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From: tbc@netcom.com (Mike Garvey)
Subject: Re: MST3k Withdrawl!  HELLLP MEEEEE!
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 05:23:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: na

In a prior missive, Chris Johnson (johnsonchris@bvc.edu) eloquently scribed
this stuff:

>[...]
>
>Now that I got that off my chest, I am suprised that there aren't too many 
>Minnesota viewers on here.  To get a good portion of some of the jokes, you 
>must be a resident Minnesotan (or at least from Minnesota in your growing 
>years.)
>
>Item:    The Rennaisance Festival Punching Bags
>           -- Seems to me Joel and the gang do not care for a Minnesota
>              tradition, the RenFest.  Huzzah, I must say.  What's not
>              to like about a gang of gypsies performing medieval antics
>              such as lobbing various liquids at you from high trees, etc.

We have a similar venue out here in northern California called "The
Renaissance Pleasure Fair"

>[...]
>
>Item:    The "Do you want to go faster!" quotation
>           -- Mere miles from the RenFest is another Minnesota tradition, 
>              VALLEYFAIR.  This overpriced amusement park has a certain
>              ride named "The Catepillar", where during it a madman with
>              a microphone screams at the riders, "Do you want to go faster
>              raise your hands!", etc.  After which 100s of riders are
>              thrilled by a ride that is not really that fast.

Typical carnie kitsch, that.

>Item:    The "Senator Paul Wellstone not included" remark.
>           -- Great bit of humor.  Who remembers "Gamera Vs. Barragon?"
>              During it they had a "Make your own Gamera Movie" toy kit,
>              complete with "Peace Protestors (Senator Paul W. Not
>              included.)

I'll give ya that one.

>There are tons more, more than I could name.  The humor in MST3K is 
>boundless, but the added knowledge of it's creators home state makes it
>even more so.  It makes me wish I had watched it when it simply was just a 
>local show, not on Comedy Channel or Comedy Central.  But I did not find it 
>as humorus then.

I would say that today's MST3K humor is more universal, than parochial and
it is a very sobering thought that I understand the great majority of thier
jokes, witticisms, bon mots, etc. (I know, I should really just relax)

>Oh well, I'm rambling, but I need to to get over my withdrawl.  
>If anyone can help my withdrawl with anything, email me.

Uh, keep circulating the tapes?

(Wanders off mumbling something about definitely a case of DEEP HURTING)

Be seeing you...
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From: donnell@sponge.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: The Magic Sword
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:39:46 GMT
Organization: none

In article <BPOSTOW.92Sep7150532@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow) writes:
>along the lines of the WORST mst3k experiment, I would have to say
>that the worst I have seen [not nearly all of them] would have to be
>Mighty Jack. I couldn't even sit through it. it was SO lame that  even
>Joel and the bots couldn't deal with it.
>
>however, sometimes things are SO lame that Joel & co. make it great,
>for example, I loved Mr. B natural. but If I were forced to watch it
>w/o MST3K, I would go mad...
>
>I guess it is like jokes, some jokes are just stupid, others are so
>stupid that they are funney and others are even stupider so that they
>aren't funney any more...
>
>of course this is all IMHO, YMMV
>--
>Brian Postow :: The Pasta Knight - that noodle head in shiny armour
>
>Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?
>	And I'm STRAAANGER than you are!

"Mighty Jack" is a personal fave of mine, but I don't have it on tape, damm!

I watched it when they were a local show, but I have never seen what they did
with it on The Comedy Channel. Anybody got a tape? 
I MUST HAVE IT!!!
Thanks in advance!

					--Judex--
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie *crow* Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Finding gif files
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:58:13 GMT

In article <92257.232454JRHOADS@auvm.american.edu> Jill Rhoads <JRHOADS@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>Uh....er.....oh...I'm on.  Well, hellew all you MSTSKers with all that vast
>computer knowledge that I'd like to tap into. I'm looking for .gif files of
>MST3K and have no idea where to look.  Could anyone out there please be so kind
>as to tell me possible sights to look at and/or send me .gif files at my email
>address?  I would be much appreciative.  Oh...and my addition for the catch
>phrase catalog is "Labotomy means never having to say your sorry....or anything
> else." (I think it was "Lost in Space".)
>

The ftp site syrinx.umd.edu has a number of gifs, some are too bright, but
some look really good.  Enjoy,
Ocie

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From: mheney@access.digex.com (Michael K. Heney)
Subject: Re: Catch Phrase Catalog v1.1
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:31:27 GMT

In article <BuKxEt.9yw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom) writes:
>More catch phrases:
>
>(Quotation marks left out; didn't want to deal with 'em.)
>
>  [...]
>
>Interesting--but STUPID! (???)
>
    This is from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, where Arte Johnson as a
WWII German soldier peers out of some weeds and utters the above.  Often
followed with a protestation of love to Lucy (Ball).
 


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From: v133kdq8@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Amy L Levine)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Pizza?  Puh-leez!
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:26:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Good day good people!

Tell me you I-swear-I-hear-pizza freaks don't have anything better to do that
listen for the faint mentioning of a snack (or meal) food every time the damn
door closes!  Do you really have that much spare time?  Look, I don't think 
that there's any subliminal messages hidden in the so called "pizza" word you
claim to hear, so why not just forget about it?  Does it really matter?  Good
god, the coolest show on television, and you're worried over whether or not 
they say "pizza" when the door closes?  Do yourself a favor, get a hobby.
Don't wear out your VCR like that.

Later!
Amy
                                   "Guess what folks, thats the news and
                                    I am outta here!"
                                             -Dennis Miller
From: v133kdq8@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Amy L Levine)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: The woozle named Peanut
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:43:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Good day good people!
Ok, bear with me because I'm new at this.  Someone asked about the references 
to a woozle named Peanut.  Peanut is the name of a puppet used by comedian/
ventriloquist extrodinaire Jeff Dunham.  Peanut is this funny looking purple
thing with one shoe (he didn't lose one, he found one!) and this little tuft
of yellowish-orange hair (Lee Press on hair!) which he usually runs his hand
through and goes "Neeeeeeeeoooooooowww!" to a really stupid member of the
audience.  Jeff Dunham is an extremely talented guy, and if he's ever in a club
in your town, don't miss his show.  I know every single word of his act (and 
could probably do it if you really want....requests?) and I still laugh so hard
that my face and sides hurt when I see him.  Unfortunately the people at Short
Attention Span Theater and Stand-up Stand-up don't show clips of him as often 
as they should (actually, I've only seen him on twice-once on each).  However,
he's been on the Tonight Show, Letterman, and A&E's An Evening at the Improv
lots of times, plus VH-1 and MTV, so seeing part of his act shouldn't be too
difficult. 
Later!
Amy
                             "Guess what folks, thats the news and
                              I am outta here!"
                                     -Dennis Miller
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu)
Subject: accents
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:06:12 GMT

Thanks to everyone whgo answered my question about accents. I really 
appreciate it. :)
				Rosaleen Dhu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: esrag@warwick.ac.uk (Bill Wright)
Subject: Re: accents
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:07:22 GMT

In article <716097060snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> Steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft) writes:
>
>In article <25653@castle.ed.ac.uk> gu@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Ushaw) writes:
>
>>
>>Alexei Sayle has a Birmingham accent - Brummie. As opposed to Craig
>>Charles' scouser accent from liverpool, ok chuck?
>>
>
>Rubbish!  Alexei Sayle is as Scouse as they come.  Good grief.
>
>Steve
>|  Steve Loft                                  steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk   |
>|  Doncaster,                                                             |
>|  South Yorks.                                                           |


	For a Brummie accent in Red Dwarf, check out the technician(?) in
'Back to Reality' Series V, played by Timothy Spall of 'Auf Weidersehen, Pet'
fame. I think Rimmer actually calls him a 'Brummy Git'

Bill

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From: ft@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Frances Teagle)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Holly's IQ
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:26:52 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Sep9.082130.29453@spider.co.uk> andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
>
>He did go Senial.

Can it be that the word we are looking for is SENILE?




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From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu)
Subject: Jerry's Kids
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:26:31 GMT

Someone asked about Jerry's Kids. Jerry Lewis is/was an American actor who wasa big deal way before I was born, so I do not know much about that part of it.

Someone asked about Jerry's Kids. Jerry Lewis is/was an American actor who wasa big deal way before I was born, so I do not know much about that part of it.
Sorry bout that. Anyways, what I was TRYING to say is that this Jerry should
not be confused with Jerry _Lee_ Lewis, who was a sleazy teen-hunk rocker
in the '50s who married his thirteen-year-old cousin. Anyways, Jerry Lewis
now runs a telethon in support of kids with muscular dystrophy. It runs
Labor Day weekend. Kids with muscular dystrophy are sometimes referred to as
Jerry's Kids. It's sort of an American cultural icon when you are talking
about things which are dumb but traditional. (And yes, I am supportive of
people with MD. I'm just not supportive of Jerry Lewis. So no flames
s'il vous plait.)
				Rosaleen Dhu

			]
	Freshman Music Major at Brandeis University.
	Absolutely Nothing To Do With Computers, Just A Fan
	@-'-,-'-, ;)
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From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Yaaay! a Red Dwarf newsgrooup (i just found it)
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:02:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 

To: nedblake@cstp.umkc.edu

N |  i had just discovered that the tv series was doing some serious deviating from
N |  the book and wondering how much further it was going to go... shoulda' known i
N |  would find a newsgroup for Red Dwarf!

Actually, it's the other way 'round.   The books deviate from the TV Series.
                                                                                                             
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: quendor@milton.u.washington.edu (Don Sowell)
Subject: Re: Red-dwarf in DC
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:32:25 GMT

JRHOADS@auvm.american.edu (Jill Rhoads) writes:

>Oh....help me...help me...help me....I saw Red-Dwarf a couple weeks ago and
>think it is one of the best shows I've seen in a long while.  Could someone out
> there please tell me when it is on TV here in DC?   I saw it on My Public
>Television here and can't remember when or what time I saw it at.  Please tell
>me when it was...I'm dying to introduce my friends to it (not literally of
>course...but I could be.).


>                                                  THANKS....JILL

       I don't know about DC, but here in the other Washington the only time
I see it is when PBS runs a Red Dwarf marathon. Well that and when I watch
the tapes of the few I actually have on tape.

   btw, have they released RD on tape yet?


                          Don Sowell

Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: lcornell@milton.u.washington.edu (Linda Cornell)
Subject: Re: Vindaloo (sp)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:22:22 GMT

I don't have my recipes with me, but I got them by doing an archie search.
There were several of them on the wustl ftp host!  Give it a try!

Linda

In article <NyLqqB1w165w@memalph.UUCP> system@memalph.UUCP (Woody Harper) writes:
>I recently saw a vindaloo recipe that a friend had. I did not copy it 
>down and am itchin' to cook up a batch. None of my current cookbooks have 
>a listing for this taste sensation. If you have any such recipes, please 
>post/mail them. Thanks...
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From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re-post of Qutes competition.
Date: 14 Sep 92 08:03:25 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

OK, I'm re-posting this competition. I'll post the answers and results towards
the end of the week. Get your entries in now.......

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The great Red Dwarf quotes competition.

All you have to do is email me (andrewc@spider.co.uk) the name of the character
and the title of the episode that each quote is taken from.

The quotes are entirely out of context and are quoted from memory (so their 
probably wrong)

1) "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast"

2) "15 minutes and that includes the time it took to eat the pizza"

3) "Don't give me all that Star Trek crap"

4) "On your knees voters"

5) "Is'nt that a urine stain on the front of your trousers ?"

6) "Are we gonna blow this room up ?"

7) "You keep your underpants on coat hangers"

8) "Done ask me, I'm nobody"

9) "You thought you had it bad before, now you've got it in stereo baby !"

10) "I'm sorry, I just don't like you"

11) "Well this is Better then Life sir"

12) "Strike a light, its Gordon"

13) "So, what is it ?"

14) "I'm going to whip you to within an inch of your life, and then I'm going to
     have you"

15) "Which one was playing Lister then ?"

16) "Oh Rimmer, you are a Smeg Head !"

17) "Is that female as in Soft and Squidgy ?"

18) "The Hologram known as Rimmer....Guilty"

19) "So what have you got ?"

20) "But how do I do that Holl ?"


Rules
-----
1) Send me (andrewc@spider.co.uk) your entries by email
2) My decision is final cos I like playing God.
3) Results will be posted  when the entries dry up.
4) One entry per person.
5) No prizes will be given.
6) Quotes are more or less accurate, corrections may earn bonus points.
7) All bribes/offers of sex/compliments will be saved for later.

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From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Scutters (Was:Re: Holly's IQ)
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:04:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 

Organization: Jupiter Mining Corporation

ES|  were a technical nightmare as well, but I love the moments like
ES|  the "please don't leave us with Rimmer" as they hit their "heads"
ES|  against the wall when Lister and Cat are going into stasis, or

Did you notice that one of the skutters was missing the wall in that scene?
That little faux paus (assuming it WAS a mistake) has always been funny to me.
From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: The cat
Date: 7 Sep 92 09:57:02 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <715776736snx@socrates.demon.co.uk> twod@socrates.demon.co.uk (Ian Parkin) writes:
>
>In Stasis Leak all of the "petit rouge one posse" appear more than once,
>from the past, the present ( or is that the future ), and from the
>double double future. However the cat does not appear from the double double 
>future. As the time period between the present ( future ) and double double
>future characters is 5 years and the episode is 3 years old ( ? ) what, if
>anything, happens to the cat in the next 2 years ?
>

Well that's all out the window into the continuity skip aswell.

Neil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: richwing@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rich Wingerter)
Subject: Re: Pt 1/2: Red Dwarf Frequently Asked Questions List (Version 2.3)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 05:25:20 GMT

In article <jhrnw9j.sasse@netcom.com>, sasse@netcom.com (Ellen Sasse) writes:
|> I find it just too odd to be a coincidence that they got a "Craig" to play
|> Lister and a "Chris" to play Rimmer. Do they think we Red Dwarf fans are so
|> inattentive that we would actually think it was the REAL Lister and Rimmer?!
|> The mind reels.

No, I'm sure this was just an inside joke.


--Rich Wingerter
From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Holly's IQ
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:02:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) 


SC|  |> 1) What happened to the scutters?
SC|  They are still there. Just not in every show.

I don't remember any scutters in Season Five.   One of my favorite scutter
things comes from the first (was it the first Book?) book where Rimmer is
using almost all the skutters to work on some shuttle that was picked up.
It collapsed, crushing a good deal of them.   The mental image of that was
absolutely hysterical!  (It's been at least 18 months since I read the first
book, my memory is sketchy)
                                                                                         
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: byrdie@milton.u.washington.edu (Renee Ann Byrd)
Subject: Re: accents
Summary: What accent does Craig Charles (Lister) speak with? 
Keywords: "Liverpulian"?
Organization: Jupiter Mining Corporation -- Skutter Maintenance
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:55:48 GMT

In article <92252.173305JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu> <JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>
>Number two:  It's Liverpudlian.  The Beatles aren't the standard for Liverpool.
>
	According to the on-line Webster's Dictionary over hither:

scouse(n)(1840)
  1:   LOBSCOUSE
  2a:  a native or inhabitant of Liverpool, England
  2b:  a dialect of English spoken in Liverpool

Webster's dictionary> 

	The books also refer to the accent as "Scouse".

						-- Renee

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From: dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: QUESTION
Date: 12 Sep 92 20:26:19 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Sep11.040156.12821@julian.uwo.ca>, jamie@csd.uwo.ca (Jamie Blustein) writes:
> In article <1992Sep10.202820.7458@ac.dal.ca> 01sybok@ac.dal.ca asked:
>>Isn't PBS like CBC (Candian Broadcasting Corp)?
> 
> 
>     NO! CBC Television is not like the Petroleum Broadcasting Corp.
> (PBS).  CBC is a crown corporation and operates very much like the
> other Canadian and US networks.  It does have a stronger
> responsibility to promote Canadian ventures and culture than other
> licensed broadcaster though.
> 
> -- 
> James Blustein                                        `Did you say "knives"?'
> <jamie@uwo.ca>                                        `*Rotating* knives, yes.'

Damnit....you didn't leave anything in your response that needed to be
explained so that forces me to use the intials CBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX!
From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Holly's IQ
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:24:09 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <1992Sep14.132652.10770@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> ft@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Frances Teagle) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.082130.29453@spider.co.uk> andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
>>
>>He did go Senial.
>
>Can it be that the word we are looking for is SENILE?
>
>

I'm sorry. I was'nt educated. I went to art college.


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