A Firesign Chat
08/31/2017




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 August 31, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (4:38 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 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 7:44 PM: DJTweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| 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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Rufus_T_Firetween: ah, clem
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Rufus_T_Firetween?! It's 8:17 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| 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 plummets into the garden at 8:18 PM.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Buffalo Springfield – for Ash Harlan)
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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||||||||| Cat waltzes in at 8:56 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Cat: Dex would really be happy to be hearing this tune here.
Cat: I just emailed you the FIS obit of Tiny. Wish I still had Austin talking about the chat community. Hopefully Doc will come through
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski enters at 8:58 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| Nick Danger enters at 8:58 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cat: Ah, Phil Austin, back from the dead.
||||||||| 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 PrincipalPoop gets out at 8:59 PM.
Cat: We're all grateful.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 31, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| 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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Cat: HI Poop. Glad you could make it. You were here when Dex was chatting with us.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Trailing clouds 'o' glory....
Cat: Hi Jam
DJTweeny: Hi Johan, Nick, PrincP, Cat
PrincipalPoop: Fong? Never heard of him.
PrincipalPoop: hi all
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi cat, djt
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:01 PM and late as usual, it's rebozoette, just back from North Carolina."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: PP!
DJTweeny: Hi rebozoette
rebozoette: Cat DJTweeny Johan Amadeus Myjetski Nick Danger PrincipalPoop yo been lurkin h all
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: DD has no amigos
PrincipalPoop: JAM the man, and rebozo, can I squeeze your wheeze?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi reboot!
Cat: rebo
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies EWeston inside, makes a note of the time (9:02 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Rebozoette!
DJTweeny: Hi EW
Cat: EW
PrincipalPoop: ew it is EW
PrincipalPoop: the voice of tween
EWeston: Hey Tweeny Pooper Rebozoette cat and Jam
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: EW! Ah! we're picking all the usual suspects tonight!
||||||||| Catherwood tosses another cheese log on the fire and intones, "If you want to keep the cornstarch off your mukluks this season, buy a hoodie or a sweatshirt at the Firesign corner Cafepress store."
PrincipalPoop: Remember him? Fong died?
Cat: Yes, poop. His wife called me a few days ago and told me.
EWeston: A little argument with my anti virus software made me late
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Looking forward to this one cat! The cuban missile crisis was a big deal in my childhood
||||||||| New notice: '** MISSING OUR DEARLY DEPARTED DEAR FRIENDS **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “RED SHIFT”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out RED SHIFT at >> http://www.seemreal.com/redshift/
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PrincipalPoop: ahh hell, another of the good ones, bought the farm, kicked the bucket, and other euphemisms
Cat: I know he hasn't been on chat the last few years but I wanted those of us who chatted with him to imagine he's stilll chatting with us tonight.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
EWeston: Bought their last box of Girl Scout Cookies
PrincipalPoop: no no no, ewwww lol
PrincipalPoop: but ok, what about the money you owe me fong?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: back in about 10 - i'll be listening!
Cat: There was an explosion in the building next to his and the it destroyed the room his computer was in. He never got around to replacing it, which is why he left chat.
Cat: lol poop
PrincipalPoop: He used to correct me every time I made a joke and wrote rimjob instead of rimshot
EWeston: Present the signed agreement, or cocktale napkin to his estate
PrincipalPoop:
DJTweeny: Also MIA, Jimmy Lee Radcliffe (Ah, Clem the previous chat DJ), Tiny Dr. Tim and Klokdog
Cat: lol poop
PrincipalPoop: (rimjob)
Cat: Ah, Clem was the first chatter to put sound to these chats.
PrincipalPoop: only been 2 DJs?
DJTweeny: yes he was
PrincipalPoop: does Bambi ever visit?
Cat: Klok was one of the smartest people one is ever likely to encouter, and just as generous.
DJTweeny: he did it for over 10 years
DJTweeny: Bambi comes by on occasion
Cat: yes Bambi shows up here occasionally.
DJTweeny: but it's hard for her without Clem
DJTweeny: I told her about this evenin'g show
PrincipalPoop: I bet
||||||||| Beet enters at 9:10 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Beet: Howdy All!
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Cat: and the Beet goes on
PrincipalPoop: hey Beet
EWeston: The all weather Beet
Beet: Hi Dr Tween, Cat, Poop, EW
PrincipalPoop: sherlock and honey ever come by? I think you said sherlock did
Beet: Houston is/was my hometown
Cat: its hard to tell if its sherlock or not.
PrincipalPoop: Named after Sam I suppose
EWeston: Massively ughly times for Austin, My hopes for them all
PrincipalPoop: I know, that is a common pseudonym lol
EWeston: Pardon me, Houston
Beet: Did you wade to work, Dr. Tween?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RED SHIFT” at >> http://seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg
DJTweeny: Austin was mostly spared Beet
DJTweeny: Grid knows how long it will take to rebuild Houston and the coast
Beet: Fabulous good luck, my friens.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Ralph close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the sitting room.
DJTweeny: 4th largest city in the USA
PrincipalPoop: Give everyone a Harvey Wallbanger catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a harvey wallbanger.
Beet: friens
Beet: did it twice. Sorry
Ralph: whew, got here just in time
DJTweeny: Yes, we were on the edge of it, and still had Texas Live Oaks bending over like willow trees
DJTweeny: Hi Ralph
Ralph: Catherwood, bring Ralph a Harvey Wallbanger
||||||||| Catherwood hands ralph a harvey wallbanger.
