A Firesign Chat
10/20/2016




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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 October 20, 2016 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| DJTweeny steals in around 7:39 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year'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
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||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "7:56 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Austin."
||||||||| 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)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Space/Time Music)
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
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||||||||| Outside, the 8:50 PM crosstown bus from Vancouver pulls away, leaving cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:50 PM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Steve Andrew Robey coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Hi SAR
DJTweeny: Hi cease
cease: i cant get any sound from you on this computer for some reason, about a monthnow
Steve Andrew Robey: Hey there DJ
||||||||| 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!"
Steve Andrew Robey: diggin the alan parsons project while I wait
||||||||| Cat steps in at 8:56 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cat: no problem with windows media player here, no sound on th cease computer
DJTweeny: big fan of Parsons here
DJTweeny: hmmmm cease
DJTweeny: streams show to be working fine
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:59 PM and rebozoette steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
||||||||| Catherwood enters with NancyKat close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:59 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
cease: hi rebo
DJTweeny: Hi NancyKat
cease: fellow feline
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 20, 2016 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
rebozoette: Cat cease DJTweeny rebozoette Steve Andrew Robey yo cat x2 snf Tweeny goo on ya
||||||||| Nabby waltzes in at 9:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Nabby: Is this simulated do you suppose?
rebozoette: hi nabby
NancyKat: Thank you, Catherwood, just roll a couple of bombers and leave them on the sideboard....
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to NancyKat and mumbles "oh, fuck off NancyKat!"
NancyKat: Ebbeh Ebbeh Engfeh...
||||||||| 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 shoes for the dead gets out at 9:00 PM.
Nabby: Hey reboz
rebozoette: tweeny good on ya mate lol lol
DJTweeny: Hi shoes
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:01 PM and late as usual, it's Lil, just back from Funfun Town."
NancyKat: cat, cease, Djtweeny, nabby, rebozoette, shoes...
shoes for the dead: Howdy
DJTweeny: Hi Lil
Cat: shoes, lil
Steve Andrew Robey: It's the grass roots gourmet!
rebozoette: hi lil
Nabby: lol great bit
Lil: Hi kids
Cat: lots of good stuff on this disc
rebozoette: cheeky very cheeky
Steve Andrew Robey: hullo
DJTweeny: All Things Firesign album
Cat: i think this would go well on election chat
rebozoette: hi sar
shoes for the dead: what is fforcemeat?
NancyKat: Tweeny, is that Dr. demento I hear?
Nabby: Hey Cat/cease, SAR, Tweeny!, shoes, Lil & NKat
Steve Andrew Robey: I think I remember hearing a couple of these spots on NPR
Steve Andrew Robey: hi rebozoette!
Nabby: GREAT play
Nabby: big nite Tweeny
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: INTERVIEW WITH DAVID OSSMAN
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check Out David Ossman’s Member Page At >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
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NancyKat: Moar Sugar...
Cat: htis was a great la radio show.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:04 PM and pastor rod steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cat: harlan ellison was part of this show.
Cat: i wrote a story for them in 72
Nabby: neato
shoes for the dead: hey pastor
Nabby: neato 2
DJTweeny: Wish I had a better copy
DJTweeny: Hi pastor
Nabby: hi prod
Cat: htis recording i got from michael packer, former firesing archiviuist
Nabby: appreciated Tweeny
NancyKat: 'ello, Pastor!
DJTweeny: my pleasure, Nabby :)
Nabby: (thumbs up)
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Elmer Ho', just granted probation at 9:06 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
||||||||| 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."
shoes for the dead: hey Ho
Cat: this is the best review i've ever heard/read.
NancyKat: Elmer, ho!
Elmer Ho: hello is this the Internet?
Nabby: Hi Ho
rebozoette: a head of times
NancyKat: No, it's the Tntra-net-you want next door...
DJTweeny: catgherwood, please give elmer a tin can and a string
||||||||| 9:07 PM: Merlyn jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Elmer Ho: Cat, Kat, Nabby - hi (if you're not already)
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
NancyKat: I wish...
Lil: It's off to Oz we go
||||||||| 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!"
shoes for the dead: hey merl
NancyKat: 'Ello, Merlyn...
Nabby: this is a CLaSSiC audioplay - up there with anything
DJTweeny: catherwood, please give elmer a tin can and a string
||||||||| Catherwood gets elmer a tin can and a string.
Cat: merl
Elmer Ho: howdy merl
Nabby: Hey Merl
rebozoette: tincture of laughter
cease: indeed, nab
NancyKat: is it/ was it a record ar a figment of our magnavox/
Nabby: Catherwood adjust my dream monitor
||||||||| Catherwood adjusts Nabby's dream monitor.
DJTweeny: The Years In Your Ears with Harry Shearer is marvelous
Elmer Ho: rebo - that would be laughter dissolved in alcohol, no?
Elmer Ho: sounds good to me
rebozoette: did u ever see a dream
Steve Andrew Robey: I've located both a vinyl and a CD copy of How Time Flys within the last month.
Nabby: laftohol
DJTweeny: cool, SAR
rebozoette: somebody blow tweeny back up
shoes for the dead: good score
Nabby: cool SAR
Steve Andrew Robey: nice coincidence
Lil: I always thought I heard Candy Clark's voice on this album.
DJTweeny: fffffffffsssssssssst
Nabby: great cover art
Nabby: lol
rebozoette: hold that line
Elmer Ho: brb - gotta use a different browser
Rufus_T_Firetween: Here are the liner notes, Lil >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln
||||||||| Elmer Ho is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 9:10 PM.
Lil: LOL Tweeny
Nabby: wasn't lolling at the covert art
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Nabby: tanx Rufus
Lil: Thanks hun
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Elmer Ho inside, makes a note of the time (9:10 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: I had the vinyl with the fold-out diorama, back in the day
DJTweeny: covert artm Lil? that's sneaky...
rebozoette: shucks man
DJTweeny: *art,
Nabby: I have it Tween--signed by DO--but no diorama alas --long lost
DJTweeny: a signed copy is good :)
Nabby: those guys are/were great about that
Cat: brillilant observed
rebozoette: the sound of sound
DJTweeny: "sci-fi, or, skiffy" lol
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
rebozoette listens
Nabby: sound is music|music is sound
Nabby: and the hills are alive
DJTweeny: "sci-fi, or, skiffy" lol
DJTweeny: had to reload the page
rebozoette: heart beats away
Nabby: Spec Fic lol
rebozoette: worm hole worms
||||||||| Dan steals in around 9:14 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hi Dan
shoes for the dead: hey dan
Nabby: Catherwood give Dan a cheese log
||||||||| Catherwood hands dan a cheese log.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** David Ossman at the Firesign Theatre home site - https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
NancyKat: cheeeeeeeese.......
Nabby: lol
Dan: Hello, just in from Greece. See, it's a grape.
NancyKat: fudge
NancyKat: divinity
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
NancyKat: nuts
NancyKat: nd spam...
rebozoette: crinkle kringle
NancyKat: Dan-you swam the english channel?
NancyKat: rebozo-YES!
Nabby: Pork?
cease: i got stopped at Greece.
rebozoette: sugar
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Johan Amadeus Myjetski', just granted probation at 9:17 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
NancyKat: rebozo-Moar!?
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
Nabby: JAM
cease: jam
NancyKat: cease-Did they want to see your pass-port/
rebozoette: make eye contact
NancyKat: Jamjam!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi DJT, Nabby!
Nabby: greecie sugar spoon
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Cat!
cease: i passed the port, but had some sherry
Dan: Sideways to Turkey
NancyKat: nabby-say goodnight, greecie!
Nabby: oops must prepare dinner - back in a bit
cease: it was great port too. from oporto.
NancyKat: cease-I only drink...wine...
NancyKat: Dan-makes a good sandwich...
NancyKat: uzo?
Nabby: bbl
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Oh, Nancy Kat!
shoes for the dead: hey JAM
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Shoes, my friend, how are ya?
NancyKat: Oh me, oh my, oh eye!
shoes for the dead: doin ok
||||||||| rebozoette leaves at 9:20 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..."
||||||||| Outside, the 9:20 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving rebozoette coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Dan: Shoes for industry
||||||||| "9:20 PM? 9:20 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits at the bar.
Beet: Hi everyone!
cease: david wife
shoes for the dead: hey Beet
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: David Ossman’s - “HOW TIME FLYS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check Out HOW TIME FLYS At >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf
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cease: tiny ossman
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Beet: Hi shoes
cease: proc posted pic of her yesterday on facebook.
Beet: Hello Dr. Tween
DJTweeny: Ah, ok cease thanks
DJTweeny: pre-judith
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Beet!
Beet: Hey JAM!
NancyKat: Beety!
||||||||| 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."
Beet: Hi Mtss Nancy
Beet: that's Miss (sorry()
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: This sounds like FST meets 2001. I do not say this lightly...
shoes for the dead: he says darkly
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Or me setting up a PA for a band...
DJTweeny: yeah, the piano is reminscent of Debussy
rebozoette: its puce I tell ya
Cat: Beetnik
Beet: This play is quite the masterpiece. A personal favorite of mine.
Beet: Hi Cat.
||||||||| "9:25 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Elmer Ho, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “HOW TIME FLYS” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln
Cat: it is a wonder.
Lil: Agreed Beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: greets Elmer
Cat: any more thoughts on an election night chat, tween?
Cat: that's 3 weeks from now.
Beet: Hi Lil
DJTweeny: Yes, I should mention it, Cat
Lil: I remember Ossman saying that he recorded a lot of voices and put parts of them together to form a sentence on this.
Cat: that line would go well with trump, crying baby
Lil: Hi Beet.
Cat: i'm thinking of firesign stuff that would go well with the night.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Lil!
Cat: the npr stuff, much more.
Cat: it oculd be a group project
Lil: Hiya Jammie
Cat: chatters, what firesign bits do you think would go well with election coverage?
shoes for the dead: the glutomoto bit, cat
Cat: from Not Insane?
||||||||| "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!"
Cat: that is good!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: You're right, Cat, it would raise the level of the election to, well, it would raise it
shoes for the dead: yes
Lil: Ralph Spoilsport
Beet: Papoon
NancyKat: What is the sound of an aneurysm?
Cat: we all know firesign or we wouldn't be here.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** There will be a special Election Night Edition of The Firesign Chat on Tuesday, Nov 8. We’ll have the Papoon For President album, as well as other election-related FST bits. There will be no time limit for this show, so we’ll go as long as folks want to to monitor the election coverage.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: and my ism, too, Nancy!
Cat: i thought you were playing pappoon tonhgt, tween? election eve might be better
Lil: And all things absurd.
shoes for the dead: and breaking the president
Beet: Some of the more political stuff fron Peter's more recent Oz broadcasts.
Cat: presidents in hell
Rufus_T_Firetween: Oh yeah Cat, much more suitable for Election Night :)
||||||||| 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 Myjetski: yes, shoes has it right!
Cat: you want to go through that, beet?
Lil: Cool shoes.
Rufus_T_Firetween: another good one, Cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: absolutely, shoes...
rebozoette: plunk it down
Lil: I'd rather be here than monitoring the election.
Cat: you still here, merl?
Steve Andrew Robey: paid for by the george tirebiter for political solutions committee, sector R
Beet: I used to ove those rants by Peter
Cat: i gave merl a copy of their 1980 election coverage for npr.
Beet: love
Rufus_T_Firetween: good idea also Beet, would like to know where they are specifically
Cat: they're all on itunes i think.
Cat: yes tween, there are a hundred, 200, what?
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, will have to scour the itunes podcasts
Cat: that's why this should be a group project.
Beet: I'll see if I can find one or two and send you a message in a day or two.
Cat: can we share stuff via skype?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** FIRESIGN THEATRE and OZ PODCASTS are available for the price of your firstborn chinchilla (free) from the iTunes Store, and online: FST podcasts at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html - and RADIO FREE OZ podcasts at >> http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/
Cat: great, beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: Well, we've got plenty of time and two more FST chat shows to put it together :)
Beet: Your namesake, Tween
Cat: indeed, tween.
DJTweeny: 'tis indeed :)
Cat: the firesign used to tell their listerners to turn off the volume on a tv statino and then they did the commentary.
Beet: get your brains washed he said.
