A Firesign Chat
04/06/2017




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 April 06, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "7:05 PM and late as usual, it's DJTweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| 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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||||||||| 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
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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||||||||| 8:37 PM: ruf jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
ruf: ruf!
||||||||| Catherwood says "8:37 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs ruf by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 8:37 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Noir Detective Music – Gene Krupa)
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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||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:40 PM and NancyKat sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:40 PM and TimmMcCoy.com waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
TimmMcCoy.com: Oh Honey, I'm Home!!!!!
NancyKat: Blahhhh!
TimmMcCoy.com: TWEENY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TimmMcCoy.com: RUFUS!
TimmMcCoy.com: Nancy!
||||||||| 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!"
NancyKat: Timm! Tweeny! Rufus! ME!
DJTweeny: Hey Timm, Nancy :)
TimmMcCoy.com: YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
DJTweeny: Got de blahhs, Nancy?
NancyKat: sentimental journey
NancyKat: tweeny-Lol...yeah, cold, rain snow...etc...YAY...Chicago in springtime...
DJTweeny: Same Old Blues, actually
TimmMcCoy.com: That would be SOB
NancyKat: LOL...i know-it just reminded me of my childhood...we had to sing that for a show...
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:49 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Virginia."
Beet: Howdy everybody
Beet: That Good, Round, Big Band Sound
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Beet: There was a Texas lady by the name of Damita Jo who did a great version of that song
Beet: Hello Dr Tween
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
TimmMcCoy.com: Swingin' Man!
||||||||| 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 Captain Equinox falls out at 8:52 PM.
Captain Equinox: Hiya, Kiddos!
TimmMcCoy.com: Hey Cap'n!
Beet: Mr Krupa was the first in a long line of drummers who made these wild facial expressions when he played.
DJTweeny: Hi Captain
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Howdy Cap'm
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cat inside, makes a note of the time (8:55 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Beet: Cat man!
Cat: Hi chatters
Captain Equinox: Timm and me are drummers!
Beet: Me too!
||||||||| "8:56 PM? 8:56 PM!!" says Catherwood, "rebozoette should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as rebozoette enters and sits on the couch.
Cat: Is this a song that was popular when Phil was born?
DJTweeny: Hi Cat, rebozoette
TimmMcCoy.com: Thats true!
DJTweeny: I don't know, Cat
Captain Equinox: wierdly cool
Beet: Yo rebo
Cat: Rebo
rebozoette: Beet Captain Equinox Cat DJTweeny NancyKat rebozoette TimmMcCoy.comhello all and thanks tweeny great mu sack
Cat: sounds like 40s music
TimmMcCoy.com: Catherwood, wooden nickles all around!
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to TimmMcCoy.com and mumbles "Stop typing gibberish, TimmMcCoy.com!"
DJTweeny: which would fit with Nicky Nicky Nick
rebozoette: good to be in the group for this ann
Beet: This is a good album, Tween.
Cat: true, rebo
rebozoette: takes the jitter outta the bug
DJTweeny: It's The Columbia 78s collection
rebozoette: cool
Beet: Nice and clean too
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)
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rebozoette: not enough hiss and pop lol
TimmMcCoy.com: The Sound Of The Future!
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, April 06, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Captain Equinox: *honk honk*
Cat: Hey Timm and other chatters, do you recall a Firesign bit where, I think Proctor referred to Americans as "Merkins"?
Beet: Personal responsibility? What a concept!
Captain Equinox: not ringing a bell
Beet: Hello down there.
rebozoette: hello and my third eye is in the storms yeaaah
Beet: Happy Birthday Brother austin.
Beet: Austin
TimmMcCoy.com: Yes Cat I do. Gonna have to research.
||||||||| Garden Girl steals in around 9:05 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hey, Girl.
Cat: thanks, timm. i need it for a new collage.
Cat: hi garden girl
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Elayne close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 9:06 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Garden Girl: I know what a merkin is
Beet: Hi Elayne.
Elayne: Tween, are you playing Roller Maidens tonight in honor of the anniversary of Phil A's birth
Cat: Hi El
Elayne: Hey Cat
Cat: good for you, gg. but do you know when firesign used the term?