Beet: Lake Travis held OK?
PrincipalPoop: hehe he said texas live oaks bending over hehe
EWeston: Hi Ralph, and I see Nick sneaked in. Are we another group of idiots he's been paid to follow?
Ralph: thank you and hello, dear friends
DJTweeny sraps PP with a live oak leaf
Beet: Hi Ralph
PrincipalPoop: thank you sir may I have another...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Elmer Ho', just granted probation at 9:16 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cat: hi ralph
DJTweeny: lol
EWeston: Here use my entrenching tool
DJTweeny: Hi Elmer
Cat: elmer
Elmer Ho: hello dear friends
PrincipalPoop: so Nick, where is Nancy?
EWeston: El...mer
Beet: Hey Elmer
Elmer Ho: EW...eston
PrincipalPoop: Heavy on the 30 weight
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RED SHIFT” at >> http://seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg
Ralph: she is upstairs helping Porcelain make the bed
EWeston: eston we ave a oblem...!
PrincipalPoop: EW speaking british
Elmer Ho: query... "dearly departed dear friends"... did someone pass?
Ralph: wait...... reload......
DJTweeny: after trashing the TX coast and innundating Houston, Harvey went back out to sea, gained strength again, and came ashore at the TX/LA border yesterday
EWeston: Decongestant supplies are seriously low.
DJTweeny: a serious bastid
Cat: Dexter Fong, a long time chatter and overall great guy.
DJTweeny: Dexter hasn't been aound for a while, but he was the chat for many many years
Elmer Ho: ah, too bad...
DJTweeny: *around
EWeston: And there maybe another Harvey lining up in the south Gulf
Cat: At one time, he had a Firesign-like show on WBAI, the same station Ossman started on.
DJTweeny: wow, I didn't know that
Elmer Ho: did he leave family?
DJTweeny: cool
Ralph: what IS this
DJTweeny: yes Elmer, let me get a link
PrincipalPoop: I recall seeing his photo, he was years older than he seemed as a chatter. My memory is Wallace Beary
Ralph: RIP Dexter
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RED SHIFT” at >> http://seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg
Cat: HIs wife, sons, grandchildren. I sent Tween the obit. Can you post it here, Tween?
EWeston: It has a long time to go. I think my source was Charles Pierce
Cat: ralph, this is my play Red Shift. starring the Firesigns and many others.
Cat: born the same year as david ossman, 1936
Ralph: tysvm Cat
Cat: this is Dex right now
PrincipalPoop: Pragmaticism
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Ash Harlan (Dexter Fong) obit - http://jewishtimes.com/65527/harlan/community/obituaries/
Cat: the guy on the phone.
Ralph: wow
Cat: this is dex
rebozoette: cool
Elmer Ho: thanks Rufus
Ralph: tell me something good
PrincipalPoop: Prove that is Dexter lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: dust don't get no rest... great quote!
EWeston: With Hideo Wallbanger, one of the men of modern comedy
Beet: Bon Voyage, Dex.
Elmer Ho: memorial contributions to Meals on Wheels... that shows class
Elmer Ho: use a tragedy to help others
EWeston: Microbe strip shows?
PrincipalPoop: death is a part of life, the fucker
Cat: always a good idea, elmer.
EWeston: He shall hear from my solictor
PrincipalPoop: fong did a great filipino accent, or maybe that was somebody else
Cat: fong did a lotta things.
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
PrincipalPoop: rimjob
EWeston: Sanatorium makes angel ill
DJTweeny: I'd say P had a one-track mind, but it's more like an 'off-the-track' mind ;)
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:27 PM, dragging doctecazoid by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
DJTweeny: Hey Doc
||||||||| 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!"
doctecazoid: Dexy we hardlt knew ye'
Beet: hi doc
||||||||| Merlyn tiptoes in around 9:28 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
EWeston: Hairy Doctor!
Beet: Yo Merl
Cat: the docman cometh
rebozoette: step up
PrincipalPoop: hi doc, and tween just waiting for somebody to point out I meant to write rimshot, rimshot
EWeston: An Merlyn
Merlyn: hey all
Cat: we hear doc's voice and suddernly doc appears, like magic
Cat: and merl too.
PrincipalPoop: Hi M Doc, yes, a loss :(
Cat: if only dex could do the same.
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn
DJTweeny: lol P
doctecazoid: pouf - there goes perspiration odor
Cat: the caller talkkng to dex on that phone scene was one of the original chatters, tiny dr. tim.
EWeston: Ribshot
||||||||| 9:29 PM: Elayne jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Beet: In what year was this produced?
doctecazoid: I remember many an evening (mostly throughout the 'aughts) when Dex's bon mots were hilarious and dead on
PrincipalPoop: Hi E
Elayne: Evenin' all.
EWeston: Elayne's here too
doctecazoid: Hey E
Elayne: DocTech, were you able to reach Dex's widow?
Beet: Hello Miss Elayne.
PrincipalPoop: yes, dexter was a joy in chat
Cat: Hi El
DJTweeny: Hey Elayne
Elayne: Hey Cat. Thanks for spreading the word. I'm still really shaken.
Cat: that he was, poop
doctecazoid: E: Tried calling this afternoon, phone rang for a minute, then a voice said: "please enter the access code."
doctecazoid: I don't know the access code. I've had a code, took Nyquil for it.
Elayne: I'm really sorry he had so many computer problems and just gave up on ever going online again. He was indeed so much fun in chat.
PrincipalPoop: did you try 69?
doctecazoid: Can't pour Nyquil through a phonr, alas
Elayne: Doc, I tought you had a street address. I don't even have that much.
EWeston: And the color of your underwear P
||||||||| 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!"
doctecazoid: I have tried 69 many t ... oh, you mean for Dex's answering machine - d'oh@
Elayne: He was very intent, at least with me, on keeping his Firesign friendship and his private life separate.
PrincipalPoop: rimshot!
Ralph: what WILL they think of next.......
doctecazoid: I am not sure what I have, and I hope it's not catching.
PrincipalPoop: ashamed of us? as well he should be lol
doctecazoid: I will try calling her again tomorrow. (Maybe she's sitting shiva?)
Elayne: I think I caught it at the Rose Center, Doc. :)
EWeston: Duck!
DJTweeny: get well soon, Doc
doctecazoid: Good thing you brought your fielder's glove for that :-)
Cat: i only met him twice but both were magical.
Ralph: *69 for incoming number replay
PrincipalPoop: keep warm, plenty of fluids, add me to your will
Ralph: devending the Nation of New Jersey
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Just give him one of these blue moss laced brownies...
doctecazoid: Well, I am not in a well at this point - I was, earlier this year, had a bronchial flu that took weeks & weeks to get over.
EWeston: Does...Chris know this?
doctecazoid: The doctor turned me into a newt - I got better.
DJTweeny: ouch Doc :(
PrincipalPoop: Is the weather changing there yet? still hot on this part of the west coast
Ralph: Fish Oil is the answer to everything
Cat: i took the bus from your place to meet dex at the met, right el? or did i meet him before that?
Ralph: 2500mg daily
Cat: better is better, doc
PrincipalPoop: A gingrich in the chat, oh nooo
EWeston: Does he recite from the Book of the Dead in that treatment?
Ralph: also THC in measurable daily quantities
PrincipalPoop: not a unicorn, the friend of hercules was newt too
Beet: You can always look forward to the next comfort.
Cat: Myrna told me she and Ash did something with you and Lili, Doc.
doctecazoid: For the curious: I am fairly active on Twitter of late - https://twitter.com/doctecazoid
EWeston: Brains do not grow without marine products in the diet
Cat: Was that in the recent past?
PrincipalPoop: twitter? what is that?
Ralph: Less fat, and Lecithin
doctecazoid: Cat: the only time I can think of that Lili and I met with you Dex & Myrna was back in 2010 when you came for a visit
EWeston: A annoying bird
||||||||| 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!"
PrincipalPoop: sirloin steaks and cheeseburgers also
Ralph: Let's just take a look at your beautiful new car!
Beet: Are we all action figures?
Cat: Was she thinking of someone else? She said Doc, wanted to get in touch with Doc, not Tom.
doctecazoid: Hmm.
Cat: when you came to pick me up from his place in 2010?
PrincipalPoop: some more action than others, rimshot
doctecazoid: Well I hope I am able to reach her tomorrow or the weak end
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:38 PM, dragging Not Ed by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| "Hey Elayne!" ... Elayne turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:39 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
EWeston: Proud member of the Lost Reclamationy Agency Senator
doctecazoid: My b'day is this coming Sunday
Beet: Is there a Dalai Lama action figure?
Cat: HI Not
PrincipalPoop: I was already missing him but wished him and his the best. I will keep doing that.
DJTweeny: Hi ≠Ed
doctecazoid: Hal O'Dali
Beet: Yo Ed
Not Ed: Hey Cat
Not Ed: Yo Beet
doctecazoid: (I note that Phil Fountain has appropriated that name)
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny
EWeston: Nddy Eddy's in the space time continum
Not Ed: lol doc
PrincipalPoop: no not ed or yes not ed
Cat: that's the right idea, poop
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: what about grey aliens?
doctecazoid: Hello - he's Mr. Ed
doctecazoid: greyliens?
Ralph: Tibet Your Life
Not Ed: indeed hey Ppoop
Beet: I have Moses and a Sigmund Freud action figures.
EWeston: Never let them choose the wine , otherwise maybe
Not Ed: Cat waz real
doctecazoid: Grgich Hills!
Not Ed: lol Ralph
PrincipalPoop: nepal something ah hell
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Ash Harlan (Dexter Fong) obit - http://jewishtimes.com/65527/harlan/community/obituaries/
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Prisoner reference! Love it!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RED SHIFT” at >> http://seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg
Beet: Moses has his tablets and Sig has his cigar
Not Ed likes Red Shift.
doctecazoid: Jesus saves - but Moses invests!
doctecazoid: I should really remaster those Red Shift mixes, now that I have better audio tools
Not Ed: cool doc
Cat: As I recall, I met Dex at the Met where he had a membership. Then we went to MOMA where he also had a membership. Then we went to the Frick where he had a senior's pass. I thougth he was my age, then 54 of not younger. he as acrtully 69
doctecazoid: I remastered Radio Free Booze, the mix is more 'present'
Ralph: oh, mommy puppy home
Not Ed: sounds good tho
PrincipalPoop: remastering is in vogue, sometimes better sometimes I prefer the garbage version
Beet: Meditation is actually meant to Kill Time.
Not Ed: arf
doctecazoid: A young 69
||||||||| "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!"
