||||||||| 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 August 28, 2025 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule... ||||||||| Catherwood ushers Tweeny 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. ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: From Firesign’s DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES “The Dr. Beanbag Show” https://firesigntheatre.com/news/2022/1/19/stand-up-records-presents-the-first-new-firesign-theatre-record-in-35-years-dope-humor-of-the-seventies- and Firesign on KBOO radio “Talking Over Each Other” plus from Firesign on XM Radio “The Fuse Of Doom” part three https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fools-in-space 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' ||||||||| Tweeny runs 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!" ||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, August 28, 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?" ||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Deputy Dang in through the front door at 8:00 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room. ||||||||| It's 10:30 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Deputy Dang - dead from the yaws ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... ||||||||| DJTweeny enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and dashes off to the Haberdashery Barn. ||||||||| Catherwood walks up and pipes up "Presenting 'llanwydd', just granted probation at 8:00 PM", then leaves hurriedly. llanwydd: good evening DJTweeny: Hi llan ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Indonesia for the Indonesians!" ||||||||| "8:00 PM? 8:00 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Deputy Dang should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Deputy Dang enters and sits on the divan. Deputy Dang: Howdy, pardners! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Wake up - and consider your only logical choice." DJTweeny: How goes the healing? DJTweeny: Howdy Deputy ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What is reality?" llanwydd: I am much much better. thanks for asking ||||||||| 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 hour!" Mutt: Was kinda muffled, tho … ||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 11 O'CLOCK", then silently exits. DJTweeny: Hi Mutt Mutt: Grid evening all yinz bozos! Mutt: Howdy Mr. DJ, Llan and the Ol’De-puty! Deputy Dang: Howdy, Mutt! ||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:00 PM and cease sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece. Deputy Dang: Howdy, cease! DJTweeny: allo Cease eh ||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'CarryBagMan', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:00 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the Aviary... cease: hi all Mutt: Our Lear-lees Feeder! Mutt: And Cary Bags! Mutt: Any relation to Bill Bags? ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you." DJTweeny: Hi Carry CarryBagMan: Hello! It's my first Chromium chat!!! I skipped a local townhall on a corporate data center they're building in my city, because who needs the planet earth. Hello all. Tirebiter4Life. llanwydd: my computer froze. didnt mean to ignore you all DJTweeny: /me puts a sweater on llan's computer Mutt: Welcome Mr.Bags! llanwydd: lol cease: welcome, bagman Mutt: Lol Tween llanwydd: welcome to the chat, mr bags. DJTweeny: Do you have the audio stream, CarryBagMan? DJTweeny: "Is this your bag, sir?" CarryBagMan: Oh yeah. There use of the stereo soundfield is SO AMAZING, especially on the albums. Thanks for the welcome all. Mutt: Headphones (the real kind) add to the stereo experience. llanwydd: just checking out the writeup about dope humor llanwydd: "called the Beatles of comedy by the library of congress". impressive Mutt: Those dopes have no humor llanwydd: ironic, though llanwydd: well, all us dopes fave the four humors CarryBagMan: Yes on the headphones! And btw, KBOO sounds like a made-up Firesign station name. llanwydd: bozo, beaner, boogie and zip cease: it does Mutt: Does this make Os and Phil the rhythm section of FST ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "What you don't mean won't hurt you." llanwydd: have, not fave Mutt: Kinda liked fave llanwydd: guess I blubbed a joke llanwydd: flubbed Mutt: Lla you are NOT RESPONSIBLE llanwydd: good to know Mutt: Your brain is not the boss llanwydd: is my boss a NovA? Mutt: Now you’re grooning! Mutt: Grooving! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "They never come up into the hills." llanwydd: that reminds me, the chevy nova failed in mexico because it means llanwydd: 'wont move" llanwydd: true story cease: i remember that Mutt: It does sound just like that - no va DJTweeny: yeah DJTweeny: I heard that cease: amazingly prescient, this DJTweeny: Did the Chevrolet Nova Fail to Sell in Spanish-Speaking Countries? - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/ Mutt: No go, or (it) no goes, literally. llanwydd: thanks for the link DJTweeny: The whole "Nova = "doesn't go" tale was merely another in a long line of automotive jokes, like the ones about "Ford" being an acronym for "Fix or repair daily" or "Found on road dead" or "Fiat" being an acronym for "Fix it again, Tony!" Mutt: My friend was a Ford fanatic. He countered that it meant First On Race Day. DJTweeny: hah! great :) cease: my dad was a ford dealer Mutt: The Fiat one always cracked me up, I must admit cease: i'm surprised bergman could say that on the radio llanwydd: snopes doesnt believe the story but I do DJTweeny: It sounds plausible CarryBagMan: I hate to vent, but that tree took my vent. ||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:00 PM, dragging Beet by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?" Beet: Evening! Mutt: Howdy Beet! cease: beet llanwydd: Hey Beet ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scalp 'em, Tantric!" CarryBagMan: hello! Mutt: They were able to do this stuff during the Nixon years. Couldn’t do it now. So sad. Beet: hi, Mutt, cease, Tweeny llan, Deputy cease: kboo sold the video of this at bergmans memorial Mutt: On pubkic radio, that is whatever is left of it. Beet: hi, Carry llanwydd: kerala CarryBagMan: Bergman mentioned Usenet. Mind blown. llanwydd: i remmber usenet CarryBagMan: Oh Usenet is still going. Still pirates and porn galore! CarryBagMan: It's just so hard to use - punny - that once Torrents came around..... Mutt: Yes and no and yes and no Mutt:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Mutt: Herman Cain! DJTweeny: yo Beet CarryBagMan: I'm not as familiar with their radio work as their albums, but this is the most podcast-like thing I ever heard from them. Mutt: You need Duke of Madness, my boy! cease: bergman had a podcast when they did thus DJTweeny: The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour - https://kboo.fm/program/firesign-theatre-radio-hour ||||||||| Catherwood enters with Not Ed close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 8:00 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the anteroom. DJTweeny: Hey Not Beet: hi, not ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Open up, your door knocker fell off!" cease: hi not Mutt: Hey Not DJTweeny: Firesign Theater on KBOO: Talking Over Each Other III - https://kboo.fm/media/13268-firesign-theater-kboo-talking-over-each-other-iii Not Ed:Tweeny, llan, DDang, Mutt, cease, CarryBagMan, Beet, waz real? Not Ed: over-dubbed? har har Mutt: Not the cows on Filji Deputy Dang: death and taxes Mutt: Lol Not Ed: right on Not Ed: tuned in now ahhh CarryBagMan: Thanks for the Duke rec. I looked it up, and Google first offers a Regency Romance series, Duke Of Madness. Part of the Sisterhood Of Secrets universe. Golly! llanwydd: got a good turnout tonight cease: i guess i never edited this Not Ed: lol Not Ed: great stuff DJTweeny: Cat could you make a note to creat edited versions of these? (for next time) ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Let me hear it for me!" llanwydd: nowadays there are so many radio teams who talk over each other Not Ed: horribibble DJTweeny: *create llanwydd: I wonder if fst started that Not Ed: wasn't reacting 2 u llanz cease: will do, tween llanwydd: sounds so lame when the nebie groups laugh over each other Not Ed: i rem they did it in the thing from another world - blew us away when we were kids Not Ed: overlapping dialog ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I see you are a sailor." Deputy Dang: I just checked, and that bit about smoking affecting the nipples after breast augmentation is true. Not Ed: wow! Deputy Dang: ...recommends patients to avoid smoking before and after breast surgery to eliminate the risk of skin necrosis or death of the tissues. If you are getting breast implants with a periareloar approach, the incisions are around the nipple and areola. Skin necrosis due to lack of proper oxygenation can even lead to nipple loss, especially in mastopexy