||||||||| 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 29, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Funfun Town." ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: Firesign's EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/media/media.php?item=eykiw-ln from THE DECLASSIFIED FIRESIGN “The Les Crane Show” https://firesigntheatre.com/store/firesign-theatre-everything-you-know-is-wrong and from DEAR FRIENDS TOO “Laff A While” Listen to the 256k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2 or the 16k stream at: http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1 This show is archived at www.kurtericson.net/firesign Cat’s collage archive is at www.kurtericson.net/cat' ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 1:00 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Tweeny - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Seeker waltzes in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 7:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Seeker - dead from dengue fever ||||||||| 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, February 29, 2024 - 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 intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's JZip, just back from Elmertown." JZip: To whom it may concern: I can't get the 16K stream to mount. ||||||||| 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 Beet plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM. Beet: Hey! Just wanted to drop in and say hi. I'm really tired and sleepy tonight so I'm going to turn in. See you next time. ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. JZip: Rest well! Tweeny: Hey Beet, Zip ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Deputy Dang jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past year and a half!" Deputy Dang: Hi Beet! Goodnight beet! ||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging Cease by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?" Cease: Hi all ||||||||| 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.. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! ||||||||| It's 12:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Beet - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... Tweeny: Hey Cease, Deputy Cease: what is this, tween? Tweeny: But Serially Folks from Dear Friends Too Cease: i should have a collage for next week. sexy boomer show with ed begly jr. fine stuff. Tweeny: cool Cease: and speaking of fine boomers, their most recent show, with frazer smith, is i think the best of all tghe bummer shows Cease: i'll be in vegas the following week Cease: time seems to move so quickly. Cease: tomrrow li may be coming back from Spain Cease: Boomer shows. https://sexyboomershow.libsyn.com/ JZip: Mine, too, brother. Cease: this is brilliant work
JZip is born every minute Cease: there's a sucker born every minute. is that wc fields, or pt barnum? JZip: Fields, I'm pretty sure. Cease: this is so wonderfully deflationary of the new age. Tweeny: Barnum, I'm betting Cease: sounds like fields Cease: could be both JZip: I could be wrong! Everything else I know is. Tweeny: "There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence that he actually said it. Early examples of its use are found among gamblers and confidence tricksters. ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems." Cease: on duty Tweeny: The send-up of The Founding Fathers is wonderful Cease: tiz JZip: Like Boston scrod. Cease: that's a good summation of firesign theatre. an alternate past, for an alternate future JZip: Pretty wild bunch of miners. Cease: What are all these minors doing in the bar? JZip: A potent jot. The words they use. I just love it. Tweeny: and Don Juan Cease: bouhaha? ha ha ha JZip: ha ha ha Cease: they looked in a direction they had never looked before. Cease: that reminds me of the Borges story, about the coin that only has one side. Cease:https://biblioklept.org/2019/04/02/the-disk-a-very-short-story-by-jorge-luis-borges/ Cease: disc, not coin Cease: i featrured this in one of my collages Cease: i dont want to sanction stupidity as our national sport. JZip: In medical school for a few weeks in Mexico. Tweeny: love The Crumbhungers JZip: All the German missionaries. JZip: The liquid rain is soaking into my body like little tongues. Tweeny: How are you healing, Cat? Are you getting around OK? Cease: well, ok is optimum. but i wil be in vegas soon so i have to be in good shape. Cease: mr straight from new york JZip: The humpheads--Dagwich and Dagmar. Cease: holy wholey JZip: Easiest damn money I ever made! ||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'llanwydd', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. llanwydd: good evening Cease: hi llan
JZip me waves Tweeny: Hey llan Cease: they come, they go. Cease: i'm thinking of a line similar to that for the end of my new play Cease: "The waves come in. The waves go out. Ukraine remains." llanwydd: I like that Cease: When I met him and gave him the script for Neal Amid, in which he and Melinda have a small scene, he gave me a cassette with these bits on it. Deputy Dang: Ewe Too? Cease: You're a major part of the play, llan. i hope you like it. JZip: Of course! It must be. Cease: hi dang llanwydd: I knowI will, cat JZip: orthoerotics Cease: was hoping to have it finished before i go to spain in may. keep getting new ideas. got a greart book from my local library called Treasures of Ukraine. ||||||||| Tweeny departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" ||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Tweeny by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?" Cease: this is extremely dated. rodman's multicoloured hair for example. you havew to be fairly old to get that llanwydd: by the way, happy april fools day, everybody JZip: The bit about buying Ecuador that ended with Newt Gingrich interested in owning his own nukes felt current despite GIngrich. ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. llanwydd: I remember rodman. doesnt seem like very long ago Cease: i think alan is responsible for recording this, eh? Cease: alan gross, firesign archivist Cease: he plays himself in my play CAST ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Not Ed into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs. Not Ed: Honk honk ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's one crawling up my leg!" Cease: hi not Not Ed: Hey Cat Cease: you know this is a recreation of the orign of the Firesign Theatre? Not Ed: Hi everyone hope all R well N groovy llanwydd: hi not ed llanwydd: I thber this character from pink hotel Tweeny: Hey Not Not Ed: Evenin llan llanwydd: I mean I think I remember this character Not Ed: Hi Tweeny llanwydd: I havent heard pink hotel many times llanwydd: or there was a similar character Not Ed: yeah i rem Not Ed: I love a parade Not Ed: (what?) ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends." Cease: and the parade loves you back Not Ed: aww that's nice llanwydd: I love lucy llanwydd: in the sky with diamonds llanwydd: havent seen her in many years Cease: oh lucy, i brought fidel castro home for dinner. Cease: a line from my play Red Shift llanwydd: lol Cease: Fumiyo and I had lunch with Phil and Edgar Bullington (their original fan) when we were in LA in 2015. Phil was telling a story about Desi Arnez and I had to restrain myself from saying that line. ||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| JZip - dead from pneumonia ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| Al2O3 sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident." Al2O3: howdie Cease: hi llanwydd: Hi Al Al2O3: 7 words by carlin? Tweeny: Hey Al Not Ed: Carp serenade https://www.deviantart.com/indivisualist23/art/Carp-serenade-1026231669 Not Ed: Feel free to peruse my gallery (I make this stuff - AI assisted imagery) Not Ed: Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/indivisualist23/gallery Deputy Dang: I have no questions. Cease: i'm impressed, not. Not Ed: thanks Cat Not Ed: I'll be adding lots to the gallery in the coming months Cease: not everyone is creative, as an adultr. all kids are Not Ed: true that Cease: having grandkids teaches you that. llanwydd: never thought about that, cat Not Ed: indeed Not Ed: this discussion is totally silly I love it lol llanwydd: that is truly abstract Cease: this is where Firesign began. they all realized they could do this, and there was an audience Not Ed: it's a marvel what they are capable of doing in our heads Cease: tiz Not Ed: i was just literally laughing about that Not Ed: we are so lucky to have been on the same planet together at this time, all of us Not Ed: so cool Cease: true Not Ed: great stuff! Not Ed: (les crane disc) Not Ed: discussion llanwydd: cool Not Ed: Waffles has a cybernetic eye https://www.deviantart.com/indivisualist23/art/Waffles-PhD-1023164852 Not Ed: Quote for the day: 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. (Penn Jillette) Deputy Dang: I didn't understand the second half. :-/ Not Ed: lol Not Ed: Thanks Tweeny! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again." Deputy Dang: I mean the second half of tonight's show. Deputy Dang: Yes, thank you for sharing it with us. I am glad I got to hear it. Cease: will have new collage next week, eh? Tweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, be well and we'll see you next week :-) Not Ed: some things are not meant to be understood Cease: by ||||||||| Cease 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..." Not Ed: later every1! stay groovy and eat your veggies Deputy Dang: Gnight all! llanwydd: thanks tween ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Deputy Dang, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the brambles. llanwydd: thanks cat ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room." Not Ed: Adios amigos! llanwydd: nite everybody ||||||||| llanwydd departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Catherwood says "8:00 PM, time for SOMEONE to leave!", grabs Tweeny by the collar and gives 'em the old bum's rush out the door ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. ||||||||| It's 2:15 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 ||||||||| 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 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Al2O3: gang a dong, literalizing bang a gong 3-clock :) ||||||||| It's 3:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Al2O3 - 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:
Al2O3
Beet
Cease
Deputy Dang
JZip
llanwydd
Not Ed
Tweeny