Cat: we can kind of extend that to the election.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
shoes for the dead: a guest appearence would be nice
shoes for the dead: from one or both of the guys
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yes, I should invite Phil and David to join us via Skype :)
Cat: i think they may have other priorties, but they might visit for a minute or two
Rufus_T_Firetween: can't hurt to ask
Beet: I used to conduct that music in high school.
rebozoette: oh that would be sweet
Rufus_T_Firetween: I was in a marching band in HS
Rufus_T_Firetween: played lots of JPSousa tunes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I was a marching band brat, too!
Cat: ok a lot of the election news will be about certain states. what states can you rmember the firesigns mentioning?
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool :)
shoes for the dead: I was into marching powder once
Beet: Also that march (Grandioso) was played regularly by the UT band.
DJTweeny: peruvian, shoes?
DJTweeny: forgot you were acquainted with Texas, Beet
shoes for the dead: it liked me too much
Cat: what a piece of asphalt
rebozoette: I marched to work in high school lol
Beet: Grew up in Houston and my mother went to UT
DJTweeny imagines rebo marching down the street twirling a baton
shoes for the dead: Frank you!
||||||||| "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!"
rebozoette: more like as baseball bat lol
DJTweeny: hehe
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: catherwood, give everyone a high school memory
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a high school memory.
Steve Andrew Robey: we have a local celebrity in atlanta named baton bob. he's a middle aged man who dresses in a tutu and twirls a baton while walking through the business district where i work. it's just how he unwinds I think.
||||||||| 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: rough neighborhood, I take it?
DJTweeny: That's wild Steve
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: ahh yeah
Steve Andrew Robey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Bob
Steve Andrew Robey: hope i'm still on topic lol
rebozoette: he is not knot
DJTweeny: looks like quite a character lol
shoes for the dead: ther's a topic?
DJTweeny: yeah, shoes lol
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
Steve Andrew Robey: he's cool, we always cheer him on
DJTweeny: and now, The Other Side
rebozoette: ottmans rule feet
DJTweeny: as Rob Petrie stumbles
cease: i think there are a bevy of boomers onthe bench that will sound great on election show
cease: towel, bath, ottoman
Steve Andrew Robey: glad this was the featured album tonight. i needed to get more familiar with this album. it's pretty heady stuff that takes a few times to sink in.
shoes for the dead: all the tapes on this record a funky
rebozoette: lol
cease: more than a few.
shoes for the dead: are
cease: they always wanted their work to be listened to as often as you'[d listen to music
cease: thus, it has to be continually rewarding
DJTweeny: Since this isn't a big arse chat network, I'm going to give out my email address >> txroadkill@kurtericson
rebozoette: dd bag it
Steve Andrew Robey: yeah I've already listened a "few" times and am still figgerin it out.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:46 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Daytona Beach."
DJTweeny: please email me any suggestions you have for the election show, or any shows for that matter :)
llanwydd: evening folks
shoes for the dead: hey Llan
DJTweeny: oops, didn't finish the addy >> txroadkill@kurtericson.com
Beet: Hi llan.
Steve Andrew Robey: hullo der
DJTweeny: Hi Llan
Cat: debag. i dindt catch that until tongiht. means take the record out of the bag it comes in as all lps did then.
rebozoette: hi llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Llan! Daytona, huh?
cease: i had thought it was a future project, but no, it's talkilng of taking a record out of its sleeve as archeological process.
cease: what we do listening to this album as beyond memory. like Sleeper, which came out about the same time
DJTweeny: If any of you are comfortable with me having your email addressess, please send me a private message
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I love sci-fi, and I love FST, for me, this is a natural
DJTweeny: great stuff :)
llanwydd: sdfghjm,
Beet: Anticipating virtual reality,
DJTweeny: geshundheit, llan
cease: hi llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Me, too, beet ;-)
DJTweeny: catherwood, please give llan a handkerchief
||||||||| Catherwood gets llan a handkerchief.
shoes for the dead: gotta be better than this one Beet
rebozoette: the throw away kind
DJTweeny: haha shoes
llanwydd: maybe I should have said uytghymnb
Beet: Catherwood give everyone some virtual reality.
