HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (D. Keith Rice)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Who should go with Dave?
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:48:10 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas

In <1juhdeINNegs@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:

>Agh!!  Barbara Gaines!  Of course!  ("Stimpy, sometimes your wealth of
>ignorance astounds me."  Sorry, free-association trigger there.)  And the
>phone calls across the country:  "I'm pointing!  I'm pointing!"

>Did anyone besides me notice that until a couple months ago, Barbara's name
>in the full version of the credits was printed like "BARBARAGAINES" for
>years and years?

Yep.

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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: LN Opening Computer Graphics
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:36:09 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.

In article <sdq371g@rpi.edu> monitn@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto) writes:
>amck@rowdy.mcc.com (Alan McKendree) writes:
>
>>This reminds me of a question aked earlier but I never saw an answer
>>-- does anyone know what the Japanese on the kite means?
>
>Didn't someone say that it translated as "GE sucks" or something like that?

  There are 2 distinct messages I have seen.  Both are simply
transliterations, one saying "Late Night," and the other "G.E. Sucks."

  If you want to differentiate them, the "Late Night" is written in a
softer, rounder script.  The "G.E. Sucks" uses a different syllabary
which is much more angular and harsh.  Considering the messages, the
constrast in lettering is a nice detail.


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From: victorm@hpsmeng1.rose.hp.com (Victor Morris)
Subject: Re: Late Night JPEG Image Series is here!
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:34:42 GMT
Reply-To: victorm@hpsmeng1.rose.hp.com
Organization: THE ROOT CAUSE 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Thaddeus H. Wood (pustule@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: 
: All of these images are stored at the LNWDL archive
: at quartz.rutgers.edu in the pub/tv+movies/letterman/images
: directory.  Here is the index file for those pix.
: 
:      Late Night with David Letterman JPEG series!
: -----------------------------------------------------
:  
: Okay.  Here's the info on a fine series of JPEG images 
: cordially brought to you by me, pustule@cats.ucsc.edu.
:  
:  
: ad2.jpg    -- 640x480x256 -- "Ever hit a little boy in the face 
:                               with a knife?"           
:              
: ad3.jpg    -- 640x480x256 -- "Improve efficiency with Apralan
:                               and a FREE castration knife." 
:  
: dave1.jpg  -- 398x305x256 -- Our pal Dave, smiling upon entrance 
:                              to stage, telling monologue.
:  
: dave2.jpg  -- 569x454x256 -- Similar to dave1.gif, only different.
:  
: dave3.jpg  -- 640x480x256 -- Dave sitting at his desk, holding cards, 
:                              and barring his teeth.
:  
: dave4.jpg  -- 640x480x256 -- Here's the happy smiling Dave, sitting at 
:                              his desk.  The man we all know and love.
:  
: dave5.jpg  -- 419x336x256 -- Evil, maniacal, grinning head of Dave,
:                              whilst telling monologue.
:  
: paul1.jpg  -- 640x480x256 -- Paul with mouth on mic, speaking to Dave,
:                              right hand poised elegantly.
:  
: paul2.jpg  -- 197x296x256 -- A between scenes fade with BIG Paul
:                              appearing to eat little Paul's head.
:  
: tilly1.jpg -- 640x480x256 -- Dave sitting, hands clasped in his lap,
:                              looking at Jennifer Tilly, as she laughs.
:  
: tilly2.jpg -- 491x473x256 -- Jennifer Tilly, holding beverage in both
:                              hands, whilst laughing/smiling.
:  
: tilly3.jpg -- 638x475x256 -- One of the few _sedate_looking pictures
:                              of Jennifer Tilly.
:  
: tilly4.jpg -- 453x476x256 -- Mischievious looking Jennifer Tilly, with
:                              a wee bit of cleavage showing.
:  
:  
: All of these pictures, with the exception of dave5.gif,
: are from the January 19th, 1993 broadcast of Late Night
: with David Letterman.  
: 
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Thad,


How about posting some of these files here, like they do in
alt.binaries.pictures.*.*.* (et all)???




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From: cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Lisa and Leenda??
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:25:28 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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Who are those people????? Could  someone scan a gif or something of
Lisa or Leenda, so I know know who is being talked about.  I feel left
out... I know who is Crispin Glover, and Jennifer are, but not L&L!


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From: jca@hpbabybnr.ca (Jim C. Austin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Late Night Blimp
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:34:31 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research @ RTP, NC

Hey - has anyone else notices the opening sequence lately?  As the late
night blimp passes by into view, you see the identification numbers on the
tail fin LN - 693.  Now that we know Dave's last show and contract
expiration is June '93, could there be some significance to the tail fin
numbers, or merely a coincidence?  I believe they have been using that
opening sequence for quite some time.  Maybe they were dropping us a hint
all this time and we just didnt catch it?

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From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Carvey
Date: 22 Jan 1993 07:22:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan19.223225.12154@speedy.aero.org> mrb@mickey.aero.org (Mike Bacigalupi) writes:
>You're correct, though, in that he has nothing going for him but his (sometimes
>really funny) characterizations.  I can't stand him being interviewed or doing
>stand-up.  He constantly jumps into characters just to remind you "I'm the guy who
>does Bush!" or "I'm Garth!".  He laughs at his own bits too much.  He's just
>generally too happy with his act for my taste.

Well I still get a kick out of the Costas' interview where Carvey did an
impression of Katherine Hepburn trying to start her car.

What would be great would be to get Carvey and Martin Short on at the same
time and have them do dueling Hepburns like the old SNL skit, "Dueling
Brandos."
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: $12.99 Phone Ad
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:11:03 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl

The other night, Letterman showed some weird ads.  One was a telephone 
advertised for "$12.99, down from $12.99!".

Anyone else notice it was a G.E. telephone?  When displaying the ad, 
Letterman had his thumb over the logo, but you could still see enough of it 
to recognize it.  I don't know if that was deliberate, or just the way he 
held it (I mean, he had to hold it by some part).

I'm amazed he passed up a chance at another G.E. joke (even though it wasn't 
their ad, it was that of a store).

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
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From: pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Subject: Re: Jennifer Tilly
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:53:30 GMT

marty@Shiva.COM (Marty Del Vecchio) writes:

>I remember when Dave & Paul had a little reminiscing segment years ago--they
>reminisced about how awful it is when guests come on but don't want to talk
>about the obvious things.  They had a staffer introduced as the guy who eats
>cars.  The conversation went something like this:

>Dave:  So, you really eat cars?
...
>Guest: ...I don't want to talk about the cars...

I think this was a pretty obvious take on the Shirley McClaine interview.
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From: tiverson@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Thor Iverson)
Subject: Re: Carvey
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:42:43 GMT

In article <1jo7av$ge@agate.berkeley.edu> ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202) writes:

>What would be great would be to get Carvey and Martin Short on at the same
>time and have them do dueling Hepburns like the old SNL skit, "Dueling
>Brandos."

Who was it on SNL that used to do Bobby and Jack Kennedy?  I remember
dissolving into hysterics every time they would start that "the-ah the-ah
the-ah the-ah" thing in unison...

Thor


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From: ggreenbe@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Leeeeeeen-da ...?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 07:30:38 GMT

quist@wumbus.sim.es.com (Douglas Quist) writes:

>In article <1993Jan17.163041.5051@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman) writes:
>|> Adam Lawrence Salter <adam@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>|> 
>|> > Who else could he be referring to but "Leeeen-da". 
>|> 
>|> Remember that one TV show on NBC a few months ago, where Kathy Ireland
>|> dressed up in some leaves, and played a native woman? And she pointed to
>|> herself and said, "LEEEEEEEDA"... hah, Dave even showed the film clip
>|> on his show..

I saw that Dave show where he showed the clip and Leeeeeenda has been
one of my favorite lines lately.  But, in Dave's book of top ten lists
romuan numeral two he talkes of his wife Linda in the intro.  He must
be fascinated with the name!

A
.
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From: steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Worldwide Pants?
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:29:30 GMT
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering

spinaa@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson) writes:

>If you've ever seen the A&E reruns of Dave, you probably have seen the intro
>for "Worldwide Pants". On the first-run episodes, there is a credit for
>the company at the end of the show.

>So, is this a real company? What do they have to do with GE or the show?

One would think it is Letterman's own production company, knowing his
obsession with pants and all (I'm not wearing pants, etc.).  Then again,
I understand that NBC made the A&E deal with Dave's authorization (one of
the reasons he's going to CBS), so I don't know how his production company
got credit.
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From: gstilphe@apollo.mcl.bdm.com (Gerald E. Stilphen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Re:Kids in the Hall on NBC
Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:10:55 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo.mcl.bdm.com
Keywords: CBC, HBO

The Kids in the Hall start Brand New shows in February in the
Fiday Night at 12:30 slot on CBS.  I got my info straight from the
source when The Kids where guests on Short Attention Span Theatre
on Comedy Central.  Comedy Central has been running a contest
to win a trip to Toronto with the Kids and they keep advertising that
you can catch them on Comedy Central (@9:30pm M-F) or see them on
CBS.  I really enjoy The Kids in the Hall.

Gerald E. Stilphen
From: gfn@air.atmo.arizona.edu (Bwana Greg Nessinger)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Paul's Classic line...........
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:02:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Atmospheric Physics



        It's Alright...........I'm a celebrity!!

    

   1/23/93
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
Subject: Re: Benefits of Dave at 11:30
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:50:55 GMT

jca@hpbabybnr.ca (Jim C. Austin) writes:

>Another benefit will be actually starting at 11:30.  Leno's show
>starts at 11:35 due to longer local news.  Dave could really put this
>5 minutes to good use, and maybe would attract a lot of Leno's viewers
>to switch.  Once you start watching a good show, you tend to stay with it.


Excellent point.  I'll bet for sure that NBC goes back to starting at
11:30 this summer.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: gopher@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz)
Subject: Re: Benefits of Dave at 11:30
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:03:48 GMT

In article <1jje0iINN8me@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:
>
>tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry) writes:
>
>>I just realized! When Dave goes to 11:30 instead of 12:30 I'll only
>>need to program *one* event to record him all week instead of two.
>
>I think you've been using up one event unneccesarily all these years.
>Every VCR I've ever seen does not care whether the program crosses a
>day-border.

But in Tad's case, LNWDL is on at 12:30 am Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, or more commonly 12:30 "Monday night", "Tuesday night",
"Wednesday night", "Thursday night", and "Friday night".


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From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (D. Keith Rice)
Subject: Re: Thanks! (or No 50s DL Show)
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:04:12 GMT

In <1993Jan27.192849.4156@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890288@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:

>....let me tell you a little story about Barbara Gaines.....
>You see, I go to Brandeis University and naturally there are a lot of people
>from New York who go here (its a Jewish University...you figure it out) soo..
>one of my friends last year had an internship on the one and only "Late Nite"
>she was a gopher of sorts...and worked very closely with Barbara Gaines (am I
>even spelling her name right?) One day, Ayalla (my friend) was sent to pick
>up a photograph for Barbara Gaines that she had framed at some ritzy N.Y.
>store.  When she went in with the receipt, the clerk unwrapped the photo and
>showed Ayalla to make sure that that was the correct one...It was a photo
>of Barbara and her female lover in a bath tub together!  The photograph was a
>gift.  ....needless to say, Ayalla was quite embarrassed when she delivered
>the picture back to BARBARAGAINES.

Awww, geez!  Say it ain't so!

Keith

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From: ck049@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter S. McPhee)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Stagehands
Date: 23 Jan 1993 08:10:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ck049@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter S. McPhee)
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In a previous article, wdavid@sinkhole.unf.edu (Bill David) says:

>
>Re: the move: if you folks could pick one staffer to go with Dave, who
>would it be? (Stagehands and crew; not counting people
>like Hal Gurtner.) My vote goes to Biff. I'd *really* miss Biff 
>Henderson's Golf Cart Of Death, Count Biffula, and the rest. 
  I would also miss Biff, because of stagehand theater. I don't think he'll
go though. I saw his name in the credits of NFL Live as stage manager or
something like that, and actually saw him on camera once when they were
changing shots. I have absolutely no idea how much he makes for either
show, or if he does any others for NBC, but my hunch is he won't go.
  I definately wouldn't miss Larry 'Bud' Melman. The segments with him are
as close to boring as Late Night gets.
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From: mgoldbrg@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mark Goldberg)
Subject: Re: TEST PATTERNS /// Was: Re: Carvey
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:07:20 GMT

In article <sfLLcg200WB_M427ZH@andrew.cmu.edu> Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku <JoeKu+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.alt.fan.letterman: 19-Jan-93 TEST PATTERNS ///
>Was: Re: .. by Marshal A. Perlman@nyx.c 
>> What was the deal with that any how.. when did they stop? When I was little,
>> (not to long ago), I remember TV stations going bye bye at 2 am or so...
>> what made them change their mind?
>
>I think that "info-mercials" came along and ruined everything...
>
>Don't they know that we won't really want psychic friends???
>
>-jk

Aww, come on,  when there's nothin' to do at 3am, what else better than to
turn on to your favorite episode of Amazing Discoveries, of better yet, Blue
Blockers!!!!


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From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave/Steve Allen parallel
Date: 24 Jan 1993 16:14:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds) writes:

>I never heard of
>Aaron and Lisa

You won't have much more occasion to, as it'll forthwith be Aaron and a
draftee to be named later.  But anywho, they did World News Now, a
three-hour overnight news show on ABC.  And a danged funny one at that.
Plus, Lisa was a pure BABE.  AND smart.  *sigh*
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From: au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Dave's 50s Show????
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:02:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn)
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I'm confused! I thought Dave was in his forties. If so, how could he
have had his own show in the 50s? Did you mean 60s, or was he
a child comedy-show host wonder?

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Date: Thursday, 28 Jan 1993 00:04:26 MST
From: Eric Davis <ICEND@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's e-mail address?

In article <106679@netnews.upenn.edu>, jagulnek@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeremy S
Agulnek) says:
>
>        Does anyone know if Dave has an e-mail address?  If so, could you
>please send me a copy.
>
>

Dave with an e-mail address?!?!  He can't even dial a phone, much less figure
out e-mail!
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From: baskew@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Schrodinger's Cat)
Subject: Re: Buttafuoco 
Organization: None.  Have you seen my desk lately?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:19:27 GMT

In article <8fMnsPi00WBNI4YMFI@andrew.cmu.edu> Jeffrey David Bricker 
<jbcf+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>ButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuoc
>o
>ButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuocoButtafuoc
>o
[etc.]

"But his heart says 'Buttafuoco'..." -- Dave 

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From: veatch@cs.toronto.edu (Timothy R Veatch)
Subject: Re: Leeeeeeen-da ...?
Organization: Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: 21 Jan 93 22:58:06 GMT

etbeteille@happy.colorado.edu writes:

>As an avid viewer of the Letterman Comedy Cavalcade since
>the late '50s, I am ashamed to admit I have no idea where
>this "Leeeen-da" bit started.  To whom is he referring?

For the same reason Dave keeps calling Bill's wife Valerie...
From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Carvey
Date: 24 Jan 1993 15:48:25 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


au500@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda Zinn) writes:

>>  -- Dave's Top 10 Contributions To American Culture:

>>     9. Street Theatre (ringing pay-phones, Meg)

>Obviously the writer of the TIME article was too young to have seen
>the Steve Allen Show. Steve did all sorts of zany man-on-the-street
>stunts. In fact, it seems I once read an interview in which Dave
>said that Steverino was one of his all-time comedy heroes, and
>that he modeled much of his show after Steve's old show. Anyone
>else remember his saying that?

I saw an episode of Later with Bob Costas in which the guest was Steve
Allen, and they brought up this very subject, i.e. that things people now
call "Lettermanesque" are really "Allenesque".  Steve said that Dave is
always quick to acknowledge this connection and that he always watched The
Tonight Show with Steve Allen when he was a kid, etc.  The cool part was
that they showed clips from Steve Allen's days on The Tonight Show, and it
really was exactly like Letterman's stuff:  "the suit of teabags", where
they made tea in a huge tank by dipping Steve in while dressed in a suit
covered with teabags, an audience piefight, and so on, along with clips of
stuff of Dav'e like the suit of velcro, the suit of alka-seltzer, etc.

Letterman:  continuing the grand tradition of goofy stuff on TV!
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