Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/24/2016

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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 March 24, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 2:24 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving RedPillTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| It's 2:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'Gump', just granted probation at 7:09 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Hideo gump bounds in at 7:10 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| It's 7:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Hideo gump - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 DJTweeny gets out at 7:53 PM.
DJTweeny: Hi Gump
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| "7:54 PM? 7:54 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Rufus_T_Firetween should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Rufus_T_Firetween enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| It's 7:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Gump - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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 A Mighty Hot Dog falls out at 8:17 PM.
||||||||| 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)'
DJTweeny: Hi Hot Dog
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Little Feat)
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 enters with ''Bob'' close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:34 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
''Bob'': Going to grab dinner. Don't start without me. ;)
DJTweeny: Let's Eat!
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| It's 8:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| A Mighty Hot Dog - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Cease steals in around 8:54 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: Tween
||||||||| Catherwood enters with A Mighty Hot Dog close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:55 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary.
Cease: what are you playing first?
DJTweeny: Hi Hot Dog
||||||||| 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: before tom waits
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
DJTweeny: Your collage, Cease
DJTweeny: Ah, The American Pageant
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: i hope a few folks are here to hear it
DJTweeny: Too late to set up Skype, if that's what you're thinking
||||||||| Catherwood ushers EWeston in through the front door at 8:57 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi EW
Cease: no no, i just meant i suspect few folks will be here when the collage starts
Cease: hi ew
EWeston: I see some new names tonight Tweeny
||||||||| 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: ive done enough skyping
DJTweeny: yeah, the opening track is 9 minutes
DJTweeny: so plenty of time to get folks in here :)
DJTweeny: Hope we get lots of new folks in
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
||||||||| Beet tiptoes in around 8:59 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: ive seen some new names lately
Cease: and beet is a regular
Beet: Howdy everyone.
EWeston: I did give a heads up to an old fan a few weeks ago
Beet: Hi Cat
EWeston: Hi Beet
Cease: Hi Beet
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 24, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign's SHOES FOR INDUSTRY: The Best Of The Firesign Theatre “THE AMERICAN PAGEANT”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out SHOES FOR INDUSTRY at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi'
Beet: Hi EW
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Beet: Howdy Dr. Tween
Cease: You heard that Garry Shandling just died
DJTweeny: yeah, saw that
EWeston: Yup couple of fans mentioned it today
||||||||| "9:02 PM? 9:02 PM!!" says Catherwood, "shoes for the dead should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as shoes for the dead enters and sits at the bar.
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
EWeston: Reverse heels tonight Shoes?
Beet: Hi shoes.
Cease: Larry Sanders was a bit like Power
Cease: we heard last week
shoes for the dead: howdy
DJTweeny: Don't think I ever saw the show
Beet: Very creative guy.
Cease: one of the best
Cease: hi shoes
Cease: his first show was more surreal, almost firesonian in that sense. Larry Sanders was much richer
||||||||| pinholeF200 waltzes in at 9:04 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
DJTweeny: Hi pin
Cease: Hi pin
shoes for the dead: so I got cancer in my throat, got a feeding tube today and go in Mon. for 7 weeks radiation and chemo. should be ok after that
EWeston: Hilo Pinster
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Nabby falls out at 9:05 PM.
Beet: I haven't thought about running away to Canada in many years but it might need to be an option between Hillary and Trump.
Nabby: Where's the fire?
Cease: hideous news, shoes
shoes for the dead: hey pin and Nab
DJTweeny: Yikes, shoes :-(
Beet: Yo pin
pinholeF200: Hi Tween, Cease, EW and shoes
Cease: Nabby
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Nabby: Hi Tweeny
Beet: Hi Nab
EWeston: Best for you Shoes.
DJTweeny: My best wishes for a swift recovery, shoes
pinholeF200: shoes, sorry to hear your news--I'm a Big C survivor myself
''Bob'': I was listening to Hobbes' Leviathan on my way back from picking up dinner. Perfect segue into this...
Cease: Yeah, get healthy soonest
Nabby: Hey Cease, pin, Beet, EW, shoes
Beet: Best wishes for a sppedy recovery shoes
EWeston: Nabby gd'evenin
Beet: speedy
Nabby: Indeed shoes, take care of #1
shoes for the dead: gonna be REAL hungry in 2 months
pinholeF200: hey, Nab, Beet
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Gump close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:07 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
DJTweeny: Hi Gump
Cease: I'm watching one of the Great Courses, called Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition.
Beet: Greetings Gump
EWeston: Hideo's bro?
shoes for the dead: hey Gump
Cease: Amazing how much of it I was exposed to by the Firesigns, particularly in their early radio days
Cease: Hi Gump
Nabby: Gump
pinholeF200: howdy Gumper
Cease: Amazingly interesting. If it's in my local library, probably yours too.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Hideo gump in through the front door at 9:09 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: 2 gumps?
''Bob'': HONK! HONK!
EWeston: Speak the name and he appears
Nabby: Hideo
Beet: Hello down there
shoes for the dead: a forest of them
Nabby: Sounds great Cease
Beet: Hi Hideo
''Bob'': Lots of good stuff in the Great Courses catalog. Though they have gone a bit crazy with new courses recently, and not all are so great.
Nabby: Another collage Cease
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “Tom Waits for Firesign”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
CHECK OUT CAT’S PLAYS AT >> http://seemreal.com/'
Nabby: Oh cool
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Nicky Nicky Nick into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:10 PM, then departs.
shoes for the dead: hawkmoths at the diner?
''Bob'': A good one I finished recently is Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century.
DJTweeny: Hi Nicky
Nabby: Nicky
EWeston: I'm swinging a mallet on a gouge, on some mahogany these days.
Cease: N3
Beet: Just in the nick of time
Cease: i like that, shoes
DJTweeny: shoes, I've been wondering if it's the same lady
DJTweeny: sure sounds like it
shoes for the dead: sounds like good fun, EW
EWeston: He called?
EWeston: I'm carving two halves of a bass guitar. A modified Les Paul shape.
||||||||| "9:12 PM? 9:12 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Uh... Jerry should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Uh... Jerry enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Uh... Jerry: Score!
DJTweeny: Hi Jerry
EWeston: Um Jerry velcome
Beet: Hi Uh... Jerry
Cease: Uh...
Uh... Jerry: Good evening folks.
Nabby: Uh
shoes for the dead: thats more then fun
EWeston: Finishing it is going to be one right bastard
''Bob'': Hiya Uhh Jerry
Nabby looked away and missed something
Nabby: heheh
shoes for the dead: raise the grain a bunch of times
DJTweeny: They don't list the full cast for Power, but I'll bet you that's Laura Quinn from EOBE
EWeston: Mahoganey takes a lot of filling. Lots of small detail on the edge which can be so easily over sanded.
||||||||| "9:15 PM? 9:15 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Johan Amadeus Myjetski should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Johan Amadeus Myjetski enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
shoes for the dead: I second that
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
EWeston: Hey Jam
Uh... Jerry: I was over-sanded once, but dug myself out.
Nabby: Hey JAM
Cease: JAM
shoes for the dead: hey Jo
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Has god blessed Vaspuchiland yet?
Beet: Hi JAM
Nabby: fuel the BERN
||||||||| 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!"
EWeston: Sneaky stuff sand. Never turn your back on it.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Merlyn into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:16 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Jerry's a fellow Canuk, Cat
Cease: this is from a recent proctor interview, a show called comedy on vinyl
Beet: Evenin' Merl
Nabby: Merl
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Cease: Hi fellow
shoes for the dead: it'll getch good
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiyas, everyone! It's a good evening!
EWeston: Merly
shoes for the dead: hey Merlyn
Cease: Merl
Merlyn: hey
Nabby: antelope freeway
Cease: this is from their XM radio show
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:18 PM and late as usual, it's Lil, just back from Elmertown."
Cease: Hi Lil
DJTweeny: Hi Lil
Nabby: Hi Lil
Beet: Hi Lil
EWeston: Howdy Lil, mam.
Nabby: Pork's on
shoes for the dead: hey Lil
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Evenin', Lil!
Beet: Nice sax
Lil: Hi gang, got to catch my breath for a minute
DJTweeny: Welcome to Side 5, Lil
EWeston: It was given to him by a nice uncle.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I think the piano has been drinking….
Beet: No passport necessary
Cease: good song, jam
Lil: Thanks Tweeny
EWeston: Alritesremoved
Beet: Hello NSA guy.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
shoes for the dead: crazy duck
Lil: LOL Beet
Cease: like zappa, waits is wordy and funny enough to easily marry with firesign bits
Beet: lol Sally Hemmings Parkway
Lil: Rebozoette not here?
DJTweeny: not yet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Waits' babysitter is a pretty fine songwriter/singer, too. Jesca Hoop
EWeston: Tomahto Vally
shoes for the dead: married to Ricky Lee Jones
''Bob'': No kidding? I like Hoop, too. Had no idea about the connection, tho!
Beet: This is pretty funny
EWeston: Can't reach the remote Martha!!
DJTweeny: Forgot, rebozoette is at a Moofy Blues concert tonight
Cease: i like ricky more than waits
DJTweeny: *Moody
||||||||| Outside, the 9:24 PM bus from Orlando pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I LOVE the Moodies, myself..
llanwydd: evening folks
shoes for the dead: is Martha being remote again?
Beet: Nice to hear the Moodies still truckin'
Nabby: of course you can't, she's remote
Cease: Hi llan
DJTweeny: Hi Llan
EWeston: Listenin to bights in dwight Satins?
Lil: Oh nice I thought maybe it was a satirical group for a second LOL
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Beet: Evenin' Llan
Lil: Yep and I saw that Southside Johnny is having a show in NYC
DJTweeny: Lil: Oh nice I thought maybe it was a satirical group for a second LOL << Yeah, like The Rutles :)
Lil: still around
Lil: He did a turn on SCTV
DJTweeny: I like Southside J a lot
Nabby: Hi llan
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Lil: Well, you did say the Moofy Blues LOL
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I had an odd reaction to the Rutles. They nailed the camera angles and so forth that it felt like someone had sneaked in and messed with my memory. Doctor memory….
DJTweeny: I love The Rutles
Lil: Anybody familiar with Stevie Ricks?
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
llanwydd: I remember when the Rutles first appeared on SNL
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: They copied the Be atles SO precisely...
Nabby: I've had The Rutles
EWeston: I'm waiting for a good time to link to their "You done My Brain in." again
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Loved their "Piggy In the Middle"
||||||||| 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: Cheese and Onions
Lil: You should hear Stevie Ricks do some of his rock impersonation vocals
Cease: I have to watch the rutles again
llanwydd: never heard of you done my brain in
Lil: amazing and very funny--John Lennon, David Bowie, Ozzy Osbourne...
llanwydd: I had the Rutles album
Lil: oh and the BeeGees he does are a riot
EWeston: There's a Utube of it. It may be considerred a trnsition piece, as The Bonzo's Die, and Neil kepp on writing and laying
Beet: I'll have to chack this guy out.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Weren't a couple of the Rutles from the Bonzos Dog Band?
Beet: check
llanwydd: I wonder if the rise of the supergroups and so-called "progressive rock" had anything to do with the Beatles breaking up
Lil -)
EWeston: Neil Innes was the only one, but a very good one
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
Lil: Maybe
Cease: they were already super and progressive. they never really had any competition
Lil: I agree
llanwydd: I would beg to differ, cat
Nabby: brave brave sir robin
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Everybody knows…. Yoko broke up the Beatles (tongue in cheek. My cheek, not someone else's)
DJTweeny: Yeah, the Beatles could have continued to evolve
Lil: lol JAM
EWeston: He was on The Pythons last year I think.
Lil: Paul and the others continued progressing on their own
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: I can't imagine that prog rock would have existed w/o Sgt. Peppers and MMT
Lil: Correct EW
shoes for the dead: they did, just not as a group
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: TRUTH, DJT, truth!
llanwydd: I can't imagine george progressing to the level of steve howe or john mclaughlin
Lil: indeed Tweeny
Cease: that was from the same interview from comedy on vinyl podcast
llanwydd: but they did indeed set the stage for "prog"
shoes for the dead: but look at how much George had to give when they split, ATMP
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: No, Llan, George was really of an earlier sub-generation. He grew up listening to different guitarists than Mr. Howe (who is an amazing, lovely guitar player, IMO)
EWeston: George's last was tasteful and I play it occasionally, but he was also with The Traveling Wibury's
Cease: saw his biopic recently. scorcese?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Brainwashed. Really pretty good album!
Nabby: george played and multitracked slide guitar really well
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new video series from Phil Proctor and Jamie Alcroft - BOOMERS ON A BENCH >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
EWeston: The Python Films owe a lot to Geoprge
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
llanwydd: the only harrison album I ever owned was the eponymous. I liked it a lot
Beet: Some good boomers recently
Cease: indeed, ew
EWeston: Naw Johan, I'll have to check that out though.
Cease: lots of good stuff came out of HandMadeFilms
Nabby: literally, EW
llanwydd: yeah george was a major python fan
Uh... Jerry: George only came up with money for Life of Brian. He didn't have a hand in Meaning of Life or Holy Grail.
Beet: Remember when AM was different from FM?
Cease: sold his house to pay for life of brian
Cease: that's what i'd call a fan
EWeston: No lie
llanwydd: really, cat. that's amazing
Nabby: Withnail and I
Nabby: great movie
Uh... Jerry: Mona Lisa & The Long Good Friday
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yeah George helped the Pythons finish either Time Bandits or Munchhausen when theory ran out of money
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:40 PM and late as usual, it's Elayne, just back from New York."
Nabby: yeah The Long Good Friday, great!
EWeston: I think Yellow Beard is my favorite
Elayne: Evenin' all!
||||||||| At 9:40 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, pinholeF200!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: when they ran out of money
||||||||| pinholeF200 sashays in at 9:40 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: Evenin' Elayne
Uh... Jerry: It's Elayne, back from New York!
EWeston: Mz Elayne
shoes for the dead: hey El
llanwydd: hey pinhole
Nabby: Hi Elayne
Rufus_T_Firetween: I love Harrison's song at the end of Time Bandits
Cease: Hi El!
Nabby: wb pin
Beet: hi pin
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I just passed Elayne on the Antelope Freeway!
llanwydd: hi elayne
pinholeF200: hey llan, dropped off for a minute--computer here is acting freaky
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Pin was in the lane next to me!
EWeston: Beware the road phangists
Beet: This thing was so far ahead of iys time - or any time
llanwydd: how did you get off the freeway when you can't reach the exit?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: MY fave Waits song!!
llanwydd: oh, that's right
EWeston: Go really fast over a bump.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: It's all kerica in one song!
shoes for the dead: rabid bass
EWeston: Gp for the gills!
||||||||| 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!"
Elayne: Okay, skimmed the log and am now caught up. Sorry I've missed the Beatles discussion, one of my favorite topics.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Firesign Cheese Log, the archive of our weekly chat sessions - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/chat/logs/fstchat_20160218.html
Elayne: And best wishes for a speedy recovery, shoes!!
Nabby: Beedles
shoes for the dead: thanks El
EWeston: Dey gots such purty shells!
Lil: Shoes you sick too?
Lil: Missed that
DJTweeny: What's this from, Cat?
DJTweeny: the Ossman?
Lil: Yes Ossman
Cease: ossman's An Autobozographical evening, a tv piece
Cease: one of michael packer's products
DJTweeny: OK, I have that
DJTweeny: didn't recognize it
Elayne: I remember that one, Cat. I think I'm in the credits.
