HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Please Help
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:55:39 GMT
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear

and lo, there was much rejoicing among the people, as
kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

and aren't we all glad that newsgroups have names that usually describe
the content?

>1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?

yes.  prarie dawn should hold whatever job she wnats.

>2.) Are you pro choice?

i generally prefer prime cuts to choice.

>3.) Are you in favor of adoption?

certainly.  how else do i use my walkman when my batteries are dead?

>4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
>rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?

my feet aren't viable; i don't expect them to be.

>5.) What sex are you?

muppet.

>6.) How old are you?
old enough to appreciate the humor in sesame street, garfield & friends,
etc.

>7.) What religion are you?

muppetism

>8.) What political party are you affiliated with?

bill 'n opus, naturally.

>9.) How many years of education have you completed?

13, but not contiguous.
(the first seven at roosevelt franklin elementary school)

how about
10. how many times have you heard that ernie's going to die?
	how many times have you posted the question to alt.tv.muppets?

11. how many times have you heard that ernie and bert are homosexual lovers?
	how many times have you posted the question to alt.tv.muppets?

12. how many people have played gordon? how many of them had hair?

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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And I'd like to change my life, and you know I would,
Just to be with you tonight, baby, if I could.
But I've got my job to do, and I do it well; so I guess that's how it is.
                                                                      --Chicago
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From: ddv@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Domenico De Vitto)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: error
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:44:07 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

Trunk ? trunk !?! _Snuffle_ !

get you facts right !

Dom De Vitto
From: snaakah@terapin.com (Joy Tilton)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Rainbows
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:13:57 GMT
Organization: BBS

I also would like the words to "Rainboe Connection."  Please send E-mail to
Snaakah
Organization: Freshman, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:19:08 -0400 
From: "Marybeth A. Griffin" <mg4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: S.Street in Holland

Other countries have versions of Sesame Street, and they are licensed by
the Children's Television Workshop here in the US. As was mentioned, a
lot of the subject matter is locally made, but some of the more popular
characters are 'dubbed' for the other language/culture. 

Marybeth
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared to loss of thee, would not seem so. 
				-Shakespeare, Sonnet 90
From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:52:29 GMT
Subject: Please Help
Organization: HP Western Response Center
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets

              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

2.) Are you pro choice?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

3.) Are you in favor of adoption?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?
Yes                  [ ]
Sometimes            [ ]
No                   [ ]
Haven't heard enough [ ]
Other                [ ]

5.) What sex are you?
Male               [ ]
Female             [ ]

6.) How old are you?
Under 18           [ ]
19 to 65           [ ]
Over 65            [ ]

7.) What religion are you?
Protestant         [ ]
Catholic           [ ]
Jewish             [ ]
Other              [ ]

8.) What political party are you affiliated with?
Democratic         [ ]
Republican         [ ]
Other              [ ]

9.) How many years of education have you completed?
Grade School       [ ]
High School        [ ]
College            [ ]
More               [ ]
From: snaakah@terapin.com (Joy Tilton)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: sorry
Date: 10 Oct 92 16:42:19 GMT
Organization: BBS

Oh god!  I knew I should have read more before I replied giving a request for
the words to Rainbowe Connection.  Sorry 'bout that.  I am a new user to the Bs
and to these nets.  I am delighted to find a net geered towards the Muppets.  I
started watching the Muppets when I was just a wee Snaakah Bitz of 7 or 8, in
1977 I believe.  I was raised on Sasame Street and Mr. Rogers, Though, I still
prefer Sesame Street, even now.  I wonder if any old Sesame Street shows are
being sold on vidio tape yet.  I would really like to see some early, as in
1968-1973 or more, recent.  Long live all the Muppets.  Long live sesame
Street!
From: basil@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Brian J. Stokes)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: RE: DC Follies
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:33:32 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

DC Follies was produced by Sid and Marty Kroft (you know, the guys who
made Land of the Lost, Wonderbug, Sigmund and the sea monsters, Lost
Saucer, Kroft super show, Electra Woman and Dynagirl, Dr. Shrinker,
and all those other great Saturday morning live-action video shows of the
70's)  They developed full size costume-puppets around the same time
the Henson folks did, and pioneered the technique of doing stop-motion
video on television (ie how they did those dinosaur-like things on Land of
the Lost).
  I'm curious about those guys, they were on Larry King Live a few 
years ago, not long after Henson's death.  They mentioned they were 
inspired by Henson ("Henson is king"), but I don't know how or when they
got started.  Seems like they had a very successful time on TV during the
70's before the muppet show got started.

