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Robin wants more girl time with Lily, so Lily brings her to Giddy Ups, a honky-tonk cowgirl sort of club, to meet up with Lily's co-worker Jillian and friends. Robin sneers at the atmosphere. Lily denies that the club is Jillian's speed, but meeting up with Jillian and all her cowgirl-hatted friends debunks that claim. Jillian may be an erudite, dedicated second grade teacher by day, but by night? She's a total Woo Girl. Saget!Ted explains: "A Woo Girl is the type of young woman, who, like the cuckoo bird or the whippoorwill, gets her name from the signature sound she makes." Almost anything can elicit a, "Woo!" from a Woo Girl: a good song; half-priced shots; or just remembering she fed her cat. While Lily is appalled, Robin acts appalled, and Barney gets wind that his friends are out with Woo Girls and shows up because he's Barney.
For most of the episode, Barney's story revolves around his rededication to the quest of beating out Marshall as Ted's best friend. Goliath National Bank is seeking an architect to design its new headquarters. Barney's on the search committee and has recommended Ted, who will get to pitch a design from his firm. If Ted gets the job, all three guys will be working at GNB, together. Ted can be included in Marshall and Barney's faux conference calls, which is their cover for ducking out of work to drink beers on the roof, then chucking the crumpled-up cans at pigeons (well, Marshall doesn't do that, but Barney does and Ted's game). Ted's still hurting over his break up with Stella, so getting a shot at realizing his dream of contributing a building to the Big Apple skyline means so much to him.
Ted aces the GNB presentation and leaves feeling good about his chances. Later that night, a grief-stricken Barney meets up with Lily, Marshall and Ted outside of MacLaren's and informs Ted that the board decided to go another way. Before they can react, a stretch Hummer Limo drives by, and who is wooing out the moon roof but our very own Robin. As the guys are leaving MacLaren's so Ted can go pee on the current GNB headquarters, Robin shows up. Lily confronts her about her secret life as a Woo Girl. Robin explains that sometimes she needs to go out with other single women and get her woo on.
The day at work, Marshall hears from co-worker Bilson that it was Barney's fault GNB chose the Sven Architecture Collective over Ted. He was enthralled by their pitch, which featured a fire-breathing, T-Rex-shaped building. Marshall confronts Barney in one of their rooftop conference calls and gives him Hell for screwing over Ted. He informs Barney there'll be no more conference calls, gives a pigeon-esque bird call, then locks Barney out on the roof. Barney is left there to contemplate his sins -- all alone, at least until the pigeons come.
That night, Lily shows up at Giddy Ups and tries to fit in with the Woo Girls, but she's the square peg. Robin consoles her by pointing out the desperation behind all the woos, and reminds us how lost she's been feeling since she left her job. They resolve to spend more best-friend time together. The guys show up, and Barney tells Ted that GNB has fired Sven and wants to hire Ted and his firm. He nearly confesses he was responsible for choosing Sven, but Marshall takes pity on Barney, and covers for him, blaming it on Bilson. Saget!Ted tells us Marshall caved 10 minutes later and told Ted it was Barney's fault, so they tied Barney to the mechanical bull, set it to "paint mixer" and went home.
End tag: Barney gets off the bull after 3 hours and is so dizzy, he can't walk, but he nearly kills himself trying -- in order to get to Jillian and her friend, who are planning to find a guy for a three way. The women walk off in search of that cute guy... Ted. Wooo!
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!I have to hand it to Craig Thomas and Carter L. Bays who wrote this episode, and to director Pamela Fryman, and of course, to this talented cast and crew. Woooo! makes great use of all the elements that make How I Met Your Mother unique. In this episode, the narration is not just exposition -- it serves the story; it reminds us that we're hearing this story 22 years later, from an unreliable narrator who loves to tell us his side. The acting is superb (I have one acting nit and I'll pick it when I get there). There's a nice sprinkling of running gags, but the pace is tight. The dialogue delights. I know I've been rough on a few episodes this season, but that's only because I love the show so much when it is at its best. Good job, show. Let's get to it, shall we?
