If my absolute life depended on banging out a comedy bit or commercial, and I could team up with anyone in the world, I would want Art Mehring pounding the computer keyboard and bouncing ideas. It's been 20+ years since The Dawn Patrol, Mr. Rodney's Neighborhood and I-Missed-It News, but elements of Art are still sprinkled in my daily conversations. He had an unbelievable "turn for the verse", and as the 103 office manager Miss Theda often noted, "subtlety" was not in his vocabulary.