||||||||| 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 19, 2024 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: ** Ho Ho Ho Merry Firesign Christmas! ** Cat Collages "A Charlie Firesign Christmas" and "Gracebot" plus from Doc Technical's DEAR FRIENDS TOO "Microorganism State Park" 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 3:15 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... ||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes. ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| It's 8:15 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 strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 19, 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 pipes up "Presenting 'Beet', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. Beet: Howdy Friends. ||||||||| 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: 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: Howdy, Beet! Beet: hey, Deputy. ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and Cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease! Beet: Yo, Cease. Cease: hi folks Beet: How are y'all tonight? Deputy Dang: Every week I am amazed how quickly Thursday gets here. It's frightening. Deputy Dang: I'm not sure if thats an answer. Cease: ah, vince Cease: just watched the new simpsons xmasd special Cease: there is a ref to this show in it Cease: bart as one of the dancing chacters Deputy Dang:https://media1.tenor.com/images/dcfb8d8897906f156cf0a4df9c8c8908/tenor.gif?itemid=9114729 Cease: yeah the kid in the orange shirt Cease: the kids who were kids in this likely have grandkids now Cease: this converssatiom is from 2010 Cease: no tween tonight? Deputy Dang: He wasn't here when I got here. Beet was. Beet: He is here virtually playng tapes from a distance. Cease: aha Deputy Dang: My mom had a rambler rebel. It was red. It's the first car I remember. I was around 4-5 years old then. Cease: wow ||||||||| 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 plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM. Tweeny: Evenin' folks... Tweeny: Was busy Tweeny: How's the arm coming, Cat? Deputy Dang: Howdy, Tweeny! Cease: hii tween Beet: Howdy Mr Tween Cease: fine if i dont move it, which sometimes is difficult Cease: just read novel called Death and the Penguin Deputy Dang: Did it prominently feature Burgess Meredith? ||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker. Cease: Ukrainian novel by andrey kurkov, Beet: Hey, Buzzy. Cease: main character writes obits and has a pet penguin BuzzyKrumhunger : How do, everyone? Cease: bi buzz Deputy Dang: Howdy, BuzzyKrumhunger! Cease: stll hungry for crumbs? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Heavy on the 30 weight." BuzzyKrumhunger : Hugh Betcha! And more sugar with all them crumbs. Beet: Love the music. Cease: me too Deputy Dang: Is this Phil Austin? Cease: no Cease: some other radio comedian Deputy Dang: I wasn't sure so figured I should ask. :-) ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Cease: good sentiment but not a good song ||||||||| llanwydd enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Hat Pack Annex. llanwydd: good evening dear friends Beet: Hi, llan llanwydd: everybody finish their christmas shopping? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!" Cease: llan Deputy Dang: Howdly, llanwydd! Deputy Dang: I haven't started shopping. Probably going to skip it this year. Beet: It's that time again. Gotta split. Enjoyed tonight's offerings. Everyone have a great Christmas. See you next week. G'Nite. Cease: you too, beet Deputy Dang: Gnite, Beet! Tweeny: I read Grace Slick's autobio. It was very good Cease: indeed Tweeny: I don't like their naive embrace of communist China back in the day, but they did make some very good music llanwydd: I dont remember any political remarks that they made Cease: they did Tweeny: Their songs like Sketches Of China and Ride The Tiger come to mind llanwydd: I was hardly aware of them in their early days Tweeny: They were part of a rebellion against American Imperialism in the Vietnam era, and I get that Cease: this is from, i think, their 3rd album Cease: notice firersign and airplane quoting Ulysses about the same time llanwydd: I dont like imperialism either but I think there will be a one-world government someday ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Duluth? Bucko, you can get Tierra del Fuego!" llanwydd: not in my lifetime llanwydd: in the far future. by then it will be a good thing Cease: star trek llanwydd: lol llanwydd: maybe a galactic government Tweeny: llanwydd: I dont like imperialism either but I think there will be a one-world government someday << way too many differences in religion and cultures for that to happen unless like under an authoritian police state like the Soviet Union (which didn't work) llanwydd: time will iron out religion and culture Tweeny: I find amusing Star Trek's concept of President Of Earth. Like their "we don't use money" ideal, it's pure fantasy. Tweeny: In the long run? Hey, we'll see llanwydd: I predict that someday there will be only two languages in the world, english and chinese Tweeny: llanwydd: I dont like imperialism either but I think there will be a one-world government someday << The closest thing humanity has come to a shared set of ideals is the U.S. Constitution and Bill Of Rights. Cease: no we wont llanwydd: and there will only be one chinese language Cease: there are many now Cease: this is jeremy braddock, the guy who wrote the new fiersign book llanwydd: I am sure I am right about that but unfortunately we wont be around to see it llanwydd: I had the first two firesign books Cease: thios is brand new. an academic tome llanwydd: cool Cease: thios is a radio show from a fewe weeks ago Deputy Dang: very recent?! Cease: novembere Cease: 2 hour interview Cease: jerermy has a website with a link Cease:https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWjfhTlVWKMbwFXNccpqGqbd Cease: actually, a sunstack Cease: seems to replacing websites these days Deputy Dang: I don't think that link is going to work Cease: look up jeremy braddock and you'll find him Deputy Dang:https://magazine.mindplex.ai/firesign-theatre-the-greatest-satirist-of-20th-century-media-culture-and-its-techno-romanticism-were-not-insane-an-interview-with-jeremy-bradock/ I found this article but will have to look harder to find the interview itself. Maybe there's a link on this page. I'll look later. llanwydd: COOL BuzzyKrumhunger : What’s brown and sounds like a bell? BuzzyKrumhunger : Dunggggg Deputy Dang: lol Tweeny: Thanks for listening, everyone... Cease: immortality next week Deputy Dang: Thanks, Cease! Thanks, Tweeny! Thanks, Et Al! Thanks, Ibid! ||||||||| "Hey Deputy Dang!" ... Deputy Dang 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!"... Cease: merry holidays ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Cease vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted! llanwydd: Great Show! Thanks Tweeny and Cat. Merry Christmas Everybody! ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. Tweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| Tweeny is kicked out just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM. ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims llanwydd, who then dashes out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds. ||||||||| It's 2:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| BuzzyKrumhunger - dead from the common cold ||||||||| 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. ||||||||| It's 3:15 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... ||||||||| 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
llanwydd
Tweeny
