From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Drew  writes:   
      
   >On 2007-06-26 10:43 a.m., Joseph Nebus verbated:   
   >> 	3.  Has Triumph the Insult Comic Dog worn out his schtick or is   
   >> there still life in the Hungarian Whatsisface Puppet yet?   
      
   >Triumph still makes me laugh in his rare appearances on the show, but I   
   >grant that the well may be running dry. He's on so little now that it's   
   >hard to tell if he's declined in funniness, but I didn't find his visit to   
   >the Tony Awards as funny as his previous performances. Maybe Smigel was   
   >rusty from lack of practice.   
      
   	To be honest, I found the Tony appearance relatively dull,   
   but that's mostly because I just don't find ``he's gay!'' to be an   
   actual joke now that I'm not in the fourth grade anymore.  When he   
   got onto original material, like putting in Abe Vigoda and the   
   tuberculosis guy, then he was worth the bother of an appearance.   
      
      
   >> 	4.  What's the stupidest thing you ever saved on the grounds it   
   >> had some sentimental value, and how long did it last before you came to   
   >> your senses and threw it out?   
      
   >I'm having difficulty recalling the last time I threw something out of   
   >sentimental value. I still have candy canes I received when I was in   
   >elementary school, for example.   
      
   	Wow.  But kind of sweet in its way.  I've saved at least one   
   copy of the Scholastic Reader and of Enter magazine from my childhood,   
   but I don't think those are ridiculous choices at all.   
      
   	The *stupidest* thing I've ever saved for any reason would be   
   the toothbrush I used my last week as an undergraduate.  It started out   
   being kept because it was a travel-type toothbrush and therefore was of   
   some theoretical use since I figured I'd be taking some weekend trips   
   over the summer, and then when I got into graduate school it was easy   
   enough to keep around until my severely defective brain got the idea it   
   should be saved from the garbage bin because after all it *was* a rare   
   connection to that final week at Rutgers when I played a lot of SimCity   
   2000 on the lab computers and read all 29,118 Usenet groups.   
      
   	I'm ashamed to say it took about a year after that for me to   
   accept that it was a toothbrush and actually provoked no memories that   
   I did not have equally well without it.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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