Ralph: the red planet blushed with innocence
Cat: another day we went to an indian restaurant, elayne, doc, dex. i had a tomato flavoured cauliflouwr dish which was delish.
doctecazoid: The trick with remastering is to apply compression/limiting which is transparent (i.e. you're not aware of it in the mix)
Ralph: i need to get to MoMA before Rauschenberg leaves
Cat: in the years later, whenever i said i didnt like indian food, he'd remind me of that tomato cauliflower dish.
Not Ed: Starstuph
EWeston: Time is hard to kill
DJTweeny: multi-band, Doc?
doctecazoid: The whole 'loudness wars' thing resulted in some really horrendous remixes being released ...
Ralph: basking in the glow of his very own Son
Not Ed: Nirvana has nothing to do with time
DJTweeny: yes Doc, very true
doctecazoid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Cat: mo? that was a reference to my just vanished daughter.
PrincipalPoop: I heard page remastered and re-released his yardbirds years
Beet: The 3 Stooges Universe.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: It can get squirrelly if the program has had compression applied before. Compressing compression can proudce strange sounding mixes...
Cat: ossman and proctor are godlike in that scene.
doctecazoid: In my remastering of Radio Free Booze, I assiduously avoided clipping the signal
Ralph: mmmm, yardbirds
Not Ed: ossman's great in that
Not Ed: yes Cat
Ralph: Nirvana has more to do with Pearl Jam
Beet: Cool, Cat!
Cat: doc, elayne, many others]
rebozoette: great thanks
Cat: i went to visit dex, elayne and doc in 2010. we made this.
EWeston: Jinkies!
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: neato Cat
||||||||| New notice: '** MISSING OUR DEARLY DEPARTED DEAR FRIENDS **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “RADIO FREE BOOZE”
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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Elmer Ho: what was that music?
doctecazoid: Tween: while I do have a multi-band tool, I find that (especially with spoken word program material) it doesn't really buy you all that much
DJTweeny: Yeah, I can see that
Elmer Ho: the bit that sounded 1940s-ish, like big band
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: lol @ 3 New Words In Yiddish
Cat: you remember doing this, el?
Not Ed: lol
DJTweeny: El left, Cat
Not Ed: Hey Elmer
Cat: i think the wallpaper in my recent paris hotel room really made me understand oscar wilde's last words.
Not Ed: Wazzup reboz
||||||||| 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."
Elmer Ho: yo (.not. ed)
doctecazoid: Being a user of Propellerhead Reason, and having collected numerous 'rack extensions' (Reason's version of VSTs) for massaging & sculpting audio, I've settled on a signal chain that produces optimal and consistently good sounding results
Beet: Evevin' rebo
Cat: as she does
Not Ed: nice doc
||||||||| 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."
Cat: this is oddly relavent to houston.
Elmer Ho: good work doc
Elmer Ho: the voices have a nice bit of 'air' to them
Cat: the chinese eating each other was actually one of bergman's skits on rfo
Ralph: that is just wickecd
Not Ed: I use a Silvertone 2 channel PA mixer with knobs
PrincipalPoop: a maodist proposal? where do I send the angry coyetes?
doctecazoid: EQ (200hz 3db notch), stereo enhancement, lo & hi end goose, Softube FET compressor, Onyx tube emulation, Ozone maximizer
Cat: the forgotten baldwin brother
EWeston: Flooding is hitting many places world wide
DJTweeny: "You don't look like a big boat at all..." lolol
Not Ed: Funny stuff Cat & guys
Elmer Ho: FETs ftw, next best thing to tubes
Cat: ageist is Dexter Fong
doctecazoid: Works like a charm
Not Ed: got that right Elmer
doctecazoid: 'ageist' ... a particularly relevant line
Cat: one of the funniest things i ever wrote, thanks to doc, lili, elayne and dex. and others
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: tang, spelt backwards, is gnat...
PrincipalPoop: why do I know that voice?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Not Ed: Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang
DJTweeny: it is really good, Cat :)
||||||||| 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: Top notch Cat
Beet: I thought tang was a sexual term
Cat: i think this segment should have been more distorted, but anyway. funny stuff.
doctecazoid: Ooo Eeeee Ooo Ah Ah
Cat: glad i got dex's voice on one other project
Not Ed: good stuff tonight (as always)
Not Ed: throw it against the wall
EWeston: I love the way gnats spell their names, that and potatoes
Ralph: Steely Dan = Ben Wa
Cat: bergman refeered to tommy douglas ad tony douglas on one of the rfos
doctecazoid: I had a former co-worker do the tang poem - his voice sounded so much like Ray Romano, and he was willing to go with it
Not Ed: I had a band vehicle we called Steely Van
Not Ed: thanks Cat
Beet: That was fun.
PrincipalPoop: I need a patent lawyer, I have invented artificial hemorrhoids.
doctecazoid: The things one could do with a Steele Van ... ooOOOOoooo!
Not Ed: ha!
Cat: thanks doc.
Elmer Ho: gotta run... got the cows to feed, the pigs to milk, you know how it is
EWeston: I'll bet they outrun you PP
Elmer Ho: thanks to all, and great work doc
doctecazoid: bye elmster
DJTweeny: Be well, Elmer
Not Ed: Good stuff doc
||||||||| Catherwood says "9:56 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Elmer Ho by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
PrincipalPoop: run don't walk
Beet: Night Ho.
doctecazoid: tx!
Not Ed: Outta sight Elmer
EWeston: By by Elmer
Cat: by elmer
Ralph: LOL @ something I can't even remember already
doctecazoid: Wabbit twax! Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh...
Cat: i had no idea Tiny was that instrumental to the Fireguys but he sure was a great host to Doc, Merl and I when we went down for the 1999 show.
