A Firesign Chat
02/02/2017




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 February 02, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:31 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving DJTweeny 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
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||||||||| 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 gets out at 8:39 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (The Police)
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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||||||||| Catherwood leads Leroy George into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:46 PM, then departs.
Leroy George: well done Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood pretends not to hear Leroy George
DJTweeny: Hi Leroy
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
||||||||| EWeston enters at 8:50 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Chapeau Manger.
DJTweeny: Hi EW
EWeston: An drud ebening Tweeny Rufus an Leroy
DJTweeny: same to you, fella...
EWeston: And Bob?
DJTweeny: "What About Bob?" (fun movie)
EWeston: I thought he was the elevator boy
||||||||| Catherwood leads Cease into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:53 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103241/
DJTweeny: allo Cease
||||||||| 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!"
EWeston: Cease
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:53 PM, dragging Merlyn by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
Merlyn: heyyy
Cease: HI all
DJTweeny: yo Merlyn
||||||||| Catherwood leads Ralph inside, makes a note of the time (8:54 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Hi Ralph
||||||||| 8:54 PM: TimmMcCoy.com jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
TimmMcCoy.com: Aloha Willing Slaves!
EWeston: Yaz Merlyn. Looks like a good cast Tweeny.
DJTweeny: Hey Timm
Cease: a communist?
EWeston: Hi Ralph and Timm
Ralph: ..........and it's just starting, now.....
TimmMcCoy.com: Halo all!
Cease: help it's the police!
DJTweeny: appropriate music for Next World
TimmMcCoy.com: Syncronicity
EWeston: Please remove your slaves from the credenza
DJTweeny: lol
Ralph: hahaha
||||||||| 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 Beet falls out at 8:57 PM.
DJTweeny: "My slaves are in that credenza!"
Beet: Hi everyone
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
EWeston: Credenza now burns down
Ralph: cuervo gold and a fine Columbian
||||||||| 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."
EWeston: Lo Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
Cease: one of the best groups of the 80s
Beet: Howdy Mr EW
TimmMcCoy.com: Groovy!
Cease: Beet, Ralph
||||||||| TimmMcCoy.com leaves at 8:58 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..."
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:58 PM and TimmMcCoy.com sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: undoubetedly, cease
TimmMcCoy.com: I keep getting bumped out..... Grrrr
Beet: Yo Mr Cease, Frank
||||||||| TimmMcCoy.com is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 8:58 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'rebozoette', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:58 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| "8:58 PM? 8:58 PM!!" says Catherwood, "TimmMcCoy.com should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as TimmMcCoy.com enters and sits on the couch.
TimmMcCoy.com: What the hell?
DJTweeny: oh oh, another revolving door
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
Cease: rebo, timm again
TimmMcCoy.com: I keep getting booted
Beet: Mr rebo
rebozoette: Beet Cease DJTweeny EWeston Merlyn Ralph hi great music ty
EWeston: Revozoette. I think Timms server has control issues
||||||||| 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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TimmMcCoy.com: Grrrrr!
TimmMcCoy.com: HERE IT IS!
EWeston: Put it somewhere safe
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 02, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
DJTweeny: Hold it over there...
rebozoette: static is fun ew
Ralph: lightning up
Beet: An inspiring coloring book
Ralph: hi rebozoette (blush)
rebozoette: lite
EWeston: Semi conductor abuse. A thing for the times
rebozoette: color me a color
Cease: i should start studying spanish. that'll help me in France.
Ralph: Deputy Dan is not your friend
||||||||| Catherwood leads Johan Amadeus Myjetski inside, makes a note of the time (9:01 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
rebozoette: hi ralph
Cease: Jam
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
EWeston: Glissy like
Beet: Hey JAM
EWeston: Johan
rebozoette: micro tepid
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Good eveningCease, DJT, E, Beet!
EWeston: Off grey
Beet: Hello down there.
Ralph: Hello down there DJ
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Smells like... BREAKFAST!