--Brian

"I can't live with my self anymore!"
                     -- Fozzie
"Oh, well you'll have to find another apartment, won't you?"
                      -- Dr. Bunson Honeydew
From: bfbear@penn.Gwinnett.COM (Penn Collins)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Please Help
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:14:17 GMT

kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>               Please answer these 9 questions and return.
> 1.) Do you think equal rights for men and women is generally a good idea?
> Yes                  [X]
> Sometimes            [ ]
> No                   [ ]
> Haven't heard enough [ ]
> Other                [ ]
> 
> 2.) Are you pro choice?
> Yes                  [X]
> Sometimes            [ ]
> No                   [ ]
> Haven't heard enough [ ]
> Other                [ ]
> 
> 3.) Are you in favor of adoption?
> Yes                  [ ]
> Sometimes            [X]
> No                   [ ]
> Haven't heard enough [ ]
> Other                [ ]
> 
> 4.) Do you think men should be allowed to legally terminate their parental
> rights and responsibilities before fetal viability?
> Yes                  [ ]
> Sometimes            [ ]
> No                   [X]
> Haven't heard enough [ ]
> Other                [ ]
> 
> 5.) What sex are you?
> Male               [X]
> Female             [ ]
> 
> 6.) How old are you?
> Under 18           [ ]
> 19 to 65           [X]
> Over 65            [ ]
> 
> 7.) What religion are you?
> Protestant         [ ]
> Catholic           [ ]
> Jewish             [ ]
> Other              [X]
> 
> 8.) What political party are you affiliated with?
> Democratic         [ ]
> Republican         [ ]
> Other              [X]
> 
> 9.) How many years of education have you completed?
> Grade School       [ ]
> High School        [ ]
> College            [X]
> More               [ ]
From: rm6p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rebecca Alice Metz)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: MuppetZine
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:03:09 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Freshman, Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

AAAAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Send the check to WHO????

I'd LOVE to subscribe!  Who's "in charge" of this endeavor?

I feel useful.  I recently put to rest a rumor about Bert's upcoming 
demise due to cancer.

Who out there saw/liked the show DC Follies?  Who did those puppets?
         (*)--(*)
        /        \
       /  ______  \             Becky Metz (rm6p@andrew.cmu.edu)
       \  \ \/ /  /
     ___\  \__/  /___         
     \_  \______/  _/           "De flim is okee dokey."- The Swedish Chef
       \__      __/
          \____/                "Jack not name...Jack JOB!!!"- Sweetums
From: kako@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Ed Kako)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: MuppetZine
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:29:00 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


  The second issue of MuppetZine is now out!  MuppetZine is an amateur
fanzine devoted to Jim Henson and the Muppets, covering all the Henson
shows and movies, including "The Muppet Show," "Fraggle Rock" and
"Dinosaurs."  The second issue contains "Muppet Christmas Carol" news, an
article on the Henson-Disney deal, a review of "Dog City," the first part
of a "Muppet Show" episode guide, photos and illustrations and more.
Subscriptions starting with #2 are $4 for a year (4 issues).  The
subscription rate will go up with #3, so subscribe now.  Send your check to
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: S.Street in Holland
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:42:34 GMT

s1082919@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (T Hankinson is GUMBY) writes:

>   When I was quite I was taken to Holland with my Mum to see my Grandmama,
>   and I can't remember watch sesame st in dutch. The real weird thing is that
>   Big Bird was blue and most of the characters were differnet colours than
>   what you'd expect.

Your memory plays tricks on you, because Big Bird (called 'Pino' over
here) is the *only* character with a different color (he is indeed
light blue; I have no idea why they didn't stick with yellow).

For the rest I'd say that Dutch Sesame Street ('Sesam Straat')
consists for about 80 % of non-USA material, and for about 20 % of
overdubbed American clips, involving Bert & Ernie, Kermit, Grover,
Cookie Monster etc. all in their original colors.

I once read that the reason for the large amount of non-American
material is that for Dutch children the series doesn't need to be so
heavily education oriented as it is in the USA, so our makers have
to discard a lot of material.

> Now I am not sure whether this was some dutch ripp off

As far as I know the Dutch Sesame Street is no rip-off, but just a
legitimate, if somewhat adapted and transmogrified version.

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
From: kyraan@chopin.udel.edu (Stephen Ch Litterst)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Please Help
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:54:42 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <1350001@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

		<series of questions deleted>

Can someone tell me WHY this was brought up on this group?  What does it have to
do with muppets?
						Evets
Organization: Freshman, Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 1992 00:34:09 -0400 
From: Rebecca Alice Metz <rm6p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: answers & info

Some corrections and additions:

	The variety show introducing Kermit (or a reasonable faxsimile) was
called Sam and Friends.
	They showed Snuffy because they felt they were discouraging children
from having imaginary friends by not letting adults acknowledge his
existance.  (Of course, now he's not really an imaginary friend
anymore...)
	The correction about Grover/Big bird was made.
	The picture of Mr Hooper/Looper above Big Bird's nest comes from the
show when Big Bird had drawn everyone's picture and was handing them all
out, and it had to be explained that Mr ?ooper's picture couldn't ever
be delivered again.
	I've repeatedly been told that I look like Red fraggle.  
	Hey... Don't knock New Jersey.  We  have killer malls! (the question
is, is that a good thing?)
	Speaking of Muppets and cereal... does anyone else remember Croonchey
Stars? (they're cinnamonamony!)  The boxes for those were EXCELLENT!!! 
I saved them.  (the cereal wasn't bad either.)
	Hoe does Brian know Jon Stone?
	The lyrics to Rainbow Connection are different depending on whether you
use the sheet music (posted) version, or the soundtrack version.  (PS-
it's "sweet DREAM reminders").
	That comment about the felt firing squad wasunnecessary.  It's hard to
read stuff like that, even in fun.
	Regarding the songbook, WHERE CAN I GET A COPY OF THIS GEM?
	Those immortal words are on my sig file (which is still being worked
on. ) Does it show up here?  I hope so.  Till later.
							-Becky
         (*)--(*)
        /        \
       /  ______  \             Becky Metz (rm6p@andrew.cmu.edu)
       \  \ \/ /  /
     ___\  \__/  /___         
     \_  \______/  _/           "De flim is okee dokey."- The Swedish Chef
       \__      __/
          \____/                "Jack not name...Jack JOB!!!"- Sweetums
From: basil@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Brian J. Stokes)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: ISBN# of Of Muppets and Men book
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:09:30 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

A while ago somebody posted a list of Muppet books, including ISBN #'s.

The one I'm looking for is Of Muppets and Men (can't remember author).
If anyone knows the author and especially the ISBN# please post it

Thanks!
Brian
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Ernie dying?
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:04:56 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992

In <3798@eastman.UUCP>, Jim Reid writes:
>
>I have heard disturbing rumors that Sesame Street is actually going to kill
>off Ernie.  Can this be true?  Is there any fact to this rumor?
this is totally false.

>I also heard that Mr. & Mrs. Snuffle-upagus were getting divorced.
i heard they were thinking of it, but when they showed test clips to some
kids, they got very upset, so much so that they cancelled the idea.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: dahead00@nx28.mik.uky.edu (Zippidy Do Dah)
Subject: Re: Please Help
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:49:08 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.212132.10413@uoft02.utoledo.edu>  
dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
> In article <1350001@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com>,  
kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
> >               Please answer these 9 questions and return.
> > 
(1-5 deleted)
> > 
> > 6.) How old are you?
> > Under 18           [ ]
> > 19 to 65           [ ]
> > Over 65            [ ]
> 


Is it just me or do I sense hostility to people who are exactly 18....

Zippy D  Who was 18 once in a previous life I think....
From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Re: Don't want to live on the Moon Lyrics
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:16:33 GMT
Organization: Starfleet Headquarters: San Francisco

fippjc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Fipp) wrote (in article <BvoDuF.CGu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>):
>  SInce someone posted that they have the album that contains the lyrics to
>"I Don't Want To Live On The Moon", could that kind, gentle soul please
>e-mail me the lyrics.  Thanks tons and bunches!

Got 'em right here, and I'll post them because I think other people
would like them, too.  The song was written by Jeff Moss, who was in
the same theater group I was a member of in college (many years before
I got there, of course), and I got to hear him sing this song to the
group at a reunion.  :)

Well, I'd like to visit the moon
On a rocketship high in the air.
Yes, I'd like to visit the moon
But I don't think I'd like to live there.
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above,
I would miss all the places and people I love,
So although I might like it for one afternoon,
I don't want to live on the moon.

I'd like to travel under the sea.
I could meet all the fish everywhere.
Yes, I'd travel under the sea,
But I don't think I'd like to live there.
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish,
But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish,
And an oyster and clam aren't real family,
So I don't want to live in the sea.

I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lion's roar,
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur.
There's so many strange places I'd like to be,
But none of them permanently.

So, if I should visit the moon,
Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then
I will make a wish on a star
And I'll wish I was home once again.
Though I'd like to look down on the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love,
So although I may go, I'll be coming home soon,
'Cause I don't want to live on the moon.
No, I don't want to live on the moon.

-- 
_/_/_/  Brian Kendig                             Je ne suis fait comme aucun
 _/_/  bskendig@netcom.com                de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
  _/                            n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
                             Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
                                                                 -- Rousseau
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: lrfox@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (linda ream fox)
Subject: Re: Ernie dying?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:08:33 GMT

ARRRRRGHHHH!!!!!  Yes, they are planning to kill off all the Muppets.  
For the Christmas Special Kermit is going to line them all against the wall
and machine gun them.  Then he's going to blow his fuzzy little brains out
on National TV...
We _need a FAQ on this desperately.  Somebody please oblige before _I_
machine gun the next nitwit who asks this question.

It's right up there with "are there worms in my Big Mac" and "Proctor and
Gamble is owned by Satanists".

  LRFox
From: rm6p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rebecca Alice Metz)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
Subject: Sweetums
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:56:23 GMT
	<ceovd1a00awL88n3ZX@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Freshman, Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The guy currently sitting next to me (Erik Andrews) WAS the live
Sweetums at MGM.  He was in the Spectromagic parade thing at Magic
Kingdom and everything!
(And he does a magnificent impression of the grim reaper from Bill +
Ted's Bogus Journey (or Bill + Ted go to Hell.)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: gschlesi@scott.skidmore.edu (gabriel schlesinger)
Subject: re: wanted muppet pictures
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:57:53 GMT

I don't want to be a pain (well maybe I do), but how exactly do you
expect somebody to e-mail you pictures.  The only way it works to me
is in the one instance where somebody had a particularly clever sig.
file of Kermit. 
	Sorry for being so nit-picky.
					-Gabe
Xref: sparky alt.tv.muppets:1409 alt.sewing:3030
From: mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets,alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Please Help
Date: 9 Oct 1992 22:10:12 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu

kyraan@chopin.udel.edu (Stephen Ch Litterst) writes:

I'm sending this to the two groups that *I* read that received this
"survey"  

>In article <1350001@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
>>              Please answer these 9 questions and return.

>		<series of questions deleted>

>Can someone tell me WHY this was brought up on this group?  What does it have to
>do with muppets?


     Okay -- I was bored yesterday at lunch and I did some research.
Seems this guy posted this same article to AT LEAST one HUNDRED and
THIRTY ONE different newsgroups.  He didn't CROSS post, but posted to
each group individually.  If he would have cross posted I only would
have seen the article once and I wouldn't have thought twice about it. 

     MOST of the groups he posted to were ALT groups but there where a
few talk groups.  

     One more interesting fact.  I noticed an article in another
newsgroup by the same author that was lamenting the fact that some
woman he slept with was pregnant and naming him in a paternity suit. 

     Take it as you may, but I think the facts say A LOT!!

     OH - FYI - I wouldn't recomment answering the survey.


--
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday.
Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
  -- Steven Wright

    Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois
Catx2 Owned, Square Dancer, Leaper, Ballroom Dancer in training 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
Subject: Re: Please Help
Followup-To: alt.pagan
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:50:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.212132.10413@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:

>Satanist, Wicka faction.
Repeat this to yourself several thousand times:
WICCANS ARE NOT SATANISTS! WICCANS ARE NOT SATANISTS! WICCANS ARE NOT SATANISTS!

Please post all followups to alt.pagan. 

Thanks, I know this has nothing to do with Muppets, but I hear that
SO MUCH!


Now, just to be Muppetish, I shall quote some of my favorite movie:

Fozzie:  We're following our dream!
Gonzo:  Oh yeah?  I have a dream, too.  But you'll think it's stupid.
All: No, no, tell us.
Gonzo:  I want to go to Bombeii, India, and become a movie star!
Fozzie:  You don't go to Bombeii to become a movie star.  You go where
         we're going - Hollywood!
Gonzo:  Sure... If you wanna do it the _easy_ way.
Fozzie (aside to Kermit):  We've picked up a weirdo!

Newsgroups: alt.tv.muppets
From: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu (have clue, will travel)
Subject: re: wanted muppet pictures
Reply-To: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: The Ghost Of Christmas Past Society
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:00:08 GMT



gschlesi@scott.skidmore.edu (gabriel schlesinger) writes:
>I don't want to be a pain (well maybe I do), but how exactly do you
>expect somebody to e-mail you pictures.  The only way it works to me
>is in the one instance where somebody had a particularly clever sig.
>file of Kermit. 

uuencoded bitmap, GIF or JPG files would do nicely.

actually, if anyone DOES have such files laying around, a post to
alt.binaries.pictures.misc would be appreciated--that way all of us
can see them. ;)
			

--
                         jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu 
          ---------     have clue, will travel.    ---------
  "I am a penis. Worship me."--lead singer of rock band Bicycle Face,
vainly attempting to gain attention of the crowd at the Cat's Cradle
in Chapel Hill, while opening for Mojo Nixon & The Toad Liquors