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From: goldek@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Kenneth Mitchell Goldenberg)
Subject: Joel Grey Episode: Weird Voices
Organization: RPI--bite the bullet
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:17:44 GMT

I was watching the Muppet Show Sunday (ala TNT) and I noticed that a number
of voices--most specifically Fozzie and Gonzo--sounded off.  I couldn't
quite explain why, but they just seemed wrong.

I thought that Frank Oz was responsible for both of them, and if so does
anyone know if he was sick that day or som'n?   


Just Curious

                             -Mitch


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From: gjmg6749@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Geoffrey J Maxson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: PS -- working on a faq
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:10:28 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

dhaug@willamette.edu (Dagny Haug) writes:

>What I really want to know is - What are the rest of the lyrics to the
>"Capital I" song from Sesame Street? It's been bugging me for months!

>We all live in a capital I
>In the middle of the desert underneath the great big sky
>And all day long we polish our I...
>(This is where I blank out -)
>Capital I, Capital I
>Capital I, Capital I

I believe it ends:
    And when we're through with the day's only chore,
    We climb into out I and we close the door.
Capital I, Capital I
Capital I, Capital I

And, I know, I know, this is a "muppets" group, but, while we're on the
subject of groovy hippie letter-music,  remember the lower-case n
who was alone until a rocket ship came down with another lower-case n, so
he wasn't lonely anymore, and they ended it with lots of flowers and rainbows
and animals, with this pair of lower-case n's on a hill...
How does THAT song go?

geoff
From: norm@wpi.WPI.EDU (Michael A Ferraris)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Disney's evil takeover
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:27:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.NORM.92Apr6112721
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280

>>>>> On 3 Apr 92 18:35:33 GMT, dhaug@willamette.edu (Dagny Haug) said:


dhaug> Just out of curiousity - has anyone seen the new Muppets
dhaug> exhibit at Disneyland? I'd love to hear how they've done in
dhaug> preserving genre purity. Any comments?

dhaug> -Dagny


I was there this past summer and the best part of the Muppet exhibit
was the three dimensional movie.  It was exactly like an episode of
the Muppet show!!!

Before you went into either exhibit (there was a live show with people
dressed up also) there were TV screens with the muppets entertaining
you while you waited.  Jim Henson had finished the soundtracks to
these shows just before his death.  

If anyone wants any more info on these exhibits, just post and I'll
tell you.

Mike "I like Fozzie" Ferraris
From: walrus@bessel.umd.edu (Grig Larson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: money
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:32:59 GMT
Organization: Punk Walrus Enterprises, Inc.

In article <penglish.4@pvec.bridgewater.ns.ca> penglish@pvec.bridgewater.ns.ca (Patricia English) writes:
>How can Bert and Ernie afford their own apartment?


Since I think they are both retarted, I think it is welfare.
 


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From: davina@ocf.berkeley.edu (Davina Tung)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Sesame Street Book
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:58:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.scsl1INN6ss
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: monsoon.berkeley.edu

Does anyone remember a Sesame Street Scratch'n'Sniff Sticker book from--oh,
maybe late 70's - early 80's?  I remember having it as a kid, but I can't find
it now and I don't remember the title.  Featured smells included: Big Bird'
birdseed pie; a slice of pizza; a pickle, courtesy of Oscar the Grouch.
From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Muppet show Guests
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:10:39 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation

>>>>>Some years ago some friends and I were trying to compile a list of all
>>>>>the people who had ever been guest hosts on the Muppet Show, and what an  
>>>>>impressive list it was. Any input here? I remember John Cleese, Carrie  
>>>>>Fisher, Mark Hamill, certainly John Denver, maybe Liza Minelli. Anyone  
>>>>>else?
>>>>Other guests on the Muppet Show were Alice Cooper, Debbie Harry, Vincent
>>>>Price, Leo Sayer, Steppenwolf, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, and Carol
>>>>Burnett.
>>>Phyllis George, Paul Williams, Milton Berle, Linda Lavin, Rita Moreno,  
>>>Gilda Radner, Buddy Rich, Dolly Parton, Joel Grey, Christopher Reeve,  
>>>Shields & Yarnell, Danny Kaye, Linda Carter, Rich Little, Maureen  
>>>Stapleton, Roger Moore, Johnathan Winters, the 'tough guy' that starred in  
>>>"Our Man Flint" and "In Like Flint" {I remember the last sketch of the  
>>>show he was in where, he & Animal were playing Kabuki music and then  
>>>destroyed the set}, Jim Nabors, Marvin Hamlish<sic> 
>>>POSSIBLY...:
>>>Leonard Nimoy, Tony Randall, J.P. Morgan, Sammy Davis Jr. 
>
>>I definitely remember Tony Randall!!
>>I also have a pretty good recollection of 
>>Sylvester Stallone hosting about the time that
>>the first Rocky came out...
>
>Loreta Swit from mash, I remember her on vertrinarian's hospital more
>or less as hotlips.
tough guy=charles(?) coburn
also: brooke shields (she was awful, as I recall), alan arkin, Mummenschanz
maybe: robin williams 
I'll have to check my muppet show fan club newsletters (if I still have them)
they listed the guest stars.
-- 
"Good Idea, Boss."	- Homer Simpson
From: v115qha3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Donald R Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: snuffy
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:11:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I love Mr. Snuffleupagus
I also like his snufflepuppet. what is its name again..e-mail
answer please.......-Don at UB
From: rk3h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert J. Knapp)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: More Muppet Stuff
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:27:24 GMT
	<1992Apr12.070451.14926@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
	<Qdu_8EK00Uh_M3JVIm@andrew.cmu.edu>
Distribution: na
Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Does anyone remember a Grover finger puppet? It was a little plastic
Grover shaped thing you put on your finger and could make bob up and
down....

I also seem to remeber a Fozzie puppet from my youth...
Rob "Money is not our God" Knapp

Jerry Brown in '92!!!!!!!!!!!!

LEGALIZE
[MNIBG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
"Life is something to be experinced through the eyes of a child."
                   			-Me
From: verbum@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Neal Whitman)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: PS -- working on a faq
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:15:57 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

>>What I really want to know is - What are the rest of the lyrics to the
>>"Capital I" song from Sesame Street? It's been bugging me for months!
>>
>We all live in a Capital I
>In the middle of the desert, in the center of the sky
>And all day long we polish up the I,
>Rubbing it here, scrubbing it there...
>
>And that's where my batteries give out!  I do remember the "Capital I,
>Capital I" line; they repeat that as the cartoon fades out, right?
>
That sounds about right for the first verse, although it may be that
you've run together the front of one verse and the last of a subsequent
one; I can't be sure.  After the "rubbing" line, however, comes
"Polishing the I, so high in the air."  The last verse goes:

"And when we're through, we [hum hum hum],
and we go inside the I, and we close the door.
Capital I, capital I ..... "

-verbum

Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: jsw21124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph S. Walker)
Subject: Bert + Ernie Video
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 19:49:38 GMT

The other day while browsing around a Toys Backwards R Us store, I came
across a "Best of Bert and Ernie" video, apparently one of several in
a series of Seseme Street videos.  Now, I happen to think that Bert and 
Ernie are one of the great comedy teams of all time, and I would love to
own a copy of their best bits.  My question is, does anybody know for sure
what's on this video?  The back of the box didn't give any useful info except
for the running time (:30).  Are they all really classic skits?  How many
bits are there?  Does it include my all time favorites, like "I can't hear
you Bert, I've got a banana in my ear?"  The nose on the statue bit?  How
about the hip-hop classic "Dance Myself to Sleep?"  ("Got some partners I
can count on called the boogie-woogie sheep"  "Whah...Ernie, those sheep
are tap dancing!")

While we're at it, are the other videos in the series any good?
Thanks in advance...
Jazz Walker

Organization: Freshman, Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Date: Wed,  8 Apr 1992 00:26:34 -0400 
From: Michael Raymond Cote <mc7g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Bert + Ernie Video

"The Best of Ernie and Bert" is good, though it isn't quite as classic
as I'd have liked it to be.  It has (I may leave out a few, but this is
pretty accurate):
1) Bert and Ernie go to the movie theater; a woman muppet with a
ridiculously tall feathered hat sits down in front of Ernie (CLASSIC)
2) The National Association of W Lovers (CLASSIC)
3) Bert and Ernie go to a (muppet) Egyptian pyramid; Bert goes exploring
while Ernie gets scared by the statue that looks like him (the other
statue looks like Bert); I'd never seen this before I bought the tape,
but it's still funny 
4) Bert and Ernie go camping
6) Ernie sings "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" (good tune)
7) Ernie sings another song about how a friend doesn't mind if he's
messy, plays the drums, etc. etc.
8) Bert is teaching Bernice (pigeon) to play checkers; Ernie finds this
amazing; Bert replies that she's really not that smart because she's
only beaten him twice.

that's about it.

What should be on this tape but isn't:

-one of the Brad visits Bert skits 
-"I Don't want to Play a Game with Rhymes"
-"Ernie Eats Cookies in Bed"
-Ernie sculpting bust of Bert and forgets the nose so he uses Bert's
nose on the statue
-Ernie Plays the Drums
-Bert's Nap
-Bert is Sick
and my personal all time favorite which I haven't seen in at least
twelve years:
"BERT'S IT!"

A far better Sesame Street videotape as far as classics are concerned is
Big Bird's Storytime.  Don't let the title fool you.  These are all
undeniably classic Kermit the Frog Sesame Street News reports.  It
includes:

Rapunzel
The Three Little Pigs
Snow White (the witch's magic mirror)
Humpty Dumpty

plus

Ernie sings "Imagine That." More or less new tune, but good nonetheless.

other stuff and where it is:

"Rubber Duckie" is on the "Sing Along" video.

"Doin' the Pigeon" is on the "Dance Along" video

Another video (Sesame Street Rock 'n' Roll or something like that) has
"Telephone Rock," "Letter B"

I've never seen "Dance Myself to Sleep," but I have two versions of it. 
One is on "The Best of Ernie" (audiotape) without Bert's comments.  The
other, and far funnier version I just bought on the new, "Jim Henson: A
Sesame Street Celebration" (audiotape) with Bert's comments. This Jim
Henson tape is a must for all Muppet Lovers.  It even has an early (non
Muppet Show) version of "Mahna Mahna."

Does anyone know what the Mahna Mahna look alike guy from Sesame Street
is called?

"Mahna Mahna."

--Michael Cote


Organization: Freshman, Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:44:17 -0400 
From: Michael Raymond Cote <mc7g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Snufflepuppet

Snuffy's snufflepuppet is named Gus.

--Michael Cote

"Mahna Mahna!"
From: mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Bert & Ernie question (thanks)
Date: 6 Apr 1992 17:13:12 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu

hymowitz@SERVER.CS.JHU.EDU writes:

>grs01146@runt.appstate.edu writes:
>>Could Bert and Ernie possibly be Gay?

>oh no, not again...

Is there a FAQ for this newsgroup?

Can this be added?  As in (for example):

     Could Bert and Ernie possibly be Gay?

     let's not talk about this again

--
The only permanent rule in Calvin ball is that you can't play
the same way twice.
  -- Calvin, of _Calvin and Hobbes_ (Watterson)

  Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois
Square Dancer, Cat Owned, Leaper, Founder QL Friends of Machiko
From: bvan@ncs.dnd.ca (Bryan Van Blaricom)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Muppet show Guests
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:18:55 GMT
Organization: DND, Ottawa, CANADA

In article <1992Apr9.212357.18154@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> preuss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Peter Reuss) writes:
>
>Don't forget that sonderful show with Blondie (call me...)

   I wonder if Debbie Harry ever gets annoyed at continuously being called 
the name of the rock group she used to sing with?  :-)

Pops: "You're with that rock group, uh..."
Debbie: "Blondie"
Pops: "What?"
Debbie: "Blondie.  That's the name of my band."
Pops: "Dumb name for a band.  If it was my band I'd 'a called it, uh.."
Debbie: "Pops, if it was your band, you'da called it 'Baldy'"

:-)
From: norm@wpi.WPI.EDU (Michael A Ferraris)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:31:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.NORM.92Apr6113156
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280

>>>>> On 5 Apr 92 00:17:18 GMT, jgibbons@eagle.wesleyan.edu said:

jgibbons> I'm just experimenting with the news boards and I found
jgibbons> myself spiritually attracted to the one on Muppets. Lucky
jgibbons> for you all that I chose you first.

jgibbons> Some years ago some friends and I were trying to compile a
jgibbons> list of all the people who had ever been guest hosts on the
jgibbons> Muppet Show, and what an impressive list it was. Any input
jgibbons> here? I remember John Cleese, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill,
jgibbons> certainly John Denver, maybe Liza Minelli. Anyone else?

 jgibbons>        I sp  ecialize in Grover and Cookie Monster voices on a
jgibbons> regular basis.

jgibbons> Hello to all of you and I hope I'm not intruding.

jgibbons> Jean Gibbons, Wesleyan University



Christopher Reeve, Liberace, Roger Moore
From: davina@ocf.berkeley.edu (Davina Tung)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: newer Sesame Street episodes/characters
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:29:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.siaoeINNsit
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: plague-ether.berkeley.edu

>My main qualm is the absence of my greatest memory of childhood SS.
>You all remember the pinball 1-12. In the 3-4 months I watched it
>every day, it didn't appear once. My life is ruined.
>
>Noims.

How odd... I watched it at least once a week last semester (for the first time
in years), right after Tiny Toons, and I remember seeing the pinball several
times.  :)   I also caught the gophers counting to forty... thought that was
really neat!  
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman -Visualization)
Subject: Re: DINOSAURS
Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:02:25 GMT

Do we really need alt.tv.dinosaurs?  At my site, which runs news for all of
the U of Illinois, alt groups are not well respected.  I had to beg and plead
just to get alt.tv.muppets (and alt.fan.monty-python) on-line here.  I doubt
they will honor all my requests, if I continue to ask for alt.tv.dinosaurs,
alt.tv.ss.grover, alt.tv.fraggle-rock, ...  Even though discussion here has
been up the past couple weeks, I don't think a division of the group is
necessary.

	Bill

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From: mc7g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Raymond Cote)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Bert + Ernie Video
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:11:07 GMT
	<1992Apr9.192010.747@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Distribution: na
Organization: Freshman, Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

How about the one in which Ernie has a bunch of jellybeans and he's
going to share them with Bert.  He counts them out ("One for you. One
for me. One for you. One for me." etc etc)  As it turns out, Bert gets
one more jellybean.  To make it even, Ernie eats one of the ones he has
just given Bert, much to Bert's chagrin.

Also, Cookie Monster enters Mike's Bakery (the baker is the blue round
headed Anything Muppet with different features).  Anyway, Cookie Monster
is looking for something to buy (the skit is all about things that rhyme
with buy) that is good to eat.  After eating the letter "I" from the
word "Mike's," along with the baker's tie, Cookie still doesn't know
what he wants to buy.  Then Guy Smiley walks in and says "I think I'll
BUY that PIE!"  Then Cookie get's a brainstorm.  "Me know what rhyme
with 'buy' and is in this store and is delicious.  GUY!"  Frantic Muppet
Chase music ensues as Cookie Monster chases Guy Smiley around the
bakery. (dialogue isn't verbatim, but you get the idea)

Other muppetstuff:

I went down to my local library and was in the children's branch when I
spotted a book called "Sesame Street Puzzlers."  This book is from 1970,
and it's part of an old series.  I own a rather beat up copy of "The
Sesame Street Book of People and Things" which was published in 1971. 
In any case, there's a skit involving Kermit and Grover.  Only Grover is
mottled green!  These are photographs, and the pictures aren't faded or
misprinted, nor is this a generic muppet monster.  It has the eyes,
nose, red mouth (lower lip?), body and head shape of Grover.

Since Kermit never referred to him by name, I think that this is an
early incarnation of Grover before he became a major character.  Sort of
the same thing happened with Cookie Monster, only he's never really
undergone any major appearance change.  In the early years of Sesame
Street, he was merely referred to as the "Monster."  Big Bird also
changed significantly in appearance.

If I find out any more obscure or interesting muppetstuff, or remember
any skits, I'll be sure to post.

--Michael Cote

"It's the Disco Frog!"

P.S.  Does anyone remember specifically some of the old "Grover as a
Waiter" skits?  Also, does anyone remember Bart?
From: mc7g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Raymond Cote)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Bert + Ernie Video
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:34:00 GMT
	<1992Apr8.050028.4899@math.ucla.edu>
Organization: Freshman, Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Those are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't remember those two Bert and Ernie skits until now, but they are
undeniably priceless classics!!!!  Those are some others I haven't seen
in at least a decade!    

How about the one in which Ernie leaves the faucet dripping.  Bert tells
him that the faucet is keeping him awake, so Ernie turns on the vacuum
cleaner, radio, etc. in order to drown out the noise.  Bert, of course,
gets mad and has to turn off everything himself, only to be kept awake
by Ernie's snoring

How about the Sesame Street News one in which Kermit is trying to help
the princess discover Rumplestiltskin's real name.  He opens a
hotline...SESAME STREET 555. 

How about the "Mahna Mahna" look alike from Sesame Street (I'll call it
Cousin of Mahna Mahna for lack of a better name) who did the
"Near...Far" skit and the one in which there are three bald, noseless
Anything Muppets and Cousin of Mahna Mahna and they perform a rhyming
song that goes (sort of) like this:  

Cousin of Mahna Mahna: "Small"
Bald Muppet One: "Ball"
Bald Muppet Two: "Tall"
Bald Muppet Three: "Wall"

Then the bald muppets repeat the four words and Cousin of Mahna Mahna
rushes in and sings a song that rhymes with the four words, i.e.

"See the small ball on a tall wall; see it fall; give its all; hear it
call, "Hi Y'all..." (something like that; there's also more but you get
the idea) Then it finishes its song with a loud "Oh Yeah!"

Then the bald muppets look angrily at Cousin of Mahna Mahna and he says
"oh yeah..." meekly and with a little musical ditty (da da da, da da DA)
vanishes from sight, only to return for more verses 

--Michael Cote

"Mahna Mahna"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: sjs@hood.hood.caltech.edu (Stephen Speicher)
Subject: Re: DINOSAURS
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:23:37 GMT

wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman -Visualization) writes:

>Do we really need alt.tv.dinosaurs?  At my site, which runs news for all of
>the U of Illinois, alt groups are not well respected.  I had to beg and plead
>just to get alt.tv.muppets (and alt.fan.monty-python) on-line here.  I doubt
>they will honor all my requests, if I continue to ask for alt.tv.dinosaurs,
>alt.tv.ss.grover, alt.tv.fraggle-rock, ...  Even though discussion here has
>been up the past couple weeks, I don't think a division of the group is
>necessary.

I agree Bill. Dinosaurs fits in very naturally with the type of discussions
that go on here. Because many people will not get alt.tv.dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
will continue to be of interest to this group.

Gotta love it!
Stephen
sjs@hood.hood.caltech.edu
From: rostrom@nim.gac.edu (Rebecca M Ostrom)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Bert + Ernie Video
Date: 10 Apr 92 01:20:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: gacvx2.1992Apr9.192010.747
Distribution: na

Oh, that reminded me of another one, when the blue guy (the one who's in  
Grover's Restaurant skits) and two monsters are singing about being  
between.  So the blue guy is between the two monsters and he keeps getting  
smooshed by them.. my favorite line(s):

It's easier by far being green
Than being between!

ah, the memories... :)

					--Becca
From: nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john nickles)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Muppet show Guests
Date: 8 Apr 92 06:03:29 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


In fact, on one episode, an anniversiary (please ignore spelling) episode
of some sort, Scooter reeled off the names of all the guest stars
to the tune of "Modern Major General" All I can remember is the last line.
"and then of course there's Zero"
Zero Mostel (if you were wondering)

John A. Nickles
Standard Disclaimer: Purdue has their opinions, I have mine


P.S. As for non-expected guest stars (like the Star Wars stars) a minor
comedian who appeared on one show was allegedly the telegram boy who
bore a telegram from the "real" guest star which said "NO I'M NOT AND
YOU CAN'T MAKE ME". In desperation, the Muppets threw the "telegram boy"
on stage and told him to do something
From: larsenp@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Paul Larsen)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Muppet Show Guests (was Re: <None>)
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:51:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.44254
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

And don't forget about Victor Borge.  My wife vividly remembers him doing
Moonlight sonata (I think) with a muppet bust of Beethoven which falls asleep
during the skit.



				Paul Larsen
From: hymowitz@SERVER.CS.JHU.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Bert & Ernie question (thanks)
Date: 5 Apr 92 11:29:45 GMT
Organization: The Incredibly Huge Corporation

grs01146@runt.appstate.edu writes:
>Could Bert and Ernie possibly be Gay?

oh no, not again...
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets