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   Joseph Nebus to All   
   31 October 2007 - Brian Williams, Audien   
   02 Nov 07 23:09:06   
   
   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Brian Williams:   
   	- He's doing a whole lot of work, too much.  He should leave.   
   	   
   	- Last night he was doing the debate, got in to New York City at   
   1 am for the Writer's Meeting.  They don't bathe and they eat strange   
   foods, Doritos and Peanut Butter Cups and a coke, and offered   
   substantial things like a doughnut.  They had Holiday 2006 Coke.  He was   
   lucky to get that; that's 'fresh' food.  Left somewhere around 5 to 6   
   am, going up and down the hall watching sketches.  They start from about   
   thirty and narrow it to ten.   
   	   
   	- Is he going to be dressed as a piece of French toast, or Pipi   
   Longstocking, or in silly costumes?  That was an issue in accepting.   
   	   
   	- Williams wrote for tickets when the show first aired; he got   
   to Broderick Crawford's show, an old actor who was smoking and taking   
   oxygen during commercials.   
   	   
   	- He's still news anchor.  Scenario: he's doing a sketch as Papa   
   Smurf, they rush in that Osama bin Laden's been captured.  Does he rush   
   on air to announce?  ``Are you done?''  Williams believes they will have   
   anchors on hand, and in the event of something big they will deal with   
   it.  Plus, Papa Smurf is such a big thing.  The 80s called and asked how   
   he was.   
   	   
   	- Williams saw his drummer, Max.  (That's not Max.)  He's now   
   with Bruce.  They're touring, at the Meadowlands and the Garden.  He's   
   doing well and is worried about slovenly behavior and debauchery from   
   the rest of the band.  Max is usually the schoolmarm; while he's away,   
   look what's become of them.   
   	   
   	- Max dresses and acts like an accountant on Late Night; at   
   Springsteen he wears a tanktop.  It's very different.   
   	   
      
   Audience Questions:   
   	- She wants to get lilies in without the deer eating them.  What   
   should she do?  Plant bulbs they don't find as tasty -- daffodils,   
   hyacinths; if they have to be lillies, try erithonium, a miniture lily,   
   but get them in soon.   
   	   
   	- If Kentucky was neutral in the Civil War why did they vote in   
   1861 for only Confederate troops to withdraw from their territory?   
   Because Confederate General Leonidas Polk dispatched Brigadier General   
   Gideon Johnson Pillow to occupy Columbus, Kentucky on September 4 1861.   
   If Pillow hadn't built Fort Debrussy, stretched a giant chain across the   
   Mississippi to disrupt union shipping, the legislature might've backed   
   Governor Beriah Magoffin's plan to have both withdraw simultaneously.   
   	   
   	- Why did Stephanie leave me?  It wasn't one thing!  It was a   
   series of petty humiliations!  You got trashed at her uncle Robert's   
   funeral, you told Jamall that you found her best friend skank-a-licious;   
   you didn't think that'd get back to Stephanie?  And most of all it was   
   the badgering, nightly insistence that she try it ``the other way'' when   
   she told you time and time again she wasn't comfortable doing that.  So   
   the question isn't why she left you but why she stayed for so long.   
   	   
   	- Bruce Brumidge: Which Halloween costume did you want to wear,   
   Wonder Woman or Baby Bum Bum?  Wonder Woman!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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