: I loved mine DJTweeny: good one, pin lily: lol cat EWeston: Peter liked being outragious DJTweeny: me too, I had a '67 bug lily: mine was a 70 DJTweeny: EWeston: Peter liked being outragious << and consider the company he was keeping, that's saying something ;) EWeston: She may ask for a trade in for something more rugged DJTweeny: * considering Cat : in the early 70s i had a friend who had a VW repair shop here in Vancouver. shoes for the dead: put your hand up the skirt of a Toyota Cat : WOFTAM auto, waste of fucking time and money. EWeston: It was a wonderful mix of personalities Cat : yeah shoes they got fired after pete said that. ||||||||| 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!" Johnny Dollar: doubled as a sewing machine tune up shop Beet: I still have a fondness for the beetle. A main icon of the sixties. ||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!" EWeston: We won't talk about the accordian repairs EWeston: Still a couple beetle running around here. No saying howmany engine changes they've had to this point. Beet: Cue the dramatic music. DJTweeny: Beet: I still have a fondness for the beetle. A main icon of the sixties. << yeah the old simple flat 4 models, not the new ones, which are just designed to look like the real thing shoes for the dead: hominy engines lily: love that sound they made Johnny Dollar: now we can make popcorn EWeston: A friend seemed to be always changing out his beetle motor Beet: Newer ones are a bad copy. What happened to the idea of an inexpensive, simpe to maintain car for "the people"?. EWeston: I had two Porsche 914's. Series 4 Vdub powered EWeston: It sounded like a small metal stamping planting behind my head lily: cat like reflexes DJTweeny: nice, EW DJTweeny: a bit noisy, eh? Cat : yes i do, lily EWeston: Unfortunatly the theme song for that car was rust never sleeps Johnny Dollar: high speed stamping plant EWeston: They were fun. Even the one I thought was catching fire pinholeF200: history of the beetle goes back to Nazi Germany EWeston: Long legs. But the thing to do is insert a Porsche 6 into the engine bay Cat : that disney bio on pbs showed stamping and seizing machine making disney records. lily: lol cat Cat : and eventually, Bozos. Johnny Dollar: 'The peoples car' DJTweeny: That's true, pinhole. Originally Porche working for the Nazis lily: good in the gas ass time EWeston: Did some monster tanks, and amphibious troop carriers ||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesigns XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action! shoes for the dead: nazi salamanders Johnny Dollar: don't forget THE THING pinholeF200: there was a special welding rig VW had to convince the Allies to return to them after WWII, otherwise no way to make the beetle bodies Cat : sounds alot like mutt n' smutt EWeston: Not involved. German aviation ideas of the time are still jaw dropping ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" shoes for the dead: don't they still make those in Mexico? lily: oof her DJTweeny: definitely the precursor, Cat ||||||||| Bunnyboy enters at 9:30 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn. Bunnyboy: lo dere ||||||||| 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!" EWeston: Brazil maybe DJTweeny: They did until 2004, shoes shoes for the dead: hey Bun ||||||||| "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!" DJTweeny: Hey Bunny EWeston: Hi Bun Cat : bunny Beet: I think the Mexican plant finally closed. Johnny Dollar: wabbit Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:31 PM and Lil sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Beet: Hi Bun lily: dew drop shoes for the dead: hey Lil Beet: Howdy Lil lily: hi lil Cat : Lil Lil: Hey all pinholeF200: hey Lil, B-b DJTweeny: Volkswagen Beetle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle Johnny Dollar: lil EWeston: Maybe if someone comes up with a twostroke fuel injected aircooled engine there'll a new true beetle DJTweeny: "The very last Volkswagen Beetle produced, manufactured in Puebla, Mexico, July 30, 2003." EWeston: Lil DJTweeny:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle#Mexico Beet: I am continuing to enjoy "Boomers On A Bench" on Youtube lily: oh I miss her Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctors new video series with Jamie Alcroft - BOOMERS ON A BENCH >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw Beet: Tesla EWeston: Expensive but comsumer's report raved about their latest lily: boomer is grand shoes for the dead: yuppers Beet ||||||||| 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 EdmundEdmund gets out at 9:35 PM. Cat : ed2 DJTweeny: Hi Ed EWeston: The bastid, howdy Johnny Dollar: double Ed ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesigns NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" shoes for the dead: Ednund Squared EdmundEdmund: Hidy, all Bunnyboy: I found out today that THE AMERICAN DREAMER, a rarely seen 1971 documentary on Dennis Hopper, filming THE LAST MOVIE, is now on disc. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln Beet: Hi E E ||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Ralph - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Beet: Ralph's dead Merlyn:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music EWeston: If enough Edmunds came together to form a gravitaional singulaity, would it be called an Edmundhole? Bunnyboy: Here's the title piece. Purty neat. DJTweeny: yep, which became EOBE pinholeF200: the whole holy hole lily: lol EWeston: We have that in whole wheat EdmundEdmund: Hopefully I won't get sucked in EWeston: I think a Fredhole is on the other enf Beet: Next week: Gravity and its opposite, Comedy. EWeston: Nino will be broadcasting to your brain buds DJTweeny: We had a request for some Proctor & Bergman. Any particular album? ||||||||| 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!" Johnny Dollar: Charger card shoes for the dead: tv or not tv ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski enters at 9:45 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex. DJTweeny: TV it is DJTweeny: Hi Johan Johnny Dollar: JAM shoes for the dead: hey JAM EdmundEdmund: (bows head on behalf of Peter B) EWeston: Goot! johan amadeus myjetski: Hiya DJT! Cat : jam Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln EdmundEdmund: Welcome, Jam johan amadeus myjetski: Johnny, shoes! Good to see yoou all! johan amadeus myjetski: Hi Cat! pinholeF200: hey joh johan amadeus myjetski: EE, greetings johan amadeus myjetski: Pin! lily: o tea Bunnyboy: Always sad there wasn't a "Turn 3" on THE PINK HOTEL. EWeston: Johamster johan amadeus myjetski: Evening, E! EWeston: Look you at the darkening of the light! DJTweeny: Hi Lil DJTweeny: This is another album that really needs to be re-released Beet: hi johan DJTweeny: Lodestone was making them, but Lodestone is no more EWeston: Do you have any Goon Show recordings Tweeny? DJTweeny: I don't EW, and I really should Cat : maybe this will be for sale on their eventual site. DJTweeny: will make a note to get some EWeston: Got a couple albums myself Cat : either proc or taylor said the mushroom shows would be for sale there. DJTweeny: maybe, Cat DJTweeny: I need to get Taylor back on one of these days to talk about the upcoming projects ||||||||| 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!" pinholeF200: cheesy Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln lily: left to their own EWeston: Portland it seems EWeston: They did get there Beet: OHHHHHH Bunnyboy: Several Goon Show excerpts represented on YouTube. DJTweeny: Merlyn suggested I play Captain Equinox (coming up next), since it happens to be the Equinox, so I thought why not the whole album? EWeston: There's site with short bits Cat : good timing Bunnyboy: Also Spitting Image, and an official SCTV channel. johan amadeus myjetski: Why not indeed Tween! Bunnyboy: I watched Spitting Image's THE 1987 MOVIE AWARDS, for the first time since it aired on NBC. johan amadeus myjetski: Spitting Image is hilarious! Cat : i dont think i've seen that, bun EWeston: Hippo pox is prefered shoes for the dead: pox lunch Cat : the few episodes i saw were fantastic lily: lox EWeston: Morpork Bunnyboy: I won't ruin it for you, but the winner for Best Actress is hysterical. johan amadeus myjetski: more sugar... shoes for the dead: lox punch pinholeF200: you can tuna piano but you can't smoke a fish EWeston: And never drink with one in Oklahoma johan amadeus myjetski: I had smoked trout once, but I don't know what it had smoked... ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Bunnyboy: Found several Spitting Image eps, including THE 1987 MOVIE AWARDS. lily: spoon EWeston: With great power come great spoons Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if youre on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also a couple of other unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/ johan amadeus myjetski: I'm a spork man, myself lily: serveche scares ya lily: when ya come to a spoon in the road EWeston: I'm afraid to try and say it Johnny Dollar: fork it EdmundEdmund: spork and beings ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesigns NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" lily: soups on EWeston: And lite farts johan amadeus myjetski: LOL, EE! ||||||||| sparky steps in at 10:03 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. EWeston: Sparky shoes for the dead: hey sparky Cat : ah charles shultz johan amadeus myjetski: Yo, Sparks DJTweeny: Hi sparky Beet: Hi sparky Bunnyboy: Gotta feed a family! Nite, yez! Cat : by bun DJTweeny: bye Bunny EWeston: Hoppy trails bun EdmundEdmund: Hi, Sparks. I used to have one of those....but it vanished mysteriously. Beet: See ya Bunny shoes for the dead: see ya Bun johan amadeus myjetski: Can't take 'em for granite, Bun! pinholeF200: night bun EdmundEdmund: Niteys, Bunny Johnny Dollar: nyte ||||||||| Catherwood says "10:05 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Bunnyboy by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door Beet: Hello NSA guy. EWeston: He's forgotten at home EdmundEdmund: but not forgiven. johan amadeus myjetski: I'll never for get you neither, Nancy! EdmundEdmund: .... you're such a tool... DJTweeny: We're also out of rabbits EWeston: A Harber tool johan amadeus myjetski: no more wabbits? lily: butt we got tail shoes for the dead: Chinese surplus EWeston: They're playing poker with the rays Johnny Dollar: wascally warmint pinholeF200: don't like hare in my stew DJTweeny: *rimshot* EWeston: He's probably uncomfortable about it
DJTweeny me wonders is Llan is a fan of Welsh Rarebit DJTweeny: *if johan amadeus myjetski: (cockcombing my hare) Beet: where is llan and nabby? EWeston: Use a Basilisk ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." DJTweeny: and Dex EdmundEdmund: ...or the Rare Welshbit... ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" johan amadeus myjetski: (appearance is impotent) EWeston: Seeing is disbelieving Lil: This sounds like a Goon Show episode DJTweeny: absolutely based on the Goon Shows EWeston: Lotsa bits from them DJTweeny: they say so in the liner notes Cat : very consciouslly, lil Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about THE PINK HOTEL BURNS DOWN at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=phbd-ln Lil: Cool EdmundEdmund: Needlenoddlenu. Lil: thanks for the link Lil: indeed Edmund x2 EWeston: In response to your direct question, I have no choice but to give you a dirct answer...what was the question. Da Goons
Lil -) pinholeF200: where's my script? EWeston: Under the corn starch Lil: accidental genius love that phrase lily: was it really all that plus some johan amadeus myjetski: I have a direct inquiry: The routine runs at the end of several shows involving the nun & the change of sect procedure. Is that available on a CD somewhere? ||||||||| 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: ty EWeston: I've got it on vynil shoes for the dead: vynil is final EdmundEdmund: There's a cure for that. johan amadeus myjetski: I wanted to make a gift of it for a friend ||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawas - SHOW BIZ FIRESIGN ** 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u CHECK OUT CATS PLAYS AT >> http://seemreal.com/' EWeston: Don't remember a nun though Lil: forget which one it's from EWeston: BBC should rediscover the goons johan amadeus myjetski: Maybe it was a clergyman pinholeF200: a former priest underwent a sect change operation and became a nun EWeston: That's the end of What This Country Needs johan amadeus myjetski: That's it Pin! What's that from? Merlyn:https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/fst-tour/dreamo.html Lil: Yes EW I miss them DJTweeny: Give Up This Day johan amadeus myjetski: Thx, E! EWeston: From the real reverans Sport Rendleburg pinholeF200: I want to say from Dear Friends but I'm not sure--typical Firehead--highly confused DJTweeny: I often play it at the and of the show, and shall do so this evening lily: peas be green DJTweeny: no, EW had it right Pin johan amadeus myjetski: Thx, DJT! pinholeF200: I meant me regarding the confusion DJTweeny: yw Johan shoes for the dead: What? EWeston: Wise Guy Confusion is always with us DJTweeny: What?? Cat : one of the chatters gave me the info for that bit, the pj proby wine Lil: No not from Dear Friends johan amadeus myjetski: don't follow the balls when they make the street EWeston: S'not here DJTweeny: So glad you've been motivated to make these collages, Cat :-) pinholeF200: don't follow the balls and don't think with your..... shoes for the dead: yuppers, good fun, Cat Lil: Maybe the holiday CD they did for PBS lily: yeah and thanks cat DJTweeny: Hope some of you other folks will consider putting together some of your own favorite FST bits Cat : i'll have my old morse science for next week and then a longer piece for halloween lily: yeah Lil: nice DJTweeny: The RFD program director is not going to like that last bit... johan amadeus myjetski: beauty, Cat, true beauty! Cat :tween played this a week or 2 ago from the firesign in london ||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!" shoes for the dead: fuck 'im DJTweeny: lol shoes pinholeF200: joke 'em if they can' Lil: I like the Echo poem from Dear Friends where they start cracking up on the "big black blowl" lily: a puck on yer tux DJTweeny: he's often tolerant as long as it doen't get out of hand ;) Cat : firesign did that to sabotage the npr series. pinholeF200: joke 'em if they can't take a f*** shoes for the dead: if he can't take a jole DJTweeny: Andrew Dice Clay would not pass muster pinholeF200: but would he pass the syrup? Lil: blig black blowl that is EWeston: Take this joule johan amadeus myjetski: Nor ketchup either, DJT! DJTweeny: They were trying to sabotage their own gig, Cat? Cat : as i recall the tale. i'm sure proc can tell us. EWeston: Only its five cents extra with katchup Cat : that was proc. ||||||||| Babe Boomer says Were Live On PBS! in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesigns Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! DJTweeny: Yeah, could tell it was Proc Merlyn: I'd swear that was Phil shoes for the dead: only got enough scrip for an erg EWeston: You want that in positrons? Lil: really appreciate the extra material Cat johan amadeus myjetski: Alister Crowley - Hexercize Cat : i have tons of it DJTweeny: BTW, if you have any questions for Phil or David, please let me know and I'll make a list for the next time they appear EWeston: Rock climber gone strange, though sorta oxymoronic shoes for the dead: throw in a free electron and it's a deal EWeston: Sure, I'll bag it separetly Lil: K Tweeny EdmundEdmund: Ask em' why the porridge bird lays its eggs in the air.... johan amadeus myjetski: I don't have the shell for it shoes Lil: Cat I'll be your friend for life EdmundEdmund: .... inquiring minds ant to kno. lily: ty Lil: whatever I have left of it Beet: Neat, Cat. EdmundEdmund: ...want to now? Cat : thanks, lil Lil: any time lol EWeston: Space zeppilin time EdmundEdmund: ...wait to knee. Lil: why do all my best socks get holes? EWeston: Wait by that elbow Cat : i htink i started mixing firesign with steely dan cuz skunk baxter played on Fighting Clowns Cat : and anyone named skunk deserves to be in a firesign collage Lil: "Stuck in the Middle" is my theme song pinholeF200: in real life Skunk Baxter is a gov't consultant on antimissile defense EdmundEdmund: "Stuck In The Muddle" is mine. Johnny Dollar: Isn't that Stealers Wheel? Lil: OOps see there I go again you're right JD EWeston: I'm going with You Done My Brain in EdmundEdmund: ..... for mine? Stuck Wheel. Lil: My brain cells are dropping like flies now EWeston: Put them on the scales dear shoes for the dead: clumsy flies Lil: LOL EW Lil: I thought we don't weigh the flies EWeston: I'se quietly proud ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! Now playing: from the DOMM Let's Eat Broadcasts THE HILERIO SPACEPIPE SHOW ** 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ' pinholeF200: wonder if Diana Princess of Whales ever was on the Wall? Beet: On the fence Johnny Dollar: Princess of Narwhals EWeston: Never against the wall I'll give her that shoes for the dead: cept the wall of a tunnel Johnny Dollar: oof! EWeston: There was that lily: hose that down Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=domm-rv EWeston: Priviledged people don't get to live real lives. Its a form of death IMO ||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| sparky - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Beet: I think you're right, EW. pinholeF200: Kafka Chameleon johan amadeus myjetski: godless bless Vaspuchiland EWeston: I never knew that cockroach! johan amadeus myjetski: brings new zest to my great... EWeston: Porkpotpie? shoes for the dead: pork pie hat lily: sugar less johan amadeus myjetski: goodbye pork pie . EWeston: You don't think the feather is too much? Lil: Uncle Floyd shoes for the dead: all togtther now! Cat : ive only heard the name, lil johan amadeus myjetski: uncle charlie mingus Lil: He wore a pork pie hat Cat : i know Elayne was a fan. EWeston: On his right foot EdmundEdmund: he was the original Jersey Boy pinholeF200: I've been taking up space for years Lil: yep Ex2 Cat : 12,000 years ago? EdmundEdmund: ....where do you put it all, pin? EWeston: Space is closer than next door Cat : its all space Johnny Dollar: space is deep johan amadeus myjetski: Pin's a real space-saver? EWeston: True between each of our moloclues is hard vacume lily: its a bar at the bottom of the key pad johan amadeus myjetski: I'm changing the bag in my hard vacuumm EWeston: Yureka! lily: it makes words make sense EdmundEdmund: we used to call it 'the Hoove'... shoes for the dead: what? EWeston: It gives stuff places to be johan amadeus myjetski: praise the Hoove... lily: its between our ears EWeston: And move