A Firesign Chat
09/08/2022




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 September 08, 2022 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'Rufus_T_Firetween', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| 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 6:45 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 common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 08, 2022 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!" -- then he looks around at the empty room, looks at his watch, and mumbles "...am I early?"
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween tiptoes in around 8:00 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
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com
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||||||||| 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 DJTweeny gets out at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
||||||||| 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)
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||||||||| Catherwood escorts johan amadeus myjetski in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: warm up music – MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA-BIRDS OF FIRE
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)
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DJTweeny: Hey johan
johan amadeus myjetski: hey. I saw Mahavishnu in march of 70 - one of their first public performances. i was never quite the same afterwards - at least i listened to music differently
||||||||| Catherwood leads Cease inside, makes a note of the time (8:00 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
DJTweeny: wow johan
DJTweeny: allo Cease
DJTweeny: Billy Cobham on drums and Jean-Luc Ponty on violin if I recall correctly
Cease: aha. sound.
DJTweeny: audio is useful
Cease: my kinda music
Rufus_T_Firetween: great band
johan amadeus myjetski: blew my 14 year old mind, that's for sure
Cease: there was a lot of mind blowing music in those days
johan amadeus myjetski: i think it was Jerry Goodman on elec violin. Ponty came along many years later after a stint with Frank Z
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Deputy Dang close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the vestibule.
Cease: Hi Dang
Tweeny: Birds of Fire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Fire
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
johan amadeus myjetski: hey Cease! Deputy!
Deputy Dang: I won't be here tonight or even listening. I'm technically on vacation, but all currently playing Beat The Reaper.
Tweeny: right you are johan
Tweeny: played with the Jan Hammer Band in later years
Deputy Dang: Howdy Pardners! Howdy Pardners!
johan amadeus myjetski: i had never heard three improvised, interweaving melody lines like this - except in dixieland music.
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang walks off into the sunset...
johan amadeus myjetski: cathgerwood, give Deput5y Dang that really big shot!
johan amadeus myjetski: catherwood deputy really big shot
||||||||| Catherwood snubs johan amadeus myjetski
||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
llanwydd: good evening folks
Cease: hi llan
johan amadeus myjetski: hiyas, llan!
DJTweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: Ive heard of glass hammer. probably jans brother
Cease: its nice that the few of us who show up here show up
Rufus_T_Firetween: heheh
llanwydd: I used to have birds of fire. forget where it ended up
Rufus_T_Firetween: 'a small but appreciative crowd'
||||||||| Beet bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Beet: Greetings, Folks and Friends
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Doobie close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and runs off to the vestibule.
johan amadeus myjetski: on the end of side two?
llanwydd: Hey Doobie
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
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)
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Doobie: Yes
||||||||| 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!"
llanwydd: lol jam
johan amadeus myjetski: hey beet!
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
DJTweeny: Hi Doobie
Beet: Hi, Dr Tween
Doobie: Hi
Beet: Howdy, jam
Cease: Hey
llanwydd: billy cobham is one of my favorite drummers
johan amadeus myjetski: hello, Doobster!
Cease: Is there anything other than the dead queen on youjr screens?
Doobie: Dead queen?
Cease: Brother Doobie
Beet: Howdy, Dr Cease, Llan,and Doobie.
DJTweeny: Is she grateful?
llanwydd: hard to imagine a world without erizabeth L
llanwydd: hey beet
Cease: Her son must me.
DJTweeny: and yes although I'm not a fan of monarchs, RIP QEII
Beet: I was a big fan of Elizabeth.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: really. any of you old enough to remember george vi?
llanwydd: except from the movie?
DJTweeny: '54 model here, have no Idea who was head of the kingdom back then
||||||||| 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."
Beet: Not quite that old but I do remember the televised coronation.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: Firesign Theatre's 1999 Live Concert “IN THE FIREZONE”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
check out FIREZONE at >> https://www.amazon.com/Firezone-Firesign-LIVE-1999/dp/1576771458
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Cease: King Chcuk. Finally
llanwydd: I have to say I doubt charles is going to be as impressive as his mother
DJTweeny: 96 is a pretty good run, hope we all live that long :)
Cease: My mother was 96
Cease: The last decade not so much
llanwydd: she was what made england grand in our lifetime. I dont think charles is really up to that
Cease: I hope to live to 72.
