Weekly Firesign Chat Cheese Log

A Firesign Chat
12/25/2025

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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 25, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging RedPillTweeny by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo ™?"
||||||||| It's 7:45 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| RedPillTweeny - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and intones "Presenting 'newphonewhodis', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
newphonewhodis: is this thing on?
newphonewhodis: ok
||||||||| "Hey newphonewhodis!" ... newphonewhodis 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!"...
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, December 25, 2025 - 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?"
||||||||| Tweeny steps 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: A Replay of a show from December 19, 2024
** 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'
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Tweeny, who then scurries out through the french doors and down through the flowerbeds.
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'Deputy Dang', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary...
||||||||| 8:00 PM: Mutt jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Mutt: Merry Xmas, Deputy!
||||||||| 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..
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt!
Mutt: Hope Santa was good to ya
Deputy Dang: Nope. You're the 3rd human to communicate with me today.
Mutt: Very quiet here today, too. Kids are grown and scattered. Took this one off this year.
||||||||| Cease enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and hurries off to the Chapeau Manger.
Deputy Dang: Howdy, Cease!
Mutt: Cecil B. deCat
Cease: Merry holidays
Mutt: Festivus for the rest of us
||||||||| Catherwood leads Elayne in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Elayne: Happy Christmas! Is this thing on?
Elayne: Sorry, I've been preoccupied. My mother is not expected to live through the night.
Cease: I m with the family now
Mutt: So sorry, Elayne.
Elayne: Thanks. It's weird, she's been gradually going for at least a year now so I've had time to inure myself to the situation.
Elayne: But she's still my mom.
Cease: Hi El
Mutt: Yup. Been there twice. Just be there for her and you. My thoughts are with you both.
Elayne: Hey Cat, I got your email. Just wanted you to know.
Elayne: Thanks for plugging me to the Library of Congress, just when I'd rather keep a low profile with the folks currentlly in charge of this country
Cease: Terrible news, El
Cease: I also plugged the chat
Elayne: The chat is definitely late 20th century in a 21st century world.
Deputy Dang: Aren't we all?
Mutt: Touche
Cease: Well spotted
Elayne: Just came on to say hi and assure you that I'm still around. Maybe I'll be here next week, not sure yet.
Mutt: May peace be upon you and yours, now and forever
Cease: Indeed, Mutt
Cease: I wonder if my plug on the LOC site brings a new chatter oo2
Mutt: We can but hope
||||||||| Tweeny bounds in at 8:00 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Tweeny: Evenin' Dear Friends
Mutt: The Tween of Tweens! Merry Xmas to you, Sir.
Tweeny: Happy Festivus!
Mutt: Got my aluminum pole up!
Tweeny: :-)
Mutt: My son demurred on the Feats of Strength
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and llanwydd waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
llanwydd: testing
Tweeny: Hi llan
Mutt: You are transmitting
llanwydd: Merry Christmas Everybody
llanwydd: good to be back
Mutt: Hope you are feeling better Llan
Tweeny: Yes, hope you're healing well llan
Cease: Hi plan
llanwydd: yes I am. thanks
||||||||| It's 12:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Elayne - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| Catherwood enters with ''Bob'' close behind, grumbles something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and dashes off to the vestibule.
Cease: Plan
Mutt: Hiya Bob
Tweeny: allo Bob
Cease: The text thing won’t let me type your name
''Bob'': Hiya, friends! And a blessed Festivus to you all!
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Hello, we're glad you made it!"
Cease: Bob
llanwydd: what a shame that Elayne should die at Christmas
Mutt: You are just in time for the Airing of Grievances!
Mutt: More than you know, Llan.
Cease: Just like Jacob Marley
Mutt: She was just here to say her mom is not expected to ladt the night.
llanwydd: oh my
Mutt: Yeah
''Bob'': Elayne? That's bad news!
Cease: I promoted chat on the LOC site last week
''Bob'': I don't think we ever met in person, but we talked on the phone a few times back in the ancient days of Usenet.
Mutt: I subscribed to FAlaFal back in the daze but have only ever communicated with her on the chat
''Bob'': She kept the fire alive at a time when it wasn't so easy to chat with Fireheads around the world.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They're in everyone's eggs."
Mutt: She sure did. It was huge.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "This is W.A.L.T.E.R ... this is W.A.L.T.E.R. ..."
llanwydd: the man from W.A.L.T.E.R.
Mutt: And then she handed it off to Fred who kept things going a while longer with Firezine. It’s a continuum.
Cease: El and then husband came to visit me in Vancouver in 1995 and we drove down to visit Ossman
llanwydd: Cool
Mutt: That must’ve been a fun gathering!
Cease: His house is fantastic
Mutt: Whidbey?
Cease: Anyway, chat started shortly after that
llanwydd: her husband was English, wasnt he?
Mutt: That’s her current spouse
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Back from the Shadows again."
Cease: Not that one. The current one, yes
Mutt: Robin. He’s an artist.
Mutt: Think previous spouse was named Chaput.
Tweeny: So Elayne's mom is dying?
Mutt: Seems so :(
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "How does he make his voice do that?"
Tweeny: sad :(
llanwydd: a lot of our mothers have lived long
Mutt: Mine made it to 86 which was long for her family.
llanwydd: as I understabd from previous chats
''Bob'': Both my parents are gone. Never good to lose one at any age, though, I wager.
Deputy Dang: That was a great collage, Cat! Thank you!
Deputy Dang: My mother died before I finished high school.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 1 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Tweeny: That must have been rough, Dang
Deputy Dang: It was on a December 15, so yeah, pretty rough.
llanwydd: I hear fireworks outside. a little early for that
Deputy Dang: Early indeed. It's barely past 8pm!
Cease: I haven’t been listening. Am going to record the grand daughters now
Tweeny: I'm off for the evening to prepare for work tomorrow. See you all in the new year...
||||||||| Tweeny hurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's Tweeny?! It's 8:00 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
Mutt: Thanks Tween!
''Bob'': C-ya Tween!
Mutt: I got up to do a 15 second chore that became 45 minutes before I could escape.
''Bob'': It happens, Mutt. At least you *did* the chore, instead of getting distracted and then wondering why you got up and went into another room.
||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let's stand him on his head!"
''Bob'': HONK HONK!
Deputy Dang: I enjoyed myself. Thanks Cease! Thanks Tweeny! Thanks all the fans who promote Firesign online and offline!
||||||||| Deputy Dang is defenestrated just as the clock strikes 8:00 PM.
Mutt: Nite DD!
Mutt: Have agreat week everyone
||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims Mutt, who then runs out through the french doors and down through the bushes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 2 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 2:15 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| ''Bob'' - dead from Globner's disease
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
||||||||| It's 2:30 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...
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 3 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| It's 3:00 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Cease - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| 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:
''Bob''
Cease
Deputy Dang
Elayne
llanwydd
Mutt
newphonewhodis
Tweeny

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www.kurtericson.net/cat
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