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From: bj835@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Connors)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Simpsonaugural
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:55:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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There has been some discussion of possible refs on TS to a 
Clinton victory, mostly focusing on Sideshow Mel's parting shot
to the effect that he'd be out of jail as soon as a Democrat was
in the White House, and the car crashing into the prison and
letting all the jailbirds out of the pokey in a subsequent
episode.
	I believe I spotted a reciprocal reference in the recent
inaugural festivities.  It occurred during the day of the bell-
ringing and the performances by Dylan, LL Cool J, Aretha, et al.
There was a big production number in which various celebs read
lines like "I love the music of America: its jazz, its blues, its 
country, its rock, its rap."  Kenny Rogers read a line more or
less like this:  "I love the sound of its town names:"
... and what do you suppose was the FIRST town he named?
Damn straight:  "SPRINGFIELD, San Francisco, Chicago, the Bronx."
I remember the Bronx for sure, the others I just made up.  I
do know for a fact that he did not mention Shelbyville, New
Haverbrook, or Capital City.
	At first I chalked this up to amusing coincidence; after
all, the sheer number of Springfields is what led MG et al. to 
choose that name for the Simpsons.  After thinking about it for
a while, I still think it unlikely the author of that line meant
to refer to OFF's home(r)town, but consider this:  The whole
inaugural shindig was run by Linda Bloodworth-Thomsen (sp?),
whose production company makes Designing Women, Evening Shade,
and Hearts Afire.  One assumes that the lines read by Kenny
& Co. were written or at least vetted by people in her
organization, presumably by several people.  Is it possible
that none of them realized the significance of Springfield?
I gotta believe that at some point, a fan of OFF looked the
other way.
	Perhaps it was the same person who told the Marine 
Band to play Sousa's Liberty Bell March to fill up a few 
minutes right before the oath was administered.  As was 
pointed out the other day on NPR's "Fresh Air" by Simpson
regular Harry Shearer, folks George Bush's age could be 
forgiven for thinking of that song as no more than a 
venerable Sousa march, but Clinton and his people ought to
know that the song is now associated in the minds of millions
with Monty Python.  (I heard it at the convention too; you'd
think someone would have caught it back then.)  Shearer said
he kept expecting a giant brown gorilla foot to crush everyone
on that dais.  
	How long will it be before the Slickster guest-blows
Lisa's sax solo in an intro to the Simpsons?
-- 
TJC       "Donuts: Is there anything
                   they can't do?" -- HJS

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From: George.Harris@launchpad.unc.edu (George Harris)
Subject: Re: DYNs from 9F11 "Selma's Choice"
Keywords: DYN, selma
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:06:30 GMT

In article <jac.727725001@pulaski> jac@doe.carleton.ca (James A. Cherry) writes:
>
>
>- The magazine cover: "Springfield Sperm Bank / 101 Frozen Pops / Monthly
>  Edition".  Note the pun on "orgasm" = "Pop".  

	Hardly.  More like "Pop"="Dad".

>- Stuntman Lance Murdoch is on the TV commercial behind Lisa when Lisa's asking
>James A. Cherry                                         "Deal with it, pal!"
--
"If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste more like 
prunes than rhubarb does."		-Groucho Marx

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From: ffr@strider.UUCP (F Frank Rowe)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: aye carumba audio (reprise)
Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:26:23 -0500
Organization: ADC Telecommunications, Minneapolis
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ffr@adc.com

A couple of weeks ago I offered to email a uuencoded copy of an audio
file (carumba.u, in mulaw format) to anyone who requested it.

I received requests from the following 19 people, and sent the file to
all of them.
	atlas@pictel.com
	dsl@ebt.com
	david.clark@dsp.analog.com
	vinlai@cbnewsb.att.com
	craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca
	dranney@informix.com
	t.cataldo@trl.oz.au
	zook@sdac.harvard.edu
	gregk@ai.mit.edu
	pdaugher@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com
	elliott@cs.uoregon.edu
	winnipg@bison.mb.ca
	lynell@cco.caltech.edu
	tina@rjlg.com
	bhc@suneast.East.Sun.COM
	madabhus@eng.umd.edu
	lchen@ifp.uiuc.edu
	shalamsk@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu
	mcfalls@msai.com

If ((you requested the file and your name isn't on the list) or (your
name is on the list but you didn't receive the file)) then email screwed
up somewhere, and maybe we should try again.  dranney and madabhus are
the only people who I'm SURE received the file successfully.


=============================================================================
Frank Rowe  Voice 612-946-3880 | ADC Telecommunications 4900 West 78th Street
ffr@adc.com   Fax 612-946-3499 | Mailstop 256           Minneapolis, MN 55435
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lisa:  Mondale to Hart: Where's the beef?
Homer: Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. Where's the beef? No wonder he won Minnesota.
=============================================================================
From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: DYNs from 9F11 "Selma's Choice"
Date: 28 Jan 93 04:05:20 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

grube@nevada.fishkill.ibm.com (Steve Grube) writes:

> In article <1k3pncINN4hh@cs.widener.edu>, tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina
> Cacolice) writes:
> > 
> > By the way, I've been to Busch Gardens and I didn't think they mentioned
> > beer too much.  I was really young at the time, and right near the park
> > is the brewery and you can tour it, but I don't think it was overdone.
> > (For those who care...)
> > 
>   I also went to Busch Gardens.  Took a tour of a brewery and at the end they
> were giving out free samples.  Also, the park is divided into countries.  Of
> course one of which is Germany where they were celebrating Oktoberfest and 
> I believe beer was abound.
> 
> Later,
> Grubby...
> 

There's also one in  Tampa, Fl with an Africa theme.

Dascoser
From: doli@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Oliver)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Krusty's Lack of Experience
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:58:09 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <1993Jan26.175112.14339@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>In article <1k3potINN4hv@cs.widener.edu> tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice) writes:
>>>    + The commercials for ``Marge vs. the Monorail'' have Krusty the Klown
>>>      on the runaway monorail screaming he's going to die a Virgin; this
>>>      disappeared before the final assembly.
>>
>>Probably because someone noticed that in one episode (I can't remember which),
>>a woman approaches Krusty with a baby saying that it was his and that
>>he never calls.  (THe kid has his hair exactly)
>>
>>And, by the way, he screamed that he'd never been with a woman, not that he 
>>was a virgin....
>>
>
>It was all from the same episode.  I think the comment got cut out for
>trivial time constraint reasons or some such, because the set-up of
>Krusty's illegitimate child is too perfect for Krusty to then scream
>he had never been with a women (a nice twist on the old cliche').
>
>Also, it deprived us here at ats of debating ad naseum about how Krusty
>could never have been with a woman and yet have an obvious illegitimate
>child (am I insinuating that we here at ats are humor impaired? ;-)
>until one of us clever-people who don't get out enough would have pointed
>out that Krusty must have been a doner at the Sperm Bank (member FDIC).
>(Although would Krusty get the right idea and not bring his seltzer 
>bottle? (ref: "Like Father Like Clown" [8F05]))
>
>My work here is done.

Of course, Krusty could have been lying, trying to gain the sympathies
(and favors) of the women passengers.  Alas, we may never know Krusty's
reason for yelling like he did.  (After all, just because they didn't show
it doesn't mean it didn't happen!)
;-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-)

-David Oliver (doli@troi.cc.rochester.edu)d
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: More on "Selma's Choice"
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:14:37 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

Just some more musings on the Selma's Choice episode:

This is probably evident to everybody, but Great Aunt (what was her name) 
called her sister Jackie.  This was Selma's and Patty's and Marge's mother.  
This would make her Jackie Bouvier, right?  Mrs. John F Kennedy's maiden name 
was Jackie Bouvier.  (I know, duck as a million people tell me this was 
already discussed many times before. :-) )

The funeral was in Little Neck Falls.  Since Jackie didn't travel with them, 
does she live there?  And what was Lionel Hutz doing there?

The idea of Barney being a sperm donor really isn't a bad thing.  Remember 
the episode where we flashed back to Homer giving Barney his first beer?  
Barney was a bright guy!  So the Barney babies would be pretty intelligent, 
right?

One of those 101 Frozen Pops was "an NBA all star."  Maybe Wilt Chamberlain?

The sign on the outside wall of Duff Gardens' security office shows a hanged 
Surly, and the words: "Surly says, Don't get caught or else!"

The bumper cars stolen from Duff Gardens were operating without an electric 
grid, but they were still sparking as they traveled.  They must run on 
batteries.

The blue fish in the Beerquarium belched just like Barney.  Could this be the 
elusive Barney fish?

At the funeral, there was a kid in the background with the same pointy hair 
style as Bart.  I know that it wasn't Bart, because Bart had his hair combed 
down, and was wearing a jacket, but this kid looked just like a Bart clone.

The sign at the palm-reader's (Princess Opal) had three fingers and a thumb, 
just like OFF.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
"Don't hassle the dead, boy.  They have eerie powers." - Homer J. Simpson

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump)
Subject: Re: What was that chip????
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:50:47 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD Austin, TX

In article <jbrowne.727677835@zaphod> jbrowne@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jim Browne) writes:
>
>
>When Homer was eating the Great Aunt's chip collection, what was the second
>chip supposed to resemble?  I ask this 'cause he stared at it for a bit before
>eating it, while he paid no attention the the first.
>
>I wasn't sitting close enough to the TV to see what it was.  I thought perhaps
>it might be a chip that looked like Bart given the cameo by the bart doll in
>the Ayn Rand school for tots.
>
>Clue me in,
>
>
>-- 
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It looked to me like the Jay Leno chip that was briefly shown in the
will video.


-- 
John Stump (jstump@netftp.austin.ibm.com)
From: jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Duff Gardens
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:00:48 GMT
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean  VA

In article <1993Jan26.170832.17888@athena.mit.edu> rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau) writes:
>From: rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau)
>Subject: Re: Duff Gardens
>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:08:32 GMT
>In article <1k0tfmINN4fr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:
>|> 
>|> beppe@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Beppe Sabatini) writes:
>|> 
>|> >"Walk on the Wild Side" which is about gay prostitution 
>|> >(or something like
>|> >that) and is among the most sleazy pop songs ever.
>|> 
>|> Walk on the Wild Side a pop song?  Try again . . .
>|> 
>|> (And the the song is not sleazy.  It's about the underbelly of American
>|> culture generally.)
>
>Sometimes I feel so old...
>
>WOTWS (a new acronym!) was indeed extremely sleazy for its time.  Time has
>passed, however, and soon I expect to see it used for a sports car 
>commercial.

Probably people use "sleazy" differently.  To me, a used car salesman is 
sleazy.  WOTWS deals with topics most adults even don't like to think about, 
and is about the underbelly of American culture, but I wouldn't call it 
sleazy.  Rings pretty true, actually.  Surprised it wasn't banned from the 
radio more often, though.



John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA--My views are my own
Fidonet:  1:109/131  Internet:  jdecarlo@mitre.org
From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: What was that chip????
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:26:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark) writes:

> the best thing about the "Busch" park was the erotic birds.  The

Erotic birds? Sounds interesting! I-)

>The Disney bashing (particularly the "Main Street Electrical Parade" -
> held during the daytime - the music was amazingly similar, but just
> different enough so Disney can't sue, and "It's a Small World" - "I'm
> not sure that *is* water").

I was *sure* they were going to refer to it as "It's a Duff World", but
alas ...

>"The Erotic Adventures of Hercules".

Wasn't Troy McClure in that film?	I-)

				jaMesa Willer
[any opinions above are copyrighted and may only be used with my permission]
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Springfield City Charter
Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:28:00 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

OK, nobody else has brought this up, so I will.

The document that the Chief of Police and the Mayor were arguing over looked 
an *awful* lot like the Declaration of Independence.  Couldn't read the 
signatures, but John Hancock's seemed to be the same size and in the same 
place, and other signatures were scattered around in what looks like the same 
pattern as signatures on the D. of I.

For what it's worth.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Selma's Choice
Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:41:43 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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References:
The title, "Selma's Choice", is a reference to the movie "Sophie's Choice."

Is Lance Murdoch supposed to be Evel Knievel, or Super Dave Osborne?

Duff Gardens is both Busch Gardens and Disneyland (*especially* the latter!)

Prince of Tides

I wonder if the Duff Gardens commercial, where they said ". . . roaming 
gardens aren't a problem any more." could be a reference to Magic Mountain in 
California, which *has* had this problem in the past.

All of the Barney babies in Springfield -- a reference to the Virginia 
fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate women?  There were 
something like fifty of his children reported running around in northern 
Virginia.

Welcome Back Kotter

Yentl (starring Kent Brockman?  That *was* his voice on the tape, wasn't it?)

When Lisa said, "I am the Lizard Queen," this seemed like it should be a 
reference, but I could only think of Jim Morrison, the Lizard King.

There *must* be others I missed.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice - What did they say?
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:30:44 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>3 - Right near the end, Lisa swallowed her pills without any water (and
>they weren't chewables).  (Then again, it was "water" that got her into
>that condition...)
>Speaking of which, what was her last line?  It sounded like "Can't talk,
>comin' down" (as in "coming down with something"), but I wasn't sure.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^ or as in "coming down" from an acid trip.

-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice -- *EEEEENNNK!*
Date: 28 Jan 93 03:20:39 GMT
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article grube@fshvmfk1.vnet.ibm.com writes:
>Yes, but the sandwich is very consistent with Homer's character (and pretty 
>funny IMHO - especially when marge found it begind the radiator).  I felt 
>that it fit OK and that the gags because of it were pretty funny (i.e. - Homer
>saying that Yentl sounded like a good movie and "cmon Marge, two more feet 
>and it will fit in the fridge".)

It also gave us the line:  "What are the odd of getting sick on a Saturday?
                            It's got to be 1000 to 1".

-- 
Scott Amspoker                       |    
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM |  Too bad ignorance isn't really
                                     |  bliss.  Then it could be outlawed.
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: MG spells it D'OHH
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:54:06 GMT

bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:
>In his latest "Life in Hell", which is about him and his son,
>The balloon contains "D'OHH." and an arrow "<--o" and the words
>"in the manner of Homer Simpson".

I think that the MG spelling is basically D, apostrophe, O, then any number of
H's.  Kind of like the "e"s in "wheeee!!", except that there must be at least
two "e"s in "wheee"... there only needs to be one "h" in "d'oh".  MG has
spelled it "d'oh" somewhere, I forget where.
From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice -- *EEEEENNNK!*
Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:39:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:

>Selma's Choice was NOT a good episode, it was a very poor one, right
>down there with The Otto Show.

Obviously you are wrong, since there is no such thing as a poor episode of
The Simpsons.  So, to quote MST3K:  "Oh, bite me, it's fun."

In case you're smiley-impaired:  :) x 10

BTW, I guess now we all know what Mrs. Krabapple (sp?) meant about
groundskeeper Willie when she said "Oh you don't even want to know that
*that* guy is into."
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From: eak56063@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Yoshi   )
Subject: monorail- mr. burns
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:14:51 GMT

i suddenly realized that during the town meeting when mr. burns talks
he introduces himself as mr. snrub....    burns backwards.
hmm.. a duh!

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From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: DYNs from 9F11 "Selma's Choice"
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:08:05 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.150630.3048@samba.oit.unc.edu>
>George.Harris@launchpad.unc.edu (George Harris) writes:
>>In article <jac.727725001@pulaski> jac@doe.carleton.ca (James A. Cherry)
>writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>- The magazine cover: "Springfield Sperm Bank / 101 Frozen Pops / Monthly
>>>  Edition".  Note the pun on "orgasm" = "Pop".  
>>
>>      Hardly.  More like "Pop"="Dad".
>
>It could also be interpreted as "Pop"="orgasm" which makes it double pun.
>

Not to mention "Pop" = "popsicle".

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Homer
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:58:41 GMT

gregj@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>Does Homer Simpson have a middle name.
>If so, what is it!!

It's "J.", for Jay Ward, an animator, who also named Rocky and Bullwinkle
Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose.  See the faq.  Bart's middle
initial has been reported to stand for Jo-Jo.
From: david.CLark@analog.COM (David Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: The Seven Duffs (Well, at least four of 'em)
Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:35:02 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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 I caught only four of the Seven Duffs, I don't think they showed the other 
three. They were:
                 Tipsy
                 Queasy
                 Surly- too lazy to find a dictionary, anyone know what it means                 Remorseful
           
                 
   Dave "I'm going to Duff Gardens" Clark
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jbrowne@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jim Browne)
Subject: What was that chip????
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:43:55 GMT



When Homer was eating the Great Aunt's chip collection, what was the second
chip supposed to resemble?  I ask this 'cause he stared at it for a bit before
eating it, while he paid no attention the the first.

I wasn't sitting close enough to the TV to see what it was.  I thought perhaps
it might be a chip that looked like Bart given the cameo by the bart doll in
the Ayn Rand school for tots.

Clue me in,


-- 
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NCSA/STG System Administrator                       | stgadmin@ncsa.uiuc.edu |
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From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Duff Gardens
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:33:22 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

>A similar bit of irony involved "Hooray for Everything", a take-off on Up
>With People, the most clean-scrubbed inoffensive Christian singing group
>ever. Pretty much just as depicted.  The irony comes in having them perform
>"Walk on the Wild Side" which is about gay prostitution (or something like
>that) and is among the most sleazy pop songs ever.  This was one of Lou
>Reed's only hits.  Someone might want to post the lyrics.  It might be
>interesting to post the Robert Frost poem as well.

I don't particularly agree with your opinion of the song, but I
*loved* having "Hooray for Everything" perform it... I'd say it
was a good jab at the group for picking up a popular song and 
parroting it back in their squeeky-clean style, while not having
the slightest idea of what the song was *about*. And yes, I 
recall it is about gay prostitution, in New York, I believe, and
"names" a number of particularly well-known folks invloved in
a very un-"gay" subculture. It made some points about these people
being human and having dreams and philosophy toward life. Not
all that sleazy, to me...

Dave
dbell@cup.portal.com