*Taking It In Stride*


Q:  Hello Mr. Ambassomat!

B:  Hello, Mr. Ambassadorable.

Q:  Thank you very much. I was wondering if you would pick up on the
reverse and call me Mr. Diplodoor.

B:  Thank you.

Q:  Another variation.

B:  Yes.

Q:  I have a very deep, probing, incisive question for you tonight.

B:  Oh, all right, surgical precision about to take place.

Q:  Do you have any money riding on the World Series?

B:  No.

Q:  Actually I don't really have a big question or anything. But I have
been fascinated by the perturbations in our status quo.

B:  Oh, all right.

Q:  Status quo.

B:  Yes.

Q:  Our earthquake a month ago or so...

B:  Yes?

Q:  And now...

B:  And then your economy quake.

Q:  Yes. (10-87)

B:  Everything is being shaken up.

Q:  Yeah. I was really... I just am really proud of us for not panicking on
this thing.

B:  Yes.

Q:  You know, we got our computers...

B:  You notice the difference now!

Q:  Yes.

B:  Yes. You are taking it in stride: "Oh, just another major economic
upheaval! Just another symbol rearranges itself again."

Q:  Yeah. And I got the feeling that people were going: "Hey, we can have
here large perturbations without the sky falling in, so to speak. And, oh,
now we can relax, because it's not going to happen disastrously again."

B:  Very good.

Q:  Yeah. So I think this was the year for that, isn't... you said
something like that, didn't you?

B:  Yes. What you call you '87 has been, in many ways, the Convergence and
the Year of Manifestation and Recognition. Your year of '88 - if we can
apply any label to it at all - could be the Year of Conviction.

Q:  Yeah. As a result of seeing...

B:  (Mutterings from the audience, as the channel's head swivels around,
sweeping back and forth) Oh, oh! Conviction! Oh!

Q:  As a result of seeing these perturbations /not/ be disastrous.

B:  Yes.

Q:  Yeah.

B:  Thank you!

Q:  Any, quote/unquote, predictions for Halloween in terms of a
perturbation in some other area?

B:  Just the story that we have to share next week of your time.

Q:  Oh, that's going to be...

B:  That might shake a few of you up a little bit.

Q:  Okay. Thank you, Mr. Diplodoor.

B:  Oh, thank you very much. Sharing!