EWeston: It's duct Season!
Merlyn: Here's the video of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzJLh2VCV0
doctecazoid: Got my duct tape at the ready
doctecazoid: Thanx Merl!
Not Ed: excellent Merl
PrincipalPoop: there is no room for sentimentality in this chat, rimjob
doctecazoid: pp
doctecazoid: pp: lol
Cat: Doc and I walked through a vast builidng looking for Lou and his girlfriend because they had firesign clothes on. we looked and looked and quitly called, Tiny Doctor Tim?
PrincipalPoop: shot, rimshot
Cat: That he did, Tween
DJTweeny: ah clem
Not Ed: Web-classy Tween
Ralph: classic
Cat: Austin said we were all here a little community that he reallv valued.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
doctecazoid: Request for anyone who has DOMM in their possession....
EWeston: Buckshot
doctecazoid: ... this is at the behest of Luke Poling
DJTweeny: yes Doc?
doctecazoid: Luke is working on a FT documentary
Cat: I think all the Firefolks realy enjoyed creating communities.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Jimmy Lee Radcliffe (Ah, Clem) ‘s Memorial Page >> http://jimradcliffe.com/
rebozoette: beeeeez
doctecazoid: He asked me to go through the DOMM stuff and find segments (specifically stuff that is not well known) of about one minute in length that stand up well on its own
Ralph: exit left to Funway
PrincipalPoop: so, we are all bozos on this bus?
DJTweeny: Interesting Doc
||||||||| 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 llanwydd falls out at 10:01 PM.
Not Ed: Colonel Wilburforce Buckshot, last of the Kentucky Buckshots?
doctecazoid: He wants to use them as interstitial bits, to connect segments of the documentary
DJTweeny: Hi Llan
llanwydd: catherwood, get me a nfhbgjfkdls;
||||||||| Catherwood gets llanwydd a nfhbgjfkdls.
Not Ed: Hey llan
Cat: hi llan., glad you made it. you are from the Dexter Fong era
Beet: llan is here
llanwydd: Hey everybody!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 10:02 PM and Sir Sidney Fudd bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Ash Harlan (Dexter Fong) obit - http://jewishtimes.com/65527/harlan/community/obituaries/
Not Ed: this is the Big Question
Ralph: hey, he broke the President
DJTweeny: Hi Sid
EWeston: Wilma Buckshoot. She got her man, and several bystanders
Not Ed: Hi Sir Sid
EWeston: IIan
Cat: in paris, i had hay ice cream and hay creme fraiche, but never hay everybody.
Not Ed: lol EW
Beet: Sir Fudd
Cat: hi fudd, you old fudder.
Not Ed: Gate to Close
PrincipalPoop: dr memory
Ralph: domains of opposite direction alternate
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: macnam
EWeston: Fuddster is a feature not a bug
Not Ed: some major hacking going on here
Ralph: unhappy MacNam
doctecazoid: Here's an example of the kind of thing Luke is looking for .. https://s3.amazonaws.com/tlomisc/DF5+-+I.R.Writer.mp3
Not Ed: indeed EW & Ralph
doctecazoid: Not well known, but self contained and about a minute in length
Sir Sidney Fudd: Memorial show? Did I miss new news?
DJTweeny: Ash Harland is gone
doctecazoid: If anyone here wants to pore through the DOMM material and find stuff that's not on the Dear Friends album but that fits this bill, send me the info ...
Not Ed: Yes Sir Sid
doctecazoid: Notify me via http://doctechnical.com/cgi-bin/email_tom.cgi
Cat: rest in peace jimmy lee
Sir Sidney Fudd: Ah.
doctecazoid: Send me the series (Hour Hour, Dear Friends, Let's Eat), the show name, and the time in the show that the bit starts
Not Ed: at least, partially...you know
llanwydd: sorry folks, my computer froze
Not Ed: k llan come back
doctecazoid: I will be meeting with Luke near the end of September in D.C. (for the Firesign thing at the Library Of Congress)
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
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Not Ed: Nooks!
doctecazoid: I hope to have plenty of segments for him to choose from when I meet him
llanwydd: I caught this tour
Sir Sidney Fudd: We'll all drop in this Bluecadelic Pycho -Raga-Rock Old Folks' Dance Marathon
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone plutonium pellets for snacks
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone plutonium pellets for snacks.
EWeston: No thanks. They go straight to my hips
llanwydd: split my atom
Not Ed: Robert Klein
Not Ed: great clip
PrincipalPoop: robert hebe something lol
Sir Sidney Fudd: He must be out of owl pellets.
EWeston: Escape under the floor boards
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Not Ed: right PPoop lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Robert Klein recalls the 50s drop drills so we don't have to >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tdT59cbwCs
doctecazoid: Steve Klaxon!!!!
Not Ed: todays schools do "lockdowns" - same kind of crazy thing
||||||||| "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!"
doctecazoid: http://www.ebay.com/itm/KENNY-SOLMS-GAIL-PARENT-I-WERE-HIGH-SCHOOL-GRAD-LP-/311579851335?hash=item488b9b3a47
Beet: Under the desk with hands over the head definitely.
llanwydd: I did the air raid drills in kindergarten
doctecazoid: One of my all time faves
Not Ed: anyone remember bomb scares at school, huh? yeah
llanwydd: yep
doctecazoid: "Alright Steve, out - and take the blackboard with you!"
doctecazoid: "Today's special: mock pizza!"
