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From: zaphod@src4src.linet.org (Steve Wechsler)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: SUCCESSFUL VIEWER MAIL
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:40:53 GMT
Organization: The Source for Source

In article <Bz462C.ACy@world.std.com> mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser) writes:
>mas@porgy.jpl.nasa.gov (Marc A. Sarrel) writes:


>>Yes, I had a letter on viewer mail.  The date was 18 April 1984.  I
>>was inspired by a running bit that they had going.  The first letter
>>in the series (not mine) went something like:  "Dear Dave, What is it
>>and how can it be cured?"  Dave acted puzzled and then asked Paul if
>>he knew.  Paul did.  He had a large side of ham hanging on a chain and
>>hook over a mesquite charcoal BBQ grill.  "It" was the ham and it was
>>being cured over the grill.  This series went on for a while:  "Dear
>>Dave, Will it hold up in court?" (I can't remember any others right
>>now).

>One of the things that people wrote in during that series was "Hey Dave,
>how's it hanging?".  In fact, I thought that this was the first letter.

The reply to this was "On this special aluminum hook.  I like it
because it conducts away the heat".

I remember this bit, and thought it was hysterical.

I think the first one was inspired by a letter that went something
like this:

Dear Dave,

	What's the deal with that big ham at the keyboards (referring
to Paul, of course)?

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From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess)
Subject: Re: People Dave Has Called on the Show
Keywords: Dave, Phone, Mom, Quiz, Weather, F.A.Q.
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 12 Dec 92 23:39:40 GMT

You forgot Sylvester Stallone, who was supposed to appear one night
a few years ago but cancelled.  So instead, Dave called him up and talked
to him for about 5 minutes....

-dwh-
From: C_S02254@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (Jon C Austin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: What parts of LNWDL does NBC own?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 16:37:52 GMT
Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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In <Bz8D8r.MDG@acsu.buffalo.edu> v070r6vw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:

> 
> 	If Dave were to move to CBS for some reason, what exactly
> 	would he be losing? I know NBC owns the Late Nite name,
> 	but do they have exclusive rights to any of his gags?
> 	
> 	What would happen to:
> 		-Biff Henderson
> 		-Hal Gurneee
> 		-Bob Morton
> 		-The World's Most Dangerous Band
> 		-Al Marher (sp?)
> 
I'm pretty sure that technical staff is union and would likely be slated to 
stay at NBC, such as Biff, and Hal, and Al. Bob and the band are talent, and
probably have contracts through WorldWide Pants as opposed to direct NBC
contracts.  
Considering the enorimity of the deal though, I'll bet WWP could get anyone
on the tech crew out of their NBC contract and with them at CBS. It might 
however, be asking a 30-year veteran to leave a fat pension behind and some
people just won't.  Plus announcer Bill Wendell is a NBC employee, and 9 
chances out of 10 wouldn't switch networks.


Jon Austin
Appalachian State Univ.
Boone, NC

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From: mmuegel@next3.corp.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
Subject: Re: What you watch before Dave
Organization: Corporate Information Office, Schaumburg, Illinois, Motorola, Inc.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:06:05 GMT

Previously, mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser) wrote:
>
> Do all you people stay up that late?!  I've been taping Letterman for over
> ten years now, and watch it the next morning and/or evening!!
>

In college it was always a blast to hang out and watch Dave. A large
percentage of the student body tends to gravitate to later and later
nights with studying and all. Dave was a great nightcap or break.

Having been out of college for 3 years I watch about three times a week.
It is much easier when you are in CST/MST/etc. If I would tape it I would
not find the time to watch it.

-Mike

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From: kenny@world.std.com (Kenneth R Crudup)
Subject: Re: Unusual Show
Organization: Software Tool&Die, (Boston), MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:27:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.163143.6939@mcc.com>
amck@rowdy.mcc.com (Alan McKendree) says:

>Regarding the Reverse-Image show:
>...They took a camera into the directing room, which had a bunch of
>guys in lab coats standing around the usual technicians (including our
>friend Hal Gurtner).

...that's "Guernee", Dave.

	-Kenny

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From: jac@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (John Clear)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Places that Dave has been
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:12:40 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <BzFyp2.8JI@acsu.buffalo.edu> v120q4jf@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Vax Crazie (ROB B.)) writes:
>How about starting a list of places that Dave has been during the show???
>Things like restautants, and other buildings would be relevant. I can't think
>of many places that he's been but I am sure there are many :)
>

	Included in this list should be how many times he has gone over and 
bugged 'Live at Five', and/or stolen their guests.  I still remember the time
he went over and took over the weather report from Al Rooker(sp) during the 
live news broadcast.  I think that was also the incident that got him banned 
from the 'Live at Five' studio.

John

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From: acid+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Colby)
Subject: Re: First meeting with Meg
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:50:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.150019.25981@csc.ti.com> holliman@sounder.csc.ti.com (Ed Holliman) writes:
>I don't remember that call, but my favorite was when, on her birthday, Dave
>had a marching band march down the street below her window and then spell out
>MEG in the street. The funniest part about that was when they showed that
>traffic was being backed up for a mile just for this little present. And who
>says Dave doesn't care?

That was hilarious.  And during rush hour, too!  I couldn't believe they
did that.

I don't think anybody has yet mentioned the time there was the artist down
below who looked up at her with binoculars and painted her picture on the
sidewalk.  Something like that.

-chris
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From: amck@.mcc.com (Alan McKendree)
Subject: "Since when did this become OK?!!?"
Originator: amck@rowdy.mcc.com
Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:38:30 GMT


"Frankly, I think we've all been in our underwear from time to time.
I'm in mine now."


-- 
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From: rolls@cis.umassd.edu (Frank Pinto)
Subject: Ross Perot's ears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:29:21 GMT

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha..............
From: a01calam@skyfox
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: RE: First meeting with Meg
Date: 19 DEC 92 00:22:56 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: sask.usask.ca

Just to add to the list of happenings in Meg's office:
 -playing "What's Biff B-B-Q'ing" (she had to guess, by smell, what was
        on the grill, down on street level)
 -trying to throw nerf balls into a basket held by Biff (on street level)
 -REGIS IN A SANTA SUIT
 -firing a fire extinguisher out the window (the window wouldn't open)
 -filling her office with flowers

******************************************************
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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: Whom has Dave called?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:01:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.234819.45558@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> whitten@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <sHoFVB4w164w@cellar.org>, toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps) writes:
>> jim@zeus.tamu.edu SPIKE writes:
>> 
>>> Let's add another list to the FAQ: whom has Dave called on the phone?
>> 
>> How about the maitre-d' at the cafe at the base of Rockefeller Plaza?  Dave
>> told him to go stand in the fountain -- and the GUY ACTUALLY DID IT!  Great
>> stuff.
>
>Yeah, but the thing that was lame about this was that in several shots,
>the Letterman "gopher" (for lack of a better term) could be seen waving
>his arms, pointing at tables to take the phone to, and giving other
>clarifications and directions.  I hate to think how set-up some of the
>stuff is.  I rather have it for real, and have them flop once in awhile,
>than to have the place scouted beforehand.

  Well, if I remember correctly (and it was a while ago), the point of
the sketch was not to speak to the waiter, but to allow Dave to speak
to random guests of the restaurant.  (I seem to remember him talking
with a very suburban pair of matrons who had come in to shop and see a
show.  He bought them lunch, I believe.)  Dave was watching the
monitor, and deciding who he wanted to talk to, and then those people
you saw waving their arms were just making sure that the phone went to
the right people.  It wasn't set-up (or at least it didn't strike me
as such) -- the staffers were necessary there to allow Dave to, well,
do what Dave does, and run the interviews on the fly.

  I think that Dave only ended up speaking to the waiter since the guy
was an out-of-work actor (imagine that!) and kept trying to work
himself into the bit.  Dave seemed just to want to humiliate him by
making him do something obviously ridiculous (like lying down in the
fountain).  And not surprisingly, he did.

  All of this is from memory, so I apologize for errors.


--Raymond Flournoy        
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Stanford University, CA
From: msb1+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Edwin Sheldrick)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Why would CBS offer $16 million?
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:22:57 GMT
Organization: Sophomore, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


In article <1992Dec10.172938.4908@netcom.com>, bilan@netcom.com (Steve
Bilan) writes:
> 
> 
> I'm curious as to why CBS would offer Dave Letterman $16 millions
> dollars when they were virtually assured of getting Dave.  It was
> wellknown that Dave was most interested in a 11:30 timeslot and
> CBS was the only one that could offer it to him.  Logically, they
> would only have to offer him an acceptable salary and Dave would
> probably jump at it.  But they seem to decide to throw their money
> away.

There was an article in USAToday this week about the contract CBS
offered Letterman. I don't have it in front of me, but here are the
numbers I remember:
	
--The article blamed NBC for being "tightfisted"--Dave is currently
being paid $6 million a year (really stingy, huh? :->), while LNWDL
makes around $50 million per year.
--Leno is being paid $3 or $4 million for Tonight.
--Arsenio gets $20 million (not a typo) for his show.

I'll see if I can find the article, and I'll post anything that is
interesting and anything that is wrong with the above post.



me



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From: klehr@creamer.bae (Thomas J. Klehr)
Subject: Re: Rudolph
Reply-To: klehr@bae.bellcore.com (Thomas J. Klehr)
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:13:05

In article <dougn.724365075@convex.convex.com> dougn@convex.com (Douglas Nieb) writes:

   Did anyone else enjoy the viewer mail last Friday with the "How Dave spent
   his last Christmas?" letter.  His "That Rudolph is a brave son of a bitch" 
   line was hilarious.

   Doug

Hilarious!

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From: ag746@yfn.ysu.edu (Jeffrey F. Blank)
Subject: Re: Catch phrases
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:27:15 GMT


About the latest catch phrase...

The last one I saw was Summer 1991, and the winner was that old 
lady who pretends to be Dave's mom for Viewer Mail sketches.  She
said, "Nicely packed, bag boy."  But my fave was the Al-Maher-
type guy who said, "Hey!  How much for the Buick?" followed by
that "Comedy Music" or whatever the hell it is with the little
"Ooohh" at the end.

I've watched just about every show since then until this summer,
but if it changed *this* summer, don't get on *my* case about
it. =)  

Wait, that might have been summer '90.  Oh, I don't know.

LaterZ,

Jeff

A sig?  Not unless I get funding for it.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
From: richichi@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Mike Richichi)
Subject: Re: Whom has Dave called?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:09:18 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <9212140922.AA77448@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca> jkung@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jimmy Kung) writes:
>No, this is false.  I saw a show on 20/20 (or 60 Minutes, I don't
>remember, it was about 4 years ago) in which they went to a area
>in Central America which is "on the equator".  People there had a
>gimmick where they showed people the water trick using a
>toothpick on a bucket on draining water. (for money of course)
>
>The reality was is that the force isn't strong enough to go one
>way or another, unless you had very large volume and draining
>speed.  The way they scamed people was by designing the drain to
>go in a particular direction.
>

I can vouch for this result by my own experimentation.  In my
graduate-level mechanics class last year, when we got to the section
about accelerating coordinate systems and the Coriolis force, our prof
had us run to the bathrooms and drain the sinks and flush the toilets.
There was no preferred direction of flow, it probably depending on the
entering water and shape and level of the basins.

Basically, in an "ideal sink" (we physicists love ideal things), it
would work, but in the real world the effect gets washed out.

Oh well.


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From: mgoldbrg@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mark Goldberg)
Subject: Re: Ratings & Rush (was Re:  What about Paul?)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:02:34 GMT

>Ugh... there you go again.  WHO GIVES A RATS ASS about your "700 club"!!
>

Amen!  ;-)

-mark goldberg
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From: pirmann@porthos.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: Re: Lobster Bit on Dave?
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:50:52 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University LCSR

patm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Pat Murphy) writes:

>	does anyone know if dave did a bit about a lobster?

Penn & Teller did a bit called "The Amazing Lobsterini" on Dave's show
a while back in which a lobster escaped from a trap of some sort
before it got lowered into a big pot of boiling water, if that's what
you're referring to.


dave
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From: mgoldbrg@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mark Goldberg)
Subject: Re: Letterman at 11:30?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:41:20 GMT

In article <1g92gqINN27h@tamsun.tamu.edu> swood@tamsun.tamu.edu (Stanley C. Wood) writes:
>
>Howdy,
>	It seems to me that Dave's humor is a little too dry for general
>consumption at 11:30 EST.  I think most people need the extra hour of insomnia
>to be really ready for Dave's style.  Ever notice how you laugh at different 
>sorts of things really late at night?  This may not be as big a deal on the
>east coast since letterman already comes on at 11:30 here but that would put
>him at 10:30 here in the central US.  Of course, I'll watch Dave anytime of
>day, but will everybody else?
>
>					Until NeXT Time...
>					 stanley
>
Keep in mind, there is quite a following of letterman fans that aren't college
students and can't stay up that late on a regular basis anyway due to there
jobs--in fact, many tapeevery show and then watch it the next day.  Perhaps
with the earlier time Dave would get more of his fans actually watching when
the show airs.

Mark
mgoldbrg@casbah.acns.nwu.edu   (Mark Goldberg)

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From: holliman@sounder.csc.ti.com (Ed Holliman)
Subject: Re: Last friday's show
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:27:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.121427.1550@sei.cmu.edu> hsm@sei.cmu.edu (Scott Matthews) writes:

   That show wa right in the middle of the heavy storms passing thorugh NY and NJ.  During the monolouge, Dave was describing some things which were different in NYC since the big storm.  He said on thing, got a big repsonse, said another, big response, and finished with:

   "ANd the hookers are giving rainchecks"

   anybody remember the first two things?

   scott

The only one that I remember was that it was so windy that Willard Scott's
toupee' arrived at work 5 minutes before Willard did.
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From: niceswangern@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
Subject: The new name of the show
Date: 11 Dec 92 11:47:59 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

It's obvious!

The new name of Late Night With David Letterman...

	Dave's Cartoon Clubhouse

				


				Nate N.
				Somers, Iowa, USA
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From: rrichman@access.digex.com (Ray Richman)
Subject: Re: Poor Arsenio
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 08:10:51 GMT

Why DIDN'T NBC offer COSTAS Dave's Time Slot?  (He'd have 5 nights a week
and they wouldn't *HAVE* to (I'd like it better if they did...) cut FNVideos

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From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
Subject: Re: Meg! (of Simon & Schuster)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:08:05 GMT

fairchil@helix.ucsd.edu (Kevin Fairchild) writes:


>From fairchil Wed Dec 16 10:52:48 1992
>To: /home/helix/fairchil/.article

>1)  How many of you thought that was going to be Larry Bud playing Santa
>    for Meg?
>2)  So how did Dave & Meg get started, anyway.  Did they really just decide
>    to call the person in the office across the street?  Or did they set it
>    up?  How long has he been calling her?

>A Meg fan,
>Kevin Fairchild
>Soon-to-be-late-of-UCSD


Yup, he just decided to see who was working late one night, and call them.
I think it began about 3 years ago.  I'll miss Meg if Dave goes to CBS!


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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: The new name of the show
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 15:18:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.114759.2990@bvc.edu> niceswangern@bvc.edu writes:
>It's obvious!
>
>The new name of Late Night With David Letterman...
>
>	Dave's Cartoon Clubhouse
>

Naww...  Doesn't anyone remember?

It's "Dave's Broadway Cavelcade"...  (unless he moves to L.A.)

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From: holliman@sounder.csc.ti.com (Ed Holliman)
Subject: Re: Dave on CBS!!
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:47:47 GMT

In article <knauer.724319955@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> knauer@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) writes:

       It is for this reason that I hope Dave remains at 12:30 where his
   audience is fairly secure.  If he moved to 11:30, he'd have to dramatically
   alter his style to appeal to a very different audience, and I enjoy his style
   exactly as it is now.

Since when has Dave EVER done anything that he HAD to do on his show?
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From: chuckb@stein.u.washington.edu (Charles Bass)
Subject: Re: Ratings (or not...)
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:11:31 GMT

You guys arguing would be perfect inspiration for letterman's
dumb guy character.

Why not correspond via email instead of netnews?

chuckb
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