From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> 	- She changed her appearance for the role.  She tried to just   
   >> eat non-nutritional foods, except proteins, as she fell in love with   
   >> corn dogs.  Conan's never had one.   
      
   >I find this very surprising, that Conan's never had a corn dog.  (We got   
   >free corn dogs at my office a couple of weeks ago, from the Hot Dog on a   
   >Stick catering truck.  Yes, Hot Dog on a Stick has a catering truck.)   
      
   	Yeah, that was a shock.  I thought everybody got corn dogs   
   issued them from about age seven until they started getting sick from   
   eating three at once.   
      
   	There's quite a few Singaporean fast food stalls that offer   
   foods, often fried, on skewers, ranging from corn dog or corn dog-like   
   materials through cuttlefish up to crab patties, and much more strange   
   and disturbing things.  But another fascinating variant I enjoyed was   
   the 'hot dog doughnut'.  This was a small (chicken) hot dog, wrapped   
   up in doughnut batter and the whole thing fried.  Not as stiff as a   
   corn dog, much more filling than a pig-in-a-blanket, but really quite   
   fascinating.   
      
      
   >I happened to record this episode in HD on my computer, and could make   
   >out more of the items on Conan's mug:  "GIBBLE," "OINTMENT," "SALVES AND   
   >CREAMS," and what looks a whole lot like "SWEET SWYZY GOO."  Things must   
   >have been really bizarre back there in the "Simpsons" writers' room.   
      
   	I can pretty well imagine teams of comedy writers shouting out   
   things like 'SALVES AND CREAMS' to each other and the group laughing   
   in the shared, peculiar, in-joke.  (There was a time in my life that   
   one of the funniest things you could say to my circle of friends was   
   'These are all questions I feel I cannot answer' or repeating whatever   
   the last noun was and following it with '... of love.'  As I had never   
   seen Mystery Science Theater 3000 at that point -- my friends strongly   
   recommended it, but my friends had recently built up a really lousy   
   track record -- that turned into one of those jokes everybody *else*   
   in the room likes that just annoyed me.)   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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