Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
09/14/2023

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 14, 2023 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies 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.
||||||||| 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 5:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Rufus_T_Firetween - dead from jaundice
||||||||| 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 14, 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 stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Rufus_T_Firetween by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Rufus_T_Firetween: New York? UTC maybe...
||||||||| 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 – GENESIS-SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND
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 leads cosmicadventure into the room, accepts three dimes as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| cosmicadventure walks away to The Portrait Gallery.
||||||||| cosmicadventure has arrived at the appointed hour of 8:00 PM.
DJTweeny: Hi cosmic
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging elfmagic* by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
DJTweeny: Hi elf
elfmagic*: I don't hear any music!
Rufus_T_Firetween: I do
Rufus_T_Firetween: what link are you using?
Rufus_T_Firetween: and what player?
elfmagic*: ah! I don't think I have a player configured
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Merlyn bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: Hey Merlyn
Merlyn: Hey DJ
||||||||| 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)'
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| cosmicadventure - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| New notice: '*** NEW REVAMPED FIRESIGN WEB SITE!! – WWW.FIRESIGNTHEATRE.COM **
Currently Playing — from Firesign Theatre's new FOOLS IN SPACE
“PUPPETS WITH CONCEALED KNIVES”
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'
||||||||| Catherwood escorts More Sugar 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: Hi Sugar
Merlyn: Hey MoreSugar
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Derrace Kingsley into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
DJTweeny: Hi Derrance
Merlyn: Hi Der
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** NEW FIRESIGN RELEASE!! ** - FOOLS IN SPACE – Digital Download >> https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
Rufus_T_Firetween: This is from their XM Radio broadcasts in the early 2000s. Great stuff
Rufus_T_Firetween: excellent quality audio
Rufus_T_Firetween: and our chatter Merlyn had a big hand in the production :)
Rufus_T_Firetween: Merlyn made this custom chat for us, BTW
Merlyn: Me
Rufus_T_Firetween: Him ^^
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cat in Denver by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Derrace Kingsley - dead from the common cold
||||||||| elfmagic* - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DJTweeny: Hey Cat
DJTweeny: We're Glad You Made It!
Merlyn: Hi Cat
Cat in Denver : Hi all
Cat in Denver : In the airport with sore back and good book
||||||||| 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 johan amadeus myjetski disembarks at 8:00 PM.
johan amadeus myjetski: hello all!
johan amadeus myjetski: got a couple of things to check. be back in a few minutes...
Merlyn: Hey JAM
johan amadeus myjetski: hi Merl!
johan amadeus myjetski: what's next? muppets with congealed knaves?
DJTweeny: Hey johan
johan amadeus myjetski: Yo ho DJT!
DJTweeny: yes, and mimes with concealed swords
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Beet close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
Beet: Wow! Forgot to tune in. Sorry.
johan amadeus myjetski: i've often worried about enraged mimes - you never hear them coming...
DJTweeny: Yo Beet
DJTweeny: yy johan
johan amadeus myjetski: Hiyas, Beet!
Beet: Hi Tweeb
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Join the expectant crowd gathering now as we stop here on..."
Beet: Tween
johan amadeus myjetski: tweeb HA!
Beet: Hey, j.a.m. Yeah, bad typing.
Merlyn: Hey Beet
Beet: Hi, Merl.
johan amadeus myjetski: tweeb that rhymes with dweeb & that stands for fools - IN ASPACE!
Rufus_T_Firetween: lol
Beet: A Music Man reference.
johan amadeus myjetski: i pass this way butt once!
Beet: What's a way butt.
Beet: lol. Anti semantic.
johan amadeus myjetski: kinds like a way station, butt completely different...
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "He can shout, don't hear you."
Rufus_T_Firetween: GW Bush was very anti-semantic
johan amadeus myjetski: No-stick christian concept? Hmmm...
Beet: I love the puns. Blow your Shofar.
johan amadeus myjetski: i misunderstood i was trying to show my blow-fer...
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again."
johan amadeus myjetski: were you at hollywood high/ no, he was straight
Cat in Denver : No sound. Maybe Denver airport wifi not so strong
Beet: Hey, Cat In Denver.
DJTweeny: the 320k link is working fine
DJTweeny: maybe try the 16k Cat?
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| More Sugar - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
johan amadeus myjetski: bringing the theme back...
johan amadeus myjetski: more sugar is less sugar, alas...
Merlyn: Me
Merlyn: Brian
DJTweeny: yep :)
Beet: Gotta go. See you next week. G'Nite.
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
Merlyn: Byr Beet
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
Now playing: Phil Austin's ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE
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 ROLLER MAIDENS at >> https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-rv'
johan amadeus myjetski: s'long, beet!
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and announces "Presenting 'llanwydd', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
llanwydd: good evening
johan amadeus myjetski: greetings & felicitations, llan!
llanwydd: sure wish I could have gotten here at 7 but it wasnt possible. how was the first half?
DJTweeny: Hey llan
llanwydd: Hi Tween
Merlyn: hey Llan
johan amadeus myjetski: the first half was puppets with concealed knives. i was late but what i heard was hilarious!
llanwydd: cool
Merlyn: llanwydd
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Read about ROLLER MAIDENS FROM OUTER SPACE at >> http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
Rufus_T_Firetween: So how was the airplane ride, Cat?
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cat in Denver - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
johan amadeus myjetski: "got in slowly like a hipster at a funeral..." love that line!
llanwydd: I am very disappointed that I missed Cats broadcast/simulcast
llanwydd: that is what it was wasnt it?
llanwydd: something like that
llanwydd: jguess I will find out tomorrow
Merlyn: fools in scane
llanwydd: aha
Merlyn: spane
llanwydd: the fools in spane stay mainly on the plane
llanwydd: and some of them on the bus
johan amadeus myjetski: by jordie, he's got it!
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: catherwood what time is it?
||||||||| Catherwood says "It's 8:00 PM"
llanwydd: I thought so
johan amadeus myjetski: it's alway 8pm somewhere!
llanwydd: catherwood what year is it?
||||||||| Catherwood walks right past llanwydd
llanwydd: lol, jam
johan amadeus myjetski: it's the the early great camanberra Dying-off. Somewhere
llanwydd: exactly
johan amadeus myjetski: he's a Q-ban?!?
llanwydd: have a cup of qban for dessert
||||||||| 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'
llanwydd: catherwood what is the capital of pakistan?
||||||||| Catherwood rushes up to llanwydd and says "Do you have something for me to do?"
llanwydd: Cool!
johan amadeus myjetski: great show, kurt! lotsa laughs, snots, & a couple of guffaws! nite all!
Merlyn: nite all
llanwydd: thanks for the chat as always, tween
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Thanks for listening, everybody… See you next week, same Firetime, same Firestation…
johan amadeus myjetski: snorts
llanwydd: LOL
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Merlyn walks off into the sunset...
llanwydd: and we end with bumper mucous
johan amadeus myjetski: & shorts!
llanwydd: wasnt it Truckin last week?
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
llanwydd: nite everybody!
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, llanwydd vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
DJTweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- DJTweeny left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
||||||||| 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 the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:45 AM, 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...
||||||||| 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
Cat in Denver
DJTweeny
elfmagic*
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
http://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-ln
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
www.kurtericson.net/txroadkill/roadkillshow
https://firesigntheatre.com/store/brucesnyderdesignandtime-mk6dl?rq=fools%20in%20space
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=rm-rv