A Firesign Chat
09/08/2016




Archive

||||||||| 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 08, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| "4:37 AM? 4:37 AM!!" says Catherwood, "YllucsNiv should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as YllucsNiv enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| "I'm going to The Nigger Room" says YllucsNiv, and leaves.
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
||||||||| New topic: 'It is that nigger MykeHawktoplel's birthday today!'
||||||||| VinScully steals in around 1:03 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
VinScully: no ur a nigger
VinScully: no ur a niggar
||||||||| It's 1:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| VinScully - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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 fozzybear gets out at 5:05 PM.
||||||||| fozzybear walks away to The Nigger Room.
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'DJTweeny', just granted probation at 7:33 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening
*** With Special Guest PHIL PROCTOR ***
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - visit Firesign’s web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com **
'
DJTweeny: oops, not true...
||||||||| 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
'
DJTweeny: better
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 7:40 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.
||||||||| 8:02 PM: Rajah jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| "Hey Rajah!" ... Rajah turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:11 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:22 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Merlyn coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off YllucsNiv at 8:23 PM
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "8:23 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| "8:23 PM? 8:23 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Merlyn should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Merlyn enters and sits on the divan.
Merlyn: Whoops, please re-enter the topic, tweeny
||||||||| New notice: ' '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com''
||||||||| New notice: ' ** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **'
Merlyn: Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
Merlyn: visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
Merlyn: hmm...
||||||||| New notice: ' '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com''
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
'
Merlyn: yay
Merlyn: In the words of Daffy Duck, "Let's get this picture started!"
Merlyn: v
Merlyn: e
Merlyn: i
Merlyn: c
Merlyn: l
Merlyn: text
Merlyn: supposed to say "vertical"
DJTweeny: 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 (Jefferson Airplane)
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)
'
DJTweeny: we is live...
||||||||| "8:55 PM? 8:55 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Ralph should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Ralph enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts it's bad for my hullabaloo-za' in through the front door at 8:56 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi Hulla, Ralph
||||||||| Catherwood leads it's bad for my hullabalooza's in through the front door at 8:57 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Cat inside, makes a note of the time (8:58 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Ralph: Hello, howdy, how do ya do
it's bad for my hullabalooza's: where's the fire?
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:58 PM and cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Ralph: in your eyes, lieutenant
cease: oo, airpllane.
||||||||| Edmond Edmond tiptoes in around 8:59 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
cease: i saw them once at a free concert in la. they were worth the price.
DJTweeny: Hi Cat, Edmond
Cat: in your eyes, blind person
it's bad for my hullabalooza's: haha
it's bad for my hullabalooza's: haha
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 08, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Edmond Edmond: good evening
DJTweeny: thought it appropriate music for your collage, Cat :)
cease: ed2? havent seen you here in a while
||||||||| "9:00 PM? 9:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "rebozoette should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as rebozoette enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
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 walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'shoes for the dead', just granted probation at 9:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Lil', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:01 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
shoes for the dead: Howdy
rebozoette: Cat cease DJTweeny Edmond Edmond it's bad for my hullabaloo-za' it's bad for my hullabalooza's Merlyn Ralph did I lurk too long hi all and tweeny ya know
Cat: right you are, tween
Cat: hi lily
Cat: hi shoes
DJTweeny: Hi Lil
Cat: and lil too. what a cornucopia of chatters!
rebozoette: ni cat how is ya
rebozoette: hi lil
shoes for the dead: no audio?
Lil: Hi gang good to be here
Rufus_T_Firetween: audio's working here
Cat: just finished my nixon collage yesterday and began work on my ry cooder collage today
Ralph: get winamp app
rebozoette: fun way sun way
Lil: Can't wait to hear your Nixon Cat
Cat: maybe tween will play it next week, lil
DJTweeny: Should have saved these for your Nixon bit
cease: i use this in my nixon piece
it's bad for my hullabalooza's: I'm new to this page, I love firesign but is this venue sort of a mixed conversation or is it more of a regular crowd with planned weekly discussions?
shoes for the dead: mixed up is more like it
Edmond Edmond: I just got back from Goshen
rebozoette: who is dory and why is she hunky lol
rebozoette: yeah cat
it's bad for my hullabalooza's: so, we're all bozo's on this bus then I take it. good
DJTweeny: lol rebo
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
'
Cat: it would be hard to overestimate my loathing of cocaine.
shoes for the dead: i still got no audio here, Park it and Lock it!!
cease: i had a job catering weddings in late 60-s and used to sing this song with the organizt, though neithter of us has ever done coke.
cease: she had really good dope though
DJTweeny: sorry shoes :(
DJTweeny: tter luck next week...