EWeston: Surround the internet!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:03 PM and PrincipalPoop steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
rebozoette: yeah tweeny
Ralph: Watch out for the Spinning Bits
Cease: Poop
Beet: Greetings Poop
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiya, Poop!
PrincipalPoop: tell us tweeny, hi all
EWeston: Oh its ...you
PrincipalPoop: culminating, wow
DJTweeny: Hi PrincP
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign’s “IN THE NEXT WORLD, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BOZOS at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
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Beet: This was such an unusual turn after the first 4.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: T H A N K Y O U! D J T!
EWeston: Retreat from the cone like appurture
Cease: indeed, beet
DJTweeny: Well, I just wanted to play all those in sequence
DJTweeny: now just let me know what you'd like to hear :)
DJTweeny: You are very welcome, JAM
Beet: O am hooking
||||||||| Elmer Ho steals in around 9:06 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Elmer Ho: hello Dear Friends
Beet: Hi Elmer
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I agree, beet, not quite a bad trip, but a little distopic.
EWeston: The sound of hundred dollar bills falling by my ear?
Elmer Ho: howdy yall
Cease: Ho
PrincipalPoop: tell elmer hello catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood ignores PrincipalPoop
Beet: Like a bad acid trip
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Elmer!
Elmer Ho: JAM!
EWeston: Yow Elmer
Elmer Ho: How the hell are ya!
rebozoette: say hello please catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood says "hello"
EWeston: Sent my tax return off today
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Trailing clouds of glory...
Elmer Ho: oh, one of my favorite segments from what I think of as a not-particularly-great album
Elmer Ho: dead cat soap
PrincipalPoop: that is why it floats
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: What?
EWeston: A hysterixal subject fer shure
Elmer Ho: i remember the old commercial -- 99 44/100 % dead cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “NEXT WORLD” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln
EWeston: Those stifled conversations
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the press release for the new EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG DVD set at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20161130.html
Elmer Ho: everbody bookmark https://5calls.org/
Ralph: that sounds like sex
PrincipalPoop: edithed
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign’s “IN THE NEXT WORLD, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out NEXT WORLD at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
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Ralph: hey look at me right behind rebo in the list <3 <3
Elmer Ho: yes PP, edithed sex is the best kind
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: stilted conversation has been caused by sexual tension many, many, times....
EWeston: Eidithed (TM)
Ralph: the whole world is spinning......
DJTweeny: 'stilted' conversation?
PrincipalPoop: em ah huh
Elmer Ho: my god, this dragts
Elmer Ho: drags
EWeston: It helps if you both have stilts
DJTweeny: so what do you fine folks want to hear next week?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: paced just like a soap opera, though
PrincipalPoop: the circus, the guys on the stilts, those guys
DJTweeny: true, JAM
PrincipalPoop: smells like a dead cat in here hehehe
Ralph: hahaha
EWeston: They live in fear of wood peckers
Ralph: LOUDER
PrincipalPoop: hehe he said wood peckers hehe
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The new EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG DVD set is now available!! >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: as opposed to... metallic peckers?
Elmer Ho: like steely dan?
DJTweeny: hahaha
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL!
EWeston: My blushes. Now fred's blushes.
||||||||| 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!"
Merlyn: And the Firesign youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
PrincipalPoop: goodness
DJTweeny: ooooh, that's one I need to put on my post list
Ralph: that's a fine steely dan you got there, baby
PrincipalPoop: one 4 or 5 guys, one channel
PrincipalPoop: katy lied dr wu
Ralph: thanks Merl
EWeston: Made from submarine hull steel mange
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thanks, Merlyn! Just added it to my subscriptions.
Elmer Ho: tx Merl, good stuff
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Are you saying, being made from a submarine, it's ready to go down?
Elmer Ho: and full of seamen?
EWeston: Its used to it, yes
Ralph: Jesus saith, treat everyone with equal violence
PrincipalPoop: boomer or fast attack?
DJTweeny: as long as it's equal
EWeston: Think subs are now coeducational
Beet: I just added it too, Merl. Thanks
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
PrincipalPoop: in my favorites, I cannot afford any subscriptions
EWeston: Fast attack for that macho feel, among conisurs
PrincipalPoop: bang slam thank you mam
EWeston: The ladies used to be confined to submarine repair ships
rebozoette: screen door repair on the subs
EWeston: You laugh, but I've seen them. The screen doors that is
PrincipalPoop: my family called them hoagies
Ralph: lol reba
Elmer Ho: screen door hoagies? who knew
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
PrincipalPoop: weren't the hoags in the grapes of wrath?
EWeston: One of the ways to access a submarines interior in dry dock is to cut a door sized hole in the side of it
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Nabby', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:26 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Ralph: who stilled the crickets
EWeston: Nabby's in
Cease: Nab
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Nabby: Cheers, all
PrincipalPoop: I never knew that, hi Nabby
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: random cool zip, Nab!
Nabby: Hey Tweeny
rebozoette: it keeps the greens outta yer teef
EWeston: Giant marmosets
rebozoette: hey nabby
Ralph: The thrill of death!!!
EWeston: Yar!...
||||||||| 9:27 PM: DavidM 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: HodFod game?
DJTweeny: Hi David
Ralph: Baseball's Hole of Fame LOL
EWeston: Mista M
Cease: DM
Beet: Hi, Nab
PrincipalPoop: dave
Beet: hey dave
DavidM: I'm still sorry I used my "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers" poster to cover that hole in the wall.
Nabby: Hey David
DJTweeny: lol David
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “NEXT WORLD” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln
Nabby: we're glad you made it
Cease: you have to be our age to know who billy jack was
EWeston: The UTV did go all fuzzy
rebozoette: yup yup yuppers
DJTweeny: Laughlin died a couple of years ago
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Ah, Woody!
PrincipalPoop: is he alive?
PrincipalPoop: oops ok, sigh
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the press release for the new EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG DVD set at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20161130.html
Cease: it was an obscure ref to me at the time it was current.
Nabby: strange mythology billy jack
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Cease: was he supposed to be an "indian?" is that's why he's in this?
DJTweeny: you knew them back then, Cat?
Nabby: dunno C
PrincipalPoop: yes
Cease: heard the name but never saw his flicks or had any reason to watch them
Ralph: had another hit
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: He was a sort of Native American Kung Fu. Tried to avoidd fights, but fights always sought him out
Cease: ok that explains it then.
EWeston: The movie indian of the time. At least the executives thought so
PrincipalPoop: a counter culture dirty harry if that makes any sense, maybe
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Ralph: Spud Coolzip
Cease: now i see why's he's in Next World. it was obscure to me before
Elmer Ho: i saw a couple of the Billy Jack movies - what can I say, I was young
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Cease: i have always avoided martial arts, in flicks and in real life
Elmer Ho: as opposed to marital arts flicks
Nabby: zactly, EH
PrincipalPoop: who was the guy with the ax handle?
Elmer Ho: Lugar
Nabby: (what can I say, etc.)
EWeston: The oriental ones of the early 70's were great mindless fun
Beet: buford pusser
PrincipalPoop: lex lugar?
DJTweeny: Talking about Buford Pusser? Walking Tall?
Elmer Ho: Lugar Axhandle
DJTweeny: That movie was about a real person
PrincipalPoop: yes yes thanks, it was remade too
Cease: was kareem in one?
PrincipalPoop: gosh, ok
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I actuallyy knew several people who knew & lived near Mr. Pusser.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The new EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG DVD set is now available!! >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
EWeston: With Bruce Lee yes
EWeston: Nothing like say the blind Karate Boxer series
DJTweeny: Walking Tall was remade with The Rock
DJTweeny: I think I like the original better
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yeah Kareem was a student of Bruce Lee
PrincipalPoop: lol now you are pulling my leg
Cease: i remember being in our favourite ton katsu restaurant in the tokyo exurb we lived in back in 77 and the tv in the background was playing some sort of martial arts thing i was ignornig.
Ralph: the DaCootie Sue
EWeston: Still have a book on Bruce's technic
Cease: then i noticed kareem adbul jabaar on the tiny screen.
PrincipalPoop: walking tall starring the rock loool
Cease: i was at ucla with him. he was not tiny.
DJTweeny: "One of my legs is shorter than the other and both of my feet's too long..."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: E, I prefer Zatoichi, the blind swordsman
DJTweeny: PrincipalPoop: walking tall starring the rock loool << I shite you not
Cease: i loathe all sword flicks equally.
EWeston: Where could you see a girl in a long dress and a short sword take out 30 guys in five minutes
PrincipalPoop: ok ok ok, I am your favorite turd, you would not shit me lol
Beet: what about crouching tiger?
DJTweeny: Walking Tall (2004) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351977/
DavidM: I was actually allowed to enter the United States (if Bellingham, Washington counts) to purchase "In The Next World, You're On Your Own" back in 1975. I couldn't find it here in Vancouver.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: The real Pusser broke up stills because he had his own stills & didn't like the competition
DJTweeny: crouching bozo, hidden wheezer
PrincipalPoop: tiger crotch? use talcum powder
Cease: you're in vancouver?
EWeston: Watching those flims in the Fillipeans was a fairly safe thing to do socially
DJTweeny: according to Nino, Cease
rebozoette: djt lol
PrincipalPoop: canooks infiltrating, lock arms...
Beet: crotch talcum
DJTweeny: lol P
rebozoette: tiger balm balm
DJTweeny: We'll biuld a wall and make the Canadians pay for it!
DJTweeny: *build
PrincipalPoop: tiger balm
Cease: kesey preferred baking soda.
DavidM: I'm not the only person in Vancouver with a complete set of Firesign Theatre recordings, either. We/they are EVERYWHERE.
DJTweeny: more likely they'll build a wall to keep out all the Americans ;)
Ralph: such incredibly great sound effects
EWeston: Will we fight them after the Mexicans Ausrailians Chinese Irainians and the deadly Somalie?
PrincipalPoop: make a date to meet at the statue of Trudeau
Beet: alienating all allies trump
DJTweeny: Yeah, I was marvelling at the produuction earlier, Ralph
Ralph: the Seven Deadly Arab Countries
Cease: a complete set? is that possible? i have a big collection up here in north van, but complete? that's hard to do.
DavidM: My dog is on a hunger strike until I find him some Billy Jack Dog Food.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Comedian Lewis Black said we should build a wall between US & Canada, 'cos that's where the cold air comes from
EWeston: If they put up a Trump Hotel they can bet off the list
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
PrincipalPoop: somebody else ate dog food in a movie and it was... nope, name did not popup
DavidM: Not really complete, but the albums, the Mobile Fidelity CD's, Box of Danger, laserdisc/VHS, the 2 70's books. I'd have that new DVD set if I could have walked into a local retailer for one. Is it great?
Beet: Golden Showers built for Donald.
Elmer Ho: i've felt like emailing friends overseas and saying 'Dear Australian Person, I'm sorry our president is an infantile asshole.'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Bad trip section alert
PrincipalPoop: cool, the collection not the peepee fun
rebozoette: treat the beast
DavidM: Vancouver has a Trump Tower, used exclusively for protests. It's true!
EWeston: Putin's playing edgy with Don. If he fails to deliver, there'll be a run on brain bleach
Elmer Ho: this part is actually good -- always thought of this album as bookended by two good parts, with a lot of "eh" in the middle
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Elmer, I've actually sent an email like that to an English friend...
PrincipalPoop: the production is wow
Cease: there is some great stuff on it, david.
EWeston: Springsteen in Austrailia said on stage that they were embarrassed by Trump
Elmer Ho: https://twitter.com/joss/status/821818768292593664/photo/1
Cease: i ordered mine from firesign
DJTweeny: fishing, like at the end of Boom Dot Bust
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: One of the best endings of any FST album!IMO
DavidM: Spookiest comedy album ever, I think. I love weird Firesign Theatre.
Cease: i'm not sure i i bought my copy of Next World in Van or in LA.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the entire FIRESIGN THEATRE CATALOG at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
Cease: powerful, jam
Cease: is htis from DOMM tween?
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: a DOMM Extras track “AL ATLAS INTERVIEW”
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
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DJTweeny: forgot to change the topic, sorry
Cease: it would be hard to find firesign that isnt weird
PrincipalPoop: really far out, far out
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
EWeston: Glad they beat Princeton
PrincipalPoop: huh?
Cease: but they lost to Princesston.
EWeston: By two points!
PrincipalPoop: no jive
EWeston: Maybe it was Princeton, but who cares
Ralph: It's about time he got a real job
EWeston: Nick could cloud fund today
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Merlyn The Web Magician sez... If people want their pictures to be added to the Rogue's Gallery, just post a link to a pic in the chat
DavidM: I learned more about living in 2017 from listening to Firesign Theatre albums in the early Seventies than from living in 2017 (if you call that living).
PrincipalPoop: dig it
Cease: true enough, DM
EWeston: Trump may decide to change the callender and off 2017
Cease: retitled Cunegonde
EWeston: A tribute to realty. That's down to earth
PrincipalPoop: authenticitytittytitty
EWeston: Bang bang
||||||||| 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: Hello very busy NSA guy.
PrincipalPoop: don't break the station, gosh
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
PrincipalPoop: media is the massage
rebozoette: om yeah cat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “MARSHALL MCLUHAN PART 1”
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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EWeston: The broken station looks up at me. His eyes the color of sky blue sky, and oatmeal
Beet: Not to be confused with the Enola Gay
PrincipalPoop: bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down, and won
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pv9g00p0xov2c2k/19859822242_2ce5ec7dd6_o.jpg?dl=0
EWeston: They got gobs of determination
Cease: htis is marshall's album
Elmer Ho: this is really good Cat
PrincipalPoop: staring at where the speakers are on my laptop
rebozoette: pick up your scones
DJTweeny: watching the radio
Elmer Ho: what was the WOody Allen movie where mcluhan did a walk-on?
Cease: Doc Tech gave me this CD long ago but just got around to using it.
DJTweeny: very cool
Cease: Hannie All
PrincipalPoop: annie hall
Elmer Ho: thx - I thought it was Sleeper but wrong as usual
EWeston: Arnie Smeck
Elmer Ho: whats the origin of this bit?
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is posted at Cat's archive under McLuhan
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
PrincipalPoop: a daily wank reduces the risk by 40 percent,
Ralph: truer words were never spake
EWeston: Intro to the second to last one
rebozoette: weeble wobbly
Ralph: Trump has been a dick all his life
Ralph: I mean, the President
Beet: Probably a big fan of Tricky dick
Ralph: back to our regularly scheduled programming..............
EWeston: Nope was the last work Bride of Firesign
Ralph: or Barry Goldwater
DJTweeny: I heard someone say that Nixon andmired Trump
Ralph: or Pat Buchanan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: AuH2O, Ralph
Beet: Dicks of a feather
PrincipalPoop: is that the theme song to gilligans island?
Elmer Ho: I Loathe Lucy
Cease: this is john hockenberry;'s 1990 npr show Heat.
Ralph: Desi Arnaz
Cease: Proc/Berg did a lot for that show.
EWeston: Considerred opinion is anything from this administration is probably a lie, or it will reverse itself shortly
DavidM: I'll be back. 10-4, Eleanor!
PrincipalPoop: the kids formed a band
PrincipalPoop: ok dave
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I remember the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate.
EWeston: Get that bridge built David
Cease: keep em flying, DM
DJTweeny: Trump's 'amazing' letter from Nixon will hang in Oval Office - http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/15/newser-trump-letter-nixon-hang-oval-office/95465212/
DJTweeny: see you next time, David
Cease: there's me.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: You're not kidding, are you, DJT? I thought we cleaned the Nix out of the white house forever
Cease: here's phil's A's wondrous play A Shadow Moves Upon a Land.
Beet: see ya dave
EWeston: Nixon had a twisted but real sense of public service, and was totally paranoid
DJTweeny: ya think, EW?
EWeston: Turned out we got him, but he did help. The EPA starts with him. Openning relations with China started with him
||||||||| "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: bust the sudt
rebozoette: dust
EWeston: This sudt is ill!
||||||||| 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."
PrincipalPoop: a broken clock is right twice a day. back when clocks had hands anyway
Elmer Ho: Nixon's main interest was foreign policy and he didn't much care about domestic policy
PrincipalPoop: oh wait, he started revenue sharing for the states, a very big deal
Elmer Ho: he didn't so much "give us" EPA but just let it happen, because he didn't care about the domestic realm
DJTweeny: "There is an old Volcan saying: Only Nixon could go to China."
PrincipalPoop: nino,
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL, DJT!
DJTweeny: *Vulcan
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: and yes, I'm a Trekkie
EWeston: He didn't interfere. That came with REagan and the mother of the Supreme court nominie
Elmer Ho: can't read much longer so signing off - cataracts kinda suck
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: NITE, ELMER. BE WELL!
Cease: bummer, elmer
Elmer Ho: til nest time - be well yall
DJTweeny: sorry, Elmer :(
PrincipalPoop: elmer, give me some glue before you go
EWeston: Take care Elmer
DJTweeny: rest well
||||||||| Elmer Ho leaves at 10:19 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: oh, rats
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: sorry for the caps lock shout
Beet: Night Elmer
Beet: Nixon took us off the gold standard
DJTweeny: "This is very interesting." lol
EWeston: Many fools would like take us back to that, but their to busy with other excitements
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
rebozoette: yes yes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: he was elected the first time saying he would end the war. Then he said he had to get elected a second time before he could end the war, & still he didn't do it
DJTweeny: Beet: Nixon took us off the gold standard << maybe, in the long term, the most destructive thing he did
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: the James Joyce tribute
DJTweeny: ummmmm Gracie
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Would I say yes to mean yes
Cease: McLuhan was a major Joycean.
EWeston: Why base our economies on a limited resource?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Exactly, E!
DJTweeny: EWeston: Why base our economies on a limited resource? << so that governments can't ptint money and have endless wars and put us into endless debt
Beet: Now based on thin air
DJTweeny: 'print money out of thin air'
PrincipalPoop: This sounds like the early 70s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Airplane's "Lather" would have fit here as well. Maybe
DJTweeny: Lather's a good tune
EWeston: And if we need capital for needed work, but we can't have it because there isn't enough gold?
Ralph: AWESOME soundtrack
PrincipalPoop: the air is getting thicker, it will based on thick air soon
DJTweeny: Where is this song from, Cat?
Cease: still here ralph?
DJTweeny: good point, P
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DavidM - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: While Bathing at Baxters I think
Ralph: to think you could play this while tripping
Beet: lol poop
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's not air, Poop, you'll need a shovel soon...
DJTweeny: Ah, Baxter's OK
DJTweeny: sounds right
PrincipalPoop: dengue fever is back
rebozoette: tactile dinner
EWeston: And its beautiful
Beet: Where is this resaurant?
DJTweeny: lol Beet
DJTweeny: yeah Cat, do you have an address? lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant.. excepting Alice...
Cease: mid 60s SF
Beet: Neat story
Beet: That was great!
PrincipalPoop: not bad again vancouverine
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: a DOMM Let’s Eat broadcast “THE UNDERWORLD OLYMPICS”
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: thanks cat grest laughs
PrincipalPoop: afk
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at http://www.seemreal.com
rebozoette: grest ugh
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
rebozoette: great ha ha
Beet: I like it when they break each other up.
Cease: Mcluhan is a great mine.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: lol
rebozoette: airships
DJTweeny: I'll bet, Cat
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: Ladies' Uphill Skiing Competition????