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone some virtual reality.
||||||||| PrincipalPoop enters at 9:51 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
cease: poop
Beet: Howdy Poop!
shoes for the dead: pooper!
rebozoette: touch it its a ten foot pole
cease: pooplr have no fear
PrincipalPoop: hahaha hi all
Steve Andrew Robey: who's responsible
shoes for the dead: pretty tall
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Ten hut! Poop on deck!
rebozoette: i never saw that writing on the wall
Steve Andrew Robey: next time I'll remember to think up a clever nickname instead of using my birth name
Cat: many of us have multiple names
cease: me for example
Steve Andrew Robey: i feel so exposed
Cat: makes the chat look bigger
Beet: lol cease
||||||||| 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: Hey PrincP
Lil: Been waitin' for you Poop
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's okay, Steve, the first few times I was here, I used a different clever name each week
shoes for the dead: throw a towel on it
PrincipalPoop: I thought that was robey the robots full name but ok
Cat: sounds like a good ref to trump. earth says hello
rebozoette: put up the steak knives
DJTweeny: lol Cat
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: did he say "i'll just shrivel this thing around"?
Steve Andrew Robey: one of my nicknames in high school was robot
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Or swivel?
Lil: snake knives
PrincipalPoop: I had a nap, I as up in time but forgot the date and made dinner and ate by mistake
Lil: Pastor didn't see you flash in
PrincipalPoop: was
Lil: LOL Poop
cease: not if hash was part of dinner
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: How did it ta
Steve Andrew Robey: i was trying to unravel poop's sentence too
PrincipalPoop: robey is exposing himself, not me
Steve Andrew Robey: no peeking k
shoes for the dead: I've never eaten by mistake
rebozoette: cha cha
Lil: Poop you don't have to expose yourself, you drool
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: What does a mistake taste like, I wonder? A lot like crow, I imagine
shoes for the dead: candel light a few times tho
PrincipalPoop: no unraveling, reel that thing in
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Beet: Always loved The Wolfman.
Steve Andrew Robey: mistakes taste like chicken
DJTweeny: lol
PrincipalPoop: those melting popsickles
llanwydd: wolfman was before my time
Cat: i ate more chicken any man ever seen
DJTweeny only gets US Plus pork & beans :/
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: A friend of mine is writing a book about gas station fried chicken
PrincipalPoop: a door is not a door when it is ajar
DJTweeny: according to Bill Hicks, Poop?
rebozoette: look out philo
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
PrincipalPoop: bp or texaco or shell
Cat: "a door that is never open or closed" from one of ossman's plays
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL, rebozoette!
DJTweeny: "Your door is ajar..."
shoes for the dead: shelled chicken?
Cat: goood one, rebo
rebozoette: lol
PrincipalPoop: philo is after my time I guess
Beet: very Kafka-esk.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's "adore" is never open or closed...
rebozoette: time is fleeting
Steve Andrew Robey: i expected to see a lot more bill hicks archival releases after he died. They put out one or two and then we havent seen any since.
PrincipalPoop: how profound jam
rebozoette: dough
PrincipalPoop: the voice of T
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “HOPE”
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/
'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thank ya, thank ya vrry much!
PrincipalPoop: home or hope?
cease: john hockenberry's 1990 NPR show Heat
cease: procotfr and bergman were in it too
cease: HOME,not hope
PrincipalPoop: both are ok
Beet: You got some 'splainin' to do, Lucy.
cease: that was theme for hockenberry's show that night
PrincipalPoop: are you talkiing to me?
cease: the guestg was a poet from the caribbean who re-wrote the Odyssey only setg in the carribean
cease: this is from the original
cease: that's me reading a magazine article about a book about,,,,
PrincipalPoop: loren eisley is hardcore
cease: this is austin, almost prefiesign
cease: indeed, poop
PrincipalPoop: myth is just a miss spoken with a lisp
DJTweeny: lol
DJTweeny: profound...
PrincipalPoop: yrth
shoes for the dead: is profound like anti lost?
rebozoette: don't talk ships with me
PrincipalPoop: did he say direction or erection?
Beet: Where am us, anyway?
shoes for the dead: what?
Cat: my cats think another way
llanwydd: I think I have heard this before
llanwydd: or something quite like it
DJTweeny: not sure when, but I have played these before
Lil: I have. It's brilliant.
PrincipalPoop: you said that before I think lllan
Lil: LOL Poop
Lil: Always on the nose
cease: my favourite firesign line
cease: or Someone Like Him
Lil: Wonderful collage Cat
PrincipalPoop: eww, waiting for the mortician, eww
rebozoette: unmortified
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
Lil: You have Tween.
Beet: I'm waiting for the Lit Match.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s new Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: really nice, Cat!
PrincipalPoop: an english tournament?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Poop, we're ALL waiting for the mortician...
Cat: When I finished Peace Pipe, I wanted to continue making collages and when I read that mag article quoting Eisley quoting Homer, I had the idea for the next collage.
Cat: This one kind of flowed from that.
PrincipalPoop: opps I thought it was Morticia
Cat: this was early 2010.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** There will be a special Election Night Edition of The Firesign Chat on Tuesday, Nov 8. We’ll have the Papoon For President album, as well as other election-related FST bits. There will be no time limit for this show, so we’ll go as long as folks want to to monitor the election coverage. Send me ideas for the show at txroadkill@kurtericson.com
PrincipalPoop: election night chat lordy
DJTweeny: oops, didn't change the header
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “WAITING FOR THE MORTICIAN”
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: this is from 1967
DJTweeny: should be fun, P :)
Cat: bergman was endlessly interesting.
Beet: miss him
Cat: the 2nd play i ever wrote was about the 1960 election
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: going out of body sale
Cat: the universe does too, beet
Lil: Well that's the cut I was thinking of for the election Cat. You are too prescient!
shoes for the dead: tired eyes, gonna listen out
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it !!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite, shoes, rest well!
Lil: Enjoy shoes
PrincipalPoop: blue suede shoes
Beet: G'Nite shoes.
DJTweeny: nite shoes...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
Cat: sleep well, shoes
PrincipalPoop: lock an dload
rebozoette: screen doors on a sub sandwich
Beet: I liked their pun: Left Tenant Behind.
Cat: i never saw that until now, beet
Cat: is that you, joe?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Lol, beet! good catch!
llanwydd: me neither. I never heard left tennant
PrincipalPoop: time wounds all heals
Beet: Seventh Seal Cavalry
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Brits regularly pronounce lieutenant as 'lef tenant', not sure why
PrincipalPoop: quite
rebozoette: world staging
Lil: And kharma wounds old heels
Lil: Hopeffully
Beet: Love the collages
PrincipalPoop: fate fates
Lil: That ending kind of reminds me of the end of Stephen King's Dark Tower series
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: a DOMM Let’s Eat broadcast “ASSORTED COLD CUTS”
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
'
rebozoette: freeze me out
||||||||| "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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: a sordid cole cuts. Hmm...
Cat: i dont know it, lil
llanwydd: oh, the dark tower ended finally?
PrincipalPoop: staging as in stag party?
rebozoette: it is being made into a movie
llanwydd: I read the first seven. the seventh one left me cold
PrincipalPoop: sundry amounts
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: sounds like someone stepped on a chinchilla there
Cat: we have a lot of that here, llan
Beet: Where do I send my donations?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: there's an echo in there
PrincipalPoop: 1 5 1 5 1 555
rebozoette: I cinco 5
llanwydd: lot of what, cat? did I miss something?
Cat: cold
llanwydd: oh, yes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: there's an echo in there
Beet: Only in my left ear
PrincipalPoop: the chinchilla, step faster
Beet: right one toonow
Lil: LOL You're on it tonight
Lil: Poop dear
PrincipalPoop: huh? sorry
Beet: 'is 'icrophone 'orking?
PrincipalPoop: I can dig it, thanks
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'RedPillTweeny', just granted probation at 10:34 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
PrincipalPoop: a new T
rebozoette: not a chance
Cat: Tweeny never runs out of multiple identity stamps
Beet: hi Red
DJTweeny: Hi Red
PrincipalPoop: huh? metaphysically impossible?
DJTweeny: not moi
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: RedPill! Welcome to the wabbit-hole
Lil: LOL Larger or smaller?
PrincipalPoop: is that from the matrix or who?
llanwydd: san clamerone doesnt sound swedish
PrincipalPoop: go ask alice
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: matrix by way of elmer fudd. Should have said "skwuwy wabbit hole"
rebozoette: clameroni
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: expiration message?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL!
