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- From: herbert@wam.umd.edu (David Mark Herbert)
- Subject: Re: Dropping stuff (was: Re: THE CREATION OF ALT.FAN.LETTERMAN)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.062313.14853@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:23:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.145531.12462@news.acns.nwu.edu> myboy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Lewis Murtaugh) writes:
- >I miss that. There was this one episode, it must have been 6 or 7 years ago,
- >where Dave was on the 5-story tower, dropping stuff, and he set up this
- >trampoline underneath. Then he takes out a raw, skinned turkey, and said
- >"Scientists tell us the turkey can't fly -- I'm here to prove they're wrong,"
- >and he dropped the bird down onto the trampoline. It bounced up, and the
- >little wings flopped around in mid-air, and I thought I would die laughing.
- >
- >Some of Dave's best segments are when he destroys stuff (the locomotive, the
- >40-ton steel press, etc.), but it's gotten very rare lately. A while ago he
- >was having Biff drive a golf cart through things, which was pretty good, but
- >that's the last I can remember.
- >
- >--
- >Charles Murtaugh
- >
-
- Also the time he dropped a bowling bowl onto, actually through a water bed.
- Do you remember the time he put on the Rice Crispy suit and got into a big
- bowl and had milk poured onto him? Or the time he melted down the coaster
- he has received for his birthday and sent it back to the president of NBC?
- Those were the good old days.
-
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