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The 384-hour gabfest wrapped up with a "fili-bus-tour" to Washington, D.C., where guest bloviators Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) joined in.

Thus begins the author's own "gabfest." She sets the overly familiar, often condescending tone from the beginning and never deviates from it.

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The result is Unfiltered, a three-way gabfest airing weekdays 9 A.M.-noon.

Camaraderie was another attraction of the old style blue collar workplace, which Theriault describes as a "gabfest." "Talk goes on constantly," he reports, "and the conversation can cover just about every topic imaginable," including, in one instance, the nature and fate of the indigenous Tasmanians.

For a conference that was initially described as another governmental gabfest with little likely to come out of it other than the usual platitudes, the World Summit on the Information Society looks to be more interesting than was previously thought.

CONNECTIONS is an annual gabfest sponsored by the New Media Federation of the Newspaper Association of America of Vienna, Va.

Entertainers, now in its eighth year of syndication, is a weekly gabfest with celebrities.

1974: Michael Bennett hosts an all-night gabfest for dancers to amass the stories he will turn into A Chorus Line.

Falwell's insensitive remarks were spewed forth September 13 on fellow televangelist and activist Pat Robertson's 700 Club gabfest. Falwell, echoed by Robertson, declared that the American Civil Liberties Union, People for the American Way, feminists, homosexuals, abortion rights supporters, and de fenders of church-state separation are partially responsible for the terrorist attacks.

Former model and entrepreneur Bethann Hardison and her gabfest partner Marta Vargas talk for hours via handset.

Pick up the newspaper or tune in to a Sunday morning TV gabfest and you're likely to read or hear about the sizable majority of Americans who approve of voucher plans--school choice, as proponents put it.

Hosted by entertainment Web site eYada.com, the Gotham gabfest promises to gather such luminaries as syndicated columnist Liz Smith of Long Island's Newsday, Michael Musto of the Village Voice and MSNBC's Jeanette Walls to discuss how gossip is changing in the digital age and to honor the eYada Personality of the Year.

"It's been a helluva conference," said RSA president Jim Bidzos of his company's eighth annual cryptographers' gabfest. "Yesterday we packed the place out, and today they broke DES."

SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT: Precious little to talk about in this Southern gabfest in which Julia Roberts is betrayed by Dennis Quaid.