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From: seanmei@ocf.berkeley.edu (Sean Mei)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's best "imitation"!
Date: 9 Sep 1992 20:31:38 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu


Dave's imitation of a male Chippendale's dancer:

"Where'th Rick?" (said in a sissy voice)
From: amck@mcc.com (Alan McKendree)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's Faves (guests)
Date: 8 Sep 1992 21:58:36 GMT
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX

In article <1992Sep7.030550.25756@news.iastate.edu> dmatt@iastate.edu (Daniel I Matt) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.012033.24554@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (scooby dooby doo) writes:
>>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)
>
>   Don't forget Connie Chung!
>
>


Elle MacPherson.  Not only is she a leggy supermodel, but she has a
brain powering all that beauty, and Dave gets along well with her.
Did anyone notice earlier this year, when she stayed on to co-host
through the show: when the show was over, dave stroked her shoulders
once as he left the set, while she was still in the guest chair?
Mmmm...I still tingle thinking about that one.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: kachun@spot.Colorado.EDU (Ka Chun Yu)
Subject: Re: Stupid pet tricks
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:17:35 GMT

ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202) writes:

>In article <1992Sep7.174735.487@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> kachun@spot.Colorado.EDU
>(Ka Chun Yu) writes:
>>How about the recent one with the dog that took the earings out of its owner's
>>ear with its mouth?  That one really made me cringe.  Another good one that
>>night was the dog that went shopping and bought its "favorite" beer.

>Hey, how 'bout Air Major, the flying dog.  It would run up the guy's
>back, leap from his shoulders, and catch a frisbee in mid air.

>Or the dogs that herded a bunch of sheep into an elevator.

Forgot about this one.  But that segment was bested by the sequel in the
recent anniversary show when the dogs herded sheep down the auditorium and
into a waiting taxi cab.


-- 
*Ka Chun Yu                 * "Deputy dog dog a ding dang depa depa deputy     *
*kachun@spot.Colorado.EDU   *  dog dog a ding dang depa depa . . ."            *
*                           *                         --"Don't Let's Start"    *
From: veatch@cs.toronto.edu ("Timothy R. Veatch")
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: We hafta go to a commercial, ladies and gentlemen...
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:28:02 GMT
Reply-To: veatch@cs.toronto.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

When did Dave start that pound-on-the-desk-with-both-hands-as-
-we-go-to-a-commercial thing?

I didn't watch Letterman for 2 years there when I couldn't
get NBC.  Seems like he didn't always do it.

Also, didn't Dennis Miller start to do the same thing (along with
Dave), then catch himself and stop when he was a guest recently?

-- 
                                             Tim
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: Dave's Behavior With Interesting Guests
Summary: He he HEE 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 23:24:38 GMT

In article <BtzDIz.Fq5@me.utoronto.ca> steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman) writes:
>Dave is smart enough to know that *most* of his audience likes it when he
>messes with the guests.  The best shows are when things go awry, something

Exactly.  Dave doesn't have those guests on the show so the audience can
learn anything.  At least not usually.  Late Night is a comedy show, first
and foremost.  Moreover, it's Dave's show - he's the star, he's in charge,
and (I think) rightly so.  He's a professional and demonstrably knows how to
please an audience (or at least, HIS audience), or he wouldn't have been on
the air for so long.

>Carson forgot about years ago.  Granted, he sometimes goes a little too
>far, but that's his style -- to beat a joke absolutely to death.

That's one of the most amazing things about him - he's got to be the only
man on the planet who can be standing in front of a crowd, say a joke, watch
it fall flat, then repeat it _verbatim_ and watch the audience go wild.  Any
standup comedian would pay good money to learn THAT secret...

.                            <<<<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 |
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From: v070r6vw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David C Valenzuela)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Favorite Bits
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:07:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I have to say that there  are sevral things that make me laugh every time
I think of them...

	One was a stupid human trick where this bald man comes out with
	2 cans of beer and 2 mugs. He tells Dave he can pour them into the
	mugs without using his hands. He opens them up, pours some on his 
	hands and rubs his bald head. He then takes the cans and sticks them
	to his head and creates a suction that will keep them there. He then
	lines up the mugs and pours the beer by bending at  the waist. I was
	in hysterics. I woke up my entire house because i was laughing so hard.

The other one was a long time ago. It dealt with this guy XXXXX Starr. I forget
his first name. But what he would do was swallow things and regurgitate them 
back up. He would swallow an item and then roll his stomach and pat it as if
he were mixing it. Dave went wild. He yells at the guy "Stop that! You arent
doing anything!". It  was hysterical to see Dave's reactions to this very
unique individual...Anyone remember this guest  besides me? He was an orphan
in Scotland or something and thats how he learned to swallow things and bring
them back up...he'd swallow money to hide it, or something like that?

I often find myself repeating his lines in conversations...

I always use:
	You know everyone enjoys a cool beverage (or whatever the line is)
	I'm HYP-MO-TIZED!
	I'm MES-MO-NIZED!	

Some of my favorite outting were the ones where he took people he worked with
and their pets to a pet psychiatrist or psychic or something. And when they
went to The Gap.

My favorite bits are things like:
	"May we see your photos please?"
	"Viewer Mail"
	The bit where he would call for the wether across the country...
	The football challenges with XXXX Connelly, the woman, whats her name
		and it was great when Phil Simms was on against her...
	"Top Ten Lists"

Just some of my favorites...

					Dave the Ultimate Dave Fan
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: WHATS WRONG WITH THE SHOW
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:58:54 GMT

ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202) writes:

>If you liked the music way better on Carson with Doc, then you are
>simply not of the culture that likes Letterman.  Your taste in music
>probably matured 30 or 40 years ago and has remained there, rejecting
>and/or ignoring anything different that has come since.  I'd guess
>you've effectively tuned out a generation's worth of pop culture.

Uh, frankly, I don't think The World's Most Dangerous Band is that
terrific either.  Did you ever hear the album they did?  Ulch.

The music on the Leno Tonight Show, with Branford Marsalis and 
company, is far better than Doc's band or Paul's.  That's about
the only thing the show has going for it.
-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: boenne@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert C. Boenne)
Subject: Don't 'cha think...
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:53:27 GMT

Don't 'ya think that letterman should be let in on the fact that there is 
a newsgroup in his honor?

BTW, why does it say: 

This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire
civilized world.  Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So, are we to imply that if you don't have access to internet/bitnet/etc. you
do not live anywhere in the civilized world?

	Robert

-- 
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life
you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: Fave Dave Quotes
Summary: "I'm like that too..." (you have to have seen it) 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 06:07:18 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.150923.8183@news.acns.nwu.edu> myboy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Lewis Murtaugh) writes:
>Does anybody out there have favorite quotes from Dave?  My favorites include:
>
>	The immortal beverage quote (if you have to ask, you ain't a fan)
>
>	"Them bats is smart."  Paul: "How's that?"   Well, uh, they use
>	radar."

My favorite:

"I just love autum in New York... watching the birds change color and fall
from the trees..."

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

(and "I'm like that too" but that's extremely context dependant...)
(extremely)

--
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|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 |
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From: v070r6vw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David C Valenzuela)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: More Favorite Bits
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:22:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	The one thing that I really loved was done twice actually. Dave
	takes a camera to a sporting arena and allows the athletes to wreck 
	it. I remember him taking it to Shea Stadium and allowing Doc Gooden
	to pitch fastballs into it, and taking it to MSG for Brian Leetch
	and Mark Messier's slapshots. That was so funny. It was a goofy
	premise, but it was great!

Besides the Crispin Glover incident which killed me, the other guests that
Dave has a hard time with that I loved was when Mickey Rooney came on. He
was sucking down some serious booze before hand it appeared. He was really
off the wall and the way he held on to Dave's arm and leaned in close killed
me. Dave's expressions were excellent.

The other guest that I love to see come on is Richard Simmons...Dave and he
go at it like madmen. The way Richard goes on about Dave appearing in
Sweatin' to the Oldies is hysterical. And Dave's one-liners about the shorts
he wears and the way he sits in them is great...overall one of Dave's most 
amusing interviews...

					Dave
From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: L7(?) on Letterman Last Night
Date: 14 Sep 1992 17:20:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep12.005042.25583@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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 don't remember the Ramones, but I do remember the Bangles.  Anton
may've even had to help their drummer with the Top 10 List drum roll.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: krm3611@sigma.tamu.edu (Ken McWatters)
Subject: Re: Favorite things...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:20:00 GMT

How about the show where they dubbed in different voices for the dialogue
during the entire show?   I saw it a few years ago when it was a rerun, so I 
don't know if it was originally aired this way.  The guy that was dubbed in for
Dave had a kind of goofy voice.

Ken
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: Re: Letterman can sometimes be a dick
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:48:52 GMT

ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202) writes:

>They were doing "Brush with Greatness" or something like it and
>Letterman was talking to a girl named Kelly Robin Wilcoxsin.  For
>some reason he got hooked on the name and spent a good part of
>the rest of the show repeating it, making fun of it (for some
>reason he thought it was something a pirate would say), and just
>going on and on.  This is when Paul and the band need to step in,
>wrestle Letterman to the ground, and knock some sense into him.

This is your idea of being a dick?  I saw that show and I 
didn't think Ms. Wilcoxsin was offended.  If Dave wants to make fun of
my name for a while on national TV, he's more than welcome to.

-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"
From: mouser@cs.umd.edu (David Eccleston)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Sonic Youth
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:19:57 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742


   I was under the impression that while the Sonic Youth guys were wrestling
around, they snagged a cable and pulled the keyboard off the desk.  I have
it on tape, and watched it over a couple times, and I couldn't decide for
sure if it was on purpose or not.  I also got the impression from the ensuing
dialogue that Paul really didn't like them very much.

Mouser
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman,alt.sex.bestiality
From: schwae@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Eric A. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Speaking of animals... (Re: Dave- a ninny among animals...)
Keywords: dave and aniumals...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:01:22 GMT

In article <aldavi01.716245659@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> aldavi01@romulus.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) writes:
>In <pp4yxrp@rpi.edu> schwae@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Eric A. Schwartz) writes:
>
>> I wonder how often its done on the holodeck.  They do make a lot of
>> interspecies relationship references on ST:TNG, and it only makes 
>> sense that if you are looking for intelligent life in space that you
>> have acknowledged that which is still here on earth.
>
>Naw.  The only "other races" on Trek (except for the occasional
>sentient silicon matrices, etc...) are just humans with bumpy faces.
>
I'm sure there are others, but they are too alien to be able to live
abord a spaceship designed for humans.  I mean, could you imagine some
8' diameter gelatinous sentient mass oozing down the corridors, or 
accidentally walking into the living quarters of something that breathes
methane or ammonia?  And from the perspective of the tiny sentient life-
forms, it wouldn't be very safe to be underfoot of the large clumsy humans.

>It's one of my gripes with the show.
>
Personally, I wish they would have some alien otters or seals.  I think
that would be really an attractive species.

>Maybe if they DID get around to creating some Really Different species,
>and considering Ryker's propensity for boinking every third warm body,
>we might see something REALLY new!  :)
>
Riker is an ass.  I mean, how many times has his screwing around compromised
the security of Starfleet?  He was the one to get that optical hypnosis
device on board, he very nearly let that alien cook kill the Gatherer leader,
he risked a major incident to try to save that hermaphrodite (which, while
itself isn't a bad thing, was done for the wrong motives, IMHO).  THe 
only time I can remember him not being willing to trade Starfleet secrets
for a chance to dip his wick somewhere new was when that nurse wanted to 
sleep with him in exchange for helping him escape that hospital where he
was being held as a spy.  I'd personally love to see him screw something
with teeth in its reproductive tract.  >-)  

>> E.S. 
(yet again)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Stupid HUMAN Tricks
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:36:50 GMT

presto@chopin.udel.edu (Jason Y Nocks) writes:

>If you don't know what I'm talking about, it was Dave wearing a velcro suit and
>jumping and sticking to a fuzzy wall (or was Dave wearing the fuzz?).

Since then, velcro-jumping has actually become something of a fad.
There are competitions, probably with wagering.

I think the term "Velcro" refers to both the little hooks and the fuzz.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Favorite Bits
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:35:09 GMT
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Just Me

In article H95@nntp-sc.Intel.COM, bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.011741.1849@colorado.edu> rpb@noaacrd.colorado.edu (Robert Baptist) writes:
>>In article <BuAC2B.MJw@me.utoronto.ca> steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman) writes:
>>>drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes:
>>>>Several weeks ago I saw a stupid human trick where a guy snorted a raw oyster
>>>>up his nose and spit it out his mouth.  Classic!
>>>
>>>I read somewhere that there was more to this trick than what was shown.
>>
>>   Yes, his friend and sidekick would then eat it.  It was nixed by Dave
>
>It's a variation on a bit done once on The Gong Show.
>
>Four guys, ostensibly members of some So. Cal. college's
>wrestling team, came on with a toothbrush and a glass of
>water.  Each in turn brushed his teeth with the toothbrush,
>gargling the water and spitting back into the glass, and
>the fourth guy drank it.
>
>Like I said, Letterman's about as creative as a manhole cover.
>
>				--Blair
>				  "You really are an asshole."
>				  -Cher, more lucid than usual.


Perhaps you were mislead by the title of this forum - alt.FAN.letterman?
Go watch Oprah.
From: jpurlia@qualcomm.com (John Purlia)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: ...spying into the camera
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:23:06 GMT
Followup-To: alt.fan.letterman
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.


H... H... Heeey, keeeeds...

...........................................................................
John Purlia          : My brain; not my company's brain.  My brain says...
jpurlia@qualcomm.com : "The Toolbox giveth, and the Tech Notes taketh away"
...........................................................................
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bryanh@dseg.ti.com (Bryan Hazel 575-5102)
Subject: Dave's Squeezes Was Re: Feeling sorry for Dave..
Reply-To: bryanh@dseg.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:09:46 GMT

In article 716234289@xenon.lcs.mit.edu, hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh) writes:
>mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
>
>>In <hersh.716152061@xenon.lcs.mit.edu> hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh) writes:
>
>>>>Actually, in this case I think he was being more sincere.  Concrete Blonde
>>>>has been on Late Night a couple of times and Letterman seemed to really
>>>>take a fancy to them.
>
>>>Hey is Dave married?? I noticed it seems he really had the hots for the
>>>chick in Concrete Blond. Then again he has also seemed to have the hots for
>>>a number of sexy model types on the show (both known and unknown) and
>>>has appeared to come on to some of them. So is this an act, or is Dave
>>>hard up??
>
>>When Dennis and Dave were talking about this, I'm sure Dave said
>>something like "I used to be engaged to her," <her> meaning the lead
>>singer from Concrete Blond.
>
>
>He's said that about her a few times since they were first on the show.
>I am pretty sure this was a joke....
>
>	JaH
>--
>Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalts

Uh, Uh - try Marilou Henner, Phoebe Cates, Connie Chung, and that skinny loud-mouth
girl whose name escapes me.
From: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Dave's trips out.
Date: 13 Sep 1992 00:02:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bsc7@po.CWRU.Edu (Bradley S. Corsello)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


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.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Subject: Re: Favorite Bits
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:56:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.011741.1849@colorado.edu> rpb@noaacrd.colorado.edu (Robert Baptist) writes:
>In article <BuAC2B.MJw@me.utoronto.ca> steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman) writes:
>>drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes:
>>>Several weeks ago I saw a stupid human trick where a guy snorted a raw oyster
>>>up his nose and spit it out his mouth.  Classic!
>>
>>I read somewhere that there was more to this trick than what was shown.
>
>   Yes, his friend and sidekick would then eat it.  It was nixed by Dave

It's a variation on a bit done once on The Gong Show.

Four guys, ostensibly members of some So. Cal. college's
wrestling team, came on with a toothbrush and a glass of
water.  Each in turn brushed his teeth with the toothbrush,
gargling the water and spitting back into the glass, and
the fourth guy drank it.

Like I said, Letterman's about as creative as a manhole cover.

				--Blair
				  "You really are an asshole."
				  -Cher, more lucid than usual.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: andylee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Andy Lee)
Subject: Re: HGNTK
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 05:02:57 GMT

dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>
>I want to know if anyone can figure out what this means....
>HGNTK....
>
>Hint: it does have something to do with Letterman.
>

Answer:

HGNTK = Hal Gurnie's Network Time Killer

-- 
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From: sclever@nmt.edu (Shawn Clever)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Fearless?? Dave??
Date: 6 Sep 92 04:40:23 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Tech


Yep, I believe he intimidates some of the animals and then reacts all 
nervous to heighten the experience.  If you look at him in other 
episodes, when he is dealing with real danger, he shows little fear.

For example, the time he was almost hit by the locomotive that was crashing
into the crap left on the track.  It missed him by inches.  

I wonder how his insurance company dealt with that??

Shawn Clever