Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
06/06/2019

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||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for June 06, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (8:34 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Outside, the 8:37 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving DJTweeny 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)
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)'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music (Joe Walsh)
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)'
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:54 PM and Cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: Hi Tween. I just learned Dr John has died.
DJTweeny: Hey Cease
Cease: Will listen to the Joe Walsh you sent me this weekend.
DJTweeny: :( @ Dr. John
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 06, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Beet', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:04 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Beet: Evening all.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'Not Ed', just granted probation at 9:05 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Not Ed: Pork?
Beet: Hi Not
Cease: Beet, Not
Beet: Greetings Dr Cease
DJTweeny: allo Not Ed
Not Ed: Beet, Cease, Tweeny!
Not Ed: Helloooooo
Not Ed: Sweet C
DJTweeny: "Get onnn the liiiift!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: Firesign Theatre's
“FIGHTING CLOWNS LIVE IN MARYLAND”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD at >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases'
Cease: Strange how this starts. In the middle of a sentence, it seems
Cease: This is a radio interview the lads did to promote the U of Maryland show
Cease: This is disc 3 of a 2 CD set of the Maryland show
DJTweeny: disc 3 of a 2 cd set?
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
DJTweeny: How very Firesign lol
Cease: sounds like trump
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Merlyn', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:13 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Cease: Hi Merl
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Merlyn: hey o
DJTweeny: There are parallels between Trump and Reagan
Beet: Hey Dr Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Cease: this is the same tour as the fighting clowns of hollywood stuff
Beet: I was riding with a friend yesterday and when I brought up Firesign, he told me an interesting story. He said he attended a Love In (he didn’t know that Peter had invented and organized this). He saw and recognized Peter, went up to him, said, “I listen to your show.” He said that then Peter gave him a big hug. He also said that later someone parachuted out of an aircraft and it was David Ossman! How about THAT!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:16 PM and EddyBeach bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cease: Wow, Beet
Beet: Hey Eddy
Cease: Hi Eddy
DJTweeny: Hello Eddy
EddyBeach: Hi All!!
Cease: What a combination. Firesign and Gore Vidal
EddyBeach: Anyone want a grape from Greece
DJTweeny: First time here, Eddy? Nino has you in Newfoundland
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** If you want to know where your fellow chatters live, ask Nino The Mindboggler by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
Cease: Nino has me in Hawaii instead of Vancouver
DJTweeny: Yeah, very weird
DJTweeny: Seems like a long way to go for an ISP connection ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the New Live Concert Collection “FIGHTING CLOWNS OF HOLLYWOOD” at Firesign's new Download Store >> https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
Cease: Infinity propped up.
Not Ed: Eddy, Merl!
DJTweeny: "The Mentail Minority" lol
DJTweeny: *Mental
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: Today in Today
Beet: I always love the dramatic music.
DJTweeny: That's the same theme they use for Over The Edge
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor's new book is out! “WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE?” >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Proctor’s Audio Book of his recent autobiography “Where's My Fortune Cookie?: My Psychic, Psurrealistic Pstory” is now available! >> https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v
Cease: My 14-part serialization collages of said book are on Tween's site.
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| EddyBeach - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: By Eddy
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'Bunnyboy', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:41 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
DJTweeny: Hey Bunny
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Cease: Hey, look who hopped in?
Bunnyboy: Lo dere
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“ROMANS, ARABS AND YANKEES”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Cat's Collages at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/'
Beet: That was a fun recording
Beet: Hi Bunny
Not Ed: Is it Bunny
Cease: That was one of a dozen or so CDs put out by Firezine in late 90s
Bunnyboy: It is!
Not Ed: Interesting
Not Ed: Yay
Not Ed: Cat show now
Beet: Was Elayne that put that out?
Not Ed purrs.
Cease: Firezine took over from Elayne in the 90s
Beet: Who ran it after Elayne?
Not Ed: Wish I could have been a part of that
Not Ed: I could have but I didn't know about it
Bunnyboy: In the ongoing wake of dorminating Laugh.com, TV OR NOT TV is going for almost $40 USD, on Amazon.
Not Ed: wow!
Not Ed: must run
DJTweeny: wow indeed
Beet: See ya.
Cease: they're moving to a dormitory?
Not Ed: it is the nourishment interval
DJTweeny: Inflate your shoes, Not Ed
Not Ed: bbye all & stay groovy!
Cease: by not
Not Ed: will do Tween!
Not Ed: bbye
Bunnyboy: Mariners can't buy a break. Tied today,s game, dropped it in the 14th...
Cease: At least you have a team worth following.
Bunnyboy: Ain't called the Laugh.com phone, but the maitenance crew of the site is out to lunch with the folks auditing Donnie's taxes.
Bunnyboy: And Chip Diller.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Bunnyboy: HCYB not on Amazon Music Unlimited. The other 3 initial Columbia titles are. I suspect that they settled for the included SHOES FOR INDUSTRY comp coverage.
Rufus_T_Firetween: That's a good quote about 'everything they're supposed to do'
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Straight People is a great follow-up ;)
||||||||| EddyBeach sneaks in around 10:04 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: Welcome back Eddy
Rufus_T_Firetween: wb Eddy
||||||||| 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!"
Beet: Eddy is back from Ancient Greece
||||||||| EddyBeach enters at 10:06 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Cease: Did you swim the English Channel?
Cease: Just in time for D-Day
Bunnyboy: Time to hit some bricks. Ta!
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Eddy close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 10:08 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the anteroom.
Cease: By Bunny
Beet: Later, Bunny.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Today is also the anniversary of the assassination of RFK :/
||||||||| Around 10:09 PM, Bunnyboy walks off into the sunset...
Cease: Firesign were performing their play Profiles in BBQ Sauce that night. It contains a scene where RFK is killed.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Is Profiles one of the Mushroom Plays? I don't think I've ever heard it
Cease: No one has heard it except those present when it was performed. No recording of it, as far as I know.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Ah, too bad
Rufus_T_Firetween: I disagree very mych. Writing jokes _can_ stop them ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: I recall reading an interview with Mel Brooks about why he made The Producers. His was reponse was "What are you going to do with such people, except make fun of them?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: *much
Rufus_T_Firetween: What a fun movie :)
Beet: Might have to go watch it again. It is a classic.
Cease: I think Jon Stewart and Colbert were very effective, though they deny it.
Beet: Great
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net
Cease: The hard work was done by the folks who made the Ideas programme. I just added Firesign
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT! **
Now playing: from the DOMM Dear Friends collection
“RADIO PRISON IN PEACE AND WAR”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ'
Rufus_T_Firetween: Haha, I didn't consider the tie-in to Der Schifter
Rufus_T_Firetween: *Schnifter
Cease: Very synchronistic, Tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: Indeed. This bit just happened to fit the time slot.
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Beet: Are there such things as accidents after all?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Or not ;)
Cease: I hope so.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Synchronicity is a great Police album.
Beet: Right on
Cease: It is indeed, Tween.
Cease: This is on the Just Folks album
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yeah, it is
||||||||| It's 10:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Eddy - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 7-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign'
Beet: Gimme one of each
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Cease: Bugged Part 2 next week
Merlyn: thanks tween again
Beet: Had a great time tonight. Cat's creation was wonderful. Gratitude to Dr Tween as always. G'Nite.
Rufus_T_Firetween: yw
||||||||| Merlyn rushes off, saying "10:53 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Rufus_T_Firetween: kewl Cease
Cease: I'm learning a lot from Tween Tuesday show.
DJTweeny: :)
Cease: See y'all next week.
||||||||| Cease rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Cease?! It's 10:54 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
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.
||||||||| 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 dengue fever
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| EddyBeach - 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:
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| EddyBeach - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| 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 pneumonia
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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
Bunnyboy
Cease
DJTweeny
EddyBeach
Merlyn
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ
https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/pressrel/20171009.html
http://kurtericson.com/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.com/firesign
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/releases
https://tinyurl.com/y2k7ks5v