Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
10/28/2021

Archive

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for October 28, 2021 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween tiptoes in around 4:49 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month'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
visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween inside, makes a note of the time (6:40 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 7:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween sneaks in around 7:42 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 7:57 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| "8:24 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Rufus_T_Firetween, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the garden.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:24 PM and Rufus_T_Frankentween bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| DJTweeny leaves at 8:25 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..."
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:26 PM and late as usual, it's DJHannibal, just back from Billville."
||||||||| 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 YOU CAME TO DINNER!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – HALLOWEEN MUSIC
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)'
||||||||| ddywnall enters at 8:48 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
ddywnall: howdy folks
DJHannibal: Yo llan
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU CAME TO DINNER!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – HALLOWEEN MUSIC
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)'
||||||||| cease bounds in at 8:51 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
ddywnall: Hi Cat
DJHannibal: allo cease
cease: hi chatters
DJHannibal: good zevon tunes
cease: werewolves of london, poor poor pitiful me are my fave zevon tunes
DJHannibal: werewolves coming up
cease: halloween relevant
DJHannibal: Ronstadt and Browne on backing vocals on these tunes
cease: hey llan. come and join us on sunday
DJHannibal: I think we're probably moving to Sunday afternoons, llan
cease: linda's poor me is The version for me
DJHannibal: much better time for folks to be able to show up
ddywnall: really, hannibal
cease: Ossman's 2nd wife joined us last sunday. funny story about the firesigns at carnegie
DJHannibal: We had Tiny (Austin's belle?) join us last week
DJHannibal: ah, Ossman
ddywnall: I will just have to go to the beach the morning then
ddywnall: in
DJHannibal: 4pm Eastern/1pm Pacific
ddywnall: if I had known I would have logged on
ddywnall: I probably did know but forgot
DJHannibal: We're going to try both shows for a few weeks and see if it makes a difference
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Beet in through the front door at 8:58 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Very sorry I didn’t show Sunday. I got distracted by my usual chores and completely forgot. Again, apologies.
ddywnall: Hey Beet
DJHannibal: Yo Beet
cease: beetman
||||||||| "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!"
DJHannibal: No worries Beet, We're going to try both shows for a few weeks and see if it makes a difference
Beet: Hi, ddy, DJ Dr Cease.
cease: hallloween is a very firesign "holiday"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU CAME TO DINNER!! (YOU'RE 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)'
cease: an invitation to weirdness
Beet: Anybody remember Trader Vic's?
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, October 28, 2021 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
cease: name is familiar
cease: tiki drinks?
Beet: Used to be huge.
DJHannibal: Trader Joe's is still a thing in Texas
Beet: We have them out here in Northern viginia also.
Beet: Virginia
||||||||| Outside, the 9:04 PM downtown bus from New York pulls away, leaving Elayne coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
cease: if the firesign chat show comes on at 4 AM I'll still be there.
Elayne: Evenin' all!
Beet: Heard a scary Coast2Coast the other night.
cease: i've been devoted to Firesign almost as long as there's been a Firesign
cease: Hi El
Elayne: Hey Cat!
DJHannibal: Hey Elayne
cease: do you know Tiny?
Elayne: Loved the two Monique photos. I missed that the first time around, glad you reposted it.
Beet: Wow! Great Howdy Elayne! Very nice to see you.
cease: She showed up on chat right after you left and told funny tales of Firesign at Carnegie
||||||||| 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!"
Elayne: Hello Beet!
cease: i always try and post different pix every birthday
Elayne: Cat, Tiny was there? Oh yes, I knew her from old. David's ex, you mean, yes?
Elayne: I remember visiting her place in CA where she had framed photos of herself on the wall, naked. An interesting experience.
cease: the new play i'm creating has a lot of incidents from her life.
cease: yes yes
Elayne: How's she doing now? Healthy, still making art?
DJHannibal: Yeah, Tiny talked about singing on some of the material we were playing
cease: we didn't get into it but it kinda sounds like her and Paul will be back.
Elayne: Ah well, maybe she'll show up again this coming Sunday. Worth it to do the chat on Sundays just for stuff like that!!
DJHannibal: Pretty sure we can attract some more Fireheads on Sunday
Elayne: Oh, I hope so. Where are they now? AZ?
cease: Paul said that the time worked for them
cease: they didnt' say
Elayne: Did my buddy Phyllis ever show? Or her hubby Richie?
Elayne: Fireheads from way back, apparently. I've known Phyllis for years and never knew.
cease: Unless she was Bozette, no.
DJHannibal: 4 Eastern/1 Pacific on a Sunday afternoon is probably better for us old folks ;)
cease: that's amazing, El
Elayne: Pretty sure she wasn't Bozette.
Elayne: I'll DM her on Facebook Sunday AM if I remember
Elayne: I can't even remember to show up myself most of the time :)
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU CAME TO DINNER!! (YOU'RE 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 >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-rv'
Elayne: I need to talk to Otto and see if he can do me a favor involving stuff that's now legal in NYS.
cease: it felt like they knew this would be their final "album"
Elayne: Does he come onto Thursday chats?
cease: there used to be a chatter named Otto Yamamoto.
DJHannibal: probably why they used so many old characters
Elayne: Ah, he's a "useta be." I'll have to DM him then.
DJHannibal: great way to end their studio series
cease: what was your friend the professor's name, the guy who's writing a book about firesign?
cease: i should invite him to sunday
Elayne: He's still a Facebook friend. That seems to be where it's at now, at least until they close the place down.
Elayne: Oh Cat, like I have any memory of such things. I have no idea. The guy from Amsterdam?
cease: i fear his book wont come out while the firesigns are alive. bummer
Elayne: Christian?
cease: no, northern ny
Elayne: He's still on my holiday card list, such as it is...
cease: cornell i think
Elayne: Gah, I have no idea. Sorry.
Elayne: No episodic memory at all, I'm afraid.
cease: thanks for the yearly cards, el
cease: i'll find him.
Elayne: Fictional or stuff during my life. But I can recite my credit card number from memory. Go figure.
Rufus_T_Frankentween: haha
Elayne: Cat, I think we'll be doing cads again. I enjoy the process. Have to go buy new ones again.
cease: for a person who has ingested the amount of intoxicants i have in the past half century, it is amazing my memory is as good as it is.
Elayne: Used up my entire supply during the height of hte pandemic last year.
cease: i dont even have to drive into vancouver any more. great little shop here in north van, and Great product
cease: you mentioned driving out to conn to visit doc and lilil
cease: i just emailed doc about that
cease: i guess he's too busy delivering pizza to join us on sunday
Elayne: I'll have to text him.
Elayne: He responds pretty quickly to texts.
Elayne: Oh dear, I'm starting to see way too much of the insides of my eyelids. See y'all on Sunday.
||||||||| Elayne leaves at 9:17 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..."
Beet: 'Bye Elayne.
cease: by el
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Elf into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:18 PM, then departs.
cease: you still here, llan?
cease: hi elf
Beet: Hello Elf.
DJHannibal: Hi Elf
Rufus_T_Frankentween: ** Read about THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
DJHannibal: Sunday continues to look like a better bet ;)
cease: any day is fine for me.
cease: i spend all my time listening to firesign and mxiing it into collages anyway.
cease: you an old firesign fan, elf?
cease: ossman is VERY GOOD at portraiying bad guys
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:30 PM and residualecho steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| It's 9:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elf - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: Hello residual
residualecho: Which side of the record was that?
residualecho: Or are we live on tape?
residualecho: Hiya Mr. Beet!
cease: hi ken
residualecho: Heya Cat
cease: what's a job to a cat
residualecho: Something to interfere in?
cease: there is a firesign riff in Hour Hour about why elves dont smoke dope
cease: maybe elf went off to smoke
cease: i just turned my volcano on. takes a few minutes to heat up
cease: i wonder if austin wrote this music
residualecho: Austin's taste in needle drops was incomparable
residualecho: "Some Bonzo Dog Night?"
||||||||| Ghost of Not Ed steals in around 9:39 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Ghost of Not Ed: Pork?
cease: not
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Hi echo, ghost
Rufus_T_Frankentween: ** Read about THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
cease: no, i', celibate
Ghost of Not Ed: Hey C
Rufus_T_Frankentween: ** NEW FIRESIGN DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
Ghost of Not Ed: Boo Beet
Beet: Hey, Ghost
Ghost of Not Ed: Hey DJH & resid
Ghost of Not Ed: Rufus!
Ghost of Not Ed: Waz real
residualecho: Very scary
Ghost of Not Ed: Laptop dancing lol
cease: they always tried to be funny
ddywnall: sxedtrcfvgh, etc.
Beet: Well said
ddywnall: lol
cease: this is almost the same song as the patty duke show theme song
ddywnall: this is a funny song
cease: i did a collage about that called Cousins
ddywnall: not in the same key for sure
cease: one of the funniest things i've ever heard is SCTV's parody of thatr song
cease: identical OP
cease: OPEC oil ministers
cease: how is seattle, not?
cease: not blown away?
cease: yes, us canadians can really write
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Graverobber's Roadshow is an absolutely wonderful parody of NPR's Antiques Roadshow. Great way to end the album
Rufus_T_Frankentween: ** Read about THE BRIDE OF FIRESIGN >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
residualecho: gots to play with the sprogs so saying adios
||||||||| 9:55 PM -- residualecho left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Rufus_T_Frankentween: later gator
Beet: See ya residual.
ddywnall: havent seen the word keyword in a few years
cease: by ken
||||||||| "Hey cease!" ... cease turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:59 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
ddywnall: cool
||||||||| cease sashays in at 9:59 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
cease: not you mioght want to join us on sundayh afternoons
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Frankentween: ** 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
cease: you too llan
Ghost of Not Ed: ddywn
cease: we may end up moving there
Beet: cool
ddywnall: yes, ca. tween reminded me earlier. I had forgotten
cease: yu too beet
ddywnall: cat
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU CAME TO DINNER!! (YOU'RE IT) **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
“HALLOWEEN 17”
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.net/cat/'
Beet: yup
cease: ossman's 2nd wife Tiny joined us last sunday. great tales of the firesign at carnegi hall
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Sundays will likely be the future of this chat
Rufus_T_Frankentween: tell your Firehead friends to join us
Ghost of Not Ed: one of the best Mutt & Smutts
Ghost of Not Ed: Join on suinday?
cease: two more chapters of Fireheads 6 coming up.
ddywnall: codependent! LOL
ddywnall: I saw them right across the street from carnegie hall
ddywnall: I wonder if they ended up at Town Hall by trying to book CH
cease: i doubt it
ddywnall: lol
cease: carnegie was their peek
ddywnall: only one way to book carnegie hall. practice
cease: it was slowly downhill from that, i hear
Rufus_T_Frankentween takes a peek at carnegie hall
ddywnall: somehow I forgot they had done carnegie hall
ddywnall: what did they do? Anythynge?
cease: the usual mix of thier stuff.
ddywnall: I must have known they did CH but somehow I forgot
cease: remember rap as a noun?
ddywnall: please dont dominate the rap, jack
ddywnall: if you got nothin new to say
ddywnall: that and beat the rap
cease: used that song in the Grateful Firesign collage i played last week. one of my favourite dead songs
Beet: waz real
cease: and they are few
ddywnall: I know. that was cool
cease: there are only 3 people here now who aren't admins
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign’s XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
cease: not really a good turn out for a halloweeen show, and firesign is very halloweeny
ddywnall: true
cease: i hope you're right about sunday being more successful, tween
ddywnall: I meant true about the non admins
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Yeah, we definitely need to move to Sunday
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Which is actually Halloween ;)
cease: we move to the 38th of Cunnegonde, I'll be there.
Rufus_T_Frankentween: so lets see what we can do
ddywnall: so everybody is going to be having a full Sunday dinner with pot roast while we are chatting
cease: have no idea how to attract more folks
ddywnall: and the usual trimmings
cease: my life has been creating, not promoting
ddywnall: thats a way to attract more folks. make it a sunday dinner theme
cease: my parents were great at promoting but not crearting so yin-yang chilldhood
ddywnall: chicken, turkey, pot roast, pork roast, leg of lamb
ddywnall: I am joking of course
Beet: The Devil, you say.
cease: llllan, there is a list of animals i ate in the same act as you in my new play
ddywnall: is there a historical meaning of le trente-huit cunegonde
ddywnall: thats cool, cat
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
cease: my parents had many artist friends and i grew up in a house full of art. i thik that encouraged my own art appreciation
ddywnall: but she does not like my lobster
ddywnall: boo hoo
cease: my house now looks like an art gallery. never enough beauty, because beauty begets beauty
ddywnall: thats a good heritage to have, cat
Beet: Art is so important and it expresses the very essence of any culture.
ddywnall: I dont have an artistic heritage but both my parents were experts in the english language
ddywnall: that gave me the gift of speech
Beet: There is certainly art in language.
ddywnall: catherwood give us 360 degree panorama
||||||||| Catherwood brings us 360 degree panorama.
ddywnall: now I can see everywhere
DJHannibal: So let's tell eveyone we know about the Sunday show, and see if we can drum up some Fireheads
||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Ghost of Not Ed - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
cease: hey not, join us on sunday at 1. will play Clark Wintergreen, proc and berg's fave
DJHannibal: Thursday is obviously not working
DJHannibal: oops, he be ded
ddywnall: and tell them we are having pot roast with yorkshire pudding, potatoes, carrots, the works
cease: that happens here a lot
DJHannibal: yy llan lol
ddywnall: what time sunday, tween?
DJHannibal: haggas for all!
cease: you still here beet?
DJHannibal: 4 Eastern/1 Pacific
ddywnall: cool!
cease: there are fewer people here now than there are fingers on one hand.
cease: i'll need a finger cuttiing machine.
DJHannibal: I'm headed in that direction at this point
DJHannibal: yeah, late on a weeknight just isn't working
DJHannibal: FST fans are getting older (as are we all ;)
cease: after 26 years
ddywnall: I dont know, tween. we get a lot of people out here sometimes
||||||||| 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!"
DJHannibal: a Sunday afternoon is probably a better choice
Beet: Beet is still here.
cease: i'm much more into my play then doing collages at present. you still going to do those lines, tween?
ddywnall: yeah, its amazing I have been a fst fan for 45 years at least
DJHannibal: up to you guys, but that's my vote
cease: beet, you're on the east coast. join us on sunday your late afternoon time
cease: 54 for me
DJHannibal: Will try to get them to you ASAP Cat, it's on the list
cease: i'd been writing plays since 59 and was told by many that i was very good. then i heard firesign in 67, before the albums, and i realiized they were doing what i was doing only better
Beet: I will set alarms to remind me.
ddywnall: interesting, cat
cease: you wanna be in my new play, beet?
ddywnall: I would go for it beet. it is great fun doing cats plays
Beet: Sure!
cease: you were in the thing i did for ossman last year so i can write for your voice, as i do for llan, tween, elayne and others
||||||||| "10:40 PM? 10:40 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Zen Cosmos should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Zen Cosmos enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
ddywnall: howdy zen!
cease: as an old playwrite and radio guy, i have to hear the voice i'm writing
cease: Hey Zen
cease: Great to see you on the new sunday show
Zen Cosmos: sooo late and too busy, saw Dune at a matinee...
cease: did you like it?
cease: i loved the book
Beet: It would be really fun. Definitely count me in.
ddywnall: I read dune in high school
Beet: Howdy, Zen.
cease: do i have your addrsss, beet?
cease: waht timezone are you in, zen?
Beet: You should have my address. We have exchanged emails before.
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Hey Zen
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Zen, we're trying a new show on Sunday afternoons at 4 Eastern/1 Pacific. Be there or be a square little feller...
Rufus_T_Frankentween: My choice is to move there
Beet: Bodies have a shelf life.
cease: i will contribute collages on any day
Rufus_T_Frankentween: late on a weeknight just isn't working
cease: i was at bergman's memorial and ossman told me berman was the pioneer
cease: in radio and maybe in death too
cease: he opened up the space for firesign to exist and dave and his wife think pete opened up the world of death in the same way, as a pioneer
cease: kind buddhist and ghost/halloween thing but, whatever
Rufus_T_Frankentween: this is a riff on Mark Twain
Rufus_T_Frankentween: lol Ossman
Rufus_T_Frankentween: 'some said he was, some said he wasn't'
Rufus_T_Frankentween: definitely a Mark Twain riff by Ossman
Rufus_T_Frankentween: nice
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Hal Holbrook did this on Mark Twain Tonight
cease: hal holbrook joins the firesing theatre
cease: as a kid i had thatr album
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Yeah, we had the vinyl
Beet: Actually saw Holbrook do Twain in Boston
Rufus_T_Frankentween: Holbrook was great
||||||||| New notice: '** THANKS FOR LISTENING, ALL! **
Thanks to Radio Free Dishnuts, www.dishnuts.net, for providing the streaming server for the simulcast :)
Listen to the ARCHIVES FOR FIRESIGN CHAT SHOWS at: www.kurtericson.net/firesign'
cease: i am one of trhe founders of Occupy
||||||||| 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!"
Rufus_T_Frankentween: wow, cool Beet
cease: and then he died
ddywnall: that was his final broadcast wasnt it?
ddywnall: yeah, thanks cat and tween
cease: yes
Beet: This has been fun. Nice to see everyone. Great work as usual, Dr Cease. Thanks for the guidance, Dr Tween. See everyone Sunday. G’Nite all.
Rufus_T_Frankentween: See you Sunday Beet
cease: look forward to seeing you sunday,
ddywnall: yeah, sunday!
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
ddywnall: nite folks
cease: SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
||||||||| 10:55 PM -- ddywnall left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
DJHannibal: 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 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| DJHannibal - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Rufus_T_Frankentween - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| cease - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 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
cease
ddywnall
DJHannibal
Elayne
Ghost of Not Ed
residualecho
Rufus_T_Frankentween
Zen Cosmos

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=bof-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl