Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/17/2022

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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 4:32 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for March 17, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween enters at 3:00 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 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 4:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Rufus_T_Firetween close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
||||||||| Catherwood leads DJTweeny into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 3:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| Catherwood leads johan amadeus myjetski inside, makes a note of the time (3:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: Hi johan
johan amadeus myjetski: catherwood make that note of the time an A flat
||||||||| Catherwood brings that note of the time an a flat.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – SHADOWFAX-ESPERANTO
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)'
johan amadeus myjetski: hiya DJT!
johan amadeus myjetski: hjaven't heard shadowfax in a long while. their horn player plays a wind controlled synthesizer called a Lyricon, similar to the wind synths i play to this very day!
DJTweeny: Yes, I've heard of it. I believe a musician in Streisand's band used one.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 3:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
johan amadeus myjetski: a guy in Cohen's band played an EWI, also similar
Tweeny: Lyricon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyricon
johan amadeus myjetski: i had a
johan amadeus myjetski: Lyricon2
Tweeny: ooooh nice
johan amadeus myjetski: for 25 years
johan amadeus myjetski: today i use a yamaha wx5 midi controller
johan amadeus myjetski: a digital world equivilent
Tweeny: what sound module do you drive with it?
johan amadeus myjetski: the photo in the wiki article is a lyricon2
Tweeny: ok
johan amadeus myjetski: an older roland jv-1010
Tweeny: Have you recorded anything?
johan amadeus myjetski: i also recently acquired an older model EWI but it needs some work done on it before it's fit to use
johan amadeus myjetski: it's the only synth you here on all my Zero Ohms albums. i play almost no keyboards
johan amadeus myjetski: hear
Rufus_T_Firetween: ah, cool
johan amadeus myjetski: go to zeroohms.bandcamp.com
Rufus_T_Firetween: once we get some people in here you might want to post some links to your projects
Rufus_T_Firetween: yeah, tell the folks about that
johan amadeus myjetski: i'll try - at least the bandcamp link
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and announces "Presenting 'Deputy Dang', just granted probation at 3:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Good having you at the Tuesday show. We're getting some good requests in there
Rufus_T_Firetween: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Deputy Dang has no friends.
Deputy Dang: Howdy pardners!
Deputy Dang: (I heard that first part on a FT album.)
johan amadeus myjetski: i try not to hog the request time, but so many songs come to mind sometimes
Deputy Dang: Time keeps on slipping
johan amadeus myjetski: howdy dePuty
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's really not a problem, I keep a request list and whatever we don't get to one week I'll save for the next. I try to make sure everybody gets a shot during the show, but it's not a problem having a backlog of requests at all
johan amadeus myjetski: cool! i won't slow down on 'em then.
Rufus_T_Firetween: absolutely :)
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| "3:00 PM? 3:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Cease enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, March 17, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Cease: cant open the sound
johan amadeus myjetski: hey cat!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hey Cease
||||||||| "3:00 PM? 3:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Beet should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Beet enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
Beet: Howdy all.
Deputy Dang: Sound is a door.
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
||||||||| New notice: '** WE’RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Proctor & Bergman’s “TV OR NOT TV”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out TV at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-rv'
johan amadeus myjetski: one of the doors of perception, DD!
johan amadeus myjetski: yo yo beet!
Beet: Hello, JAM.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with c close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
DJTweeny: allo c
johan amadeus myjetski: hi c!
||||||||| 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!"
c: more me's to come.
Beet: greetings Dr c
c: its me having computer problems. still cease. sound had desisted.
||||||||| Lulu again bounds in at 3:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Rufus_T_Firetween: hello Lulu
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Lulu!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Stream's working fine
Lulu again: Hey Johan ~
Beet: Hello, again, Lulu.
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and intones "Announcing 'other computer', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 3:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo other
Lulu again: Hi Beet.
