Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
07/23/2020

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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 July 23, 2020 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 6:42 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| 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'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Outside, the 7:45 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving DJTweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| DJTweeny sneaks in around 8:36 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| 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 (CSNY)
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 tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:46 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
llanwydd: good evening tween
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:46 PM and Johan Amadeus Myjetski sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Greetiungs, programs!
llanwydd: Hey JAM
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hey Alan! Good to 'see' you!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Plan!
llanwydd: I had the Deja Vu album but I dont remember thissong
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Llan
llanwydd: oh, its live
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Finally!
llanwydd: lol
DJTweeny: Hi llan, Johan
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I also had Deja Vu. Fabulous! This song, Southern Cross makes me dream, big time!
llanwydd: tween must be afk for the moment
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Greets DJT!
DJTweeny: This is from a collection called Carry On
||||||||| Outside, the 8:49 PM downtown bus from British Columbia pulls away, leaving Cease coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: allo Cease
llanwydd: Hey Cease
||||||||| Catherwood leads Captain Equinox in through the front door at 8:50 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Captain Equinox: HIYA, Kiddos!
||||||||| "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 Chatters
llanwydd: Hi CE
DJTweeny: Hi Captain
Cease: One of Proctor's friends wrote Southern Cross.
Captain Equinox: Greetings from the Presidink of de United Shtashes!
DJTweeny: Sounthern Cross in the name of Crosby's sailboat
DJTweeny: *Southern
Cease: Proc talks about it in his autobiography.
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Deputy Dang', just granted probation at 8:52 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Happy Prelated Hump Day!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: if it's the one in the video for this song, it's a beauty!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiysa, Cap't!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Howdy, Cease!
Cease: Hi Jammy
Cease: Hope we get as good a turn out this week as we had for last week
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi dePuty!
Captain Equinox: Hey, JAM!
Deputy Dang: Howdy Maste!r Myjetski
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Outside, the 9:00 PM crosstown bus from Leesburg pulls away, leaving Beet coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: Good evening Fireheads.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, July 23, 2020 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: Hi Beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: Yo Beet
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
Beet: Good evening Fireheads.
Captain Equinox: *honk honk*
Deputy Dang: Hey Beet!
Beet: Hi Dr Cease, Dr Tween, Deputy, Captain
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Yo beet!
Beet: Hi JAM
Captain Equinox: Keep it sweet Beet!
Beet: I'm tryin'
||||||||| 9:01 PM: Elayne jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Cease: Hi El
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Elayne
Elayne: Hey mister, I got a nickel, wait for meeeeee.....
Beet: Hi Miss Elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: sounds like we can't talk in here...
||||||||| 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."
Cease: Hope you're all disease-free
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi E!
Rufus_T_Firetween: fingers and toes crossed
Elayne: Can't stay long, I'm practicaly asleep as it is.
Beet: No Covid in the chat!
Captain Equinox: a-CHOO!
Deputy Dang: I just got my first official brainstem swabbing this morning. Just precaution before a fun fun fun endoscopy next week.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: i walk past a mirror, and think, "who was that masked man?"
||||||||| 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: BC had a small uptick today and the govt is freaking out, the the calm way Canadians do.
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'brainstem swabbing'?
Captain Equinox: 50 YEARS?!
Elayne: Indeed, Catp.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DWARF at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-rv'
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: a half a century! who'd have thought it?
Captain Equinox: ...and they said it wouldn't last!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Don't Crush That Gimli, Hand Me the Calipers
Captain Equinox: HAH!
Cease: jammy, i think everyone who first heard it in 1970 thought it.
Beet: The trick seems to be reversing selling out once done.
Cease: i learned a lot about the album from the interview we heard last week
Beet: Great show last week
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: agreed, beet & Cease!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: more backstory than I had ever heard about Don't Crush
Elayne: Isn't all religion just a presumptuous assumption?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign’s NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Cease: indeed, el
Elayne: I still can't tell the ACs from the DCs. They need to let me know their preferred pronouns.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: over and over
Beet: I had a shoe shine once.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: 1517
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Boy howdie in through the front door at 9:11 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: hi boy
Beet: Hi Boy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: they knew how to write songs in 1517...
Rufus_T_Firetween: Howdy Boy
Captain Equinox: Perfect, E!
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: howdy bot homie!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DWARF” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-ln
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: boy howdie
Cease: when elayne and I visited DO in 1995, he told us of his idea for a movie of Dwarf.
Elayne: As if I remember, Cat. :)
Captain Equinox: WOW!
Rufus_T_Firetween: That would have been cool
Beet: Martin Lother published his principles in 1517. Coincidence?
Captain Equinox: HOT DOG!
Beet: Luther
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Dwarf Films presents...
Cease: his idea for the intro was zeroing in on la, then the Hollywood sign, but instead of Hollywood, it said Sector R
Rufus_T_Firetween: hah
llanwydd: scfvgbhnm,k
llanwydd: when I bought this album it had no inner sleeve
llanwydd: they must have been on a tight budget
Captain Equinox: Have a toke!
Captain Equinox: pipe nipples
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: just a token toke for me thanks...
Cease: actually they made quite a few film projects. god's clown their last i think, in 2010
Beet: Catherwood give everyone a toke.
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a toke.
Captain Equinox: I never take a toke when I'm unconscious.
Cease: thanks, catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood answers "You're welcome."
Captain Equinox: Groovy, kimosabe
||||||||| 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: firesign fan, boy?
Boy howdie: Trying to get the bunker finished by election day.
Captain Equinox: Firesign fanboy.
Deputy Dang: good idea
Beet: I can't wait until I can get lunch through my TV screen.
Captain Equinox: Your shenanigans could cost me this erection.
Cease: i think you have to go into the tv to get it.
Beet: I knew there was a catch.
Captain Equinox: BOTTLES!
||||||||| 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."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Cease, there was a rumor from the early days of TV, that the power levels could be raised to the point where it would no longer merely transmit the image, but would teleport the object itself.
Captain Equinox: Just watched Tron and Tron:Legacy last week.
Cease: sounds like star trek
Captain Equinox: He got sucked in
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: these stories came out in the 30s, when tv was still experimental
Beet: Good special effects in those movies.
Cease: very interesting
Captain Equinox: Ask Barnadr Hughes
Captain Equinox: Barnard
Captain Equinox: Stop call me Fred
Deputy Dang: You mean George Bernard Shaw?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: that's my Dad!
Captain Equinox: Dumont
Captain Equinox: all reet!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Philatalists are stamp collectors
Captain Equinox: which is like jerking off with postage
Captain Equinox: due
Captain Equinox: eat it!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: & if it comes postage due?
Beet: What is Reality?
Captain Equinox: Stamp ot VD
Captain Equinox: Heya Joe!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: white priviledge rears its ugly head at last!
Elayne: Was Tweeny from How Time Flys a bendable integrated community worker?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:31 PM bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Medium Richard coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Cease: HI Richard
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Medium!
Medium Richard: Reality is illusion!
Rufus_T_Firetween: "A blow-up man in an overblown government job." ;)
||||||||| 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: Hi Medium
Medium Richard: hey
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DWARF” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-ln
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
Beet: Hello Medium
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
Medium Richard: Good to be back... where's that Bear Whiz...
Beet: Catherwood get Medium a Bear Whiz
||||||||| Catherwood gets medium a bear whiz.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Catherwood, please give Medium Richard a Whiz
||||||||| Catherwood hands medium richard a whiz.
Cease: Ask the bear
Rufus_T_Firetween: beet me to it :)
Beet: Catherwood is the man.
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to Beet and yells "My ears are burning..."
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: fatherhood, whip out a BearWhiz for everybody!
Captain Equinox: Make it a Large
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Medium Richard: Reminds me: gotta check Bear Manor Media for a few things. No, really.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Catherwood whip out e Bear Whiz for everybody!
||||||||| Catherwood whips out e bear whiz for everybody.
Elayne: Well, that's it for this old gal. Mayhapy next week, all!
||||||||| "Hey Elayne!" ... Elayne turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:36 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Cease: keep well, el
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Nitey, Elayne!
Beet: Nite Elayne.
Captain Equinox: Night EEEEEE
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "9:38 PM and late as usual, it's Not Ed, just back from Los Angeles."
