A Firesign Chat
09/14/2017




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 September 14, 2017 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| $$@%%%% tiptoes in around 1:38 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
$$@%%%%: kkkkkkkkkkkkk
||||||||| It's 1:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| $$@%%%% - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 5:44 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 6:23 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
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||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:22 PM, dragging Johan Amadeus Myjetski by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Golly, Mr. Catherwood, that's some grip you've got there!
||||||||| Catherwood steps alongside Johan Amadeus Myjetski and mumbles "Someone mention my name?"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Oh, no sir, not me!
||||||||| 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!"
DJTweeny: Hey Johan
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Iron Butterfly Live)
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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DJTweeny: music in a minute
||||||||| Catherwood escorts NancyKat in through the front door at 8:40 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
NancyKat: Blahhh!
NancyKat: Tweeny! JAM!
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Evening' DJT! & NancyK!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Interesting how many male singers from the 67 - 72 period were baritones. after that seems as though the tenors took over again
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:43 PM and EWeston steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
EWeston: Evening Tweeny JAM an NancyKat
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi E!
NancyKat: EW! HiHi! Ohh, the Butterfly! Niceu!
DJTweeny: Hi EW, Nancy
DJTweeny: flutterbys a-plenty
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I never noticed before how much the Butterfly sounds like Klingon opera...
DJTweeny: lol Johan, now that you mention it... :)
EWeston: With The Throat Ripper Dancers
DJTweeny: hahaha
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:50 PM, dragging Reebis by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
DJTweeny: Hi Reebis
EWeston: When they play some music, they usually win.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: HiYa, Daredemon!
EWeston: Had breakfast?
DJTweeny: He didn't want to miss the aliens this time
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'doctecazoid', just granted probation at 8:54 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
EWeston: Hope they're the right aliens.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: You all are going to learn toplay the piano!
DJTweeny: Hey Doc
EWeston: Doc a zoid vellcum
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:55 PM, dragging Beet by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
Beet: Evening fellow chatters!
DJTweeny: Yeah EW, not the 8ft tall ones with razor tongues ;)
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi beet, & doc!
Beet: Hi Dr Tween
EWeston: Beets for sale or rent
doctecazoid: can't hang long here, just wanted to say hi and to set up the streaming feed so i can capture cat's dex tribute. i'll try to check in again later. bye ...
Beet: Hello JAM
||||||||| doctecazoid leaves to catch the 8:56 PM train to Hellmouth.
Beet: Evening EW
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Bye doc!
DJTweeny: The Doctor Is Out
EWeston: 10-4 Elenore
Beet: Playing golf or yachting
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Cat into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:58 PM, then departs.
EWeston: Yacthing may yet save our economy, per Sean Hannity today
DJTweeny: Hi Cat
NancyKat: The Docxtor has left the building...
DJTweeny: an interesting proposition
EWeston: Cat pht'uts urp
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Greets, cat!
Beet: Shree Cat Ji
NancyKat: Hi, Cat! and reebis!
Cat: Hi all. Looks like I just missed Doc
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Ha, beet! great appellation!
NancyKat: My body is here-my brain is in san fran...
||||||||| 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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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 14, 2017 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| "9:00 PM? 9:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "rebozoette should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as rebozoette enters and sits at the bar.
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetski NancyKat Reebis hell o all
Beet: Hi rebo
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: reboz!
EWeston: daz Rebozoette
Cat: Rebo
DJTweeny: yo rebozo
NancyKat: I have the Pllllaaaaagueeee!
NancyKat: Hi rebozo!
EWeston: Don't tease it
Beet: Very exciting
DJTweeny: lol
rebozoette: hi tweeny
rebozoette: hi beet
Beet: Aaaaaw
rebozoette: hi ew
rebozoette: fidget it
rebozoette: hi nancy
NancyKat: rebozo-Spin it! bop it! pull it!
rebozoette: play
Cat: the tween voice
Beet: Is somebody passing around the plague?
NancyKat: beet-Like a bad VD...
Cat: is there a good vd?
Beet: All hail brother Dex.
EWeston: Tell it lies
NancyKat: Cat- someone named valerie Dennis (or any other permutations thereof)?
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Elayne in through the front door at 9:05 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
EWeston: Just the bats
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “NOT INSANE (side 1)”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out NOT INSANE at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-rv
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DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
Elayne: Eveniin' all!
rebozoette: snot snot
Beet: Hi Miss Elayne.
EWeston: MZ Elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Elayne!
rebozoette: hi e
EWeston: Snot here
NancyKat: E!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Snot there
NancyKat: snot there?
Cat: Hi El. If you stick around long enough, you can hear Dex's voice. Myrna's too, from the vid I shot while eating with them in 2010, part of my tribute collage
NancyKat: snot anywhere?
rebozoette: hainky for your snorts
Beet: Snot easy
EWeston: Snot gonna sneak up on you
NancyKat: rebozo-Fangs!
Elayne: I don't think I could deal with it, Cat. I still have problems dealing with Bergman's and Austin's voices.
Elayne: Which hasn't made for a fun week for me, as I had to listen to the Let's Eat shows (all 13) as part of a project for DocTech.
Cat: He certainly wanted his voice heard. He had a radio show at one time.
Cat: Oh yes, Doc asked folks to find singular minutes from Firesign
Beet: He said, "gone cat"
Elayne: I have to turn the Tween radio off now, it's too much like the Let's Eat stuff...
NancyKat: *HUGG* E.
Beet: Nice to see you, Miss E.
EWeston: Air conditioning theiretically is off
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about NOT INSANE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-ln
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nite El!
DJTweeny: Elayne ate too much?
Elayne: I didn't leave, I just turned off the sound.
Elayne: Much better now.
Elayne: Too much sensory overload today, I suppose.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cat: whatever works for you, El
EWeston: G'by then, find your comfort zone I hope
Cat: Doc sent me 10 minutes of his memories of the NY worlds fair. He was there both in 64 and 65
||||||||| 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!"
Elayne: I need to meditate. I'm taking a 5-week Mindfulness course at work, and we're learning meditation techniques as part of it.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Ah, I see. Thanks!
Cat: Next week is my NY World's Fair collage show
Cat: Meditation is good for your head
Elayne: I almost remember that fair. I was about 7 or 8 I guess.
Cat: Mediation is good too.
DJTweeny: that's cool, Elayne
Elayne: My family went in 1965.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: the heart & soul, too, cat!
Beet: blowing up our aft
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
EWeston: Head for that Iceberg!
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:12 PM and late as usual, it's AirshipAl, just back from Hellmouth."
Beet: We'll make History!
Cat: HI Al
EWeston: Masta Al
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yes! Lettuce head for that iceberg...
Cat: You've come for my Dexter Fong collage?
Beet: Hey Airship
AirshipAl: Late? I'm on NY time! Greetings all!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi AA!
Cat: NY is always on time.
NancyKat: Hey, Al!
DJTweeny: Hi Al
Beet: I would like to make an offer for Storm.
AirshipAl: Ash is sorely missed. I posted something about his passing on a Firesign page and it didn't end well.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Dr. Happy Harry Cox says “I was right about the comet! Check out my new DVD set EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN THEATRE 1968-1975 before it’s too late!!” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
EWeston: And my name isn't mine
Elayne: Al! Great to see you!
Beet: Snot for sale.
AirshipAl: Dex helped me move my Firesign video collection to Taylor. I hope you're enjoying some of myb contributions.
Elayne has given up on her 10-minute meditation for the moment.
Elayne: Too many distractions.
EWeston: Fletcher stole the snot
Elayne: This doesn't bode well, this is supposed to be my "homework" assignment and I haven't done it the best few days because of the Firesign project for DocTech plus I've been under the weather.
Cat: We certainly are enjoying them, Al
Elayne: Al, you're headed down next Thursday?
DJTweeny: was some of the video from your collection used in th new dvd set, al?
AirshipAl: Did I see somebody say something about the NY World's Fair? Being in Flushing, I was there a lot.
Elayne: Yeah, that was right in your backyard, wasn't it?
AirshipAl: The fair also brought 2 Goodyear blimps to Flushing Airport and the rest is hystory.
Elayne: I was going to say, that must be where you fell in love with airships.
AirshipAl: It was. Elayne.
Cat: Yes Al. I was there in 64, will have a collage about it next week. Doc tech just sent me 10 minutes of his memories. If you have some you'd like to record and send to Tween or me, I could use your memories as well.
Elayne: is jealous of people with memories!
AirshipAl: I'll try but don't have a recorder.
Cat: 4 of the pavillions then moved to Disneyland where I saw them often (I lived in LA then) and I suspect the Firesigns first saw them.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "9:19 PM and late as usual, it's Random, just back from Los Angeles."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I have state fair memories, no world's fair memories...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts zipcorn inside, makes a note of the time (9:19 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Cat: Do you have a phone?
DJTweeny: Hi Random
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi zippy!
Cat: Ah, Mr. Coolzip.
AirshipAl: In '65, I was aone of many winners in the World's Fair science contest. I got to meet Robert Moses!!!
Beet: hello random and zipcorn
Elayne: Hey Random, Zip!
Cat: I'm hip like a zipcorn. Let's take a trip to porn.
Elayne: I'll text Doc.
AirshipAl: Got a landline, Cat.
Elayne: He should have been here by now.
EWeston: Zip Corn a digestive miracle?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi RanDom!
Cat: That's almost like meeting the first Moses.
Elayne: LOL, Cat!
Elayne: Al definitely needs to add his memories to this collage.
AirshipAl: I still have a couple of boxes of World's Fair memorabilia, including a copy of the science contest program signed by Moses.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Ah, yes, Moses of the soaked sandals
DJTweeny: was going to ask if he gave you and new commandments ;)
Elayne: I'm visiting Mom on Saturday, I can ask her about her memories and try to record them for you, Cat.
Random: Hello, all. Just sitting here in the waiting room
Cat: I have the official guide, p[ublished by Time inc.
EWeston: Nice tan
Elayne: Random, did nobody tell you that you should be waiting over there in the sitting room?
AirshipAl: Is Doc going to be here tonight?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about NOT INSANE at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-ln
Cat: That owuld be wonderful, El.
Elayne: Al, I just texted him, so I hope so.
Cat: He said he'd come b.
Elayne: Oh good
AirshipAl: Are you going to D.C. Elayne?
NancyKat: 'Ello Random.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I have to go decompose for a few minutes. BRB!
Random: This time I'll just wait in the waiting room.
EWeston: Can I say, hello NSA guy?
Elayne: Al, I already told yon via Facebook message that I wasn't. Can't take the time off work.
Elayne: Just head back from Doc.
Random: Not Sure About?
AirshipAl: Oops. Dr. Memory has failede me, Elayne.
Elayne: "I'll try I'm capturing Tween's feed for now (want to hear Cat's Dex tribute). Dinner coming soon & we're tracking Maddow's ingterview w Hillary right now."
DJTweeny: I can always send him a files of the collage
Elayne: So Doc probably won't be coming on for awhile.
DJTweeny: Or he can visit the collage archive page
||||||||| 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."
Elayne: Hang on, they have hoodies Tween?
||||||||| 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 doctecazoid falls out at 9:25 PM.
Beet: Cool
EWeston: Can we send Don to Mars? I think a lot of people would get behind the idea
doctecazoid: Surprise!
Cat: Speaking of Doc...
Elayne: Ah, the 2x will still be too small for me I fear...
AirshipAl: What's up, 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."
doctecazoid: Using the iPad, seems to be working ok
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “RADIO NOW LIVE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out RADIO NOW at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
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Elayne: Oh Doc, you are here after all! Hello seeker!
DJTweeny: wb Doc
doctecazoid: Hello Mr. Ait
doctecazoid: Airship
Cat: this would be the Portland show before the Seattle shows where we met, Al. With Merl, Tiny Dr. Tim, Doc Tech, Fred, Chris and many others.
AirshipAl: lol
doctecazoid: Hey there's a seeker born every nanosecond ... these days ...
AirshipAl: Did you see the Seattle videos I posted?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I understand the Martians refused the Don a visa. Apparently, they don't want him either...
DJTweeny: Yeah, this is Portland
Elayne: Nanoseekers. Need to watch out for them, they're tricky.
Cat: Reminds me of the end of your World's Fair memories, Doc.
doctecazoid: Fond memories indeed
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
EWeston: And a fake news site every half a nano sec
doctecazoid: Car
doctecazoid: Cat: yep
AirshipAl: Us Flushing kids were bad. We knew where there was a hole in the fence. Free admission!
Elayne: This iw not fake news, This Is Real.
Cat: The photo of us all around a bar table with Bergman, Proc and Ossman is above my monitor.
doctecazoid: (Not used to this iPad keyboard)
Elayne: Wait, which reel?
Elayne: Doc, I'm not doing much better with my regular keyboard this evening.
EWeston: Reel #3, says so fight on the case
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.
doctecazoid: The last reel As Philip K Dick put it: Reality is that which, when you decide to ignore it, doesn't go away.
Elayne: But Doc, enough money paid to biased media can MAKE it go away...
doctecazoid: Only temporarily, E
Cat: Oooo. Great idea for collage, mixing PKDick with Firesign.
Elayne: I just hope they suffocate in their little bubbles.
Elayne: Report from my husband: TCM is having an evening of counterculture movies tonight.
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yes indeed cat! I have a dvd called 'the gospel according to phillip k dick'
Elayne: At the moment "I Love You Alice B. Toklas" w Peter Sellers is on.
Cat: Zabriski Point?
Cat: I have a cassette of him babbling somewhere, as well as a VHS of a film made about him.
AirshipAl: Just had a visit from Phil D. Pipe!
Cat: I asked Ossman what he meant by good old death.
Cat: He said a death not complicated by hospitalization.
Cat: I just read a review of some books by Thorough this afternoon in the NY REvof Books.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: LOL, cat!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s new book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
doctecazoid: I forget who said this, but (paraphrasing) It is the nature of truth that it seeks and finds the light of day
EWeston: Smart furnature and challenged voters. It's a challenge to get out of the chair
doctecazoid: Ask your doctor if BarcaLounger is right for you
Cat: to quote from the article, "Thoreau died a "beautiful death" as it was called in those days.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: "When you're too well entertained to move, screaming can be good exercise..."
EWeston: Excersizes those deprived jaw muscles
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: consumption, cat!
Elayne: Must go. Too mellow to see keyboard...
Elayne: Next week, all!
EWeston: Buh bye
DJTweeny: bye E
doctecazoid: Thanx for the reminder E
AirshipAl: Enjoy Elayne and I hope to see ya soon.
Cat: It was beautiful not because it was painless but because he faced his approaching death with remarkable serenity, even cheerfulness, convinced that death was not so much the termination as the consummation of life."
Cat: By El
Cat: That passage reminds me of what his wife told me about Ash's death.
doctecazoid: & for your DOMM help
Beet: Nite E
doctecazoid: That's a nice passage sir
doctecazoid: brb
DJTweeny: Hi zipcorn
AirshipAl: I love live Firesign clips.
EWeston: I love potatoes
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I think I shared this before, but I was a work one day many years ago, & a customer walked in & said, "My name is Melanie Haber. Can you help me?" I had to excuse myself....
AirshipAl: lol
DJTweeny: too funny, Johan :-)
Cat: lol jam
NancyKat: Potatoes are what we eat...
EWeston: What we love we eat
NancyKat: JAM-LOL...did you say "If that IS your real name"?
Beet: That's pretty cool, JAM.
||||||||| Not Ed tiptoes in around 9:45 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “RADIO NOW LIVE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
Not Ed: P{ork?
Cat: HI Not
DJTweeny: Hi ≠Ed
EWeston: Not Ed, a quantum hello
Cat: No orcs here. They lost the war.
Beet: lol
Not Ed: haha
Not Ed: Hey EW & Cat & Tweeny
EWeston: Is this the zipper?
Cat: San Fernandino Valley, where I used to live and listen to the Firesign when they were first coagulating
||||||||| 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: "New York, New Orc, you know you gotta choose one..." ~ Little Feat from Tripe Boogie
Beet: Hi Not
EWeston: They can make good soccer coaches
Cat: speaking of wars, is anyone else planning to watch the new ken burns thing about vietnam, starting this sunday?
Not Ed: AA, Beet, doc, E, JAM, NancyK, Reeb, Ruf, zip and Beet again hey!
Cat: Bergman defined the greatest accomplishment of the Firesigns as fighting Against the war in Vietnam.
Not Ed: Yes Cat
Not Ed: wouldn't miss it
Cat: heard a great interview with ken by marc maron a few days ago. sounds positively revelatory.
Not Ed: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/home/
Beet: I have been looking forward to K B's doc
Not Ed: Me too Beet
Not Ed: Betty!
EWeston: That goat is pretty deep
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi notE!
Not Ed: JAM is jammin
doctecazoid: Cat: re Peter & Viet Nam, yes ... which is why FT had a hard time getting their bearings after the end of that war.
Not Ed: interesting doc
doctecazoid: It was like 'Well, what do we stand for now?'
EWeston: Nancy is radiating
Not Ed: Echo in here
Cat: and after Nixon, their great foe. but they moved on.
doctecazoid: Ok, dinner just served by the lovely Lili Lamont ... I'll try to Czech in later. Bye for now.
||||||||| "Hey doctecazoid!" ... doctecazoid turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:53 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Cat: by doc
AirshipAl: Take care, Doc.
Not Ed: Bye doc
Cat: the dex collage is coming up in a few minutes.
Beet: Nite Doc
Not Ed: Don't break the station
EWeston: Night noc doc
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s - “MEETINGS WITH MR. FONG”
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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||||||||| Random scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Random?! It's 9:57 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Collage Archive at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cat: Dex took me to that very room.
Cat: Photo of it on my 2005 blog about the trip.
Beet: Lots of aristocrats in Virginia.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Meeting 1 with Dexter Fong >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/2005/05/ - scroll down to Saturday, May 21
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Meeting 2 with Dexter Fong >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/2010/10/ - scroll down to Monday, Oct 18th
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cat: We both Really liked the Max Ernst show. very surreal
Beet: "No such thing as a lost art." I love that.
EWeston: Many can trace their anscestry back to the losers in the British civil war
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| Outside, the 10:01 PM downtown bus from Bremerton pulls away, leaving PrincipalPoop coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cat: Yes Beet, great line.
Beet: It's the Poop!
EWeston: PP yea
PrincipalPoop: I forget if I like or hate Cromwell
Cat: Hi Poop.
PrincipalPoop: Morning, my nap was too long, what did I miss?
EWeston: That flathead!
Cat: You tuned in just in time to hear the great Dex voice. coming in a couple of minutes
PrincipalPoop: Fongs epitath, here lies Dexter Fong, everything you know, is wrong
Cat: Dex describes a crab dish.
DJTweeny: Hey P
PrincipalPoop: did you get to meet henry at all?
EWeston: Scuffed Zucinie
PrincipalPoop: green peppers can get stuffed
Beet: Live in the Now
Cat: Bacon ice cream. Not bad at all.
DJTweeny: can't say that sounds particularly tasty
PrincipalPoop: I guess like putting salt on caramel
Not Ed: Well I bet you wouldn't like frog snot ice cream
rebozoette: frozen is frozen
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Heard of garlic ice cream. I love garlic, but i just don't know about it in ice cream.
Beet: Ice Cream is Universally Exalted.
EWeston: A local shop sells chocolate frogs
Cat: I had some hay ice cream in paris on my last trip.
PrincipalPoop: you scream, I scream
Not Ed: Indeed Beet
EWeston: You cry for progress
Cat: dex on black sesame street
Not Ed: hi reboz
Not Ed: hey PPoop
PrincipalPoop: freeze your frozies and that will be fierce
PrincipalPoop: phys ed and not ed, ok
EWeston: Old berserker tradition
Beet: I am just now going for some ice cream.
NancyKat: pOOP!
PrincipalPoop: they have baskin robbins in grocery stores now, not 31 flavors yet
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Meeting 1 with Dexter Fong >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/2005/05/ - scroll down to Saturday, May 21
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Meeting 2 with Dexter Fong >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/2010/10/ - scroll down to Monday, Oct 18th
PrincipalPoop: meow ancy and ebozo
PrincipalPoop: horseradish or cream freche, huh
NancyKat: Lovesong of J. Alfred prufrock...
EWeston: With sprinkles
Beet: beets!
PrincipalPoop: strangers in the night, exchanges glances, strangers in the night, exchanging oh nevermind
EWeston: marinated in castor oil
PrincipalPoop: marinated and bettynated
Beet: This was quite a spread.
EWeston: Calcinated
Cat: i was eating the veg meal, dex and myrna had the meat with wine. i had mocktails.
Cat: but it was indeed a painful amount of food.
EWeston: Special place. They have a rack for your sheep
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at >> http://www.seemreal.com
PrincipalPoop: oregon blue cheese
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Watch the Firesign Theatre Youtube Channel at >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
Cat: This is at Per Se. The previous meal with the monkfish and bacon ice cream was Le Bernardin where we had lunch.
NancyKat: Muffleatta?
Cat: dex is in pain here.
Not Ed: I'll bet PPoop
Not Ed koffs
Beet: Was there anything left over?
Cat: dex is going into overload, he says
EWeston: Men haved called you!
Not Ed: Conquered grapes
PrincipalPoop: lettuce prey.
EWeston: Set the giant space bunny traps
PrincipalPoop: what would do with one if you caught one?
EWeston: Look for a zipper
AirshipAl: You're gonna need a bigger carrot!
Not Ed: Amazing Cat. Outta sight.
EWeston: We're trying to fabricate one out of pineapples
PrincipalPoop: yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
||||||||| 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!"
EWeston: Now everything sticks to me
EWeston: Some say I've become tacky
PrincipalPoop: tacky and shecky green
rebozoette: pime applets
EWeston: Matches my underwear
Not Ed: Lit matches?
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: Green underwear?
EWeston: It's primal attraction, it was cheap
Not Ed: ape pimplets
EWeston: I did hear of one character whose pants blew up.
Beet: Marriage has changed
Not Ed: Timeflinger
Beet: I need to meet a nice cavegirl
EWeston: Soaking your pants in nitrous, load your socks with sulfer, and jam some charcoal into your shorts
DJTweeny: lol
Beet: couldn't sit down
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
EWeston: This would soon not be a problem
DJTweeny: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Merlyn The Web Magician sez... If people want their pictures to be added to the Rogue's Gallery, just post a link to a pic in the chat
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: charcoal in MY short?!? There no charcoal in MY shorts. Mind you, I had to look to be sure...
EWeston: There is the problem of fierce bathtub rings
DJTweeny: a new marketing gimmick, charcoal-filtered underwear
Beet: This is very sensuous
PrincipalPoop: no, not bathtubs, telephones ring
EWeston: Keep away from open flames, and armeanians
Beet: underwear is a filter
EWeston: Fierce telephone rings? Are they pierced?
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
PrincipalPoop: zachary or franklin?
EWeston: That corsette has been in the family for 6 generations
EWeston: Muggins pierced, his bank account
PrincipalPoop: ouch
Not Ed: That was great Cat
Beet: that was good
PrincipalPoop: the voice of tween
Cat: I created that with his voice in my head.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “DEAR FRIENDS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DEAR FRIENDS at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-rv
'
PrincipalPoop: yes it was cease, all we can ask for or whatever you said
DJTweeny: very nice, Cat :)
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: amazing,cat!heartfelt, really touching!
EWeston: That Athenian was well hung
AirshipAl: Gotta go. Take care, all!
EWeston: See yah Al
PrincipalPoop: ciao al
Cat: by al. if i can get some memories from you, i'd love to hear them
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Bye AA!
DJTweeny: Good to se ya, Al :)
PrincipalPoop: crazy as a coot
||||||||| Catherwood says "10:44 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs AirshipAl by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Cat: Dex loved to drink.
Cat: He would have fit in well in the president's bar, along with me.
Cat: He always had the best stuff as well. For medicinal purposes only.
Beet: G'Nite Al.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you're on Facebook, you can Like the official Firesign Fan Page here >> https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208 - and if you’re on Twitter and would like to get official Firesign tweets, follow @FiresignNews - there are also a couple of other unofficial Facebook fan pages at >> Chromium Switch - https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf - and Firesign Theatre - https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
PrincipalPoop: night beet
Not Ed: Bye Beet
Beet: I'm still here
Not Ed: Hey Beet
EWeston: I don't do alcohol much myself. Most wine doesn't taste good to me
PrincipalPoop: ohhh, i misread al as all, silly me, how did I do that? ohhh my
Beet: Nice to see you
EWeston: He's standing on his heard
DJTweeny: Quite the faus pas there, P
Cat: our trip to spain in 02 got me into sangria. it's been a very pleasent swim since then.
PrincipalPoop: you can see me? that is charcoal, honest
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cat: we used to have good cidre in BC but no longer. had some good cidre in france though.
Beet: This list is depressing.
Cat: its supposed to be
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Don’t forget to tell your Firehead friends about our little soireé. Let’s get lots and lots of folks in here!
PrincipalPoop: i have a list of why I hate lists
EWeston: It's what the echoes told me. Is that anthrcite?
Not Ed: Cripes I gotta go
DJTweeny: Crikey!
Cat: Thanks for stopping by, Not.
PrincipalPoop: criminy, then go, bye, seeyah
Beet: Night 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!"
DJTweeny: Se ya next time, Ed
Not Ed: Thanks Tween & Cat, Rufus & Merl, and night night all
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Me too, Thanks, Kurt, Cat, et al! Love, love love to all! Nite!
rebozoette: pickle it nice
EWeston: I found Chateu Haut Brion white is good, and at least eighty bucks a bottle
DJTweeny: Bye Johan
Beet: See ya JAM
PrincipalPoop: did sinatra sing that or dean martin?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
EWeston: By Jam
PrincipalPoop: oops jam too, dropping like pigeons
Cat: By Jam
Cat: Sell Jelly.
EWeston: Nearly time for my pigeon chess class
DJTweeny: haha
PrincipalPoop: pickly it ice
PrincipalPoop: anygody said hello to NSA yet?
Cat: speaking oif pigeon...
rebozoette: Beet Cat DJTweeny EWeston Johan Amadeus Myjetski Not Ed PrincipalPoop rebozoette Reebis Rufus_T_Firetween zipcorn thanks fpr another great night of laughs and chuckle
EWeston: Yes. He's still sobbing
Beet: See ya rebo
PrincipalPoop: walter or city?
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 6-8pm EST every Sunday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to my show archives and ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
'
PrincipalPoop: same to you rebozoette and double
Cat: there will be some pigeon lore from my trip to great french restaunts and old rfo broadcasts coming up soon.
Cat: By rebo
EWeston: Godzillapigeon is pecking though the window even now
PrincipalPoop: eeck
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
EWeston: He's a rough but fair opponent
PrincipalPoop: sounds marvy
PrincipalPoop: anybody here hep?
EWeston: Kitty Midnight will be reffing tonights natch
EWeston: Match natch
Beet: blig black
EWeston: a bligly pipe
Cat: Dex was a dear friend.
PrincipalPoop: dr memory again, huh?
NancyKat: BB all-Nighnigh!-fangs tweeny!
Beet: This was fun. Thanks everybody. Great collages, brother Cat. Thanks Dr Tween. G'Nite.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
EWeston: Nighters all zips boogies and beaners
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
PrincipalPoop: night all, yes fun, see you on the funway
||||||||| "Hey PrincipalPoop!" ... PrincipalPoop turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 11:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Cat: Back to New York next week.
||||||||| At 11:01 PM, Cat vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| zipcorn - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| rebozoette - 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:
||||||||| NancyKat - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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 dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Reebis - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
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AirshipAl
Beet
Cat
DJTweeny
doctecazoid
Elayne
EWeston
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
NancyKat
Not Ed
PrincipalPoop
Random
rebozoette
Rufus_T_Firetween
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=df-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=ni-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rnl-rv
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/2005/05/
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/2010/10/
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war/home/
www.planetproctor.com
http://www.seemreal.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdhVqpbttKSvBWGWHSBkgw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd



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