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   Alex Trebek:   
   	- Coming in a nice yellow umbrella to an upbeat cover of   
   the Jeopardy! theme.  He's finally on the show (and why has it been   
   so long?) and he has to come in after a rain delay.   
      
   	- He's used to prime time access ... ``you bastard.  I'll   
   take bastard for 400.''   
      
   	- People see him as the master of all knowledge,   
   gatekeeper of all secrets.  True maybe in the 80s when the show   
   started; people found him a bit nasty towards contestants who   
   made mistakes.   
      
   	- He married a woman 24 years younger than him, and   
   people said he was then a kinder, gentler American person.   
      
   	- Do people come up to him in bars and say ``I'll take   
   potent potables'' or ``carnivorous cats''?  Not anymore, but   
   little old ladies do.  He sees some in the audience people who'll   
   say ``I really like your program but my mother is your biggest   
   fan''.  He doesn't get this from 15-year-olds; he gets it from   
   40- and 50-year olds.  He wants teens.  Thankfully his wife goes   
   to bed early.  ``I could get her a tape.''  ``You could, you   
   ratfink.''   
      
   	- His wife's from Queens.  He's about the same age as her   
   parents.  The first words from her father were, ``I guess I'm not   
   going to be calling you son.''   
      
   	- He's a mister-fixit kind of guy, known in the Jeopardy!   
   audience as Mister Sprinkler Man.  Clearly he lives on the edge.   
   They have a large, heavily landscaped owner who was a   
   contemporary of General Patton; they have 150 to 200 sprinkler   
   heads, always breaking.  His daughter's new dog likes to chew   
   them.  His wife says, in a Kermit-like voice, ``One of the   
   sprinklers is on the fritz again.''  Conan wonders why his wife   
   talks like a prospector.   
      
   	- It's the kind of thing he likes to do and that he's   
   good at.  He can hear water leaking.  He was wandering around the   
   yard, heard water through the pipes, heard the leak ... it was in   
   the house.  The connecting pipe to a toilet had broken and there   
   were four inches of water in the guest bathroom.   
      
   	- So Alex Trebek wanders his property and now and then   
   senses water leaking.  He doesn't react that quickly.  More like   
   ``... there's a leak here.''  Then he calls the dogs and orders   
   them to dig it up.  He does the plumbing himself.   
      
   	- He has no room for cars, just tools.  Conan would like   
   to see Trebek's home improvement show, wandering the property   
   with his dogs and looking to be electrocuted.  Trebek wants Conan   
   on Celebrity Jeopardy!.  He's got half of it down; if only Conan   
   had a mind.   
      
      
      
   Yunjin Kim:   
   	- It's chilly in New York City; she used to live right   
   across the street.  Living in Hawaii is sweet.   
      
   	- Conan hasn't missed an episode of Lost.  Thought they   
   found a completely deserted part of the Hawaiian islands, but was   
   stunned to see it's a public beach when he went for the Emmy   
   opening.  If you tilt the camera a little you see surfers,   
   suntanners; in the middle, is Lost.  They were telling him, hug   
   that tree, avoid that bus.  We can't move the camera slightly,   
   we'll see the volleyball tournament.   
      
   	- Is she confused by the show as well?  When she read her   
   character was pregnant she was amazed ... but from the script it   
   wasn't clear whose.  She had to shoot one scene and needed to   
   know who the father is.  They wouldn't tell her: ``Act as   
   ambiguously as you can.''   
      
   	- They don't tell the actors when their character's   
   getting killed.  She's ready to get on her knees and beg.   
      
   	- Her character found she was pregnant because a home   
   pregnancy test was on the plane.  Conan loved on Gilligan's   
   Island it was just in Mister Howell's trunk.  They keep finding   
   on the show new crates of food, showers, salad dressing ...   
      
   	- Is it easy to meet people and date?  It's hard to meet   
   *new* people.  She looks for a sense of humor (``Don't look at   
   me!) ... someone backstage told her to flirt with him.  Conan's   
   wife will want to talk with them.   
      
   	- She really does get lost.  She got a map for a birthday   
   present.  So a guy with a sense of direction goes well.  Conan   
   has an awful one; Conan's wife has a great one, and can tell   
   direction from the stars or a bird flying.  Kim shows she can't   
   follow ... if that's north, then what direction is this ... she   
   can't find west on the first guess, due to turning a little.   
   Conan advises against going by the matte painting stars, and   
   offers to buy a global positioning satellite device. 	   
      
      
   Barenaked Ladies:   
   	- From ``Barenaked Ladies Are Me'': From the lyrics, I   
   can't tell which of the songs on the album it is.  Anyway, it's   
   Barenaked Ladies, so you know the song's going to be appealing no   
   matter what the track.   
   	   
   	http://www.amazon.com/Barenaked-Ladies-Are-Me/dp/B000H1RG2M/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)