or breast reduction where the nipple blood supply depends on blood flow from the chest wall. CarryBagMan: When I was a kid I had a shirt with a patch on it of a guy surfing. It was uncomfortable and when I looked in a mirror, I saw bleeding down my chest. It had scraped my male nipple off. FYI they grow back. Not Ed: jesus on a locomotive - Johnny Got His Gun Not Ed: double wow! DJTweeny: Yikes, CarryBagMan Beet: I like the sound they make when a colr is suggested. Pant coming out of the tube. Beet: just call me typo ||||||||| 8:00 PM: Tweeny jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past hour!" Beet: This is really great. CarryBagMan: BTW does the screen flicker a bit for anyone (I'm on Chrome). It's not too bad, but just curious. DJTweeny: Firesign Theater on KBOO: Talking Over Each Other III - https://kboo.fm/media/13268-firesign-theater-kboo-talking-over-each-other-iii Beet: Not for me, Carry. DJTweeny: CarryBagMan: BTW does the screen flicker a bit for anyone << It refreshes every 5 seconds DJTweeny: It's a custom web chat as oppoed to IRC Deputy Dang: It's a poem form, right? Deputy Dang: where each line starts with the next letter? CarryBagMan: Gotcha. I like the flicker now. It's "retro". llanwydd: my computer keeps freezing llanwydd: anyway, I meant newbie, not nebie DJTweeny: what version of Windows? ;) llanwydd: 8 llanwydd: I have more trouble with it here than anywhere else DJTweeny: The current version is 11, isn't it? They stopped supporting 8 along while ago DJTweeny: *a long llanwydd: well, I keep getting popup messages that say thats what I have DJTweeny: OK ||||||||| 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.. cease: duck the birds! ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Scene 3 - Take 600" Mutt: That’s weird, Llan. 8 should be able to hsndle this script or code llanwydd: I figure its a problem with my hardware DJTweeny: Have you tried a different browser, Llan? llanwydd: never thought about it, tween llanwydd: I use chrome but I could try explorer CarryBagMan: So much nipple talk. Really gets my tits up. DJTweeny: I use FirefoxFirefox users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 moving to Extended Support Release - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support DJTweeny: I use Firefox ESR for Mac Deputy Dang: There's almost no code. The "real" code is on the server. Mutt: Thanks Dang! Beet: That time again. Gotta split as they say. This was fun as always with you guys and FST. Hope everybody has a great weekend. See you next time. G' Nite. DJTweeny: Happy trails, Beet llanwydd: Nite Beet Mutt: See ya Beet! cease: by beet CarryBagMan: George Plimpton. Ah Intellivision. llanwydd: never heard of the Mark Whiz Chimps Mutt: They’re playing in DC through 2028. llanwydd: have to get tickets Mutt: No need. They’re coming to you llanwydd: lol Mutt: Pete sounds so good. So hard to believe ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Inferior people should not be employed." llanwydd: they sing well together too DJTweeny: Yeah, incredible that he still had so much energy so close to the end DJTweeny: 3 months later he was gone cease: yeah, his death was a surprise Deputy Dang: That's funny... "You're well dressed... are those your clothes?" Mutt: He said something have him his appetite back a minute ir so back Mutt: Gave ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: From Firesign’s DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES “The Dr. Beanbag Show” https://firesigntheatre.com/news/2022/1/19/stand-up-records-presents-the-first-new-firesign-theatre-record-in-35-years-dope-humor-of-the-seventies- and Firesign on KBOO radio “Talking Over Each Other” https://kboo.fm/media/13268-firesign-theater-kboo-talking-over-each-other-iii plus from Firesign on XM Radio “The Fuse Of Doom” part three https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fools-in-space 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’' Tweeny: Great stuff :) llanwydd: just looked at the dope humor link again. anybody read The Flying Saucer Murder Case? cease: yes llanwydd: good read? cease: anything ossman writes is worth reading llanwydd: Im sure Tweeny: looks like I exceeded the character limit for a banner with all those links :/ Mutt: I’ve never read it. Probably should find a copy. Tweeny: Dope Humor has a ridiculously long URL ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "I have proof I've been to ancient Greece, look at this grape!" Mutt: Bend it to your will, Tween! ||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! ** The Firesign Chat & Show starts at 7pm Eastern/6pm Central/5pm Mountain/4pm Pacific Tonight: From Firesign’s DOPE HUMOR OF THE SEVENTIES “The Dr. Beanbag Show” and Firesign on KBOO radio “Talking Over Each Other” https://kboo.fm/media/13268-firesign-theater-kboo-talking-over-each-other-iii plus from Firesign on XM Radio “The Fuse Of Doom” part three https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/fools-in-space 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' Mutt: Thatbwas funny! ||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:00 PM and late as usual, it's Vandergraaf , just back from Billville." cease: new character enter llanwydd: welcome, vdg Mutt: General, welcome llanwydd: hope you brought your generator Tweeny: Hi Vandergraff Tweeny: good one llan Tweeny: Got the audio feed, Vandergraaf? CarryBagMan: Ah Shaker Heights. I grew up in Cleveland and Bergman just brings it all back. Deputy Dang: They always leave us wanting more. Not Ed: VanderG Deputy Dang: I lived in Mantua and worked in Mayfield Village for several years. Not Ed: now we actually have a fascist Not Ed: "it can never happen here" ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Everyone knew her as Nancy." Mutt: Zappa agreed Not Ed: catherwood give everyone port and cigars ||||||||| Catherwood gets everyone port and cigars. cease: he did llanwydd: everyone knew her as yangtze Not Ed: lol Mutt: Ha! Deputy Dang: lol cease: good one CarryBagMan: Brecksville and Parma for me. My best friend in High School, his older sister dated Trent Reznor and was the "inspiration" for Pretty Hate Machine. I saw her about 10 years ago and she said "I heard Trent is really doing well with his music". DJTweeny: Cat, if you don't mind I'm going to remove this from the archive until we have an edited copy, OK? cease: good idea tween llanwydd: good idea, tween DJTweeny: I'll reconstruct the show with the edited file llanwydd: that was a fun listen though cease: ok DJTweeny: Oh yeah, fantastic to hear the guys together on the radio :) cease: their final show llanwydd: and all the fascinating anecdotes cease: will have new collage based on a couple of tom lehrer tunes next week llanwydd: I first heard him on the dr demento show DJTweeny: I have Sunday off so I can take care of it then if you can get me be edited file by then llanwydd: I could probably still sing all of those songs cease: will try tween Deputy Dang: Outstanding evening! Thanks all! Not Ed: thanks Tweeny & co cease: see y'all next week Mutt: Thanks Tween! Be well everyone. ||||||||| Not Ed says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, Not Ed exits at 8:00 PM. CarryBagMan: I told my friends about the chat and they all punched me. Deputy Dang: Dr Demento is retiring. ||||||||| At 8:00 PM, Mutt runs out the door saying "Hey, mister ice-cream man, I've got a nickel, wait for meeeee..." ||||||||| Not Ed enters at 8:00 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex. cease: lol llanwydd: yeah thanks tween and cat ||||||||| Catherwood interjects: "Not to be torturing me!" ||||||||| cease departs at 8:00 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?" Deputy Dang: I think at the end of the month, or end of the quarter. Not Ed: Take care every single one of yaz! DJTweeny: Thanks for istening everybody! CarryBagMan: Thanks all! GREAT STUFF. ||||||||| 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..." Not Ed: Have a groovy 1! llanwydd: see you next week everybody ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- llanwydd left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). ||||||||| "8:00 PM? I'm late!" exclaims CarryBagMan, who then rushes out through the french doors and down through the brambles. ||||||||| 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: ||||||||| Vandergraaf - dead from jaundice ||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress... DJTweeny: Until last time, again... ||||||||| 8:00 PM -- DJTweeny left for parts unknown.(Entry from Nick Danger's "Idiots I Have Been Paid To Follow"). ||||||||| Tweeny leaves to catch the 8:00 PM train to Elmertown. ||||||||| It's 1:15 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... ||||||||| It's 1:30 AM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did: ||||||||| Not Ed - dead from The Plague ||||||||| 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
CarryBagMan
cease
Deputy Dang
DJTweeny
llanwydd
Mutt
Not Ed
Tweeny