to there pinholeF200: my space only exists when I am in it johan amadeus myjetski: yoursis existential space, then? shoes for the dead: but if you displace space with an object, where does the space go? lily: there is some between my toes right now EdmundEdmund: I keep mine in my head, no one looks for it there.] EWeston: Nice Grecian columns. They new? EWeston: It sneaks around the back johan amadeus myjetski: Shjoes, if it's not in displace, den it's in dat place EWeston: QED Beet: I aws fading Cat : Just started reading John Cleese's autobi. I wonder how Proc's is coming along DJTweeny: We'll have to ask him the next time he's on :) Beet: That is going to be a good read. EWeston: Yup Cat : read martin short's recently as well. made me laugh. thats what you expect of a comic's autobi EdmundEdmund: I heard John DeLorean wrote an auto biography. DJTweeny: "My Life As A Flux Capacitor" Cat : sounds like a phil austin tale, ed2 ||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! ** Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, thats 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 Listen to my show archives and ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow' Cat : c.william "bob" heeblehouser EWeston: They are prone to a nasty type of dust bunny? Lil: Nice blurb there Tweeny shoes for the dead: good tunes on this one! Lil: Indeed ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." EWeston: Two guitars shoes for the dead: no waiting johan amadeus myjetski: & a I V VII progression EWeston: In steereo DJTweeny: hiii-fiiii EWeston: Classy outfit johan amadeus myjetski: strereo EWeston: Fingerpickin lily: now in oreo ||||||||| 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." johan amadeus myjetski: what they used to call 'country blues' Cat : thanks again, tween shoes for the dead: Thanks Tween! Beet: This was fun. Thanks everyone. Thanks, Tween. Good night. EWeston: Soon on a wax cylinder. Great fun toonight thanx Tweeny nad Cat Lil: That's a fast outro Tweeny lol Johnny Dollar: thanks Tweeny bye all shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it! lily: Beet Cat DJTweeny EdmundEdmund EWeston johan amadeus myjetski Lil lily pinholeF200 shoes for the dead Johnny Dollar nite all and tween you are grand and cat wowo ty Merlyn: cya next time tweenerino ||||||||| EWeston says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, EWeston exits at 10:58 PM. johan amadeus myjetski: Fub fub fub tip the addy takes keys away : Soon on a wax cylinder. Great fun toonight thanx Tweeny nad Cat : Fingerpickin ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" : In steereo Lil: Great show DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation... Lil: Thanks all ||||||||| 10:59 PM -- Merlyn left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). Cat : one more steely dan firesign collage next week. ||||||||| Johnny Dollar leaves at 10:59 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..." Lil: Great Cat Cat : no swear words this time EdmundEdmund: whoa........byes , all Lil: Well darn ||||||||| EdmundEdmund rushes off, saying "10:59 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?" DJTweeny: will look forward to it, Cat Lil: Good weekend to all ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Lil: See ya bozos Cat : see y'all here next week. Lil: It's a date ||||||||| "11:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Cat , who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds. johan amadeus myjetski: thanks for the laughs, Tween, & all! DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| At 11:02 PM, Rufus_T_Firetween vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! ||||||||| Around 11:02 PM, DJTweeny walks off into the sunset... ||||||||| pinholeF200 leaves at 11:06 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..." ||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Lil - dead from the yaws ||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from jaundice ||||||||| lily - dead from the common cold ||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Ralph close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 11:10 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom. ||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Ralph - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Catherwood ushers pinhead inside, makes a note of the time (2:47 AM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 3:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| pinhead - 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
Bunnyboy
Cat
DJTweeny
EdmundEdmund
EWeston
johan amadeus myjetski
Johnny Dollar
Lil
lily
Merlyn
pinholeF200
Ralph
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead