Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
03/14/2024

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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 March 14, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: A Tribute To Peter Bergman (11/29/1939-3/9/2012)
TRUE CONFESSIONS OF THE REAL WORLD
TV OR NOT TV
GIVE US A BREAK
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'
||||||||| It's 3:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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, March 14, 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?"
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'Deputy Dang', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Beet, just back from Elmertown."
Beet: Hiya, Friends!
Deputy Dang: Heya Beet!
Beet: Hey, Deputy.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Is it just you and me?
Deputy Dang: So far, yes. I think this is the week Cat is in Vegas, but I'm not sure.
Beet: That's cool enough.
Beet: Oh, yeah, that's right.
Beet: Virtual Tweeny.
Deputy Dang: yeah lol
Beet: Nice to hear Pete's voice.
Deputy Dang: Yeah, it's hard to believe it's been more than 10 years.
Beet: I don't think George is over it yet.
Beet: back in a minute.
Deputy Dang: almost definitely not
Beet: I'm back.
Beet: When Peter does another character, the second one is farly convincingly different.
Beet: fairly
Deputy Dang: ya
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Stop torturing me Ethyl!"
Deputy Dang: I'm not good at rhyming couplets. I lean limerick.
Beet: Recording technology amazingly lets us hear our heroes eventhough they're on the other side.
Deputy Dang: That's the Chinese.
Beet: Of course.
Beet: My stepmother used to work for J. Walter Thompson.
Deputy Dang: I only know the name but am not familiar with him.
Beet: They are major advertisers for Ford Motor Company
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's like sitting in a big hand."
Beet: Electric cars still get their energy from coal. Too bad.
Deputy Dang: For now...
Beet: Hoope it'll change.
Beet: Hope
Beet: I was born in '47 so the war was over for a couple of years before I came on the scene.
Deputy Dang: I think I'm the youngest pup here. I was born in 65.
Beet: Yeah, I'm the Old Fart on this chat.
Beet: Firesign keeps me young.
Deputy Dang: A lot of it makes me wish I were older so I could have a better feel for the humor. I understand a lot of it, but it feels second hand.
Beet: This is very predictive of AI
Deputy Dang: Tweeny must have played this recently. The wobble thing sounds familiar.
Beet: I think I do undrestand what you're saying about references. I miss alot of them too. I think they are just way ahead of me and everybody else.
Beet: We have come pretty far with accepting weed.
Deputy Dang: This True Confessions is good, but dependent on knowing the events that were current at the time. Some of it is satire of general government incompetence or the 1/99 wealth gap.
Beet: True.
Beet: He was really good at this stuff.
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
Deputy Dang: definitely
llanwydd: very few chatters on tonight
Beet: Hi, Llan. The Three Musketeers is now complete.
llanwydd: I LOVE Give Us a Break
Deputy Dang: Howdy llanwydd!
llanwydd: I bought this when I was in high school
llanwydd: hows everybody?
llanwydd: well , everybody is a lot of people
Beet: Peter was an extraordinary example for humen creativity.
Beet: To answer your question, I am doing pretty well. And how are you, Mr. Llan?
llanwydd: not bad at all. thanks for asking.
Beet: Good to hear.
llanwydd: Tweeny and Mr Ishikawa are strangely absent
Beet: Tweeny is doing his vrtual D.J. thing.
Deputy Dang: Cat's in Vegas, I think.
llanwydd: now than I think of it, I remember where cat is tonight
Deputy Dang: well, sure, after I give you a hint. ;-) lolololol
llanwydd: he said he will try to join us
Beet: This may be a first where both Tweeny and Cat are absent.
llanwydd: that reminds me I once joined the chat from a hostel in new york city the night before I auditioned for the american academy for dramatic arts
llanwydd: andfailed
llanwydd: I took a traqin down there from ticonderoga
llanwydd: tain
llanwydd: train
llanwydd: got it!
Deputy Dang -D
Beet: Did you do anything in the city after the audition?
Beet: I love New York.
llanwydd: not much didnt have time
llanwydd: theres nothing to do in new york city
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "You first bag will be your last."
Beet: restaurants, shows, museums, music.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!"
llanwydd: actually I have had wome of the best times of my life there
llanwydd: some
llanwydd: saw the firesign theatre there
Beet: Exciting place.
Beet: Wish I could say I had seen Firesign anywhere.
llanwydd: the story is almost impossible to believe
llanwydd: the show was sold out but I got a ticket
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?"
llanwydd: went by myself
Beet: Best luck ever.
llanwydd: many years later I saw an interview that they did earlier that day with bill boggs and they were saying it was sold out
llanwydd: if I had seen the interview I wouldnt have bothered going
Beet: Do you remember what they performed that night?
llanwydd: practically everything
Beet: Very cool.
llanwydd: I was shocked at my memory for the event
llanwydd: nick danger, ben bland, mr liverface, 8 shoes, bosun bob...
Beet: Do you know where the venue was?
llanwydd: town hall. near carnegie hall
Beet: Cool
llanwydd: april 2, 1981
llanwydd: had a great day on the town before the show
Beet: I was in D.C. at the time.
llanwydd: Ive been there a few times
Beet: I enjoyed being there.
llanwydd: so have I
||||||||| 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..
llanwydd: apparently catherwood has been in nyc as well
||||||||| Catherwood strides up to llanwydd and mumbles "oh, fuck off llanwydd!"
llanwydd: WELL!
Beet: It's obvious Proctor has had Broadway experience.
Deputy Dang: Oh, my!
llanwydd: I got autographs from the two phils afterward
Beet: It's almost like Tweeny is here.
llanwydd: david and peter got out of there quickly after the show
Beet: I got the impression from Cat that occasionally, they would hang around after their shows.
Beet: Hey, guys, gotta go. I have had fun tonight. Y'all have a great night and I'll see you next week. G'Nite.
llanwydd: nite beet
Deputy Dang: night night
llanwydd: well, not much of a chat tonight but good to see you dang
llanwydd: and thanks to tweeny for keeping the chat open. see you all next week.
||||||||| 8:00 PM -- llanwydd left for parts unknown. (Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow").
Deputy Dang: I'm not a good chatter. :-/
Deputy Dang: This is something that you have to know the events and moods that were current at the time.
Deputy Dang: Who did the music for skits like this?
Deputy Dang: Is Catherwood normally quiet for this long?
||||||||| Catherwood walks over to Deputy Dang and inquires "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
Deputy Dang: Gnight Beet! Gnight llanwydd! Gnite Tweeny! Gnight Cat! Thank you all!
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Nancy Kat in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Nancy Kat - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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
Deputy Dang
llanwydd

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign