conversation in zippy's world...

him (riffing on Entertainment Tonight's coverage of Alan Alda and Harrison Ford's recent surgeries):

Producers: Ok, Mary Hart, if you say this technical word in this segment, we'll let you say "bum" in the next segment.

Mary Hart: Ok, but I gotta practice. Ap-pen-dec-TO-my. Appen-DEC-to-my. Ah-pen-dec-to-MY.

...Mary Hart in segment.... "Alan Alda is recovering from an appenDECTOmy... and Harrison Ford had surgery to repair a bum shoulder."