Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/17/2023

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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 August 17, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Rufus_T_Firetween 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.
||||||||| It's 2:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Rufus_T_Firetween coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| New notice: '** NEW FIRESIGN CHAT TIME **
** THE FIRESIGN CHAT HAS MOVED TO 7PM -9PM EASTERN **
The Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starts at 7pm Eastern this evening.
Warm-up music now begins around 6:40pm Eastern.
visit Firesign's *NEW* web site at www.firesigntheatre.com'
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 5:15 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 escorts Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 8:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from The Plague
||||||||| 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, August 17, 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?"
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Rufus_T_Firetween, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies DJTweeny into the room, accepts a grimy quarter as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Tweeny sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 7pm Eastern this evening. **
Warm-up music begins around 6:40pm Eastern
You can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected)
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Currently playing: warm up music – KING KRIMSON-THE POWER TO BELIEVE
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
||||||||| Catherwood escorts johan amadeus myjetski 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.
Rufus_T_Firetween: Hi johan
Rufus_T_Firetween: Thanks for the Wakeman/Innes link, I'll check it out
johan amadeus myjetski: ello, Nude Age Enterprises. I'm busy!"
johan amadeus myjetski: you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wishn they were coming to your town
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
johan amadeus myjetski: 'ello Cease!
Rufus_T_Firetween: allo Cease
Cease: Hi all
johan amadeus myjetski: i love this KC - i'm not familiar with this album at all
johan amadeus myjetski: is thus the album with the track called 'this is a dangerous place'?
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Merlyn into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
Cease: Just got new phone today. What a trip
Cease: Hi Merl
johan amadeus myjetski: Merlyn, hello!
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Beet steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
johan amadeus myjetski: howdy beet!
Beet: Happy Thursday, everyone.
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn, Beet
Beet: Hey, j.a.m., Tweeny
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
WELCOME TO THE FIRESIGN CHAT
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
(streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net)'
Cease: Beet
Cease: the Reaper
Beet: Hi, Merlyn, Cease.
Merlyn: Hey JAM, Cease, DJ
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Merlyn: Hi Beet
Cease: Got my last phone, an Iphone 6, for my trip to France in 2017.
Cease: Upgraded to Iphone 14 in prep for upcoming trip to Denver
||||||||| New notice: '*** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently Playing — from Firesign Theatre's new FOOLS IN SPACE
“RADIO FREE PASHTUN”
128k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or 16k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
Check out FOOLS IN SPACE at >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space'
johan amadeus myjetski: Spools in Face
Cease: Quite a diference in the phones. The screen is SO MUCH BIGGER
Cease: Bruce Snyder told me to get this particular phone so we could do things together.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - FOOLS IN SPACE – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Anyone here?
Merlyn: I an
Merlyn: am
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'llanwydd', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
Cease: And so is llan
llanwydd: goodeveninggoodeveninggoodevening
Beet: Me too.
Cease: Not a lot of conversation here
Beet: Hi, Llan.
llanwydd: how can so many of us be here when we are not anywhere at all
Beet: We're all nowhere together.
DJTweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: lol
Merlyn: Hey llan
llanwydd: we are all here because we are not all there
Beet: Still hot in Austin, Tweeny?
DJTweeny: got to 108 today
Beet: wow.
llanwydd: holy cow!
DJTweeny: and mid-100s for the foreseeable future
DJTweeny: it be toasty
llanwydd: and here I am felling sorry for myself in florida
DJTweeny: two months with temps above 100
llanwydd: feeling
Beet: Is the A/C working OK?
DJTweeny: /me hugs the people who inveted air conditioning and ceiing fans
DJTweeny: yeah, the A/C is doing its job
Beet: I do that all the time myself.
DJTweeny: keeping it around a dehumidified 80
llanwydd: I had the a/c recharged today in my ford taurus
DJTweeny: *ceiling fans
llanwydd: how much do you folks think that should have cost me?
Beet: I just did that in my old Camry.
DJTweeny: Haven't had a car since 2010, so I can't say
llanwydd: $95 flus tax
llanwydd: plus
johan amadeus myjetski: we're mid-59s for lows, upper 70s for highs
llanwydd: and the guy only took about ten minutes to do it
llanwydd: where are you , JAM/
Beet: The can of "freon" cost me $11. A friend had the device to put it in.
johan amadeus myjetski: mid 50s
llanwydd: ?
johan amadeus myjetski: the mountains of western north carolina
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It goes in - it must come out."
llanwydd: well said, catherwood
||||||||| Catherwood steps up to llanwydd and mumbles "Stop typing gibberish, llanwydd!"
llanwydd: well it would not be as hot in the mountains
Beet: In God's country.
johan amadeus myjetski: certainly closer to the diety
johan amadeus myjetski: deity
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!"
llanwydd: we have a mountain in florida that rises about 350 feet
Beet: I love these poems.
Cease: speaking of god, I'm going to be interviewed on Sunday. A guy who was on Phil and Ted;s Sexy Boomer Show, Gerry Fialca
llanwydd: I must see it someday
johan amadeus myjetski: i'm at 3,544 ft
llanwydd: cool, Cease
Cease: i'm going to the mile high city next month.
Cease: I wonder if I can chat from the Denver airport
Cease: the interview will be on Youtube. All 90 minutes of it. There are some questions about religion, not my favourite topic
Beet: Beautiful place you live in, j.a.m.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Cease: But I will promote Firesign Chat
Merlyn: ya
johan amadeus myjetski: dropping out of chat for a bit. will be listening. back in a bit.
Cease: ok
llanwydd: jam sure is lucky to live at such a high altitude during the heat wave
Cease: my phone just told me I have free apple tv for 3 months cuz i just bought new iphone. Wonder if I can get it on my computer instead of just the phone.
Rufus_T_Firetween: One would think the subscription would work anywhere
llanwydd: wish I could get the internet on my television like I had years ago
Beet: All together now.
llanwydd: one two three xswrdfrvygtbunhyijumik,hgfrtfyguhgfrde
Rufus_T_Firetween: Welsh is quite the verbose language
llanwydd: that is actually a much more ancient language called bzfgt
Beet: Looks like you're fluent in it, Llan.
llanwydd: entirely a written language since nobody can pronounce it
Cease: so it appears
johan amadeus myjetski: i go out to fix my studio window, i come back & y'all are onto penises from heaven. hmm...
Beet: I don't think you put the comma in the right place, though.
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol Beet
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight."
llanwydd: thats not a comma. thats a mrgthyj
Beet: All penises are from Heaven.
johan amadeus myjetski: heavy on the 39 weight
||||||||| 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..
johan amadeus myjetski: 30 weight. lights are low here in the studidio tonight
Cease: did bergman say "fuckin"?
Beet: Can you get a hadoun on Amazon?
llanwydd: sheik hadoun
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
johan amadeus myjetski: i got a sun helmut on amaerzon from the same company that made them for the viet cong 50 years ago
llanwydd: I have never seen any hadouns on amazon
Beet: cool
Beet: Sorry to have to go but gotta. See you next week. G'Nite.
llanwydd: nite beet
Cease: by beet
johan amadeus myjetski: nite beet!
Merlyn: Bye Beet
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Be sure to join me (Kurt in Austin) for my live RADIO FREE ROADKILL show from 7-9pm Eastern every Tuesday at www.dishnuts.net where I play Firesign Theatre and take your music requests - RFR Archives at www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
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: exceptional hilarity, that's my opinion
Merlyn: And Brian Westley, me
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT !! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“SCHOOL FOR ACTORS (LIVE)”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook'
Cease: indeed, merl
llanwydd: Cat, please let me know before you start editing your play. I would like to run through those scripts again.
Cease: will do, llan
llanwydd: cool
Cease: i'm very happy with what you sent me thus far.
llanwydd: thanks
Cease: we'll go over it when I have some time. kind of busy these days preparing for my interview on sunday and the upcoming denver trip.
Cease: my cousin brought over a bunch of stuff about our family in Ukraine i have to go through and rerturn to her soon
Cease: say goodbye, gracie
llanwydd: goodbye, gracie
Merlyn: Vte lllan
johan amadeus myjetski: good evening freiends. see ya next time!
llanwydd: Vte to you too Merl
llanwydd: Nite jam
llanwydd: I am going too. Thanks, Tween. Break a leg, Cat.
Cease: by jammy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I say Live it, or Live With It!"
llanwydd: nite everybody
||||||||| llanwydd 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..."
Merlyn: bye llan
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT !! **
Currently playing: from the Box Of Danger collection
“THE CASE OF THE MISSING SHOE”
Listen to the stream at 320k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
128k at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
16k at: http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
check out BOX OF DANGER at >> https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook'
||||||||| 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'
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
Merlyn: nite all
Cease: off we go
||||||||| Merlyn is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, Cease!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| DJTweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Beet - 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 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| johan amadeus myjetski - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters, and announces to all and sundry "It's 4:31 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
DJTweeny
johan amadeus myjetski
llanwydd
Merlyn
Rufus_T_Firetween

URL References:
http://dishnuts.net
http://gamebird.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny128k.m3u
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
www.dishnuts.net
www.firesigntheatre.com
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook