Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/11/2016

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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 August 11, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| RedPillTweeny steps in at 8:18 AM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| It's 8:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Rufus_T_Firetween', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 7:52 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| DJTweeny sneaks in around 7:54 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET **
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Bruce Hornsby)
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
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||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:46 PM and late as usual, it's Timeghost, just back from New York."
Timeghost: Good evening from the wilds of semi-rural NY.
DJTweeny: Hi Timeghost
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Captain Equinox', just granted probation at 8:49 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hi Captain
Captain Equinox: Hiya, Kiddos!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:49 PM and Captain Equinox steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Captain Equinox : How do I do it?
Rufus_T_Firetween: He's in One Place Twice!
Captain Equinox: On the Mac AND the iPad!
Captain Equinox: Say, did Steve Jobs see his life flash past him on his iPad?
DJTweeny: Twice as much Captain for the price of one...
Captain Equinox: Of course not, Silly - iPad doesn't support Flash.
Captain Equinox: Free, and worth every penny.
||||||||| 8:53 PM: Zsa Zsa Zsa jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Captain Equinox: ZZZZzzzzzz
DJTweeny: Hi Zsa
||||||||| Catherwood escorts cease in through the front door at 8:56 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi cease
Captain Equinox: 'sup?
cease: Hi chatters
cease: Did I tell y'all my Steve Jobs story?
Captain Equinox: que?
DJTweeny: about the FST easter eggs in Siri?
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting '''Bob''', just granted probation at 8:58 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
Captain Equinox: I know about a few of those.
cease: I should try that now I have an iphone. I used siri for the first time to find the location ap on the phone on monday.
''Bob'': Hey, all. Probably lurking tonight, but here in spirit! :)
cease: lurk on.
Timeghost: retts Bob.
DJTweeny: Good that you can be with us, even in lurkdom
Timeghost: I meant greets Bob
''Bob'': I will be folding my laundry extra-surrealisticly while I listen. ;)
||||||||| Catherwood enters with rebozoette close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 11, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Pep pills! Pep pills! in through the front door at 9:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
cease: I wrote a couple of columns for a magazine a few years ago called Dining Near Famous People. the people i've dined near are richard nixon, george harrison, steve jobs and steve hawking.
rebozoette: 'Bob'' Captain Equinox Captain Equinox cease DJTweeny rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween Timeghos yo yoy yo and tweeny thanks for all you do
cease: must be on the web somewhere.
DJTweeny: allo rebozoette
||||||||| Outside, the 9:00 PM uptown bus from Michigan pulls away, leaving shoes for the dead coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: hi susie
rebozoette: hows all ?
Captain Equinox: hallo
cease: shoes
shoes for the dead: Howdy
rebozoette: hi cease tweeny
DJTweeny: Hi Pep
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
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||||||||| pinholeF200 tiptoes in around 9:02 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
shoes for the dead: hey Pin
cease: pin
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:02 PM and late as usual, it's Lil, just back from Hellmouth."
Lil: Hi kids
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Elmer Ho into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:02 PM, then departs.
pinholeF200: Hey firedudes!
shoes for the dead: and Lil
cease: lil
Elmer Ho: who said that?
cease: ho
rebozoette: hi lil
shoes for the dead: hey Ho
Captain Equinox: honk honk
cease: you're early enough to hear my collage this week, lil
Elmer Ho: greeting to all
Elmer Ho: what's the good news tonight?
Lil: Never miss them Cat : -)
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign's “DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS (Side 2)”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DWARF at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-rv'
rebozoette: yeah
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:04 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer, Lil, pin
Lil: Always listen when it's posted after
Beet: Evenin' all
cease: there are a lot of them, lil
shoes for the dead: hey Beet
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
pinholeF200: yo Tween
cease: one of the chatters accused me of being a collage machine.
cease: hi beet
Lil: I know, I still have three of them up
Beet: Hi Dr. Tween
Elmer Ho: i have my shoes off -- how about everybody else?
Beet: Hello Mr. Cease
DJTweeny: lol, well you're certainly a well-oiled collage machine :)
cease: i'm not sure how many, but between 40-50 at least.
Lil: In my doggie socks
Beet: Hi shoes. Howya doin'?
cease: what are all these mexicans doing here is my fave firesign line.
shoes for the dead: well oiled at least
rebozoette: no shoes deflated for this program
Beet: No shoes, Dr.
cease: they're going to surround us: a jackson-kent ref?
Elmer Ho: plenty of political slogans here - "jobs is on the way"
Captain Equinox: I haven't worn 'em in years.
rebozoette: find your prehensile tail
Elmer Ho: i love the cow sound at the end
cease: the war against the cows goes on.
Elmer Ho: world ended yesterday - were you paying attention?
cease: was trump elected president of your country?
Captain Equinox: Lots of that cow in DOMM. I started at the beginning again - I'm halfway into Dear Friends orig broadcast 5
shoes for the dead: there is a record shop @ Pico and Alvarado Terrace
Elmer Ho: hillary's bumper sticker should read "not insane"
Beet: Sometines I think we are witnessing the end of the world as we knew it right now, eh?
Elmer Ho: life imitates art
cease: those are both streets in LA
Beet: ki ki ki
cease: this is obviously about vietnam, not korea
cease: as was MASH
Elmer Ho: czech... pole... bohunk
Elmer Ho: they said "who's peggy" in another piece... can't remember which one
cease: this was funnier in the original.
shoes for the dead: how dirrty he gets my clothes
Elmer Ho: sometimes I think my kids are doing it on purpose
Elmer Ho: this album is just chock full of great one liners
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: porpoise
DJTweeny: it is
pinholeF200: yeah, monica couldin't get the stain out of that dress
Elmer Ho: "peccary pie" is kinda gross if you know what a peccary is
DJTweeny is not sure he wants to know
Elmer Ho: it's sort of like a pig
Elmer Ho: the tune he's whistling is the same as "Jim Dandy to the Rescue" by Black Oak Arkansas, if anybody remembers that
rebozoette: pork?
DJTweeny: I do
cease: i do, ho
Elmer Ho: wasn't it from a fried chicken commercial or something like that?
DJTweeny: I do
Beet: Oy Ye
Rufus_T_Firetween: He's in One Place Twice!
||||||||| Nabby sneaks in around 9:19 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Nabby: Where's the fire?
shoes for the dead: hey Nab
Beet: Howdy Nab
cease: nab
Elmer Ho: welcome to the asylum Nab - we're all 'feeling much better now'
rebozoette: coo coo ca chew
shoes for the dead: zzipbeep
Nabby: Hi Tweeny & shoes, Beet & C & EH & reboz
rebozoette: lurk both ways
DJTweeny: before chatting?
Elmer Ho: god this album is so great...
DJTweeny: no doubt :)
rebozoette: find it under the num num tree
cease: true enough, ho
Beet: It is amazing.
rebozoette: lol tweeny
shoes for the dead: how can I know what you hear?
Beet: It's metaphysically absurd, man.
DJTweeny tells the voices in his head to talk to shoes for a while
cease: speaking of voices in your head, anyone here watch Mr. Robot?
cease: last night's episode was positively Firesonian.
shoes for the dead: just as I was not listening to my own
Beet: But it's really good shit.
rebozoette: love that show cease
Nabby: Yes Cat
shoes for the dead: god show, Cease
shoes for the dead: good
Captain Equinox: Right here!
rebozoette found the un tickle monster
pinholeF200: Went last year to where Ames, Illinois is supposed to be--couldn't find a town
cease: the sitcom he finds himself in could have been written by bergman.
Elmer Ho: Ames, Illinois?
Nabby: roach?
shoes for the dead: Max
Elmer Ho: "Ames was first called Yankeetown, on account of there being a large share of Yankees among the original settlers. A post office called Ames was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1907."
Beet: Here comes the ice cream truck
Nabby: haha
Lil: No, Hal Roach
Lil: wasn't it
Elmer Ho: ooh a cat collage
Nabby nods to shoes
pinholeF200: I wanted to see if I could find Ames Guns...no luck...but last week I found Hicks Guns in Pinckneyville
Nabby: Cat College? what a great idea
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “JACKSON KENT 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 COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/'
Lil: You're right, Hal was later on
Nabby: cool start Cat
Beet: This is nice
cease: when i was a student of radio production at USC in 68, my radio mentor was a great dj named B.Mitchell Reid.
Elmer Ho: "THE" B. Mitch Reed?
cease: he described hendrix as a psychedelic blues man.
Elmer Ho: cool
cease: steve miller meets that description well
Captain Equinox: HOT DOG!
cease: you know of him, ho?
shoes for the dead: good description
Nabby: I would never turn you in shoes
cease: the collages i'm doing now are very much influenced by him.
Nabby: not even for industry
Elmer Ho: know "of" him, but don't know him
Beet: What is this tune? Pardon my ignorance.
Elmer Ho: very famous DJ type guy
cease: lol nab
Nabby: great record great track
Elmer Ho: ah, Randy Newman - one of the greats
DJTweeny: indeed
Beet: Time for the werewolves
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Elmer Ho: love love love Zevon's voice on this - throaty and rough
cease: in the summer of 72, i got back from a year in japan, hadnt been stoned in a year.
cease: i went to a concert featureing miller, jj cale and the youngbloods.
Nabby: through and roaty
cease: someone passed me a J. never has miller been as psychedelic.
DJTweeny: sounds great, cat
Nabby: jam time
Elmer Ho: with clottted cream and toasted bread
Elmer Ho: oh how i love Jim's rant... wait for it
shoes for the dead: Jeeeum
Elmer Ho: I know my wife is sleeping with the bees
cease: too bad miller moved from psychedlics to the far more intoxicating drugs of fame and fortune.
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjeski enters at 9:37 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
cease: is that why you call her "honey?"
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
shoes for the dead: hey JAM
cease: hi jam.
Beet: Hey JAM
Elmer Ho: ha!
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Hi DJT! Cat Elmer, shoes!
Elmer Ho: Amadeus, didnt you have a movie or something?
rebozoette: jam dams are dental
Lil: JAMmie!!! Long time!
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Hi Beet!
Elmer Ho: tune in to the Cat College
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Movies? We ain't got no stinking movies...
Nabby: this track is messing with me
pinholeF200: Hey JAM what it is what it was what it shall be
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Hi Lil!
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: I am what it is, pin!
Lil: Hey sweetiepie : -)
pinholeF200: kewl
Nabby: Hey Lil & JAM & pin
pinholeF200: Nabster
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Nabbster!
Lil: Darling Nabby
Beet: Very interesting, Cat.
rebozoette: thanks cease great
Nabby: Way fun Cat
shoes for the dead: another good one!
Lil: A short one this time
Elmer Ho: another good one Cat - thanks for sharing these with us
Elmer Ho: btw where does the "oh my god I'm a DJ" bit come from?
Beet: This is a great set.
cease: i almost have my owsley/hunter thompson piece finished. i asked llanwyd to read a piece about hunter's threats to gary trudeau but havne't heard from him.
shoes for the dead: had this dvd for a while, now somebody else has it............
Nabby: Pork?
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: A bit trapper than your usual efforts, Cat! Loved the few minutes I caught!
cease: trapper? the MASH character?
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: trippier
Nabby: tripper?
Nabby: lol JAM
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: comparative of trippy
Nabby has extra sensory organs too.
Captain Equinox: Wierdly Cool!
Captain Equinox: Weirdly?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign's PBS Concert “WEIRDLY COOL”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out WEIRDLY COOL at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wc-rv'
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: H. Bosch was a triply artist from the 1500s, I think
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: trippy
Nabby: B Pop Lego?
Elmer Ho: indeed he did a tryptych (sp?)
Beet: John Goodman
Elmer Ho: "garden of earthly delights"
DJTweeny: Even thought there are some visual references that won't pass over the radio well, this is still quite listenable as just an audio track
Nabby: It's JG
Nabby: Beet ya
Elmer Ho: as opposed to "garden of earthy delights", which was banned in most southern states
DJTweeny: and Robin Williams
||||||||| 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 Cat gets out at 9:46 PM.
Lil: Yes
Cat: i got kicked off as cease, and can't return.
DJTweeny: meow
Lil: Wow this is fantastic, never heard it
Beet: The music of language
Nabby: Welcome back
Lil: That's George Carlin
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: That's okay, Cat, you've been thrown out of better bars than this, I'm sure
Nabby: Williams, Chase
Lil: Howard Hesseman
Cat: i'm listening to the sound on the other computer, typing here.
Cat: lol jam.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Nabby: haha great Cat
Beet: Busy guys
rebozoette: wee I said wee
DJTweeny: George Carlin there, of course
shoes for the dead: did this get on the new dvd?
Nabby: brb
DJTweeny: Not sure shoes, since it's already been released on DVD
Cat: bush's black list?
Lil: What's the title on this DVD?
shoes for the dead: and out of print
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: I was carried over from Nixon's list
Lil: Of course it is
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Firesign Theatre - Weirdly Cool available from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Firesign-Theatre-Weirdly-Cool/dp/B00006RJCN/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416094217&sr=8-2&keywords=weirdly+cool
Rufus_T_Firetween: Lil ^^
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: I had mono in high school...
Beet: Good price too
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: too...
Lil: Thanks Ruffie
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Quantum mechanics, that's how you can be in two places at once...
Beet: Cheney Letterman quadruple bypass.
DJTweeny always trouble finding a good mechanic for his Quantum
Lil: Now you all make sure to save me one!!!!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out “WEIRDLY COOL” - Firesign Theatre Video Special on PBS >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=wc-rv
pinholeF200: He's not Ed
''Bob'': Man... I haven't watched this in a while... I'd forgotten all about it, really.
Cat: so he can't talk.
Cat: ossman thought it owuld make them famous. alas.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Elayne inside, makes a note of the time (9:57 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
rebozoette: poverty
Elayne: Evenin' all! Did I stick the landing?
Cat: Hi El
Cat: amazing that pbs let them say feces.
shoes for the dead: Elayne!
DJTweeny: Hi 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: E!
shoes for the dead: you got a 10
rebozoette: hi e
Elayne: Thanks shoes, I practiced all minute1
Cat: they were booted from general radio audience for saying "urinate" in dear friends.
Elayne: Damn. And I put in a 1 instead of an exclamation mark. So close to gold!
Beet: Hi Miss Elayne.
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Elayne: I seriously want there to be a typing Olympics, but I suppose now it would be a texting one.
shoes for the dead: must be the doping
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol shoes
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
Elayne: Shoes, too much doping or not enough?
Elayne: We take drugs seriously at our house.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: the sleeper must awaken..
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Firesign T-shirts, coffee mugs and other goodies now available at >> http://www.cafepress.com/firesign
Cat: Fumiyo was at the cottage for a few days with the grandkids earlier this week and we communicated by text. a useful form.
Elayne: Tween, I always meant to ask, do you have a macro for those announcements?
Rufus_T_Firetween: The ones in color Merlyn put together
Elayne: Are you getting the hang of it yet, Cat?
Rufus_T_Firetween: I copy and paste the ones I put up
Cat: like harry shearer the firesigns have always been endlessly productive, and always of vast quality.
Elayne: Did he create like a one-word trigger for them, Tween?
Cat: not exactly but necessity is the mother of something,
Elayne: Ah, okay. Should have waited for your answer. :)
shoes for the dead: these ads are SO good!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Still hoping that Shearer can join the remaining two for a project
Elayne: Isn't necessity the mother of Frank Zappa?
Elmer Ho: were these real car ads, or just parodies?
rebozoette: gone to plaid
Cat: that could happen, tween. they're all freinds.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Elayne: Did he create like a one-word trigger for them, Tween? << as far as I know, it is simply a list played at random, at random time intervals
shoes for the dead: real, Jack Poet lives here in Montana now I hear
Rufus_T_Firetween: wow shoes
Elayne: If it's Jack Poet, they're real. If it's Ralph Spoilsport, they're a parody on Ralph Williams.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: I know my ties died alright...
Elmer Ho: wonder if PA's car El Mouse was from Jack Poet VW
Cat: my father's competition.
Rufus_T_Firetween: now only if he was still selling _real_ VW beetles
Elayne: Back to the Olympics. Sitting out the high jump this coming week, plantar's acting up again. Night all!
Cat: y;all know why the jack poet ads were stopped?
DJTweeny: good competition to have
Cat: by el.
DJTweeny: Something about the Germans not liking them, Cat?
shoes for the dead: keep 'em flying, El!
DJTweeny: be well, E
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Nite, E!
rebozoette: hope ya feel better e
Beet: 'Bye E
Cat: HQ in Deutchland called up Jack POet when they heard the ads and said, "get those motherfuckers off the air!"
Cat: Bergman, who had just been living in Berlin, was amazed that they'd say Motherfucker.
Lil: This stiff from Electrician is amazing
Lil: *stuff LOL
Cat: for half a century they've been doing this.
Lil: Incredible isn't it
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: they're half a century high, as Phil Ochs put it
rebozoette: rebels yell
Lil: That's one of my favorite lines
Lil: We threw I Ching out the window
Lil: I was so young when I first heard that I thought I Ching was a Chinese guy
DJTweeny: LOL Lil
Elmer Ho: that's good Lil
Cat: `the firesigns threw the i ching before they began albums.
Lil: Hahaha I thought he was the lone dissenting voice so they threw him out the window
Beet: Great
Elmer Ho: biting through...
Cat: "biting through, in this area" begins Bozos.
Nabby: What?
Lil: Cool, never knew that Cat
Nabby: this song makes me laugh
Cat: lil, both meanings.
Elmer Ho: "biting through" is an I Ching throw
Beet: Also quoted at the end of Nick Danger
Nabby: I thought they threw I Ching out the window Cat
shoes for the dead: I ching never got out of the 60's
Nabby: har har
Elmer Ho: http://deoxy.org/iching/21
Cat: great prince founds states,
Nabby: either did I shoes
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: I don't know, shoes, I know fooks who still use the iChing
Nabby: arf!
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: on their iPhones
Elmer Ho: the randomness is useful for getting out of habitual thought patterns even if you dont put much stock in all the mystical stuff
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: folks
Beet: I threw one a few nights ago.
Nabby: EMP
shoes for the dead: I am gladly wrong
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: I use Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies for that, Elmer
Nabby: REGNAD KCIN
Elmer Ho: i had a computer version of Oblique Strategies but lost it in a system upgrade
shoes for the dead: haven't had regnad here in a long time
Nabby: I'm wrongly galled
||||||||| 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 Myjeski: It's great for jolting one past any creative blocks
Elmer Ho: thanks for reminding me of it JAM - will try to find it again
Cat: its hard to think of the firesigns as ever blocked, jam.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Agreed there, Cat!
Nabby: great sfx
shoes for the dead: Canadian
Captain Equinox: gotta fly
''Bob'': szarka.org/oblique/draw.cgi
Nabby: later Cappy
pinholeF200: Betty Jo Bialoski
shoes for the dead: see ya capt
rebozoette: don't bealoski
Cat: by cap
Beet: night cap'm
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: the wind at yer back, Capitain!
Lil: LOL that was great
Nabby: and bologna in your shorts
Lil: the ring bit
Elmer Ho: until next fire time, next fire station Cap
Cat: gone to canada.
Cat: there was a time when they made a lot of canadian jokes. something to do with writers strike in hollywood at the time?
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: caNada
Nabby: O Canada
Beet: lol
Cat: Blame Canada!
Lil: May be my next move
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Canada - that's where the cold air comes from- Lewis Black
shoes for the dead: the Canadians were probly not supposed to strike, contract?
''Bob'': Whoops. Should have posted this link: http://szarka.org/oblique/
Lil: Love LB
Cat: we got a big house, lil. big country too. few people, lots of geography
Cat: tokyo, where i lived before moving here, has more people than canada.
Lil: Love that part of it Cat
shoes for the dead: work visa and all
Lil: That doesn't surprise me
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Nabby: but fewer Canadians
Cat: 36 million in Tokyo, 35 mil in Canada. Tiny vancouver is about 2.5, the size of a small tokyo suburb.
DJTweeny: that's amazing, Cat
Cat: my highcschool was on sepulveda.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: mind boggling
DJTweeny: no wonder the Chinese are buying up so much real estate
shoes for the dead: what are all those Canadians doing in Tokyo?
Cat: they are really riffing on mispronouncing california places.
Nabby: hahaha
Lil: I used to have a friend in Sepulveda, way back when
DJTweeny: *rimshot* @ shoes
Cat: lol shoes
Lil: Ditto Shoes lol
Nabby: dropped off by the aliens?
rebozoette pipes them aboard
Cat: yes billlions of dollars are leaving china and buying houses in vancouver.
rebozoette: lol
Nabby: lol
Lil: That is sad.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: rolf
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: roTf
Nabby is reading The Five Chinese Brothers.
Nabby: lorf
Elmer Ho: time for my Geritol and beddy-bye
Elmer Ho: night folks - thanks for the larfs
Nabby: fnord
Nabby: later EH
Beet: g'night elmer
Cat: by ho.
shoes for the dead: take care, Ho
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: farewells, Elmer! Be well, or happy, at least
Nabby: mvrhmmhmrvrmm
Lil: see ya
Beet: lol
rebozoette: huh
DJTweeny: adios, Elmer
Nabby can't talk here.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: What?
||||||||| At 10:30 PM, Elmer Ho runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Nabby: echo in here
rebozoette: echo
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Or maybe it was some other small Toyota
||||||||| 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!"
Nabby: It's sure real
Lil: I just choked when he said we're hooking up LOL
Nabby: echo
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Yaris
Cat: they endlessly updated their stuff
Cat: going on the road forced them to do that.
Nabby: Firesign was our VR, our adventure games
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Good point, Nab!
Cat: good point, nab. but i dont think vr has develped to the point we can use that analogy
shoes for the dead: dated comedy gets stale
pinholeF200: a former member of the former House of Representatives, the Once Honorable Bosco Hern
Cat: then again, i have never played a game and am unlikely to do so.
Nabby: Firesign online - Live in the future!
Cat: shoes, how many people would get the adam clayton powell ref from the electrican album now?
Cat: the late bergman. oddly prescient.
Nabby: I miss Bertman
shoes for the dead: probly no one under 50
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shoes for the dead: or mebbe 60
Nabby: catherwood give everyone groat cakes
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone groat cakes.
Cat: i know the word is ditch, but it sure sounds like tit.
Lil: That was part of their MO
rebozoette: don't tease me
Lil: Misdirected mispronounciation
Nabby is heading to Pop's!
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Malaprops
Nabby pokes rebozoette a few times
||||||||| 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!"
Nabby: FU
Cat: they have always used sound/meaning in wondrous ways
Nabby: Reality is overrated
Nabby: Raw raw raw!
shoes for the dead: tired eyes, gonna listen out
Cat: i think the firesign are the peak of the audio realm, until i'm proved wrong.
Nabby: Take care shoes
Lil: Agreed
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Beet: see ya shoes
Lil: Night night Shoes
Cat: at least pbs allowed them to say screw.
Nabby: Pork?
DJTweeny: Heal well, shoes
Cat: keep well, shoes.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Nite shoes!
Cat: they are toking up here, as i recall.
Nabby: blowing some doobies
DJTweeny: yeah, Ossman is smoking an imaginary joint
Cat: here they accurately explain their lack of great poptularity. he doesnt 'get the korea/career joke.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:42 PM and toadaway sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cat: few have enough intelligence to tfind them funny
Cat: toad
Nabby: toadaway
DJTweeny: Hi toad
Beet: greetings toadaway
Cat: pair of... in the original.
DJTweeny: just in time for the last 10 minutes of the show :/
Cat: here, pair of water buffalos. maybe not a good idea?
DJTweeny: ** Remember folks. the chat/show starts officially every Thursday at 9pm Eastern, with warm-up music on the streams starting around 8:40pm Eastern
rebozoette: I early lurked lol
pinholeF200: hey toadaway
DJTweeny: rebozoette: I early lurked lol << you can get fined in some parts of the country for that...
Nabby: Fine for Lurking
DJTweeny: Cat, the Germans at VW were not impressed by the FST commercials, tight?
DJTweeny: *right
Cat: read above, tween.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: Germans don't generally excel at comedy.
DJTweeny: guess I was busy earlier
rebozoette: haha
Lil: Give Tweeny a break, he has to be in two places at once
DJTweeny: at least 2 lol
Nabby: What?
rebozoette: always lil utmost respect
Lil: Indeed lol
DJTweeny: They are wearing eyeball hats here
DJTweeny: wish they were still selling those
rebozoette: catherwood give nabby some suger please
||||||||| Catherwood gives nabby some suger.
Lil: I'm STILL trying to get one
||||||||| 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'
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Lil: When was this video done?
Nabby: Goodbye Zoot
Nabby: Clone me.
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: send in the cloons
DJTweeny: What's the problem, Lil?
Lil: What problem?
rebozoette: thousand and two
Lil: Want an EYEBALL HAT
Nabby: YES
Cat: what, me worry?
Lil: Thanks Rebo
DJTweeny: ah, thought you meant the disc
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny Johan Amadeus Myjeski Lil Nabby pinholeF200 rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween thanks for a great one nitey nite
Lil: Silly Tweeny lol
Johan Amadeus Myjeski: THIS WAS GREAT!!! thanks so much!
Cat: this sounds like the outro music.
Nabby: thanks Tweeny
Beet: Can't somebody find out who made the eyeball hats and get some made?
Lil: See you soon Rebozo
rebozoette: cease just thanks
Nabby: Thanks Cat & Merl & Dishnuts!
pinholeF200: Thanks for the laffs Tween and Cat, and to all for making it surreal
Beet: This was fun. Thanks everyone. Thanks Cat for another great collage. Thanks Dr. Tween. G'nite.
Nabby: take care everyone
||||||||| pinholeF200 is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 10:54 PM.
Cat: maybe, beet. contact taylor jessen, their factotum.
Lil: I've asked, guess Phil is too busy
rebozoette: nabby theres pork for you somewhere
Lil: Night Beet
Nabby: indeeeeeeed
Cat: by beet
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| toadaway - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Lil: LOL rebozo
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
''Bob'': Thanks, Tweeny. It's been too long since I heard that one. And thanks for the collage, Cat.
Lil: Good luck Nabby
Cat: hopefully new collage next week. by for now.
||||||||| At 10:55 PM, Cat runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Lil: Wonderful show, happy to be here
Lil: Take care Cat
Lil: Good bless us all
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Lil: Wonderful show Tweeny
||||||||| Timeghost is kicked out just as the clock strikes 10:57 PM.
Lil: Night all
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Lil :)
Lil: yw
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjeski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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 the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Nabby - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| It's 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 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:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - 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:
||||||||| Zsa Zsa Zsa - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Pep pills! Pep pills! - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| cease - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - 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:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - 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''
Beet
Captain Equinox
Captain Equinox
Cat
cease
DJTweeny
Elayne
Elmer Ho
Johan Amadeus Myjeski
Lil
Nabby
pinholeF200
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
Timeghost

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https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://szarka.org/oblique/
http://www.cafepress.com/firesign
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
https://www.amazon.com/Firesign-Theatre-Weirdly-Cool/dp/B00006RJCN/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416094217&sr=8-2&keywords=weirdly+cool
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw