Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
12/11/2025

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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 11, 2025 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 disembarks 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 new version of the Dear Friends broadcast "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Inquisition"
plus a David Ossman poem "Santa Monica 1936"
and a new Cat Collage "All Things Plus"
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 strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 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.
||||||||| It's 10:15 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Tweeny - dead from pneumonia
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Tweeny should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Tweeny enters and sits at the bar.
||||||||| Beet bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| llanwydd enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and scurries off to the Haberdashery Barn.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "cease should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as cease enters and sits at the bar.
Beet: Howdy!
||||||||| 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..
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and llanwydd waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Tweeny: evenin' folks
cease: Welcome back, Beet, Llan
cease: Tweeny, I thought you'd be gone tonight
Beet: Hi, cease, llan, Tweeny.
||||||||| 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.
Tweeny: I was going to be working at the store today, but I'm sick so I thought I join the chat and say hi
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "And you can believe me - because I never lie, and I'm always right."
cease: Get well soon
Tweeny: Thanks cease
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's llan, just back from Hellmouth."
cease: 2025 has been a rough year for me.
Tweeny: /me wonders what's with llan's special characters in the nicks
Beet: A speedy recovery for you
cease: are you in 2 places at once, llan?
Tweeny: Thanks Beet
Tweeny: 3 places even
cease: how's your health, llan?
Beet: girls!
Beet: Are you doing OK, llan?
||||||||| Catherwood leads llanwydd 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.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging llanwydd by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
cease: are you the biggest idiot in your country?
Tweeny: 5 llans now
cease: what a handfull
cease: i had to buy corn plasters in donestia, spain last may.
Tweeny: to treat what condition?
cease: no taxis in my partt of town so i had to walk a Long Way to the aquarium and damaged my feet.
cease: corns on my toes
Tweeny: ah, ok
cease: tryhing to communicate with the druggist was challenging.
cease: i just took my shoe and sock off and showed her the problem.
cease: same thing when i saw a doctor about a spider bite in my last trip to spain in 2002.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy."
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:00 PM, dragging gkjllkjbgukhilj by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
Tweeny: did the plasters do the job?
cease: both situaitons would have been solved with a translation app
cease: yes, thankfully. i got some stp
||||||||| 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 sitting room...
cease: Hey Mutt
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Mutt, just back from Hellmouth."
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Mutt 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.
Tweeny: I gave Google Translate on my phone, so I can communicate with my Spanish speaking friends
Tweeny: Hi Mutt
cease: we have a whole show dedicated to you tonight, mutt
cease: and your friends smutt and cheops
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and announces "Announcing 'Mutt', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
||||||||| Mutt steps in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
cease: i really should have done that tween, as i have that on my phone.
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and I waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood intones: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Dont, just back from Billville."
Tweeny wonders what's going on with the chat names
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving Seem coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Hellmouth pulls away, leaving To be coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Tweeny: hello I, Seem, To be
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Allowed in tonight - Mutt jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Tweeny: Dont
||||||||| Tweeny rushes off, saying "8:00 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Beet: Hey, Mutt
cease: each word a new character gives me an idea for my new play.
||||||||| llanwydd sashays in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
||||||||| Catherwood leads Hi Beet and Cease and Llan and into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'The chat keeps kicking me out.', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
: now even my nick has special characters
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM uptown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Tweeny coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Tweeny in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
cease: i wonder if its the same probelm we have to a much greater extent last week.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood announces: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Tweeny, just back from Hellmouth."
cease: there have been bugs in the past
||||||||| 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 Welcome page is all weird falls out at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Will reboot and see should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Will reboot and see enters and sits in the comfy chair.
cease: tweeny, do you know if Taylor fixed the chat after last week?
Beet: strange
||||||||| Catherwood escorts what the fuck is goihg on? 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.
cease: you here, llan?
Beet: Good question.
||||||||| 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 Mutt disembarks at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Looks like a swarm of bots has should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Looks like a swarm of bots has enters and sits on the couch.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Taken over welcome page into the room, accepts a wooden nickel as a gratuity, mumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
cease: you think chat has been invaded?
cease: is this dolly parton?
cease: i have read that she's given away 200 million books to young children
||||||||| llan gives up steals in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and I count thirty unknown chatter steps out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
||||||||| 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 Plus a score of other strange gets out at 8:00 PM.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Things. Oh well. into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
||||||||| Will try again next week tiptoes in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last night's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Be well, everyone sneaks in around 8:00 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
cease: bummer, llan. hope you can listen. brand new stuff this week.
cease: Taylor just got this ans posted it last month.
||||||||| Catherwood leads That was all me, Mutt, cease 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.
Beet: bad luck. see you next week, llan.
cease: what has happened to llan?
cease: tween, you and me seem fine here.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers All the weird messages are 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.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'From me, Mutt. ', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
cease: there is something wrong here. at least some of us Are here.
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Just you beet and twen should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Just you beet and twen enters and sits on the divan.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Llan looks like he gave up into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, grumbles something about 8:00 PM, then departs.
cease: watched the John Candy biopic and thrilled at him listening to Firsign
||||||||| 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 I keep typing like an idiot disembarks at 8:00 PM.
Beet: All those red dashes across the top?
cease: that implies a Firesingn influence on SCTV
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Yes, beet. I have tons on my jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
||||||||| 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 Screen. plummets into the garden at 8:00 PM.
cease: you can be the biggest idiot in my country
||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "llan still lurking should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as llan still lurking enters and sits on the couch.
cease: this is the newly discovered Mutt and Smutt
||||||||| Those Moscow girls … enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Chapeau Manger.
Beet: Clean yourself up, Catherwood.
||||||||| Catherwood cleans himself up .
cease: i lurked on Substack before I ever posted anything. just posted a link to my plays and yesterday, a reference to a programme about Gehry on the CBC
cease: dont know how to post photos there yet.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood snorts derisively: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Testing, just back from Hellmouth."
cease: you can still chat with your name, llan
cease: somewaht hard to hear, but hilarious
cease: anyone here?
Beet: me.
cease: bergman was an amazing poet.
Beet: just you and me, cease?
cease: tweeny has flown?
cease: mutt vanished with smutt?
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Get on it and do it every day!"
Beet: looks like it
cease: alas
cease: looks like its relevent to the total outtage we had last week.
Beet: This is strange indeed.
cease: I hope its solvable
cease: i told Proctor and Taylor about it last week so I got the impression from Tweeny that Taylor had fixed it.
Beet: Who takes care of this page?
Beet: Taylor, I guess
cease: Tween thought Proc's daughter, but I'm sure Taylor is involved
cease: I rememberf those incinerators. they were still in operation when i moved to LA in 56
Beet: There have been a lot of strange occurences in the environment these days. Maybe weird astrological period we're going through.
||||||||| 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:
||||||||| - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
: that's the best writing i've ever heard.
||||||||| 8:00 PM: cease jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!"
Beet: Happy Birthday, David.
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:00 PM, dragging cease by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
||||||||| Outside, the 8:00 PM downtown bus from Billville pulls away, leaving cat coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: I love Mutt and Smutt.
Beet: Well, cease, time for me to depart. It was nice being with you. Enjoyed the offering this evening. Have a great weekend. See you next week. Hope the chat gets fixed. G'Nite.
||||||||| It's 1:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| cat - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| unknown - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 1765498503 - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| 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
Tweeny

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