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   Jim Ellwanger to Joseph Nebus   
   Re: Unsold coffee table books ...   
   11 Jan 12 18:51:59   
   
   From: usenet@ellwanger.tv   
      
   In article ,   
    nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >         Amusing sketch, and yet somehow, I expected there to be   
   > Visible Closed Captions running underneath it.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   Of course, the Visible Closed Captions would be different than they've   
   been before, now that Conan is on TBS instead of NBC, and is thus being   
   closed-captioned by NCI instead of VITAC.   
      
   >         (Also, the monologue crack about 'white power steering' was   
   > supremely perfectly delivered.  If it was improvised, it was a great   
   > improvisation.  If it was written beforehand, it was delivered with   
   > extraordinary deftness.)   
      
   Also, yes. I do picture that having been said by someone in the writers'   
   room earlier in the day. Perhaps one of the people who were photographed   
   in rabbit suits for one of the coffee table books.   
      
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