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From: thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Let's let Dave know we exist....
Date: 5 Sep 92 01:47:55 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

In article <1992Sep4.215132.14526@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mconners@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael R Conners) writes:
>     Hey! What do you all think of this? How about a contest for the best
>"Viewer Mail" letter - we would vote on it & the winning letter would be sent 
>in to Dave via snail-mail.
>
>     I'm writing this post- AND I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS!
>-- 
>:  Michael R. Conners              : Remember: The last time a Democrat was  :
>:  THE Ohio State University       : in the White House we had double-digit  :
>:  College of Business             : inflation and disco...                  :

I like this idea alot but, I think that it should say      

"From:  The Guys and Gals on Alt.fan.letterman (USENET)"
"Written: Guy who wrote it"

and I think we should ask him why he wears glasses in the little skits
but, doesn't during a normal show.  He even wears them in intervies.

Alex
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From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Subject: Meg's appearances
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:44:05 GMT

I love it when Dave calls Meg on the phone and gives her a hard time.
One of the best times was when he sent a bunch of fat guys in t-shirts
to her office.

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Subject: Re: Dave's Faves (guests)
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 01:20:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.004526.21683@cs.wisc.edu> gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz) writes:
|So, who do you think are Mr. Letterman's favorite guests?  Y'know, someone
|he seems to get along with well, someone he speaks highly of (not Cher)
|when they're not on or they will be on soon.  Here's a start:
|
|Teri Garr
|Tom Brokaw

Phil Donahue
Charles Grodin (in a sarcastic sort of way)
Richard Lewis
David Sanborn (if he counts)

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From: steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman)
Subject: Re: L7(?) on Letterman Last Night
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:50:48 GMT

mcgonig@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Gordon McGonigal) writes:

>Hey, give 'em a break!  That's nothin'.  I remember they once had
>the Ramones on and the drummer couldn't do a decent drum roll for
>the Top 10 List.  Let's  face it, most of Letterman's musical guests
>are not musicians.

I think the worst drum roll came from The Bangles' drummer.
--
Dave!
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From: rodney@magritte.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
Subject: Re: Dave's Behavior With Interesting Guests
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:36:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.230806.5338@inmet.camb.inmet.com> lenny@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Len Goodman) writes:
>
>If Dave wants to screw around with someone who is on the show to promote
>something or just to be seen, that's fine.  But if someone who is interesting
>is on, Dave should just turn it down a little and let us watch.  Otherwise,
>if Dave just can't stop, done't have any "demonstration-type" guests at all.
>
>  Len

Thank you very much.  Your vote will be tabulated and filed for future 
reference.  Should we need more information from you, we will certainly
contact you immediately.     

now, give it a rest.





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From: mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman)
Subject: Re: Dave's trips out.
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 18:00:57 GMT

In article <fspn7p+.lllowen@netcom.com> lllowen@netcom.com (lllowen) writes:
>In article <7996@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> ccmei@turing.seas.ucla.edu 
>(Carl C. Mei) writes:
>>One of my favorite parts of the show, other than Viewer Mail, is when
>>Dave would pretend to leave to studio to go on these little trips.
>>One of my favorite was when Dave and a whole bunch of the staff went
>>to International House of Pancakes.  Al Mahr used syrup to comb his
>>hair, Dave carved out a world map of pancakes, and he played catch
>>with Paul where Paul was catching the pancakes with his mouth.
>>Hilarious.  Anyone with your favorites?
>
>Sure...how about the one where Dave stops by the modeling school...picks up
>three babes ("leggy supermodels"!), and drives out to the beach.  They run
>over the NO PARKING sign, play catch with a hatchet, and best of all, on the
>way back, they pass Paul and his family changing a flat tire on the side
>of the road.  Dave and the models just laugh, point and wave and continue on
>their journey!

How about the time when Dave takes Paul for a drive, then walks him out
into the woods and shoots him.


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From: C Robert Claydon <cclaydon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re:  Stupid pet tricks
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 04:09:44 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

My personal favorite has got to be the one where the humongous dog with the 
owner who's even taller than dave perches on top of a stick like a bird... just
incredibly silly.

A close second is the dog that can shoot baskets--I just can't get over what a 
cool dog that is.

Rob
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From: sladic@ecf.toronto.edu (SLADIC DANIEL)
Subject: Two Cents...
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:02:42 GMT


 Ok I just read a few hundred posts here so I'd like to say a few things
now..

 Re:Weasel...  My personal belief as to how this got started(backed up
by hours of viewing) is that Letterman himself started it by calling
Bob Morton a weasel..Why? Ever notice Letterman knows quite a bit about
wrestling? I know he met Heenan(Bobby THE BRAIN) and used the term
weasel once on the show and the audience took over from there..

 Re:Tonight Show... I didn't ever think they'd give Dave the Tonight
show because of these reasons..If he got it, the Tonight show would 
effectively be gone and we'd have Late Night at 11:35.. NBC needs that
extra hour of programming in my opinion..And there is no way Leno could
make it at 12:35..

 Some of my favourite stuff ..

 The rerun that was dubbed entirely into Spanish?! What comedy daring!
Who'd watch Arsenio in Spanish..Next to nobody because even if you can't
uderstand Dave, he is still funny!

 When Paul does either that Game show thing where he has to answer 
questions in a limited time or when he goes on a tirade about the things
he hates about Letterman!

 Anybody remember the hydraulic press episode where he had the doll that
could repeat whatever you said to it? While it was being crushed,Dave
had it say "Help me, I'm being crushed by a 20 ton hydraulic press"
 Now that had me on the floor.

 I'd also like to see a list compiled of all the places Dave did the
show other than the usual place..As far as I know:
  Chicago       La
  Japan         NY airport(Kennedy I believe)
 ....anywhere else?!?


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From: grusin@tramp.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL)
Subject: Did they ever get the eagle back? (was: Re: Letterman Qoutes)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:57:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.161349.1422@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jason R. Beerhalter) writes:
>Or what about when they had those eagle trainers on and the bird was supposed
>to fly from one building to the other and instead decided to fly away? One of
>the trainers stuck his head out the window looking around for it and Dave
>went into dumb guy persona pretending to be the trainer saying,"Where the
>hell's that bird?"
>
>DUMB GUY KILLS ME!!!
>
>Jason R. Beerhalter
>jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu
>jbeer%UTSAVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu

...Knowing the time and effort it takes to keep/train one of these birds,
I was HORRIFIED to see it fly away.  Does anyone know if they recovered it?
(I made a point of watching for the next few nights to see if Dave would
mention anything about it; he made a few jokes (about the bird snatching
babies in central park =) but no real word...

Anyone?  Beuller?

-Mike (grusin@tramp.colorado.edu)
"I'm surrounded by idiots of my own design" -Joel, MST3000
From: pirmann@porthos.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's Faves (guests)
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:31:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers University LCSR

gopher@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz) writes:

>So, who do you think are Mr. Letterman's favorite guests?  Y'know, someone
>he seems to get along with well, someone he speaks highly of (not Cher)
>when they're not on or they will be on soon.  Here's a start:

>Teri Garr
>Tom Brokaw


Penn & Teller.  Dave might not appreciate having cockroaches on his
desk or his watch stuffed in a fish, but I don't really think he
minds.

Besides, they get the vote in my book as cool guys. Teller once gave me
the tie he wore during "King of Animal Traps" (the one that gets caught
in the trap and he slices off).  I guess you could call it my
"Brush with Greatness" :-)


dave
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From: wu@mdd.comm.mot.com (Philip Wu)
Subject: Re: WHATS WRONG WITH THE SHOW
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:51:37 GMT

In <mcirvin.715919072@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:

>thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell) writes:

>>Whoa Whoa Whoa!!!  Now, I'll agree that Marsalis has a ton of talent and for
>>Jazz he probably *is* the best.  *But* with Paul you can name any song frrom
>>the past 50 years and *bam* he'll play it.  They may not be gods at making
>>their own music but, they are pretty good at being versatile and playing
>>alot of *different* kinds of music which is what you need on Dave's show.

>True enough; they're a perfect band for Dave's show.
>-- 
>Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 

You'll never catch Branford making whacky sound effects for Leno's
jokes.  (I hate how Leno repeats the opening parts of jokes every night,
"Anybody out there a Clinton supporter??" yuk)

Phil
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From: klehr@creamer.bellcore.com (Thomas J. Klehr)
Subject: Re: Layman's corner
Reply-To: klehr@bae.bellcore.com (Thomas J. Klehr)
Organization: /u/klehr/.organization
Date: 5 Sep 92 11:46:36

In article <1992Sep3.225624.12966@bnr.ca> christo@bcarh803.BNR.CA (Mark Christopher) writes:

   As far as I know, there was only one "Layman's Corner".  I don't know
   the name of the female staffer who did the bit in a very disinterested
   monotone voice.  (It wasn't Barbara Gaines.)  If anyone knows, please
   let me know.  The piece went like this:

It was Jude Brennan.

Tom
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From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Subject: Re: Did they ever get the eagle back? (was: Re: Letterman Qoutes)
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:44:50 GMT

In <1992Sep8.175704.7969@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> grusin@tramp.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL) writes:

>In article <1992Sep3.161349.1422@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jason R. Beerhalter) writes:
>>Or what about when they had those eagle trainers on and the bird was supposed
>>to fly from one building to the other and instead decided to fly away? One of
>>the trainers stuck his head out the window looking around for it and Dave
>>went into dumb guy persona pretending to be the trainer saying,"Where the
>>hell's that bird?"
>>
>>DUMB GUY KILLS ME!!!
>>
>>Jason R. Beerhalter
>>jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu
>>jbeer%UTSAVM1.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu

The bird was a falcon, not an eagle.

>...Knowing the time and effort it takes to keep/train one of these birds,
>I was HORRIFIED to see it fly away.  Does anyone know if they recovered it?
>(I made a point of watching for the next few nights to see if Dave would
>mention anything about it; he made a few jokes (about the bird snatching
>babies in central park =) but no real word...

>Anyone?  Beuller?

That's Bueller.

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From: mcgonig@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Gordon McGonigal)
Subject: Re: L7(?) on Letterman Last Night
Organization: Dept. of Elect. & Comp. Engineering, U of Manitoba
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:50:42 GMT

jasonp@cunix4.Prime.COM (Jason R. Pascucci) writes:
>Is it just me, or did those women look like they couldn't actually 
>play their instrument? I mean...I was watching the drummer(ess) 
>slagging along, and hearing Anton take some interesting licks, which 
>added fatness and interest value to otherwise...well...amateur music. 

Hey, give 'em a break!  That's nothin'.  I remember they once had
the Ramones on and the drummer couldn't do a decent drum roll for
the Top 10 List.  Let's  face it, most of Letterman's musical guests
are not musicians.
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From: norris@athena.mit.edu (Richard A Chonak)
Subject: The Fighting Daves of Tahlequah
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 05:06:31 GMT

Heard on (USA?) radio news Saturday night: 

Northeastern State University (Tahlequah, OK) has chosen Dave Letterman
as the college's new mascot.  The school's cheerleaders recently introduced 
their new "Fighting Daves" outfits: double-breasted suit, funny hair, and 
tooth gap (cigar optional).

I wonder if this will make it into clari.news.headlines.
---
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From: v125qmam@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ami R Pflugrad)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: How about this one...
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:42:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

just remembered this one.  Larry Bud Melmon handing out baked-potatos to 
new arrivals.  With his well praticed interviewing style (Remove the mic 
halfway through asking/answering the questions). I was on the floor !!
It was twice as funny cause dave started laughing (i mean really laughing)


Just thought Id share a memory or two...

Ami
From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Feeling sorry for Dave..
Date: 13 Sep 1992 10:27:31 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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In article <95724@bu.edu> schin@acs.bu.edu (neil schier) writes:
}Yeh remember when he interviewed Elle MacPherson. Didn't he ask her to button
}her shirt?

	I thought it was hilarious when <Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend> was on
the show, and Dave said "I keep thinking my tires are overinflated."  She
is/was a total ditz and didn't have the foggiest idea what he was talking
about, according to the look on her face.
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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: Fearless?? Dave??
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 11:08:07 GMT

sclever@nmt.edu (Shawn Clever) writes:
 >I believe he intimidates some of the animals and then reacts 
 >all nervous to heighten the experience.  

EXACTLY!  ...and anyone who could not pick up on that in reference to 
those two monkeys, i'd say has their head stuck in a hydraulic press!

BTW, I call this show "Dave vs. Monkey".  It aired on 8/26/87.

DAVE!  <chanting>

-{ DA }-
" It's going to leap on me, and rip a vein out of my neck!! "
From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Bookshelf by Dave's desk
Date: 10 Sep 1992 05:57:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords: Dave, bookshelf, name

In article <1992Sep9.233851.16368@cco.caltech.edu> joel@cco.caltech.edu
(Joseph Paul Lauer) writes:
}	On last night's show (Tuesday, 9/8/92), when Dave was standing
}to the left of his desk (his left, audience's right) talking to the
}guy who brought the artwork for the front of Paul's organ, I noticed
}a sign on the bookshelf behind him saying something like 
}"This is Michael Mullin's Bookshelf".  Did anyone else notice this
}or does anyone know the story behind it?

Michael Mullin is (or at least was) the mayor of Lynchport, Virginia.
He got on the show a couple of times because he was a 19 year old
mayor of a town with a population of about 30.  I forget the details
but for some reason Letterman put the sign up.
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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: WHATS (*NOT*) WRONG WITH THE SHOW
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 02:06:07 GMT


>music@erich.triumf.ca (FRED W. BACH) writes:
 >How would you characterize the differences between people who liked the 
 >old Carson show and people who like the Dave Letterman show?   

EASY!  Carson had mostly little old ladies from the midwest, while DAVE
has an audience of younger, mostly college-educated LIVE people...<heh>

 >I was a Carson fan.  

Phew, oh well.  I became TOTALLY sick of him at least a decade ago.
That guy has not done anything original since maybe back in the SIXTIES!

 >Generally I find the humor a problem on the Letterman show, however.

WHAT???   It is the LACK of "humor" on something as old and boring as the 
carson show that was one of it's major problems (besides the host, and that
awful pig Ed of course :)   If the "humor" on Dave's show is a "problem",
then you OBVIOUSLY should not be watching it in the first place...

 >I think it is often too silly and aimed at a much more childish mind.

Wow, I think it must simply be going over your head.  
DAVE's humor is very much aimed towards the more intelligent viewers.

 >I liked the music way better on Carson with Doc.  

Oh, gag and PUKE! :->   NOTHING could be worse than that awful old
"guy lombardo" 1950s 'orchestra' and that total FOOL "doc".  Sheesh.
PAUL Shaffer is very clearly the best and most competant "musician" 
ever a part of a talk show.

 >Dave's flying sky-cam takes some nice shots, but the whole bit with the
 >roving cams comes across as pointless.  

WHAT?!?!?!?!   Getting OUT of the studio is YET ANOTHER of the 
things that makes Dave's show so incredibly good and original.

 >There's just not much intelligent, thoughtful humor, 

Look again.  There is PLENTY.

 >the kind of humor where the skit does a clever (adult) 
 >parody of some real-life situation.

Phew.  I shudder to think of what pathetic old "tonight show"
crap you may be trying to compare Dave too...

 >I guess that's my chief complaint-- much of Dave's humor
 >seems to me to be like what a small child would do, or like
 >what a drunk with a camera would do at some wild party.

Sigh... you CLEARLY just don't "get it", and by all your 
statements here so far, I do not expect you ever will.  

 >But the guests and most of his top-10 lists are very good.
 >There is usually some thought that shows through in the top-10
 >lists, although a I see a lot of goofiness, too.

There is a LOT of thought involved, and what is wrong with "goofiness"??
BTW, that ALSO takes quite a lot of talent to execute it with the adeptness
and intelligence that Dave does.  Compared to the horribly lame same old
boring crap that carson did for the last 20 years, some "goofiness" from
Dave is very welcome...

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From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel)
Subject: Old Dave
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Just Me
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:50:40 GMT

Anybody remember the following:

The giant door knob - it's just plain big! He had a joke about the Russians either
building a bigger door knob or us resting safe knowing we were way ahead in giant
doorknob technology.

Mr. Curious - Dave told Hal, "You be Mr. Curious if you think it's so easy."  The last
installment I ever saw.

The conspiracy guy/the guy under the seats - Chris Elliot plays two totally off-the-wall
characters. Hard to describe.

Who asked for it - "Audience members" (writers, actually) ask to see outrageous things
which Dave is always prepared to make happen on the spot, without rehearsal (honest).

The Museum Of The Hard To Believe - The guy who made history in the 60's when he was
the first to stand up at a concert and yell, "Woooo".

He should bring some of them back - the old becomes the new after a while.

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From: rpb@bjerknes.colorado.edu (Robert Baptist)
Subject: Re: Favorite things...
Organization: NOAA Climate Research Division
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:44:19 GMT

In article <009601F4.DD6C2AE0@oliver.shsu.edu> horn@oliver.shsu.edu writes:
>After someone mentioned the rotating show, I remembered the show when they flip
>the screen. I didn't start watching the show until almost half way throught the
>show and at first I thought they had reversed the stage (put Dave on the Left
>side of the stage, and Paul on the right).
>
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>James T. Horn                                     =        _   /| 

    One of my favorite aspects of being able to see the A&E reruns
is that they showed many of these "novelty" shows.  My favorite was
the show that they speeded up slightly (the A&E rerun was a rerun of
a rerun) in order to fit in a "big surprise" in the last ten minutes--
which of course turned out to be wacky.

   Others I liked included the two (as far as I know) shows where they
had the audience vote on every aspect of the show and the one where
they emulated a "morning show" with Dave being joined by a perky blond
co-host.
 
     - Robert
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