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A Firesign Chat for Jun 25, 2015 [17 parts]

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Special appearance by
Proctor

||||||||| Catherwood re-enters the Waiting Room and explains "This is the main discussion room which is logged each night."
||||||||| Catherwood announces, "The time is 4:33 AM - I now declare Thursday's chat log for June 25, 2015 officially open!"... and then, he retires back to the vestibule...
||||||||| Catherwood leads Rufus_T_Firetween in through the front door at 6:16 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 7 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
||||||||| James tiptoes in around 7:37 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and intones "Presenting 'No_Swiss_Picnic', just granted probation at 7:48 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| At 7:50 PM, the lights go out! Rocky Rococo's voice pierces the inky darkness: "I've got you now, James!" Shattering glass is heard, and then the lights come back on...
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 7:50 PM, dragging James by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yahoo?"
James: still says i'm in china for some reason
||||||||| Catherwood tiptoes into the room, and announces "Announcing 'DJTweeny', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 7:52 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
DJTweeny: Hi James, Picnic
James: hi
James: Nino still sez i'm in china for some reason
No_Swiss_Picnic: still wallowing in the sad news. thx for playing "Maidens" Tween.
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** PHIL PROCTOR TRIBUTE ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatre.com **'
DJTweeny: Last Friday you mean? You're welcome :)
DJTweeny: I was thinking I might play some lesser-known material tonight. I haven't quite decided. What would you like to hear?
James: it's up to you
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
No_Swiss_Picnic: is Proctor on your broadcast or the FTR?
DJTweeny: not sure what you mean
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 8 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
DJTweeny: You want to hear the Proctor interview?
DJTweeny: the archives and interviews are at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
DJTweeny: any suggestions for warm-up music?
No_Swiss_Picnic: anyway... "Maidens" is the most Austin thing there is. i guess i have no preference. thx for askin'.
DJTweeny: Well then I'll play it again tonight :)
DJTweeny: It certainly is a definitive work
No_Swiss_Picnic: oh, the message on the header is from before?
DJTweeny: I just played in in April, is what I was thinking
DJTweeny: but for the occasion certainly appropriate
No_Swiss_Picnic: so no live Proc tonite?
DJTweeny: No, I asked him and David if they wanted to come on, but they declined
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in and snorts derisively "Presenting 'Junguy', just granted probation at 8:04 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
DJTweeny: LOL I did it again!!
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. ** PHIL AUSTIN TRIBUTE ** Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - visit Firesign's web site at www.firesigntheatre.com **'
DJTweeny: yikes
DJTweeny: lolol
DJTweeny: Proctor doesn't want to go on the cart!
DJTweeny: Hi Junguy
Junguy: Catherwood, I'll have a rotonoto
||||||||| Catherwood steps alongside Junguy and says "Did you need me?"
Junguy: H'[lo
Junguy: Hello, frog in my throat
Junguy: Catherwood, Please pour me a Rotonoto
||||||||| Catherwood brings Junguy a rotonoto.
Junguy: Everything You Know Is Wrong is very Austin as well No Swiss Picnic
Junguy: warm up music? I recall a mentioning of Goats Head Soup last week
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
DJTweeny: don't think I have that
DJTweeny: nope, sorry
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:11 PM and jahgust sashays out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
DJTweeny: I've got some cuts from American Beauty queued up, but if you think of something else, let me know
DJTweeny: Hi jahgust
Junguy: ummmm... got any John Fahey?
jahgust: Hey Tween! How we all doing tonight?
DJTweeny: We is here
jahgust: Safe as now.
jahgust: Hey I don't know if you have ever heard my cover of The Loon Song. I had Phils permission to do it. I gave him CD copies back in 2010 i L.A. but I never heard back if he had listened to it.Here is the link to the Bergman tribute it is currently assisting on You Tube.
jahgust: https://youtu.be/rcQF80FknjE
No_Swiss_Picnic: rfd2 isn't working Tween. got a direct link to your stream?
DJTweeny: Yeah, the streams aren't up yet
DJTweeny: Will post when they are :)
James: brb
||||||||| James says "Catherwood, call me a cab." After the obvious joke, James exits at 8:19 PM.
DJTweeny: Cat says Austin like rockabilly, so I'm going to play some Commander Cody in a little bit
DJTweeny: *liked
||||||||| Catherwood enters and asks "Is there anythynge you want? By that I mean Anythynge You Want To, Shakespeare's Lost paperback Comedie in pre-electronic book form!"
Junguy: That's real nice jahgust
jahgust: Thx! I have it earmarked to go an album with any sales of the song to go back to the Firesign Coffers
||||||||| New notice: '** There will be a Firesign Theatre/US Plus Stimulcast starting at 9pmET this evening. Warm-up music begins around 8:40pmET - you can join the streams now (NO AUDIO YET - just a chance for everybody to get connected) at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net) **'
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! - currently playing - warm up music (Commander Cody) - listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u (streaming server graciously provided by Radio Free Dishnuts - www.dishnuts.net) **'
jahgust: IIII can hearrrrr musiiicc.....
Junguy: Commando Cody: my feet are on fiiire!
jahgust: Nice Junguy. The kind of fingerpicking I could never quite do.
||||||||| With a theatrical clearing of his throat, Catherwood pipes up: "8:28 PM and late as usual, it's Mr. G Unit, just back from California."
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and pipes up "Announcing 'James', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 8:29 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the sitting room...
Junguy: It takes a few years but once you get it you got it
Mr. G Unit: Wait, there is something in my ear, oh it's Cue tip, or is it a Q-tip?
Junguy: welcome Mr. G Unit
DJTweeny: Hi G Unit
Junguy: omething appenin usic
||||||||| James departs at 8:35 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
||||||||| Catherwood walks up and intones "Presenting 'James', just granted probation at 8:35 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
||||||||| Dr. Archetype tiptoes in around 8:37 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
DJTweeny: Hi Archetype
Dr. Archetype: Hello Hello
DJTweeny: Proc just said he wants to skype in tonight :)
Junguy: Evan Johns and his H-bombs do some good R_billy too
jahgust: Dr. Archetype You don't have the schizophrenes do ya?
jahgust: Dr. Archetype You don't have the schizophrenes do ya?
jahgust: Holy Fudd Tween! This is gonna be an emotional one.
Dr. Archetype: no. but I have vacuum tubes and I know EXACTLY what to do with them!
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:41 PM, dragging TimmMcCoy by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo [TM]?"

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Junguy: Cody skipping around ??
||||||||| Catherwood enters with orcasm knox close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:42 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the vestibule.
TimmMcCoy: Hello ROOM!!!!!! Phil gonna Skype in tonight?
DJTweeny: Hi Timm, orcasm
DJTweeny: Yes, he just said he wanted to talk :)
DJTweeny: I'm setting up Skype
jahgust: Timm! orcasm!
Dr. Archetype: ...used t'be Phil, Phil, Phil, and Phil :(
||||||||| Cat waltzes in at 8:44 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Junguy: cat
Cat: Proc skying in? Motherfucker
jahgust: Cat!
TimmMcCoy: CAT!!!!!!!!!
Cat: I'm, listening now to Phil Austin as Neal Cassady on a play he helped me write.
Cat: HI Timm
Cat: I'm in the game
Dr. Archetype: waiting here in the sitting room...
Cat: Better than the shitting room
Dr. Archetype: or sitting in the waiting room
Cat: We should all revel in the enjoyment we've gotten from the works of Phil
||||||||| Catherwood escorts InTheWood in through the front door at 8:48 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Junguy: or we wouldn't even be here
DJTweeny: Hi Wood
jahgust: Reveling as we speak Cat...indeed.
||||||||| At 8:49 PM, James vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
||||||||| Outside, the 8:49 PM bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving Seej1982 coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
DJTweeny: Proctor will be live at the start of the show, Cat :)
DJTweeny: Hi Seej
Seej1982: evening all
InTheWood: Hello from NYC.
Cat: wow tween. good work
Cat: hi wood
Cat: ive been to nyc
Junguy: I'm Joe from Chicago
DJTweeny: He just sent me an email at the last minute. He had said he was going to be busy. Glad he decided to stay home :)
InTheWood: It's just a short swim...
Cat: i'm cat from vancouver
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies EWeston inside, makes a note of the time (8:51 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
jahgust: Joe from Rhode Island waaaaay over heeeere.
Cat: but i lived in la when firesign was coming into existence
Junguy: Andy really
Dr. Archetype: so how do we hear mr. Proctor? is Ossman joining?
Cat: hi ew
||||||||| 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 Merlyn plummets into the garden at 8:51 PM.
EWeston: Hi Tweeny cat, and some new names to me
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 8:52 PM, dragging saintslade by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Yahoo [TM]?"
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 8:52 PM and DadSir2U waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Cat: hi merl
DJTweeny: Hi Merlyn, EW, DadSir
||||||||| Yung Guy enters at 8:52 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Merlyn: hey cat, everybody
Seej1982: ive been in once before a couple years ago, keep getting the times messed up here in AZ
DadSir2U: Greetins
jahgust: Hey E and Merl!
EWeston: Meryl and Dadsir
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign's NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
TimmMcCoy: Who here lives in LA? Im coming out July 16/17 thought we'd get togther and have some fun Thursday night July 16th.
Cat: our first chat since phil died
Cat: fuck it
InTheWood: So interesting tonight-- Phil A. joined us here after Peter passed.
Dr. Archetype: yes, i'm new here, and bewildered o_O
Merlyn: Phil should finally be getting a NY Times obit, we got some email today from them
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 8:53 PM, dragging troutmaster by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
Cat: who is we, merl?
||||||||| li enters at 8:54 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and rushes off to the Hat Pack Annex.
Cat: iwould certainly hope pa got recognized in the nyt
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 8:54 PM, dragging lily by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
TimmMcCoy: Im coming out to hang with Phil. Having dinner together.
Merlyn: everyone on the website list
jahgust: Hey mmerl Ossman said that he had penned an obit up on the site. Can't seeme to find it if it's up.
Cat: hi lily
EWeston: I vouch for Lily's yoyo
jahgust: Hi Lil!
Merlyn: me, doc, taylor, EWeston? Do you get cc'd?
lily: Cat DadSir2U DJTweeny Dr. Archetype EWeston InTheWood jahgust Junguy li lily Merlyn saintslade Seej1982 TimmMcCoy troutmaster Yung Guy hello all and thanks Tween you are a wonder
lily: thanks ew
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign's XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
Merlyn: jahgust, I think that's what he wrote for the NYT
troutmaster: Ossman's obit is on the FB Mark Time page.
Cat: did the nyt contact you, merl?
Merlyn: we'll add a link to the other obits
Merlyn: yes cat, they contacted the firesign website
Cat: is ossman dead too? that's way too fuicked up
Merlyn: no, Ossman wrote up an obit for Phil for the NYT
Cat: ossman is 79
||||||||| Beet bounds in at 8:57 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
troutmaster: Austin's obit that Ossman wrote ...
Beet: Hello evryone. Happy Thursday
EWeston: Beet to the beat
Merlyn: Patrict Macnee just died at 93
Cat: his poem about the day of his birth is the best thing i'v ever heard
Cat: hi beet
Junguy: omething appening to annder ody
Dr. Archetype: Steed?!
Beet: This is a hopping tune
Cat: that's hideosus news, merl. i loved him in Scrooge
||||||||| Bunnyboy tiptoes in around 8:58 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hi Cat
TimmMcCoy: Oh eally idn't otice!
Bunnyboy: Hallo!

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Beet: Hi EW
EWeston: Allo bunnie
||||||||| Catherwood enters with James close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 8:58 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the Aviary.
Merlyn: yep archetype...
Junguy: mr. steed RIP
jahgust: Beet, Bun!
Cat: i'd like to say "fuck you" to beet, but then Bunny shows up
Beet: Yo Bunny
||||||||| late sneaks in around 8:59 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last year's "unpleasant incident."
Beet: Hi Jah
Beet: Yo James
Dr. Archetype: loved the Avengers in the 60s
DJTweeny: Hi Bunny, lily, Beet, li, troutmaster, late
Seej1982: still on reruns today, even the b&w episodes
Beet: Nice sentiment
No_Swiss_Picnic: McNee goners?
||||||||| Catherwood strides in with a trumpet, plays a fanfare, and proclaims "Nine PM on Thursday, June 25, 2015 - I now declare alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre's chat officially open!"
Bunnyboy: Who's beatin' on Beet?
Cat: do you think phil austin ever thought he'd have too much fun?
TimmMcCoy: HERE IT IS!......
Bunnyboy: Macnee RIP.
Junguy: yes seej - catch as can
Dr. Archetype: emma peel :)
Mr. G Unit: Patrick was absolute in Spinal Tap
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
jahgust: I wonder if Austin himself wrote anything upon the knowledge he was very ill.
No_Swiss_Picnic: droppin' like flies.
Cat: nver more appealing
||||||||| Catherwood escorts barbra in through the front door at 9:01 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Bunnyboy: Sir Dennis Eaton-Hogg.
Merlyn: Trivia: Emma Peel's name is from when they wanted to add more "male appeal" to the show by adding a young woman, and that shortened to "M appeal", which became her name.
||||||||| 9:01 PM: Mudhead jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Bunnyboy: "But it's not really offensive, Sir Dennis!"
Cat: is it a bar?is it a bra?
Cat: hi mud
Beet: Hi Mud
Dr. Archetype: it was the 60s, just the way it was
Mudhead: Hello dear fiends
EWeston: Mudster
Bunnyboy: And lovely as Sir Derek Jacobi's "good luck charm" dad, on FRASIER.
jahgust: Mud!
lily: hello
Cat: or high, lily
TimmMcCoy: MUDHEAD!
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Nancy close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:02 PM tree-stunting plans, and hurries off to the Aviary.
lily: fun cat
Junguy: hey mudhead easy on the 40 wght
Beet: Hi Nan
Cat: hi nancy.
||||||||| Catherwood ushers shoes for the dead into the room, accepts an I.O.U. as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:03 PM, then departs.
shoes for the dead: Howdy
Junguy: Nancy also known as Nancy
Beet: Hi shoes
jahgust: Nancy!
Cat: hi voice of tween
Bunnyboy: Hi, Tween!
EWeston: Shoes in the house, legaly we hope
Bunnyboy doffs cap.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:04 PM downtown bus from Washington pulls away, leaving Hempenstein coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Beet: 'Lo Hemp
||||||||| 9:04 PM: PJ jumps out of the hall closet saying "I've been listening to all of you talking about me for the past five minutes!"
Cat: henp man
No_Swiss_Picnic: ruthlessly
Junguy: Hey Yung Guy is there something wrong with the time machine?
EWeston: Hi Hemp, n PJ
shoes for the dead: hey hemp
Junguy: there's two of us
Dr. Archetype: ..mucklucks safely by the fire...
TimmMcCoy: HE'S READY FOR ACTION!
troutmaster: I had a 3rd ear once
Mr. G Unit: Is someone having a flashback?
InTheWood: When was this awesome recording made?
jahgust: See Junguy? The Schizophrenes!
Hempenstein: Hey!
EWeston: Cellophane rotating, crumpling in the firepalce
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! - currently playing - "SCHOOL FOR ACTORS" - listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u - YOU CAN PURCHASE THIS ALBUM AT >> Part of the BOX OF DANGER collection - https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook **'
Junguy: jahgust that explains everything!
Seej1982: guess i should start saving my tuppence for that box
||||||||| "9:07 PM? 9:07 PM!!" says Catherwood, "MrDependable should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as MrDependable enters and sits in the comfy chair.
Beet: I am saddened to just now learn of Phil Austin's passing. Happy trails, Phil.
Cat: http://seemrealland.blogspot.ca/
Dr. Archetype: you could get a bag for that tuppence, y'know
shoes for the dead: hey mr.D
||||||||| Jack Magic waltzes in at 9:07 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Seej1982: hope the monsoon doesnt knock out the power/internet
EWeston: The lone Rangler's road his last fencepost
Junguy: There's so much good old tv I'd go broke -The Prisoner, Avengers, Have Gun..., etc.
||||||||| Outside, the 9:08 PM crosstown bus from New York pulls away, leaving AirshipAl coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
||||||||| Catherwood enters with philander close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:08 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the sitting room.
Mr. G Unit: And Sea Hunt
Dr. Archetype: it's just that chromium switch if it does
TimmMcCoy: Real life IS a radio show. Isn't it?
lily: wow mimo is impressed
Mr. G Unit: Life is a magazine
EWeston: Neat sound effects sometimes
lily: nino
||||||||| Catherwood steals into the room, and snorts derisively "Announcing 'John A Arkansawyer', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:09 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the vestibule...
Cat: hi lily
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin's FST member page - http://firesigntheatre.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
AirshipAl: Cough Cough Greetings All!

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||||||||| MrDependable leaves at 9:09 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..."
||||||||| WhosPeggy enters at 9:09 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Chapeau Manger.
Cat: we are getting some weird ones tonight
EWeston: Is that helium in your pocket, or are you happy to see us?
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign's XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
TimmMcCoy: EW you seem a little light.
Cat: neithe, ew
||||||||| ''Bob'' tiptoes in around 9:10 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
saintslade: Nice to be here, it's been a while. Usually I'm working, or about to.
shoes for the dead: hey Bob
lily: up up and away
''Bob'': Hey everyone. :)
AirshipAl: It's rising!
EWeston: It's that dry cleaning bag full of marsh gas circling my head
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin Memorial Page - http://firesigntheatre.com/philaustin/
Cat: hi saint. shold we know you?
||||||||| Outside, the 9:11 PM downtown bus from Elmertown pulls away, leaving Roger coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
AirshipAl: I hope you're enjoying the videos I've been posting on Facebook. They're helping me deal with Phil's loss.
TimmMcCoy: Great work Al. Good job!
jahgust: Awesome Al!
lily: ty al
Cat: al, there is no coping with. but we do what we do
Mr. G Unit: Al, thanks
saintslade: I've only been here a couple of times.
Dr. Archetype: you're probaly "hallucinating"
||||||||| "9:12 PM? 9:12 PM!!" says Catherwood, "DrBeddoes should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as DrBeddoes enters and sits in front of the fireplace.
John A Arkansawyer: You put up that bit from the end of the millenium, didn't you? That was a real bag of sugar.
Junguy: Thanks Rufus
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign's NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
shoes for the dead: hey Dr
AirshipAl: Thanks. I spoke to Taylor the other day and he's working hard on the Firesign DVD. Lots of surprises await y'all
Cat: hi doc
DrBeddoes: Greasings. :-)
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Brett Cammack into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:13 PM, then departs.
Seej1982: hmmm... getting dark outside, storm clouds moving in
''Bob'': Oh, thanks for the reminder. Better go let the dog in before the rain starts...
||||||||| SlugBugDoug steals in around 9:13 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last month's "unpleasant incident."
Cat: great austin riff on storm clouds
InTheWood: ...the driving rain...
shoes for the dead: where are ya, See?
Mr. G Unit: It is still sunny here, I love sun lights
||||||||| Catherwood enters with drjawn close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
Seej1982: tucson
DJTweeny: This turns into a greet Gracie Allen bit ;)
Cat: true
||||||||| Catherwood enters with Seeker close behind, mutters something about disrupting his 9:14 PM tree-stunting plans, and rushes off to the vestibule.
Cat: gurvitch?
Dr. Archetype: where's my mescaline?
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 9:14 PM, dragging MrDependable by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this idiot?"
drjawn: yes, tis I
Brett Cammack: (wonders if anyone is waiting in the sitting room)
Cat: in your brain, hopefully
MrDependable: I'm back. I've been to ancient Greece . .
EWeston: Can we declare a FireHord yet
Mr. G Unit: I must go answer the door
||||||||| 9:15 PM: Nabby 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!"
TimmMcCoy: Hows the Fire in LA?
troutmaster: the coffee sux in the waiting room
DJTweeny: Hi Nabby
Cat: hi nab
Beet: Hi Nab
lily: hi nab
Junguy: Oh man I missed PhilP? forgot tu update stream
Dr. Archetype: they never come up into the hills :(
shoes for the dead: what is the door asking, mrG?
EWeston: Deah Nabby
shoes for the dead: hey Nabby
Nabby: Fireherd? Count me in!
Seej1982: nice stan laurel callback, lol
||||||||| WhosPeggy is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 9:16 PM.
jahgust: E is that whhat a bunch of Fireheads is? A Horde? A Fire Clutch?
jahgust: Jung he has not been on yet.
Junguy: Flambeau
EWeston: Inferno
Nabby: Jello Cat, Tween, lily, shoes, EW & all!
lily: lite your noses'
TimmMcCoy: Fireheads are. Just are.
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies pinholeF200 into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, grumbles something about 9:16 PM, then departs.
shoes for the dead: a flare up of Fireheads
DJTweeny: I'm going to try to bring Phil on atthe end of this skit
Nabby: Hi pin
John A Arkansawyer: Beautiful! I'll let him know.
Beet: Hi Pin
DJTweeny: Hi pinhole
TimmMcCoy: Sweet Tweeny!
EWeston: Pinny
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:17 PM and DAVE G waltzes out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
shoes for the dead: hey Pin
Nabby: Cool Tweeny
Seej1982: yay!
DJTweeny: Hi Dave
Nabby: Hi Dave G
Dr. Archetype: i miss Peter and Phil
pinholeF200: Hi, all, big storm was playing havoc with mains power. Seems to have passed.
No_Swiss_Picnic: yeah Tween, like a REAL radio show!
Beet: Yo Dave
Cat: Blind dave?
John A Arkansawyer: Just forget I ever said that...whatever it was I just said.
Brett Cammack: "A flare of FireHeads"
troutmaster: leaving.. bye

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||||||||| troutmaster is thrown out the window just as the clock strikes 9:18 PM.
InTheWood: Who knows what I said?
EWeston: Spawning time?
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Cat: bad timing, trout
jahgust: Trout yer gonna miss Phil [!
shoes for the dead: What?
Nabby: trout? count me in!
Nabby: What?
drjawn: am I in a room?
John A Arkansawyer: Who knows who knows? I don't know.
EWeston: Phil P is du shortly
shoes for the dead: Where?
InTheWood: What?
drjawn: how can I tell for sure?
EWeston: Here
||||||||| Mayor P'nisnose strides up to the podium and speaks: "My fellow Armenians, if you have questions about exorcism, buy the new book "EXORCISM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE", now on sale. Incidentally, so is my vote."
Nabby: I don't know. Are you in a room, drjawn?
InTheWood: Quois?
Brett Cammack: This place is like a bus station. People wandering in and out with random snatches of overheard conversations amid the din.
Nabby: Honk echo.
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
||||||||| dale p waltzes in at 9:20 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Dr. Archetype: i'm uptight, in a bag
No_Swiss_Picnic: something wrong with the feed?
drjawn: the din, now that I can relate to
InTheWood: Que?
MrDependable: Petals on a wet, black bough.
shoes for the dead: how many ?
John A Arkansawyer: The feed? Tastes fine to me.
||||||||| drjawn sneaks away to The Sitting Room...
InTheWood: How many for din din?
Junguy: What do you hear picnic
EWeston: Tasts like pork
SlugBugDoug: time 4 din
Brett Cammack: I'm sorry? I'm sorry?
jahgust: So many voices! I though I was going IN sane!
TimmMcCoy: He's no fun, he flan right over!
Nabby: Catherwood poke lily
||||||||| Catherwood strides alongside Nabby and mumbles "Typing my name just to rile me, eh?"
shoes for the dead: have some hot buttered groat clusters
EWeston: Feel afowl of the loom eh?
Dr. Archetype: bangety clangety dinner bell...
Nabby: I'm so confused.
John A Arkansawyer: Better IN sane than OUT side!
No_Swiss_Picnic: had to reload the player. is that usual?
shoes for the dead: What?
lily: catherwood give us all a martini
||||||||| Catherwood gets us all a martini.
TimmMcCoy: Vodka martini here, please?
dale p: hey in there your door knocker fell off
Nabby is hovering two and a half feet above the floor.
||||||||| drjawn climbs in through the window at the ungodly hour of 9:22 PM
Seej1982: depends on your internet, swiss
Dr. Archetype: oooh thats good thats good
Brett Cammack: Whew! Panther sweat!!
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
AirshipAl: Who's knockered?
lily: catherwood give nabby a shirley temple
||||||||| Catherwood gives nabby a shirley temple.
Junguy: dunno pic, just gotta look up top 2 make sure
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin's FST member page - http://firesigntheatre.com/media/media.php?member=Austin
EWeston: The knocker is practicing for the dive team
Merlyn: Catherwood, bring somebody a Vodka martini
||||||||| Catherwood hands somebody a vodka martini.
Rufus_T_Firetween: ** Phil Austin Memorial Page - http://firesigntheatre.com/philaustin/
TimmMcCoy:
DAVE G: The night I heard, I put in my in-ear monitors, put on Roller Maidens, turned out the lights and listened to the whole thing
pinholeF200: Catherwood, add some squid ink to make a shirley temple black
||||||||| Catherwood gives a shirley temple black.
lily: smokem if ya gotem
||||||||| SlugBugDoug departs at 9:23 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
EWeston: I'm plowed to be here
Nabby relishes the Shirley Temple
lily: lol pin
No_Swiss_Picnic: lotsa states represented in here... even "red" ones -_-
Junguy: glycerine vibrafoam
Brett Cammack: Never mind what he's saying! Just listen to him, dammit!
John A Arkansawyer: We'll be doing a Roller Maidens evening the next time I'm in the same room as a copy. Two weeks or less.
Dr. Archetype: holy mackeral!
EWeston: Inca Hell Oil Straight
TimmMcCoy: Mine glistens!
Seej1982: im blue in a red state, lol
Brett Cammack: Is that sweet or dill relish, Nabby?
||||||||| Catherwood strides up and pipes up "Presenting 'Melanie Farber', just granted probation at 9:24 PM", then leaves hurriedly.
shoes for the dead: Pig oil beer
||||||||| It's 9:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| Roger - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Jack Magic - dead from The Plague
||||||||| PJ - dead from measles
||||||||| Nancy - dead from the common cold
||||||||| orcasm knox - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Mr. G Unit - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
DadSir2U: Horse pie and a short stack
Dr. Archetype: stumbling over crows, here...
Nabby: Yes
EWeston: Interesting nest of spiders
Nabby: Swill relish
jahgust: Yikes it's a massacree! Catherwood! What have you dooonnee....

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||||||||| Catherwood rushes over to jahgust and says "My ears are burning..."
Bunnyboy: Itsa hot.
Brett Cammack: Good choice.
Dr. Archetype: ...and blue moss
Nabby: Catherwood give lily the meatless hot creatures
||||||||| Catherwood gets lily the meatless hot creatures.
shoes for the dead: Hey NSA guy
InTheWood: "What a sweet-smelling flock of question marks..."
lily: pickle potpoui
Dr. Archetype: crackin open a Bear Whiz
No_Swiss_Picnic: Catherwood, fetch a cry for Phil.
||||||||| Catherwood brings a cry for phil.
TimmMcCoy: Dr. Timm is keeper of the sacred tablets.
Brett Cammack: Phil!!! A lonely nation turns its ears to you!
Dr. Archetype: i would like a tablet...?
EWeston: Melts in your brain not in your stomach
AirshipAl: Koo Koo Kachoo
shoes for the dead: and blotters and windowpane...........
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
DJTweeny: lol EW
pinholeF200: gasundheit
Nabby: What does EW?
Brett Cammack: Android or Apple?
Nabby: Owsley White Lightning popsicles
Dr. Archetype: ach der leiber
EWeston: Tablets...and sugar cubes of a certain chemistry
John A Arkansawyer: Leiber? I loved him in Shakespeare!
lily: dust tea
Nabby: Tabs o' Slaw?
shoes for the dead: pcp?
Brett Cammack: "Serving the cool stupor of summer to a grateful nation for over a century."
Nabby: pnp?
TimmMcCoy: Whats this crap with people trying to destroy the Confederate Flan?
DJTweeny: lol
Nabby: I only take a half of a tab of slaw
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:29 PM and Chauly bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Dr. Archetype: the confectionate flag?
DJTweeny: Emily Latellia?
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:30 PM, dragging sltax by one foot and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
EWeston: Mother Bakers Deep Dish Sheep Dip Cherystone pie
TimmMcCoy: Sweet!
Nabby: the coniferous fag
Mudhead: The souf will rise agin
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Litlover into the room, accepts a jar of pennies as a gratuity, mumbles something about 9:30 PM, then departs.
Brett Cammack: But, I love flan!
Dr. Archetype: and thats my story!!
AirshipAl: Confectionwe's sugar? MORE SUGAR!!
EWeston: Soup strainers at the ready!
Nabby: Hi Chauly, sltax and Lit
Seej1982: lol
jahgust: Flan! I love that woman!
''Bob'': I tried baking a confederate flan once, but it didn't hold together very well.
Nabby: Hi Air
No_Swiss_Picnic: crap
John A Arkansawyer: The affectionate confectionate flag. It will not rise again.
AirshipAl: Greetings and salivations
Dr. Archetype: but its tasty!
Chauly: Hey in there!
||||||||| Catherwood ushers Philbert inside, makes a note of the time (9:31 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
EWeston: Even the AHA can't save it
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign's NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
AirshipAl: Hey out there
Brett Cammack: "The South Shall Rise Again! - Dewbury's Baker's Yeast, Charleston, South Carolina"
Nabby: Jello Philbert
John A Arkansawyer: Tasty but testy.
Chauly: Your door knocker fell off!
||||||||| Nancy bounds in at 9:32 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
Nabby: Hi Nancy
TimmMcCoy: Southern Confederate Viagra. I will rise again!
AirshipAl: I wish my south would rise again. I'm old!
Seej1982: lol
John A Arkansawyer: Nancy, I love your knocker!
shoes for the dead: hey Nancy
EWeston: Door knockers unit!
Nabby: Hey Tweeny
Chauly: I already have one, Nancy!
Brett Cammack: "Who's Nancy?"
No_Swiss_Picnic: Proctus Interruptus.
Cat: really?
John A Arkansawyer: The one with the balcony like Louise Wong.
jahgust: Oh that Procmer!
Brett Cammack: Closest I ever came to developing an affinity for Shakespeare.
Dr. Archetype: principal pop!
Nabby: Nick Eats Meaty?
||||||||| Mark Time sashays in at 9:34 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
shoes for the dead: meat sea tea?
Dr. Archetype: sorry, poop
||||||||| "I'm going to The Sitting Room" says Seeker, and leaves.
Nabby: Hi Mark
DJTweeny: and now Proc's offline :/
AirshipAl: Bet ya didn't know Proctor's Nixon??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCh6dYSZ0L8
John A Arkansawyer: We need an infinity of Shakespeare.
Brett Cammack: Hey, now we have a pair of knockers!
''Bob'': Nice knockers.
Nancy: thank goodness!
EWeston: Now a pair of bloomers
Seej1982: careful, youll poke somebodys eyes out!
Dr. Archetype: everyone knows 2 are better than 1
AirshipAl: Save the YouTube link and watch later.
Brett Cammack: Would an infinity of Shakespeare eventually write a monkey?

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||||||||| Seeker has arrived at the appointed hour of 9:35 PM.
InTheWood: Definitely going back to that Nixon vid later...
pinholeF200: Khakis, a dull Earthly garment covering male extremities
AirshipAl: Or something simian
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! - currently playing - "NICK DANGER MEETS E.T." - listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u - YOU CAN PURCHASE THIS ALBUM AT >> Part of the BOX OF DANGER collection - https://www.shoutfactory.com/music/spoken-word/the-firesign-theatre-s-box-of-danger-the-complete-nick-danger-casebook **'
Dr. Archetype: Ed Simian
shoes for the dead: mail extremists?
Brett Cammack: Hey, I resemble that remark. Or is it dissemble. Oh, well!
EWeston: Something for my karkass
Junguy: Hello Seeker
John A Arkansawyer: He might write a monkey, if he didn't know his phone number.
Brett Cammack: Welcome to the future! Oops, too late!
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 9:36 PM, dragging thirdofnever by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this web surfer?"
Dr. Archetype: one born every minute!
EWeston: Its hard to stay ahead of the future
John A Arkansawyer: I believe the heads of the future will be superior in every way.
Brett Cammack: "But it's today!"
pinholeF200: at least the past is still what it used to be
||||||||| "9:37 PM? 9:37 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Bightrethighrehighre should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Bightrethighrehighre enters and sits at the bar.
Dr. Archetype: ...oh, wait
Brett Cammack: Indeed.
AirshipAl: Same ole Nick Danger different every time.
||||||||| At 9:38 PM, Chauly vanishes mysteriously -- just as Nino the Mind Boggler predicted!
DJTweeny: OK, Proc's back :)
EWeston: Wait a minute..Its gone!
Dr. Archetype: He's tan, he's handsome!
Seej1982: same old nick, same old nancy, same old show...
shoes for the dead: it's over here
lily: libletter
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign's XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
InTheWood: Now it's over here...
Junguy: the past goes by fast
Seej1982: hold it right there! now... hold it over there!
John A Arkansawyer: That's right...over here...
Brett Cammack: "Here, here!"
EWeston: You look so sinister in that corrsette
Mudhead: there there
Brett Cammack: "Where, where?"
John A Arkansawyer: Where, where?
||||||||| It's 9:40 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| sltax - dead from the common cold
||||||||| DAVE G - dead from the common cold
||||||||| dale p - dead from measles
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
shoes for the dead: the present goes by feast
Bightrethighrehighre: "There, there!!"
Seej1982: theres an echo in here.... echo in here.... echo in here....
EWeston: On the negatives!
pinholeF200: it's an interesting approach....
Junguy: Yum Shoes yum!
||||||||| Babe Boomer says "We're Live On PBS!" in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign's Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
InTheWood: Tthhiiss iiss tthhee ppoorrttrraaiitt ggaallerryy..
Brett Cammack: "Well, close B clothes mode on Deputy Dan."
Dr. Archetype: what
Mudhead: Pick up the phone
John A Arkansawyer: I don't see why they call it the present. You can't keep it.
Nabby: Jello Phil Procmer
jahgust: Phil!
Beet: Hi Phil
Seeker: this is poignant
Dr. Archetype: porridge bird time
AirshipAl: Pheel
EWeston: Ran accross a saying of the HABU this week."You've never been lost till you've been lost at mach 3
Cat: Wow Phil
||||||||| Catherwood escorts HotDogKnight in through the front door at 9:42 PM, picks up his cues (only slightly scorched), and heads for the billiard room.
Nabby: Thanks for coming!
pinholeF200: Hi Phil
John A Arkansawyer: No. This is the chat room. Poignancy is in the sitting room.
lily: kismet
Brett Cammack: They're fresh out. Just ordered another case to be airdropped into the garden, stat!
||||||||| New notice: '** WE'RE GLAD YOU MADE IT!! - currently playing - LIVE INTERVIEW WITH PHIL PROCTOR - listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u'
Nabby: Serendib....
shoes for the dead: sarin dip
Seej1982: im a goy, im a goy, but my ma wont admit it
lily: do da
Junguy: Antelope freeway...
John A Arkansawyer: Sarin dip for all your sheep and farm animals! They won't live any longer without it.
Brett Cammack: I wonder how many fans of The Firesign Theatre are also fans of the cartoonist B. Kliban?
Bunnyboy: Never too late to drive. I just got my first driver license, at the age of 54, 37 years after my first high school driver's ed classes. #RipVanWinkleLives
shoes for the dead: me
John A Arkansawyer: Easier to count the ones who aren't, I betcha.
lily: wave a hand
Dr. Archetype: is Phil Proctor here? nearby? i'm confused...
John A Arkansawyer: Funny is funny and the rest is trivia.
Brett Cammack: The humor correlates. "Freud's first slip" "Chewing Guam"
Cat: i got my license at 37
John A Arkansawyer: If you're confused, he must be in the area.
Bunnyboy: MDArch: Proc's on Skype, on Tween's audio feed.
DJTweeny: tune in, John ^^
Nabby: What does igmonalousmy mean?
Bunnyboy: Links at the top of the chat page.
||||||||| Catherwood escorts Krisbee inside, makes a note of the time (9:47 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
EWeston: I finally bought a car at 30
||||||||| The TV flickers on, and Ralph Spoilsport appears: "How can you drive in two places at once when you don't have a genuine Ralph Spoilsport license plate frame? Get one for your car and one for the plate in your head!"
Nabby: Come back Shame!
lily: no driving in seatle
AirshipAl: How does he make his voice do that?
No_Swiss_Picnic: LIVE INTERVIEW WITH PHIL PROCTOR - listen to the stream at 128k at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny.m3u or at 16k for dial-up users at http://listen.ehhh.us:8000/tweeny16k.m3u
lily: wow
Brett Cammack: Gotta pack it in, ladies and gents. Bedtime at Rancho Cammack.

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Bunnyboy: lily: On the contrary. Much driving in Seattle.
EWeston: By Brett
||||||||| Brett Cammack leaves to catch the 9:48 PM train to Billville.
||||||||| Catherwood stumbles in at 9:48 PM, dragging sparkymike by one leg and asks "Can anyone vouch for this Firehead?"
John A Arkansawyer: All right! Now that I'm tuned in, I can drop out.
lily: lol bun congrats
James: sorry, had to reboot
Seeker: "all the happening crowd"
||||||||| James rushes off, saying "9:48 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Bunnyboy: Thenkyew!
||||||||| Catherwood trudges in at 9:48 PM, dragging James by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this yo-yo?"
pinholeF200: night Brett
||||||||| James scurries out the back door as Mayor P'nisnose blasts through the front door holding a shotgun and shouting "Where's James?! It's 9:49 PM and my ballot boxes haven't been stuffed yet!"
||||||||| Catherwood sneaks into the room, and announces "Announcing 'James', also known as 'Nancy' -- the time is 9:49 PM" -- then he slowly retires back into the anteroom...
James: im back
Dr. Archetype: wow - this is over?
Seej1982: if Proctor's memoir is anything like this interview, im all for it
Seeker: glad they were not called oz...
Junguy: Still on Dr.
EWeston: Preatty confusing so far
Merlyn: We interviewed Phil Proctor on Shockwave years ago; an hour-long interview. We asked 4 questions.
DJTweeny: hahaha
Cat: what were they, merl?
Nabby: the yute culture
Seej1982: lol meryl
||||||||| "9:51 PM? 9:51 PM!!" says Catherwood, "Lil should be here by now...oh, THERE you are!" as Lil enters and sits in the comfy chair.
||||||||| James rushes off, saying "9:51 PM? Mark Time is almost on! Where's a radio?"
Bunnyboy: Meryl's here?!?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign's NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
Nabby: hug a cop today
Dr. Archetype: can't connect to audio, so i guess i'm done
||||||||| Catherwood enters with James close behind, mumbles something about disrupting his 9:51 PM tree-stunting plans, and scurries off to the vestibule.
Cat: Hi Lil
Lil: Hi guys
jahgust: I could listen to Phil forever!
James: ok. im back
||||||||| "Happy" Harry Cox pops in and say "I was right! Everything I knew WAS wrong! You CAN get "Profiles in Barbecue Sauce", chock full of meaty Firesign scripts!"
Lil: Pinched nerve ugh
Nabby: Hey Lil
Lil: Thank heavens Tweeny reposts these
Dr. Archetype: headin back to the engine room - bye now
Nabby: Sorry Lil ow!
Beet: This is great
Merlyn: Dr. Archetype, there will be links to the audio in the chat logs, and firesign on facebook
lily: me too li
lily: sorry cat
Nabby: lily and Lil need soothing
||||||||| A time machine materializes at 9:53 PM and RalphSpoilsport bounds out, carrying a grape from ancient Greece.
Lil: You ain't kiddin Nabby, thanks
Dr. Archetype: thanks Merlyn :)
AirshipAl: Great story!!!
Lil: Wow he's talking about how the guys met
lily: its like a knife in my back good times
shoes for the dead: hey Ralph
||||||||| "Hey Seeker!" ... Seeker turns, and sees Bradshaw approching with the handcuffs, and is dragged away, screaming "it's only 9:54 PM, I don't have to go yet!"...
EWeston: Ah Goons
DJTweeny: ** This show and the interview will be posted at www.kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow
Lil: Hey! I'm an Aries LOL
||||||||| Catherwood stomps in at 9:54 PM, dragging Seeker by the hair and asks "Can anyone vouch for this bozo?"
lily: not broken
Seej1982: im a saggitarian :)
||||||||| It's 9:55 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| drjawn - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Yung Guy - dead from jaundice
||||||||| TimmMcCoy - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Litlover - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| Nancy - dead from measles
||||||||| Mark Time - dead from The Plague
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Cat: Horny ram indeed. Much of Austin's work has been infused with love
Seeker: Austin "the horny ram"
Lil: Thanks Tweeny
DJTweeny: yw :)
Nabby gives Lil and lily candies and bunnies.
||||||||| Shemp enters at 9:55 PM as Catherwood takes their hat and goat and runs off to the Haberdashery Barn.
shoes for the dead: kaf kaf
John A Arkansawyer: Oh, the joy of lying to people's faces! When that doesn't make me happy, it's bedtime for me.
Nabby: The Meeting of the Phils
Lil: Yep candies will do it LOL
pinholeF200: the paper holds their folded faces to the floor, and every day the paper boy brings more
EWeston: Cet yer snooze alarm for afventure
Nabby: Cool Lil
lily: hummin in greased grooves
Nabby: Phil-opsophy
Lil: Is this PHIL-osophy?
Seeker: "dare to sharpen your pencil again"
Bunnyboy: Gotta melt away. Nite!
Beet: How watching what happens in life can lead to understanding how it always works.
Nabby: Opso dazo
Nabby: Bye Bunny
Lil: Bahaha Nabby
||||||||| Catherwood accompanies Tim inside, makes a note of the time (9:57 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Seeker: keyword hermetic
||||||||| Bunnyboy departs at 9:57 PM, singing "Toad away, toad away; toad away, toad away! Where do you go when you're toad away?"
Beet: Nite Bunny
Nabby: ar ar ar
Lil: Niters BB
lily: lovely memories
late: he owed a lot of money to a lot of people for a lot of airports
Beet: This is a fitting tribute to a departed comrade.

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Nabby: awwww sorry about the Phil & all
||||||||| Catherwood enters the room, strikes a gong, and bellows "THE TIME IN NEW YORK IS 10 O'CLOCK", then silently exits.
Nabby: "about that", I meant
Cat: indeed, beet
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
lily: I don't want to see that sorrow in anybodies eyes
late: damn
jahgust: Aw Phil. Jeez.
jahgust: What the hell!
Cat: I talked to Phil Austin a few weeks ago.
Cat: Yes, the dogs are crucial
Nabby: Incredible love
Junguy: dedication
lily: lovely love story
||||||||| Babe Boomer says "We're Live On PBS!" in the video WEIRDLY COOL Catch Firesign's Live TV Studio Performance On DVD!
Seeker: ***chills***
Nabby: Thank you Phil
jahgust: Sad all over again.
lily: beautiful
Cat: Yes, that's the way it goes
EWeston: Straight talk, and appreciated
John A Arkansawyer: Just like Ken Babbs said about Ken Kesey...his body played a dirty trick on him. How sad. And yet, what love.
Seej1982: good to know he was in good spirits until the end
Beet: Big tugs at the heart.
pinholeF200: thanks for sharing, Phil, this can't be easy...2 bouts with big C myself
jahgust: One hopes whereever Phil A is that he knows how much we loved him.
: wow this is awesome
||||||||| dale p sneaks in around 10:07 PM, trying to avoid Catherwood because of last week's "unpleasant incident."
Cat: oona does
John A Arkansawyer: Hasid rock. Very timely.
InTheWood: Best wishes to Oona.
Nabby: Hi dale
Nabby: the Big Blonde
Nabby: lol
Nabby: stupid idiots lol
lily: ty fool I am
||||||||| Chick Lambert fades in and says: "I have no idea who this Friedstein Theatre is, but they 're honing in on my territory over at Duke of Madness Motors. Give 'em the what for, Storm!" "RUFF! RUFF!"
jahgust: Indeed Cat! I have been thinking of her all week and just hope she is surrounded by her family. Group hug for Oona!
Beet: Speaking for all of us.
EWeston: A mad feul myself
jahgust: Catherwood! Get a group hug for Oona!
||||||||| Catherwood gets a group hug for oona.
John A Arkansawyer: {{{{Oona}}}}
||||||||| It's 10:10 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| thirdofnever - dead from measles
||||||||| Dr. Archetype - dead from jaundice
||||||||| Melanie Farber - dead from measles
||||||||| HotDogKnight - dead from intense demonic possession
||||||||| Krisbee - dead from the fiddlers
||||||||| sparkymike - dead from The Plague
||||||||| RalphSpoilsport - dead from the yaws
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Seej1982: dad would play the old LPs when I was a kid, made me a fan, lol
Seeker: gone to the dogs indeed!
Nabby: Oona Oona
AirshipAl: Only 2 east coast trips. 1974 & 1981
||||||||| Catherwood leads Hamby into the room, accepts a $3 bill as a gratuity, mutters something about 10:11 PM, then departs.
Seej1982: ah, that explains all the west coast gigs
Nabby: Hi Hamby
Nabby: West goat cigs?
shoes for the dead: hey Hamby
jahgust: Actually they toured in 1970 as well! They played in Providence!
pinholeF200: all must learn to play the piano
Seej1982: those, too!
Nabby: Wet ghost wigs?
DJTweeny: lol pinhole
Seeker: "mom played the organ" are you just going to let that go???
AirshipAl: All 4 Firesigners joined Bill Boggs for a great interview in '81. It's on YouTube.
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Cat: at his organ again
Nabby: you little organ pumper, you
EWeston: no its on a leash
James: When I can, I will buy New CDs of "Bozos" and "Everything" and the Audio DVD of "Boom"
lily: tulips on a famos organ
AirshipAl: 1970? I just discovered them at Syracuse U.
