A Firesign Chat
03/29/2018




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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for March 29, 2018 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 1:04 PM and RedPillTweeny sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 1:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny in through the front door at 8:04 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| 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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||||||||| Outside, the 8:23 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| 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 Tirebiter gets out at 8:41 PM.
||||||||| Tirebiter departs at 8:43 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Stephen Stills)
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
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||||||||| Catherwood leads Bottles inside, makes a note of the time (8:50 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Bottles: I'm glad I made it
DJTweeny: Hi Bottles
Bottles: Thanks Catherwood. Just roll a couple of bombers....
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Bottles
Bottles: So glad.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:55 PM and late as usual, it's Cease, just back from Vancouver."
DJTweeny: Hi Cease
Cease: Hi all
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:58 PM and EWeston bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hi EW
Cease: EW
EWeston: Hi Tweeny Cease, Bootles, and a virtual Rufus
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:59 PM, dragging Yellow rubber line. by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
||||||||| ''Bob'' sneaks in around 8:59 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: Yellow
''Bob'': Dang. I thought everyone had forgotten the unpleasant incident by now.
DJTweeny: Hi YRL
Cease: boB
DJTweeny: Hi Bob
||||||||| 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
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||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 29, 2018 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
''Bob'': Whoops! Time to rotate my laundry. BRB
EWeston: A yellow rubber line is always welcome and Bob too
Yellow rubber line. : Yea!
EWeston: Fine mountain climbers too!
||||||||| zapster tiptoes in around 9:02 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Outside, the 9:02 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Elayne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: Zappy
Elayne: Evenin' all!
zapster: /me somehow doesn't remember any incident...
Cease: Hi El
zapster: heya
EWeston: Elayne and Zipster
zapster: ok, no actions.. lol
Yellow rubber line. : More sugar!
EWeston: Dangerous drugs Zapster?
zapster: nah
DJTweeny: Hi zapster
Cease: Less sacharine!
zapster: this is my natural state
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s
“ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out ANYTHYNGE at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-rv
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EWeston: Too bad
DJTweeny: Hi Elayne
Yellow rubber line. : Thanks DJ!
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:05 PM, dragging Beet by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
Beet: DEAR Friends!
DJTweeny: Hi Beet
Cease: Beet person
EWeston: Beetie!
Beet: Howsy Dr Tween
Beet: Hi Dr Cease
Beet: Hey EW
Elayne: I like tonight's selection but I figured you'd wait a month for it, as Shakespeare's birth (and death) anniversary is April 23.
Beet: Hi Miss E
Yellow rubber line. : This is a bit of fun, now isn't it?
EWeston: Procter definitely unlimbering his pipes
Beet: I've been following you for a long time, YRL.
DJTweeny: Ah, did not know the date, Elayne
Elayne: I took four years of Sheakespeare in high school and college, I still remember some stuff :)
Yellow rubber line. : Ha!
Elayne: I've visited Stratford CT and Stratford-upon-Avon
Elayne: Went 'round in Shakespeare's house and all. Pretty cool.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
''Bob'': I didn't know Shakespeare was from Connecticut!
''Bob'': Or maybe that was just his summer home.
Beet: There's a little town in Virginia called Staunton where there is a lot of Shakespeare stuff.
Cease: I've been to Shakespeare and Co. in Paris.
Elayne: Not been there yet, Beet.
EWeston: Fig newtons came from connecticut
''Bob'': I have a friend named Bill.
DJTweeny: Billy The Shake, as FST calls him
Yellow rubber line. : I think I heard two coconuts.
Cease: Did Newton discover gravity when he observed a falling fig?
Beet: Very charming town.
''Bob'': "A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners."
DJTweeny: something like that, cease
EWeston: During a vacation to Connecticut, yes
Cease: All I know about Conn. is that Doc and Lili live there.
Cease: There's a great French Basque tapas joint in their town.
Beet: Spent a little time in Lynchburg.
DJTweeny: you got lynched?
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Cease: Anyone see the Nova show last night, about math?
Beet: Can't remember
DJTweeny: not I
Cease: Austin had a certain affection for chants
Beet: Was it good?
Elayne: Loved it, Cat!
Elayne: Robin is firmly in the camp that it's all in our brains.
Cease: Wanted to record it but the machine was busy recording another show about central american archeology
Elayne: Hmans have a penchant for finding patterns. Nature is too random to actually produce them, at least according to him.
Elayne: Me, they had me at Fibinacci. :)
Beet: What kind of recorder do you have, Dr Tween?
Cease: You were in my play about fractrals, El
EWeston: I did see a report that they think they've found a galaxy without dark matter.
DJTweeny: My DAW is Mark of the Unicorn Digital Performer
DJTweeny: I also use Sound Studio for editing
Yellow rubber line. : Break wind loudly boys!
Beet: Thanks
Elayne: Was I, Cat? I have no memory, you know.
||||||||| buckley enters at 9:18 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
DJTweeny: Hi buckley
buckley: buckley tilts his head sideways
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
EWeston: Hello Buckley
Beet: I don't have this album. Think I have a purchase coming up.
EWeston: Which axis?
Elayne: Beet, if you're into Shake-a-Soeare, it's well worth it.
DJTweeny: Yeah, the new CD version has material that was excluded from the original vinyl due to time constraints
Beet: Hello buckley
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
EWeston: Kinda Not Insane with four wheel frive
EWeston: Drive
DJTweeny: yeah lol
Beet: This seems to be a very full version.
''Bob'': No. We are Devo.
Cease: El, you are in UN Fair, which is here: http://seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
DJTweeny: It"s the complete version
Cease: You're the Stand on Yellow Line person.
Cease: There are a lot of those, Tween.
Elayne: Cat, I'm sure I'm in lots of things I don't remember.
Elayne: When I shuffle off this mortal coil I'll leave a legacy for others to remember, I guess.
buckley: my mortal coil seems to be shuffling me
Yellow rubber line. : Bottles and I are rapted Such great Theatre!
EWeston: It might be your distributor
Elayne: One of the things I love about this is not only the language and wordplay but the fact that much of it is indeed in iambic pentameter.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Elayne: It's a real kick for any Shakespeare nut.
DJTweeny: Oh yeah Elayne, definitely done in the Shakesperian style
Elayne: Apparently Phil P is on Lawn Guylan. I was hoping to see him this time around but he hasn't answered any of my Facebook posts...
DJTweeny: Really well-written and performed :)
Cease: Just as their Sherlock Holmes parody. They are always precise.
DJTweeny: Quite, Cease
Beet: Imagine the work that went into this.
DJTweeny: Giant Rat was meticulous
EWeston: Toothy
Cease: Bummer, El.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new video of David Ossman and Phil Proctor at the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS >> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8134&loclr=eanw
DJTweeny: Thou sonn wilt chamberlain be...
DJTweeny: lol
Elayne: All those basketball puns are very appropriate during March Madness.
DJTweeny: this whole thing is one pun after another
DJTweeny: *soon
zapster: lol, yeah. I keep getting late 'huh?' reactions
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EWeston: Indicans!
Cease: This is a frame that the Firesigns fill with their genius.
''Bob'': This is my favorite part. :)
''Bob'': I picture Marie as being played by Carol Cleveland.
DJTweeny: Yeah, I could easily see her doing this!
||||||||| 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!"
Elayne: Not sure who did it, but I can't deal with the little-girl voice...
Cease: Good idea, Bob
Elayne: I like comedy that doesn't infantilize women's participation.
Elayne: One of the reasons I enjoyed How Time Flys.
EWeston: The nomes found the best way to turn lead to gold. Casting it a type for printing
DJTweeny: HTF rocks
DJTweeny: fantastic cast
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: Marie is played by Diz White, according to the liner notes ^^
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| buckley - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Good point, El.
''Bob'': Hmm.. and her most recent credit on IMDB is something called Shakespeare's Home IMprovement! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924716/
Elayne: And a Lst Supper reference on the eve of Good Friday...
Cease: El, as you are probably the only person to have read of my recent Vegas trip, I'm in the process of turning it into a collage, matching appropriate Firelines with my culinary experiences for next week.
DJTweeny: cool :)
Elayne: Wow, Cat. Good luck iwth that!
Cease: With some adventures not revealed in said blog.
Elayne: And there's the other thing. Can't have a woman involved in a comedy play without her being associated primrily with sex.
DJTweeny: sounds like fun
Elayne: Really, *yawn*
EWeston: Eat or be Eaten varies that a bit. Pete was after a romantic interest, but sex was never implied
Elayne: That's it for me, I fear. Stuff to do. Next week, all!
||||||||| Around 9:45 PM, Elayne walks off into the sunset...
Cease: How about Power, El?
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
Cease: Be well, El.
Beet: nite E
DJTweeny: Haven't played Power since last October
||||||||| 9:48 PM: call me Eddy, I'm an American jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past half hour!"
Cease: This is what they did on their London show
DJTweeny: might consider if it would fit with something you're working on, Cease
Cease: Tween has played that a number of times.
EWeston: Another Eddy in the space time firechat
DJTweeny: run time is about 1:05:00
DJTweeny: Hi Eddy
||||||||| call me Eddy, I'm an American enters at 9:50 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Cease: Actually it would go very well with my Vegas piece. Have began work on it, and hopefully will have it for next Thurs.
Cease: Hi Eddy
DJTweeny: Yeah, was going to mention that this was in the London show
call me Eddy, I'm an American: hello my fellow redskins
EWeston: Want some corn?
DJTweeny: OK, let's keep it in mind for next week then. Do jot down the run time I mentioned, and I need 5-10 minutes for talk.
''Bob'': Is that Soaring Eagle?
DJTweeny: back from water polo class, Eddy?
Beet: Hey Eddie
||||||||| 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."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “ANYTHYNGE YOU WANT TO” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
call me Eddy, I'm an American: they taught me just what I need for a better life. French horn, Italian, water polo. they're giving me away next week
||||||||| Not Ed enters at 9:54 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Not Ed: Pork?
call me Eddy, I'm an American: kind of
Not Ed: Hey everyone!
EWeston: Geddiup horsie
Not Ed: Hey Tweeny!
DJTweeny: Hi Not Ed
Beet: Hi Not
||||||||| 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."
EWeston: Not Ed, a safe distance away
EWeston: If an anti Ed shows up Duck!
Cease: Welcome Not
EWeston: Virginating hinderling?
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
''Bob'': Shouldn't it be "anythynge thou wantest", tho?
Beet: that was good
EWeston: You is closer emotionally donno if it matters
''Bob'': thou is singular, you is plural
Not Ed: Yay Tuesday Weld
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: Peace, Cease
Not Ed: Cat time
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“LIST-O-MANIA”
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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Beet: Apparently Phil got to know Teusday very well. Sorry, Elayne.
Not Ed: neato
DJTweeny: haha
Not Ed: school lunch menus was/is wonderful
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Jorge Luis Borges >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
DJTweeny: a classic for sure, Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Borges' story The Aleph, from a 2-part Ideas programme about Borges >> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/borges-buenos-aires-the-imaginary-city-part-1-1.4434230
Cease: I used to have the Firesigns doing a Borges story as play but lost it when that drive died.
DJTweeny: Hope you're keeping good backups these days, Cease
Cease: I think there is another, dont clearly recall. Taylor woud know.
Cease: Ideas always has exquisite actors.
DJTweeny: Do you use a Mac for your work, Cease?
Cease: Not, they did the menus in I think thier last show, at least in Whidbey.
Not Ed: yes they did it was groovy to hear live
Cease: No, Tween. I do these on two Dells I got from Doc Teck so they're pretty good.
Cease: When they both go down, I have an old Mac that still runs.
Not Ed: I rem Proctor said Hot Meatless Creatures, instead of Meatless Hot Creatures
Not Ed: lol
Cease: Were you at that show, Not?
DJTweeny: Cease, do you know if Doc implemented a backup scheme for the Dell boxes?
Cease: The Firesigns archive wasn't on either dell or mac but a back up portable drive, which died.
Cease: I hsould have made more back ups elsewhere, but alas. i shouldnt' have leant out my original recordings of the mushroom shows, but what comes in is always a different magnitude than whatg one puts out.
Not Ed: Download "Developmental Valley School Lunch Menus" from the Firesign site https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/audvid/totod8.mp3
Not Ed: yes Cease
Cease: i played this on Japanese national radio in 75. glad the japanese population could be introduced to Firesign by this.
Not Ed: Awesome
Not Ed: ahh....avacado
Not Ed hiccups.
EWeston: Navaquadal
Cease: Count the dope references in this.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I'll send him an email, Cease
Cease: Osman has A LOT of poems full of being stoned and references to it, but this is exceptional
Cease: Everybody Must Get Stoned.
Not Ed: It's Good For You!
EWeston: Nagahide stone
Not Ed: Wellstone
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Cat’s new collage “List-O-Mania” is now available at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
DJTweeny: Cat, did you see that I implemented a new navigation scheme for your archive page?
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone a plate of Oysters Frightened by Chickens
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone a plate of oysters frightened by chickens.
Cease: stunned ducks in alcohol sauce. sounds familiar.
DJTweeny: lol
Cease: Yes, thank you Tween. Great work.
Not Ed: I'm getting hungry
EWeston: They always give me a rash
DJTweeny: You are very welcome :)
DJTweeny: Let me know if you have any suggestions for the layout, Cease
Not Ed orders Meltdown on a Bun
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out David Ossman’s book “MARSHMALLOWS AND DESPAIR” at www.davidossman.com
Cease: Now that it's warming up a bit here, I'll soon be able to walk around taking pix so want to move in that direction
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the new FIRESIGN CHAT SHOW ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.com/firesign/
Cease: Find images I can combine with the collages.
DJTweeny: I've moved the FST Chat Show archives to its own page
Beet: Thank God for the coming of Spring
DJTweeny: yeah, inserting images would be easy, Cease
Cease: All the Firesigns cept Bergman did visual collages.
EWeston: One diaper surprise, to go pleez
Cease: Beautiful stuff. There is a gallery full of Ossman's 2 and 3d colalges and Oona has sent me some of Austin's stuff. Proc is a virtual collage factory.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Cat’s new collage “List-O-Mania” is now available at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
Cease: Proeducing surrealism for the ear and eye, independent, together when that works.
Beet: Snappy little number
EWeston: Smaller and, cleaner
EWeston: Pirates will try to board your house
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "10:34 PM and late as usual, it's PrincipalPoop, just back from Hellmouth."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Jorge Luis Borges >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
DJTweeny: Hey PrincP
Cease: Hi poop
EWeston: Hey Pooper
PrincipalPoop: It is Thursday, hi all
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Borges' story The Aleph, from a 2-part Ideas programme about Borges >> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/borges-buenos-aires-the-imaginary-city-part-1-1.4434230
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Plays at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Cat’s Blog at >> http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
PrincipalPoop: Hey tween, did you get the loud old wind=up alarm clock I sent you for Easter?
DJTweeny: I did not
PrincipalPoop: loool
Beet: Hi Poop
DJTweeny: However, considering how late you are tonight, it sounds like you should have kept it :)
PrincipalPoop: I forgot it was Thursday, you forgot about the Austin package bomber already lol
Cease: This is from my first collage
Beet: Tom Waits for no man. I got it!
PrincipalPoop: they do do a lot of lists
Cease: Discovering that Carlin interview about this song prompted it.
Cease: This is from when I first lived in Japan, long ago.
PrincipalPoop: things that begin with R?
DJTweeny: PrincipalPoop: I forgot it was Thursday, you forgot about the Austin package bomber already lol << oops, didn't get that :/ Yeah, at least they finally caught the guy.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Cat’s new collage “List-O-Mania” is now available at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
PrincipalPoop: not many pieces of him left to catch but yeah lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: indeed
DJTweeny: blew up one his own packages in the car as the police were approcahing him
DJTweeny: *approaching
PrincipalPoop: I understand he was not a terrorist, just challenged...
||||||||| 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: They did catch a kid in the NW that was sending non functional bombs this week too
PrincipalPoop: digital bell bottoms, a ringy ding ding
DJTweeny: The whole story hasn't come out yet, but it seems he had no political affiliations which were involved
Beet: Amazing only two casualties.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
EWeston: The police called him a terrorist today
DJTweeny: I've not heard he had any sort of 'cause', just a very angry disturbed young person
PrincipalPoop: hello nsa guy, you must be keeping busy
EWeston: The unknown never RSVPs
DJTweeny: only two deaths, more casualties
Cease: well said, ew
Cease: i was just in vegas and no one knows why some guy killed and injured a large number of people there
Beet: This was lots of fun tonight. Thanks to all participants. Another fabulous collage, Friend Cease. Eternal thanks to our host, Dr Tween. G'Nite.Correct, Dr.
Cease: glad you enjoy them, beet
EWeston: Bye Der Beet
PrincipalPoop: orders from the da, happy april all
||||||||| "10:48 PM? I'm late!" exclaims PrincipalPoop, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
DJTweeny: Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: keep listening, all
EWeston: The pork has stopped runing and is now walking. Good time people an g'bye
''Bob'': Thanks, Tweeny!
''Bob'': Missed some while doing my laundry, but I'll check it on the replay. :)
Cease: Please do, Bob
DJTweeny: the replay should be up sometime tomorrow evening
''Bob'': Yeah, I missed the intro to your collage. :(
Cease: Tween will have it.
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
DJTweeny: Cat's description is in the archive
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Cat’s new collage “List-O-Mania” is now available at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/
''Bob'' )
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.
||||||||| Cease rushes off, saying "11:05 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| It's 11:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| call me Eddy, I'm an American - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| zapster - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood walks in wearing his pyjamas, yawns, and mumbles "It's midnight here in New York city"...then he falls over and starts snoring loudly..
||||||||| It's 12:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| call me Eddy, I'm an American - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts pickle rick in through the front door at 12:48 AM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and pipes up "Presenting 'Just Dongers', just granted probation at 12:48 AM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies YllucsNiv into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mumbles something about 12:48 AM, then departs.
pickle rick: hi guys, huge fan of gethard
||||||||| Catherwood enters with hnic close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 12:49 AM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the anteroom.
Just Dongers: catherwood pls
||||||||| Catherwood pretends not to hear Just Dongers
pickle rick: can i ask him a question on live show here?
||||||||| "12:49 AM? 12:49 AM!!" says Catherwood, "Test should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Test enters and sits on the divan.
Just Dongers: catherwood please leave chat
||||||||| Catherwood steps over to Just Dongers and inquires "Would you like something?"
Test: Oh my
pickle rick: catherwood wake up nigger
||||||||| Catherwood wakes up nigger.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Anon close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 12:50 AM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the sitting room.
||||||||| YllucsNiv, spotting Bradshaw, runs into The Nggr Room.
Just Dongers: hot chat
pickle rick: xDDD
||||||||| Just Dongers sneaks away to The Nggr Room...
Test: May I join the Nggr room, pls??
Anon: Wots all this then?
Anon: mfw fish in chat
pickle rick: catherwood privat ecamparty
||||||||| Catherwood rushes up to pickle rick and inquires "Did you need me?"
||||||||| panduhbear steals in around 12:51 AM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
pickle rick: y
panduhbear: wew lads
pickle rick: cather wood show me your clit
||||||||| Anon sneaks away to The Nggr Room...
pickle rick: rip anon
||||||||| It's 12:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Yellow rubber line. - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 12:55 AM downtown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving brewcrewdrew coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Anon walks in and says "It's 12:55 AM, has anybody seen Nancy?"
||||||||| "I'm going to The Nggr Room" says Anon, and leaves.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| brewcrewdrew - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| panduhbear - 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Anon - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 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:
||||||||| Bottles - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Test - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| EWeston - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:55 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| hnic - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| pickle rick - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:32 AM, time to change the log file and clean out unused rooms; please exit the chat room for a minute or two. Thank you for your patience."


The Evening's Participants:
''Bob''
Anon
Beet
Bottles
buckley
call me Eddy, I'm an American
Cease
DJTweeny
Elayne
EWeston
Just Dongers
Not Ed
panduhbear
pickle rick
PrincipalPoop
Rufus_T_Firetween
Test
Yellow rubber line.
zapster
URL References:
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/audvid/totod8.mp3
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-ln
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=aywt-rv
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://kurtericson.com/firesign/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
http://seemreal.com/inftril/index.html
http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/borges-buenos-aires-the-imaginary-city-part-1-1.4434230
www.davidossman.com
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924716/
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8134&loclr=eanw
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
https://www.facebook.com/groups/21145641274/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/50372982074/?ref=br_tf
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Firesign-Theatre/282668140208



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