probably december 17th you'll be back. >> no, i just -- you know, i was just writing them and it just got out of hand. and, you know. >> larry: you did it originally as a lark? >> i did them about -- i started about actually 16 years ago in '94. >> it was a fritos bag, wasn't it? was eating a bag of fritos. >> the actual way it happened is i was sitting in the bedroom, with my girlfriend phyllis murphy. and she was kind of like -- it was like 4:00 in the morning. she was watching television. this is actually how the whole thing came about. she was watching television. i was kind of mindlessly sitting on a chair eating a bag of fritos, and i was -- >> you weren't thinking of the fritos. delisia don't interrupt him. he's on a roll. >> the frito bag said, do you want to talk with us? you got any issues? we want to hear from you. who's going to write fritos? so i was kind of -- a nut. that's who and she was kind of looking at me -- >> larry: did you write to them? >> well, not at that point. at that point i just kind of drafted a letter. the next day i noticed that these, you know, presidents'