DJTweeny: *better
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Juan Thompson (Hunter’s son) interview >> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-28-2016-1.3423319/hunter-s-thompson-s-son-on-fearing-loathing-and-loving-the-gonzo-journalist-1.3423337
Cat: coke is for horses, not for men.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King >> http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php
Cat: this is from a doc i found on youtube, take the ticket or something.
rebozoette: ah shoes we hear
Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAZV_EsSSE
rebozoette: theres that cat
rebozoette: we hear shoes
Cat: when i began creating collages in 2009-10 after Proctor's daughter called me Lazy, i read a piece from a magaine article in one of my first collages.
Cat: this flick/doc is very collagy
Cat: add is the life of the seriously drugged
DJTweeny: good for her for prodding you into the collage business :)
Lil: Audio definitely playing up here too-- on and off
Cat: hi lil
DJTweeny: listening to the stream on another computer now
Lil: Hello again Cat lol
DJTweeny: sounds OK here
rebozoette: really a great testement to how well you knew the cat
Cat: i'm not a cat but i play one in this dimention
DJTweeny: not hearing any skipping
Lil: Could be my area, or the browser
Lil: Good enough though
cease: i ilke the way their stories interact lilke this.
Lil: Me too
cease: i sent this to juan and will to bear's widow.
Cat: this does speak to me, my own situation
||||||||| RON enters at 9:24 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
DJTweeny: Hi Ron
RON: Hello
rebozoette: font or phant
RON: Is Catherwood making sucky sucky right now
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to RON and queries "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
cease: Nor backward
RON: Can you name the chat member whose username begins with THE (case sensitive)?
Cat: keneth anger- angry hunter
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 9:26 PM, dragging gucci by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
DJTweeny: I cannot, Ron
Cat: hope y'all dig it.
DJTweeny: cool stuff, Cat
||||||||| "9:27 PM? 9:27 PM!!" says Catherwood, "2511443 should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as 2511443 enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'fozzybear', just granted probation at 9:27 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| 9:27 PM: TopBasedGod jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
RON: me neither duds
||||||||| Catherwood escorts memersonly into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:27 PM, then departs.
||||||||| beast tiptoes in around 9:27 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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 Jay333111 falls out at 9:27 PM.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:27 PM and niggor sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cat: you'be been here under different name, ron?
Jay333111: wew
RON: tbh this my new home now
fozzybear: shred some gnarr
TopBasedGod: yes hello
RON: Have you gentleduds pooped big recently?
DJTweeny: Hello folks
Jay333111: GO BOLTS
RON: or normal poops?
beast: this is gonna give me seizures
cease: what are all these Mexicans doing here?
||||||||| Catherwood escorts prezdonaldtrump inside, makes a note of the time (9:27 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
TopBasedGod: BUILD A WALL
Jay333111: N
Jay333111: I
fozzybear: tfw they deleted the nigger room
prezdonaldtrump: hi im here for the orgy
RON: must be niggers
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies old5ndimer into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:28 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:28 PM, dragging YllucsNiv by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
TopBasedGod: i was led to believe that there would be punch and pie here?
Cat: only your own, top
Jay333111: lies have been told
||||||||| YllucsNiv sneaks away to The Nigger Room...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd in through the front door at 9:28 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Nabby steps in at 9:29 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:29 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cat: hi llan
||||||||| 9:29 PM: Nabby jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
DJTweeny: Hi llan
Cat: nab 2, or 3
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Hooey', just granted probation at 9:29 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
TopBasedGod: okk
Cat: youve missed half my new collage.
RON: Can you direct me to the nigger room?
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: oh, Merlyn...
||||||||| llanwydd steps in at 9:29 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:29 PM and late as usual, it's cheseball, just back from Ohio."
||||||||| New topic: 'It's that nigger MykeHawkToplel's birthday today!'
||||||||| "I'm going to The Nigger Room" says RON, and leaves.
prezdonaldtrump: is someone a mod here
Cat: are we suddenly being flooded by non-firesign fans?
rebozoette: what what what
rebozoette: odd traduckens
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
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fozzybear: what's firesign cat?
Lil: HACKERS
Cat: i was here on day one, 1995, but have never operated in any executive position
||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd in through the front door at 9:31 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
prezdonaldtrump: im sorry cat
Cat: are you listening, foz?
prezdonaldtrump: maybe one day
Cat: this is a chat about firesign theatre, a radio comedy group from the 60s
rebozoette: catherwood give them the bums rush please
||||||||| Catherwood gives them the bums rush.
Cat: if you tune in to the audio channel for this chat, you may be enlightened
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
rebozoette: hi nabby
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Edmond Edmond: It seems that no one is talking to each other.
rebozoette is pleaased
fozzybear: oslo that ends lo
prezdonaldtrump: guys i think i know where everyone is coming from
Cat: how have you been ,ed?
prezdonaldtrump: i was told this was a site for the after party
Cat: that;s saying a lot, trump
rebozoette: I jut spoke to catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside rebozoette and says "Do you have something for me to do?"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
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||||||||| fozzybear, spotting Bradshaw, runs into The Nigger Room.
Cat: you were misinformed.
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
DJTweeny: prezdonaldtrump: i was told this was a site for the after party << what party?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
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prezdonaldtrump: oh yea, you ever heard of the lemon party
||||||||| 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."
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
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||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
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||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
||||||||| prezdonaldtrump walks away to The Nigger Room.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
'
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
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prezdonaldtrump: oh yea, you ever heard of the lemon party
prezdonaldtrump: i was told this was a site for the after party
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
DJTweeny: this is a really informative collage, Cat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
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||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
Cat: i got up at the crack of noon, tom waits.
||||||||| New notice: 'You are all NIGGERS'
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off niggor at 9:39 PM
Cat: i was a teacher for a long time, tween. this is an extention of that kind of profession.
DJTweeny: merci Merlyn
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| 1473384588 - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with RON close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:40 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
||||||||| 9:40 PM: RON jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
: good nite nurse
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:40 PM and late as usual, it's YllucsNiv, just back from Illinois."
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:40 PM and late as usual, it's poop, just back from Elmertown."
||||||||| Catherwood leads rebozoette inside, makes a note of the time (9:40 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 9:40 PM: pls jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies cease inside, makes a note of the time (9:41 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:41 PM and poop steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
'
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Cat', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:42 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
||||||||| 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 rebozoette plummets into the garden at 9:42 PM.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:42 PM bus from British Columbia pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (9:42 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
: ** 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King >> http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php
||||||||| Catherwood escorts b into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:42 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Edmond Edmond', just granted probation at 9:42 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| 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 Rufus_T_Firetween falls out at 9:42 PM.
||||||||| 9:42 PM: Merlyn jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| Catherwood escorts fozzybear inside, makes a note of the time (9:43 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Edmond Edmond in through the front door at 9:43 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| "9:43 PM? 9:43 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Edmond Edmond should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Edmond Edmond enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:43 PM and fozzybear waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with ewqeq close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:43 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the Aviary.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:44 PM, then departs.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HUNTER AND BEAR”
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/
'
||||||||| 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 Merlyn disembarks at 9:45 PM.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:45 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving churles coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Merlyn: Kill 'em all, let Grid sort 'em out.
||||||||| 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 Edmond Edmond disembarks at 9:46 PM.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:46 PM bus from Austin pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| "9:46 PM? 9:46 PM!!" says Catherwood, "rebozoette should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as rebozoette enters and sits in the comfy chair.
rebozoette: whay why what
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:46 PM and Lil steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Lil: Got booted lol
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
DJTweeny: hahaha
DJTweeny: Was the only way to get rid of the riff raff, Lil
Lil: Thanks Merlyn
||||||||| Catherwood escorts cease into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:47 PM, then departs.
churles: hello
Lil: Yep, figured that
DJTweeny: Hi churles
cease: are we back?
cease: i'm sure we're still beautful
DJTweeny: yes, for now
Lil: We are
Merlyn: Yep cat, you hep cat
Lil: LOL cease
DJTweeny: lol
Edmond Edmond: Are there rules here?
DJTweeny: and a hep cat he is
cease: did you rescue us, merl?
DJTweeny: spamming the chat is a defnite no no
||||||||| fozzybear steps in at 9:49 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Edmond Edmond: I see. I just happened into this from the albums on you tube
cease: ok i just found audio, it's steely. when did it reconnect, tween?
rebozoette: we listen we love fst we comment
DJTweeny: the audio never stopped as far as I know
rebozoette: cease has worke hard to make these fine compilations
Rufus_T_Firetween: for those of you would would like to hear Cat's collage in its entirety, visit his archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
rebozoette: no audio on thrown outta room
||||||||| 9:51 PM: 4d3fect jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!"
||||||||| Lil hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Lil?! It's 9:51 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
4d3fect: that long?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:52 PM uptown bus from Brattleboro pulls away, leaving Lil coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Lil: OY LOL
||||||||| 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: this chat is 21 years old. i should know.
cease: i think this guy is like firesign, he had something important to say
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:54 PM and late as usual, it's Cat, just back from Vancouver."