Cease: ise that as source material a lot
Cease: i use
Cease: i hope packer finally releases it as a dvd
Cease: ossman could use it
llanwydd: how does he make his voice do that?
DJTweeny: Maybe they'll put it in the download store
EWeston: It's on vacation
Uh... Jerry: That's what they're trying to find out.
Lil: I think there's an Ossman birthday poetry reading from a few years ago floating around, maybe on youtube
Cease: yes lil, the 75th anniversary show. i use that a lot too
Beet: Quite groovy this
Cease: that's it
EWeston: Good fun Cat
Beet: Nice, Cat. Thanks
Lil: Where's Cat?
Nabby: trippin Cat thanks
Cease: you know that waits song could be cut many many ways.
''Bob'': Tom Waits for no man. Good one.
Cease: someone else should recut that tune with other firesign commercial stuff
Cease: yeah that was from the XM show, bob
EWeston: Rock snot?
Cease: or other tom waits tune.
Elayne: Would they not have to pay for the rights, or is that fair use?
Cease: marriages waiting to happen
Lil: Since when does youtube pay for rights
Lil: they'd just take it off
Beet: This is such a great collection.
EWeston: Or pole dance
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Firesign's “ALL THINGS FIRESIGN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
you can buy ALL THINGS FIRESIGN at >> http://www.amazon.com/All-Things-Firesign-Theatre/dp/B00008BRBC/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_17'
Lil: EW you seem to have a one track mind tonight :-P
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
Lil: I love this CD collection
EWeston: Now I'm thinking about Backpackistan
Lil: All holidays Firesign
Nabby: love this bit
Lil: Phil talked about maybe doing a
Elayne: Ah, speaking of Python, as you were earlier, Eric Idle's latest Needy Bastard Diary is up: http://www.ericidle.com/blog/?p=630
Elayne: I've really been enjoying his exploits Down Under.
shoes for the dead: when did they do this, Tween?
Cease: thanks el. what a loss, gary shandling. barely older than me
Lil: Yep that was a real shock
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llanwydd: I remember shandling
llanwydd: hadn't heard anything about him in about 20 years though
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Lil: I believe this --yes that's it Babe
Lil: I read that Shandling had gone back to standup
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: this is from 2002, pin
Cease: Larry Sanders was one of the best tv series I've ever seen.
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Lil: Yep he was a brilliant comedian
Elayne: I wonder if standup was what put too much strain on his heart.
EWeston: Press hear now
||||||||| 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."
Cease: maybe, el
llanwydd: desert persuasion. lol
Elayne: So far 2016 really sucks in terms of famous people dying.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Been a hard year for musicians...
Elayne: And non-famou relatives like my father-in-law.
llanwydd: right elayne. in fact I don't remember anyone mentioning keith emerson last week
llanwydd: I'm sure we all know who he was
Cease: hey, they stole this from my collage!
Elayne: It's a bit harder to talk about suicide, although there was certainly a lot of talk when Williams took his life.
Cease: a bad year indeed, el
Lil: Proctor talked about doing a series of Mutt and Smut bits for a new CD the last time he was here
Cease: indeed he did, lil
Elayne: It seemed to be much the same thing - he was facing a degenerative disease (in his hands, I believe) and chose to end his suffering.
Lil: I did a post on Keith Emerson
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I saw ELP in '70 or 71 at Pirate's World in Davie, FL. They were doing Tarkus & other
Lil: I loved ELP
DJTweeny: Didn't know Cat was going to use this is his collage :)
DJTweeny: I saw the Brain Salad Surgery tour in '73
Cease: there's never enough playing firesign
llanwydd: never got to see elp
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Right, Elayne. He only had use of the thumb & two fingers on each hand
Lil: I remember Brain Salad Surgery
Cease: i remember the name, lil
Elayne: So sad, JAM. For a pianist to lose so much dexterity.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I couldn't believe 3 guys could make that much sound
llanwydd: that's no reason to kill himself
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 10:07 PM, dragging Bambi by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Bambi: howdy folks
||||||||| 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."
Cease: Hi Bambi
EWeston: Great use of the slobber paint brush
llanwydd: when you are too old to work you retire, sit on your laurels and enjoy the rest of your life
Bambi: hey Cat
Nabby: giant talent, KE
Elayne: Llan, it's not for others to say what was in his head. It was his decision. I probably wouldn't have made the same choice.
llanwydd: that's the way it should be
DJTweeny: Hey Bambi!
Elayne: Mayhap he was in too much pain to enjoy the rest of his life.
Nabby: Hi Bambi
Bambi: hey Tween
Elayne: Hola Bambi!
Bambi: hey Nabby
EWeston: Hi Bambi, who's the rabbit?
Beet: Hi, Bambi.
llanwydd: maybe that's true, elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiya Bambi!
Bambi: hey E!
Elayne: We each handle suffering differently. Me, I kvetch.
Bambi: hey Beet
pinholeF200: Saw ELP 3 times, the first was really wild--he did his bit with the Nazi dagger and riding the D400 around the stage
llanwydd: I come here
||||||||| 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!"
Bambi: hey EWeston
Cease: lol llan
Bambi: hey Johan AM
Elayne: Ah, but llan, does the chat relieve suffering or cause it? :)
Beet: Always enjoyed ELP. Never saw them.
llanwydd: lately it's been great relief
EWeston: Me too Beet
Nabby: it transmogrifies it
Cease: Fumiyo's been in Japan since the 9th and instead of being depressed, ive emersed myself into making these collages. now going to go in a difrernt direction with that
Bambi: hope all are well ... I am back home now
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Wave wanker?
Bambi: trying to get my pipes fixed so I have water
Elayne: Cat, does she have a return date?
llanwydd: I've used this background music on a radio play that I made years ago
llanwydd: didn't have to pay royalties, just a one-time fee
Cease: next wed. the 30th
Elayne: And will we ever hear the results of her long walk?
Nabby: cool
EWeston: Having water is a good thing
Nabby: llan
Cease: a 3 week trip. many people to hang out with
Bambi: so true EWeston lol
Elayne: Oh, less than another week then. Buck up, she'll be back in a few days.
Cease: she had a book made of the thousand or so pix she took. she had a fantastic time
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I cut the souls from MY shoes….
Bambi: cool Cat
Elayne: I'd love to see it sometime, Cat. And so I shuffle off to bed. Next week all!
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Nabby: bong
Beet: I don't wear 'em anymore.
EWeston: I broke down an had the septic pumped after 25 years. It still had space left.
Rufus_T_Firetween: bye E
||||||||| "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!"
shoes for the dead: I come here for re-souling myself
Nabby: take care Elayne
Beet: Nite Elayne.
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: indeed, el. this libary thing i'm watching, Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition is very involving
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite, Elayne!
llanwydd: where is catherwood tonight?
||||||||| Catherwood rushes alongside llanwydd and mumbles "Would you like something?"
EWeston: Niters Elyne
llanwydd: ah, great to see you
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Nabby: me too shoes
||||||||| 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."
Cease: By, El.
Rufus_T_Firetween: cather, please say hello to everyone
Rufus_T_Firetween: catherwood, please say hello to everyone
||||||||| Catherwood says "hello, everyone"
EWeston: I can't hear you!
llanwydd: you got his name wrong tween. he's insulted
||||||||| pinholeF200 is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 10:14 PM.
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llanwydd: I hope it was a ground floor window
Beet: If pin goes in he must come out.
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL, beet!
EWeston: Hit that pile of straw dead on
Beet: I love the inventory lists
Lil: O
EWeston: The devil's labeller
Bambi: brb ... configure doesn't want to allow font size change
Beet: Nobody gets anything from Cosby anymore.
||||||||| 10:17 PM -- Bambi left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
EWeston: Counter suits maybe...