Ralph: LOFL
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/
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Don’t forget to tell your Firehead friends about our little soireé. Let’s get lots and lots of folks in here!
PrincipalPoop: both legs shorter than the other
EWeston: How is it you have three legs?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Just right for a path that's uphill both ways
DJTweeny: his friends nicknamed him 'tripod'
PrincipalPoop: exactly
EWeston: I was thinking the fourth one fell off
Ralph: dericate brossoms
rebozoette: blossom buss um
rebozoette: holder tight
EWeston: Giant hicky's from Mars
rebozoette: chicken shadow stew
EWeston: Pesudo filling
rebozoette: veggie flew
rebozoette: sugareless sugar
||||||||| 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!"
EWeston: Nylon bunnies
rebozoette: ooden
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Oden, Rebuz?
EWeston: Hung out with a coupla crows
DJTweeny: It's rebo's norse upbringing
Cease: if the norse got any more up they'd be down.
EWeston: I hear Frieda's hot
PrincipalPoop: loki be a lady tonight
DJTweeny: like really down with it, man?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOLOL!
DJTweeny: lol P
||||||||| 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: how the japanese say wooden jam lol
EWeston: His probation officer has strange desires
rebozoette: wow this time just flew by tonight
PrincipalPoop: film strips, ding
rebozoette: ya all be best that ya can be
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Like Mr. Deltoid in Clockwork Orange, E?
PrincipalPoop: smooch, work on that 40 percent
EWeston: Not sure about the metric here.
PrincipalPoop: bang de bang bang
Beet: Nobody creating this kind of material these days.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: He's an American, not metric, E
Cease: i'm just recycling
DJTweeny: not that I've heard of
Cease: gone cat.
rebozoette: double dutch
PrincipalPoop: dope humor of the 70s volume 1 and 2
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Reuben & the Jets was Zappa...
EWeston: I thought he was Britsh all these eons
Ralph: hahahahahaha
Nabby: 4 Fills and a Fill
Cease: thats why its funny, jam
PrincipalPoop: now, order now
Cease: zappa was austin's neighbour.
EWeston: Bye dear friends
Nabby: Thanks for being Tweeny!
Ralph: i enjoyed myself and all of yourselves as well
PrincipalPoop: thank you tween
Beet: This was great tonight. Thanks everyone. Thanks, Cat, for another great collage. Thank you Dr. Tween. G'Night.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: didn't know that, cease!
PrincipalPoop: ciao keep warm
rebozoette: Beet Cease DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetski Nabby PrincipalPoop Ralph thanks for the laughs and djt the best
Nabby: Thanks Cat, Rufus & Merl!
||||||||| At 10:58 PM, PrincipalPoop vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Cease: off we fly.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thanks Kurt, Cat & all! Love love love to all!
||||||||| Cease is forcibly ejected just as the clock strikes 10:59 PM.
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Nabby: Good to see you all! Hear you all.
Nabby: Read you all.
Nabby: Etc.!
||||||||| 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!"
Ralph: austin was zappa's neighbor?????
Nabby: Away!
DJTweeny: I have heard that, Ralph
Ralph: you people are SO superstitious.....
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Ralph: thanks again DJ and Cat, great fun
DJTweeny: yw :)
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 11:12 PM -- Merlyn left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nabby - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Leroy George - 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:
||||||||| TimmMcCoy.com - dead from measles
||||||||| 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 yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ralph - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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
Cease
DavidM
DJTweeny
Elmer Ho
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
Leroy George
Merlyn
Nabby
PrincipalPoop
Ralph
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
TimmMcCoy.com
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=nextworld-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/montage.html
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/podcasting/indexx.html
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20161130.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
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103241/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351977/
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/15/newser-trump-letter-nixon-hang-oval-office/95465212/
https://5calls.org/
https://twitter.com/joss/status/821818768292593664/photo/1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pv9g00p0xov2c2k/19859822242_2ce5ec7dd6_o.jpg?dl=0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGz_4vJNLwgFrLR3N0RN1Tw
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