HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alex@noao.edu (Alex Macdonald)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: I said, "things couldn't get any worse."
Date: 3 Sep 92 06:49:55 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA

In article <1992Sep1.201430.20307@sequent.com> courtney@sequent.com (Courtney Powell) writes:

>self-described, poorly formatted paragraph deleted (I understood!)

>	Myself, I think this "show anaylazation" is going a bit to far. I don't
>know how someone can get so caught up in the details of a show, etc. I only
>wonder if these people enjoy the shows--
>
>	(I think the clincher was analyzing wheater or not washer and dryers 
>would move by themselves on floors or not. Urgh. Just laugh, ok?)
>
>	BTW- How come I've seen no messages in regard to David Mirsky's posting
>of all the new episodes? I thought a cascade of discussion would follow.
>Myself, I'm pumped for "Itchy And Scratchy: The Movie". Any guesses?

AMEN! I noticed that list as well. Hmmmmm.. Itchy and Scratchy as
two pets fed up with entertaining Springfield suburbia embark on
a cross country escapade, burgling and killing their way accross
America in a convertible, all the while Itchy decapitating and
or maiming scratchy whenever the impulse strikes.

How about the Lisa episodes? She already has the literary critics
buzzing. 

Mmmmmmmm......gefilte fish balls.

Alex.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.Com (Andre Giroux - SSS Sun Montreal)
Subject: Re: I said, "things couldn't get any worse."
Reply-To: andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.Com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:21:06 GMT

I *think* (not sure) that the delay was to create a sort of cueing problem they
tried to simulate as if the show was live. But doing this with a cartoon
is just hilarious.

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From: lvc@cbnews.cb.att.com (Larry Cipriani)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: '...less like the Simpsons?!'  (George Bush speaks)
Date: 30 Aug 92 02:28:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Ideology Busters, Inc.

In article <1992Aug20.203500.14616@news.iastate.edu> jerrett@iastate.edu (Gregory A Jerrett) writes:
>
>I have been debating this very subject with my roommate lately.
>For the most part I think that you are correct,

Sometimes non-well-established actors pass up roles as well.
For example the lady attorney on LA Law who quit because she
didn't want to play the role of a bisexual.  I don't think I've
seen her in much since then.

>but think about this anomaly: Planet of the
>Apes, Soylent Green, Omega Man.  Each of these movies contains elements of
>anti-nuke, anti-war, pro-environmental issues themes. The first time I saw
>Heston doing an NRA commercial I was surprised, I figured that a guy who did
>movies like he had, would certainly be a liberal.

Huh ?  This sounds pretty naive and prejudiced to me.  There are
nearly 3,000,000 people in the NRA.  There's no "conservative purity
test" required to join.

Is everyone who joins the ACLU a card carrying liberal ?  Heck no.

>I think that he probably changed sides like Ronnie Ray Gun did.

Welcome to the NRA, Bart; sorry, exploding armor piercing cyanide
coated ammo is not issued with membership.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox1!lvc or lvc@cbvox1.att.com
From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: 8f23 Brother, can you spare two di?es?
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:20:44 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA

In article <1992Aug27.225510.26425@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>Anyway.  Now on to the show.  I thought it was odd that a physical examination
>would include a semen sample!

With drug testing and all, I find it easy to imagine a semen sample being
part of a company physical.  (Not that semen would be part of a drug
test, it's just the epitome of privacy invasion.)

-- 
Scott Amspoker                       |    
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM |  Too bad ignorance isn't really
                                     |  bliss.  Then it could be outlawed.
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From: stamos@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Jerry Stamatopoulos)
Subject: Re: Baby Translator, MG's address
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:33:41 GMT

purtell@netcom.com (Mike Purtell) writes:

>Baby translation is not possible with an oscilloscope alone.  The pitch
>of the voice would require a spectrum analyzer with a waterfall function
>to display frequency composition over time, or a digitizer with memory,
>DSP, and a processor. The display of the translator is only necessary
>for troubleshooting or demonstrating the operation of the unit; not for
>the basic operation.

Ruined the joke for me I'm afraid. 
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From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Subject: Re: '...less like the Simpsons?!' (George Bush bleats)
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 05:51:09 GMT


In a previous article, rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele) says:

>In article <iroderic.714715216@cunews> iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian  
>Roderick) writes:
[...]
>> What do you think a vision of a world salvaged through
>> "family values" constitutes?
>
>Certainly not utopia!  Maybe subtopia :).

Akbar and Jeff's Dystopia (tm).