Cat: there was an air raid drilll every friday at 10. we had to duck undre our desks
Beet: I don't remember that one.
llanwydd: anybody didnt want to take a test, they called in a bomb scare
Cat: it was wooden school so ducking wouldnt have worked very well
EWeston: In my area we had Strontium alerts
DJTweeny: Oddly enough, theye didn't do that in the burbs of D.C. They must have thought we'd be toast anyway
DJTweeny: Yeah Cat, but a wooden school desk makes great kindling
Not Ed: I think everyone's got a little Strontium 90 in em by now yikes
doctecazoid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUNRkhigMpY
Cat: i began school in van nuys, an la suburb, in 56. this would have been throughout the 50s
EWeston: It decays pretty fast.
Beet: What ever happened to Reagan's Star Wars technology?
EWeston: It didn't work
Cat: lots of defence industrys there. would have been nuked for sure
llanwydd: they didnt tell the students about the bomb scares but my other was a subsitute teacher in my school and she would talk about it at home
Not Ed: It was largely a ruse (SDI/Star Wars) - overblown
doctecazoid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UW0LgiHFQQ
Not Ed: the Russ didn't know that tho
Cat: no stars have had wars of late so reagun must be praised.
doctecazoid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UW0LgiHFQQ
llanwydd: my mother not my other
doctecazoid: oops
Beet: A defensive strategy
Ralph: thank God for Authentic, Official Information
Cat: this was an offical broadcast.
Not Ed: A good one yeah as it turned out - Russ went broke trying to keep up
EWeston: A thermonuclear pumped laser still seems a bit extreme
Merlyn: We're still mobilizing to this day
Not Ed: Ironies
doctecazoid: This has been a test of your Area Alert System. This is not a real test. Your concern at this point is enough.
Merlyn: I'll cooperate with the civil ones, not the rude ones
Not Ed: I want benevolence grenades and magic mushroom clouds please
Cat: when i stayed at dex's place in 2010, i told him this story and wondered about his memory of this event.
EWeston: I'll take the alien one's on a case by case basis
Beet: lol
doctecazoid: (Heaven 17:) Take the M out of M-A-D ... let's all make the bomb!
llanwydd: I know this music
Cat: Dex, who was 26 in 62, said he'd been in the military and thus, didn't belive the scare.
Not Ed: or....get everyone in the world a ukulele - that might just do it
llanwydd: Ive used it
EWeston: Shake your plutonium in the air. Like you don't care
Ralph: to think that we still live and breathe
doctecazoid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV5dbcOmw6I
llanwydd: 8 billion tiny tims
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I was living in Birmingham at the time of the missile crisis, well within the range of the missiles. We were told were a primary target because of the iron works nearby.
Cat: his military experience had made him cynical about it. i was 11, he was 26 then so i can understand the perspective, but if you lisrten to this, we were as my dad in the car feared then, very close to extinction.
Not Ed: awesome doc lol
EWeston: I got to load some fake nuc bombs on a P3. An inaspicious nuc bomber
Not Ed: zactly llan
llanwydd: I was born during the missile crisis
doctecazoid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3pHN7E6ijQ
Not Ed: Un-bombs that cause everything to repair
Ralph: i remember ducking under my desk in 1st grade
llanwydd: me too, ralph
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Right cat! The first night I got to stay up until 10pm was on Oct. 22nd, when my parents thought it could be the last night on earth.
llanwydd: no, now that I think of it we did it differently
Not Ed: Duck and Clover, over and over
Cat: My dad didn't think he would live long enough to walk 15 feet to the front door. How scary is that?
Ralph: ,Nuclear McCarthyism
Not Ed: wow JAM
llanwydd: we sat in the hallway with our coats over our heads
PrincipalPoop: Crimson and clover, over and over
EWeston: At 350 F for a half an hour yum
doctecazoid: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/29/bf/08/29bf08435301dd49d648745548f9e544--fallout-shelter-for-sale-vintage-advertisements.jpg
Beet: Just noticed you there. Howdy JAM.
llanwydd: to protect us from falling pieces of ceiling
llanwydd: this is cat
llanwydd: I recognize his voice
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: And do you know what I did with that freedom of staying up late? Watched Bela Lugosi's Dracula on the late show. Scared the daylight out of me!
Not Ed: Oh ya
doctecazoid: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/14/17/38/1417385dd857a86a753822f1288cae65.jpg
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiyas, beet! I've been in and out. Been whipping up a pan of blue moss-laced brownies.
doctecazoid: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2a/8e/b1/2a8eb144ceace31a99885badb1d6b759--old-advertisements-vintage-designs.jpg
DJTweeny: So your folks idea of nuclear fallout was plaster falling from the ceiling?
doctecazoid: Been drinking Blue Mosses most of the evening - am goodly stretched
PrincipalPoop: good, getting those fluids
llanwydd: no, tween. the school system
EWeston: There was asbestoes in that plaster work
llanwydd: this was in 1st grade
Beet: Catherwood pass me one of those blue moss-laced brownies.
||||||||| Catherwood passes Beet one of those blue moss-laced brownies.
Not Ed: Doubles as a darkroom, fruit cellar or secret meth lab, doc
EWeston: My dad was part of the workforce building missile silos in the Fifties
DJTweeny: What do you think about Ziggy Firesign to fill out the show, Cat?
llanwydd: lol, cat
doctecazoid: 3rd grade, early '60s - at school they would send us into the hall and have us crouch with heads covered by arms up against the cinderblock walls of the hallway
doctecazoid: for about a minute
Cat: great idea
doctecazoid: I feel safer just thinking about it
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: They did that with us in 2nd grade, doc.
EWeston: Cows with guns!
doctecazoid: Cinderblock was thought to be impervious to a nuclear bomb
Not Ed: that way you only lose your hair and one layer of skin doc
doctecazoid: Little did they know...
Cat: bergman interviewd this guy and played his music on his rfo podcast
llanwydd: chairman moo
Not Ed: eeee sorry
Beet: Who is this?
llanwydd: sounds like austin
||||||||| "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!"
Merlyn: And here's a video of Cows with Guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
doctecazoid: If you've never seen the documentary The Atomic Cafe (1982), it's fucken great ...
Merlyn: Dana Lyons, Beet
Not Ed: thumbs up Merl
doctecazoid: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUNRkhigMpY
Beet: Thanks, Merl.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Not Ed: true dat doc
doctecazoid: Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4kR73wIrm0
doctecazoid: Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGdlprM6mmw
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: This song puts a new slant of he running of the bulls in Spain....
||||||||| 10:29 PM: cat jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Sir Sidney Fudd: I don't remember any of those drills. Maybe they thought we were out of range.
doctecazoid: Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkyWs6feLaU
rebozoette: wow
cat: what do you remember about dex, merl?
Merlyn: I should add an announcement link that goes to the firesign youtube channel
Not Ed: "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" is very good as well
cat: youre too young, fudd
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: SirSid: a lot of schools stopped these drills because they scared the kids... & the teachers, too, if truth be known
EWeston: Don't them brass give you a thrill?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: One school I went to quit the drills
Beet: Very Interesting.
PrincipalPoop: nuclear cat
Ralph: this is so great
Merlyn: with my memory, cat?
Not Ed: Hey groovy guys & gals, I have to run--at the mouth! Take care!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “ZIGGY FIRESIGN AND THE THEATRE FROM MARS”
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DJTweeny: Nite Ed
PrincipalPoop: ok not ed
cat: this is oddly relavent. the lad loved to haved music in or interspersed with their comedy
EWeston: Ed way to the highway
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite Not Ed!
cat: you like my work, ralph?
Beet: See ya Ed
cat: hey anyhone can do this with today's technology. it was a bitch to do this in the 60s
cat: the firesign mention me on their radio show. a highlight of my life
Ralph: yes cat
doctecazoid: And while we're on a cold war kick ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgR4apcz_Ew
Beet: Rememver hat pins?
cat: this is from phil austin's tales of the old detective.
llanwydd: bowie
Merlyn: I don't remember hats
Merlyn: JFK wiped them out
doctecazoid: from my cassette xfer/cleanup cat?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: an FST on-air mention... I can't imagine the thrill, cat!
EWeston: Elk diferrentialtion in bars I have known
llanwydd: was it JFK? I dont remember
cat: i was also in a trilogy of books by paul krassner. the great thing abuot working with firesign and paul krasser is being part of that enlightenment.
Beet: Women's hats were a major source of irritation aspecially when they blocked one's view of something.
doctecazoid: ok fading fast, & lili is down for the count tonight ...
cat: you just heard it, jam. it was part of the previous collage, where austin salutes my involvement with krassner.
Beet: nite doc
doctecazoid: Glad I could make it tonight - for ovious reasons
EWeston: I have one of the Sex With My Hat, hats. I'm willing to accept money not to send it to you
EWeston: Bye Doc
doctecazoid: Will try to get here next week as well - enjoy your Labored Day Weak End
cat: too bad lili couldnt join us tonight but glad you could
DJTweeny: lol
||||||||| 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!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I heard it cat - I still can't imagine what that must've been like!
doctecazoid: Nytol (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......................
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:39 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs doctecazoid by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
cat: sleep well, doc
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: How much do you need?
DJTweeny: Say hi to Lili, Doc
DJTweeny: oops, missed him
PrincipalPoop: as much as you can give me
EWeston: Ten K, with anchovies
cat: worst pizza i ever had was with anchovies, at expo 67 in montreal
||||||||| 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."
PrincipalPoop: whole anchovies or just the eyes?
Beet: I always thought they were an odd thing to put on a perfectly good pizza.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers SirSid inside, makes a note of the time (10:42 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
PrincipalPoop: I like em, in cesear salads too wb sirsid
llanwydd: if you are going to have anchovy pizza, you have to be more in the mood for anchovies than for pizza
EWeston: 29 with eyes only. Use initials only
DJTweeny: wb Sid
Merlyn: Can we break THIS president?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** The Man Who Saved the World >> https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=the+man+who+saved+ther4+world%2C+youtube#id=2&vid=16401bf736ec79fdb4bbc7b1815a1733&action=click
SirSid: Lost my earlier connection. Fell right over.
PrincipalPoop: wait wait wait, that puts pence in charge, think it through
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Fuddster!
Rufus_T_Firetween: from the last collage ^^
cat: HI Sid
EWeston: Yes, but it'll be neither quick nor easy
cat: Dowhat you can, merl
Beet: We need the priginal Uh, Clem to undo Trump.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** WORLD’S FAIRS - If you have any stories about your experiences at world’s fairs you’d like to relate, please let Cat and me know so we can contact you about including your memories in one of his collages.
