Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
02/02/2023

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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 February 02, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, February 02, 2023 - 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Tweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
||||||||| New notice: 'NO FIRESIGN SHOW TONIGHT
Tweeny's Google Fiber is Out, so no show :-(
Everybody have a great week and we'll see you next Firetime, next Firestation...'
Tweeny: The Austin ice storm was so bad that it even took out Google Fiber
Tweeny: I'm having to use a hotspot on a phone to even make this connection
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'ModeratelyGinchy', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
ModeratelyGinchy: Off probation - lucku me. Evening all.
ModeratelyGinchy: *lucky
ModeratelyGinchy: Oh, no show tonight?
ModeratelyGinchy: Cat didn't tell me
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM crosstown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving johan amadeus myjetski coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
ModeratelyGinchy: Actually he did
ModeratelyGinchy: Seems he is on the way to the airport
ModeratelyGinchy: Until next time. Hope Tweeny is safe and gets back fiber.
johan amadeus myjetski: alas fair Austin, thy broad streets slick with ice, we knew thee well...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Merlyn close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
johan amadeus myjetski: yes, more fiber in kurt's diet! & more sugar!
ModeratelyGinchy: My first time back in ages and no show. Oh well. Looking forward to next week/
Merlyn: whoop,
johan amadeus myjetski: next fire week, same fire station, same fire channel!
Merlyn: ok
Tweeny: sorry guyz... :(
||||||||| Deputy Dang waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Deputy Dang: I'll see y'all on the funway!
Tweeny: Austin doesn't know from ice storms. I was w/o electricity for 9 hours yesterday and they were saying it might be 12-24 hours before they restored electricity to everyone
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
llanwydd: fy ugihbnjmk,l.;
Tweeny: Gonna be next week before we have a new show
Tweeny: and llan, we don't speak Welsh ;)
llanwydd: well cant 3e have a chat?
Tweeny: of course :)
llanwydd: without audio?
Tweeny: but I can't even put up a replay :/
Tweeny: can't stream w/o my Google connection
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Deputy Dang walks off into the sunset...
ModeratelyGinchy: Sorry to hear that TWeeny. I have some I recorded from the past but obivously that doesn't help you.
llanwydd: well we used to have a chat without audio
ModeratelyGinchy: Until next week.
ModeratelyGinchy: Appreciate your hard work on this.
Tweeny: well I could... but it'd be a MacGuyver setup
Tweeny: hopefully Google will be restored soon
llanwydd: we could conceivably open a second window and listen to firesign on youtube while we chat
Tweeny: sure
llanwydd: I have youtube going right now and I am listening to an old dick cavett show
Tweeny: Cavett was good
llanwydd: he was polite even when he was insulting
llanwydd: he might very infrequently insult one of his guests and then say something like Nothing personal...
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
llanwydd: Hey Cease
llanwydd: no audio tonight
Cease: No repeat?
Cease: Bummer.
Tweeny: allo Cease
Tweeny: nope, Google Fiber is still down
Tweeny: using my phone just to do this
Merlyn: ya
Cease: aha
Tweeny: helluva mess ice storm in Austin
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Beet by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Beet: Good Evening.
llanwydd: Hey Beet
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: tree limbs breaking all over the place from hundreds of pounds of ice
Beet: Hi, Mr Llan
Tweeny: falling into power lines
Tweeny: Beet
llanwydd: that happened a couple years ago didnt it??
Beet: Howdy, Gr Tween
llanwydd: crazy weather in texas
Beet: Dr
Tweeny: In Feb 2021, the Texas power grid nearly went down
Tweeny: this time was different
Beet: So, we just don't have sound tonight?
Tweeny: the grid was fine, but the transmission lines were taken down by ice
llanwydd: I was in san antonio in december of 81 and there was snow
llanwydd: very unexpectedly
Tweeny: no audio tonight Beet
Beet: OK
Tweeny: I can't stream on my Google Fiber
Beet: Can somebody type out one of the albums bt heart?
