Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
12/12/2024

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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 December 12, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood escorts BuzzyKrumhunger 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.
||||||||| It's 2:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "BuzzyKrumhunger should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as BuzzyKrumhunger enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, BuzzyKrumhunger exits at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Tweeny sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! **
The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific
Tonight: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER BERGMAN
A replay of November 30th, 2017
Tracks from Duke Of Madness Motors and What This Country Needs
plus Cat Collages "I Think We’re All Bergmans On This Bus" and "Fair Worlds - Vancouver"
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 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 12, 2024 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 11:30 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...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Tweeny close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the anteroom.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Deputy Dang, just back from Hellmouth."
Tweeny: Howdy Deputy
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and JZip bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
JZip waves
JZip: Does anyone else find the stuff on the radio before and after, the shortwave stuff, fascinating to listen to?
Tweeny: Hey JZip
Tweeny: You mean the radio bands before and after?
Tweeny: Never really tried that
JZip: Yeah.
Deputy Dang: Almost, but not quite fascinating.
JZip: When I was a kid, I used to listen to WWV at night, just ticking along the seconds of our lives.
Tweeny: Lots of ham radio people at the station that provies this radio stream (Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net). Bet if you got into the IRC chat there you'd find folks who are knowledgeable about such things.
JZip: I think I find it fascinating in large part because I am so ignorant about it.
Deputy Dang: Have you heard/listened to Roger Waters' album, Radio KAOS?
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Beet jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Beet: Evening, Friends.
JZip: I have not heard that, Deputy, not that I remember.
Tweeny: Yo Beet
JZip: Hey, Beet.
||||||||| Cease enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Beet! And belated Howdy to JZip and Tweeny! Howdy, Cease!
Tweeny: allo Cease
Beet: Hey, JZip, Deputy, Tween, Cease.
Cease: folks
Tweeny: Gilbert & Sullivan, nice
Cease: this is what pete was doing at yale
Cease: writing lyrics for proc to sing
Beet: Happy Birthday, Peter!
Cease: this is from 7 years ago, eh
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "No, no my boy, you're confused. The horizon's moving up!"
Beet: I juust realized this is a replay. Oops.
Deputy Dang: You thought you were having a flashback?
Beet: It was a nice one.
Cease: new show next week, well sort of new. a new collage about grace slick, plus a repeat xmas show
Cease: just got an idea for new collage today, about my latest medical catastrophe
Beet: Still in a sling?
Cease: until feb
Beet: You must have really busted it.
Cease: hence, i have to type with only 1 hand
Cease: broken
Tweeny: Really sorry about the arm, Cat :(
Tweeny: May it heal quickly and well
Cease: apparently it was the funny bone
JZip: That's not funny.
Tweeny: not so humorous
Cease: at my age, quickly is not an option, but hopefully well
Beet: Tweeny's voice sounds different.
Tweeny: It was a different mic, and I was younger :)
Cease: its from 7 years ago. tween was much younger
Cease: lol
Deputy Dang: I never understood that skit.
||||||||| llanwydd tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Deputy Dang: (still don't)
llanwydd: howdy folks
Deputy Dang: Howdy, llanwydd!
Beet: Hey, llan.
Cease: llan
JZip: Oh, I remember this.
Cease: not all of their stuff was good, danh
Tweeny: Hey llan
Cease: this is from 67
llanwydd: box set of turkish lessons
llanwydd: I read about this
llanwydd: what happened to the chat? anybody still here?
Deputy Dang: I'm still here, but got a little distracted.
Tweeny: just us bozos
Beet: Imagine me raising my hand.
llanwydd: lol
Cease: something i cant do, with my left
Tweeny: What made you fall, Cease?
Cease: that was sponsored by the cia
||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
Cease: dont know, tween. it was a shock to me, at a crowded party. a cry went up, an old whit man has fallen down
llanwydd: the italian intelligence agebcy is called ciao
Cease: the other people at the party were all iun their 40s
Cease: lol, llan
Cease: hi buzzy
Deputy Dang: Howdy, BuzzyKrumhunger!
Tweeny: Hi Buzzy
Beet: Hello, Buzzy.
BuzzyKrumhunger : Hello All. Any reason why previous shows aren’t posted at kurtericson dot net? Last show posted was Nov. 14.
Cease: just repeats recentlym buzzym for varios reasons
Tweeny: Buzzy, RFD only hosts public links for the 5 latest shows. The station's archive is not available to the public.
Cease: new show next week, starring grace slick, and charlie brown
llanwydd: I can imagine charlie in jefferson airplane
Cease: come back next week, llan
llanwydd: hopefully
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Train's comin' through - right now!"
BuzzyKrumhunger : RFD’s postings of the previous (two) week’s shows are often the only way for me to listen in on as I get ready for the last meeting of the Philatelist Club and/or the Bridge Meeting.
Cease: bergman did this in high scool, 56
Tweeny: Well, glad you could make it this evening, Buzzy :) Next week will be a new show that is publicly available in the archive.
Deputy Dang: Did they get that bridge built yet?
||||||||| 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 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| JZip - dead from the common cold
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cease: by zip
BuzzyKrumhunger : Very rare I’m home on Thursday nights. Usually a hockey night for me. Calling in from Canada…y’know, the 51st state.
Cease: anyone here seen beatles 64? its really good
Cease: where in canada?
llanwydd: have not heard of that one, cat
BuzzyKrumhunger : Guelph (pronounced Gwelf) about an hour southwest of Toronto (pronounced Toerawnna)
Cease: if the 10 provinces of canada joined the us, there would never be a republican govt again.
Cease: i
Cease: in in north van
llanwydd: vancouver must be pretty cold about now
Cease: its winter
Cease: my last worlds fair, of 5
Tweeny: been in the 30s the last couple of nights down here in Austin
Cease: here too, tween
BuzzyKrumhunger : We had a short snow shower Wednesday afternoon. Nothing serious. All melted by evening. Temps dropped overnite like Bottle’s britches down to minus 9 and stayed cold all Thursday. Yup it’s winter.
Deputy Dang: celeberazzi?
Tweeny: will be back to mid-70s during the day this weekend
Deputy Dang: I hadn't noticed that word before. More predicting the future? Selfies?
Beet: Fun tonight. Nice to see everyone. Gotta go. See you next week. G'Nite.
Cease: by beet
Deputy Dang: G'nite Beet!
BuzzyKrumhunger : Friends went the Vancouver World’s Fair (86…87?). Tried to have a good time while out there but were stuck with her aunt as Tour Guide who sadly wouldn’t know fun if it bit her…well, you know. Looking forward to your collage!
Cease: anyone else remember this song? it was a fave when it came out
llanwydd: must be before my time
Cease: this is it, buzzy
Deputy Dang: I remember it but not when it came out
llanwydd: reminds me of surfin bird
Cease: 62
llanwydd: sounds like something I would hear on dr demento
llanwydd: I recorded that line, cat
Cease: really?
llanwydd: five hundred years after the chinese. you were going to rerecord red shift and I recrded some lines for you
Cease: this is from 2002
llanwydd: sent them to you on cassette
Cease: were you in my plays then?
Cease: ah yes
BuzzyKrumhunger : Guhh, this is why I prefer the replays. Not used to listening to the show “live”. Stoopid chromium switch.
llanwydd: no. you were going to rerecord red shift and sent me some lines to record. I sent them to you on cassette
Cease: aha
Cease: heres austin, as neal cassidy
Cease: proc and melinda
Cease: my daughter
llanwydd: I have heard this manytimes
llanwydd: this is my favorite part. with edgar cayce
Cease: yead i hired an actor from cayce-land to play him
BuzzyKrumhunger : Car dealers/Karma speedometer. Good line
llanwydd: most of the time you are right and when you are wrong you are a false prophet
llanwydd: you predict the future every time you wash your hands
BuzzyKrumhunger : R.I.P. the Amazing Kreskin. Bet he “saw” that coming.
llanwydd: lol
llanwydd: he was a charlatan but I wonder about cayce
llanwydd: I used to watch kreskin on channel five wnew in NYC
llanwydd: when I lived in NJ
Cease: his predictions were wrong. whether he really cured people, i have no idea
llanwydd: well, I think kreskin was a snake oil salesman but cayce was quite amazing
Cease: i know kreskins name, but never saw him.
llanwydd: my mother told me she would take me to see kreskin if I did well in school but that never happened
Deputy Dang: you never did well in school?
BuzzyKrumhunger : By most accounts the staff that worked on the tv shows produced in Ottawa and then Toronto Kreskin was a really good guy and not a jerk.
Cease: well,well
llanwydd: I wouldn say never
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Not Ed sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
llanwydd: hi not
Cease: hi not
Not Ed: Wazreal peetle?
Not Ed: gentle peetle
llanwydd: hemp whells lol
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Not Ed!
Not Ed: yay!!
Not Ed: catherwood bring everyone a hemp wheel and a bear whiz too
||||||||| Catherwood brings everyone a hemp wheel and a bear whiz too.
Not Ed: (Yay Pete. Yay Dave.)
Not Ed: (Btw)
Not Ed: How r you feeling C?
Not Ed: Doing ok?
Cease: slowly improving, not
Not Ed: ahh
Not Ed: sounds good - relaxin jackson
Cease: no left arm, but other parts are recovering
llanwydd: those school menus we just heard were similar to ones that austin wrote in a newspaper parody called the san francisco post dispatch intelligencer
Cease: going to immerse myself in comedy
Not Ed: on the other hand...
Cease: lol
Not Ed: i love the lunch menus
llanwydd: I oredered it through the young tom edison club when I was in high school
Not Ed: i was so happy they were performing it live
Not Ed: cool llan!
BuzzyKrumhunger : Mutt and Smut school menus!
Not Ed: hey buzzy
BuzzyKrumhunger : Howdy
llanwydd: I got so into firesign in high school I forgot all about monty python which everybody was into
Not Ed: oh i'm thinking of austin's lunch menus - am I off track lol
Tweeny: Hey Not Ed
Not Ed: hey Tweeny
Not Ed: DDang, llan, C
Not Ed: & BK
Cease: my fave elton tune
llanwydd: just like I forgot all about elton john when I first heard yes
llanwydd: all my favorite elton john songs are on tumbleweed connection
Not Ed: oh yeah
Cease: great album
llanwydd: but this album is an absolute classic
llanwydd: I lied elton john and wings equally in the early seventies
BuzzyKrumhunger : Always believed Bennie was recorded in concert and wondered why someone didn’t smack that guy in the crowd who whistled all through the middle and extro.
llanwydd: liked not lied
llanwydd: lol bk
llanwydd: I thought that line was electric boobs
llanwydd: a mondegreen they call that
BuzzyKrumhunger : And I read it and I’m back again…gotta love the misheard lyrics
BuzzyKrumhunger : Damn whistler’s mother
llanwydd: lol
BuzzyKrumhunger : And then my Bruins beat the ‘Nucks in Game 7 and Vancouver rioted😉
Cease: ive never followed hockey
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed."
Cease: good ol supertramp
llanwydd: I think the violence is what puts me off hockey
llanwydd: seems very childish
llanwydd: tanturms
llanwydd: its only a game. greed goof
Cease: indeed, brownie charles
Deputy Dang: That was great! Thank you Cat! Thanks Tweeny! Thanks to the Firesigns!
llanwydd: yeah, thanks again tweeny and cat for another great chat
Tweeny: Thanks for listening folks, and we'll have a new show for you next week :)
||||||||| Deputy Dang 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: nite everybody
Cease: join us here next week for charliem gracie and the fireguys
||||||||| llanwydd hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's llanwydd?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
BuzzyKrumhunger : Thanks Teen and Cease. Hopefully I can join you on further hockey-free Thursdays! Nazee Gory
Tweeny: Hope to see you again soon, Buzzy
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I hate rich people. I hate them and their stupid problems."
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Cease: join us again, buzzy
Tweeny: Until last time, again...
||||||||| "Hey Tweeny!" ... Tweeny turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 8:00 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from the yaws
||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger - dead from Covid 19
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Not Ed: Oops! Bbye!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I have proof I've been to ancient Greece, look at this grape!"
||||||||| It's 2:45 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Beet - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Not Ed - 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:
Beet
BuzzyKrumhunger
Cease
Deputy Dang
JZip
llanwydd
Not Ed
Tweeny

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