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From: amck@mcc.com (Alan McKendree)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Fav episode!
Date: 8 Sep 1992 21:29:25 GMT
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX

In article <1992Sep4.200107.1188@riscsm.scripps.edu> doug@scripps.edu (Doug Cababa) writes:
>In article <GHENNIGA.92Sep4105724@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
>>
>>My favorite episode is the one which started (I think) the now famous...
>>	
>>		"Hep me, hep me! I been hypmoootized!"
>>
>>That was the one where the guy who's hypnotic powers were so "great" that 
>>he had to wear sun glasses to avoid inadvertently hypnotizing people! Yea
>>right!
>>	The guy picked someone from the audience who, despite her best tries
>>at faking it, obviously was not hypnotized and had to bite her lip to keep
>>from laughing! Dave pretty much tore the guy apart. What was the guys name?
>>I think I heard he sued the show after that but as far as I know it was just
>>a rumor.
>>
>>Gary
>>(ghenniga@NMSU.Edu)
>
> The guys name is Marshall Sylver (sp?), and he does a show here in 
>San Diego. He has stopped wearing his sunglasses.
>He used to bill himself as "The worlds fastest hypnotist", but his show
>is now about self-confidence or someting through hypnotism?
>
>The first Letterman I remember watching was the one where he had the 
>whole audience wearing 3-D glasses, so naturally I got mine out and
>put them on.
>
>Doug
>
>


I saw that one, plus the followup.  In the first appearance, Dave made
mincemeat of the guy, but he did it by injecting himself into the
guy's act, asking the girl is she was OK, etc.  If you remember, part
of the act involved Silver suddenly grabbing the girl in a full-body
hug and leaning backwards so she had a lot of her weight on him,
front-to-front.  Not the sort of thing Dave could stand by and watch
without comment, as you might imagine.  Although the guy (Silver) was
pretty dumb, it was one of those times when I wished Dave would stand
back and let the guest do his stuff.  Silver was _obviously_ honked
off to the max and trying to keep an "it's all part of the act" spin
on the disaster when the audience member failed to become hypnotized.
When he came back for a second appearance I suspect some lawyers had
had words, because Dave stayed way away and let him do his stuff
relatively unmolested.  Then as I recall on the top 10 list he worked
in something like Silver being invited back when hell froze over.

Another classic.
From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's trips out
Date: 8 Sep 1992 18:40:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <mcirvin.715962472@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
}One aired around the time Dave picked repeatedly on Phil Collins for
}recording the song "Sussudio."  Phil Collins was on the show that
}night, and the pre-theme skit showed Collins trying to write a song
}while Larry "Bud" hammers together a birdhouse.  Dave asks Collins how
}the songwriting is coming; Collins announces that he's blocked and
}can't think of a line.  Larry "Bud" suddenly hammers his thumb and
}yells, "Aie aie aie!  Homina homina!  Su-ssu-ssudio!"  Phil Collins
}smiles as if struck by an inspiration, and starts writing again.

Or the time before the show when Letterman was playing Scrabble with
Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.  Letterman spells out "truck" on
the board to score and then Garcia adds on "in" to spell "truckin,"
a famous Dead song.  They then argue back and forth whether that's
a real word.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: ventura@camelot.bradley.edu (Brian Wawczak)
Subject: Dave in Vegas
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date:  6 Sep 92 20:22:15 GMT

My all-time favorite Letterman episode was back in 1987 when he was doing a weekof shows in Las Vegas. On one show, we was driving around in a convertible
with a really bad Elvis impersonater and a homeless guy. It was classic!

--
ventura@camelot.bradley.edu  

"I'm a 60 minute man, and I'm ALL night long! WOOOOOO!!!"
        - "The Real World's Heavyweight Champion"(tm)  Ric Flair
 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: weaver@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Dave Weaver)
Subject: Re: Meg and the Fat Guys
Organization: SPS
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:55:04 GMT

rodney@magritte.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
>You left out the important part.  They were wearing the text to the
>top ten list.  One top ten item per fat guy.  At the end, there were ten
>really big guys in Meg's office.

