A Firesign Chat
06/01/2017




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 June 01, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 5:17 PM, dragging DJTweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
||||||||| 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 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:31 PM, dragging TimmMcCoy.com by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
TimmMcCoy.com: Tweeny!
||||||||| 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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||||||||| NancyKat bounds in at 8:36 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
DJTweeny: Hey Timm :)
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:37 PM, then departs.
NancyKat: GAGHHHHHHHHH! Tweeny, Rufus, Timm...
DJTweeny: Hi Nancy :)
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary)
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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NancyKat: Great choice, Tweeny!
DJTweeny: Hard to believe it's been 50 years
DJTweeny: anniversary was just a few days ago
NancyKat: Wow...growing up, my Mom had ALL the Beatles albums.
DJTweeny: I had a copy when it was first released
DJTweeny: That was someing cool about the Beatles, it was liked cross-generationally
DJTweeny: My parents really liked them, and my earliest expose was to their early albums
DJTweeny: *exposure
TimmMcCoy.com: Bee Atles! Yes! I have the new 2017 Remaster 2 days ago. The separation is amazing!
NancyKat: There's this weird disconnect i feel as I get older-when people talk about (10 year ago) I still think of the 90's...and I still have a mid-20's feeling/ mindset....even though my body is DEFINITELY up to doing what I did back then!...such as alll night gaming sessions.
NancyKat: Expose was ALSO a good group tho'...lol.
NancyKat: The Ruttles...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet inside, makes a note of the time (8:50 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
TimmMcCoy.com: I was 9 when it came out.
||||||||| 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: The genius continues to hold up.
NancyKat: BEET!
Beet: Evening all
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
TimmMcCoy.com: BEET!
Beet: Hi Nancy
Beet: Howdy DR Tween, Timm
DJTweeny: I was 13
TimmMcCoy.com: the 128k feed shounds great!
DJTweeny: It does indeed, Beet
TimmMcCoy.com: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny
||||||||| Catherwood escorts EWeston into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:52 PM, then departs.
Beet: They spent two tears remastering the whole Beatles catalogue.
DJTweeny: my Sunday show feed at Dishnuts.net is 320k ;)
DJTweeny: Hey EW
Beet: Evening EW
NancyKat: Hi, EW!
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: Years not tears. Sorry
EWeston: G'day, or some such TweenyNancycat & Beetster
NancyKat: Is it wrong that i STILL have a crush on Lennon? LOL.
DJTweeny: haha
Beet: Better you than Yoko
EWeston: Wrong isn't exactly right
NancyKat: Beet-LOL.
||||||||| 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."
NancyKat: This song kind of strikes me as Proto-WINGS, since many of their songs were 2 in 1.
DJTweeny: They used 3 pianos at once and lots of electronic effects for that
Beet: Great
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:59 PM and late as usual, it's cease, just back from British Columbia."
EWeston: The Rutles version of that was fun.
DJTweeny: Hi cease
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 01, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Beet: Hody Dr Cease
NancyKat: 'Ello, cease!
DJTweeny: Love The Rutles :)
EWeston: Omelete du Fromage Cease
TimmMcCoy.com: Annnnnnnd HERE WE ARE!
Beet: That's "Howdy"
||||||||| Outside, the 9:00 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Beezelbub coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: bonsoir, mes amis du chat
EWeston: Howdy Cease? Well bless his funny name
EWeston: Hey Bub
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "9:02 PM and late as usual, it's rebozoette, just back from Elmertown."
EWeston: Ms Rebozoette
NancyKat: cease-Comment ca va?
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign’s “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out IMMORTALITY at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
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rebozoette: Beet Beezelbub cease DJTweeny EWeston NancyKat rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween TimmMcCoy.com howdeeee sounds great tweeny
DJTweeny: Hi Bub, Rebo
Beet: hi rebo
cease: i wont actually need the language until tomorrow.
rebozoette: mr ew hows ya
NancyKat: I think my favorite part of this album are the commercials and the end Goobye/Hello segment.
rebozoette: hi beet whats news
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
cease: but i always need firesign. just discovered i can listen to it on my phone.
EWeston: Been kitty setting
NancyKat: Hi, bub and rebozo.
NancyKat: EW-What kind o' Kitty?
rebozoette: cool ew fun
Beet: hi bub
rebozoette: hi nancy
Beet: How could it not be now?
EWeston: Tiny is a little small kitty with four coats. Choc and blue point, snowshow feets and a macrall overlay. One of the quietest siames I've every met.
rebozoette: lol
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Not Ed into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:06 PM, then departs.
EWeston: Showshoe
Beet: hey ed
DJTweeny: Hi ≠Ed
rebozoette: nothing like guests ew
cease: how are all the chatters today? celebrating your president's withdrawl from the Paris accord on th eve of my trip to Paree?
EWeston: Not Ed alert!
rebozoette: not is here
Not Ed: Pork?
Not Ed: Hi everybody!
EWeston: She is in her home. Her family is supposed to be back tomorrow
NancyKat: EW-AWWW! I LOVE Measles! That is weird, because their vocality is a main breed trait.
Not Ed: Cheers Tweeny
NancyKat: Hi, Not Ed.
DJTweeny: Trump was not very cordial
EWeston: A body blow to our international statue Cease Putin got his money's worth
Not Ed: Hi NancyK
Not Ed: Hey Beet & Beez
||||||||| 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: a travel ban
||||||||| "9:09 PM? 9:09 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Elmer Ho should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Elmer Ho enters and sits on the divan.
Not Ed: Cheers cease, EW, reboz
Beet: hey ho
rebozoette: pickle time
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
Not Ed: Hey EHo
EWeston: My own cat is as vocal as any siamese, but her voice is sweeter
cease: you still have international status?
cease: HI Not
Elmer Ho: Howdy yall. Where did you hide the stolen painting.
Not Ed: I love this album!
EWeston: Measured in pico liters these days Cease
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln
EWeston: Behind the butler Elmer
||||||||| "9:10 PM? 9:10 PM!!" says Catherwood, "AirshipAl should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as AirshipAl enters and sits on the divan.
DJTweeny: Hi Al
AirshipAl: This divan is divine!
Elmer Ho: Ah. Good move, E.
cease: Hey Airship
AirshipAl: Hey DJ!
Not Ed: Jello AA
EWeston: High Al
NancyKat: EW-Mine was a love bug and ninja...she apparently took offense to something one of our other cats, Osiris, had done...so, she sat on her tail and wailed on him with all four clawed paws...it was hilarious and weird.
Elmer Ho: Howdy AA. I won't mention the unpleasantness at Lakehurst.
AirshipAl: How did you know, EW?
NancyKat: Hi, Airship Al and Elmer.
AirshipAl: Greetings to all!
EWeston: Nino told me. They have ways of showing you they're pissed NK
Beet: Hi Al
rebozoette: hi airship
cease: this bit arose from an adbusters mock ad called Joe Chemo.
Not Ed: where can I get replacement sex plugs
AirshipAl: I hope everyone's enjoying the 2 DVD set! Taylor did a great job, didn't he?
DJTweeny: Indeed he did :)
NancyKat: EW-Yes, they do, indeed.
Not Ed: I wore mine out
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
EWeston: Amazon?
Not Ed: everything at Amazon
EWeston: Real Amazons too!
AirshipAl: Cox certainly can tell a tale about a comet!
cease: i had a dream a couple of nights ago about firesign. in the dream, we were living in an apartment and i heard some great jazz coming from another apt so i followed the music and met a guy with a great jazz collection. his wife came home and the 2 of them began exchanging firesign lines. when i mentioned i was a fan, they showed me their first single which came ina box full of off pieces of paper with bits of humour on them. the wife told me they had seen firesign in a festival with an audience of 4,000. also told me they had met the firesign "teacher" whoever that was. Great dream!
DJTweeny: Using a needle might not have been the best way to play it to play it, ≠Ed
Beet: A dizzyingly awesome collection
AirshipAl: lol DJ
DJTweeny: A very cool dream, Cat
Beet: Cool dream, cease.
EWeston: Don't think I've met anyone I know in a dream
rebozoette: ooze room
EWeston: Great ooze in that room
Beet: My cousins always show up in mine
rebozoette: great dream cat
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln
EWeston: To kibitz?
rebozoette: all the ooze thats fit to ooze
EWeston: I knew a Fiedler
Elmer Ho: Fiedler on the roof?
rebozoette: that crab was fiddling
||||||||| Outside, the 9:20 PM crosstown bus from Tennessee pulls away, leaving Johan Amadeus Myjetski coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Not Ed: catherwood give everone a talking doll
||||||||| Catherwood brings everone a talking doll.
EWeston: A co worker. Pretty straight, good people
cease: who would the Firesign Teacher be?
cease: hi jam
Not Ed: Hi JAM
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
DJTweeny: Hi Johan
EWeston: Spike Milligan
Not Ed: The Goons, or Bob & Ray
Elmer Ho: mmm... maybe Ray Goulding?
NancyKat: Jammy Jam Jam!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Evening all! Cease, Not Ed, DJT, et al!
EWeston: Groucho Marx
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiya, Nancy!
EWeston: JAM man
Elmer Ho: howdy... we jammin with JAM
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: E!How's it going?
rebozoette: put him on buffet support
Not Ed: toast 'n' JAM
rebozoette: hi jam
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
cease: on Fools inSpace, they said Gilbert and Sullivan inspired them to write plays.
EWeston: Under kitty dominance for one more day
cease: but they had a lot of teachers.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: rebozoette!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Good crowd tonight!
DJTweeny: yeah cease, so many influences, like W.C. Fields
EWeston: There may be common spirits of crazy comedy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Shelby = giant spider from Lord of the Rings...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: SHELOB
DJTweeny: Shelob
DJTweeny: Shelby made really fast Mustang ;)
DJTweeny: *s
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: This anticipatory typing thiny
||||||||| 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: There was Ballhog. Who took out Goodgulf the Magician in Bored of the Rings
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Watch the Firesign Theatre Youtube Channel at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
DJTweeny: THis is such a great Sean Connery impersonation
AirshipAl: There's a YouTube channel. That's weirdly cool!
EWeston: Don't play with that glaial till Tommy. You don't know where its been
||||||||| 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."
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Merlyn in through the front door at 9:28 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
Merlyn: hey all
EWeston: Mista Merlyn
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Beet: Hi Merl
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Meryl!
cease: hi merl
NancyKat: Merl!
Beet: HiJAM
AirshipAl: I posted these: https://www.facebook.com/notes/firesign-theater/firesign-video-links/10153050798601275/
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Beet! Good your two-tones through the floorboards?
Beet: Yeah, man
cease: great collection, al
EWeston: Polar Ice. It's yellow cause your not
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln
AirshipAl: Thanks!
cease: what line wouldn't work so well in Asia, EW
rebozoette: does that pill box come with white gloves
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: No, but it comes with its own pills...
Beet: This does look like a great collection. I also like your photo collage at the top.
EWeston: Well I suppose there's alway's the recourse of dying it red for Asia
EWeston: Maybe blue
rebozoette: feed them plastic rice
AirshipAl: That's funny, EW. I didn't know they were bluish.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Al, THEY didn't know they were bluish...
EWeston: Well red may have unmarketable conotations in asia
AirshipAl: I always wear conotations during sex.
EWeston: She 's able to stop laughing finally?
NancyKat: Anyone know where I can get an Eyeball Hat?
AirshipAl: My dinner and guest have finally arrived. I must bid all of you a dew.
NancyKat: Nigh Nigh AA...
DJTweeny: Can't find anything with an internet search, Nancy
EWeston: Bon digestion Al
AirshipAl: To be continued...
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Firesign T-shirts, coffee mugs and other goodies now available at >> http://www.cafepress.com/firesign
Beet: See ya Airship
DJTweeny: Good to see ya, Al
AirshipAl: Gonna get it while it's hot. Groat clusters again.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: happy landings, Al!
cease: keep em flying, al
AirshipAl: Thanks folks. More good things to come.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I found ball caps with eyeballs on them, but not the what you're looking for
EWeston: Something in paper machia with pingpongbals for eyeballs would be doable
||||||||| 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: JAM-yeah...did a search for them a while back.
NancyKat: EW-yeah.
||||||||| 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!"
rebozoette: rip that cord
||||||||| Catherwood leads freditor in through the front door at 9:47 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
cease: hey fred!
EWeston: Ripping a cord. It ain't easy
rebozoette: wow
DJTweeny: Hey freditor
EWeston: Fredikins
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: freed!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: fred!
cease: first al gross, now freditor. it's like a reunion.
freditor: hello, back after a long burial...
DJTweeny: an eyeball hat wirh dredlocks lol
Beet: hi fred
EWeston: Not as dead as they thought you were...kids
cease: now we need Doc Technical and 2 more Firesigns
Beet: cool
NancyKat: tweeny-YES! LOL.
freditor: no it was a long hard slog in the bog...
||||||||| New notice: ' ** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: from Firesign’s SHOES FOR INDUSTRY 'Best Of' compilation album - “Police Street”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check Out SHOES FOR INDUSTRY At >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi
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Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Re: In Car Nation, Freditor?
EWeston: Eluded fossilization eh.
cease: and bring Tiny Dr. Tim back from the dead while we're at it.
cease: the whole crew from the 99 Seattle show.
freditor: no i just left the universe and made a wrong turn in Alburque or everway I spell it, its wrong...
cease: Merl is here but practicing to be a ghost, as usual.
rebozoette: wheres the back of the bust
freditor: i don't blame him... pass the sheet...
EWeston: Near the rib cage I fear Mizette
rebozoette: lol ew
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I always appreciated the decisive action of 1 Footfighter 22...
freditor: wait a minite... I mean without the eye holes...
EWeston: A blind ghost, or wrose
freditor: or a holes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: sounds spooky in any event, E
EWeston: Sounds all quantumy
Elmer Ho: could be, but I'm not sure
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “SHOES FOR INDUSTRY” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln
freditor: 5 upset tummies..
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's not my cup of meat...
EWeston: The Ghost of the quantum soon in your home entertainmant center
Not Ed: In and out tonight - it is the nourishment interval
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I can smell... BREAKFAST!
cease: i was just thinking of the dylan song Quin the Esquimo the other day, which has a line about a cup of meat.
cease: maybe thats where the firesign line comes from?
freditor: that cup is overflowing again...
DJTweeny: might well be
Elmer Ho: they certainly were Dylan fans
NancyKat: cease-hollies did a good version as well.
Elmer Ho: one of the DF broadcasts has a speeded up version of If Dogs Run Free in the backgrouond
freditor: i always liked Dueling Pickles myself...
EWeston: Yah the cockroach swim team is practicing in my flagoon
cease: that they were, elmer. in his 67 oz show, bergman once said if you dont like a dylan song, waitg a few years until you catch up to it.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
cease: its amazing to me that i remember that 50 years later
Elmer Ho: heh, I read that as "67 ounce" at first, and wondered what I was missing...
cease: they loved dogs even more than dylan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: cease, do you know if they were Phil Ochs fans, too? Just wonderin'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
cease: partic Austin, but bergman too.
rebozoette: gittchy
cease: Nurgie Clockwork Films is named after Bergman's dog.
EWeston: Goomy Goombah
freditor: well, under the red sky was childish... even with SRV on it...
NancyKat: cease-Did he get the name for the dog from Gary Owens?
cease: if merl were here in the body instead of just in fading letters, he would recall a strange thing that happend during bergman's memorial in kirkland. some of us encountered a dog who looked JUST LIKE NURGIE in the hotel elevator.
cease: no, a babylonian god.
freditor: let not forget the Christmas record... I laughed as hard as listening yoko
NancyKat: cease-hmmmm.
cease: austin was VERY Fond of gary, though.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: A Firesign Xmas record? Tell me more...
Beet: sime of the clips in the DVD have Nurgie in them
cease: that's right, beet
NancyKat: I didn't know Mr. Owens passed-i grew up on those Dinosaur documentaries of his.
cease: he's in at least one of the jack poet ads.
freditor: No Johan, Dylan
DJTweeny: yeah he is cease
freditor: peeing on the tires?
cease: gary was one of the funniest men on la radio when austin began working in la radio. pa was intimidated by him, and inspired.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
cease: there was a lot of great comedy on la radio in early 60s, pre-firesign.
rebozoette: where the elite meet to greet
EWeston: With a russian hooker in hand
cease: when our forefathers took drugs, they became our fivefathers
freditor: no kidding cease like about a 1,000 years... those American Indians were hilarious when hopped up on loco weed
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: lol, cease!
Beet: At the Hashfire Inn
cease: four or five crazy fathers.
EWeston: Shrooms
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: an interview from Firesign’s new DVD compilation
THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 - ”The Les Crane Show”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out the new DVD set https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
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EWeston: Hi NSA guy
NancyKat: cease-I had described the one record9ing I found of Mr. Owens as "If Firesign and George Carlin got mashed together.'
cease: thanks to Taylor for finding and releasing this replica of the birth of the firesign
freditor: I feel like I never left... but I remember why...
cease: is any old owens on line anywhere?
cease: you aint got no friends on your left, fred
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: besides Laugh-In?
EWeston: The paternaty suit?
freditor: he put out some records with Jonathon Winters in his later years...
Merlyn: I'm not a ghost
||||||||| 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."
freditor: cease... yeah, i guess i'm right
EWeston: Nor my Nuncle!
Elmer Ho: you're a ghost, la la la la la la la la la
freditor: Nuncle Under the ruler swinging nun...
Elmer Ho: that's Paris 1919, a terrific song by John Cale
cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Lohman
EWeston: What a habit
NancyKat: Tweeny-Having some problems A LA PDQ Bach?
cease: i remember lohman and barkley from the 60s but discovered they werent even on the radio then, which is odd as i wasnt in la after 68
cease: they were Extremely Funny and i thought part of the comic la radio universe that the firesign emerged from
cease: merl, you're not a ghost in the sense that richard nixon was not a crook
||||||||| 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!"
freditor: John Cale live at the Lettuce Inn...
freditor: Tricky Dickie was oh so slickie... but did know how to comb his hair... since he was a brilliant teen
EWeston: George Kale at the Red Lobster
EWeston: Wonder if Don thinks Dick was a wimp.
freditor: we have A Dead Lobster next the Rudish Tuesday
cease: tricky had a congress that wasnt On His Side. that is no longer the case with the Don
freditor: donny doesn't think... he talks
EWeston: Do you have the fresh electrodes for that?
Beet: Radio Free Oz on TV
freditor: funny though, well maybe not, but Tricky ended up being our most liberal president... passing LBJ's gas...
rebozoette: put your hand in your pocket
EWeston: An dance like you don't care
cease: was that nixon or congress?
rebozoette: striking ew
freditor: reboz, just keep your belt loose for a minite... or 4 hours if you're as old i was...
freditor: cease both...
rebozoette: lol naked as the day
freditor: what do you do on doo doo dewey day... push the manilla envelope...
rebozoette: feme la la
freditor: I planted pot in the White House lawn... a true consession...
freditor: during the Dicked years...
EWeston: I flipped off Nancy Reagan as I walked by,
DJTweeny: you were in a seal costume?
EWeston: Long term she was more sane than the barbarians in Ronny's administration
DJTweeny: could be
EWeston: I confess I was the walrus
cease: in howard kaylon's auto, he has a chapter about getting stoned in nixon's white house when the turtles were invited to perform their.
Beet: Counseling Ronnie with astrology
freditor: EW... now we're talking... I saw Nixie many times flying to camp David... one the copter came down to look at who was waiving so heavily... the fingers... But I never pulled my pants down though until the resignation speech
DJTweeny: Flo & Eddy at the WH? That must have been interesting
cease: read the book, tween. it's excellent.
EWeston: That shows class Freditor and your tasteful choice in undies
freditor: I wasn't wearing any... the warm glow from the TV was all I needed...
DJTweeny: lol
cease: https://www.amazon.com/Shell-Shocked-Turtles-Eddie-Frank/dp/1617808466
EWeston: Commando before it was considered trendy
cease: great stuff about the austin's neighbour, frank zappa.
rebozoette: thats a tri festor
cease: austin told me zappa would stash his groupies at the austihn's house so his wife wouldn't find them. of course, SHE started out as his groupie.
freditor: can you imagine a president with Nixon's nose, Trumpiss' hair and Obama's ears with LBJ's lobes... smoking a Clinton cigar... neither can I...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 10:37 PM, dragging llanwydd by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
llanwydd: still here everybody?
Beet: hey llzn
DJTweeny: Hi llan
Beet: hey llan
cease: hi llan. i'm almost always here, but i wont be next week.
EWeston: Ilan... maybe yes, maybe no.
freditor: Cease.. the turtles played my high school around that time... we were all happy together...
DJTweeny: llan - ignore the clipping noises on this recording. I copied from the DVD, and the clipping is absent from the DVD recording
EWeston: They were out of Portland Ore I believe
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: going on another trip to vegas, cat?
cease: frank's agent told him if he toned down the porn, the mothers could be as successful as the turtles.
cease: Paris. tomorrow.
freditor: My daughter is getting married again this sunday, boy am I happy to give her away...
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
llanwydd: Paris! cool
llanwydd: sounds alright, tween
EWeston: Hope it works for them, and intendant families
cease: she can't find her own way?
llanwydd: the name Les Crane has flashed before my eyes at some point in the past, I believe
cease: show them the way! synchonistic
EWeston: The only thing I remember from the last wedding I attended was an ochestrial version of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
llanwydd: oh, please
llanwydd: I hated that song
freditor: Catherwood reminded me... why didn't the Firesign Theatre ever promote my book... or ever lump with their laughing gravey... oh well... I got them the BearManor contract... but it's still in print...
||||||||| Catherwood promotes freditor's book or ever lump with their laughing gravey well i got them the bearmanor contract but it's still in print.
EWeston: Those violins were kickin it!
llanwydd: I could hardly understand the words, for one thing
llanwydd: ants and tangerines! lol
cease: if you do something because you expect to be thanked for it, maybe you shouldn't do it at all
llanwydd: thats a new proverb
EWeston: It's good karmiclly
llanwydd: but anything thats worth doing is worth doing well
freditor: cease... she sure can... her first hubby stabbed in the chest with a 7 inch blade and deleted all my bakups of The Making of Zachariah" book... and all the rest of my files...
EWeston: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
rebozoette: olive anniversary
cease: hopefully the new husband will be nicer. a shorter blade, at least.
freditor: me in the chest and I died on the operating table... went through the last judgement and they sent me back...
EWeston: No voucher?
cease: the world still needs you, fred
freditor: I have mixed feelings about that... I still caress myself at every opportunity...
freditor: thanks Cease, now more than never...
freditor: if anyone here is on facebox, go ahead and 'friend' me...
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||||||||| 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
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'
freditor: anyone know when Proctor's bio is coming out?
cease: only taylor's shadow knows.
llanwydd: what year is this recording from, tween? do you know?
cease: 69?
DJTweeny: Haven't heard, Freditor
DJTweeny: 4/25/1968
llanwydd: thanks tween
cease: not so long after the original kpfk broadcast.
cease: nov, 66
NancyKat: Merci Beaucoup, Tweeny! Bonsoir, mes amis Fireheads!
EWeston: thank you all a bunch
NancyKat: Safe Journeys, cease!
rebozoette: Beezelbub cease DJTweeny EWeston freditor llanwydd rebozoette Rufus_T_Firetween Beet AirshipAl and thanks to tweeny great time
Beet: Interesting evening. Thanks everyone. Bon Voyage, Cat. Thanks Dr. Tween. Nite all.
cease: see you again here in 2 weeks, inshallah.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Love, love, love to all! Thanks everybody!
rebozoette: have a great one cat
DJTweeny: have fun, Cat
rebozoette: fartz
DJTweeny: safe travels...
llanwydd: goodnight everybody
cease: hopefully get a good collage or 2 out of the trip.
||||||||| Around 10:58 PM, llanwydd walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| cease is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 10:58 PM.
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Not Ed: Later!
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.
Merlyn: thanks again tween
||||||||| Merlyn rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Merlyn?! It's 11:01 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| freditor - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 11:48 PM crosstown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Thirdofnever coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| TimmMcCoy.com - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| AirshipAl - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Thirdofnever - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Elmer Ho - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 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:
||||||||| Not Ed - 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from measles
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Beet - 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:
||||||||| Beezelbub - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
AirshipAl
Beet
cease
DJTweeny
Elmer Ho
EWeston
freditor
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
NancyKat
Not Ed
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
TimmMcCoy.com
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=sfi
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny
http://www.cafepress.com/firesign
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
www.planetproctor.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Lohman
https://www.amazon.com/Shell-Shocked-Turtles-Eddie-Frank/dp/1617808466
https://www.facebook.com/notes/firesign-theater/firesign-video-links/10153050798601275/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd



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