Prank went well. The text of the letter was:

Dear Scott,

Per our conversation, enclosed please find Mr. T.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Best regards,

Lars Theriot

I spoke to Scott this morning. He said he sat in his office for a half an hour desperately trying to recall this "conversation." Then he decided that I must've gotten him confused with the other agent named Scott in the office. So he leaned into that guy's office while he was on the phone, the other guy put his call on hold, and Scott held up the Mr. T doll and said "did you speak to Lars about this?"

I almost wet myself when he told me that.

Currently, Mr. T and the note are resting comfortably on Scott's desk with a commanding view of Central Park.
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I guess Lars' friend was not able to "Stay out da Bushes! Stay out da Bushes!"
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Some friends and I have started a Thursday night tradition of going out and getting snookered at this bar called Cyrano. You may remember Cyrano from that story a couple weeks ago involving Laaz, Rachel Hunter, and most of Limp Bizkit. Anyway, at last week's soiree (which Laaz did not attend), one of our number passed out in a bush while waiting for his car to come back from the valet (valet service--or "balet" service as most of the actual valet's pronounce it--at Cyrano is notoriously slow). Forty-five minutes later, the car arrived, the valet shook our boy awake, and he went home.

Cut to: Last night

We arrived to find a huge line. No problem since, after spending somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000 dollars at this place over the last three weeks, the owner knows us. The bush guy walks up to the doorman who says "invitation only." Bush guy says "Look, check with Eric, he knows us, it's cool." The doorman takes a long, hard, cold look at bush guy and I started to think we were in big trouble. Then a big smile spreads across the doorman's face and he says "Hey! You're the guy from the bushes!" And in we went.
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Boy, George W. really doesn't want to debate, does he? Now the TV networks are getting pissed.
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Thursday, August 24, 2000

Wednesday, August 23, 2000

Ryan just came in here with a funny prank idea. He thought we should just start sending random stuff to our NY office in the nightly pouch. Our first prank is to send a six inch Mr. T poseable figure to one of the agents, in an envelope with the following note attached:

Dear Scott,

Per our conversation, enclosed please find Mr. T.

Best regards,

Lars Theriot
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Well, I had to wait in three different Post Office lines a total of six different times to do it, but my passport application is winging its way across the nation toward Pittsburgh, even as we speak. I finally decided to do the by-mail thing because it saves you 20 bucks. Not sure why, but if you mail in an "expedite" it costs $75, but if you hand deliver to the passport agency, it costs $95.
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That clock is friggin' AWESOME!!! On the date thing, I wanted to give us a little delay so we wouldn't need to feel rushed after such a long trip.
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I think "Webcast" might be overselling it a bit. There won't be any video, just pictures and stories. And the first update should hopefully be before the 10th, probably the 9th, possibly even the 8th.
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Is everyone spreading the word about the Vietnam 2000 Webcast... starts on or about October 10th, technology permitting. Should be a good one. I figure at the very least, we ought to be able to find a computer from which to talk to everybody on the blog and chat board. Mike's probably the one to ask about how often we'll be able to update the webcast itself, but he tells me that the likely scenario is once every few days or so.
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So, what are everybody's plans for the big show tonight? I will be headed over to Damare's house for a BBQ hosted by the guy who owns the house. You may have seen me mention him on the blog as Law-School-Phil. Should be a good time. How are you spending the final Survivor Wednesday?
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Tuesday, August 22, 2000

A near mutiny, and other things CBS won't let you see. An interesting article from Salon on what gets edited out of the TV version of Big Brother.
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The "shat" board is quiet... too quiet.
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Very good Schwartzie!
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Yes, the spoiler is true!:

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Possible Spoiler!!!

Time Magazine has a headline on its website announcing an e-mail they received from Al Gore. In the headline, they refer to Al as "the first digital President!"

Did some web master make a mistake here? Has Time let the identity of the winner slip out!? I can't find any info on the fan discussion sites.

;-)
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Saw the strangest show on IFC last night. It's called Fishing With John and it is one of the most bizarre TV shows I've ever seen. So bizarre, in fact, that I found myself laughing uncontrollably at the silliness of it all. In this episode, host John Lurie picks up director Jim Jarmusch at his Manhattan abode in a Lincoln Town Car and drives him out to Long Island for an afternoon of shark fishing. No films were discussed, but at one point, John does ask Jim if he'd like to see his penis.

Weird man.
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Well, it's official. TWA 800 was brought down by an electrical short that caused fuel vapors in the center fuel tank to explode. I just like to point these things out because there are still a lot of nuts out there running around screaming about missles and cover-ups. I stumble onto conspiracy web sites promoting these kinds of fantasies all the time, and I would hate to think a "true believer" might miss the official explanation because they don't read real news sites.

we're all about public service here at Tri-Llama.

Also, the Russians are still trying to say that the Kursk colided with "someone" (read: a US ship), despite an outstanding analysis in this week's Time Magazine by Tom Clancy who explains exactly why that is impossible. (Sorry I can't link to it, but those zany folks at Time actually expect to make some money off our reading their magazine or something. Dopes.)
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Woody Allen is a seriously messed-up dude. I was watching an HBO special on Howard Cosell last night, and at one point they interviewed Woody Allen. He goes on for a minute or so about how Howard had this great voice and he used it all the time, even when he was doing simple things like asking you to pass the butter. Then he pauses for a second and says "You know, it kinda makes you wonder what it would be like to have sex with him."

Anyone else wonder if Woody Allen can ever not be a horny little geek, or do you all figure it's like a 24/7 condition he has?

By the way, the special was pretty fascinating, particularly the clips from the Monday Night Football game that Howard did while drunk.
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How odd. What do you get if you replace our Llamas with Whales? You get the corporate training company run by Survivor's Richard: Tri-Whale Training.
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Monday, August 21, 2000

Well, I screwed the pooch on the second part of my half.com order, as well. I'm almost positive I clicked on a paperback copy of Jim Webb's A Sense of Honor, and while I did get the correct book this time, I got it in hardcover, which hardly solves my problem of not having any lightweight paperback novels that I don't mind leaving behind when I'm finished with them, to bring to Vietnam with me, now does it?

I guess there's still hope for part 3 of my order, which is All The President's Men, in paperback. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Here's a Post article about a new MTV special: When Lyrics Attack. Couple things I didn't know included the fact that, as objectionable as the lyrics on Eminem's latest album might be, his record company actually made him take out some lyrics referring to the Columbine shooters, and the fact that last year the Beastie Boys officially apologized for mocking homosexuals on their first album (what was that, fourteen years ago?).
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I found a lot of these to be quite funny. The Ani DiFranco one is the most uncanny, and the Tom Petty one was the most surprising.
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Vietnam airline bans 'smelly sauce' I really have nothing to add to this. Just thought it was interesting. I've never actually tasted nuoc mam.
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I saw a new low in the "movies-edited-for-TV" arena of the culture wars this weekend. I was watching The Golden Child on TNT last night and there's a scene in the airport at Khatmandu, where Eddie pretends to be an agent from the American Stolen Artifacts Foundation. There's a throw-away joke at the end where he refers to the hot chick with him as his partner, "Agent 69." But in a very cheesy, obviously not Eddie voice-over, last night he said "Agent 79" which, besides making absolutely no sense, is a completely uneccessary content edit. This joke was already deemed acceptable for Get Smart, thirty years ago! So while this joke is OK for a weekly network show from the seventies, it is unacceptable on Cable in the year 2000? We've have officially started to regress, people! A sign of Lieberman-related things to come?

Stupid Ted Turner.
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Sunday, August 20, 2000