  (Where the cultural elite like to meet... :)

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From: elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Patent Number theory
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:40:12
Organization: Berkeley--Shaken, not Stirred
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In-reply-to: noel@umbc1.umbc.edu's message of Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:28:06 GMT

In article <29AUG92.02280679@umbc1.umbc.edu> noel@umbc1.umbc.edu writes:
=>The only thing I can think of is that somone who works on "The
=>Simpsons" (Sam Simon I beleive) came from a Maryland suburb of
=>Washington DC.  Can anyone born in the DC/metro area confirm that
=>people born in Silver Spring or thereabouts have SSN's that begin
=>with 214?

Yep.  I wasn't born in Montgomery County, MD (suburbs north of DC),
but I did get my SSN while my parents were living there.  My SSN does
indeed begin with 214.  The area might also include DC itself.

ethan
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From: "Joseph S. Testa" <p00106@mail.psi.net>
Subject: German TV
Organization: Mondo Enterprises
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:25:53 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.11)

I believe the simpsons can be seen on RLT Plus on friday nights sometime
in the evening before Tutti-Fruiti and on Sky-One on Sunday nights.
At least that is the way it was 6 weeks ago when I left Germany.

Joe
From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: `Brother Can You Spare 2 Dimes' - 8F23 - Mo' SloMo Mania
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 23:30:08 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na


>Some (most?) stuff repeated; done neatly (anal); mostly slomo...

>- Annual Plant Physical  No Jokes
>- Around the campfire
>     - Charlie Chaplin    as the Little Tramp   | All of these
>     - Emmett Kelley      (spelling?) clown     | are tramp
>     - Red Skelton        in stage makeup       | characters
                         as Freddy the Freeloader,
                            of course...

>Ron Carter |   Denver | Center for the Study of Creative Intelligence
>  Director | Colorado | "A ... mind stretched by a new idea can never
>rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu | go back to its original dimensions."  -Holmes


Dave
dbell@cup.portal.com
From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Simpsons' calendar - Bart at the beach?
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:09:26
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

=o= Be advised that the 1993 Simpsons Fun Calendar depicts OFF
going on a whirlwind world tour.  I suspect that this, like the
beach scene, is not to be considered part of the continuity of
the TV show . . .
    Pedantically yours,                                   .-.  .-.
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From: don@vestek.com (Don Labutay)
Subject: Bootleg t-shirts
Organization: Vestek Systems, San Francisco
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 23:04:53 GMT

I just saw this funny bootleg t-shirt:

It shows Bart partially nude with a towel covering part of his body and
he's saying "Who the f**k are you looking at!"

Has anyone ever compiled a list of bootleg simpson t-shirts?
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
Subject: Some stuff from a Nancy `Voice o' Bart' Cartwright interview...
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 23:39:37 GMT


Just a few insights...

Marge plays `Stella' in a musical version of `A Streetcar
Named Desire'.
Marge meets Tom Jones (playing himself)
Guest voices will be Bob Hope, Sara Gilbert, Leonard Nimoy,
and Adam West...
Bart falls in love; a young man (hopefully not Tod) turns
his attention to Lisa, who has no idea what to do about it.

`This is like the love year,' Cartwright said.

--
Ron Carter |   Denver | Center for the Study of Creative Intelligence
  Director | Colorado | "A ... mind stretched by a new idea can never
rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu | go back to its original dimensions."  -Holmes
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From: rjc@onion.princeton.edu (Raymond Chen)
Subject: Emmys
Organization: Abject Admirers of Lisa Simpson
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:36:22 GMT

(For those who were wondering, the reason for my relative silence is
that my computer blew up last week, and it took my hard drive with it.)

The Simpsons received six emmys, all in the category of "Voice-Over
Performance".  (I'd never noticed this category before.  Is it a new
category specially designed to placate the animation lobby?) The press
release lists them as...

	Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson, ``The Simpsons''
	Jackie Mason as Rabbi Krustofsky, ``The Simpsons''
	Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson, ``The Simpsons''
	Marcia Wallace as Mrs. Krabappel, ``The Simpsons''
	Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson, ``The Simpsons''
	Yeardly Smith as Lisa Simpson, ``The Simpsons''

That's right.  Yeardley's name is spelt wrong.  Let's hope it's spelt
correctly on the award itself.

And, in a move that defies explanation, the award for Animated Program
didn't go to OFF, nor to Ren and Stimpy.  It went to...

	A Claymation Easter
--
Raymond ``What a kick in the teeth!'' Chen
From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Misc DYN/FF #9
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:01:52 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Sep2.024414.23454@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

>He had a betting computer in the Super Bowl episode -- the <something> 2000.
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gamble-tron 2000.

What a riot!! I-)
			James Willer
{the opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all}
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [8F23] Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:22:33 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Aug28.071431.24791@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> schwim@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rosebud) writes:
>DYN:
>Back in 1985, the Simpsons actually had a nice light show for xmas?
>	(well, it was probably put up in '86...)

1984, given that the lights wished for a happy 1985.

>Barney's blood on the bar room door?

I didn't like this scene -- it was out of character for Barney.  (Now
if they'd been arguing about the popes in Avignon or something...)

>Burn's Award for Excellence looks like an Emmy?  (well, actually, I'm assuming
>	it looks like an emmy.  Were there any prominent faces in the crowd??)

It was an Emmy with Monty's face.  He was way out of character this episode
also.

>- Train
>	Toxic Waste with glowing green slime
>	Krusty's Sulfuric Acid	(loved this one)

The circus had a lion cage.

>- Great Works of Literature for Children
>Less than Zero

The book Lisa did get was some maudlin novel, whose name I forget, but
which I inwardly smiled at.
-- 
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From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: 8f23 Brother, can you spare two di?es?
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:04:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.163214.27060@gvl.unisys.com>,
schrey@prc.unisys.com (Timothy M. Schreyer) writes:
>   Lisa also says from "Beowulf" to "Less Than Zero."  The author of
>   "Less Than Zero," Brad Eliot Easton, I believe, is not a Dead White
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  Uh, not quite.  Bret Easton Ellis.  (He's not really a snob, he just
  plays one on T.V.)

>   Male, yet (unless I missed some news).  "Less Than Zero" was his
>   acclaimed first novel about disenchanted, drugged-up, California
    ^^^^^^^^^

  Ha Ha Ha!  The book is trash, the movie is worse, hence the joke
  in The Simpsons.  (Selling a million copies does not a great novel
  make.  Unless you want to include "romance" novels.)

  -- Mark

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From: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
Subject: `Brother Can You Spare 2 Dimes' - 8F23 - Mo' SloMo Mania
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 23:03:49 GMT


Some (most?) stuff repeated; done neatly (anal); mostly slomo...

- Annual Plant Physical  No Jokes
- Around the campfire
     - Charlie Chaplin    as the Little Tramp   | All of these
     - Emmett Kelley      (spelling?) clown     | are tramp
     - Red Skelton        in stage makeup       | characters
- Forbes  August 31, 1991  $4.00
     - The Blunder Of The Century (the Homer)
- Springfield Civic Center
     - First Annual Montgomery Burns Award For Outstanding
       Achievement In The Field Of Excellence
Note the orchestra strikes up the Simpsons theme when Homer `wins'
- The train
     - Toxic Waste (two tanks)
     - Two lions in CIRCUS car
     - Krusty Brand Sulfuric Acid (with Krusty logo) 
     - Emil's Fluffy Pillows (Uncie Herb's luck has changed!)
- The Seatery 
     - Spinemaster 2000  only $1999.99
- The Baby Translator
     - Oscilloscopes "4-LESS"
     - Patent number 214661767 (Someone's SS number?)
- Baby Expo  Tu-Fr: Twin Convention  No Triplets (some booths)
     - Wacky Wipes
     - Toy Insurance
     - Baby Plane
     - Dog In A Ball (TM)
          - Babies Love To Play With Dog In A Ball (TM)
- Some refs
     - Star Trek, `Damn it, I said full power...'
     - 2001, A Space Odyssey, the full power graphic sequence
     - Wizard Of Oz, `Herb, I don't think there's a vibrating
       chair in that bag for me...'

--
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  Director | Colorado | "A ... mind stretched by a new idea can never
rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu | go back to its original dimensions."  -Holmes
From: Roger.Wennstrom@lu.erisoft.SE
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: lines from last year?
Date: 27 Aug 1992 01:26:45 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu


>I'm interested in that most post-modern of endings from last year
>(from the episode in which Bart gave his blood to save Mr. Burns'
>life.)  The Simpsons are sitting around at the end of the show trying
>to figure out what their experience meant.

This is cut directly from the quotes file:

Homer: Save a guy's life, and what do you get?  Nothing!  Worse than nothing!
       Just a big scary rock.
Bart:  Hey, man, don't bad-mouth the head.
Marge: Homer, it's the thought that counts.  The moral of the story is a
       good deed is its own reward.
Bart:  Hey, we <got> a reward.  The head is cool.
Marge: Then... I guess the moral is no good deed goes unrewarded.
Homer: Wait a minute.  If I hadn't written that nasty letter, we wouldn't've
       gotten anything.
Marge: Well... Then I guess the moral is the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Lisa:  Perhaps there is no moral to this story.
Homer: Exactly!  Just a bunch of stuff that happened.
Marge: But it certainly was a memorable few days.
Homer: Amen to that!
       [laughter all around]

-- We don't need no steenkin' morals, ``Blood Feud''

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From: whitlock@dcss.mcmaster.ca (Jeremy Whitlock)
Subject: Re: Misc DYN/FF #9
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:28:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.221047.9971@wam.umd.edu> pi@wam.umd.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes:
>>    addresses Homer).
>That isn't smoke; it is steam, and is perfectly normal (in fact necessary)
>for proper operation of nuclear power plant.
>

It isn't steam either; it's water vapour caused by warm, moist air meeting
colder air.  (just had to add that correction).
-- 
Jeremy Whitlock                 "My thoughts are mine, not Mac's"
Dept. Engineering Physics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Baby Translator, MG's address
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:00:02 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Sep01.044837.12895@admiral.uucp> dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman) writes:

>Maybe this is more evidence in the 'Are Burns and Smithers gay?' arguement.

Smithers: yes.
Burns: no.

Evidence?
A)	in re: dogs
	B: How would you like it if I were to sniff your crotch, etc.?
	S: If *you* did it sir?

B)	before impending nuclear disaster
	S: I would just like to say 'I love you'.
	B: Well, thank you for making my last moments on Earth socially
		awkward!!

The quotes may not be exact, but the sentiments are captured nicely.

			James Willer
{the opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all}
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: 8/27 Episode (US) (8f23?)
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:57:52 GMT
Organization: University of Central Florida

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:

>Stuff I did like:

>* Lisa's subscription to New Republic for Kids

>* The great books of the Western World -- from Beowulf to Less than Zero (!)

>* The baby-plane, even though the joke was telegraphed a mile away, it
>  still came off nicely. 

I liked the racing washer and dryer.

But I do agree that the episode lacked flow.  It seemed kind of
"odd", especially the first half.

m*rk
From: yantosca@buast7.bu.edu (Robert Yantosca)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [8F23] Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:59:17 GMT
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Aug28.071431.24791@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> schwim@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rosebud) writes:
>
>DYN:
>Burn's Award for Excellence looks like an Emmy?  (well, actually, I'm assuming
>	it looks like an emmy.  Were there any prominent faces in the crowd??)

The Excellence award does indeed look like an Emmy (a winged person holding
up a globe).  Only they substituted a model of an atom (with a couple of
electrons to boot) for the globe.  Very timely, especially with the Emmy
ceremony around the corner.

Bob Y.



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From: ide@studio.enet.dec.com (Jamie Ide)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:21:33 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


One of the best ever.  The level of quality this show has maintained
continues to amaze me.  It's the only thing I watch, and the only show
I even consider saving on tape.

My favorite scene was the vibrating chair/2001 take-off, especially the
time distortion on OFF's faces.  Then Homer's "excuse me while I kiss
the sky."  Second might be Todd or Rod's "Can I anoint his sores?"

If teh rest of this season's shows (actually this was in the can last year,
right?) are this good, we're in for some real treats.

Jamie Ide

ide@studio.enet.dec.com  
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From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: 8f23 Brother, can you spare two di?es?
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Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 00:36:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.225510.26425@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>The washer and dryer moving around was a good one.  However, they probably
>didn't need replacing if that was their only flaw.  First of all, let me say, I
>have never seen a dryer move around in that way.  I don't think they can; they
>move the clothes parallel to the ground, not perpendicular to it like a washer
>does, and the clothes shift around a lot more.  But secondly, when a washer
>moves around like that, well either your load is really unbalanced which is
>easily solved by shifting around the clothes and I'm sure Marge knows that, or
>if it does it always, your washer is not balanced right.  These days, they
>build them with a release so that you can balance the rear feet simply by
>releasing them so that they touch the ground and level.  The front two feet
>have to be balanced against each other first by hand, but the front is
>accessible.  I think that I've got it right; I must admit that it really would
>be beneficial for me to balance our washing machine at this point but I keep
>putting it off.

The heaviest part of a washer (or dryer) is the block of concrete in
the base to keep it from walking.

--
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