I wonder if they were the same fat guys as the ones on the emmy clip,
all posing as writers for the show.  That clip, nominating the show
for best writing in a variety special or series, was funny.

dbw
From: tsander@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Regurgitator & Audience Gifts
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:39:37 GMT
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

My family and I re-rolled the tape of The Regurgitator several times when he
was first on and we were all pretty well convinced that he was the real deal.
The beauty of the coins was that he brought them up in any order requested.

One additional 'gift' to the audience:
		Waffles (I don't think they were frozen but I could be wrong)
Also, from Biff's Box-O-Thrills:
		Socks.

Just another Surly, Thuggish, Ne'er-do-well,
Tim. Sanderson
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: nasadk@vccsouth19.its.rpi.edu (Kristopher Martin Nasadowski)
Subject: Network Time wasters....
Reply-To: nasadk@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 19:26:14 GMT

How about the time they open the "sunroof" and you see those
flying delivery vans from DHL shipping? After some of them criss-cross,
two of them colide into each other and bounce off.

Nazman
<nasadk@rpi.edu>
From: ajay@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Ajay Sreekanth)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's Behavior With Interesting Guests
Date: 10 Sep 1992 07:59:41 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Reply-To: ajay@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Ajay Sreekanth)
NNTP-Posting-Host: miro.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep9.162252.21405@dg-rtp.dg.com> goudreau@batman.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:

>But that's part of the fun -- he takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude to
>it, and is always trying to find amusingly incorrect names for it.
>Sort of like his constant misnaming of Hal Gurnee and Anton Figg, or
>his references a few years back to such movies as "Steel Petunias"
>or "Honey, I Ate the Kids!".

Or, my favourite - "Backfire" (insted of "Backdraft", of course) 

-Ajay
(ajay@cs.berkeley.edu)

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: The Harvey Pecar affair (was: Re: The Crispin Affair)
Summary: Dave wasn't in danger but Harvey nearly was... 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 01:41:09 GMT

In article <ed.715413376@cwis> ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny) writes:
>ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (barbara bush on crack) writes:
>>Ok...I *MUST* know this...Does anyone know the whole story behind the
>>most famous Letterman episode of all, the Crispin Glover affair?  What
>>the fuck was he on, anyway?  Coke or PCP I assume, but hell if I know

Crispin is just a rather intense guy - the actor who plays Biff (whose name
eludes me, but I'm sure everyone else remembers it so don't remind me) did a
great impression of him when the subject came up during his interview...
("I'm strong..." in a trembly voice...)  

Actually, the most surprising thing about it was that Crispin was back on
the very next night, apologizing, and actually slightly calmer...

No, the bit that I liked best was Harvey Pecar's last appearance.  I was
really sick of Harvey, never knew why Dave kept letting him on.  The last
time even Dave got sick of him and they began a heated argument.  At one
point Dave said (while Harvey was pausing for breath) "You're a DORK,
Harvey..." and it was SO funny.  It's the only time I've seen Dave really
lose his temper (the Glover episode was Dave losing his composure, not his
temper...) and I don't blame him.  All the guy would ever do is come on and
complain about the way the staff doesn't treat him like royalty.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

--
|Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver|
|Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-6208.| 
|"Don't you see it?  EVIL, pure and simple,|The Raster Image IS responsible |
|from the 8th Dimension!" - Buckaroo Banzai|for everything I say! | *Amiga* |
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: mconners@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael R Conners)
Subject: Let's let Dave know we exist....
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:51:32 GMT

     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...                  :
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: edc@dna.bchs.uh.edu
Subject: Re: Favorite Bits
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:49:51 GMT

In article <9209081442.aa03257@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU  
(Kenneth Anderson) writes:
> In alt.fan.letterman you write:
> P.S.
> 
> Favorite Dave quote: "I don't mind the swelling, its the itching that I
>                       can't stand!"
> 

actually, it was "I hate the itching, but I don't mind the swelling!"