DJTweeny: /me would like a do-over of '72
||||||||| 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."
llanwydd: I plan to live till 2072 at least
llanwydd: I turned 61 very recently
llanwydd: I felt old for the first time ever
DJTweeny turned 68 last Julie
llanwydd: but I got over it the next day
Beet: Take it from me, you'll get used to it.
DJTweeny: How Time Flys
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Bottles coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm 67. & i have felt really several times... today
Cease: hi bottles
llanwydd: hi bottles
DJTweeny: Hey Bottles
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Beet: Hi, Bottles.
||||||||| Catherwood stops by and announces "While you bozos sit here in the Waiting Room, why not shop at the Firesale store?"
johan amadeus myjetski: old, that is
Bottles: Hey yall.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Firesign Theatre's 1999 Live Concert “IN THE FIREZONE” at >> https://www.amazon.com/Firezone-Firesign-LIVE-1999/dp/1576771458
Cease: You new here, Doobie?
DJTweeny: The people at the new web site have a lots of work to do to get the whole catalog available again
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Cease: hows it going, bottles?
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Bottles!
DJTweeny: Fred Weibel on Facebook thanked us for playing this
Bottles: Good, Cease, in this insane heat. & you?
Bottles: Hey Johan!
Cease: not so bad here, bottles.
Cease: unlike queen E, I'm alive
DJTweeny: Do Canuks still consider themselves 'subjects of the crown'?
Cease: few
Bottles: My London-born friend says Elizabeth was a rock, compared to Charles III who's a sponge.
DJTweeny: haha
johan amadeus myjetski: i was born unamerikkan
DJTweeny: Well the British Royals don't have much actual authority these days
llanwydd: I think history will remember charles for camilla more than anything else
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Not Ed coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
llanwydd: Hey Not
Not Ed: Waz real?
DJTweeny: Hey Not Ed
Beet: Howdy Not
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Firesign Theatre's 1999 Live Concert “IN THE FIREZONE” at >> https://www.amazon.com/Firezone-Firesign-LIVE-1999/dp/1576771458
llanwydd: real is subjective
Cease: Hey Not
DJTweeny: Krassner's The Realist magazine was anything but ;)
llanwydd: I missed the realist
llanwydd: krassner is a familiar name though
Not Ed: Cat! & Ruf & Tweeny & llan! & Beet! & Bot & JAM too
llanwydd: and doobie
Not Ed: doo
Bottles: Hey Not Ed.
Cease: Great mag. Pauil was a friend.
Tweeny: The Realist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Realist
johan amadeus myjetski: oh, hey Not!
Tweeny: It was pretty outrageous, llan
Cease: We talked just before his death
Tweeny: and anything but 'real' ;)
Cease: One of the funinest peole I've eve known.
Not Ed settles in.
Cease: ever
Tweeny: I bought the Disney Memorial Orgy poster, made by him and a Mad Magazine cartoonist
johan amadeus myjetski: toasting marshmallows in cellophone, here
Cease: palu and bergman had a radio show at once point, about iran contra
Tweeny: not the sort of thing you want to display in public lol
Bottles: I remember that Tweeny, drawn by Mad's Wally Wood I think.
Cease: paul, pete and harry shearer once did a hsow, called, Peter, Paul ans Harry
DJTweeny: nice
DJTweeny: would love to hear that
Not Ed digs Wally W
llanwydd: my computer froze
Bottles: Even have the poster in my pics, but can't post it here either.
||||||||| 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."
Cease: when i visited Paul, he was going to show it to me, but didn't.
llanwydd: had to shut down and come back
Cease: i really admire you, bottles.
Not Ed: Wb!
DJTweeny: Catherwood, please give llan's computer a blanket
||||||||| Catherwood hands llan's computer a blanket.
llanwydd: thanks cathy
Not Ed: Haha
Beet: Found it https://www.chairish.com/product/669446/original-disney-memorial-orgy-poster-by-wally-wood
DJTweeny: I'm amazed Disney didn't sue them
Not Ed: sweet Beet
Bottles: Thanks Cease. We just received a new script today, so we don't have to make one up..
||||||||| "Hey llanwydd!" ... llanwydd turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
Not Ed: What?
Bottles: I think Disney did sue them
Not Ed: What?
Cease: Just finished new collage about Penn Gillette, Proc's frioend
||||||||| Nick Danger sneaks in and whispers "Get the scuttlebutt on Box of Danger here, whatever that means..."
Cease: Wil have for you next week
||||||||| 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: Nice Cat
johan amadeus myjetski: Not, keep your thumb next to your line...
Bottles: Time for an edible something or other.
DJTweeny: Penn appeared in one of the Atlas Shrugged movies. Hard to imagine Proc being a friend of someone who likes Ayn Rand
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Doobie - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Not Ed: My favorite Penn quote. I saved it. "Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse."
Bottles: That should be fun Cease. I haven't heard much audio of Penn.
Cease: yeah that's true. but they both have vast collections of friends
Cease: proc ttalked to hm for more than 2 hours on phil's podcast so i was inspired by tha
Cease: aftrer heqring penn on a cbc thing recently
Cease: true, not
Beet: I like that quote, Not.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Or vice versa of the quote circa 1929, Not Ed ;)
johan amadeus myjetski: gotta drop out now - will try to make it back for Cease's car-llage
Beet: See you then, jam.
Cease: i try to be productive
Not Ed: Bergman cracks me up haha
Not Ed: lol
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about Firesign Theatre's 1999 Live Concert “IN THE FIREZONE” at >> https://www.amazon.com/Firezone-Firesign-LIVE-1999/dp/1576771458
Rufus_T_Firetween: They really need to get stuff like this up at the new web site
Not Ed: Is it fair to say Bergman was the "soul" of the group?
Cease: in a sense, not
||||||||| "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!"
Not Ed: I feel the same way about Terry Jones and Python
Cease: hmm
Cease: thre is always a dminishing
Not Ed: the Pythoniest Python I guess
Not Ed: Anyway.... lol
Cease: peoploe fucking die. bummer, but true
||||||||| 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!"
Not Ed: that should have been a line in Paths of Glory C
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM!! ** - DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES >> https://standuprecords.com/products/the-firesign-theatre-dope-humor-of-the-seventies-double-vinyl
Cease: will check it out
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** New Music Release from David Ossman – NO BAND IS AN ISLAND - https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/no-band-is-an-island-live
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - THE FIRESIGN THEATRE LIVE AT THE MAGIC MUSHROOM - Paperback Book + DVD-ROM Disc >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-the-firesign-theatre-live-at-the-magic-mushroom-paperback-book-dvd-rom-disc
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - FOOLS IN SPACE – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE WATER– Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/beforetheychangedthewater?rq=before%20they%20changed%20the%20water
Not Ed: Flood!
Rufus_T_Firetween: Catherwood, please give Not Ed a towel
||||||||| Catherwood gets not ed a towel.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Just making sure everybody knows about the new releases :)
Cease: good idea, tween
Not Ed: lol
Not Ed: thanks catherwood & Ruf
||||||||| Catherwood ignores Not Ed
Not Ed ignores Catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood steps over to Not Ed and mumbles "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
Not Ed: Is this simulated?
Beet: Who knows?
||||||||| Zen Cosmos enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
Not Ed shrugs
Not Ed: Zen
Beet: Hey, Cosmos.
Cease: isn't everything?
Cease: hyi zen
Not Ed: indeed C in-deed
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: you still here, bottles?
Zen Cosmos: will go to archive after tomorrow...
Cease: people flow in and out
Not Ed: yepsk
Rufus_T_Firetween: Really fun live recording :)
Cease: was one of the recorders
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
Not Ed: Yay RFD
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently playing: Cat Simril Ishikawa’s
CAR TOWN
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/
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Not Ed: sweet Cat
Beet: I like these.
Cease: good
Cease: i like maknig them
Rufus_T_Firetween: Rodent Track Magazine lol
Beet: Have you converted everything to a digital format? Also, do you have a master catalog to find things.d
Rufus_T_Firetween: It's all here Beet ** Check out CAT'S COLLAGE ARCHIVE at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Check out CAT'S PLAYS at >> http://www.seemreal.com
Cease: Tween has it done.
Beet: I was talking about the source material.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Perhaps you were thinking of Cat's tapes, OK. Yeah, Taylor Jesses (FST Archivist) has everything Cat's got in digital afaik
Cease: Yeah good idea to preserve best qualiteies. Ossman tells me they're going inot th library of congress so i need to hav best quality
Rufus_T_Firetween: *Taylor Jessen
Beet: cool
Cease: the stuff we hear here should be heard in the distant future.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Zen Cosmos - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Rufus_T_Firetween: some of Cat's old tape recordings were used to round out the recordings for the Live At The Magic Mushroom release
Rufus_T_Firetween: If it weren't for Cat, some performances would have been lost
Cease: ive been involved with the firesign theatre almost as long as they've existed
Beet: Classic material.
||||||||| 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."
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Listen/Download Cat’s collage “CAR TOWN” at >> http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
Cease: anyone still here?
Beet: Yo
Beet: Just us diehards.
Rufus_T_Firetween: nope
Bottles: Here.
Beet: Nice for your hanging in there, Bottles.
Beet: I'm hearing Tom Snyder.
Bottles: I'm here there and everywhere
Cease: You and John Lennon
Cease: Are you listening to this?
Rufus_T_Firetween: The omnipresent Bottles
Beet: This is very cool.
Cease: Beet, I have a larege collectiom of Firesigfn and do intereeting thnigs with it.
Beet: I have noticed and am very appreciative.
Cease: good
Not Ed: Indeed & likewise
Rufus_T_Firetween: I think of FST as The Court Jesters Of The United States
Rufus_T_Firetween: and am glad that the National Archives realized their comedy was a national treasure
Rufus_T_Firetween: up there with Marx Bros and WC Fields
Bottles: Actually I've been kind of soliciting actors Cease.
Rufus_T_Firetween: you might want to rephrase that, Bottles ;)
Bottles: Uh - negotiating with volunteers, Rufus.
Beet: Nice save, Bottles.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
||||||||| 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
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Cease: i appfreciate being solicited
Rufus_T_Firetween: how's the new play coming Cat?
Rufus_T_Firetween: would be happy to read some lines for you Bottles :)
Bottles: I just noticed the similarity between Alistair Crowley and Alison Kraus. Weird, huh.
Rufus_T_Firetween: not much similarity lol
Cease: weird
Bottles: This upcoming one is all cast now except for a one-liner. Whoever's handy will voice it. Just gotta nail a director now.
Cease: new play is in doc's hands. i'm going to vegas next march so i need it done bfore then
Bottles: I just mean the names, not the personality or appearance, Rufus
Cease: you are a very good writer, bottles
Bottles: Who's Doc, Cease?
Rufus_T_Firetween: Doc Technical
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, all… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation...
Beet: Enjoyed this one. Thanks to everyone. Great collage, Dr Cease. Thanks for the guidance, Dr Tween. G'Nite all.
Rufus_T_Firetween: See y'all Tuesday :)
Bottles: Thank you Cease. I fill in when I'm needed. Oh, this one new one's by the same regular writer, Joe
Cease: We'll chat on facevook, bottles
Cease: beet, i do my best
Bottles: We're on in a minute, at kkrn.org
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
Bottles: Thank you Kurt and Cat! Have a great weekend.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| It's 3:15 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
||||||||| Bottles - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Beet - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Cease - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| 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
Bottles
Cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
Doobie
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Not Ed
Rufus_T_Firetween
Tweeny
Zen Cosmos
URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://kurtericson.net/cat/#FELINE_FOOTNOTES_FOR_PHILS_PODCASTS
http://kurtericson.net/cat/
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
http://www.seemreal.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Realist
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