Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
08/01/2024

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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 August 01, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| 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 Tweeny gets out at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: A massive new Cat Collage based upon Firesign’s new release
NOT INSANE 1980! CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/not-insane-1980-campaign-chronicles
“Nobody for President”
plus a Cat Collage based on Phil Proctor’s podcasts “Free Huey, President Dewey”
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 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:45 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...
||||||||| Tweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from the yaws
||||||||| 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 01, 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 escorts morlog 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.
morlog: i like cheese
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Tweeny', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
Tweeny: Hey morlog, you're a bit early
morlog: na, im late for last week
Tweeny: I should have my scooter our of the shop by the middle of next week. I'll let you know so we can make some plans to get together on the RV.
morlog: cool
Tweeny: morlog: na, im late for last week << haha, true ;)
Tweeny: *out of the shop (but you know what I meant)
morlog: yeah
morlog: took a ride down to south park meadows today
Tweeny: kewl
Tweeny: so the ebike is working well?
morlog: yeah, it has some quirks but nothing serious
morlog: hit 750 miles on it today
Tweeny: not bad for just getting around town
Tweeny: glad you've got it working the way you want
Tweeny: I've got a little under 4800 on the scooter since early 2020
morlog: cool
morlog: thats about 100 miles a month
Tweeny: are you able to ride the bike lanes?
morlog: yeah
Tweeny: that's good
morlog: as far as the laws are concerned, its a bike
Tweeny: the speeds are sort of in between bicycle and car traffic
morlog: kind of
morlog: on a decent mountain bike i can go just as fast as my ebike
Tweeny: really, wow
Tweeny: 30mph?
morlog: i used to have a haro mnt bike that i would of blown the doors off this ebike with
morlog: 30mph isnt that hard on a mnt bike, especiALLY A MODERN ONE
morlog: 40 AND 50 MPH ARE ACHIEVABLE
morlog: sorry about the caps
morlog: i remember on maui that there wer some people riding road bikes that i couldnt keep up with on my scooter
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N."
Tweeny: wow, that's amazing
Tweeny: wouldn't have thought that possible on a mountain bike
morlog: yeah
morlog: the haro mnt bike i had was made for racing singletrack
Tweeny: how many speeds do they have?
morlog: it was the last one they made with rim brakes, after that year they started putting disc brakes on everything
morlog: i dont know nowadays, last time i looked they got all the way up to 27
Tweeny: yipes
Tweeny: so 9 with three levels
morlog: yeah
morlog: some of them put all the gears on the rear wheel
Tweeny: whoa
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Get on it and do it every day!"
morlog: not sure if they put all 27 but i say at least 12
||||||||| Deputy Dang sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, morlog! Howdy, Tweeny!
morlog: they are moving away from that now and going to a 3 speed gearbox in the front and 9 gears on the wheel
||||||||| Beet steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Howdy, Pardners!
morlog: hey there
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They had to come from small towns with strange names."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?"
morlog: i like cheese
Tweeny: Yo Beet
Beet: Hey, Deputy, morlog, Tweeny.
Tweeny: Phil Proctor turned 84 Sunday :)
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Beet: Boeing technology comes through afain.
Tweeny: I turned 70 on the 20th, and people like Phil and David give me hope for the future
||||||||| Cease tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Happy Birthday, Phil.
Tweeny: allo Cease
Beet: Hi, Cease.
Cease: Hi Chatters
Tweeny: This is from the XM Radio Series
Tweeny: Fuse Of Doom
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?"
||||||||| Catherwood escorts llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Tweeny: Hey llan
Cease: Llan
llanwydd: good evening
Beet: Hi, llan.
Deputy Dang: hair of the cow?
llanwydd: ?
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Howdy, llanwydd!
Beet: Might be a good idea not to have a President.
Cease: Prime Ministers aren't much betterr
llanwydd: hows everybody?
Beet: OK here, thanks, and yourself?
llanwydd: not bad at all
Tweeny: hot in Austin llan, the heat index supposedly approached 108F
Beet: good to hear.
Tweeny: and we're supposed to have 102F _real_ temp Saturday
llanwydd: I heard about that tween
Cease: Relatively pleasent here
llanwydd: we are in the nineties here in fl
Beet: I stayed indoors in the A/C all day.
llanwydd: lol
Tweeny: let's hope for an early Fall
Cease: They are rare in homes in Vancouver
Tweeny: that's pretty amazing Cease
Cease: We don't get much heat, usually
Tweeny: Van weather is definitely not like the rest of Canada
Tweeny: must be because of being on the coast
Cease: That's why I live here.
Cease: We get a bit of snow, but it's vastly better than where I'm from, Saskatchewan
Beet: All my formative years were in hot/humid Houston. At the time the most air conditioned city in the world.
Tweeny: and it is actually much hotter inland, right?
Tweeny: Oh yeah, Houston was built on a bayou
Cease: right
llanwydd: we had the extremes in new jersey
Beet: One of them runs right through downtown.
llanwydd: very hot to very cold and always humid
Tweeny: All In The Family was a wonderful sitcom
Cease: it was
llanwydd: yes it was iconic for sure
Beet: Let's not forget about Papoon.
Cease: He's forgotten
Beet: guess so
morlog: who
Tweeny: morlog >> Papoon for President - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoon_for_President
Tweeny: https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/papoon/
||||||||| Not Ed enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
llanwydd: NOT SENILE!
Not Ed: lol morl, Tween, DDang, Beet, Cease, llan, waz real
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Deputy Dan has no friends."
Deputy Dang: I've never heard anything like this from Firesign
Tweeny: I remember when I lived in D.C. seeing Papoon For President bumber stickers :)
Cease: HI Not
Tweeny: Hey Not Ed
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "It's like sitting in a big hand."
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed!
Beet: Hi, Not.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Dept. and the Natural Guard."
llanwydd: welcome Not
Not Ed: Hi hi hi Mr Deltoid
llanwydd: no, I dont mean your not welcome
Not Ed: tx good 2 see u all
llanwydd: dont peel fruit?
Cease: time flys like an arrow.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: fruit flys like a banana
Cease: groucho
Not Ed: remember dan quayle
Not Ed: hahaha
Not Ed: wait which bush administration are we talking about
morlog: enron
Not Ed: i really should read the instructions
Not Ed: tx morl
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "May I see your passport, please?"
Not Ed: catherwood bring everyone mousse with a peculiar undertaste
||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone mousse with a peculiar undertaste.
Cease: that reminds me of my mouse dream in Madrid.
Not Ed: interesting!
Not Ed: this is great
llanwydd: you put mousse in your hair, not in your mouth
Cease: it's neither a floor wax nor a desert topping?
llanwydd: no, its used by hairdressers
llanwydd: and I think you can DIY but I never have
llanwydd: jimmy is back
Cease: https://bakerbynature.com/the-best-chocolate-mousse-recipe/
Cease: Fumiyo makes this.
llanwydd: thanks, cat
llanwydd: looks delicious
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "There's a seeker born every minute!"
Cease: what is your purpose in going to northern spain, the customs dude asked me in Frankfurt>
Cease: it was too difficult to explain and there's a long of people needing to pass through.
Cease: so I said, "vacation"
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: si senor, you are trying to vacate espana
Beet: ?this is good.
Cease: this is from the 1978 RFO
Cease: don't know how many thre were. i have 2
Cease: Proc LOVES to speak Russian
llanwydd: I noticed he spoke some russian on neal amid
Cease: yep
llanwydd: and now that I think of it, one of the proctor and bergman albums
Cease: probably why he agreed to do the part
Cease: also in RFed Shift
llanwydd: cool
Tweeny: want to post the link to your plays, 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..
Tweeny: Seem Real Theatre - https://www.seemreal.com/
Tweeny: Cat's plays with The Firesign Theatre ^^
Cease: https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html
Cease: Yep
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
Cease: the website also has my blog. Selections is where the plays are
Not Ed: thumbs up
Beet: Well, once again time to go. This was fun. Nice to see everyone. See everyone next week. G'Nite all.
llanwydd: nite beet
Cease: by beet
Not Ed: laterz
Not Ed: Beet
Tweeny: later, Beet
Not Ed: You do know that Procmer is in fact in-same
Not Ed: as opposed to out-same?
Not Ed: hrm
Not Ed: Nice Cat
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: cool, cat
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: By Dang
Not Ed: this is fun
Cease: Mao and Che with Dang sauce
Not Ed: uh oh missed DDang
llanwydd: LOL Cat
llanwydd: wow. this is horrifying
Cease: didn't you know this story, llan?
llanwydd: I knewa little of it
llanwydd: how traumatic that must have been for phil and pete
Cease: they dined out on it for half a century
Not Ed: know why Ray called them the Raylettes?
Cease: no
llanwydd: because ronettes was aleady taken
llanwydd: already
llanwydd: this is from lawyers hospital
llanwydd: is that austin doing the duck voice?
Cease: no, it's a woman in the audience
llanwydd: lol
Cease: Jane the Duck
Cease: from the Hour Hour shows
llanwydd: that was cool
Tweeny: Thanks for listening everybody, and hopefully we'll see you on Tuesday :-)
Cease: We do our best
Not Ed: because they "let Ray"
Not Ed: Great stuff Cat & Tween! Later folks!!
Cease: Let the sunshine in
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
llanwydd: thanks tweeny and cat. great show.
Cease: Final Nobody next week
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Tweeny walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| Cease rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
||||||||| llanwydd departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| 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 yaws
||||||||| Not Ed - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, morlog vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| 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
llanwydd
morlog
Not Ed
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign
https://bakerbynature.com/the-best-chocolate-mousse-recipe/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papoon_for_President
https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/not-insane-1980-campaign-chronicles
https://seemreal.com/seemreal-selections.html
https://www.firesigntheatrelegacy.com/papoon/
https://www.seemreal.com/