Tweeny: I'me barely able to get connected to the internet by using one of my phones for a 'hotspot'
Beet: by heart
Tweeny: *I'm
llanwydd: LOL
Tweeny: "Well, show her up!"
llanwydd: when I lived in ticonderoga the power lines used to come down about once a year
Beet: Biting down in this area . . .
Cease: https://vimeo.com/748147399?login=true#_=_
llanwydd: then everybody would be using their generator
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!"
Beet: A Fair for al and No Fair to anybody
Cease: Here's a show Ossman did in 1986. It's almost 2 hours long. Can you all hear it?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?"
Beet: I can only imagine
llanwydd: Im hooking it up right now
llanwydd: An Autobozographical Evening
Beet: lol
llanwydd: I can hear it all right
Beet: My mother was a Bozoette.
llanwydd: thanks cat
Beet: How are you hearing it?
llanwydd: just click on the link
Beet: OK
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "A fair for all and no fair to anybody!"
Merlyn: yes, how?
Beet: Got it, thanks.
Beet: David just came on stage.
Cease: I just sent notice of the link to Moderately. Anyone have a linlk for Johan?
Merlyn: i am dende
Tweeny: Hi dende, good to meet you
Tweeny: How's Merlyn?
Merlyn: dense
Tweeny: lol
Tweeny: welcome to the club ;)
llanwydd: this is really cool, cease
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "At your cervix."
Merlyn: i am still not on
llanwydd: cunegonde is a masterpiece
Tweeny: yeah, what's the link llan?
Cease: DO is channelling Mel Blanc now.
llanwydd: lol
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ModeratelyGinchy - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Tweeny: please tell the class what you think is so funny
Beet: I love the depression bit
Tweeny: Hi MG
Cease: Tihs was made by Firesign's previous archivist Michael Packer.
llanwydd: cat gave the link a little while ago. could you post it one more time for tween nd the others, cat?
Tweeny: I'll post the link in the topic
Beet: Hi Ginchy
Tweeny: Cat's link https://vimeo.com/748147399?login=true#_=_
llanwydd: thanks tween
Cease: Packer sent me a VHS cassette back in the 90s.
Cease: We exchanged a lot of Firesign stuff.
||||||||| New notice: 'NO FIRESIGN SHOW TONIGHT Tweeny's Google Fiber is Out, so no show :-( Everybody have a great week and we'll see you next Firetime, next Firestation...
Cat's listening link https://vimeo.com/748147399?login=true#_=_'
Merlyn: ok
Merlyn: im fine
Cease: I just posted the news of this to 2 Firesign Facebook groups, not that we get much traffic from them
Beet: This is kind of like reading by candle light.
llanwydd: never done that beet
||||||||| New notice: ''NO FIRESIGN SHOW TONIGHT
Tweeny's Google Fiber is Out, so no show :-(
Everybody have a great week and we'll see you next Firetime, next Firestation...
Cat's listening link https://vimeo.com/748147399?login=true#_=_''
Beet: Like Abe Lincoln
llanwydd: strange lincoln never had to wear glasses
Cease: My favourite painting is Joseph the Carpenter by De Latour.
Tweeny: He didn't die in vain
Beet: I have seen one or two pictures he was wearing specs.
Tweeny: He died in Washington D.C.
llanwydd: really? never saw those pictures
Cease: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_de_La_Tour._St._Joseph,_the_Carpenter.JPG
Cease: I thikn the reason I love this paining so much (only saw it once, in the Louvre in 1980) is because it shows me what life was like when it was all by candle light
Beet: Found one : https://m.facebook.com/fordstheatre/photos/time-for-tuesday-trivia-like-his-father-young-tad-lincoln-was-a-fan-of-the-theat/10157459423399653/
llanwydd: just looked at it cat. excellent use of chiarascuro
llanwydd: ah yes. I have seen that picture, beet
Beet: Nice picture of the family Lincoln
llanwydd: I think the moon was brighter in those days too
Beet: This shows how Ossman could carry on by himself.
Cease: exacrtly, beet. the ossman firesign theatre
llanwydd: yes his is an exceleent ossman showcase
llanwydd: this
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Beet: We lost j.a.m.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
llanwydd: hope we cant catch the plague in the chatroom
Beet: The Really Big Disease?
llanwydd: well it just killed jammy
Cease: tweeny, can you reach johan? i dont have an email address
Beet: sad
||||||||| Elayne sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Elayne: Wow, it's like tumbleweeds in here.
Cease: HI El!
Elayne: Hi Cat, how are you?
Beet: Evening, Elayne. We're doing Silence tonight.
Elayne: Yes, I notice the fibromyalgia, or whatnot.
Elayne: Are you in TX, Kurt?
Cease: tweeny can't broadcast so I used a link to Ossman's Autobozographical Evening which were listening to now. Did Michaelk Packer ever give you a copy, El?
Elayne: I mean, everything seems to be out in Texas.
Beet: Cat gave us a link for some classic Ossman.
Elayne: Cat, I remember seeing it, and I believe I'm even thanked in the credits, but I honestly don't remember if I own a copy.
Elayne: Nice to see David so active on Facebook now.
Cease: Just back from taking Fumiyo to the airport. She's off to Australia and New Zealand.
Cease: She's always wanted to see the sky from the southern hemisphere.
llanwydd: thats a long trip, cat
Elayne: Nice. Hope she has a nice summertime there!
Beet: Sounds like a slice of Heaven, Cat
Cease: This will be the longest she's been away since she walked accross Spain for 5 weeks in May, 2015
Elayne: I'm just hoping to get in another trip to the UK if this pandemic ever dies down enough.
llanwydd: longest trip I ever took was nyc to london
Cease: If the Lord of the Rings movies are to be believed, New Zealand is beautiful.
Beet: Biden says it's over
Elayne: Lots of sheep
Cease: it was her long absence for that Spanish trip that inspired me to create my collages
Elayne: He walked it back, Beet. Badly, but he did admit he goofed again.
llanwydd: yeah, biden said we have zero percent inflation
Merlyn: hey E
Cease: Lily Bergman told her dad's 2 favourite countries were new zealand and syria.
Elayne: Here's the actual COVID weather report: https://peoplescdc.org/2023/01/30/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-32/
Beet: And you can believe the President, right?
Elayne: Hi Brian, how are you?
Cease: told ME
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'Not Ed', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Cease: Hi Not
llanwydd: beause he never lies and he is always right
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Don't worry about the flies, we won't weigh 'em!"
Merlyn: im better
llanwydd: Ni Not
Not Ed: Waz real?
llanwydd: I mean Hi
Beet: Hey, Not.
Not Ed: Hey llan
Cease: just as he was dieing, he told her he wanted her to carry his body to Syria.
Not Ed: Hey Beet &C
Cease: This was 2012, during the war. She told him, "No Fucking Way."
Not Ed: Cheers Elayne & Ruf
Cease: He ended up being cremated.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..."
Cease: Proctor has a Funny story about that.
Not Ed: Merl & Tweeny
Not Ed: Interesting video C thanks
Cease: not, it's a MAJOR source for my collages.
Beet: Yeah, this is good.
llanwydd: it started with an excellent solo rendition of le trente-hit cunegonde
Not Ed: Cool Cat
llanwydd: ossman was always my favorite writer in the group even though I found proctor to be the best actor
Not Ed: Yeah I caught part of that and then skipped forward a bit
Cease: i met elayne and packer in 93 when i first got on line and discovered the firesign community
Cease: one of the best things that ever happened to me.
llanwydd: I first got online in 1999
Cease: i'd previous thought my love of firesign was a very unusual thing.
Not Ed: was it BBS's then Cat?
llanwydd: took me a while
Cease: 93? elayne would know.
Not Ed: like USENET
llanwydd: I remember usenet
Cease: yeah, i guess. to long ago for me to remember such arcane things.
Not Ed: that's about when I ccame on too but I didn't know Firesign was on too
Not Ed: wish I had : )
Beet: I have often wondered whether any theater group anywhere performed from the printed scrips.
llanwydd: never had a cd player until shortly after Immortality came out
llanwydd: that was the first cd I ever owned
Not Ed: I'm sure Beet - must have
Not Ed: ha cool llan
Beet: I hope so.
llanwydd: I hated cds at one time because it was the end of the album cover
llanwydd: which was an important visual f you remember
Not Ed: The Madhouse of Doctor Fear lol
Not Ed: It would be Dr. Fear I guess
Beet: I liked the concept because you could get a pure recording from master tapes.
Not Ed: Anyway....
Not Ed: Columbia did some nice Firesign CD releases
llanwydd: speaking of album covers I remember some of the fst albums came without inner sleeves
Cease: Ossman looks so young in this
Beet: A great benefit
llanwydd: they were very thrifty in those days
Not Ed: He does C! it's great
Cease: Of course it is 37 years old
Not Ed: wow
Not Ed: haha great
Not Ed: I rem 37 - one of my favorite years - that's how old you are in heaven ; )
Beet: I feel very lucky to have all of the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Firesigns.
Not Ed: You're perpetually 37
llanwydd: ghzgx z booc zbd
Beet: I agree
Not Ed: ghgj xdfx llzsdz
llanwydd: I did not mean to do that
Not Ed: I did
Merlyn: ya
llanwydd: that translates to 37 is a good age
Not Ed: Merl the Magician!
Not Ed: tis that llan tis that - mid thirties rocks --er, rocked
llanwydd: now I am he same age as the year of my birth. 61
llanwydd: that will never happen again
Not Ed: aww cool let's party
Beet: I left that one a long time ago.
Cease: i was 51 in 2002. was teaching english then and asked my students to guess my age, the clue being my age is the same year i was born. they could not get it.
Not Ed: Catherwood give everyone party hats and horns
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone party hats and horns.
llanwydd: cool, cat
Not Ed: aha funny C
llanwydd: thanks cathy
Beet: Pass the joint, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to Beet and queries "Did you want me?"
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: I have five sisters named cathy
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
llanwydd: cathleen, catherine, catholic, cathode and catheter
Beet: See ya, Elayne.
Not Ed: Currently reading Little Big Man--which I'd never read B 4 --Thomas Berger (It's great!)
Not Ed: Bbye Elayne take care
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I take your hat and goat?"
Cease: ive read a bunch of books by berger. he's great.
Merlyn: bye E
Cease: i suggest you read the sequel.
Not Ed: I should continue then
Not Ed: Oh for sure, I will thanks
Cease: recently re-read his first novel, Crazy in Berlin.
llanwydd: little big woman?
Cease: My fave is Killing Time.
llanwydd: or son of little big man?
llanwydd: not familiar with berger
Cease: I re-read a LOT of books last year. Will continue this year, but want to dive into Ukranian ficiton.
llanwydd: sometimes I want to learn russian ust so I can read my favorite novel, War and Peace, as it was written
Not Ed: I knew a guy named Little Tony his dad was Big Tony
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
llanwydd: I re-read sherlock holmes occasionally
Not Ed: Little Big Tony?
Tweeny: Cease: I re-read a LOT of books last year. Will continue this year, but want to dive into Ukranian ficiton. << They can win a war against Russia?
llanwydd: lol
Not Ed: I love those stories....
Tweeny ducks
Not Ed: Quack!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They never come up into the hills."
Not Ed: Sleep is Three Dimensional
Cease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(novelist)
Not Ed: that's great thx
Beet: Anybody ever watch the Jeremy Brett Sherlocks
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Swell pizza!"
llanwydd: the inventor of marshmallow peeps died today. he was 98
Cease: Tween: with enough support, they certainly can. Ukrainians are fighting for their country and their lives. Russian soldiers fight because they fear being shot if they refuse
Cease: yes beet. excellent!
Not Ed: no Beet
llanwydd: yeah brett was better than rathbone
Beet: I have had so much fun with those
Not Ed: wow I need to get hip
Cease: well, i wouldn't agree, llan, but they were both superb
llanwydd: but nigel bruce was the best watson
Not Ed: he was wonderful
Beet: Perfect
Not Ed: I dig that poet named Ossman
Cease: me too
Cease: ive used this as a source for maybe a dozen collages, at least
Not Ed: wow
Not Ed: it is excellent
Not Ed: jam packed with Firesign goodness oh ya
Cease: ossman not only a great writer, but a great reader of his writings..
Not Ed: yeah he is
Tweeny: Cease: Tween: with enough support, they certainly can. Ukrainians are fighting for their country and their lives. Russian soldiers fight because they fear being shot if they refuse << It was started by the Obama administration when in 2014 they overthrew the elected government and instituted a government that made neo-nazis part of their National Guard (see the Azov Regiment) and started killing ethnic Russians in East Ukraine
Tweeny: The Russians had a rather bad experience with Nazis
Beet: I wish he did a little more performing. But he is probably enjoying simi retirement.
Not Ed: Yepsk
Tweeny: They're not going to let them exist in Ukraine
Not Ed: Nopesk
llanwydd: the nazis defeated themselves though didnt they
llanwydd: they russians didnt even need to fight back
llanwydd: like the martians in war of the worlds
Cease: you are parotting putin propaganda, tween.
Cease: there are more nazis in the kremlin then there are in all of ukraine.
Merlyn: ya
Beet: I guess they never went away from anywhere
Cease: there were more nazis in the capital on jan 6th than there are in ukraine.
Beet: You can step on a lot of roaches and there are still thousands left
Cease: i highly reccomment rachel maddow's latest podcast
Cease: Ultra, about the deep nazi infliltrartion of the us govt. i knew about Lindberg but i had not idea about all the congressmen
Tweeny: Cease: you are parotting putin propaganda, tween. << So you're disputing that the Obama administration helped orchestrate the 2014 coup?
Cease: the man in the high castle in real life.
Beet: Huge Nazi rally in New York before the outbreak of the war.
Tweeny: Azov Regiment - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment
Cease: did yhou see the frontline show about putin on tuesday?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
Cease: i consider Frontline's sources to be impeccable.
Cease: Obama didnt give a fuck about Ukraine.
Tweeny: "The unit was founded in May 2014 as a volunteer paramilitary militia under the command of Andriy Biletsky to fight pro-Russian forces in the Donbas War, and was formally incorporated into the National Guard on 11 November 2014."
Tweeny: "The unit has drawn controversy over its early and allegedly continuing association with far-right groups and neo-Nazi ideology,[13] its use of controversial symbols linked to Nazism, and early allegations that members of the unit participated in torture and war crimes."
Tweeny: That's OK Cease, I think you also have bad information :)
Cease: There are probably more nazis in Austin than in Ukraine. The group you mention was pretety much wiped out in Mariopil last year.
Cease: Frontline has bad info?
llanwydd: wiki is not the best source of information
Cease: we shoyld be listening to Firesign
llanwydd: lol
Tweeny: yes :)
Cease: radio is fun. unlike tv
Tweeny: sorry for the politis detour
Cease: radio, it just goes out there.
Tweeny: *politics
llanwydd: yeah if you can get good reception
Tweeny: Google says they'll be back online tomorrow
Not Ed: it's alright T
llanwydd: or at least npr
Tweeny: We'll leave politics to politics
Cease: llan, have your read the wiki about firesign? if you believe them, their comedy is all about sex. i'd be afraid to let my grand kids listen to them
Beet: My opinion is that a lot of people have usually private thoughts Nazi-like, but there are few organized groups.
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: no, I have not read that, cat
Tweeny: Thursday is a good night to leave all that stuff behind :)
Cease: ossman is wrong about this. python had more members than firesign and they got their fame from tv
Cease: i'm hesittant to tell young people about firesign because of that.
llanwydd: well python and firesign got their inspiration from radio
Cease: firesign didn't succeed in tv because of other reasons, dave
Cease: the goons, among others
Cease: chat met Ossman's wife at the time, Tiny on our abortive sunday chat.
Cease: she told us about the carnegie show.
llanwydd: I remember ossman saying he hated doing television
Cease: how much the entire audience loved shouting Fuck You Too along with Dwarf
Cease: ossman was working at ABC when he joined firesign.
Not Ed: perhaps..... Python is to TV what Firesign is to radio
llanwydd: I remember somebody shouting Eat it raw! at the Town Hall show in 81
Cease: thanks to george harrison and many other rock groups, Python was able to make hilarious movies.
Cease: george mortgaged his house to fund Life of Brian
llanwydd: proctor heerfully came back with the rejoinder but austin was a little miffed
llanwydd: cheerfully I mean
Cease: my experience with george harrison will be act one of my new play
llanwydd: yeah I cant imagine george funding firesign
Cease: if he's asked them, he might have.
Cease: great story about the bottle of gin
Tweeny: Cease: george mortgaged his house to fund Life of Brian << wow, he also had a big part in The Rutles
Beet: Can't beat a clean smellin' bed.
Cease: when elayne and i drove down to meet ossman, he told us of his idea for a Dwarf movie
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
Cease: helicopter shot going over the hollywood hills. where we now have a Hollywood sign, in the flick, the sign would reaad Sector R
Tweeny: The Rutles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles
Tweeny: hugely fun movie
Tweeny: parody of The Beatles
Cease: indeed
Tweeny: Harrison loved them, McCartney sued them
Tweeny: Neil Innes was a genius
Cease: oh yes i head of that.
Cease: saw innes biopic
Cease: beatles were 4 diffrerent people
Tweeny: Bonzo Dog Band
Tweeny: Eric Idle a member of The Rutles
Tweeny: worth a watch
Beet: This is very trippy.
Tweeny: Neil played Lennon
Cease: Bonzo/Beatles/Python (others) quite a combinaiton.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
Cease: I think Firesign could have joined that group.
Not Ed: catherwood bring everyone a bag of hard-boiled eggs and nuts
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone a bag of hard-boiled eggs and nuts.
Beet: Yum
Cease: thanks for johan addy, tween
Not Ed: It's nice that this is downloadable
Not Ed: that's very cool
Beet: lol
Beet: I'm laughing at the laundry bit.
Tweeny: All be well and warm and we'll see you here 'last time again...'
llanwydd: thanks for another fun thursday night, tween and for the ossman link, cat
Beet: Yup. Calling it a night. Well, this was very unusual and extremely entertaining. Great gratitude to Brother Cease for treating us to some fabulous Ossmon. Best regards to all and I hope you are safe and back up and running soon, Dr Tween. See everyone next week. G'Nite all.
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, llanwydd!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
Cease: we do what we can, eh
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!"
Not Ed: Laster alligator
Not Ed: See y'all
Not Ed: Stay confused!
Merlyn: thanks
||||||||| Merlyn leaves at 8:00 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 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: my favourite poem
Tweeny: o river
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!"
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| It's 4:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Beet - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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
Deputy Dang
Elayne
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
ModeratelyGinchy
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_de_La_Tour._St._Joseph,_the_Carpenter.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(novelist
https://m.facebook.com/fordstheatre/photos/time-for-tuesday-trivia-like-his-father-young-tad-lincoln-was-a-fan-of-the-theat/10157459423399653/
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/01/30/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-32/
https://vimeo.com/748147399?login=true#_=_