A Firesign Chat
06/15/2017




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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for June 15, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 7:26 PM: DJTweeny 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!"
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
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||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (7:57 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 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 **
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||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'NancyKat', just granted probation at 8:43 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Hey Kitty
NancyKat: Hey, Tweeny an Rufus!
DJTweeny: How you doin' this fine evening?
NancyKat: Still warm...Thinking of selling the chiold for AC...ok, ok, JK...but FECK! How r u?
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
DJTweeny: Hot down here too. They say around 100 this weekend
DJTweeny: Don't sell the kid, just get her one of those egyptian fans so she can stand behind you and keep you cool ;)
NancyKat: GREAT Idea!
||||||||| Catherwood leads EWeston into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:52 PM, then departs.
EWeston: Lo Tweeny an NabcyKat
DJTweeny: Hey EW
EWeston: A good week for you I hope
EWeston: Apologies for doing horrible things to NancyKats name
DJTweeny: lol
DJTweeny: getting very hot down here
DJTweeny: how you been doin'?
EWeston: Wet inside Monday, and out today
NancyKat: EW-It's ok-that's not the worst thing-people get my last name wrong ALL the time...
NancyKat: YAY-<---Loves JT.
NancyKat: Droste
DJTweeny: like that tune a lot
NancyKat: Draws-Tea.
DJTweeny: this is Jim Croce
NancyKat: NOT DROWS-tea...not DROW-st...
DJTweeny: lol
EWeston: A valve in a bathroom blew out Monday. The cutoff valve failed, $776 later I have three new valves
NancyKat: EW-Ow...
||||||||| 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 cease gets out at 8:58 PM.
DJTweeny: yikes EW
DJTweeny: Hey cease
NancyKat: Cease! How was gay Pairee!?
cease: Hi chatters
EWeston: Fortunatly the water 20 minutes worth went down a heat vent gap
cease: Y'all survived without me last week
DJTweeny: barely ;)
EWeston: First time I've ever called 911 for myself
cease: Very dirty, actually.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 15, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Peter Bergman’s “TRUE CONFESSION OF THE REAL WORLD”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
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||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'rebozoette', just granted probation at 9:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
EWeston: Dry in France Cease?
rebozoette: DJTweeny EWeston NancyKat haill and fare weather
rebozoette: hi cat
DJTweeny: yo rebozo
cease: Ive been home since Sunday and am still jet-lagged. At my age, this kind of travel takes A Lot out of me.
NancyKat: rebozo! hey!
EWeston: Gail and rain forevah!
EWeston: Hail
cease: Rainy some days, hot and sweaty the others. June not a good time to go there.
cease: HI rebo
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Merlyn 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.
cease: Merl
Merlyn waves
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
EWeston: Hi Merlyn
cease: Trip was exhausting, but also inspiring.
NancyKat: Hiya, Merl!
cease: Legs still sore from all that walking.
cease: No mark time award for you, merl?
EWeston: Being exposed to history everywhere can be trying
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:02 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Virginia."
Beet: Evening all.
DJTweeny: Hey Beet
EWeston: Da Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Tween
||||||||| 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!"
cease: most of the city, etc is profoundly old.
Beet: Mr EW, howdy
cease: i prefer my new, clean Vancouver.
EWeston: I ODed on archetecture in London
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 9:03 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
cease: hi llan
llanwydd: anybody here or is it just us?
EWeston: Ilan's j early
NancyKat: Beet! llan!
Beet: Hi llan
||||||||| "9:04 PM? 9:04 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Not Ed should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Not Ed enters and sits at the bar.
cease: i love architecture. the main reason i travel is to behold it. but paris was definitely more of a grime aesthetic
Not Ed: Pork?
cease: Hi Nor
rebozoette: ta da
cease: Not
EWeston: The Anti Not Ed said hello Not Ed
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
||||||||| Catherwood ushers TimmMcCoy in through the front door at 9:05 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
llanwydd: I heard paris has a new eyesore on the skyline
TimmMcCoy: Hello! Im late!
EWeston: Hi Timm
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Phil Austin's “ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out ROLLER MAIDENS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-rv
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rebozoette: hi knot
DJTweeny: allo Timm
Beet: Hi Timm
NancyKat: TIMM!
cease: My hotel was built in 1620 and probably not a very good hotel even then.
Not Ed: Cheers Beet, cease, TMC, reboz, EW, llan, NancyK, Merl & Tweeny!
TimmMcCoy: HELLO! Beet cease DJTweeny EWeston llanwydd Merlyn NancyKat Not Ed rebozoette TimmMcCoy Rufus_T_Firetween
cease: Timmy
DJTweeny: the finest dungeoning dining in France, cease?
DJTweeny: *dungeon dining
Beet: Hey, Cease, was it difficult to tear yourself away from the City of Light?
llanwydd: I didnt know they had hotels back then
cease: i did eat well, mostly
Merlyn: Or Dungeness crab dining
EWeston: They still take food seriously in France
Beet: Hi Mwerl
cease: to quote Dorothy, there's no place like home.
Beet: Merl, sorry
EWeston: Crabs in the seat cushions?
cease: most of them do, ew
cease: i also had some food that was below bad.
cease: was in the middle of a terrorist incident too.
llanwydd: escargot and chocolate covered ants?
cease: i'm too old for that shit.
||||||||| PrincipalPoop steps in at 9:09 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
cease: there will eventually be a collage about my dining adventures. and they were Adventures.
EWeston: Blacked tentacles?
Beet: Yo Poop
PrincipalPoop: come on jesus
cease: poop
DJTweeny: Hi PrincP, llan
EWeston: Oh oh, we're pooped
PrincipalPoop: bienvenu mon chate
Not Ed: PPoop!
cease: maybe a collage and terrorism as well
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
EWeston: Nugies to youse too
Not Ed: Hey Seuss Marimba
rebozoette: doo the doo
PrincipalPoop: cheesey peasie
Not Ed is doing the nothing.
||||||||| 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!"
NancyKat: POOP!
cease: on, not and
EWeston: Sudden;y getting drunk and refinishing my furnature sounds fun
Not Ed: I heard that
PrincipalPoop: refurnish your finishings instead perhaps
Not Ed: What?
rebozoette: bubbles in the air
EWeston: It's on the internet. It must be true
PrincipalPoop: poop is only 1 L away from plop
Not Ed: Catherwood define obstruction of justice
||||||||| Catherwood pretends not to hear Not Ed
EWeston: Use the butain torch, or corrosives?
PrincipalPoop: Butain or Dubai
EWeston: Qatar Matey
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Catherwood roll up some dubais
||||||||| Catherwood rolls up some dubais.
PrincipalPoop: yeman I can dig it
Not Ed: Arabian sativa wow
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Johan Amadeus Myjetski inside, makes a note of the time (9:16 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
llanwydd: hey JAM
Not Ed: Hi JAM
EWeston: JAMmer
cease: jam
DJTweeny: yo Johan
PrincipalPoop: jam jam jamboree
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: HI everybody!
EWeston: Some of the original heads were in the ME
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Not Ed: Cloudberry JAM
rebozoette: it pooks
EWeston: They steamed the seeds in a tent fer fun
Beet: Hi JAM
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Not Ed: how could it not pook, if you ask me, which you didn't
PrincipalPoop: and then watch the belly dancers make their bells chime?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi beet!
PrincipalPoop: you are such a mook
cease: ive heard enough bells chiming for a lifetime
EWeston: It might knock
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
rebozoette: haha
||||||||| 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: thinkin its pookless
Not Ed Catherwood define executive privilege
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to Not Ed and queries "Did you need me?"
PrincipalPoop: on their fingers and toes?
cease: notre dame accross from my "hotel," kept chiming away when i was trying to sleep
EWeston: Hey in there! Your bell clapper fell off!
Not Ed: pookie
cease: where's quasimodo when you need him?
rebozoette: daiet tales may come true
PrincipalPoop: my dingaling everybody sing
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Is that what it means to be clapped out?
EWeston: That's a pretty exclusive neighborhood for a bad hotel
rebozoette: I would love tat cease
llanwydd: I wonder if the parisians sleep with earplugs
PrincipalPoop: I had a lower sight in mind but ok
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone the clap
||||||||| Catherwood gives everyone the clap.
Not Ed: Ugh
EWeston: Somwone wants to contact VD?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Oh, now I'm gonna need antibiotics...
PrincipalPoop: contact roger
cease: not really, ew.
cease: the whole city is old and decrepit.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Roger. Over & out
Beet: In my career I was very lucky. Never an STD.
EWeston: Bad views?
cease: "hotel" is barely above camping, and i loathe camping.
DJTweeny: Beet: In my career I was very lucky. Never an STD. << you were a gigilo?
cease: i could see notre dame from my window. unfortunately.
PrincipalPoop: I missed your discussion of the food and weather no doubt
llanwydd: I dont know. I have stayed in some really nice hotels
Beet: I wish
DJTweeny: why unfortunately?
EWeston: The back end of it?
cease: the last time i was in paris, i stayed in a really nice hotel that was part of Gare de Lyon.
PrincipalPoop: the church or your landlady?
llanwydd: did you go inside notre dame, cat?
cease: my hotel reminded me of oscar wilde's last words, either this wall paper goes or i do.
EWeston: Its so hard to tell in my declined years
llanwydd: did you see quasimodo swinging from the butresses?
Not Ed: It's only a model
cease: not this time, thankfully. when the terrorist struck, everyone inside had to stay inside. thankfully i was outside.
cease: me and a whole bunch of very nervous cops and soldiers clutching their machine guns nervously.
rebozoette: gargoulyish
Beet: When I was in Notre Dame, I tried to imagine Napolean crowning himself Emperor.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Confined in Norte dame. Robes Pierre surely is behind it
EWeston: Gargulash
PrincipalPoop: Takes a while to get used to police with uzis
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
rebozoette: lol ew
EWeston: I was an emergency responder myself. The cops were part on the scenry
Not Ed: is a female gargoyle a gargirl or a girlgoyle?
cease: i had just returned from mont st. michel where trhying to climb its 900 steps i had to contend with soldiers with machine guns going up and down the narrow steps. very scary
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Police with nervous Uzis... Hmmm....
Not Ed: Amazing Cat
rebozoette: brox urls lol
llanwydd: 900 steps. I bet you couldnt walk the next morning
cease: i had just been enjoying the arab museum when i was suddenly confronted with not so enjoyable arabs
PrincipalPoop: what do you win if you do all 900? just bragging rights?
PrincipalPoop: that is no way to talk about ragheads
cease: i can barely walk NOW, llan, and that was june 5-6
Beet: The terrorists have succeeded in taking all of the romance out of Europe.
EWeston: They might have been aryans
||||||||| 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!"
cease: not quite all. the entire city is full of young couples being extraordinarily romantic in public.
cease: maybe it's a way to combat terrorists.
EWeston: An fewer want to vacation in the USA
NancyKat: There's a Goth youtuber living in Germany that I watch...she went to paris and they wouldn't let her into the louvre...stated "security reasons'...then they had a hassle at the one cemetery-she was very distraught.
Beet: That's good to hear, cease.
cease: Canada is a good option.
DJTweeny is reminded of the Joni Mitchell song "In France They Kiss On Main Street"
llanwydd: I know french girls are very affectionate. belgian girls too
cease: a lot more than kiss
PrincipalPoop: family chat....
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Great song tweety
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Tween
cease: i was afraid to get vd from riding the subway
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: The Hissing Of Summer Lawns is one of my favorite albums of hers
DJTweeny: lol cease
cease: better than getting shot or blown up though.
PrincipalPoop: a goth youtuber living in germany that I watch. How come you can say that but I would get lots of comments?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: A harmonically complex album
cease: the morning i arrived and was waiting in a 2-hour line for passport control, there was a large bang outside the room.
llanwydd: I like her album with jaco pastorius although I dont care much for pastorius
EWeston: Your refrigerator presents a greater danger
cease: the airport shut down, only to later discover that it wasnt a terrorist thing.
llanwydd: dont remember the title
NancyKat: Poop-?
||||||||| 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: a VERy Nervous place.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Tragic story the end of jaco's life...
cease: indeed, jam.
PrincipalPoop: ok, I like watching a goth youtuber living in Germany too..
NancyKat: Well, Poop-I wouldn't pin you as a Goth, but hey, her name is It's Black Friday if you're interested.
rebozoette: ho down
PrincipalPoop: what is that name for a condom, a french envelope, something like that
EWeston: How orthodox
cease: French letter
PrincipalPoop: ahh so you knew how to avoid the VD lol
cease: there is a firesign letter to that somewhere
NancyKat: better than Japanese issue Sailor Moon and Pokemon condoms...
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
cease: ref
||||||||| 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."
NancyKat: French Tickler...never seen one but, hey...
cease: Japan is too weird for anyone not Japanese.
PrincipalPoop: that is a ring knobby type affair, so I hear
cease: France isn't wierd. It has its own problems.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I'm not turning Japanese...
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
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
NancyKat: JAM-You don't really think so?
EWeston: I'm sticking with my JLA condoms
NancyKat: Je ne prend pas une keir...
NancyKat: EW-Gives a new meaning to Superman and ironman?
llanwydd: keir?
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
PrincipalPoop: Deborah Keir?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: A little lube will fix that, E...
PrincipalPoop: JAM would know
Beet: Hi Nancy. Just realized you were here.
NancyKat: je prende un cafe au lait...
NancyKat: Beet-LOL!
EWeston: Quriously the Flash is not popular
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Well, if he's sticking to his condom...
NancyKat: I'm ALWAYS here...even when i'm not...
rebozoette: sorry we don't serve that
PrincipalPoop: Is that you Beet?
Beet: Change after use.
EWeston: Though the speed flield took care of that
DJTweeny: Austin's knowledge of audio recording/production was phenomenal
NancyKat: EW-I'm a Batman/ Catwoman fan myself-for Marvel-Pheonix/ Rogue and Gambit.
Beet: Yup 's me
EWeston: Plasticman is my fav
cease: true, tween.
PrincipalPoop: Prove it, I was prepared to make holmes prove he was him but he is not here, so you...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Green Lantern was mine...
cease: one of the restaurants i ate at served a blackberry buried inside a beet.
DJTweeny: Alfred E Numan was mine
EWeston: I saw an illistrated date between Batman and Catwoman. It was strenuous
cease: i had a lot of weird food. some of it was quite good.
NancyKat: EW-Olllld school...I miss those cartoons though...Josie and jabberjaw etc.
llanwydd: what me worry?
PrincipalPoop: Intentionally or you just found one in there?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: What you worry?
Beet: The black leather Catwoman outfit is a favorite of mine.
Not Ed: metal men
DJTweeny: there are a few less snails and frogs in France now, cease?
cease: intentionally. maybe Putin made them do it.
Not Ed: simonson's thor
cease: never had either.
NancyKat: Beet-AGREED!
DJTweeny: well, Beet, if we're going to talk about Emma Peel...
Not Ed: and green lantern too yay
cease: the strangest thing i ate was pigeon.
DJTweeny: squab
PrincipalPoop: even ordinary biscuits and such seem elegant and taste better there
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I had alligator once. Tasted like chicken...
EWeston: Pigeon;s being eaten has a long history
Beet: My fave was Michelle P.
DJTweeny: I've had BBQ'd alligator. Quite chewy
NancyKat: Not Ed-That's my Mom's fave-hard to find the comics still though. beet-i also have a soft spot for Jim Balent's Catwoman.
PrincipalPoop: no name calling mister DJ, you should know better
Not Ed: Pork?
llanwydd: gator is tricky to cook
Not Ed: tricky to track
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I understand they jump out of the pot..
rebozoette: just grab yer partners
llanwydd: lol
PrincipalPoop: I prefer crocidials
Not Ed: wasn't that a seuss book
Not Ed: wait...hmm
NancyKat: (Whipcrack)
llanwydd: green eggs and gator?
rebozoette: hog tie em on sptiz
NancyKat: Green Eggs and Spam...
PrincipalPoop: Horton eats a gator?
EWeston: Nearprok
EWeston: Watch out for the bones
NancyKat: Oh the Beasts you'll eat?
cease: a world with no one ashamed of sex: France.
EWeston: Welk fritters ala mooosh
PrincipalPoop: ah belle France
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
cease: is there a Big Jesus?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I understand Jesus is big in Italy, almost like Coca-Cola
cease: i watched a movie about the founding of macdonalds on the plane to paris. pretty good.
DJTweeny: lol
Not Ed: Hey Seuss Marimba
PrincipalPoop: sounds like another croc to me
cease: not as big as the beatles though.
Not Ed worships Nyarlathotep.
EWeston: Cayman perhaps?
PrincipalPoop: John Lennon made that point...
Beet: I saw that one too, cease. Very entertaining.
PrincipalPoop: Papricka, is that spelled right?
NancyKat: NancyKat is a devotee of Bahst, but you probably guessed that...
NancyKat: Poop-the spice or the Anime?
cease: Fumiyo and I are on this disc, applauding and laughing and such. not a big theatre.
PrincipalPoop: Bahst or Pabst?
EWeston: Momricka says how much is the answer worth to you
llanwydd: he pronounces it Ozman. I never knew that
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
cease: Otherwrold released this as a CD which I bought from them.
NancyKat: poop-I don't drink...beer...
cease: Part of a double bill with Radio Days, 1940 starring Phil and Melinda.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Not Ed: Oz Man - I can diggit
EWeston: I might have seen this
PrincipalPoop: ah brobricka, manna manna mo pay, innie body bo pay
Not Ed: that's EZ for U to say
cease: After the 2 plays, DO, PP and MP did a radio show from a local bar, which sponsored the plays.
rebozoette: chorkel
EWeston: Family audience Pooper
Not Ed: snorkel
cease: i hope Otherworld is still selling the CDs
rebozoette: I read it
||||||||| 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."
DJTweeny: if you can find a link to buy that disc cease, please post it
DJTweeny: the Otherworld site appears to be under construction
PrincipalPoop: Georgie
DJTweeny: Thanks for the suggestion, Timm :)
cease: Taylor would know.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “NEW MEXICAN OVERDRIVE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/updates/00222.html
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
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PrincipalPoop: tap tap tap
cease: there has for a long time been a nostalgic tone to ossman's writing. since before he had anytihng to be nostalgic about.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: A wistful penchant for a past that never was...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's the signpost up ahead...
PrincipalPoop: wistful or wristful or waistful or hell whistful
EWeston: If you can read this sign Your reading days are almost over
cease: i recall the stagework of this, even though it's 20 years ago. Ossman was a master at creating settings.
rebozoette: warm rolls
cease: oss,am
EWeston: Judith was part of some of these productions
||||||||| 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: ossman's poem about the dayh of his birth is the greatest poem i've ever heard.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Buffalo Billious...
cease: i didnt know you felt that way about me, george
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies RedPillTweeny into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 10:08 PM, then departs.
EWeston: RPT velcum
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi RPT!
cease: producer, yes. you mean acting? Every person the firesign were ever married, related or nearby were in their productions.
DJTweeny: Hi Red
PrincipalPoop: the matrix going on here? where is the blue pill tween?
DJTweeny: you'll have to ask Morpheus
PrincipalPoop: morpheus means lessforyou
Beet: pretty good, poop
PrincipalPoop: send cash for christs sake, I cannot eat or smoke compliments...
EWeston: In the original Lesswainian. Otherwise its pill my finger
cease: the firesign only began writing about love rather late in their career.
PrincipalPoop: Love has been in there from the start... but writing directly about it, ok ok
Beet: $.25
cease: walking around paris means you see morpheus and his kin grinning at you from every corner.
rebozoette: cover yer gams
PrincipalPoop: M!!!!! How do I cash that????
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: That's not much, beet...
EWeston: Feed your yams
cease: everything is different. like japan.
Beet: After all, it was just a pun.
rebozoette: where do uou think they got it from cat
cease: as a theme in their work, poop? eobe and the case of the missing yolks celebrate pete's useful romance with patricia stalone but ossman and phl and melinda were doing this in 97.
PrincipalPoop: Just a pun? what are you? ahh nevermind, you are right....
||||||||| "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: Large parts of the culture come from foreign sources
cease: there's a lot of import export, and has always been.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Count Down -that was Harry Nilsson's vampire character
rebozoette: turn all dials to 11
EWeston: They were isolationist many times
Beet: Actually, the highest form of humor. No offense.
cease: both france and japan are really proud of thier cultural identities. tha'ts quite artificial in canada. many people, from the beginikng until today, come here to escape their opppressive cultural identities. so it's odd to be a tourist there
PrincipalPoop: ease up there big fella, just yinking yah
cease: my grandparents left There to live Here in the first years of the previous century
llanwydd: your grandparents lived in vancouver, cat?
cease: french foord began merging with japanese food in the 60s, when Paul Bocuse went to Japan, but Monet's house is so full of Japanese prints, it was as if he was conciously trying to live in Japan, a land he'd never see.
PrincipalPoop: I thought he was a singer, with nielsens smilsens, something like that
EWeston: Son of Schmilson was fun
cease: bij europe. father's father born in st. petersburg, 1855. his 2nd wife, her 3rd husband became my grandfather during the russo-japanese war, which got him out of st pete to keep his sons out of the losing navy.
PrincipalPoop: but you will never read that book again because the ending was just too hard to take
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I always thought Geo. Tirebiter was a rather Vonnegut-sequel character...
cease: his oldestr son move to van whenit was a village. one of them moved to vienna where he married my grandma. the other 2 were drafted in the fuckning navy.
Beet: Van Gogh also fond of Japanese prints
PrincipalPoop: Anybody what to see my etchings?
EWeston: Get my throwing cake out Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood gets throwing cake out.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Vonnegut-esque
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: very interesting, cat
cease: every painter in europe was enraptured by them, beet
cease: having lived in japan for a long time and seeing them on my walls all day, their novelty escapes me.
Beet: Color!
PrincipalPoop: what is sino an abbreviation for?
EWeston: Yah African art become popular in the early 20th century
llanwydd: yeah I love ancient japanese art too
cease: but i wasn't living in europe after japan came to town.
cease: Chinese
cease: i saw a lot of african arrt in paris.
PrincipalPoop: shouldn't that be chino?
EWeston: The Dadists loved it
cease: saw 3 african exhibitions. great stuff, very old and brand new, very political
EWeston: And what do white pants have to do with it PP
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Morraccan rolls
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
PrincipalPoop: not after labor day
cease: picasso, modigilani minus africa= different, if not inferior geometries
EWeston: Fashion slave
rebozoette: onesies
Beet: Catherwood bring me a coke
||||||||| Catherwood hands Beet a coke.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Just a dedicated follower of fashion
PrincipalPoop: speaking of dadists, happy fathers day coming up
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
cease: you're an artist, rebo. when you see a whole lot of art, do you learn from that consciously?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Lol, P
EWeston: Give him a hairy cup and spoon. Then run away
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: !
PrincipalPoop: a hairy shirt, inside out or something like aht
EWeston: Maybe a bottle dryer.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Beet: Artists allow us to see things from a different perspective.
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PrincipalPoop: things? what things?
cease: every father's day since i stoppped being a father, i went out for dinner as my daughter used to do with me on that day.this year will be the first not being able to do so.
EWeston: Today's media, with exception, are within anyone's reach
Beet: That's a rotary phone!
PrincipalPoop: reach out and touch someone, what year was that?
EWeston: An someones tapping it
Beet: Environment, relationships, etc.
PrincipalPoop: I would be tapping that....
Beet: Irwin Corey
EWeston: Cyborg without the right probe
PrincipalPoop: His son was in a few movies...
PrincipalPoop: oops, thinking of Corey Feldman or something like that
DJTweeny: 'a MC of roller derby?'
DJTweeny: that fits
Beet: World's Foremost Authority.
NancyKat: Corey in the House?
rebozoette: cat
PrincipalPoop: Was he the preacher in Blazing Saddles?
EWeston: An a snappy dresser
PrincipalPoop: One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you....
EWeston: Right after my nap, promise
PrincipalPoop: whopper and the tweety?
EWeston: Turf with wings
cease: if youre dead, the best thing you can do about it is have a good time
cease: You're showing off your degree from Oxford Shoe
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
PrincipalPoop: whop too often and they call you a whopper
EWeston: The third degree
rebozoette: wounded wound
EWeston: Puf to often and they call you a pufter
PrincipalPoop: like a cut or a clock?
rebozoette: smells like coward hide
Beet: I just looked and Coey not listed in the cast of Blazing Saddles.
PrincipalPoop: herr pufter yeahvowel
Beet: Corey
EWeston: If its a cooward, run for the tree line
llanwydd: corey who?
PrincipalPoop: a skinny mostly bald white guy, wally cox if he had lived..
Beet: Professor Irwin
PrincipalPoop: the professor on futurama also
llanwydd: oh, he was great
cease: great wally cox image
DJTweeny: he had a bit part in Young Frankenstein, as I recall
DJTweeny: if I'm thinking of the same guy who played the preacher in Blazing Saddles
llanwydd: I dont remember him in YF. I dont think he was in it
Beet: Very funny guy
DJTweeny: was he the preacher in BS?
llanwydd: irwin corey died recently at the age of 102
cease: cox yodelled in an ad for a nyc hotel, played on firesign's fools in space episode
EWeston: Different eyebrows
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
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'
llanwydd: ...wherever you go, there you are!
EWeston: Think he was a pinky friend with Marlon Brando
cease: llan thatr reminds me of bergman quoting allen ginzberg, when you're in la, you're in la.
llanwydd: lol
PrincipalPoop: the final jeopardy music and the afternoon movie song, the same or not?
rebozoette: not
||||||||| 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: chick full of nutz
PrincipalPoop: I think you are right, but I can only think of the jeopardy one lol
rebozoette: ha
PrincipalPoop: oh I got it, nevermind...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 10:50 PM, dragging Glen by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Difficult to think of two melodies at once
||||||||| 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!"
cease: Glen! Congrats on your award
EWeston: Hi Glen shows about over though
PrincipalPoop: Mister Beck, you have a lot to answer for...
cease: pregnant, rebo?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hello goodbye, Glen!
Glen: I forgot!
Glen: Adios, kids!
Glen: Thank you!
PrincipalPoop: but you remembered that you forgot
EWeston: Wah!!!
llanwydd: cool!
cease: dont know if that was the real glen banks, but he won the mark time award as firesign friend a few days ago. he shows up here sometimes
PrincipalPoop: thank you tween and all
Beet: Is it that time already? Went fast. Thanks all. Thanks Dr Tween. Welcome back, Cat. G'Nite.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Thanks all! Love love love to all!
Glen: That's me.
NancyKat: Meow meow all!
Glen: I'm sorry I was late.
EWeston: Ferget debt, An refinace when the red light goes out!
PrincipalPoop: congrats, all :) happy trails indeed
||||||||| At 10:53 PM, PrincipalPoop vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
cease: its better to show up at the begining of tween's shows rather than the end
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all! See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
cease: What are you doing these days, Glen? Any new projects?
llanwydd: thanks, tween
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| At 10:54 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
cease: Off we flea. Amorously
||||||||| At 10:57 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
rebozoette: Beet DJTweeny EWeston Glen Johan Amadeus Myjetski NancyKat bw good for the hood thanks tweeny
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Glen - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Merlyn scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Merlyn?! It's 11:40 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| 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 measles
||||||||| 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...
||||||||| It's 12:25 AM, 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...
||||||||| 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 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:
||||||||| 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 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:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "1:43 AM? 1:43 AM!!" says Catherwood, "Fropchopula should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Fropchopula enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Fropchopula: 1:43 u too catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood rushes up to Fropchopula and asks "Did you want something?"
Fropchopula: Piece of pie?
Fropchopula: Gotta chew that one over eh catherwood?
||||||||| Catherwood steps over to Fropchopula and asks "Do you have something for me to do?"
||||||||| 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!"
Fropchopula: Catherwood tell me what I missed
||||||||| Catherwood tells Fropchopula what i missed.
Fropchopula: Haha tell me, catherwood loves what
||||||||| Catherwood tells Fropchopula loves what.
Fropchopula: Open directory print left column
Fropchopula: Catherwood hop over and grab me a scotch
||||||||| Catherwood grabs Fropchopula a scotch.
Fropchopula: Catherwood, tell me who had been here lately
||||||||| Catherwood tells Fropchopula who had been here lately.
Fropchopula: What, just couldn't hear u catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood walks alongside Fropchopula and queries "Do you have something for me to do?"
Fropchopula: Catherwood, go to bed /restart in morning
||||||||| Catherwood goes to bed /restart in morning.
Fropchopula: Hey ralphie
Fropchopula: Ralph
Fropchopula: Nino?
Fropchopula: Catherwood, wake up, gimme a beer
||||||||| Catherwood wakes up gimme a beer.
Fropchopula: What, I asked first
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Fropchopula - 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
DJTweeny
EWeston
Fropchopula
Glen
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
NancyKat
Not Ed
PrincipalPoop
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
TimmMcCoy
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