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Hello and welcome to Kair Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack for Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the commencement division here at Carth Talk.

I call it the Commencement Disappointment Division.

Oh, yes, more accurately.

Well, we got another letter from Charlie Vest at

MIT. Charles Vest is the president of MIT, and he's got a beautiful letterhead here. He does indeed.

It's very nice. He probably has a good flag, too. Dear Click and Clack, I understand that you have

once again expressed on-air disappointment over not being asked to speak at MIT's graduation. Yes,

we did a couple of weeks ago.

We expressed exactly that. Last summer, I advised you that your chances of being invited as commencement

speakers would be enhanced if Car Talk had a suitable flag that could be used to help us

decorate the campus. There you go. I hear that you have now come up with a flag and that you

thought this would assure your inclusion in the 1998 commencement program.

Certainly it is possible that a truly elegant flag, along with your unaccountable yet undeniable popularity among your fellow alums,

might have gone a long way toward assuring places for you in this year's celebrations,

except for two rather obvious problems.

Oh, this is good. One, problem number one, you fail to show your new flag to anyone at MIT.

Now, I don't doubt that the flag actually exists, parenthesis, Well, that's not accurate.

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