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Bambi', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:18 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
shoes for the dead: I'm gonna listen out, too fuzzy to see the screen. Park it and Lock it!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I still like Cosby's early 60s album with his version of the story of Noah's Ark.
Bambi: there that's better
Nabby: grit your teeth and clench your fists
Beet: See ya shoes
||||||||| 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!"
Nabby: great bunch of albums JAM
Cease: I was gonna use Park and Lock it during the Tom Waits song where he talks about the empty parking lot.
EWeston: Zone on shoes
||||||||| 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!"
Nabby: take care shoes
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: it just seemed too much firesign and too little waits inbetween
Beet: Isn;t everything Obama's fault?
Cease: get healthy, shoes
Bambi: Catherwood please pour everyone's favorite drink and some delicious snacks
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone's favorite drink and some delicious snacks.
Bambi: Catherwood thank you
||||||||| Catherwood answers "You're very welcome!"
Beet: Danger's hat covers his Third Eye.
EWeston: I will say there's been a little push back on GOP propaganda recently, but I think its just the money men being confused by Trump.
Nabby: hey I got someone else's favorite drink, cool
Lil: Is that you Cat? I think you might be right
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: thanks woodercath
Cease: yes lil. i was cease for most of the years of this chat.
Cease: then when austin started showing up, he didnt know I was cat so i began using my real name here, but sometimes go back to the old one.
Bambi: It's a book! It's a nonvolatile storage medium. It's very rare, you should have one.
Lil: Np kidding, didn't realize that
Cease: cease is an abreviation for C.Simril.
||||||||| "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!"
Bambi: quote by Blank Reg (Max Headroom show)
Nabby: Si
Cease: when i was a teacher in the 70s before marrying Fumiyo, I was identified as C.Simril in class.
Cease: it was all first initial last name for everybody.
Lil: I think I'll be forever confused now LOL
Bambi: lol
Cease: teachers and students were supposed to identify each other by that.
Cease: so instead of being cat simril, i had to addresed as c.simril. i was penalized for asking students to call me cat
Beet: They had to have fun making these. Nice to have a regular gig.
Cease: indeed, beet
||||||||| p steals in around 10:24 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: p
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi "p"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi p
EWeston: Not a verbose firehead?
Rufus_T_Firetween: welcome to our little padded chat room
Beet: Hello p. What's that short for?
Nabby: p into the stream
Lil: LOL sorry but Hi P sounds funny
p: sorry to be coming and going, finally found my audio problem--not the computer but the weird surround sound setting on my amp
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: p IS into the stream, doncha know?
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||||||||| p departs at 10:26 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
EWeston: And a low stool
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "10:26 PM and late as usual, it's pinholeF200, just back from St. Louis."
pinholeF200: and now I'm pinhole rather than p
Nabby: adjust the surreal sound setting
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: lol, E
EWeston: Dimensional shrinkage cutting in?
pinholeF200: Tween sounded like gas music from Jupiter
Beet: changing, changing, changing
Cease: its great to be fluid with names, p.
Cease: near the manure lagoons
Beet: They're trying not to say shit
DJTweeny: people often tell me that, pin
Bambi: I need to go, but it was great to see everyone
Cease: you too, bambi. be well.
pinholeF200: but this was electronically induced, accidentally
EWeston: Happy trails Bambi
DJTweeny: be well, Bambi :)
Beet: Nite Bams
DJTweeny: and best of luck with the house
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Bye, Bamb
llanwydd: got to be going. take care folks
||||||||| llanwydd departs at 10:31 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
DJTweeny: you too, Llan
EWeston: Bye Ilan
pinholeF200: night Bambi, llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: See ya, Llan!
Cease: by llan
Beet: See ya Llan
Nabby: take care llan
Nabby: bbye Bambi
Beet: Catherwood roll me a bomber
||||||||| Catherwood rolls Beet a bomber.
EWeston: Still on an antenna here
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Cease: my nearby favret greek restaurant doesnt make as good a b-52 coffee as they did before.
Cease: much cuter bartender though.
Nabby: what's a democrat? lol
Beet: Where's my car?
EWeston: Gonna meet afew this weekend for a caucus
Nabby: another version - a good one
Cease: hope bernie does well, ew
Nabby: tomorrow up here in WA
EWeston: I like both the candidates, I'm more interested in the platform, and local candidtes
Nabby: 26th, sorry
Cease: yes, the us would do much better with hillary than any conceivable republican
Nabby: fuel the Bern
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Ev in through the front door at 10:42 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: proc was invovled in the bernie campaign, is why i mentioned that.
DJTweeny: NPR refused to play this, claiming it was "incomprehensible"
DJTweeny: Hi Ev
Cease: not the real reason, tween.
Cease: ev
EWeston: Bernie has a lot of enthusiasm going for him in Washington State
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: H Ev
Nabby: yep
DJTweeny: what was the real reason, Cat?
Cease: i don think they imagined their listeners dealing well with that eating an indaints heart
Nabby: rally tomorrow, Saturday caucus
EWeston: I'll say that's as good ta thing for Berne as there is
||||||||| 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!"
Cease: noboyd told me that, that's just my guess. proc or do will tell you the next time you interview them, i'm just guessing here
DJTweeny: did someone tell you that, Cat?
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Cease: nope
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nicky bes in da house
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EWeston: Helium terrorists
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: High, squeaky voices, E?
EWeston: Yup, I think its a clew.
Nabby: everything is a clue
EWeston: Frankly I felt like an idoit.
Cease: i really have to listen to this much much more often
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: This really puts me in the holiday spirit...
EWeston: Left me laughing for a minute
Nabby: mutt & smutt rock
DJTweeny: lots of great bits on this album, for sure
EWeston: I shudder to think what they're going to drop at midnight
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, 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'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: oh my duck, his pants have disappeared!
Beet: When this came out it seemed like FST wason a major rpll. Matbe a huge resurgence.
Beet: major roll
EWeston: Thank you JAM, I couldn't watch.
Cease: mr and mrs mc cocktail
Nabby: Goodbye....
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I continue to be amazed at so many FST recordings I haven't heard
DJTweeny: "Farewell to John Entwhistle" "Who??"
Cease: that's what phil and melinda and phil and oona called each other
EWeston: Thunder fingers
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's right, DJT!
Cease: lol tween
Nabby: lol Cease
Beet: Had fun tonight. Thanks everyone. Thanks Tween. G'Nite.
EWeston: Happy Easter, or other pagin festivale all, twas a good night.
Nabby: Good stuff Tweeny & Cat!
pinholeF200: Everybody have a good week, see ya in 7
Merlyn: thanks tween
Cease: hope you were entertained, beet
''Bob'': TIme for bed! Thanks Tween. Thanks Cat.
||||||||| "10:55 PM? I'm late!" exclaims pinholeF200, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thanks everyone for the nyuks!
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:55 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Merlyn by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cease: you're welcome.
Nabby: Adios, every-1, and stay groovy for Fudd's sake!
Uh... Jerry: Good to see you all. Love the Firesign!
Nabby: Away...
Cease: we do our best, nabby
Nabby: indeed Cease and all is good
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Cease: off we go
||||||||| DJTweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, DJTweeny exits at 10:58 PM.
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, Cease rushes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Ev - dead from measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bambi - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
EWeston: Happy Easter, or other pagin festivale all, twas a good night.
||||||||| At 11:41 PM, EWeston vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| A Mighty Hot Dog - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lil - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Uh... Jerry departs at 12:45 AM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| It's 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nicky Nicky Nick - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nabby - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Hideo gump - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Gump - 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:
''Bob''
Bambi
Beet
Cease
DJTweeny
Elayne
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Lil
llanwydd
Merlyn
Nabby
p
pinholeF200
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
Uh... Jerry

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https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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