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   polar  writes:   
      
   >Joseph Nebus wrote:   
   >> carola  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> On Feb 24, 8:43=A0pm, meOwy  wrote:   
      
   >>> whoops!  im not "Meowy".  that is screen name fur the cat community   
   >>> group.   
   >>   
   >> 	That's all right.  There was an early sketch in which Conan,   
   >> as either Bartles or James, suckled kittens and turned his head into   
   >> a cat's head.  Thus, cats are on-topic around here too.   
      
   >I loved that skit.  They did it twice, once when Conan   
   >(as the silent one) simply meowed and then put on the   
   >cat head and another when he suckled the kittens.  Do   
   >you happen to have the dates for those skits?   
   >(I'm a long-time lurker but had to ask because just maybe   
   >someone might know.)   
      
   	I *think* the bit may have been run a few more times than that,   
   but it was part of the early ``Things We Didn't Get To Make Fun Of''   
   bit (where, as described, they'd deliver jokes about something which   
   was deliberately several years past its current date; Bartles and James   
   hadn't been 'seen' for a few years when Conan and Andy did them).   
      
   	When I get home I'll go rooting about the Google Groups archive   
   to see if a date could be pinned down, but it'll be tricky.  The group   
   didn't really get going until spring of 1994 and many of these bits were   
   sooner than that.  And Google Groups works so very hard to make it so   
   unsearchable, too.   
      
      
   >> 	Well, and there was that weird IRC chat the writers gave once.   
      
   >Didn't the newsgroup, back in the mid-90's, have someone   
   >who was also an intern?   
      
   	I believe we did, yes.  And of course a former closed-captioner.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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