Lil: Bill Hicks
DJTweeny: love Bill's comedy, RIP dude
cease: Tween sent me this song. It was the first Beatles tune I really liked.
Lil: Indeed Tweent
cease: a fellow Texan, tween.
DJTweeny: It's a good one
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
DJTweeny: yeah he was
Lil: Sorry Tweeny lol
Cat: any idea why we were invaded just now?
DJTweeny: nope
Merlyn: Just some idiot
cease: ok, my nixon collage nextg week and then maybe my ry cooder tune the followingweek.
rebozoette: thanks cat
rebozoette: tweeny yeah
Cat: glad you liked it, rebo
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: a DOMM Dear Friends broadcast “DICK NIXON CHEVROLET”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
'
DJTweeny: kewl, Cat
Lil: Most definitely Cat
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
||||||||| Outside, the 10:01 PM uptown bus from Illinois pulls away, leaving MrThe Butler coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi Butler
||||||||| "I'm going to The Nigger Room" says MrThe Butler, and leaves.
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off MrThe Butler at 10:01 PM
||||||||| THE sashays in at 10:02 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cat: missed her?
Cat: missed him?
: get winamp app
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Ralph', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:03 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Ralph: there's an echo in here...
Cat: whree is here?
Cat: how can i know what you here?
rebozoette: great great
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: Now hold him over there...
Ralph: how cna i be in two places at once......
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
rebozoette: boy scouty
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
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
Cat: ralph, if you're a photon, it's easy.
Ralph: that's the problem with black holes
Ralph: there is time travel, but it would strip you of every electron in your body
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the entire FIRESIGN THEATRE CATALOG at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Firesign T-shirts, coffee mugs and other goodies now available at >> http://www.cafepress.com/firesign
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 you’re 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/
||||||||| Catherwood enters with asdf close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 10:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
Cat: we sdtill seem to be attacting oddity
rebozoette: wacs on waves off
DJTweeny: Hi asdf
Ralph: why, that's nothing but a two-bit ring from a cracker back jocks
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:18 PM and Merlyn bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Merlyn: Sorry, had to kill everyone again
Merlyn: fixed a bug
: oh this goes well with the end of my collage
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'c', just granted probation at 10:19 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
: am I still here?
||||||||| New topic: 'Sorry, had to kill all of you again, log back in'
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:19 PM and Ralph bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Merlyn: I don't think so, Colon
Ralph: Amen, Ra
||||||||| "10:20 PM? 10:20 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Lil should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Lil enters and sits on the couch.
c: Only semi
||||||||| New topic: 'Sorry, had to kill all of you again, log back in'
: as long as you still like us merlyn lol
||||||||| 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!"
c: My favourite Lil
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies rebozoette in through the front door at 10:20 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood leads DJTweeny in through the front door at 10:20 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
c: this is not good
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "10:20 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Billville."
Lil: Some morons with a suitcase
c: hi rebo
rebozoette: thanks merlyn
Merlyn: Had to fix a bug
c: this is kinna fucked up
Ralph: it's the bees and spiders agin
Merlyn: Nino should be a little more accurate now, too
Lil: We've lost a lot of our regulars now
Merlyn: What about our Ethels?
c: Proc is a character in the France Scortt Key bio on pbs.
Ralph: roll up your arm and bend over....
c: this is an interesting prologue for that
DJTweeny: Killing people for their own good, Merlyn? Didn't know you were in the military ;)
Ralph: a monstrous rendition of the natural ant theme
DJTweeny: Proc gets around
Lil: Cool. Proc really gets around!
Lil: LMAO Tweeny
Merlyn: Quite a while back, php changed some env variable names, so it wasn't getting anyone's IP address, so I fixed that, but that made it incompatible with people logged in without IPs
c: he is no square
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 10:25 PM, dragging Sammy by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
rebozoette: hasselbackish
Ralph: these guys are stoned
Sammy: are you guys stoned?
Lil: LOL Ralph
Ralph: oh yeah
Lil: If only
rebozoette: the grape grate
c: are the firesigns stoned? they want us to think not.
DJTweeny: Hi Sammy
c: sam
Sammy: Hello
Ralph: and just for asking that, i'll have another hit...............
rebozoette: stoneing is for the middle east
DJTweeny: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS - Every Firesign Theatre radio broadcast from the "Dear Friends" era (1970-1972) >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
Ralph: that's where i live!
c: if you call thatr a living.
