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[SIZE="3"]Many of his old phone-call standups have not aged a bit. I have a bunch on my ipod and listen whenever I feel like smiling. Like...

The brand-new security guard at the Empire State Building calling his boss in the middle of the night because there's nothing in the manual about how to handle a fifty-foot ape climbing the building.

Walter Raleigh on the phone from Virginia to the East India company in London trying to convince them that tobacco would be a good import. [/SIZE]

My parents had all three of the Button-Down Mind albums which I loved, but it has been years since I've listened to them and I've enjoyed every one of his TV shows. I just checked my libraries and they had plenty of stuff for me to listen to, watch and he has even published a memoir, I Shouldn't Even Being Doing This! so I'll be needing plenty of water in the near future.

Walter Raleigh on the phone from Virginia to the East India company in London trying to convince them that tobacco would be a good import. [/SIZE]

That is pure genius.