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    nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   > 	1.  Nine-tenths of the Writers Guild has voted to authorize   
   > their representatives to call a strike should it prove necessary, as   
   > it is awfully anticipated to be, after the current contract expires   
   > at the end of November.  Assuming that the strike does happen, what   
   > does Late Night do?   
      
   Same thing "Late Night with David Letterman" did for the last writers'   
   strike in 1988 -- go into reruns.  (And then, if I recall correctly,   
   they eventually came back, without much actual comedy material -- no   
   jokes in the opening announcement, no Top Ten lists, and so on.)   
      
   I'm kinda, sorta hoping there actually is a writers' strike, at least a   
   brief one, so I can catch up with some of the four pages' worth of   
   movies I have saved on my TiVo.   
      
   > 	2. Have you actually bought something as the result of an   
   > online advertisement, as in a banner ad or Ads By Google blurb?   
      
   No, but I and my paycheck are very happy that a surprising number of   
   people do buy as a result of the "sponsored ads" on Yahoo! and their   
   partner sites.   
      
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