Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
09/05/2024

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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 September 05, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Tweeny steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: ** A Celebration Of The Life Of MELINDA PETERSON **
http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/index_files/RIP_melinda_peterson.html
Proctor & Bergman’s NPR Broadcast Series POWER
plus a Melinda Peterson Tribute “Laughter After Death”
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 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 5 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 6 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 6:30 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...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, September 05, 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 accompanies Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Deputy Dang tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Cease steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Beet in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Beet: Good evening, Friends!
Tweeny: Evenin' fellow fireheads
Beet: Hi, Tweeny, Cease, Deputy.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving llanwydd coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Tweeny: Hi llan
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Direct readout - Doctor Memory."
llanwydd: good evening dear friends
Beet: Hey, llan
Tweeny: BTW, Happy Birthday llanwydd!
Cease: Greetings reaper beaters
llanwydd: thanks tween
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is Major Hit in the cockpit of the Enola McLuhan."
Tweeny: What year were you born, llan?
Beet: Yes, Happy Birthday!
Tweeny: (a '54 model here)
llanwydd: 61
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let the air out of your shoes and prepare yourself for a period of simulated relxation."
Tweeny: kewl
Cease: Is it your birthday, Llan? Happiest.
llanwydd: thanks beet, cat
llanwydd: I am 63 today
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Kiyyik close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
llanwydd: howdy Kiyyik
Beet: Hi, Kiyyik.
Cease: Kiyyik
Kiyyik: Evenin'.
Cease: Here's Melinda
Tweeny: Hi Kiyyik
Deputy Dang: Howdy folks! I'm not really here. I'm on a vacation and most of us have come down with a cold. Yeeha.
llanwydd: lol
Beet: You look really real.
Deputy Dang: I listened to the tribute a few weeks ago when Cat or Tweeny mentioned it. Well worth listening to.
Cease: Tis
Beet: I did too. Very moving.
Cease: Phil posted it on Facebook
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "More coffee, warden?"
Cease: Here's Melinda again
Deputy Dang: I'm still avoiding FB whenever possible. It feels like it's been taken over by AI art bots.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Farnsworth, just back from Hellmouth."
llanwydd: howdy Farnsworth
Deputy Dang: I'll be here next week if at all possible. For now, I'm going to take some medication and try to go to sleep early, as though I haven't been sleeping most of the day already.
Deputy Dang: Cheers!
llanwydd: get well dang
Deputy Dang: I'm going for that really big disease!
llanwydd: lol
Deputy Dang: (I know it's not COVID, because I can still smell food.)
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice."
||||||||| Deputy Dang leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown.
Beet: Get well quickly!
Cease: Get well, DD
Beet: Great song
Cease: At the Memorial, there were images of Melinda displayed during thissong
Cease: Sounds like Billy Joel
Beet: It is.
Beet: Fabulous musician and songwriter.
Cease: Indeed
Cease: She was a Billy Joel fan. That's why that song was used.
Cease: Cat lover, eh?
Cease: I'm now working on Act 3 which is Ukraine, from A to Z
Cease: A Joint-enjoyer
||||||||| It's 11:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Farnsworth - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: Was Farnsoworth here?
llanwydd: he was here but not all there
Cease: Nothing but lauhgs. What a life!
Cease: Aren't all heart attacks unexpected?
llanwydd: anybody know farnsworth? has he been here before?
llanwydd: the name sounds familiar
llanwydd: true, cat
Cease: I've been to that garden. She was so proud of it.
Cease: "If these people weren't in the Firesign Theatre, they'd be in an insane assylm" That was an actual ad for them.
Beet: Cool
Tweeny: haha, nice
||||||||| 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..
Beet: This was fun tonight. Nice to be with you guys. Once again, Happy Birthday, llan. See everyone next week. G'Nite.
Cease: By Beet
||||||||| It's 12:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: By Llan
Cease: this is out of order.
Tweeny: It's what I've got for tracks 4-10
Tweeny: played in order according to my iTunes playlist
Cease: odd. he's getting the demands After he's already working on them? There was a mistake there.
Tweeny: could be a script error, sure
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies llanwydd in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Cease: llan
llanwydd: sorry, I got hungry
llanwydd: had to be afk to raid the fridge
Tweeny: hope you found something yummy :)
llanwydd: I will never forget the story about the renaissance actor who threw melinda out of the audience
llanwydd: was he serious?
llanwydd: too bad his personality didnt match his talent
Cease: indeed. we'll hear the rest of Power and another chapter from Proc's autobiography next week
Cease: off we sly
Cease: fly
||||||||| 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..."
llanwydd: thanks cat and tween, for another great show
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Tweeny runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..."
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'Mutt', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Mutt: Well, dang. Late again.
||||||||| Around 8:00 PM, Mutt walks off into the sunset...
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| llanwydd - 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 Covid 19
||||||||| 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.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 4 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| 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
Kiyyik
llanwydd
Mutt
Tweeny

URL References:
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd1
http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/rfd2
http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/index_files/RIP_melinda_peterson.html
www.kurtericson.net/cat
www.kurtericson.net/firesign