Ralph: halfway between old Brunswick and mighty Maine!
c: i rememer not being stoned. i thik lbj was your president,
rebozoette: short drive
Ralph: that really sucks, that he got to be president
DJTweeny: lol cat
rebozoette: can I be real today
c: as opposed to tomorrow, rebo?
rebozoette: made a u turn on spork
Ralph: LOL
Merlyn: Doing a test
||||||||| At 10:33 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Merlyn!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Ralph: marijuana is very dangerous, because it is illegal
||||||||| Merlyn enters at 10:33 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
c: not for much longer
||||||||| 10:34 PM: Mr.Target jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
DJTweeny: an excellent commentary, eh Ralph?
DJTweeny: Hi Target
||||||||| Merlyn aka 'The Reaper' has killed off Mr.Target at 10:34 PM
Merlyn: He's a test of mine, tween
DJTweeny: oops
DJTweeny: ah, ok lol
DJTweeny: I think you got him
Merlyn: Better than that, tween, I killed me off for good. Now I can't log in at all, no login panel for me
Merlyn: That's why I need the IP address working again
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 10:36 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
llanwydd: good evening folks
Ralph: LOL
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 10:36 PM, dragging cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
llanwydd: I tried and failed to log on about 9:30 est
c: we come, we go
DJTweeny: it's been an 'interesting' evening in the chat, llan
llanwydd: so, are we all gone for the night or are there any lurkers?
c: like a chinese curse
llanwydd: ah here we are
Ralph: room has been flushed what, 2 or 3 times?
rebozoette: pull up your over coat
Merlyn: a chinese curse out of a hot cheese logfile
Ralph: wizardly image there Merlyn
llanwydd: interesting evening, tween? I had an interesting time getting bounced out of here four or five time
llanwydd: times
Ralph: we interrup this program for a technical difficulty
DJTweeny: Had to be done, llan, because of the idiots who were spamming the chat
llanwydd: I see
c: better than being bilnd, llan
llanwydd: sure
rebozoette: jeepers chreeps
llanwydd: chappier crepes?
rebozoette: on rhe back of where
Ralph: i say rid it, or live widit
Sammy: pepper pancakes
llanwydd: I daid livie it
llanwydd: I've never done pepper pancakes
Ralph: spreek engrish troop
Sammy: jalepeno
rebozoette: yummy mums the word
Ralph: mummy yums?
llanwydd: closest I've come to that is potato pancakes. related to the pepper, I believe
Ralph: Dr. C. McClain's Vermifuge
rebozoette: hot stuffin
||||||||| 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
'
rebozoette: DJTweeny llanwydd Merlyn Ralph rebozoette Sammy thanks for the ride
rebozoette: cat the great and tweeny saintly
c: this is amazing
rebozoette: ten acid tea
Ralph: you two rebozoetta
Sammy: ten acids in your tea?
Ralph: unhappy macnam
rebozoette: hold on hold on
c: speakikng of acid, the rest of my bear hunter collafge never got played.
c: can you replay it after the nixon piece, tween?
DJTweeny: sure cat
Ralph: there's always last week........
c: i am on a wait list for the tom wolfe book about kesey so can't complete that project until i get acid test book.
Lil: Drat
Lil: Well night all we tried
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and have a great week :-) See you next time, same FireTime, same FireStation...
||||||||| Merlyn says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Merlyn exits at 10:54 PM.
DJTweeny: Spammers is just an issue we don't usually have to deal with
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| cease - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
c: sound dissappersd again
DJTweeny: Merlyn's given me some tools to deal with tools like that next time
DJTweeny: might be a problem with RFD
DJTweeny: fine here
DJTweeny: anyway, we'll surely play your collage again
c: by
||||||||| c leaves at 10:56 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..."
||||||||| llanwydd hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's llanwydd?! It's 10:56 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "I'm going to The Sitting Room" says Sammy, and leaves.
||||||||| 11:46 PM -- Sammy enters.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| "I'm going to The Aviary" says Sammy, and leaves.
||||||||| Sammy walks in and says "It's 11:50 PM, has anybody seen Nancy?"
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Merlyn into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 12:57 AM, then departs.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Merlyn - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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:
4d3fect

beast
c
Cat
cease
churles
DJTweeny
Edmond Edmond
fozzybear
it's bad for my hullabalooza's
Jay333111
Lil
llanwydd
Merlyn
prezdonaldtrump
Ralph
rebozoette
RON
Rufus_T_Firetween
Sammy
shoes for the dead
TopBasedGod
VinScully
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php
http://www.cafepress.com/firesign
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-28-2016-1.3423319/hunter-s-thompson-s-son-on-fearing-loathing-and-loving-the-gonzo-journalist-1.3423337
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAZV_EsSSE



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