Beet: Hi, other Dr c.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi o c dr
c: suddenly, when i tried to open the sound, some strange new system wants me to do sttange things. no options for the other auido systems, as has always happened before.
johan amadeus myjetski: brb
c: i got the umperor on the other computer's speakers.'
c: tween, i tried to open chat on tuesday but couldn't get in.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ehhh
Rufus_T_Firetween: we missed you
c: what firesign did you play?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Why not just buy a Mac and have done with it? ;)
Rufus_T_Firetween: "The Roaming Umpire" from P&B's What This Country Needs, since it was The Ides Of March
c: indeed
||||||||| 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."
c: i have a mac. in a cupboard somewhere. 18 years old.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Wouldn't work well for today's internet
johan amadeus myjetski: it's just a minority opinion, but i think tv or not tv should be included with the core 4. which would then be a corps 5
Rufus_T_Firetween: My newest Mac is from 2013 actually, and does the net well
Rufus_T_Firetween: and not Time Flys?
Beet: Anybody know whether David and Phil are doing any performing together these days?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Nothing that I've seen announced
johan amadeus myjetski: let them eat bread and circuses!
c: it would be in Planet Proctor
Rufus_T_Firetween: true
Lulu again: I have a 2006 iMac, works ok, but ProTools is jammed. Wondering if I reinstalled it, if it would work ok.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out Phil Proctor’s newsletter “PLANET PROCTOR” at www.planetproctor.com
c: in fact, i think they are doing some audio project, long distance i assume.
Beet: Be nice to see them again.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about TV OR NOT TV at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
johan amadeus myjetski: Lulu - i gave up on protools, & switched to Reaper a few years ago. have been very plaeased with it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: I use Digital Performer, but I've met people who really like Reaper
Lulu again: Right Johan, but I have projects going and love Xpand.
johan amadeus myjetski: i'll say this: reaper does everything protools does,but with fewer keystrokes. much more intuitive
c: a glass eye full of beer?
Rufus_T_Firetween: great bit
johan amadeus myjetski: now i remember when environmentalism was ecology
c: right
Lulu again: Hey C
johan amadeus myjetski: if we're lucky tomorrow, we'll never have to deal with questions like this ever again... so reads my simulfax copy i have framed on my wall
c: hey lulu
c: i was lost in sound problems for a while there.
c: other computer has better speakers. this sounds much better than on my usual computer
Rufus_T_Firetween: "I control the horizontal and the vertical!" << Outer Limits
Deputy Dang: I'm sorry to leave early, but my sleep cycle is odd on a good week. Cheers all!
johan amadeus myjetski: nite DD!
||||||||| Catherwood says "3:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Deputy Dang by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door
Beet: Rest well, Deputy.
c: the dog barks.
c: better speakers open up a new world.
c: by dang
c: right, tweeny
Rufus_T_Firetween: good quality speakers do make a difference
c: i wish i could connect the computer to the stereo. awesome speakers on that
Rufus_T_Firetween: no audio input on the stereo, eh?
||||||||| 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!"
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: from Firesign Theatre's LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - “TILE IT LIKE IT IS”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out THE MUSHROOM PLAYS at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio'
johan amadeus myjetski: you've got to plug in the FEmale!
Rufus_T_Firetween: yy
||||||||| It's 9:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Lulu again - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
c: yes there is. oh, just a long enough cord then
c: lol jam.
Rufus_T_Firetween: cords from Amazon are el cheapo
Rufus_T_Firetween: good LBJ impression
c: indeed
c: indeed
||||||||| Catherwood leads llanwydd into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, mutters something about 3:00 PM, then departs.
c: i have an echo in here
llanwydd: good evening
c: hi llan
Beet: Llan, howdy.
llanwydd: is anybody here or is it just us?
Beet: Just us.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
Rufus_T_Firetween: just us bozos
llanwydd: lol
johan amadeus myjetski: and us holygrams
||||||||| 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 morlog gets out at 3:00 PM.
c: lulu just dissappeared
morlog: hello
DJTweeny: Hey morlog, good to see you here :)
johan amadeus myjetski: hi morlog
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
c: greetings, morlog
morlog: actually on a computer tonight and not a phone
DJTweeny: morlog is about to go on a very long bicycle adventure, from Austin to the mountains of Colorado
johan amadeus myjetski: lLulu, where are you?
morlog: yep
Beet: Hello Morlog
c: they used a LOT of dope jokes throughout the mushrooms
morlog: hey there
DJTweeny: Lulu's not here, man...
morlog: took me like 4 days to get my bike packed
c: No, I"M Lulu
johan amadeus myjetski: that soulds like it'll be uphill a;; the way, morlog
johan amadeus myjetski: all the wy
johan amadeus myjetski: way
morlog: not really
morlog: only in steps
||||||||| 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: Ah, I thought c was Cease
morlog: im not on a normal bike either
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
johan amadeus myjetski: i thought so too, and i'm never wrong. almost...
morlog: riding a recumbent
DJTweeny: the Easy Rider of bicycles
c: a christmas reference. i just got this. i recorded this live on a friend's very good tape recorder
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
johan amadeus myjetski: sounds really cool, morlog. safe travel!
c: yes, c is Cease.
DJTweeny: ah OK
c: so is other computer.
c: Lulu was killed by a cold, or so we were told.
DJTweeny: You can post your blog link here if you like, morlog
c: as she didnt say anything, i thought her absence might be momentary.
morlog: https://morlog42.wordpress.com/
morlog: going to upgrade my blog in a couple of weeks
||||||||| Outside, the 3:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Lulu again coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
johan amadeus myjetski: great blog, morlog!
johan amadeus myjetski: hi again!
Rufus_T_Firetween: wb Lulu
morlog: thanks
Beet: Lulu again again.
c: welcome back, lulu
Lulu again: Just had a catnap
c: loved the Road to Morroco ref. funny flick
Lulu again: Looks like my log isn't logging
johan amadeus myjetski: martha & the vandals
morlog: your log
c: anyone else see last night's southpark?
Rufus_T_Firetween: haven't had a TV in many years
Lulu again: I'm going to restart.
||||||||| "3:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Lulu again, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
||||||||| 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 Looloo plummets into the garden at 3:00 PM.
johan amadeus myjetski: hi again again again!
johan amadeus myjetski: aka Lulu
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi Looloo
c: oo la la
johan amadeus myjetski: blue within blue eyes, due to the spice
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre’s
“DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out Firesign's new release DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES at https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl'
c: any one know which Dear Friends track Globner's Disease is on?
johan amadeus myjetski: with udder candy? did i hear that aright?
Beet: Dr Whiplash
Looloo: I've heard this before, was it on an earlier LP?
c: was that in Tile, jam?
c: i know it's a dune ref
johan amadeus myjetski: i thought i heard him say blue within blue. but i may have misheard
c: yes, the Just Folks album
Looloo: Oh, ok. I remember the It smells like gasoline part.
Looloo: Its true, mental illness is a popular passtime nowadays.
c: globner's diesease? anyone?
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Looloo: Without it, it would be sooo boooring.
johan amadeus myjetski: well you can't get parts for the old pasttimes anymore
Rufus_T_Firetween: Looloo: Its true, mental illness is a popular passtime nowadays. << especially amongst politicians
Looloo: Sanity is for those who can't handle the alternative.
Rufus_T_Firetween: who said that Looloo?
Rufus_T_Firetween: I seem to remember the quote
johan amadeus myjetski: Cease, i thought globner's was from Dear Friends. No?
Looloo: Abraham Lincoln said that.
c: sounds like hunter thompson, or dorothy parker
c: yes, but what cut?
c: i have the cd. i thought it was dr whiplash, but no.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol, yes the guy who said "You can't always believe what you read on the internet."
c: this is a beautiful song.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Sounds like Hunter Thompson
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Ken Jones of KBOO Radio's
“TALKING OVER EACH OTHER”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out KBOO-Mr. Jones's Neighborhood at >> https://kboo.fm/program/mr-joness-neighborhood'
johan amadeus myjetski: cinema veritas
johan amadeus myjetski: ruben & the jets - Frank Zappa reference
Looloo: That was a great album.
||||||||| 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!"
johan amadeus myjetski: mot a fan of doowop, but frank hardly ever made a bad record
johan amadeus myjetski: opt for air-plaids
johan amadeus myjetski: instead of air checks
Looloo: Not air Czechs?
johan amadeus myjetski: lol lulu!
johan amadeus myjetski: a saucerful of chaucer?
Looloo: A friend of mine was in the Czech Republic, and said the air and everything was dead. An industrial wasteland.
Looloo: Maybe its better nowadaze.
c: actually he said get the fuck out of my hovel. i edited it for this broadcast
Rufus_T_Firetween: The Soviets weren't exactly envoironmentally sensitive. They left some of what we would call 'Superfund' toxic waste sites behind
c: ossman hates it when bergman tells the truth
Looloo: You edited the fuck out of it?
Rufus_T_Firetween: *environmentally
c: i did indeed, lulu.
Rufus_T_Firetween: This gets played on the radio station I'm part of, and the Program Director likes to stay friends with the FCC so we try to keep bad language out
Rufus_T_Firetween: these shows are replayed on the station
johan amadeus myjetski: the dog needs to walk see you all next firetime!
c: i was an english teacher for a long time and thus, never swore in a class, nor ever talking to studenrts out of class.
Rufus_T_Firetween: later johan
c: i come from a world where swearing was not obligatory
Beet: 'Bye JAM
c: by jam
Looloo: I have to bleep stuff occasionally. I actually founf a bleep online, and use it.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour at KBOO Radio at >> https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
||||||||| "3:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims morlog, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the garden.
Looloo: Kpfa got in a lot of FCC trouble when they interviewed Jerry Garcia on air.
c: morlog
c: when was this,lulu?
Looloo: About 1969 or so I think.
c: when was carlin busted for his language? 70s, right?
Looloo: Went to court, and kpfa lost, I believe.
c: wow
Looloo: Art is defensible, but an artist talking live isn't ok I guess.
c: bergman has a massive ego.
c: even dead
c: wow, lulu. what a vile court
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks Cat for being sensitive about the language
Looloo: Right, the Dead talking live wasn't ok.
c: i hope it's not irreversable
c: there is part of the other Talking Over Each Other piece, from rfo podcast, is so saturated with fucks, it would be easier to cut whole bits. they do get into riffs
Looloo: Even now, if a little old lady is offended by "bad" language and complains to the FCC, renewing the station's license is at risk.
Looloo: "Community standards" rules, supposedly.
c: i'm ok with that.
c: not swearing on the radio is just like me not swearing in the class room in my decades as a teacher
c: it
c: it's just a good social lubricant.
Looloo: Swearing is a good social lubricant?
||||||||| 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!"
Looloo: KY is also a good social lubricant
c: no lili, NOT swearing.
||||||||| 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.net/firesign'
c: no offence
DJTweeny: See you all Tuesday :)
c: if i can enter chat, i'll be there.
Looloo: Adios yall.
Beet: 'Bye JAM
c: next week, more ken jones interview.
c: by lulu
Beet: See ya JAM
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
c: jam
Beet: Thanks to all for another enjoyable Thursday. Hope computer clears up, Dr Other C. Thanks for driving, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
c: thanks for the constant attendance here, beet
||||||||| Babe Boomer says “We’re Live On PBS!” in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign’s Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
c: off we go
||||||||| c leaves at 3:00 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..."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:00 PM, 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 11:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| other computer - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Beet - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Cease - dead from The Plague
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Looloo - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Tweeny rushes out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Tweeny?! It's 3:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| Catherwood enters with holy mackeral close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 3:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the Aviary.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
holy mackeral: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| holy mackeral - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| 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
c
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
holy mackeral
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Looloo
Lulu again
morlog
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/firesale/firesale.php?audio
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-ln
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=tont-rv
www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.planetproctor.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyricon
https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour
https://kboo.fm/program/mr-joness-neighborhood
https://morlog42.wordpress.com/
https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl