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    nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   > 	1. When was it that you realized you wanted to watch Conan's   
   > show regularly?  Was it a particular sketch or a particular stretch of   
   > shows?  If so, then who?   
      
   I realized even before the show premiered that I wanted to at least   
   check it out; the more details I heard about this "Conan O'Brien" guy,   
   the more intrigued I was -- and then, watching "The Chevy Chase Show" a   
   week before Conan's premiere, I figured out it couldn't be much worse   
   than that.   
      
   As it turned out, in that first year, there was a group of people in my   
   college dorm that watched Conan regularly, if only for the comedy   
   sketches (a lot of people left the room after the "middle bit," unless   
   there was going to be a good musical guest in the last segment).  So it   
   was that camaraderie more than anything else that kept me in the Conan   
   habit.   
      
   > 	2. When you order a value meal from a fast food place, how many   
   > special options or customizations do you feel you can safely get away   
   > with?  eg, could you bring yourself to say ``extra cheese, no catsup,   
   > pickles on the side, change fries to onion rings, add zesty sauce, no ice''   
   > without feeling ashamed, or do you feel like you're taxing the patience   
   > of the cashier and everyone behind you in line just by asking for the   
   > meal to be upsized (supersized, value sized, king sized, etc)?   
      
   I rarely get fast food these days, and when I do, I'm generally happy   
   with the items as they are (really, the only possible condiment item I'm   
   not a big fan of is mushrooms, but I probably wouldn't order a "mushroom   
   swiss burger" in the first place).  At In-n-Out, though, I do make   
   amendments to the combo order:  "Number One, animal style, fries well   
   done, vanilla shake."  Those are "secret" options, but they've got   
   buttons on the cash register, and they seem to train their cashiers well   
   enough that it doesn't take any extra time to handle that.   
      
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