Not Ed: Porque?
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hiya, Not!
Cease: Hi Not
Not Ed: JAM & C!
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Porque, or more porque?
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Not Ed
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Not Ed: NBeet N Cappy N Ruf N Med
Not Ed: Disqueworld
Captain Equinox: Hey Ed
||||||||| Catherwood leads Kct into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mutters something about 9:39 PM, then departs.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DWARF” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-ln
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Boy howdie - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: Yo Kct
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: hi Kct!
Not Ed: Waz real Ket
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Kct
Beet: howdy howdie
||||||||| Around 9:40 PM, Kct walks off into the sunset...
Beet: They come, they go
llanwydd: I always thought it was hypocritical how prosecuting attorneys call themselves the people
Rufus_T_Firetween: we barely knew ye
Not Ed blinks
Medium Richard: I barely know me.
llanwydd: and the people wants to know.....!
Cease: they come, they go
llanwydd: state attys and DAs etc
llanwydd: state of ny vs...
||||||||| Outside, the 9:43 PM bus from Seattle pulls away, leaving Maffy coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi Maffy!
llanwydd: Hi Maffy!
Beet: Hi Maffy
Not Ed: Maf
Cease: Maffy
Medium Richard: yo
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Maffy
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “DWARF” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=dctd-ln
Cease: where's ruth?
Medium Richard: We may be Ruthless.
Not Ed: zizzing?
llanwydd: thats onomatopoea or however you spell it
Not Ed: O I C
llanwydd: lol
Beet: Who is the female voice on the phone?
Beet: English accent
Rufus_T_Firetween: dunno
llanwydd: great album
Not Ed: great LP
Beet: Classic. Happy birthday.
Cease: tiz
Not Ed: happy 50 to Pliers!
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks to RADIO FREE DISHNUTS for providing the streaming server for this show. If you'd like to make a small contribution to help with the server fees, there's a PayPal link to donate here >> http://dishnuts.net
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s “THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out BRIDE at https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-rv'
Captain Equinox: Annalee Austin
Not Ed: knew it
Rufus_T_Firetween: Beet >> "Wake-Up Lady and Bird Stylings by Anna-Lee" << from the liner notes
Not Ed: the weenie skit
Beet: Cool.Thanks
Beet: Cancer prevention!
||||||||| 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 A Chat Name falls out at 9:55 PM.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Name
Beet: We need A Chat Name
Not Ed: ACN
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: As Ian Anderson called, the 'ol one-eyed snake in the pants!
A Chat Name: testing testing 123
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BRIDE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
Captain Equinox: testes one two
Cease: Hi Name
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Hi A Chat!
A Chat Name: hi ho
A Chat Name: this is very early 80s
A Chat Name: it said to enter a chat name
Captain Equinox: Whaz real!
Captain Equinox: HAH!
Not Ed: catherwood give everyone a mug of bear whiz beer
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a mug of bear whiz beer.
Medium Richard: I knew I didn't follow directions...
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: What reel - are we in now?
Captain Equinox: the final reel
Not Ed: unreel
Captain Equinox: Rolling Thunder
A Chat Name: if I lived here I would be home by now.....
A Chat Name: I still have a land line - but I never answer it
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Not Ed: well there you go
A Chat Name: do you know where your juvenile deliquents are?
Not Ed: in a jar by the door
Not Ed: wait what was the question
Medium Richard: aha - one minute late for something - seize youse next nanominiepoch!
||||||||| At 10:02 PM, Medium Richard vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
Not Ed: L O S T G A L S
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: Bye Med!
Cease: by medium
A Chat Name: what are you going to tell your younger chromosomes.....
Not Ed: knicky nick nick
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone some rain-soaked cake
||||||||| Catherwood hands everyone some rain-soaked cake.
llanwydd: oh no
Captain Equinox: US Plus!
Cease: Next week we conclude the Dwarf celebration with 3 live Dwarves plus a repeat of A LIfe in KWKWT, a mix of the source material for Dwarf
Beet: How to run a political campaign
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "10:10 PM and late as usual, it's Barney, just back from Connecticut."
Beet: Howdy Barney
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Barney
Cease: Barney
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BRIDE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
Cease: this album gets better with repeated listenings
Captain Equinox: And it was great to begin with.
Cease: true
Not Ed: Anubis Among Us
Not Ed: well splice my genes
Rufus_T_Firetween: Cease: this album gets better with repeated listenings << Generally a feature of FST albums :)
Cease: true, tween
Captain Equinox: Well shift my innards
Captain Equinox: organs
Not Ed: where's organ Leroy when we need him?
Not Ed: hard to exit the Moebius Strip
Captain Equinox: Seems like forever.
Captain Equinox: like an eternity
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Not Ed: and how!
Not Ed: dogs can't lie
Cease: sure they can. then they get up.
||||||||| 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."
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Barney - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: Ralph follows us all forever.
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: really fun record goofy and pure TFT
Cease: true
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's a great swan song for their studio recordings
Cease: true
Cease: 2 faced penny
Cease: you know the borges story about the coin that has only one side?
llanwydd: I may have read it long ago, cat
Cease: this is the patty duke show theme song
Cease: did a collage about that.
llanwydd: never noticed that
Beet: Lift a leg on your enemies.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Archives For The FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS can be found at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about “BRIDE” at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
Beet: Can anyone still mention the word "Confederate"?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Before The Constitution, there were The Articles Of Confederation which got the new States through the Revolutionary War
Cease: words change their meanings over the centuries
Rufus_T_Firetween: it's just a term, unless you talk about The Confederacy
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: the US was a confederacy when it fought & won the revolution. So we were all confederates...
Beet: The what?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Articles of Confederation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
Captain Equinox: This is where I came in. G'night all! Keep 'em Flying!
Rufus_T_Firetween: The 1st constitution of the United States
Johan Amadeus Myjetski: I'm out of here! Nite all! Love to all! & Thanks!
Rufus_T_Firetween: later gator
Beet: My biggest gripe is that the Ku Klux Klan chose the battle flag to broadcast their hate.
Beet: Nite JAM
Captain Equinox: See ya's next week!
Rufus_T_Firetween: later Captain
Not Ed: Later!
Cease: by
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: a DOMM Extras “AL ATLAS INTERVIEW (1970)”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS at >> https://firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio#DUKEOFPFTFTJ'
Beet: See ya.
Not Ed: Whoops!
Cease: this is wonderful
Beet: I was in Boston starting in '71
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
||||||||| 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 6-9pm EST every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.com/firesign'
||||||||| At 10:53 PM, llanwydd runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
Beet: Nite Llan
||||||||| EbStooge enters at 10:54 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Eb
Cease: Eb
Rufus_T_Firetween: The show's over :(
Beet: Hey, Eb you're late.
EbStooge: Dropping before beddie-bye time to say Happy 50th to Dwarf
EbStooge: Hey Rufus.
Rufus_T_Firetween: try 9pm Eastern next week :)
Beet: Nice
Cease: Dwarf appreciates that
EbStooge: Hey Beet. Yeah I know. Been working in the lab.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Deputy Dang: outstanding!
EbStooge: Next week def. See y'all later. Toodles.
||||||||| EbStooge rushes off, saying "10:56 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Beet: This was fun. Two classics in their entirety. Nice to see some new faces. Thanks to everyone. Looking forward to the next creation, Dr Cease. Thanks for your usual expert helmsmanship, Dr Tween. G' Nite all.
Cease: 3 lives Dwarves next week plus an hour of Dwarf's predecessors
Cease: will finish dwarf celebration next week. then Abbey Road goes Firesign
Deputy Dang: good night folks
||||||||| "10:57 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Deputy Dang, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the brambles.
Cease: happy 80th birthday, phil proctor
||||||||| 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: Until last time, again...
||||||||| Cease departs at 10:58 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| 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 jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| 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 luke liver disembarks at 11:24 PM.
||||||||| It's 11:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| A Chat Name - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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 pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| luke liver - 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:
||||||||| Captain Equinox - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Maffy - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 12:40 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Johan Amadeus Myjetski - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| 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:
A Chat Name
Beet
Boy howdie
Captain Equinox
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
EbStooge
Elayne
Johan Amadeus Myjetski
llanwydd
Medium Richard
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween

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