From: ddrewc@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net   
      
   On 2007-06-28 11:21 p.m., Joseph Nebus verbated:   
   > 	7.  Is there a sketch which always amuses you, no matter how   
   > good or bad it turns out to actually be?  What is it, if there is one?   
      
   Hmm. Most of the recurring sketches amuse me to some degree, but few make   
   me laugh out loud with regularity. Triumph, as we discussed recently,   
   hardly ever appears anymore, so I guess he doesn't count.   
      
   "Actual Items" usually elicits a few chuckles out of me because of the   
   audacity of its little commentaries. Confession: for at least a year after   
   I started watching the show, I thought that the items were from real-life   
   newspapers.   
      
   > 	8.  What book that you could lay your hand on right now --   
   > without rooting around in the attic or storage locker or the like --   
   > have you owned the longest?  Which book is the oldest?   
      
   Most of my childhood books are in boxes, making my longest-owned book on   
   hand "Garfield Loses His Feet," the 9th book of Garfield comic strips. I   
   got it circa 1984 from Scholastic or some other book club that fulfilled   
   orders through my elementary school.   
      
   My oldest book is hard to determine exactly, as it's probably one of the   
   cheap paperbacks purchased at used-book sales over the years. The oldest   
   one I could find is a Dell paperback edition of "Fail-Safe" by Eugene   
   Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The printing is dated August 1963. Coming in a   
   close second is a Signet Classic edition of George Orwell's "Animal Farm"   
   printed in October 1963.   
      
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