PrincipalPoop: bonsoir hola hejsa ciao guten dag
Beet: His Whole Highness
Cat: i been wholy high for a long time
llanwydd: Ive heard of suffern pacific
PrincipalPoop: the island of capri treat
PrincipalPoop: kill the wabbit kill the wabbit
Beet: Very inspirational
PrincipalPoop: bally high?
PrincipalPoop: knee deep
cease: are these time gaps on domm?
cease: isnt that in vegas?
DJTweeny: bothered me at first, cease
rebozoette: I am following the light
DJTweeny: then I remember the title of this show :)
Lil: Hey Poop you're on
DJTweeny: *remembered
PrincipalPoop: salacious
cease: indeed, tween
Beet: lol
DJTweeny: only show broadcast in the collection edited this way, as far as I know
PrincipalPoop: I still thonk
||||||||| 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."
Lil: Somebody please get me DOMM for my anniversary
Rufus_T_Firetween: wish I could, Lil
PrincipalPoop: delouise?
Lil: Awwww a wish is as good as a mile Tweeny
Beet: My motive is loco.
Cat: kerouac';s nick, of the louse
||||||||| 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."
Lil: No Perignon
Beet: and warm
||||||||| 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!"
PrincipalPoop: my next guess was ination
||||||||| 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
'
||||||||| Merlyn leaves at 10:49 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..."
PrincipalPoop: M left
rebozoette: re inflate yer shoes
DJTweeny: disappeared without a trace, like all good magicians
PrincipalPoop: poof, the poofer
rebozoette: hatched more like it
rebozoette: the plan is a foot
Cat: this is so Dada
PrincipalPoop: hind foot is golden
DJTweeny: Mama, even
PrincipalPoop: mofo loco jojo nono
Cat: this makes us all wiser, listening to this
Cat: our brains expand
Beet: Lots of laughs and learning tonight. Thanks everyone. Thanks Cat for some great collages. Thanks Dr Tween. G'Nite.
PrincipalPoop: thanks T and all wow
Cat: lets think of stuff to play during election, eh?
||||||||| It's 10:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thanks Kurt! Thanks Cat! Thanks everybody for the laughs! Love, love, love to all!
||||||||| Lil rushes off, saying "10:55 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
rebozoette: Beet Cat cease DJTweeny Lil pastor rod PrincipalPoop rebozoette RedPillTweeny Rufus_T_Firetween llanwydd Johan Amadeus Myjetskthanks all and cat wonderful and tweeny you make a great Thursday
||||||||| Lil tiptoes in around 10:55 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
PrincipalPoop: ok ok toad away
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** There will be a special Election Night Edition of The Firesign Chat on Tuesday, Nov 8. We’ll have the Papoon For President album, as well as other election-related FST bits. There will be no time limit for this show, so we’ll go as long as folks want to to monitor the election coverage. Send me ideas for the show at txroadkill@kurtericson.com
||||||||| PrincipalPoop departs at 10:55 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cat: ok we'll try and evolve this, tween
||||||||| Cat is kicked out just as the clock strikes 10:56 PM.
Lil: Kurt and Cat, topped yourselves as always. Absolutely wonderful program and programming
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:56 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs cease by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Lil: Kids, thanks to you all for being here
Lil: All gone?
Lil: Sigh. Lil signing off.
rebozoette: nite lil
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Lil: Thanks rebozo
Lil: Night to you too
DJTweeny: have a great week all :)
rebozoette snores loudly
Lil: You too Kurt
Lil: LOL rebo
rebozoette: lol
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Lil - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: we all still here?
llanwydd: nite folks
||||||||| llanwydd says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, llanwydd exits at 11:14 PM.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Steve Andrew Robey - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Dan - 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 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:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 1:12 AM, dragging Oolbenite by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
Oolbenite: i'm just a fan.not fanatic,just,a fan.
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Oolbenite - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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 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 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:
||||||||| pastor rod - dead from measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| shoes for the dead - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
Beet
Cat
cease
Dan
DJTweeny
Elmer Ho
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Lil
llanwydd
Nabby
NancyKat
Oolbenite
PrincipalPoop
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
Steve Andrew Robey
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https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=htf
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Ossman
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://rfo.chromiumswitch.org/
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Bob
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