||||||||| 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 05, 2019 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:17 PM, dragging Bambi by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?" ||||||||| Bambi says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Bambi exits at 8:17 PM. ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Bambi close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:17 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom. Bambi: ah, much better size Bambi: Hello Catherwood ||||||||| Catherwood steps over to Bambi and mumbles "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?" Bambi: but of course Bambi: better than talking to myself ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 8:25 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' Bambi: good evening Kurt Bambi: do not know how long I will be awake but here :-) Bambi: cough been keeping me awake so who knows lol ||||||||| Catherwood enters with DJTweeny close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:28 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the anteroom. Bambi: wb Tweeny DJTweeny: Hey Bambi, glad you could join us :) Bambi: is my name blue still? Bambi: do not know how long I will be awake but here :-) B DJTweeny: No color highlight, no, but I can have Merlyn fix that Bambi: thanks ... would be nice Bambi: think it was for a while ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Bambi: gh has been keeping me awake so who knows how long I will be awake with antibiotics and all Bambi: cough was that first word lol Bambi: love Box of Danger :-D DJTweeny: Yeah, np there's always the archive Bambi: yep :-) Bambi: so what's on for tonight? DJTweeny: The 2nd 1/2 of the show Phil and David did in Indiana last June, plus a new Cat Collage Bambi: cool sounds like fun Bambi: I am here but need to lay back some Bambi: trip today was exhausting ||||||||| 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)' DJTweeny: Sure glad you got to the doc before any bad weather hit Bambi: yes! Bambi: got connected to stream Bambi: if you want to test or something DJTweeny: kewl DJTweeny: It's pre-tested, thanks :) DJTweeny: music coming up in a minute Bambi: Awesome ... all good then Bambi: nice :-) DJTweeny: I listen to a test broadcast before the show ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: warm up music (Guess Who) 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)' Bambi: got it ... onion rings lol DJTweeny: Has Chloe acclimated to her surroundsings? Bambi: she loved it at my sister's house but she has 5 small dogs lol Bambi: and two are youngins' Bambi: love to play Bambi: but I would say Chloe was happy to get home too DJTweeny: That must have been fun :) Bambi: yep, sister's dogs are Yorkie, Morkie Poo and Maltipoo DJTweeny: 5 small dogs must be quite a circus Bambi: they are all great dogs ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:46 PM and Johan Amadeus Myjetski bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. DJTweeny: allo Johan
Bambi waves to Johan Bambi: I remembered how Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Allo, allo, allo! Bambi: must be muscle memory lol ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Cease inside, makes a note of the time (8:47 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. DJTweeny: yo Cease
Bambi waves to Cease ||||||||| "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!" Cease: Hi all Cease: All, the Winnipeg band Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Evening, Bambi! DJT! Cease: Bambi. Haven't seen you here in a while DJTweeny: Johan, you're in NC now? Cease: My new collage ends with a Guess Who tune Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Yes, western, mountains ||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!" DJTweeny: Getting any of Dorian? Bambi: yes, there have been some goings on for a bit now and couldn't make it Johan Amadeus Myjetski : No, i’m on the other end of the state280 miles away Cease: Glad you're here tonight ||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:51 PM, dragging llanwydd by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?" llanwydd: howdy folks Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hi llan! Bambi: Thank you Cease ... good to be here
Bambi waves to llanwydd Cease: Lanny DJTweeny: Hey llan DJTweeny: It's llanwydd's birthday :-) Cease: I don't know if they were the first Canuck band popular in the States, but certainly one of the earliest
Bambi says Happy Birthday llanwydd!!! :-) Cease: Happy Birthday, Llan llanwydd: yeah, I'm 58 today DJTweeny: I sure loved them back in the day. I had at least one album and probably a couple of singles Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Happy birthday to llan! DJTweeny: Congrats on another solar rotation :) llanwydd: Thanks everybody
Bambi says I remember 58 :D ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:55 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Leesburg." Beet: Happy Chat Thursday. Hello all. Happy Birthday Llan! Cease: I remember this was a hit in the states. Not many Canuck bands could say that, in those days. DJTweeny: Yo Beet Cease: HI Beet
Bambi waves to Beet llanwydd: did not know they were canadian ||||||||| 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!" Cease: In time for part two of my collage about my home province. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : 1st canuk i was aware of was Gordon Lightfoot & Joni Mitchell Cease: Not exactly rockers, those two ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." llanwydd: we have heard them here lately Bambi: Love both Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell too Beet: Hi Drs Tween and Cease. A Wave to Bambi. Cease: I read somewhere that Gordon Lightfoot was Dylan's favourite singer-songwriter Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Ha! That’s a fact cease! Bambi: no not rockers but awesome non the less DJTweeny: I played Gordon last week Cease: Part one of my Saskatchewan collage ended with a Joni tune last week. Cease: Coyote. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : You sure did djt! DJTweeny: I can believe that about Dylan Bambi: sorry I missed that Tweeny Beet: Saw Joni once. Amazing. Cease: Guess Who follow up band Bachman Turner Overdrive could really rock. Cease: I saw her at USC when I was on the radio there in 68. Cease: The following year, saw her with CSNY at the Greek Theatre. She seemed to have forgotten her lyrcis, and the audience had to remind her. Bambi: yep Guess Who and BTO are great rockers Cease: Maybe it was the drugs. DJTweeny: It's in the archives of course Bambi. Might be worth listening to last week/this week back to bac, as both segments are 2-parters. ||||||||| 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)' Bambi: CSNY awesome too DJTweeny: They sure are Cease: Yes, Richard Fish has kindly offered us the What's Left of the Firesign Theatre show they did in his town recently.
Bambi will do Tweeny Beet: Guess Who were the soundtrack to my senior year of college. ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 05, 2019 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" DJTweeny: neet beet Cease: You're older than me, Beet Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Guess Who was car music for me in high school Beet: I am officially an old fart. ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Bunnyboy into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:01 PM, then departs. DJTweeny: Wonder what's going on with Elayne, she hasn't visited recently Johan Amadeus Myjetski : BunB! DJTweeny: Hey Bunnyboy Beet: Hey Bunny. Cease: I see her on Facebook but not here Cease: HI Bunny! Bunnyboy: Why, it's old home week!
Bambi waves to Bunnyboy Cease: I spent part of today listening to a 2-hour interview with Proctor and Taylor, very recent. Bunnyboy: And speaking of old homes...Happy Birthday, llan! Cease: After Paul Krassner's death. Cease: Phil talks lovingly of him. llanwydd: Thanks BB DJTweeny: How about posting the link for those podcasts, Cease? Beet: Yes please. Cease: Will do, Tween Bambi: Paul Krassner passed in July this year? Bunnyboy: llan's just a few months younger than me! llanwydd: is that so? I guess you and I are the youngsters on this board Cease:http://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/episode-314-the-history-of-firesign-part-6-dear-friends/?fbclid=IwAR1EUxAU1GQy9McivTBtXn8Bg4PLFzduf1g1wfDjlEsp4Poypjm6vZBLnvs llanwydd: right on right off Bunnyboy: We're the "FST Millenials"... Cease: We're listening to DF now and that's what they talked about. ||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD! DJTweeny: Paul Krassner, counterculture satirist who coined the term ‘Yippie,’ dies at 87 - https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-krassner-2050-story.html ||||||||| Snook waltzes in at 9:05 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Bambi waves to Tweeny Cease: HI Snook Beet: Thanks for the link, Cease. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Well, myself, this year i have a beatles song the refers to ME! Beet: Hi snook. llanwydd: LOL ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Firesign’s live concert in Bloomington, IN June 2, 2019 ”FIREHEADS AND TALES” (Part 2) 128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u check out The Firehouse Follies show at >> http://wfhb.org/follies/firehouse-follies-fireheads-tales-june-2nd/' Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Hiyas Snook! DJTweeny: Hi Snook Bambi: Thanks for the links Cease Snook: Made it by gum! Howdy everybody, and happy birthday Llanwydd! Cease: Krassner was a friend from around 95 DJTweeny: Just in time, Rich :) llanwydd: thank you snook Cease: I used a joke from him on Neal Amid. Snook: Hey I'm in radio. Timing is everything. llanwydd: I know that llanwydd: I was a dj long ago
Bambi waves to Snook Cease: Proctor spoke well of this show, and you, in the Comedy in Vinyl podcast that he posted today. Cease: Thanks for Convergence. Can we play it next week, Tween? Johan Amadeus Myjetski : A sketch in the drawing room! HA! Snook: I would like to see that, don't quite know how. llanwydd: lol not fully Snook: Ah! Did you get the files then? ||||||||| Not Ed steals in around 9:09 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident." Bambi: quite right lol llanwydd: hi NE DJTweeny: I see no reason why not, Cease
Bambi waves to Not Ed DJTweeny: allo Not Ed Cease: Vinyl? Didn't see the video of this show. Just listened to the audio. I watched and recorded the Bozos interview yesterday. Was posted a year ago. Cease: Hi Not Johan Amadeus Myjetski : ‘Lo, Not Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Firesign’s live concert in Bloomington, IN June 2, ”FIREHEADS AND TALES” at >> http://wfhb.org/follies/firehouse-follies-fireheads-tales-june-2nd/ Not Ed: Hi Cease Snook: The eleven-minute excerpt could maybe be a thing on the website. Beet: Hi Not.
Not Ed waves back Not Ed: Hey JAM, Beet
Bambi :-) Not Ed: Also llan & Snook... Not Ed: Waz real Tweeny DJTweeny: You! 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 Snook: In-joke - this sketch reminded us of the Agatha Christie radio plays we did (Phil, David, Gary Sandy, Amy Walker, Tony Brewer and yers truly) some years back. Snook: Gary was the villain in all of those, so this time he got to play the detective. DJTweeny: Condolences to Bambi and her family, as her Mother died recently... ||||||||| 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: Sorry to hear that, Bambi.
Bambi says thank you so much ... we miss her so very much Snook: ...and I'm sure you 'll recognize where we stole some of the jokes! llanwydd: very sorry bambi Bunnyboy: So sorry, Bambi. Snook: Sorry about your Mom, Bambi. Beet: Sorry for your loss. Cease: Have you all heard the Charlie Chance murder mystery that the Firesigns did on the KRLA show, in 67?
Bambi says thank you all so much {{{HUGS}}} llanwydd: I lost my father back in June Snook: No! Charlie Chance -- a precursor to Charlie Fatt from BDB? Bunnyboy: Not I, cat. llanwydd: how old was you mom, Bambi? Beet: Doesn't ring a bell, Cease. Bunnyboy: "Go to press!!!"
Bambi says I am so sorry to hear that llan ... Bambi: I lost my dad in 2005 and that was very hard DJTweeny: Condolences, Llan llanwydd: my dad was 89. he lived a good life llanwydd: thanks, tweeny Bambi: Lost my JL in 2014, one of my sisters 2017, and now my Mother in 2019 (and a nephew and niece along the way too) Bambi: Dad was only 77, JL only 58, Mother 82 Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lost both my mom & dad in 2018 Cease: That's a lot of loss, Bambi. Bambi: yes, way too much Cease... Beet: Always difficult to deal with. Bambi: yes, it really is DJTweeny: Condolences to you as well, Johan Bambi: so hard to love one's parents and soulmate as well sister and younger ones (nephew murdered, and niece by cancer) Cease: Death is difficult. Bambi: so hard to lose Beet: This mortality thing is a bummer. Bambi: it is good to be with friends; I find myself crying at the top of a hat Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Thanks, & my condolences to everyone in our fst circle who’ve lost their folks. Mine were 89 & 87, respectively. Bambi: so sorry to hear of your loss to JAM :-( Bambi: too' Bambi: love this song! ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Johan Amadeus Myjetski : They both had dementia, i was their primary caregiver. About killed me, no joke. Not Ed: Yeah love this stuff Bunnyboy: Ah, Regnad. ye olde buttscuttler! Snook: Wow. My folks both went nearly 30 years ago; I still miss them -- miss sharing things like this with them, among other things. Bambi: I bet Snook Not Ed: Mt dad had Parkinson's, my mom, heart disease from smokin' Cease: Glad you survived,JAM. My parents too, but they had good care in a home nearby Not Ed: My dad llanwydd: my dad had a rare dementia. It wasnt alzheimers llanwydd: he had hallucinations Bambi: my Dad had CMT but a recurrent glioblastoma took him Beet: My folks went in the '90's. Not Ed: yeah that stuff is super rough Not Ed: my mom in 1988 my dad in 2004 ||||||||| Catherwood escorts Deputy Dang inside, makes a note of the time (9:27 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. Cease: My dad had parkinson's dementia, thought he was a kid on the farm again from the 20s Deputy Dang: W00t w00t! I made it! Beet: Hi Deputy Cease: HI Dep llanwydd: Hey DD! DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Bambi waves to Deputy Dang Not Ed: my dad saw an entire village with little people, but also things like hands grabbing everywhere Not Ed: Hey Dang Bambi: that is rough to Cease Not Ed: little people village in the back yard 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 Not Ed: dementia is rough on everyone Cease: When he died, my mother was so consumed with Alzheimers that she barely noticed his death. They were married for 66 years Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Firesign’s live concert in Bloomington, IN June 2, ”FIREHEADS AND TALES” at >> http://wfhb.org/follies/firehouse-follies-fireheads-tales-june-2nd/ Not Ed: everyone around the person having it DJTweeny: That's so sad, Cat :/ Cease: So dementia does have its advantages Deputy Dang: um... maybe??? Bambi: yes, there is that Cease ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:31 PM and Rodent of Unusual Size bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Beet: Giant Rat Cease: it's a Giant Rat! ||||||||| 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." llanwydd: Hi RUS
Bambi waves to Rodent of Unusual Size ||||||||| "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!" Bunnyboy: ROUS! ROUS! Rodent of Unusual Size: lol Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Big Rat! Beet: This is a very strange sketch.
Bambi says I bet that Giant Rat is from Sumatra? llanwydd: lol Snook: Writing this show was a circus. We had various thi Cease: This is very good, Snook. DJTweeny: It's The Giant Rat! Hi Rat :) Not Ed: Bunnyboy yes Not Ed: Rodent? Cease: Hopefully you're not in a box. Not Ed: Cool Snook: things...I hit enter by accident...things written, and then David & Phil started in... Not Ed: They fry what you won't Bunnyboy: Is Swamp Rodent! NOT a Shrieking Eel! Snook: These days it would be Rat-Fil-A... Not Ed: lol love that book/movie llanwydd: LOL Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Lol, snook! Not Ed: Goldman is the man Cease: LOL Bunnyboy: Nutri-UGH! Cease: Reminds me a little of Phil Austin's Porcupine Round up piece Johan Amadeus Myjetski : I never heerd such a caterwauling Snook: Wow - it does, Cease - I'll tell Tom Trent who started that particular ball rolling. Snook: Arrrgh, Johan! Cease: I don't want a pickle Snook: One of our actors, Mike Leonard, does that Little Girl voice. Cease: Since I started doing collages, I'm always looking for Firesign references to everything. Bunnyboy: On a whimsical whim, I picked up the last newstand issue of MAD, from the magazine rack of our local Thriftway. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Jus’ wanna ride my motorcy-x-cle Cease: Good for you, Bunny Not Ed: Very groovy ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Snook: Ahh, MAD Magazine. Nothing has ever been more American. Snook: What, me worry? Cease: I have 4 isssues from the 60s. Not Ed: kinda cheap Bunnyboy: The Clods will rise again! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Firesign’s live concert in Bloomington, IN June 2, ”FIREHEADS AND TALES” at >> http://wfhb.org/follies/firehouse-follies-fireheads-tales-june-2nd/ Snook: In our August show, we had a Food Truck Demolition Derby. One of those ideas whose time really needs to come. Not Ed: I have various issues in the #100-#300 zone Cease: Krassner was working as a serious journalist when Mad came out and he got involved with it too. Then combined the 2 with the Realist. DJTweeny: lol Snook
ate. What's the audio? Beet: I once found a collection of all the early issues of Mad. A treasure trove. Deputy Dang: I got here late. What's the audio? Not Ed: Nice B Snook: Fiddlin' Joe sells everything you didn't know you needed. Not Ed: truly a trove of culture Cease: I have #78, 93, 98 and 103 Cease: Snook can tell you, Dang. ||||||||| 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." Not Ed: and brilliant contributors o' course Cease: Recent Indiana show. Snook: Spike Milligan! Rufus_T_Firetween: ate. What's the audio? << ** Read about Firesign’s live concert in Bloomington, IN June 2, ”FIREHEADS AND TALES” at >> http://wfhb.org/follies/firehouse-follies-fireheads-tales-june-2nd/ Deputy Dang: thank you Snook: David & Phil astonished us by offering part of AYWT for this show. You will note the rewrites. Cease: Yes DJTweeny: I was listening to a Goon Show the other day, and they had a skit that was riffing on Sherlock Homes that sounded a bit like By The Light Of The Silvery Not Ed: Don MaCool Bunnyboy: I have the digital sets, on CD and DVD ROMs. Snook: Possibly "The Moriarty Murder Case" episode? Not Ed: Sorry mis-typed Cease: Speaking of things that sound like other things, I watched new flick Sorry to Bother You a couple of days ago. Cease: There's a scene that is right out of Cease: Temporarily Humbolt County ||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?" Not Ed: #1-#500 BBoy? Cease: Highy reccommended. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : It’s because actors can die onstage, requiring the undertakers’ labor. Bambi: OK, great to see everyone. Will be listening but quiet in chat for a bit. Need to lay down due to illness DJTweeny: Snook: Possibly "The Moriarty Murder Case" episode? << Could be it, I didn't catch the title but that sounds right Cease: Get healthy, Bambi Not Ed: Aww ok take it EZ Bambi Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Bye, bambi! Beet: Hope you feel better, Bambi. DJTweeny: Rest and heal well, Bambi Bunnyboy: Best health, Bambi! Deputy Dang: I concur. Be well, Bambi! Snook: Oh, for a microphone and wire... Snook: Take care, Bambi! Bunnyboy: If you send a wire, I'm sure they'll send a mic...Stop... DJTweeny: haha Bunny Rufus_T_Firetween: ** “Fighting Clowns Of Hollywood: A Memoir” by David Ossman - http://www.bearmanormedia.com/fighting-clowns-of-hollywood-a-memoir-softcover-edition-by-david-ossman Bunnyboy: Remembering Unca Pete Bergman as "Marie", in 1999. Cease: Great book! Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out the 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 ||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..." Bunnyboy: PB could sling a fall! Snook: Our scripts for his show used to average abour 37 pages. This time it was 48 pages....and that after we cut another half hour of things... Bunnyboy: Didja hear Der Donnie wants to unhitch Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from the gubmint?!? Snook: More jokes in this than you can shake a speare at. Bunnyboy: "Doors open, boys!" Bunnyboy: Door's llanwydd: dfghyjukil,knhrfg Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Donnie D’Orange friends likely lust after such if Fannie & Freddie go private. Beet: Alfred E. Neuman is in the White House Snook: The holly doth lie amongst the wood! ||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Rodent of Unusual Size - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Snook: That's not fair to Alfred E. Neumann! DJTweeny: Thsi is like the version they did for the London show Beet: Yes, sorry. Snook: Alfred E. Neumann is MUCH more intelligent, you just take one look at him and it's obvious. ||||||||| 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: *This Cease: Great work, Snook Bunnyboy: It's dog and bunny relief time. Cheers! Snook: Many thanks, Cease, and I'll pass it on to the gang here. Cease: By Bun ||||||||| "9:58 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Bunnyboy, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the brambles. Beet: Night, Bunny. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Snook: Bye Bye, Bunny ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Snook: Wait, wasn't that a musical? Cease: I think Janis owned Summertime, but this was very good. Snook: Never heard it as a Samba before. DJTweeny: haha Snook Snook: Amy Walker is amazing. Nipun Nair is amazing too, what a combo! Cease: Amy did the Russian Hokey Pokey, right? Snook: Yes, she did all those Hokey Pokies - which our late beloved leader Mike Kelsey wrote. This was his last show. Cease: She reminded me of the Russian wrestler in GLOW Snook: Total adlib llanwydd: Cool! Beet: That was fun. Cease: A vast explosion of talent. Snook: We had no idea they were going to do this until they just did it. How Firesign can you get? ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" DJTweeny: So glad you guys got FST in Bloomington, Snook :) Beet: Lucky folks. llanwydd: that voice sounds like phil austin Snook: Can't tell you what it meant to me, and all of us. Only wish we'd been able to do it when all four were available... Snook: That voice is Dan Selvaggi, known as "Grouser" for some reason I've never been able to find out. DJTweeny: My 102 year old Mom attended the show at the Brown County Playhouse, it was quite a thrill for her after hearing me talk about FST all these years :) Cease: Be happy you got the 2. Cease: Lucky mother, Tween. Snook: Yes, I remember seeing her there! So incredibly cool! llanwydd: cool, tween! Cease: All 4 of the lads are like forces of benevolent nature. Cease: Hurricanes of goodness. Beet: Nicely put DJTweeny: nice one Cease Snook: If there's ever a Hurricane Phil, watch out. Not Ed: that was fun thanks Tweeny Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Now, to the wilds of Saskatchuan! llanwydd: speaking of hurricanes, we got lucky down here in florida Beet: Excellent Cease: You did indeed, llan Not Ed: glad llan! DJTweeny: no doubt llan ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s “Saskatchewan” (Part 2) 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/' Snook: Florida won't have to deal with Federal Disaster Aid -- you might say they dodged a bullshit. llanwydd: lol DJTweeny: It could have run straight into FL as a Cat 4 Not Ed: haha Snook Johan Amadeus Myjetski : The hurricane was going after Alabama, didn’t you hear? Beet: The whole east coast dodged the worst of it. Snook: Yes and it missed. Too bad. I've been to Alabama. llanwydd: alabama? Not Ed: Dimwit DJTweeny: Those damned commie hurricanes llanwydd: oh, I think I get it Snook: Yeah, nuke 'em. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Quoth d’Orange de Witless Not Ed: (listening) llanwydd: lol Beet: The President deserves impeachment for just being a dummy. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show – http://dishnuts.net Snook: Actually, if Pete Bergman had lived long enough to encounter this administration, it probably would have killed him by apoplexy. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Saskatchewan” (Part 2) at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#COLLAGES llanwydd: so what did he say about alabama? I missed it DJTweeny: hmmmm, forgot to change that llanwydd: well, I can probably guess Snook: Or frustration -- some things are impossible to parody Cease: LIke the way Rip Van Winkle's wife died, Snook. Snook: Whoops, don't get that one without research, Cease Johan Amadeus Myjetski : He doctored a map from the NWS, & said it was threatening Alabama llanwydd: greed goof Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “Saskatchewan” (Part 2) at >> http://kurtericson.com/cat/#CAT_TALES Beet: Llan, he said something about the hurricane going to Alabama. Snook: I don't object to threatening Alabama, per se, but... llanwydd: LOL, Snook DJTweeny: There are some good people in Alabama :) llanwydd: one of the two eastern states I have never been in. that and kentucky Cease: This is Neal Amid Snook: You see in the Midwest, Indiana folks tell jokes about Kentuckians; Kentuckians mock Tennesseeans, and people in Tennessee joke about Alabama. ||||||||| 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: My Great Great Grandparents were from Alabama. llanwydd: did they have a banjo on their knees? Beet: Just a bible. Snook: I met a guy who was such a Southerner that he said his family was treading water in the Gulf Stream. Snook: Did you ever try to hike with a banjo on your knee? That's why those people are still there. llanwydd: lol Snook: It's getting late here in the Land Of Goshen, and I'm going to have to finish my email and eventually become horizontal, that I may become vertical again to face Friday. llanwydd: pleasant dreams Beet: Nice to see you, Snook. Cease: Hope we can see you here next week and listen to Convergence. Snook: It seems like an appropriate moment to cut off Snook: I'll try! That was also fun, and also informative......... Snook: Flotsam's Mistake! Our high school used to play them. ||||||||| 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!" Snook: Yes...gotta go, good night all and Thank You VERY Much! ||||||||| Snook leaves to catch the 10:21 PM train to Hellmouth. Beet: The Republicans say we can't have nice things. Beet: The Neo Liberals say the the same thing. Cease: This is from a piece I did with Doc Tech and others a decade ago Cease: This was the actual Provo take over, from 67 Beet: I really enjoyed 24 Cease: Never saw it, but big fan of his grandfather Tommy Douglas who was premeir of Sask when I was born there DJTweeny: "In capitalism people use people. In Communism it's the other way around." ~Beyonanda Beet: Very sage remark. DJTweeny: One of my favorites ;) Beet: There's a real talent hanging wallpaper. Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com Cease: Sounds like the same problem as last week Beet: Strange Cease: Right in the middle of Tommy Douglas's best lines. Cease: Just got it on the 16k feed llanwydd: I am trying to figure that one out, tween. does that mean "capitalism=people use THE people / communism=THE people use people? llanwydd: I am a little thickheaded Beet: Both systems do the same thing. llanwydd: I can see that, beet Johan Amadeus Myjetski : Saskatoonies? Beet: That's what the joke is saying. Cease: this is a funny canuck radio show. Cease: saw it live last year. one of the funniest nights of my life. llanwydd: Beyonanda is a cool name Cease: There are only two cities over 200,000. Saskatoon and Regina, the capitol Cease: I much prefer Regina, which has the legistature and an actual downtown. Cease: Saskatoon is just the university, the hospital, and houses that soon give way to farms. Cease: Ive been tgo that museum, so you dont have to Cease: I had to hitch hike on that circle drive to get in and out of the city. no fun. DJTweeny: lol Beet: This is funny. ||||||||| 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!" Beet: lol DJTweeny: I'd imagine hitchhiking across Canada would be rather daunting ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Cat', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 10:47 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room... Cat: I seem to have dissappeared ||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!" Cat: page is flashing on and off. Cat: is something wrong with this site? DJTweeny: Working fine here Not Ed: audio is cool Beet: Mine is OK. Johan Amadeus Myjetski : See y’all next fire week! Not Ed: yes window flashing (glad it's not just me, heehee) Cat: not audio, the screen. DJTweeny: might try rebooting the browser, Cat Not Ed: take care JAM Cat: come again, jam Beet: G'Nite, JAM. DJTweeny: wow, no problems here :/ ||||||||| 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: Cool sounding bass. Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a pipe full of Old Toby ||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a pipe full of old toby. ||||||||| Catherwood escorts c inside, makes a note of the time (10:52 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something. llanwydd: hi c Beet: Hi c c: hope to have new machine soon. c: i'm cease, minus all those extra letters DJTweeny: A Mac, I hope Not Ed: hey kid I'm not a machine DJTweeny: Macs I can help you with Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation... Not Ed: thanks Tweeny llanwydd: thanks tween, thanks cat Not Ed: thanks Cat DJTweeny: lol Ed Beet: Enjoyed this. Nice to see a few return personalities. Thanks to everyone. Great collage, Dr Cease. Thanks as always Dr Tween. Happy Birthday again, Llan.G'Nite. Not Ed: Rufus! Deputy Dang: tHANK YOU SO MUCH! ||||||||| Poppy enters at 10:54 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Hat Pack Annex. llanwydd: nite everybody ||||||||| llanwydd leaves at 10:54 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..." Not Ed: Stay groovy all! Don't take any wooden indians! DJTweeny: Show's over Poppy :/ Try 2 hours earlier next week :) DJTweeny: heh c: New collage series next week. Poppy: YOU ARE ALL BOZOS ( see you next time ||||||||| At 10:56 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, c!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on... DJTweeny: Until last time, again... Deputy Dang: I'm a pup. Second generation, at least. The guy who introduced me to FS was following someone else, at least initially. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Poppy - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from intense demonic possession ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Cat - 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: ||||||||| Not Ed - 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 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 3:25 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Bambi - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 3:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from the fiddlers ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 3:55 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 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 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 4:10 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Cease - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| It's 4:25 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 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:
Bambi
Beet
Bunnyboy
c
Cat
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Poppy
Rodent of Unusual Size
Rufus_T_Firetween
Snook
