A Firesign Chat
01/05/2017




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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 January 05, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and DJTweeny falls out at 7:25 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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||||||||| DJTweeny says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, DJTweeny exits at 8:01 PM.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:01 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET **
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Fyrestarter', just granted probation at 8:30 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Fyrestarter: Excuse Me, Is This The Expedition....?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Fyre
Fyrestarter: How Are You, Fire?
Rufus_T_Firetween: We'll headin' out to Injun Country real soon now...
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have a very bad cold, and my back hurts. Other than that, just peachy. And you?
Fyrestarter: Smoking Of The Sacred Pipes?
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: reckon so
Rufus_T_Firetween: maybe see if they got any payote
Fyrestarter: It's Going To Get Real Cold For North Texas....I'm Helping A Vet Buddy Renovate A 89 Year Old House....Drafty To Say The Least
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll bet
Rufus_T_Firetween: Austin here
Rufus_T_Firetween: and going down into the 20s which is crazy cold for us
Fyrestarter: We Rebuilt The Entire Piers System Underneath With 146 Blocks...25 Lbs A Piece...I'm Combat Injured And He Has 3 Fractured Verts In His Back...
Rufus_T_Firetween: omg
Fyrestarter: Fort Worth... Until I'm Done With My Motorcycle....Then South....
Rufus_T_Firetween: A hurculean task even if you weren't injured
Rufus_T_Firetween: What make of motorcycle do you have?
Fyrestarter: Not Really That Bad...He Takes Breaks, I Don't.....He Eases Off His Pain, I Finish And Repair...It's Funny....
Fyrestarter: 86 Yamaha Radian With 24,000 On It....
Rufus_T_Firetween: Low miles for that age
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Happy Birthday JRR Tolkien – Rick Wakeman’s Songs Of Middle Earth)
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)
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Rufus_T_Firetween: I've been thinking about a Honda Rebel
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm a short guy, and it looks like it might fit
Fyrestarter: I Bought It Site Unseen....Messed Up BigTime....
Rufus_T_Firetween: oops
Fyrestarter: Almost 800 Dollars Later....
Rufus_T_Firetween: :/
Fyrestarter: Lesson Learned
||||||||| "8:44 PM? 8:44 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Pep pills! Pep pills! should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Pep pills! Pep pills! enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Pep
Fyrestarter: Hey...That's Pep....
Fyrestarter: Hey , Fire....Do You Still Turn On Peeps To Firesign?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Every chance I get :)
||||||||| Pep pills! Pep pills! rushes off, saying "8:48 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm usually doing a live show tghis evening, but am taking off due to Galubner's
||||||||| 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 Pep pills! Pep pills! falls out at 8:49 PM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'm usually DJTweeny
Fyrestarter: Groovy...I Turned Two Twenty Somethings On Last Week...
Rufus_T_Firetween: excellent :)
Fyrestarter: Oh? Cool....
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a good replay thought
Rufus_T_Firetween: David Ossman telling the story of the making of Electrician, and then you'll hear the album
Fyrestarter: I Haven't Been On A Lot Lately......
Fyrestarter: Great.....
Rufus_T_Firetween: We usually have a pretty good bunch here for the chat
Fyrestarter: Oh, Yeah...I Know, Just Life Was Getting In The Way....
Rufus_T_Firetween: Life Happens
Fyrestarter: Yesssssss It Does.....
||||||||| Catherwood enters with EWeston close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:53 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the Aviary.
EWeston: Hi Rufus, fyrtstarter and 4Ps
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi EW
Fyrestarter: Howdy, EW
EWeston: Gathering storm music for 2017?
EWeston: Are we short a Tweeny today?
Rufus_T_Firetween: DJTweeny is feelin' poorly
Rufus_T_Firetween: a good replay coming up though
EWeston: Hope he is in not to much discomfort.
Rufus_T_Firetween: been better...
Fyrestarter: Haven't We All?
Rufus_T_Firetween: true
||||||||| "8:58 PM? 8:58 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits on the couch.
