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From: rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette)
Subject: Toilet humor
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 03:45:22 GMT

R. Alan Monroe writes:
>I have noticed something about the Seinfeld show.  It's the first show as far
>as I know that breaks the semi-taboo of characters going to the toilet.  I
>mean, in other shows there have been flushing sounds, to give the impression
>that someone has come from the restroom.  But on Seinfeld, you actually get to
>see them go in, or even better, they yell into the conversation while they're
>still on there (like at the beginning of last night's show).

Not the first (maybe the first sitcom.)  There was a great scene in Thirty
Something: Billy (Ellen's fiance) is tired of listening to her psychotic
babble, so he walks away in mid conversation, into the bathroom, drops
his drawers, and sits on the can.  The camera is in the bathroom, showing
Billy sitting on the toilet (waist up) and Ellen standing in the bathroom
doorway.  When she fails to take the hint, he says something like "excuse
me a minute" and slams the door in her face.  Not the type of obvious humor
of a sitcom.  It's funny not because they're showing some guy actually
sitting on the toilet, but because many couples can relate to Billy's
tactics for avoiding the conversation!

Robert

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From: malik@guppy.rutgers.edu (adnan Malik)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: On the Jackie Thomas show
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:01:39 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


  " Can't we all just get along ... ? "   - Rodney King.

      I know that quote has become a cliche but it works. So what if
someone thought the JT show was funny ? I personally thought that it
was more tasteless than a ricecake but every we all have our opinions
and that's ..... OK. 
      If you have something to say, don't be rude or abusive when you 
are saying it. I would apreciate it.

                            Thanks ...
                              Adnan Malik.
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From: jpersons@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John C Persons)
Subject: Re: On the Jackie Thomas show
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:17:08 GMT

>  BTW, Seinfeld was mentioned again on the jackie thomas show
>  this week.
>
>  Security guard mentions Seinfeld.
>
>  Jackie: What's that?
>
>  Security guard: It's a wry observational comedy show (and he
>  says something else that I don't rememember).
>
>  Jackie: Sounds terrible.
>
>  And yes, this exchange was pretty funny.
>
True.  It was the only funny thing in the entire show.

MHO,
John



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From: rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette)
Subject: Re: THE CONTEST
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:32:54 GMT

In article <92348.003038U54778@uicvm.uic.edu> <U54778@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>In article <1992Dec9.204223.857@u.washington.edu>, xylorg@stein.u.washington.edu
>(XyLoRg) says:
>>
>>In article <92344.011555U54778@uicvm.uic.edu> U54778@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>>>In article <sf9D45G00iV284Oe0b@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Richard W. Rees"
>>><rr20+@andrew.cmu.edu> says:
>>>>I vote "The Contest" the best premise of a sit-com in 1992.  I'll wager
>>>>this has never been attempted in TV history.  Having Elaine enter what
>>>
>>> I strongly disagree.  I vote for it being the best and most hilarious
>>>premise of a sit-com in the last 10 years.  And having Elaine enter into
>>
>>Just out of curiosity, why only 10 years?  What show beat it out in the early
>>nineties?
>>
>
>I dunno, I really picked 10 years off the top of my head. ... (Alan Rogers'
comments about some past humorous shows deleted)

Thanks for the post, Alan.  I had also been trying to think of some of the
funniest sit-com episodes I've seen through the years, and hadn't really
come up with anything until you mentioned WKRP.  The funniest show
I've ever seen was the Thanksgiving episode when the turkeys are tossed
from the plane.  The scene with Les reporting live is absolutely hilarious,
followed by the perpetrator's comment (I can't remember if it was Norm or
Mr. Carlson), which is perhaps the funniest line I've ever heard: "I swear 
to God, I thought they could fly!"

Thanks for the memories! Now, back to Seinfeld.

Robert

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From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
Subject: Re: On the Jackie Thomas show
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:31:36 GMT


It's a wry, observational comedy that deals with contemporary urban
relationships.
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Subject: Seinfeld show breaks toilet taboo
From: rcbi110@marshall.wvnet.edu
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:02:32 -0500
Organization: Marshall University



The Nip episode was great!


I have noticed something about the Seinfeld show.  It's the first show as far
as I know that breaks the semi-taboo of characters going to the toilet.  I
mean, in other shows there have been flushing sounds, to give the impression
that someone has come from the restroom.  But on Seinfeld, you actually get to
see them go in, or even better, they yell into the conversation while they're
still on there (like at the beginning of last night's show).
Just another thing that makes this show even sillier...

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From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Who watches this show? 2b
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:03:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HMS

In article <1992Dec14.191629.7858@julian.uwo.ca> thornto@next2god.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Mike Thornton) writes:
>
> Northern Exposure and the movie "Howard's End " single handedly caused
me to break up with my girlfriend.
 
>Mike

It's hard to belive that some people take the lives of fictional characters
to such an extreme but I guess they're out there...Did you dislike "Northern 
Exposure" before you broke up with your girlfriend?

-Mark
From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: THE CONTEST
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:27:31 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Dec15.165505.18987@b15.ingr.com> reagan@fedsrus.b15.ingr.com writes:
+In article <1992Dec14.143254.13527@davidge.com>, rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette) writes:
+|> The funniest show
+|> I've ever seen was the Thanksgiving episode when the turkeys are tossed
+|> from the plane.  
+|> Mr. Carlson), which is perhaps the funniest line I've ever heard: "I swear 
+|> to God, I thought they could fly!"
+
+	I thought the funniest line in that episode was when Les was describing
+the scene with something like "They're hitting the ground like sacks of wet
+cement."

Mine was:
Carlson: "Herb, did you get the turkeys?"
Herb: "Yep, and let me tell you, Big Guy, when that farmer asked me what I
      was gonna do with 20 live turkeys, I had to do some *pretty* fast
      thinking."
Carlson: "What did you say?"
Herb: "I told him 'I don't know'."

But enuff about 'KRP. Time to discuss The Nipple.

-- 
Al B. Wesolowsky    Boston      o Diane: "I have dire news."
abw@crsa.bu.edu     University  o   Sam: "Good or bad?" 
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From: toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten)
Subject: Re: THE CONTEST
Organization: E.E. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:30:27 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-10782]: bourbon

>
>Thanks for the post, Alan.  I had also been trying to think of some of the
>funniest sit-com episodes I've seen through the years, and hadn't really
>come up with anything until you mentioned WKRP.  The funniest show
>I've ever seen was the Thanksgiving episode when the turkeys are tossed
>from the plane.  The scene with Les reporting live is absolutely hilarious,
>followed by the perpetrator's comment (I can't remember if it was Norm or
>Mr. Carlson), which is perhaps the funniest line I've ever heard: "I swear 
>to God, I thought they could fly!"

	I think you mean Herb, not "Norm." And it was Mr. Carlson who
uttered one of the greatest lines EVER from a sitcom:

	"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

>
>Thanks for the memories! Now, back to Seinfeld.
>
>Robert
>


Derek Toten
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From: bevis@ais.org (Jeremy Lechtzin)
Subject: Re: Name of Restaurant/Diner? ..."Mom's Place"????
Organization: the ptolemaic terrascope
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:46:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.143901.21461@davidge.com>, rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette) wrote:
>In article <1992Dec9.042146.23687@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec9.014307.15727@cunews.carleton.ca> cs401005@scs.carleton.ca (jeff brinskelle) writes:
>>>	Does anyone know the name of the restaurant that the members usually
>>>meet in?  Is it "Mom's Place" like my roomate says? or does it not say at all.
>>>
>of restaurant.  Tom's is a greek diner, as parodied by Saturday Night Live
>with Belushi and Akroyd (sp?).  The restaurant in the show is a more

Actually, the restaurant that Belushi and Ackroyd parodied is The Billy
Goat, in Chicago.  I think that the Billy Goat is also Greek, though.

 
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From: murph@athena.mit.edu (Keith E Murphy)
Subject: 12-16-92 Episode (Nip & Pick)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:44:56 GMT

I have not seen more than half of the episodes, but this is by far the funniest
I've encountered.  These rank in my top twenty Seinfeld moments ever:

	"I am not an animal!"

	"You want a card?  Here!!"

and story of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pasteur as told by George is my vote for
the Funniest Scene from a Seinfeld Episode.

-KM
"Your buttocks are sublime..."
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From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: Nipple
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:05:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.092413.11297@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> moran@clodii.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dan Moran) writes:
>greg@redeye.EBay.Sun.COM (greg) writes:
>: 
>: December 16th episode
>: 
>: So, Elaine shows her nipple in  photo on  Christmas Card,
>: but do we get to see it?  Nooo!  Why not?  I mean if Jerry
>: can pick his nose on national TV, why can't we see Elaine's
>: nipple?  
>: 
>: BTW, wasn't  Elaine (Julia-Louise Dreyfrus) in an issue of
>: Playboy magazine with the other girls of Saturday Night Live?
>: 
>I have a new favorite scene almost every week watching Seinfeld.  Last
>night it was when Kramer went over to Elaine and started sniffing her
>(because she was wearing "Ocean").  All of the characters have great
>mannerisms.
>
>BTW, last night had just the right amount of Newman.
>
>

my favorite line is:  "...... the only one gets truly exposed is YOU!"  ;->

Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: zaphod@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (clifford.m.weiss)
Subject: Re: Kramer
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:16:45 GMT

In article <kf9CzDW00iV2M4OcMp@andrew.cmu.edu> "Richard W. Rees" <rr20+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Thanks for the info on Kramer (Micheal Richards) in Problem Child.  I
>also remember Richards on "Fridays" in which he was one of the
>highlights of a show that was almost as bad as SNL is now.
>
>Don't forget Richards' tour de force performance in Weird Al's film
>"UHF" which came out a couple of years ago.  He plays the janitor that
>becomes a TV star.  (Tho the part could be accused of ridiculing
>retarded people.  But blame Weird Al.)
>
>Kramer's great.

Mike also had a bit part in a (pretty lousy) Danny Devito film called
"The Ratings Game"
-Jus figured you might want to know
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From: soup@leland.Stanford.EDU (young-sup lee)
Subject: nip and tuck...
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:22:19 GMT

whether or not the tv censors prohibited the use of phrase "pick my
nose", notice that jerry and george often drop the object when discussing
even mundane activities:

examples -- "i chuck" = "i chuck a basketball"
            "i pick " = "i pick my nose"       also "rub"/"scratch"
            "i dunk " = "i dunk my donut"

and they always seem to know the implied object, i.e. they don't dunk
basketballs or noses, just donuts.  jerry and george have this "secret"
language thing going...


and you're going to think i'm absolutely crazy, but the whole line about
the "panties that your mother LAID out for you", i thought was funny 5 minutes
after i heard it.  the picture that came to my mind was the panties her mother
wore when she conceived the baby.  i'll bet some people out there thought
along similar lines, although someone else wrote that it was one of those
lines blurted out by one of jerry's writers during an actual experience.
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From: jpersons@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John C Persons)
Subject: Snapple
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:20:35 GMT


Here are some excerpts from yesterday's Wall Street Journal regarding
the Snapple initial public offering:

Long-term investors might do better to sip a cup of tea.  But stock
traders are ready to gulp as many shares as they can get of Snapple,
a maker of iced teas and other natural beverages.

Almost every growth fund money manager in America is trying to get
a piece of Snapple's planned initial public offering.  

Demand for the stock offering has been so great that last week the
deal's lead underwriter, Merrill Lynch, increased the price range to 
$18-$20 a share from $14-$16.  The New York beverage maker is expected
to sell four million shares to investors, probably this week.

John

Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: M19249@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Re: Seinfeld/best of the sitcoms
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:17:47 GMT

In article <92Dec16.110234est.102@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu) writes:
 
>In article <92351.051347U54778@uicvm.uic.edu> <U54778@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>>In article <1992Dec15.020817@ece.arizona.edu>, erxleben@ece.arizona.edu (Wayne
>>Erxleben) says:
>>>
>>>Also, in response to the recent post about sitcoms throughout
>>>history, I'd say my favorites of all time, not counting ones that
>>>are still on, would be (roughly in chronological order):
>>>       The Dick Van Dyke Show
>>>       The Beverly Hillbillies
>>>       All In the Family
>>>       MASH
>>>       Barney Miller
>>>       WKRP in Cincinnati
>>>       Taxi
>>>
>>Nice list, Wayne.  I would have included Mash in my post but I couldn't
>>remember individual episodes that would stand out as rivals.
>>
>>What I will do is introduce two more candidates for funniest half-hour,
>>sit-com episodes.
(Taxi references deleted)
>>If not classic, these shows come close.
>
>how about the MASH epsiode Maj. Frank Burns unknowingly helped N. Korean
>spies dressed up as S. Korean MPs loaded up their jeep with medical
>supplies, pass check points, and finally the N. Koreans were fed up with
>him and decided not to take him prisoner 'cause he'll be a bigger
>help on "this side of the war".
>
>also the "MacArthur is coming" epsiode, Frank & Hotlips made it out
>in the General's tent, and that cross-dresser guy dressed up as
>statue of Liberty ... and "Five clock Charlie" when Frank got an
>AAA gun to shoot down the North Korean "Bomber", "I am your battlion
>commander, You are the platoon leader, you are the squad leader, ...
>and you are the squad ..."
>>
>>ALAN ROGERS  **** U54778@UICVM.UIC.EDU * I speak only for myself as a *
>>VMKRAFT INC.  708-675-8615             * citizen of the UNIVERSE, not *
>>                                       * as an employee of Vmkraft nor*
>>                                       * as a user of U of I Services.*
>
>
IMHO, the Major Flagg episodes were classic.  His convolutions of the
espionage agency alphabet soup of acronyms is still funny. And my favorite
MASH line, after Flagg jumps out the window in his "quick as the wind exit"
Hawkeye looks out and says, "I think the 'Wind' just broke his leg".  It
still makes me smile.
My $.02, we now return you to regularly schedule flames,
-DW "standard disclaimer"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: jjn7g@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (John J. Nee)
Subject: Re: Expressions are also funny
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:35:49 GMT

	Although there have been many funny scenes it is the
expressions of the characters that add to it.  

	Kramer: 1) Playing Jeopardy
		2) Paying-up and standing at the counter in "The
Contest"
		3) Sliding down the luggage carosel

	George: 1) Trying to explain burning down the cabin
		2) Frighting look when Elaine tells him that the
Husband of the woman he had an affiar with called and she didn't tell
him she was with her. ("An affair. It sounds so adult. At least it
won't cost me anything")
		3) His sorry expression at the dinner when J. is
lashing out at him for being so stupid. (J: You don't need an hour a
week therapy, you need a whole team working on you.)
From: rons@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ronald Schoenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Seinfeld show breaks toilet taboo
Date: 19 Dec 92 20:04:42 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Dec17.110232.119677@marshall.wvnet.edu> rcbi110@marshall.wvnet.edu writes:
>
>
>I have noticed something about the Seinfeld show.  It's the first show as far
>as I know that breaks the semi-taboo of characters going to the toilet.  I
>mean, in other shows there have been flushing sounds, to give the impression
>that someone has come from the restroom.  But on Seinfeld, you actually get to
>see them go in, or even better, they yell into the conversation while they're
>still on there (like at the beginning of last night's show).
>Just another thing that makes this show even sillier...

You must be too young to remember "All in the Family" where the toilet flush
was a standard feature.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: barryk@sco.COM (Barry Klein)
Subject: Snapple is going public
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:46:18 GMT




I wonder how much Seinfeld watchers can impact the stock market?

This week (exact day unknown), Snapple Beverage Corporation is making
its first stock offering.  They will trade on NASDAQ, symbol SNPL.

I read this in the December 14 "Barron's", pg. 55, if you are interested.
The company has doubled revenues in each of the last four years.
The overview in Barron's seemed pretty positive, except for a complaint
about how the company is going to use the proceeds raised by the
stock.   They are using the money to "reduce debt to insiders and
provide them incentive payments."

Now, we all know how Jerry, George and Co. have done with their own
financial endeavors, so tread carefully!

Barry
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: walker@spacvax.rice.edu (Shannon Walker)
Subject: previous episodes
Followup-To: alt.tv.seinfeld
Organization: Rice University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:46:12 GMT

I am also interested in tapes of the Seinfeld shows.  How much would
someone want to send me copies of their tapes?

Shannon Walker
walker@spacvax.rice.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: xylorg@stein.u.washington.edu (XyLoRg)
Subject: Re: THE CONTEST
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:34:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.230228.12184@u.washington.edu> basiji@stein.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes:
>toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten) writes:
>
>	The WKRP episode when Johnny was moved to the morning slot

Not to forget when Johnny was involved in the drinking awareness show, where
he had to have a drink every 10 minutes, and his reflexes got BETTER.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: Looking for a Job, Seinfeld fans?
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:09:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.154417.22775@walter.bellcore.com> donna@attic.bae.bellcore.com (Donna Feliciano) writes:
>I saw this on misc.jobs.offered:
>
>In article <1992Dec11.152151.8952@scott.skidmore.edu>, dtschett@saims.skidmore.\
>edu (donna tschetter) writes:
>|> Sales Representatives wanted to promote and distribute new line of
>|> merchandise based the television show, "Seinfeld".  High end retail
>|> markets only, such as Macy's, Bloomindales, Filene's.

CK underwear modelled by Kramer?

"The Ocean"?




--
The insane fear of socialism throws the bourgeois headlong into the
arms of despotism.
			-- Tocqueville, 1852
From: erxleben@ece.arizona.edu (Wayne Erxleben)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.seinfeld
Subject: Re: Funniest Scene From A Seinfeld Episode
Date: 15 Dec 92 08:42:41 GMT
Reply-To: erxleben@ece.arizona.edu (Wayne Erxleben)
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

In article <1992Dec10.081344.5060@sobeco.com>, lgoodfie@sobeco.com
(l.goodfield) writes:
|> Attention all Seinfeld fans. I'm very curious to know what your all
time        favorite scene from the show is. It can be from any episode
from any season,    though I'm sure that the majority of your responses
will be from recent         episodes.

Three scenes come to mind:

1.  In the Keith Hernandez episode, the detailed descriptions of the
spitting
    incident ala 'JFK', and the endlessly repeated videotape of Kramer's
head
    being snapped back after being struck by the 'magic loogie'.

2.  George in the dentist's office (I think), in the episode where he's
afraid
    he's turning gay following the massage.  The dentist has a poster of
whoever
    was the heavyweight boxing champion (Holyfield?) and tries to get
George
    in a conversation about the champ's physique, and who George 'likes'
in
    some upcoming fight, as George becomes increasingly uncomfortable
and
    defensive.

3.  After Kramer gets kicked in the head, everybody's in Jerry's
apartment and
    the phone rings.  Kramer picks it up and starts babbling, really
fast and
    totally deadpan, in some foreign language (Italian, maybe?).

This last one is probably my favorite.  Cracks me up thinking about it
even now.

BTW, I've been reading the net for several months and this is my first
attempt
to post, so I hope I did this correctly and don't draw flames.


Wayne Erxleben
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From: moran@clodii.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dan Moran)
Subject: Re: THE CONTEST
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 14:09:31 GMT

Now that someone jogged my recollection of a REALLY funny show, _Faulty
Towers_ (sp?), my most memorable scene from it is "Throw it AWAY!!"
when John C tried to explain to Manuel that the grapefruit that fell
on the floor should not be served to a customer, so Manuel tosses it
right into the customer's face.  It's been a long time since I've seen
any episodes of FT, even tho I know videos of it can be had now.
Now I know what my wife can get me for Christmas!