Subject: [FFML] Mech Talk (spamfic)
From: David Lerman
Date: 6/24/1998, 2:05 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

A friend sent me this little gem.  I don't know who the author is.  

A note to nonresidents of the US - This is a spoof of a popular radio show
on public radio, "Car Talk."  The real hosts talk very much like the two
shown below.

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C: Hello and Welcome to MECH TALK.  We're Flash and Crash, the Mecha Brothers.

F: We're broadcasting today from the top of Mech Talk Tower, in the heart of
Neo-MegaTokyo-3...

C: ...our fair city...

F: ...and we'll be taking your calls and dipping into our Department of
MechaMusicology.  

C: And our first call today is from Leon.  Hello Leon, you're on Mech Talk.

L: Hey.

F: Hey, Leon.

L: Hey.

C: Hey, Leon.  Whatcha pilotin' there?

L: K-12.  Having a little trouble with it.

F: What kinda trouble, Leon.

L: Well, I get my butt kicked every time I go up against anything tougher than
a sexaroid with PMS.  

C: Yeah, this is a common problem with the K-12.

F: Oh, yeah.

C: So, you're doin' a lotta anti-boomer work?  Bu-55s, et al?

L: Uh-huh.  Day in day out.  You know how it is.

F: Mm-hmm.  Well, you've really got very little choice in the matter, here. 
The underlying problem is that all ADP-issue mechs...

C:  ...such as the K-12...

F:  ...yeah, are-- oh, how shall we put it...

C:  ...not quite up to...

F:  ...fall a little short of...

C:  ...aah... ...pieces...

F:  ...yeah, pieces of...

C: Utter crap.

F: Absolutely.  Pieces of utter crap.  Honest to God, son, if you weren't the
prime audience's identifying character you'da been street cheese before
"Revenge Road".

L: So what should I do?

C: Well, there's only one thing TO do.  You gotta get your own series.

F: Sure.

L: Really?

C: Yeah, and you've GOTTA try to get away from Sonoda.

F: OH yeah.  Best you can hope for with him in the picture is second banana to
a pair of lace panties on an underaged sidekick.

L: But he gives me LOTS of good guns...

F: But that's ALL you're gonna get.  Virginal teases in wigs and leather
minis.
 That's Sonoda.

C: Yeah, and forget about THAT one, by the way.  She's a lesbian.

L: Really?

F&C: OH, yeah!!!!

L: Well, okay...

C: Okay, Leon!  Good luck!

F: See-ya later, Leon.  B'bye.  And our next call is from Rei.  

C: Hello Rei, you're on Mech Talk.

R: ...

F: Hello.  Rei?

R: ...

C: What's your problem, Rei?

R: Blue.

...

...

F: Uhh...

C: Yeah, you're gonna have to be a little more specif--

R: Blue mecha.

...

C: Okay, that's a start...

F: You sure you're name's not Brenda?

R: Blue Mecha.  Color of the sea.  I can hear the sea.  Wrong movie.  

F: Err... that's a little off-topic, but--

R: Movie.  Long movie.  Movie that I hate.  "Why not a romantic comedy?", I
said.  I can do comedy.  I wrote a joke. 

C: Uhh, did you have a problem with your mech we can help with?

R: Unit Zero.  The prototype.  It never liked me.  It smelled like blood. 
Blood is red.  Color I hate.  Color of the mech of the pilot of Unit Two.

F: Well, sure, the color of your mech is a very individual thing.  

C: Yeah, you could re-paint your mech, y'know...

R: They did.

C: They did?

R: Yes.  It was orange.  Color of... oranges.  Now it is blue.  Nobody told me
why.  I think it was so they could sell more models.  It doesn't go with my
suit anymore.  They didn't change my suit.  Ikari had the blue one already. 
Did I tell you my joke yet?

C: Ah, no.  That's about all the time we have this week...

R: It goes like this: They're going to make an audio hentai Evangelion.

F: So join us again next week on mech talk.

R: Thirty minutes of silence and then I say "Are we done now?"

C: In the meantime...

R: Wasn't that funny?  I thought so.

C: ...don't pilot like my brother.

R: Ha-ha.

F: Don't pilot like my brother.