EWeston: Lo Cease
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Johan Amadeus Myjetski in through the front door at 8:58 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Fyrestarter: Howdy, Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi cease, Johan
Fyrestarter: Hey, Johan...
EWeston: Johan in the house
Cease: classical music?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: g'd evening' cease, fire, e, et al!
Cease: who died?
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, January 05, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Fyrestarter: Rick Wakeman....
Rufus_T_Firetween: Rick Wakeman, in tribute to JRR Tolkien, who's birthday was this week
Cease: aha
EWeston: Der niftners morals
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: love ord of the ings.
Cease: loathe classical music
Rufus_T_Firetween: OK, the first few minutes of the show is warm-up music from the replay
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Fyrestarter: I Saw Yes In 74...Wakeman Was Massive....
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
DJTweeny has a bad case of Glaubner's, so you're listening to:
The October 2015 broadcast of WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM
with an introduction by David Ossman called STILL WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN
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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Rufus_T_Firetween: must have been very cool Fyre
Rufus_T_Firetween: never caught Yes live with Wakeman, but saw them 3x with Moraz
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:02 PM and late as usual, it's Bubba, just back from Maryland."
Cease: this is ear damage
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Bubba
Fyrestarter: It Was two Songs On Thier Yessongs Album....
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'shoes for the dead', just granted probation at 9:02 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol, compain to The Jefferson Airplane
Cease: bub
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Saw Rick W in 74, the Journey to the Center of the Earth tour
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi shoes
EWeston: Hi Shoes an Bubba
Rufus_T_Firetween: love the Yessongs album
Rufus_T_Firetween: *complain
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Nabby inside, makes a note of the time (9:03 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cease: shoes
Cease: nab
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Nabby
EWeston: Nabby files in
shoes for the dead: Howdy
Fyrestarter: Nabby, Hello...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nastier, shoes!
Cease: we are having salt riots here in vancouver
Fyrestarter: Howdyb Do, Shoes...
Nabby: Hey Rufus
Cease: but very polite riots.
Rufus_T_Firetween: salt riots??
Fyrestarter: Riots Over Salt?
Rufus_T_Firetween: well, they're Canadian
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
EWeston: For or against cease?
Nabby: Hey EW, Fyre, shoes
Cease: airplane soared high.
shoes for the dead: the new EYKIW fits well between the eyes!
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Merlyn into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:04 PM, then departs.
Cease: snow stilll blankets the citry. we're not used to it so need salt.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Merlyn
Cease: merl would know he lives in snow land.
Cease: melts the snow.
EWeston: evenin Merlyn
Fyrestarter: Hiya, Merlyn
Nabby: Hey Merl
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Down here, we're waiting for the snow, man, or someone like him.
Merlyn: hey
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Maybe an inch by morning
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Love this JA song!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Merlyn!
Fyrestarter: We;re Just Beyond That Snowline
Cease: are we geting firesign tonight, tween?
Nabby: Evening Tweeny
EWeston: Ever try a listen to Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun?
Rufus_T_Firetween: no, I thought I'd put on a Jefferson show instead
EWeston: Tweeny is sicky poo tonight
shoes for the dead: hard not to love em alll
Rufus_T_Firetween: I have it on vinyl, EW
Rufus_T_Firetween: and old favorite from those days
EWeston: They are in that vague territory between the Airplane and the Starship
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah exactly
Nabby: oh whoops, Tweeny's out
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
||||||||| "9:08 PM? 9:08 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Anon should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Anon enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Rufus_T_Firetween: DJTweeny's feelin' poorly
EWeston: Grace as in heat for a couple of the numbers
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Anon
Fyrestarter: Hey, Don't Pick On Mickey Thompson...
EWeston: Hi Anon
shoes for the dead: key anon
Fyrestarter: Hiya,Anon
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Gary K in through the front door at 9:10 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:10 PM and Elayne steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: You know I don't think I ever bought Grace's solo album Hole
Cease: i hope you all buy the new dvd set. got mine yest. they do a wonderful version of this.
Cease: hi El. I was just thinking of you. got your dvd set yet?
EWeston: Gary K and Elayne ello
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Gary, Elayne
||||||||| 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."
Elayne: Good evening! Ah, I see it's Don G. O'Vannie
shoes for the dead: hey gary and Elayne!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: hey anon, hey gary!
Elayne: Darn it Cat, I completely forgot to ask Robin for it!
Cease: you gave me the santa cruz show from airship al but seeing it pristine like this is amazing.
Fyrestarter: Hiya, Gary, Elayne...
Gary K: jello there to all
EWeston: Some Hot Tuna was good, but I never bought into the Starship
Cease: their commentary on their flicks is wondrous.
Elayne: Did you see David's teaser on the Faceybook?
Fyrestarter: Some Great Vocals....
Cease: its like being invited to be the 5th firesign member
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll bet
Cease: i missed that, el. was it today?
Elayne: OMG!! Please pass along my best wishes to David.
Elayne: I think so, Cat. I'm reeling from Tweeny's news.
Rufus_T_Firetween: This October of 2015
Elayne: Trying to find the post.
Rufus_T_Firetween: this is not live guys, this is memorex
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Best healing thoughts & wishes to DO this evening!
Rufus_T_Firetween: THIS IS A RECORDING
Rufus_T_Firetween: David's fine :)
Cease: the martians are not invading.
EWeston: Damn!
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah lol
Cease: how is nyc, el?
Elayne: Alas, Cat, can't find it. Thanks for the reassurance, Tween, but I'm a ittle skittish. After all, Carrie Fisher was supposedly in stable condition after her heart attack.
Elayne: Damn, I miss Carrie Fisher.
Rufus_T_Firetween: David's heart attack was a year and 1/2 ago
Fyrestarter: Then Who's That Knock Knock Knocking At My Chamber Door...Little Blue Fellas
Cease: he seems healthy enough now. doing lots of gigs, books, poems
Elayne: Oh, I didn't realize that Tween! I thought that was your live intro!!
Gary K: Debbie said, many times, that her love for her daughter kept her going.
Rufus_T_Firetween: nope, taking the night off
Rufus_T_Firetween: have a really bad head cold and a sore back to boot
Cease: dont boot your back.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies duffy3750 into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:18 PM, then departs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi duffy
Cease: the new dvd set starts with the les crane show, a reproductio of their first performance, the film festival guys
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cease: hi duff
EWeston: An don't boot Duffy niether
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I still miss Chris Squire...
Cease: it does take you back to how they were formed, like watching a star being born in a galaxy far away.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Evening' Duffster!
Elayne: Found it It was from yesterday. https://www.facebook.com/david.ossman.3/posts/10154571790058551?pnref=story
Elayne: Caption was "There'll be a lot more Proctor & Ossman in 2017! Thanks, Rocky!"
EWeston: Kewl
Rufus_T_Firetween: cool :)
Fyrestarter: Duffter...Howdy....
Gary K: I will enjoy seeing Proctor & Ossman
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Gary Owen - from Laugh In?
Cease: there is a wondrous interview with the lads about their ealry days
Cease: i remember la radio from those days. it was amazing.
EWeston: Gary was cool
Cease: laugh in was dumbed down gary.
Cease: like the astrology album was dumbed down austin.
EWeston: I remember a bit with Ruth Buzzy. The punch line from Gary was,"That's a fine howdoyoudo." Seemed very firesignish
Cease: nab and merl still here?
Fyrestarter: I'm On And Off....Listening....
Elayne: Oh dear, the drugs are starting to kick in. Thank goodness I only took one ibuprofen PM, it's knocking me out already
Elayne: If I were to have taken two, I wouldn't be able to stay awake tomorrow.
Elayne: Next week, all!