PrincipalPoop: as they say in animal house, conventional weapons could take years...
llanwydd: remorse salad was on the shcool menu as published in austins Post Dispatch Intelligencer
EWeston: Pence is ods on to go down with his perez, kicking and screaming
cat: my country went from trump to obama recentlyl my province from trump to bernie sanders this summer; fascism can be reversed. take hope, as bergman said in his last recorded words.
llanwydd: I had at least one issue of that back in 1977 or 78
DJTweeny: Don't think they have anything on Pence, do they?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: thank you for that reminder, cat!
EWeston: NSA guy, you can get out from under the desk now
Beet: Let him stay there.
EWeston: Quite a bit accually
DJTweeny: lol
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Right E! the drill is over!
PrincipalPoop: hope? I thought he said dope
cat: doc tech is supposed to give me his memories of his trip to the nyc world['s fair. that was my 2nd worlds fair.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Or I should say, the drill is gone!
DJTweeny: kewl
SirSid: He's got my script,the dirty rat.
PrincipalPoop: judy judy judy
llanwydd: well, I gotta go. see you next thirsty
cat: any product news, sid?
||||||||| At 10:48 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
PrincipalPoop: ciao llan
EWeston: I got to raise one in my hand during a drill, stating,"This is a drill"
cat: by llan
Beet: See ya llan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: nitty plan!
||||||||| 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."
cat: sounds like ray bradbury script
PrincipalPoop: its a bump with a name
||||||||| 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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EWeston: We took our humor where we could in drills
DJTweeny: I love Boom Dot Bust :)
cat: it is loveable.
SirSid: I suspect I have inadvertently spoofed an identity by choosing a major name.
cat: big influence on ossman.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
PrincipalPoop: you are first SirSid I have seen
Beet: Maybe my favourite Bowie.
||||||||| "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!"
SirSid: Groovy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: There was a SirSidFudd earlier tonight
PrincipalPoop: except you were here earlier unless that was not you
EWeston: The clock on the wall says shoot me please
SirSid: That's also me.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: You/NotYou?
SirSid: I'm not anywhere at all.
Beet: onhappy/happy
PrincipalPoop: ok then, you can be you then
EWeston: A self realized man...or thing?
PrincipalPoop: are you sure? Everything you know is wrong.
cat: hope y'all enjoyoed this vast collection of my stuff
EWeston: Makes for a warm evening Cat. Thank you.
DJTweeny: loved it :)
Beet: A lot of work went into these. Fabulous stuff.
cat: but you all can do this just as easily as me.
PrincipalPoop: yes mcluhanface
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: cat - YES INDEED! I enjoyed all this fab work. Gracious of you to share it with us! Thank you!
EWeston: Put your teeth back in PP
PrincipalPoop: oops yes that we enjoyed it, not that we could do it, geesh
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: If my life would allow me the time, I have all the tools to do this sort of thing
cat: this is one of the things i do. bring beauty into existance. that's enough.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL, E!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Love, love, love to all! Thanks DJT, cat, et al! Nite!
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Beet: This was a good one. Thanks everyone. Great collages Cat. Thanks. Thank you Dr Tween. G'Nite.
EWeston: I see by the old Internal Server Error maessage that it's time to be kicked out
PrincipalPoop: thanks to the dj, superweek all
||||||||| "Hey PrincipalPoop!" ... PrincipalPoop turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 10:57 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Merlyn: thanks agin tweener
||||||||| Merlyn leaves at 10:58 PM, singing "Oh, I'm just a little fishy, floating in the sea, and there ain't no hook that's smart enough to catch the likes of me..."
cat: I want us all to remember Dexter Fong and how much smarter we are because of him
rebozoette: Cat DJTweeny Johan Amadeus Myjetski Nick Danger PrincipalPoop thanks for the lovely tribute and cat fantastic
SirSid: Thanks, all. Time to clamber down the hole after the parade.
DJTweeny: hanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
rebozoette: a real thinker
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.
cat: let us meet here again as long as we can.
||||||||| At 11:00 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...
Ralph: thanks again DJ, cat, and everybody
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| SirSid - 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Sir Sidney Fudd - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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 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:
||||||||| Cat - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Ralph - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - 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:
||||||||| Beet - 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:
||||||||| Nick Danger - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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
Cat
DJTweeny
doctecazoid
Elayne
Elmer Ho
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Not Ed
PrincipalPoop
Ralph
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
Sir Sidney Fudd
SirSid
URL References:
http://doctechnical.com/cgi-bin/email_tom.cgi
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://jewishtimes.com/65527/harlan/community/obituaries/
http://jimradcliffe.com/
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/redshift/RSCD_Inside_s.jpg
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KENNY-SOLMS-GAIL-PARENT-I-WERE-HIGH-SCHOOL-GRAD-LP-/311579851335?hash=item488b9b3a47
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.seemreal.com/redshift/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/29/bf/08/29bf08435301dd49d648745548f9e544--fallout-shelter-for-sale-vintage-advertisements.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2a/8e/b1/2a8eb144ceace31a99885badb1d6b759--old-advertisements-vintage-designs.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/14/17/38/1417385dd857a86a753822f1288cae65.jpg
https://s3.amazonaws.com/tlomisc/DF5+-+I.R.Writer.mp3
https://twitter.com/doctecazoid
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=the+man+who+saved+ther4+world%2C+youtube#id=2&vid=16401bf736ec79fdb4bbc7b1815a1733&action=click
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tdT59cbwCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UW0LgiHFQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgR4apcz_Ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUNRkhigMpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGdlprM6mmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzJLh2VCV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkyWs6feLaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV5dbcOmw6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4kR73wIrm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3pHN7E6ijQ



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