Cat: It might have been president proctor, "my fellow 'merkins" as opposed to Americans.
rebozoette: hi e
TimmMcCoy.com: A merkin is a pubic wig. Merkins were originally worn by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia, and are now used as decorative items, erotic devices, or in films, by both men and women. The female version is usually made of fur, beaver pelts, linen or some soft version of cloth, while the male version is usually made of loops, chains, or metal, and is much more closely related to the codpiece.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'EWeston', just granted probation at 9:08 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Beet: The dreadful phrase, "the money didn't come through"
EWeston: Hi Tweeny and yur frens
Beet: Hey EW
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'TimmMcCoy', just granted probation at 9:08 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Garden Girl: Uh, if this is a ultrastoned memory test, I'm flunking out. Guess 17
TimmMcCoy: A merkin is a pubic wig. Merkins were originally worn by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia, and are now used as decorative items, erotic devices, or in films, by both men and women. The female version is usually made of fur, beaver pelts, linen or some soft version of cloth, while the male version is usually made of loops, chains, or metal, and is much more closely related to the codpiece.
Elayne: Oh dear, not the Case of hte Missing Shoe...
Cat: also the origin of President Muffy Merkin, of Dr. Strangelove fame
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing – from the Box Of Danger collection “THE CASE OF THE MISSING SHOE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
BOX OF DANGER >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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Cat: Hi EW
Elayne: Oy. Probably my least favorite "album.:
DJTweeny: THat print was so tiny I could hardly read it. Need to get my other glasses
Garden Girl: 1971, September, St. Andrews
DJTweeny: Hi Garden Girl, Elayne
Cat: i can remember, i think proctor, using the term in something i heard recently though it was probably from long ago
Cat: yes rollie maidens would have been appropriate
Cat: there is actually quite a bit of austin audio
TimmMcCoy.com: How in the hell can I in two places at once when I'm already in here?
Elayne: That's true Cat, Austin was nothin' if not audiot.
NancyKat: I am NOT Ketchup...
||||||||| llanwydd bounds in at 9:11 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
llanwydd: howdy
DJTweeny: Hi Llan
Cat: from Duckman up to Questions and Answers from 2010
Cat: Hi llan
Garden Girl: Waiting for the Electrician?
Cat: i was just listening to A Phil Austin story, the kind of bio I did of Phil when he died
TimmMcCoy.com: WE ARE BOMBING SRYIA!
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
TimmMcCoy.com: My spelling sucks tonight
llanwydd: we?
Cat: to quote Firesign, timm, On Which Side?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOX OF DANGER: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv
TimmMcCoy.com: Sorry, Trump is bombing
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin’s Firesign Member Page >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
EWeston: Don has decided upon the improper gesture, Or his son in law.
DJTweeny: *rimshot* Timm
TimmMcCoy.com: Attack is happening now.
TimmMcCoy.com: Meanwhile...the next morning...
llanwydd: I bought Missing Shoe when it came out
Cat: I have no idea how to pronounce Bagdasarian, Tween. suspect it may be a funny name
EWeston: Any statement of targets?
DJTweeny: Would you guys rather hear Roller Maidens than more Box Of Danger?
llanwydd: whatever, tween
DJTweeny: k
Elayne: To tell you the truth, Tween, I don't much care for either of them. :)
DJTweeny: lol OK
||||||||| "9:17 PM? 9:17 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Digamex should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Digamex enters and sits at the bar.
llanwydd: you remember that Missing Shoe was an EP?
Elayne: I'd say Missing Shoe is a little easier for me to deal with than Roller Maidens.
Cat: it might be a good idea, tween
DJTweeny: Hi Digamex
Elayne: ut don't go by me, I'm leaving. Just wanted to raise a glass to Phil A with friends.
Cat: so you're vetoing your own motion, el?
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: a glass to phil!
EWeston: An a pipe
NancyKat: A...Horny Pipe?
Beet: Here Here
Cat: Phil would appreciate both
DJTweeny: I need to know now, so I can play Cat's collage first to fit the time
NancyKat: I'll raise you a yeast...'
DJTweeny: you have 3 minutes
EWeston: The Captin is sleeping. The Mate is below
EWeston: I kind of like the waffle eyes
Cat: anyone want tween to change to rollers or continue with more cuts from Box of Danger?
rebozoette: socl et
Beet: Rollers would be fine with me.
EWeston: I'm ambivilent, and so is my penguin
rebozoette: get smart
llanwydd: this is a strangely difficult decision
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:22 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom.
DJTweeny: Hi Throck
EWeston: 99 is holding me hostage
Cat: maybe throcky can decide for us
Beet: Hello Mr. Gildersleeve
EWeston: TPG rules?
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve: Bwah ha ha hello
llanwydd: I love frame me pretty
llanwydd: its on youtube
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “BORDERS”
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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DJTweeny: oops
llanwydd: hi tp
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “THE PRECIPICE”
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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||||||||| Bunnyboy enters at 9:25 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Cat: Hi Bun
Beet: hi bunny
Bunnyboy: (sings) We'll meet again...
DJTweeny: Hi Bunny
Cat: a song from the flick Wild Orchid called Bird Boy
EWeston: Bunster
Bunnyboy: Remembering PA, and Rickles. The Real President and The Don!
Cat: seemed to go with the parrots reference
Beet: This is interesting
Bunnyboy: My phone (you should pardon the expression) is blowing up.
Cat: i bought the cassettes when they out in 95
Cat: called Tales of the Old Detective. it must still be for sale somewhere
EWeston: Which way is it supposed to blow?
Bunnyboy: Catherwood, how about an iOS app?
||||||||| Catherwood strides over to Bunnyboy and says "oh, fuck off Bunnyboy!"
EWeston: I have it on cassette cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Bunnyboy: Testy bot...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cat: same song i played in last week's collage, with kd laing and judy collins
Captain Equinox: love this!
Beet: who's this ?
Beet: oh
DJTweeny: Thought it sounded familiar
Cat: the song was called Tease, by Ralph
rebozoette: greand stuffies cat
Cat: the is the first time i'd done this kinda collage, all based on one firesign story
EWeston: I fyou can believe it Hillary Clinton and Trump sorta agreed. 50 tomahawk missles military airstripes are one of the targhttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/hillary-clinton-calls-for-us-to-bomb-syrian-air-fields-hours-before-trump-does-exactly-that/ets.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Not Ed in through the front door at 9:33 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Bunnyboy: Used cassettes of TOTOD on Amazon.
Not Ed: Jello
EWeston: Not Ed agin. Naturally
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
rebozoette: hi not
Cat: Hi Not
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: The Declassified Firesign Theatre 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Bunnyboy: Michael Packer, Austin's co-producer on the tapes, has been in declining health, of late.
Not Ed: Hi Tweeny & Cat & EW & reboz
Not Ed: unfortunate, BB
rebozoette: wish I knew less
Beet: Hello Not Ed
rebozoette: ph I do
Cat: Yes, Bunny. I follow him on Facebook. Posted great pic of Austin today
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Not Ed: Hey Beet
Not Ed: thumbs up, Cat
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a saxophone
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone a saxophone.
rebozoette: we swinfing now
NancyKat: All I need now is a Violin...
DJTweeny: lol
EWeston: Now I can join the harmy
rebozoette: and a one ana two
EWeston: Now we gonna get down. We gonna boogie till we poke
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
rebozoette: finger lickin licks
DJTweeny: what is this Slick song from, Cat?
DJTweeny: or maybe it isn't Slick
DJTweeny: sure sounded like her inflections
llanwydd: I thought it sounded a little like Renaissance
Cat: nancy nevins, sweetwater
Not Ed: trippy Cat
DJTweeny: A touch of Annie Haslam maybe, yeah good point
DJTweeny: Nancy is definitely a fan of Grace
DJTweeny: has her inflections down pat
DJTweeny: could easily be from an early Airplane album
Captain Equinox: 'Nite All
Captain Equinox: Keep em FLYING!
Not Ed: Did PA ever do a reading of Beaver Teeth?
DJTweeny: have a great week, Captain
Beet: See ya cap
Cat: nite, cap
Not Ed: Take care Cap
EWeston: Avoid the divits catpin
Not Ed: Good advice
Cat: i have a few minutes from a reading he did on the radio with fred. it's on my A Phil Austin story on tween's site for my collages
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve: Birdie's calling - have to run, G'nite all.
Not Ed: Later TPG
DJTweeny: 10 minutes left folks, so get your votes in for Roller Maidens or more Box Of Danger
DJTweeny: nite Throck
Beet: Nite TPG
EWeston: Throwem a peanut mista G
||||||||| 9:46 PM -- Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve left for parts unknown.   (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Cat: by throck
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Bunnyboy: Gotta go watch the world burn. Cheers!
rebozoette: its under numer 3
DJTweeny: Toat a marshmallow for me, Bunny
DJTweeny: *Toast
Beet: Take a marshmellow
Not Ed: Marshmallows?
Not Ed: thanks Beet
EWeston: An hide it
NancyKat: Tweeny-is that like "smoke me a kipper?..."
||||||||| At 9:47 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Bunnyboy!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
DJTweeny: there ya go Nancy
rebozoette: bend over now pick it up
Not Ed: Smores not Snores!
EWeston: Dust it with sugar an onions
rebozoette: mellow pillows
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
EWeston: Frank and Marty are incence..ed
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
Beet: Nice selection of music for this one, Cat.
NancyKat: EW-Like a Monte Cristo?
EWeston: Del Monte Cisco...but whiter
Not Ed: I dunno, Tweeny - it's hard to say no to the Duke of Madness vault.....
DJTweeny: Box Of Danger, not DOMM
Cat: it has to be music i like to listen to
NancyKat: EW-Ewwwww Monte Crisco....
Not Ed: Ohhhhh
Not Ed: What was I thinking
DJTweeny: "Frame Me Pretty" and "Scaled Down Danger" vs Roller Maidens
DJTweeny: up to you guys
EWeston: Deep fry your marshmellows
DJTweeny: 4 minutes
Not Ed: Well I'm sticking with DOMM
Cat: i love scaled down danger.
Not Ed winks.
Beet: Not as familiar with Scaled Down Danger title.
DJTweeny: I've never heard Scaled Down Danger
DJTweeny: yeah, so lets' go with more Danger
EWeston: Me nither
NancyKat: I know I haven't heard SDD-but i'm ok with either choice.
Cat: oh, arent yuou goinhg to play it?
Not Ed: Fine then be that way.
Cat: last track on box of danger
DJTweeny: Can't do both Cat
DJTweeny: either RM or Danger
Cat: does anyone want tween to switch to roller maidens?
rebozoette: any which way but looses
Beet: Right now curious about SDD.
rebozoette: we will not vote look what happens lol
Beet: Electoral collage decides
Beet: college
EWeston: Electrical collages small funny
Not Ed: Excellent Cat
Beet: Really enjoyed that one, Cat
rebozoette: great cat thanks
NancyKat: Mothra is a Dj
NancyKat: The music was very nice, Cat.
EWeston: She can play a mean saxaphone too.
rebozoette: right beet
Cat: May do another like that.
rebozoette: collage
rebozoette: yeah cat
EWeston: Four years of collage and all I got were sticky fingers
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: lol EW
Not Ed: kinda crept up on me EW ha!
EWeston: Yes I can laugh about it now
||||||||| "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!"
EWeston: I no longer have finger prints
Beet: I always lamented that more people didn't "get" Firesign.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing – from the Box Of Danger collection “SCALED DOWN DANGER”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
BOX OF DANGER >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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rebozoette: i can send ya some dog fur for that ew
EWeston: Thanks but my cat decided that it could shed this week
rebozoette: har har
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Obituary for Phil Austin from The L.A. Times >>http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-phil-austin-20150620-story.html
Beet: I drooled when I saw those elaborate train dioramas.
EWeston: She seems to do seasonal coats. She not the furball she was last month
NancyKat: ce since i'm also a bit of a model train enthusiast...it's a shame you can't find many z scale trains nowadays.....
rebozoette: favorite flavor train?
Beet: Lionel was always King.
rebozoette: maple
EWeston: Rum flavored
rebozoette: lol
NancyKat: Yeah-my mom's fault, really...she had an old Marklin set....and I have a fondness for steam trains...
EWeston: An unfilled enthusiasm, amung a few others for me
Beet: Fondly remember the Red Caboose.
EWeston: We had slot cars. Some with the shaver motors
llanwydd: yeah, all cabooses were red in the old days
Not Ed: Used to wind our own armatures
Beet: This is quite a bit of fantasy.
Not Ed: Zoom zoom
llanwydd: cat, I really liked that sweetwater song. what was it called?
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
EWeston: Today we have full sized electric racers
Cat: My Chrstal Spider
Beet: I always thought about the Conductor living in that Caboose. Very romantic.
llanwydd: thanks cat. I want to check that out on youtube.
NancyKat: Slot cars...lol...
Beet: That was good.
Cat: when i was last in la in 68, sweetwater was a favourite local group
Not Ed: Must dash - thanks Cat & Tween & Rufus - be good, llan & NK & all
NancyKat: Yes, quite unexpected...
llanwydd: I am surprised they are not better known
NancyKat: NP, Not Ed.
rebozoette: put the pizza down lol
llanwydd: nite ed
Beet: Nite Not Ed
EWeston: Bye Not
Cat: nite ed
llanwydd: Im heading out too. probably see you next week
rebozoette: cafe nate
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing – from the Box Of Danger collection “FRAME ME PRETTY”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
BOX OF DANGER >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook
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EWeston: Bye IIan
rebozoette: that is not for now
Cat: by llan
||||||||| llanwydd leaves to catch the 10:19 PM train to Hellmouth.
Beet: nite llan
rebozoette: nite laan
DJTweeny: This is pretty good quality for a bootleg
rebozoette: bite not
EWeston: Bitte noir
rebozoette: oops
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOX OF DANGER: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv
EWeston: Pathadeana?
rebozoette: the nite of nights
EWeston: All rites preserved
rebozoette: jam
NancyKat: jammy draft dodger...
Beet: Sound dropped out
rebozoette: lol
Beet: It's back
EWeston: Drafty jammie wearer
DJTweeny: sorry about that folks
Cat: ah, sound
rebozoette: de light it
DJTweeny: forgot to enable the tracks in the playlist
EWeston: The termites got to them
NancyKat: Manilla Envelope?
EWeston: She was tied to the nose
NancyKat: Le secret massage....
EWeston: Omlet du fromage!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BOX OF DANGER: The Complete Nick Danger Casebook” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin's Blog of the Unknown >> https://philaustinblogofunknown.wordpress.com/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin’s Firesign Member Page >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
NancyKat: EW-Vive le poulet!
DJTweeny: lol
EWeston: A fowl cry
NancyKat: Ratatouille!
EWeston: Acountant Flambe
NancyKat: Flaming idiots!
EWeston: Those eyes!
NancyKat: They're watching you...
NancyKat: Les yeux sans visage...
EWeston: They and the microwave of course
rebozoette: you can't get there from here
NancyKat: Don't forget the toaster...
rebozoette: if it can see it can feel
EWeston: We've been happily gay married for four years. By order of PD
Cat: happy anniversary!
EWeston: We've got some special maple flavor treats in the fridge, for later
DJTweeny: Happy Anniversary, EW :)
Beet: Just following orders?
EWeston: He's still hot
NancyKat: Mmmm maaaaple...
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from Firesign’s All Things Firesign (NPR) compilation “Crisis In Terror”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out All Things Firesign at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-tl
'
rebozoette: soft money lol
rebozoette: lol ew
EWeston: One of Obama's million or so EOs.
Beet: This was fun. Thanks all. Great collage, Cat. Thanks as always, Dr. Tween. G'Nite.
EWeston: Interesting evening thanx all and watch out for the wind cat
rebozoette: Beet Cat Digamex DJTweeny EWeston NancyKat rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween thanks cat ans tweeny grand stuffies
rebozoette: farse on
Cat: glad you enjoy the collages. i enjoy making them. tonight's was For Phil.
||||||||| 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
'
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
||||||||| 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!"
Cat: by
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cat!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Digamex - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 11:28 PM: aleknight 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!"
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| aleknight - 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:
||||||||| TimmMcCoy - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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 jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Gusts of wind blow in from outside and the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of helicopter blades is heard as Happy Panditt's chopper lands on the lawn and Rufus_T_Firetween gets out at 12:24 AM.
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| EWeston - 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:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| TimmMcCoy.com - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| It's 1:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Garden Girl - dead from measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - dead from the common cold
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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
Bunnyboy
Captain Equinox
Cat
DJTweeny
Elayne
EWeston
Garden Girl
llanwydd
NancyKat
Not Ed
rebozoette
ruf
Rufus_T_Firetween
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
TimmMcCoy.com
TimmMcCoy
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=atf-tl
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bod-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20161130.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-phil-austin-20150620-story.html
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/hillary-clinton-calls-for-us-to-bomb-syrian-air-fields-hours-before-trump-does-exactly-that/ets
http://www.seemreal.com
https://philaustinblogofunknown.wordpress.com/
https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook



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