EWeston: Rest easy Elayne
Cease: sleep well, el
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Goodnight, Elayne! Be happy!, Be well!
shoes for the dead: this is the one thats sortaon the newnEYKIW
Fyrestarter: Sweet Dreams, Elayne....
shoes for the dead: nighty El
Nabby: Take care E
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: shoes, I'm sensing a theme here. Are you saying EYKIW is ultra fantastic, & we should all order a copy immediately?
shoes for the dead: kinda sorta
Cease: yes i am, jam.
Cease: do your self a favour.
Cease: your brain will say "thank you"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Sold, cat!
Cease: i sound like ralph spoilsport.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiya friends
Cease: my dad was his competitor in the valley
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| duffy3750 - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
EWeston: The best in rude nudes and lewd dudes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I had a bob & ray album
Cease: they were great
Cease: there was something like this in canada in the late 60s, early 70s when i was a student a teacher.
||||||||| "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!"
Cease: i hitched accross canada twice in 71 and 73, enchanting rides with recitations of firesign albums
Cease: this is very profound
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Cease: in a world of trump
||||||||| Catherwood enters with PrincipalPoop close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:50 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary.
Fyrestarter: Mark Time....Lol
Cease: hi poop
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I was introduced to FST while in jr. hi school by my older brother and his college friends
EWeston: hiya pooper
shoes for the dead: hey PP
PrincipalPoop: hey cat, all
PrincipalPoop: I forgot it was Thursday, happy new year
Fyrestarter: Hi, PP...Happy New Year....
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Happy new year, Poop!
EWeston: I've already lost my first callender of the year
Cease: oh yes, it's a new year.
PrincipalPoop: it is never the old year
Cease: i was in 11th grade when a friend turned me on to their radio show, april 67
Cease: changed my life.
EWeston: The goon show thought differently Pooper
PrincipalPoop: ok, except when it is the old year
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Oh, & it was Electrician they played for me!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I went out & bout Two Places At Once a week or two later
EWeston: It involved a small sceem to sell old callenders
PrincipalPoop: I started out with EYKIW I think 11th grade also, 1973
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: bought
PrincipalPoop: selling broken radios to deaf people and broken tvs to blind people
Cease: i turned 16 and heard firesign with a couple of weeks of each other. getting my driver's licence was the lesser experience
EWeston: An aviation ordeinceman gave me a copy, in the barracks of, Not Insane. That was my intro the da boyc
PrincipalPoop: wait, which one is nick danger and the other side is the pyramid with a vacancy? started with that one
PrincipalPoop: 2 places, with marx and lennon on the front
Cease: you started with not insane? that IS insane.
PrincipalPoop: that would be a heavy intro yes
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: lol
EWeston: You yoused to be able to proclaim about 98% of it
Fyrestarter: Everything Was My First Tast....
Cease: i learn new things now.
PrincipalPoop: oh nicky nicky nick
PrincipalPoop: damn, reading it I wrote it wrong, nicky nick nick
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Oh, it's paisley agin!
Cease: from giant rat, i learned the line about wihle his kid napped.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: again
Cease: i've ownd the boook for decades but never noticed it
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
PrincipalPoop: it is good for my hallabutions, g u r u
Cease: until i made a new collae about goats
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: that gets my goat
PrincipalPoop: flying records lol
Cease: hopefully tween will play it next week.
Rufus_T_Firetween: barring my untimely demise, yes :)
Cease: nearing completion of mly trump piece for innaugratio day.
PrincipalPoop: have you made arrangements for you estate? I could use a new pc and stuff
Cease: working on a new piece about cats.
EWeston: Lotta your demise's are untimely
PrincipalPoop: your
Cease: reading a book about cuban music, and learnd the word cat originlaly meant musician in an afrcian language.
EWeston: Mine mine mine
PrincipalPoop: hip cats, diggit
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: cool cats, kittens
PrincipalPoop: hep I guess
Cease: hep meant skillfull, so a hep cat was a skillfull musician. in the original language in africa
Rufus_T_Firetween: and folks, as of this evening, I'm playing all four albums of the Quadrilogy in a row in order, one each week
Cease: in my collage you'll hear an interview with louis armstrong by murrow, wheere he talks aobvut the meaning of cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: so Two Places next week
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I always thought it was related to early drug use & the presence of hepatitis.
PrincipalPoop: ouch
Fyrestarter: Cool....
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's cool, cease, i am glad to know this
Fyrestarter: A Danger Ranger....
Cease: i am never not a scholar
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "10:09 PM and late as usual, it's llanwydd, just back from Billville."
llanwydd: evening folks
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Llan!
EWeston: Hello IIan
PrincipalPoop: stay groovy indeed hey llan
Cease: hey llan
Cease: now we can make whiskey
llanwydd: didnt know I was in Billville
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: we bin waiting' for this for hundreds of years
PrincipalPoop: or import immigrants and make cars
llanwydd: lol cat
Cease: lol poop
PrincipalPoop: 2 are sagitarrians? ewwww
Cease: just got Seconds, old rock hudson flick and new chris rock top 5 from van library. both excellent.
EWeston: Me too..t
llanwydd: lol
Cease: but not as good as new firesgin dvds
shoes for the dead: gonna litsten out
PrincipalPoop: to round it out, get the car action movie starring the rock
Cease: out
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nighty shoes! be well!
shoes for the dead: Park it and Lock it!
Cease: scramble up into health, shoes
PrincipalPoop: ciao shoes
PrincipalPoop: feel better, everybody who is under the weather
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: pushing' goshen!
PrincipalPoop: domino domino domino, you are all Catholics now
llanwydd: one of my high school teachers loaned me this album
llanwydd: this and 2 Places
EWeston: the birds the birds
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Look at the grouse! Look at the grouse!
PrincipalPoop: what about the birds? no grousing
llanwydd: what grouse where
EWeston: That bird has a gun!
llanwydd: I never got get the senator back in the bus. anybody know what that means?
PrincipalPoop: got any peyote?
Cease: llan, savour the mysteries.
EWeston: He was on a tour. Some people traveling to Montana in the fifties worried about being attacked by indians
Cease: when you die, there wil be stuff you don't know.
llanwydd: naturally, cat
Cease: i'm really happy about that.
llanwydd: me too
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Cease: i thikn the firesign sing that into existence,
llanwydd: Hey Bill
llanwydd: just blew in from billville?
PrincipalPoop: down home tribal
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: 2nd bardo?
llanwydd: Hey Tween, how did you come down with Glaubners?
Cease: mettaly hats.
Cease: proc should talk about that.
Rufus_T_Firetween: caught from the Boobouisie at Wally World, no doubt
Rufus_T_Firetween: bad head cold, and my back has been hurting
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: The old third red eye!
EWeston: Tasts like pork
llanwydd: lol tween
Cease: get well soon, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: thanks :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: I rarely get sick. I think all the roller coaster temps may have contributed
Rufus_T_Firetween: 85 one day and 55 the next
Rufus_T_Firetween: was 75 a couple of days ago, and we're going into the 20's tonight
Rufus_T_Firetween: ridiculous
llanwydd: 55?!?
Cease: yes those temp changes always makes me ill here.
Rufus_T_Firetween: please keep your weather to yourself, Cat ;)
Cease: i am rarely healthy though
llanwydd: yes I remember texas
EWeston: Frasier canyon air, it's cool
llanwydd: craziest weather in the world
Cease: i'm not zeuss, though i play him on chat
Rufus_T_Firetween: weather coming out of the Panhandle can drop the temp 30 degrees in an hour
llanwydd: especially in the winter
Rufus_T_Firetween: we had a wind a couple of weeks ago that dropped the temps 50 degrees in a couple of hours
Rufus_T_Firetween: not good for your health
llanwydd: I believe that, tween
llanwydd: san antonio was like that in january of 82
llanwydd: shes not groovy
Cease: this separation is wondrous.
llanwydd: separation?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: left & right channels, Llan
llanwydd: aha
llanwydd: ...man
Cease: on speakers, llabn.
Cease: rfk on my left, hippie on my right
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I remember listening to this in headphones, the separation made it an simmersive experience!
Cease: me too jam.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: immersive
Rufus_T_Firetween: FST, like great rock albums, is best served with headphones :)
llanwydd: oh, the days of stereo hi fi
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Oh if the Drumpf would just refuse to serve...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I raised the level of my home loan!
Cease: i had some really good headphones in those days.
llanwydd: me too, cat
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: home, not loan
EWeston: Though the anti intellectualosm did come from the right with him
llanwydd: I miss them. Its great to listen to firesign on headphones
Cease: anti intllectuatl tradtion began with the pilgrims
Cease: if we don't miss bergman and austin, there is something wrong with us.
EWeston: There may be eariler roots. The self flagelant out breaks in Europe could be one
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Right on, cease!
Cease: read ned sublette's history of cuban music. it goes way way way back
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I played with a student of Tito Puente's back in the 90s, he loved Cuban music
Cease: i wlll have a new collage about goats next week and then a trump piecfe and a plice im doing now about cats.
Cease: do none of you want to create such colages on your own?
Cease: when i got into radio in the late 60s, this is whatr one did. create sets as they were then called.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Cease I have thought about it & have the facilities to do so, but I am caring for elderly dementia stricken parents & don't have the free time to attempt it. Maybe I'll try to do a short collage
Cease: bergman started calling them collages but it is what i think audio should do.
EWeston: I'm wound up in a bass guitar project
Cease: ok jam i have been there up untli recently myself.
Cease: my point being, the software is availabvle, the firesign universe is thart vast,
Cease: but folks, anyone can combine firestuff witrh other stuff ,or jsut other firestuff.
Cease: its what they want us to do .
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Okay, you've inspired me. I'll try to get to work on at least a short one.
PrincipalPoop: back
Cease: poop you can do one too.
Cease: slice firesign bits with other firesgfin bits. they did it to themselves constantly.
PrincipalPoop: what were the songs called? someone asking questions and then they played snippets
Cease: novely records form the 50s
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Cease: pete did one while in high school
Cease: his was called Atentin Convention, of the 1956 convention
PrincipalPoop: I think the only slicing I did was to change some windows chimes to some slices of Layla lol
||||||||| llanwydd leaves to catch the 10:53 PM train to Hellmouth.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers llanwydd into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mutters something about 10:53 PM, then departs.
PrincipalPoop: wb llan
llanwydd: as we learn three new words
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Gotta make the mourney out and in, eh, llan?
PrincipalPoop: in Turkish
Cease: turkish
llanwydd: lol JAM
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
llanwydd: great album
Rufus_T_Firetween: See you guys next week, folks :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Night all! Love, love love to all!
EWeston: He's making a rather vulgar sign
PrincipalPoop: thank you tween get better
Rufus_T_Firetween: will do
Cease: thanks again, tween.
EWeston: Yah signing arf here. Yea everybody get better
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw :)
Cease: move towards health.
llanwydd: DEAD
||||||||| At 10:55 PM, Cease rushes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Rufus_T_Firetween: always a good goal
PrincipalPoop: tata for na
||||||||| Around 10:56 PM, PrincipalPoop walks off into the sunset...
llanwydd: nite folks
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, llanwydd dashes out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Merlyn is kicked out just as the clock strikes 11:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 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 common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Fyrestarter - 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:
||||||||| Gary K - 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:
||||||||| Pep pills! Pep pills! - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Anon - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| EWeston - 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:
||||||||| Nabby - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Dr. Benway into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mumbles something about 1:37 AM, then departs.
Dr. Benway: I always arrive too late for the floor show :-(
||||||||| It's 1:40 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 jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Bubba - 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.
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| Dr. Benway says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Dr. Benway exits at 4:26 AM.
||||||||| 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:
Cease
Dr. Benway
Elayne
EWeston
Fyrestarter
Gary K
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Nabby
PrincipalPoop
Rufus_T_Firetween
shoes for the dead
URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
https://www.facebook.com/david.ossman.3/posts/10154571790058551?pnref=story



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