She knew that he was never coming back but

She knew that he was never coming back but she'd forgotten how long a day or a week or a month could be and how hope is so violent. So she went to a bar & found a man there who

bore an uncanny resemblance to Bob Barker. But it couldn't be Bob Barker. He's dead, isn't he She sat catty-corner from him at the bar to get a better look.

"I'll have another scotch," he told the bartender, "...if the price is right." "Bob Barker?" I asked, and he nodded, "I thought you were dead." "We're all dead in this bar, " he re

minded himself, "Gene Rayburn, Bill Cullen, Richard Dawson. " "What about Wink Martindale?" I asked, ". . .Bob Eubanks and Monty Hall?" "Hall isn't still alive--is he?" Bob Barker

wondered aloud. "You're damn right I am!" Monty Hall shouted from across the bar. "I'm older than you! Better looking than you! I get laid more often than you!" Bob Barker laughed

and flipped a switch on his inner thigh. Suddenly there was a glow in his eyes that suggested Monty better start looking behind the bar for the largest bottles he could find. "Is

that a bottle of Chateau d' If 1636, Dante et fili, Vintners in your hand," the automaton asked Monty. Monty was puzzled at first then remembered his "cudgel" was a bottle of wine.

sip of the wine first, followed by a decent glug that left the glass half empty. He poured the rest on the automaton, and a blinking light indicated that the contents weren't

what the robot had in mind for a glorious end.