Za and competence
Given my recent spelling errors, this poster seemed appropo appropos apropos:
I believe the poster is the brainchild ofMr. Ehrenberg Goose.
UPDATE: No one else laid claim to the poster idea, so I will credit Goose.
I believe the poster is the brainchild of
UPDATE: No one else laid claim to the poster idea, so I will credit Goose.
posted by (d)avid at 12/13/2004 02:29:00 PM
7 Comments:
Since my typing and spelling are under attack, I figure I might as well pile on with Sean Kelly's great email from five years ago:
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:28:07 -0500
From: SK (seank@bu.edu)
Subject: Whither Fagan, and Other Concerns
At 11:14 PM -0500 12/15/99, David Nickerson also wrote:
>6) Prep or on the fly opening?
>There has been no systematic study of whether Combo Za
>has better opening at the last minute or planned well
>in advance (have we ever had one well in advance?). I
>suggest we randomly assign performers into treatment
>(advamnce planning) and control (dinner) groups. The
>groups which has teh funnier opening gets to be smug.
I think this is an interesting idea, although I hope that the treatment group gets to eat dinner as well. I perform pretty well on an empty stomach (granted, I've never actually been able to perform any other way), but others may need Hoppin' Jon or Chicken Piccata or other Baxter specialties to be at their best.
Unrelatedly, Winchester, I calculated the ratio of "the" to "teh" in your missive as 2 to 1 (10 "the's", 5 "teh's"). This, along with the fact that you never misspelled "there" as "tehre", seems too remarkable to be merely a typographical error, and I was wondering what significance the transposition might have. Perhaps an illustration of how order can arise out of apparently unrelated events, much like the randomly drawn letters in "Scrabble"?
Man I'm excited for this thing.
Thinking and typing,
Scoop
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Another contender- the oddly similar moment in Stetson Court, where in response to news of a typical shocking plot twist, the Ball's character protests, "I can't be serious!"
Speaking of Stetson Court and group competence, there was an odd trend in my years of being unable to come up with Stetson Court character names that didn't have "Mc" or "Mac" in the last name. It got so bad that at one point characters would come in and everyone would say "Mack McMickmack!" It was strange that it was just that skit.
How odd! Smacks of "Dom DeLouise... Price!" Ragin', you wanna explain that one?
Those were some rockin' openings. The Dawn of Comedy was particularly sweet (though about as self-aggrandizing as imaginable) because it was a triumph of (then) high production values, staged at the site of our "She Caught the Katy" collapsing riser Wheel of Doom debut disaster.
I'll point out that none of these openings could have taken place without months of meticulous online planning...
I'll share a story from my brother's sketch comedy group at Kenyon. They wrote a scene where a nerdy little kid carrying a teddybear was being taunted by bullies and kept warning, "Leave me alone or Big Teddy is gonna get you." Eventually the bullies push him down and start beating him up. At this point the audience will hear a growing roar, the lights go out, a really loud deep roar blasts, and when the lights came up, the bullies would be gone, but the stage is littered with body parts. THe nerdy little boy hugs the teddy bear and says, "I love you Big Teddy."
Unfortunately, the sound cue was late in coming. So the bullies pushes the little boy down and started beating him up. And beating him up. And finding more creative ways to beat him up. Meanwhile, the kid is wailing "Big teddy, where are you?!" Finally, the bullies figure the roar isn't coming, get bored and walk off stage. The kid sits up on stage asks, "What happened, Big Teddy?" Stands up. Yells (perhaps breaking character), "Well, that sucked!" and throws the teddy bear to the floor. Once the kid walks off stage, we finally hear a deep booming roar.
Sadly, they didn't have the presence of mind to throw the body parts and the backpack of the nerd on stage.
Goose, I was going to post that Absolute Poster next. We've still got over a month to go before the show. I have to space these things out.
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