Nabby: I wanted to play acoustic guitar with Phil A
Seeker: truly insane how contemporary "Everything" still is
late: hell of a guitar player - fighting clowns?
James: I just ordered the Re-release of "Eat or Be Eaten"
John A Arkansawyer: Ah, yes. Long hair, short hair--hair is dead!
Nabby: Ian Underwood!
Junguy: Everything rocks!
jahgust: I think there is a list of the 1970 shows in one of the Firesign Books.
AirshipAl: Cool. I'll check it out.
John A Arkansawyer: Saw Dan Hicks here back home in Arkiesaw last year--get the live CD! It's just great.
Nabby: Groovy people, places & times
Seej1982: my dad has the old big book of plays, ill have to get him the new versions for his next birthday
Nabby: Want to see it Phil
Seej1982: ive been wanting to see love and mercy too
Nabby: Sgt Pepper of comedy
DadSir2U: Highly recommend Love & Mercy
pinholeF200: have to check that out--love Brian Wilson's music
John A Arkansawyer: I thought he said "substandard" for a second. And yeah, you gotta swing for the fences. Artists who bunt never score.
lily: free love
Beet: Love and Mercy not playing here.
Nabby: amazing studio work - learned SO MUCH from your records, Phil
Seej1982: i think its in like 3 theatres here
Nabby: free Willy
||||||||| Ralph Spoilsport drives in through the door and says "Buy a new or used T-shirt from the Firesign Theatre Cafepress store! Hurry before this sentence ends!"
AirshipAl: Nuthin's ever free, Nabby.

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Nabby: 100 track! that's great!
late: 1s and 0s man
Nabby: digital was wonderful - no more little pieces of tape everywhere
John A Arkansawyer: Free Arthur Lee.
DrBeddoes: That's a one plus TWO zeroes!!!
lily: but not a plane
Nabby: Darth Foley lol
||||||||| Captain Equinox flies in through the transom, landing on the bearskin rug. "Attention, solstice squad! After working a 12-hour day, I like to kick back and swill some juice out of a genuine Firesign coffee mug or Bear Whiz Beer stein!"
Beet: Amazing advances in tech we have gone through.
late: eyeball hats
EWeston: Free Heuy...Dewey and louie
Nabby: Best sfx in the tradition
John A Arkansawyer: Love the form, even when it's used by lame Minnesatans.
Beet: To have been one of these guys having all these great experiences. Wow.
pinholeF200: still have my Allied Radio Morse Code and Sound Effects vinyl
Nabby: never waste sounds!
shoes for the dead: kaff kaff
Merlyn: the marching feet is backing "Shoes for industry"
Nabby inflates his shoes.
late: historical foley
AirshipAl: hysterical folly
Seej1982: heh heh
EWeston: Zero's in sniper blowgun
late: anyone know of these other podcasts he's been on lately?
DJTweeny: late: anyone know of these other podcasts he's been on lately?
Nabby: david grim!
Seej1982: google would be my guess
late: k, will do
AirshipAl: Good hit
||||||||| It's 10:25 PM, and that means it's time to play BEAT THE REAPER! And here's how our contestants did:
||||||||| dale p - dead from dengue fever
||||||||| Better luck next time! And now, back to our chatroom, which is already in progress...
Nabby: Oh Calcutta!
John A Arkansawyer: Harvey MIlk was one of the producers of Oh, Calcutta.
Beet: Saw it in Paris
Nabby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_Calcutta!
AirshipAl: Saw it on the east coast.
John A Arkansawyer: During his East Coast days, though.
pinholeF200: Oh, Calcutta, perfect way to spend the afternoon after a Naked Lunch
Cat: we'e hear
Junguy: uh oh We hear you
EWeston: Bad connection strikes again
Nabby: I'll bet you have Phil
Junguy: badum bum
lily: hear to you
Nabby: here's to you Phil A!
AirshipAl: Take another hit
lily: never
EWeston: Make yerslf hommy
late: the comedy on vinyl podcast - didn't get a hit for him, but, holy sht, what a treasure to dig into
John A Arkansawyer: Nope, I was wrong. It was something else. Shame on me.
Nabby: haha phil
Lil: Ehr ma gehrd it's Phil Proctor!!!!!!!!!!!
Merlyn: NOT BACKSLASH
Cat: i'm cat
InTheWood: Phil: Might you come to perform in New York City anytime soon?
John A Arkansawyer: Slash chat? Is that legal?
No_Swiss_Picnic: more about Austin's neurotic pathology :^)
philander: waiting for the electrician
||||||||| Bill Sprawl pokes his head in through the window and shouts "MARCHING TO SHIBBOLETH! Click to order!"
Nabby: slashbat
||||||||| Proctor waltzes in at 10:28 PM carrying an obsidian door knocker.
lily: hellooo
AirshipAl: Welcome to side 6
Nabby: Hi Proctor
jahgust: hey Phil we see you!
late: welcome
Junguy: Hi Phil!
EWeston: Check the comment box phil
Cat: phil phil phil and phil
DrBeddoes: Welcome, Phil!
Hamby: Hi Phil
Seeker: meow!
Seej1982: hi phil
James: welcome:)
philander: Hi Proctor
pinholeF200: and you see, here we are
Mudhead: Hi Proc
shoes for the dead: hey Phil
Beet: What is the time frame on the memoir?
||||||||| Bebop Lobo reminds all you hep cats to listen to Firesign's NEW 24/7 RADIO STATION Click to listen anytime!"
||||||||| Outside, the 10:29 PM crosstown bus from Funfun Town pulls away, leaving CostaRicanExpat coughing in a cloud of diesel fumes.
Lil: Hi Ho Phil Proctor!!!!!!!
||||||||| Catherwood leads DAVE G inside, makes a note of the time (10:29 PM), then fades off into the distance going on about the waiting room or the sitting room or something.
Lil: So glad you could make it!!!!!
lily: so good to have this valuble time
Cat: you and melinda seem to have infinie energy
Nabby: Greetings from the yeast, Phil P
Lil: How will you be celebrating your Birthday next month?
lily: sc
Mudhead: I'd love to sponsor a Firesign Theater fan meeting this summer at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville CT this autumn
DJTweeny: cool idea, Mudhead
AirshipAl: Great stories, Phil. My deepest condolences to you and the Firesign family.
||||||||| Mark Time invites you to watch and listen to Firesign's XM Radio Performances Watch The Firesign Theatre In Action!
jahgust: Oh nice Mudhead! great idea!
barbra: Who came up with the computer Virtual Reality Funpark
Nabby: Cool Phil
Mudhead: Can we plead to Phil Proctor to grace us with his presence?
late: mmmm jugglers
Beet: Since these things disappear, I ask again: What is the time frame on the memoir?

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