We open on a beautiful shot of the New York City nighttime skyline at its twinkly best. Saget!Ted reminds his children that in the fall of 2008, their Aunt Robin was floundering. "So she valued her friendship with Aunt Lily more than ever." Don't let Saget!Ted give your eulogy. At MacLaren's, Robin is excited that Marshall has to work late on Friday, and proposes a ladies night to Lily, who already has plans to attend her co-worker Jillian's birthday party. Robin is jealous. "I've never even heard of this Jillian person before, and suddenly she's like your best friend. You can't shut up about her." Lily tries to soothe Robin's jealousy by reminding her they hang out all the time. Robin rejects this, because she says Marshall's always there and they never get to talk alone. When Lily says that isn't true, we...
Flashback to Lily and Marshall's apartment. Robin's telling a story and just as she gets to the good part, Marshall plops down on the couch to her, so Robin switches to non-specifics. "We go to the... place, and then that... guy asks about the thing, with the stuff that I told you about at that place that time. Long story short? Events transpired." Marshall says, "Oh my God, you and the guy from the Mayor's Office did it in the U.N. building under the desk of the Ambassador from Zaire? Nice!" He pats her back, but Robin is dismayed that he's broken her clever code.
Flash forward to MacLaren's. Robin says she just wants some girl time. She loves Marshall, but he's always talk-blocking her. Talk-blocking! (Zach, I think you're going to have to work on addendum to "How I Met Your Mother: The New Verbiage.) Lily invites Robin to come out with her and Jillian. Robin accepts the invitation, but doesn't want to stay out too late. Just as she's about to explain why, Marshall and Ted wander over to their booth, so she slips back into code: "Because... remember that, um, thing last month, after I went to the place? Well, you-know-who said it's fine, but she gave me some stuff." Marshall grimaces. "You've still got that yeast infection, huh?" Ted just looks at her. I try to stop imagining a month long yeast infection, or in fact a yeast infection of any duration. Someone save me! Let's holler at Lily, because she's obviously keeping Marshall abreast of Robin's gynecological health. Lily, knock that off. Loose lips sink ships. Yes, I should have spared you when my mind went there, but why should I suffer alone? Bartender, we'll have a round of brain bleach, thanks.
Theme Song! (Music hath charms to soothe the savage yeast.)
Same night at MacLaren's: Barney shows up and tells Marshall to enjoy his last moment of the two of them being in competition for the title of Ted's Best Friend. Ted says Marshall's his best friend, and Barney agrees, "Exactly, it's a tie." Barney knows Ted hasn't had any exciting projects at work lately, but he's got news that's about to change that. GNB is moving forward on the plans for their new downtown headquarters. Is my bailout money going toward that shit? Anyhow, so far GNB has only been in talks with the Sven Architecture Collective, which Saget!Ted describes as a, "Swedish Architectural Collective noted for their bold, innovative designs. I hated those guys." Current-day Ted feels the same. "Sven?!? I hate those guys." He, Robin and Lily mock Sven to varying degrees, so Barney joins in, with a French accent. "I know. Ve are Sveeeedish. Ve are so cool with our baguettes and our Eiffel Tower." When Marshall reminds him that Sweden isn't France, Barney says, "Oh... it's France." Then he gets right back on course to ensconce himself as Ted's best friend. He has the gang imagine patriotic music and we flash back to GNB as Barney, accompanied by a Muzak version of the National Anthem, rises to his feet to decry the idea of GNB dealing with a foreign architecture firm. His co-worker Bilson says, "Look, Stinson, nobody hates every other country in the world as much as I do, but you'd better have a point." Nobody? Barney pimps Ted to Bilson and GNB. We flash forward to MacLaren's, where he tells Ted to make a pitch; he'll get the board to approve it and the job will be Ted's. Ted is thrilled. This will make him a big hero at his company.
The best part, from Marshall and Barney's perspective, is that they can bring Ted in on their "conference calls." Summoning one another to conference calls is their cover for ducking out of work to drink beers on the roof. Flash back to Marshall and Barney during a conference call. Marshall thinks it's awesome to be drinking at work. Barney says, "We're basically Mad Men." Marshall laughs: "We are; we're such Mad Men." Barney turns to leave, saying, "I'm going to go smack a secretary on the ass." Marshall says, "That's totally what they would do on that show." Barney stops at the doorway. "What show?" Flash-forward to MacLaren's, where Barney tells Ted they also throw crumpled up cans at pigeons (well, Marshall doesn't do that, but Barney does and Ted's game). Marshall, considering how much time you've spent in the city, you should now see them as rats with wings. C'mon! Ted's still hurting over his break-up with Stella, so getting a shot at realizing his dream of contributing a building to the (apparently pigeon-free) Big Apple skyline means so much to him.
Robin and Lily arrive at Giddy Ups, a honky-tonk cowgirl sort of club, to meet up with Jillian and friends. Robin sneers. "Wow, your friend's having her birthday here? What's she turning --19?" Lily denies that the club is Jillian's scene, and oh my word what did Alyson Hannigan do to the wardrobe department? Lily's wearing some sort of loose dress, which is satin -- not my favorite, but whatever. It's the color and print that's disturbing. It's fuchsia, with wide black trim around the neck and at the skirt's edges. There are also pink, black and green vertical stripes on the short sleeves. Wait, I haven't gotten to the bad part, yet. There's a wide, white horizontal stripe across the front that resembles nothing if not a pageant banner, and on it (and below) there's a ginormous green parrot, sitting on a branch. They can't do this to our poor girl for the length of her pregnancy.
Dear Fug Girls,
Since Alyson Hannigan is expecting, and the wardrobe is used to dressing her usual, slender form, I think they're going to need your advice on how to disguise her pregnancy, without taking away an important aspect of Lily's character -- she's a canonical fashion horse, with good and expensive taste. You pointed out Robin's Cardigan/Lingerie fiasco. You were rightfully horrified by Alyson Hannigan's bangs. You've taken up the noble cause of condemning Jason Segal's hair. You've even called out Cobie Smulders a couple of times. Please don't let us down. If not for us, do it for poor, little, socially awkward, pre-murderous Willow. Alyson hasn't looked this ridiculous since the days of smiley face back packs and birthday-cake explosion shirts.
Love,
People with eyes
Sorry, but my word, did you see that thing? Practically every other female on the show wears some sort of empire waist top or dress in social settings. Hannigan isn't that big, yet. Surely that would do the trick. Okay, where were we? Yes, Robin, and Lily are a little overwhelmed by Giddy Ups' atmosphere, but Lily swears Jillian's not like that. Then we see Jillian (played by a cowgirl-hatted Jamie-Lynn Siegler, who keeps trying to make me type her name as Jamie Lynn Spears -- sorry, Jamie) and she is *so* totally like that. She spies Lily and beckons to her. "Lily! Over here, you sexy bitch! We've got bottle service!" Then Jillian and the other three women with her let out a loud, "Wooo!" Lily's taken aback, because Jillian is quiet and normal at school. "I had no idea she's -- she's a woo girl." Saget!Ted explains: "A Woo Girl is the type of young woman, who like the cuckoo bird or the whippoorwill, gets her name from the signature sound she makes." Almost anything can elicit a "Woo!" from a Woo Girl: a good song coming on the jukebox ("Sweet Home Alabama," which may have made me woo in the distant past, but I never thought it was about me; I swear); half-priced shots; a ride on a mechanical bull; or just remembering she fed her cat. While Lily is appalled, because at school, Jillian seems so "un-wooey." Robin says, "Yeah, she doesn't look woo-ish." Ha. Are they going there? Robin says, "Maybe she only observes the high holidays, like Mardi Gras and Spring Break. Maybe she's just a cultural Woo." Well played, show.
At his apartment, Ted hands Barney a sketch and tells him to go easy on him. Barney's thrilled with it. "Ted, this is amazing. The detail, the shading, the playfulness of the lines -- this is exactly what Princess Leia would look like, topless." Sillyheads. Ted says it's his way of thanking Barney, and asks if he wants to see his building designs. Barney, still looking at Leia's boobies, says, "Nah, I'm good." Marshall comes in and tells the guys Lily just texted him to say she's at Giddy Ups with a bunch of Woo Girls. Barney rushes out so quickly, he knocks a load of papers out of Marshall's arms.
Back at Giddy Ups, Jillian returns to the table, and says her boob just fell out of her top while she was at the bar. My husband woos. The women on the show gasp. Jillian yells, "Trick! I pulled it out for a free drink." Jillian and friends let out a "Woo!" Robin changes the subject and asks Jillian what it's like to teach the second grade. Jillian can turn it off as quickly as she turns it on. "So rewarding. I don't know if you're familiar with the RIE technique, but it derives from the progressive educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, who founded the Waldorf School, which... Oh my God! I LOVE THIS SONG! Come on you lazy skanks, let's dance!" So much for Woo Fu, Jillian. The women rise, let out a "Woo!" and leave Robin and Lily at the table. Jillian comes back for them. "You too, you dumb whores." Lily tries out the spicy talk. "Oh, no thank you... ya ignorant hussy!" Barney arrives and chastises Lily for not bringing a Woo Girl into their group. Lily says they don't need one, and Barney makes a stump speech about the importance of Woo Girls. "The souvenir shot glass industry would collapse, so would the body glitter industry and the stretch Hummer rental industry. Tiny cowboy hats would be worn only by tiny cowboys. And when 'Brown Eyed Girl' would come up on the jukebox, all you would hear would be silence... and 'Brown Eyed Girl.'" And he really should have Marshall's Dr. Seuss hat on here. "But who would woo, Lily? Who would woo? Would you? Would you... woo?" Just then, Jillian and friends pass by. She's inviting them to name her boobs. To Robin and Lily, Barney says, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a date with... Hannity and Colmes." Like it's a surprise he's into big ones.
Ted spends a couple of weeks immersed in his pitch, happy to be working on something he cares about. When the big morning finally arrives, he aces the GNB presentation and feels goods about his chances. Later that night, a grief-stricken Barney meets up with Lily, Marshall and Ted outside of MacLaren's and informs Ted that the board decided to go with Sven. They're interrupted by a loud "Woo!" coming from a cowgirl-hat-and-pink-gingham-tube-top-wearing Woo Girl, who is shouting through moon roof of a stretch Hummer limo. And you need to know, too, who is the girl that wooed? Who? It's none other than our very own Robin, that's who. The guys are amazed. Lily is disgusted. The limo passes out of view, and we cut to commercial.
At MacLaren's Ted is disappointed about the job. He thought he nailed it -- and he did, to my eyes. His building was big, garish, dwarfed its neighbors, and appeared to represent everything I like to think GNB must be. Barney apologizes to Ted, assuring him he did everything he could to change his co-workers' minds, but they wouldn't budge. Ted's feeling low. "Wow. This really sucks. After the way these last couple of months have gone, I guess I needed this more than I thought I did." Marshall rubs his arm, tenderly. "Hey, you wanna go down to the current GNB building and just like... I don't know... just pee on it a little bit?" Softly, somberly, Ted says, "Yeah. Yeah, I think I need that." Heh. As they rise, Robin walks in. Ted goes to put down his beer, but Barney stops him. "Finish your beer. Fill the tank." Ted walks out, still guzzling the beer, and just makes eyes at Robin. But OH MY WORD, did you see that? Did you see how long and hard Barney checked out Robin's ass? How did her pants not catch fire?
Robin sits with Lily and asks what happened. Lily tells her Ted didn't get the job. "But that's not the biggest disappointment of the day. We saw you woo!" Wait for it...
Robin says, "Saw who woo?"
"Saw you woo."
"I didn't woo."
"You did too."
"That's not true."
"Your nose just grew." Alyson and Cobie are awesome here. They never brake. They never over-play it. They just go through it as if they were having any other confrontational conversation. I heart them both. Lily continues, "So what, you're like best friends with Jillian now?" Robin denies this, but points out that whenever she's hanging with Lily, she's the third wheel to her and Marshall. "Sometimes it's fun to go out with other single women and do stuff you don't want to." Oh, yeah. There's more. When Lily asks, "Like what?" Robin replies, "Like woo, Lily. Like woo."
Lily says, "I can woo."
"That's not true."
"I can too."
"It's just not you."
Woooo!The day at work, Marshall tells Bilson that he should have gone with Ted Mosby's design. Surprisingly enough, Bilson says he agrees, and that's why he voted for Ted. Marshall has a revelation (but it's not about his hair; sorry, I said I'd stop complaining about that, but I can only go so long). He drags Barney out of a meeting for a rooftop "conference call." Marshall's failure to get beers out of their rooftop, dorm-sized fridge should be Barney's first clue he's in trouble. Marshall gets Barney to admit that it was his fault Sven's bid won. Flashback to the end of Ted's presentation. After he leaves, Barney tells the rest of the search committee that they need look no further. Then the lights go out...
Techo-pop plays and a spotlight illuminates three Neil Patrick Harris doppelgangers. The most uncannily Neilish is the spokesman. "I'm Sven Jorgensen. With me are Sven Pilsen and Sven Johanssen." This is where it's good to remember that this is Saget!Ted's tale -- and he's more a slave to story than accuracy. Sven's presentation is all very Sprockets meets Blue Man Group. [Meets Autobahn. - Z] Sven does a fire-based trick that would do Barney proud, and conjures their building model into being. According to Saget!Ted's telling, the building is in the shape of a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex [...with the body of a cactus, for some reason, which no one seems to comment on. - Z], with the letters G N B G N B rotating atop its head like a halo. They know Barney's the search committee chair, so Sven 1 hones in on him, telling Barney his office will be in the head of the T. Rex. Barney says, "I never knew it 'til now, but I've always dreamed of that." Sven 1 tells him that on his desk there will be a button. Barney wants to know what it does. Sven 1 yells, "Press it. Press it for GLORY!" And touch my monkey, the T. Rex breathes fire! Barney shouts out, "Yes!" (They should have had him "Wooo!") "This is the most awesome building in the universe. There is no way this building could be more awesome!" Sven 1 points to the letter halo and says, "There is a strip club in the letter N." Nice research, Sven. Barney chokes with ecstacy, and we...
Flash forward to Barney and Marshall on the current GNB roof. Marshall gives him Hell for screwing over Ted. Barney says that Ted's building was good, but Sven's was better, but Marshall knows Barney just liked the building for selfish reasons. Barney says that's a lie. "I picked it, because it -- it... It breathes fire, Marshall." Marshall stops his tirade long enough to laugh at "Fire Marshall." Then he tears back into Barney, finally informing him there will be no more conference calls, and that there are repercussions to screwing over a friend -- and to throwing cans at pigeons, who are smart and hold grudges. He gives a pigeonesque bird call, then locks Barney out on the roof. Barney is left there to contemplate his sins -- all alone, until the pigeons arrive. One. Two. Three. Four. Five...
That evening, Robin is at Giddy Ups with Jillian and friends. When Jillian tells the Woo Girls that she's just raised $10,000 to combat childhood illiteracy, the girls let out a quiet, reverential, "Woooooo." Then Robin shouts, "Someone just earned herself an ass-first ride down the dance floor spank canyon!" The Woo Girls "Woo!" and head to the dance floor. Lily comes in, wearing a red plastic fireman's hat. She didn't have a cowboy hat, so she swiped it from Fire Safety day at school, which makes me think Fire Marshall is with her, even when he's not. She lets out an enthusiastic, "Woooo!" and tries to convince Robin that she's able to woo, too, but she doesn't even know who does the rap song she proclaims to be their anthem. She's very Willow-esque as she asks Robin, "Does L.L. Cool J still do things?"
Barney's now on the conference call roof with the Svens. He's explaining the conference call cover to them, but they are not impressed. Sven 1 says, "This is a waste of time." Then commands his fellow Svens: "PUSH UPS!" They drop, as does Barney's face.
At Giddy Ups, the Woo Girls are having fun calling one another slut, skank, bitch, whore, and the like. What is up with that? I may have had a woo day or two (did you?), but my friends and I were never self-loathing misogynists (icky poo). Too serious? I'm sorry. I'll just be sitting over here with poor Lily, who tries to hard to fit in: "You're all a bunch of prostitutes. You probably have STDs." She waits for a woo that never comes. Robin cringes for her, then adjusts her hat. Jillian and the other Woo Girls are offended. Jillian says, "Let's go dance," and the others let out an overly subdued "Woooo." Robin tells her she shouldn't be there. Lily thinks it's because she's happily married, "and some kind of loser." Robin consoles her by telling her it's just the opposite. She points out the desperation behind the Woo Girls' wooos. "Why do you think the Woo Girls have to woo when they win a game of beer pong, or when a hot guy takes his shirt off?" Did they see Supernatural last week? Jared Padalecki's shoulders for the Woooo! "It's because that is as good as life gets for them. They're really sad people." She says that when they hang with someone like Lily, who has it all figured out, they get bummed out. If you're a Woo Girl, or an otherwise happily single person, this might be another key point at which to remind yourself that this story is told from I-Need-To-Get-Married-Yesterday-Ted's perspective.
Robin tells Lily to turn her attention to the Woo Girls and see what their woos are really saying. We pan to the dance floor. As the first Woo Girl dances and shouts, a caption appears that reads: "I cry in the shower!" The Woo Girl woooos and her caption reads: "I've never been on a second date." Jillian dances into view, lets out a woooo and her caption reads: "What if I never get to be a mom?" The last girl wooos, and her caption reads: "I'm secretly in love with Jillian." I'll pause while the Barneys among you shout, "Woooo!" Finally, we see the biggest Woo Girl of all time -- Ted -- who dances into view, and when he wooos, his caption reads: "My career and love life are heading nowhere!" Lily feels so sorry for all of them. Robin says that right now, she's like them. "I'm unemployed. I'm single. I'm a little lost. So, every once in a while I need to wooo, but when I need to talk about something real, you're the one I turn to. You're my best friend." Lily says, "You're mine." I say "Wooo!" because I love it when the show concentrates on this friendship. They resolve to spend more best-friend time together, some without Marshall, who then appears. He claims the purple test-tube shooters he's been drinking seem like they don't have any alcohol in them, but he doesn't even realize he's wearing a giant, pink cowgirl hat covered in hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds, so be glad he no longer has the Fiero, and don't you believe him.
Barney shows up and tells Ted that GNB has fired Sven, and after almost reversing himself as he remembers Sven's cool ideas, he adds that Ted got the job. Ted says, "Really?" and here's that acting nit. I usually love Josh Radnor (and his Ted), but every once in a while, his take on an emotion or reaction will make me wonder if he's done any acting since his sixth-grade play. There's something artificial about his expression here. I can see the wheels turning in his brain: Act a little surprised, a little dense, and a little drunk. He's usually the perfect Ted, but in this accomplished cast, he's the only one I ever think of as acting. The other actors completely inhabit their characters. I feel badly saying that, because Josh is more or less Ted, and Ted's been having a hard time lately, so I don't want to hurt his feelings by proxy. Oh fandom, why you so crazy? Anyhow, Barney nearly confesses he was responsible for choosing Sven, but Marshall takes pity on Barney, and covers for him, blaming it on Bilson, and saying that Barney finally convinced them to go with Ted. Ted is over the moon. "I just got our firm the biggest account they've ever had. Woooo!" His caption reads: "Now only my love life's a disaster." Ha. He runs off to buy the round, and Barney asks Marshall why he covered for him. Marshall figures since Barney ended up doing the right thing, he deserved it. Besides, Ted's been so low, it's great to see him happy like he is right now. Barney says, "Wow, you really are Ted's best friend." They clink their test tubes together, and Barney adds, "And so am I. It's a tie." That's our boy.
Saget!Ted tells us Marshall caved 10 minutes later, and told Ted it was Barney's fault Sven initially won the bid, so they tied Barney to the mechanical bull, set it to "paint mixer" and went home. After we see the guys do a shot, woooo and say they love each other, Ted tries to get Barney to ride the bull, but he begs off because of an inner ear issue. And here's another place where I appreciate Saget's narration in this story. I don't think they did go right home after they got Barney up on the bull. I think that's the story Saget!Ted told his kids. His last line is, "It was a pretty good night." Now wait for it.
End tag: Barney gets off the bull after 3 hours and is so dizzy, he can't walk, but he nearly kills himself trying -- in order to get to Jillian and her friend, who are planning to find a guy for a three-way. [For the record, it's all the idea of the girl who has a crush on Jillian, and she doesn't care if they find a third. Woo! - Z] The women walk off in search of that cute guy... Ted. Wooo!
I know some of you don't get to watch HIMYM because of conflicts (like my friend Diana -- hi, Diana!) and rely on the weecaps to get you through. If you get a chance, please watch this one, because it deserves to be seen. You can find it here. Then when you're done, go join the cause to help stamp out yeast infections in our lifetime. Unless you're Zach, who ought to update his lingo file with stuff like Woo Girl, talk blocking and Conference Call first. [Okay, okay! I'm on it! - Z]
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