<ESC>

--
..You either kiss the future or the past goodbye...
                          -- Ringo Starr (written by O'Deherty / Velez)
From: parama@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Vice_Captain_Trips)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: names...
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:41:35 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <2+!z7lb@rpi.edu> rodney@magritte.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
>
>How about the little kid they had on named Topher Goggen.  Dave had some
>fun explaining that Tophergoggens were those Swiss herbal throat lozenges.
>saying things like "I think I need me one of those tophergoggens!""

You forgot the best part. The kid actually had some of them Swiss throat
lozenzes for Dave.

--P2
From: bbehlen@soda.berkeley.edu (Vitamin B (Brian Behlendorf))
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: "Or, as we say in Indiana,"
Date: 11 Sep 1992 05:18:37 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
Keywords: eat more moose

In article <1992Sep10.185016.12224@tamsun.tamu.edu> rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez) writes:
>In article <18n0a0INNa87@agate.berkeley.edu>, ajay@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Ajay Sreekanth) writes:
>|> I can remember "spay-shel" (for "special"), "noo-cular" (for "nuclear")
>|> and "sa-tistic" (for "statistic"). 

	Actually, isn't it "sadistic" for "satistic"?

	Brian


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

"This isn't one of those RAVE parties, is it?" - Nat'l Park Service
representative while I tried making "camping" reservations. ;-)
From: v089l3s3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeremy B Horwitz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Feeling sorry for Dave..
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:53:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Having just seen the Barbara Walters special, with a rather
melancholy Dave on it, I've started to feel really sorry
for Dave. Here he is, with undoubtably the best show on TV,
and he's (1) besieged by personal questions and (2) obviously
not happy with his life. The guy is 44 years old -- and the
funniest guy on TV - hands down - and he says he's not sure
if he should still be admired by college kids.

Fact: the only time Dave seems "out of touch" is when he's
finished seeing a popular band perform. He always follows with
a "that was neat stuff, kids" type comment -- seems a little
too much like Carson. I think that Paul should be doing the
band intros -- Dave won't show his wear..

-> J
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Racing legend Hal Gurney
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:01:27 GMT

christo@bcarh803.BNR.CA (Mark Christopher) writes:

>Dave is a big racing fan, and always takes the weeky of the Indy 500
>race off to go down to the race.  I think the "racing legend Hal Gurney"
>bit is a reference to _All American Racing_ which is run by DAN Gurney.

It could also be a response to the departure of the guy who looked
like Bobby Rahal.  *Somebody* on the show has to be a racing legend.
-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bilan@netcom.com (Steve Bilan)
Subject: Re: Viewer Mail
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 00:27:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom

sylve_ge@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Gerald Sylvester) writes:
>I never had one but does anyone remember the anniversary special about 4
>years ago when someone asked a question and they went out to the girls
>home.  She wasn't there but they went through her room and then paid
>a visit to her at the store she worked in.  Well I found out about two
>months after that that person was from my hometown.  I actually know
>the really dorky newspaper boy who was also seen in the clip.  


Sheez, was Andy Warhol wrong?  Is that all of the fame that you're going
to get?  Were you cheated out of your full 15 minutes?  :-)




M, BATR..
..Steve Bilan
From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's best "imitation"!
Date: 9 Sep 1992 18:21:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <BuBJ30.1Iy@acsu.buffalo.edu> v089l3s3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
(Jeremy B Horwitz) writes:
>Did anyone see last nite's (9/8) show? Dave did his best
>little imitation yet - something like an Italian clown
>kids' show host. Any idea of where he got this one from -
>or did I miss a previous show where it was used?

He's probably not imitating him, but it always reminds me of
a recently added SNL cast member.  I don't know his name, but
he's thin, of medium height, and has short dark hair.  He's
been on Late Night a couple of times now and has kind of similar
mannerisms.  He did a joke about a friend encouraging him to hit
on a really beautiful girl, saying the worst she can say is no.
Instead he said, she she said something like, "You pathetic wimp,
I'd rather get run over by a bus than go out with you."
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Subject: Re: VIEWER MAIL
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:15:59 GMT

In <1992Sep7.214148.1@vax1.umkc.edu> dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>HELLO LATENIGHTERS....
>I WAS WONDERING IF ANYBODY COULD TELL ME HOW TO SEND LETTERMAN MAIL SO I COULD
>POSSIBLY HAVE IT READ ON TV?

>DAVE

Only if you turn off your caps lock.

--
D. Keith Rice -- University of North Texas -- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman,alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Subject: Re: Why WIZARD was cross-posted to LETTERMAN
Keywords: wizard, Letterman, Jittlov, truth, justice, showbiz
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:58:52 GMT

In article <jittlov.716522532@gumby.cs.caltech.edu> jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:
>Dave personally offered me a "window of opportunity" should I
>ever reconsider the offer to be a guest.
>
>I am now standing in that window.
>The choice is yours.

Take three steps forward.

				--Blair
				  "Don't forget to write."
From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: More foul-mouthed Paul...
Date: 11 Sep 1992 20:01:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

Well not really foul-mouthed:
Letterman was interviewing Maria Conchita Alonza (sp?).  She was looking
particularly sexy that night and they were talking about the music in
the movie she was promoting.  Letterman goes, "I think that's the
musical scoring.  Paul, isn't that called scoring?"  Paul looks at
Maria and says, "That's one definition of scoring."
From: aumentad@aludra.usc.edu (Jesus Hates You)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: L7(?) on Letterman Last Night
Date: 11 Sep 1992 17:40:55 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


oooooh boy.  Judge judge and judge.  "this band sucks"  "OOooh they kicked their drums around...how cliche."  "Man, I used to listen to them before they went top 40"   

you are all sooooooooo aaaaalternative.

BTW L7 got it's name from that hep fifties expression for square folks that can't apreciate variety like the hep cats that got Dinosaur, Sonic Youth, and L7.  Really,  there's only so much of Paul Schaeffer that I can take.  

-joe
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: dmatt@iastate.edu (Daniel I Matt)
Subject: Re: Dave's trips out.
Organization: hardly any
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:14:13 GMT

>Oh, and there's also the time Dave and Paul strapped on their skates
>and did a figure skating routine (well, actually it was two other
>people who did the skating, with closeups of Dave and Paul suitably
>interspersed) :-)  Anyone else remember that?

   Yeah, I'm pretty sure they showed this at the end of the 10th anniversary
special.


Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: gurgle@netcom.com (Pete Gontier)
Subject: Re: WHATS WRONG WITH THE SHOW
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 23:28:57 GMT
Organization: cellular

music@erich.triumf.ca (FRED W. BACH) writes:
>       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.

I believe, my dear Fred, that you are missing the precise point of
such humor. Yes, it sometimes is *exactly* like what a drunk might
do with a TV camera. "That was nooooo accident..."
-- 
 Pete Gontier // EC Technology // gurgle@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: jjm3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Martino)
Subject: Re: Early Dave
Summary: Ed Newman Lunch Boxes, Mrs. Marv, mercury vapor inhalation
Reply-To: jjm3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Joseph Martino)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:58:17 GMT

>>>Okay, let's see who the REAL Dave fans are: who used to watch the
>>>Morning show?  (I did!!)  Who saw the first Late Night with Bill Murray
>>>doing aerobics when it was broadcast??  (I did -- but don't remember
>>>much of it :-()
>[...]

Please allow me to ramble.

Wow The Morning Show.  I've always wanted one of those Edwin Newman
lunchboxes.  I've seen Mrs. Marv everywhere on TV since (Edie McClurgh (spell))
I seem to remember Rich Hall around alot.  Didn't he used to put a bunch of
toy soldiers into an audio speaker cone, turn up the bass, and watch them
dance around?

I recall Dave threw an Anniversary party for an elderly couple and the paper
confetti all over the stage caught on fire and had to be extinguished
while he kept talking.

From the early Late Nights, I miss the great giveaways like Late Night sponges,
and the great physical risks to the audience like inhaling the mercury
vapor from the dozens of fluorescent light bulbs Dave often broke in 
creative ways -- hmmm mercury vapor, "mad as a hatter," Letterman...

--Jeff

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: christo@bcarh803.BNR.CA (Mark Christopher)
Subject: Re: Top Ten Lists
Reply-To: christo@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:55:24 GMT

In article <189cquINNc7i@agate.berkeley.edu>,
ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202) writes:
|>In article <92248.161035IK20001@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IK20001@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
|>(Society for Creative Solipsism) writes:
|>>Um...Dean....  Did you ever...uh...*watch* the credits?
|>>
|>>Carson Productions *owns* Late Night.  They produce it.  Worldwide Pants
|>>may have a lot of leverage rights, but they don't own it.  This is why,
|>>if Dave left, he could not take Late Night with David Letterman with
|>>him.  He *and* Worldwide just don't have the rights.
|>
|>Here's a transcription of the entire credits from last night's show:
...
|>There's no mention of Carson Productions.  One other interesting note,
|>though, is that this is about all they've been showing for the past
|>couple of weeks or more.  The only other credits I've seen are for

I think it has been this way for far longer, but don't know exactly.
I would say a rough guesstimate is a year or more, not a couple of weeks.

|>director and producer.  In the past, at least once a week they'd give
|>the full credits, listing everyone including the band members.  I've
|>been watching waiting to see Barbara Gaines listed with her new
|>"Associate Producer" title Letterman's said a couple of times she
|>now has.  So I'm wondering now if this semi-nonperson status they've
|>given the staff has anything to do with talk of Letterman leaving.

They showed the full credits on Friday.  I counted 97 names!!!

-- 
Mark Christopher        Bell-Northern Research          christo@bnr.ca
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: aardwolf@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Overzealous You)
Subject: Re: "Or, as we say in Indiana,"
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:20:54 GMT

Just one note on Dave's pronounciation:  this is about Mr. Marek's 5th or
6th time on (he was my high school chemistry teacher) and Dave has yet to 
say "Naperville"; he always says "Napierville."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Once out of nature I shall never take        erik swedlund
 My bodily form from any natural thing,       aardwolf@sage.cc.purdue.edu
 But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make   swedlund@feserve.cc.purdue.edu
 Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
 To keep a drowsy Emporer awake;              Just.  Just just.  That's it.
 Or set upon a golden bough to sing
 To lords and ladies of Byzantium
 Of what is past, passing, and to come."
--W.B. Yeats
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel)
Subject: Re: Dave's trips out.
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Just Me
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:29:15 GMT

In article 18u0f7INNmb8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu, bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello) writes:
>
>In a previous article, ccmei@turing.seas.ucla.edu (Carl C. Mei) says:
>
>>One of my favorite parts of the show, other than Viewer Mail, is when
>>[...]
>>Hilarious.  Anyone with your favorites?
>
>My fav is the one where Paul has the hiccups and Dave tries to cure them 
>by the usual methods, for example, setting Paul's legs on fire.  He finally
>throws him out of a high window.  It worked.  You may want to try it the
>next time YOU get hiccups.
>
>"Is they summpin wrong with him?"
>-- 
>Brad Corsello (bsc7@po.cwru.edu) 2L Case Western Reserve Law School
>"The Fanaticks have always had a way of affecting to run into Per-
>secution, and count vast Merit upon every little Hardship they suffer."
>^ J. Swift.  "Factum clarum, jus nebulosum."  Rex v. Haddock.

Dave's hand will occasionally fall asleep and he'll try extraordinary measures to revive
it - hammer, blow torch, slamming in a car door.