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From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires)
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving broadcast
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 17:16:27 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <3330001@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> weisberg@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Len Weisberg) writes:
>
>Chorus:
>  You can give thanks to a Creator, oh it cannot just be chance

	This is too overtly Xtian for my taste :) nor does it fit
	in with the rest of the song.  The
		"Or to fate or just to chance"
	is better.  I recall thinking that
		"Or the creative hand of chance"
	sounded pretty close as well.  Great song.

	And this reminds me!!  Has someone transcribed the song 
	that...darn I forget his name!...sings that is set to
	the music of
		"I did it my way"
	but he says
		"I did it *their* way"
	about the academic life?  I would really like to see this
	one, since I did not record the broadcast!

	And how about the Christmas song set to the music of
		"The first Noel"
	about "Nouvelle cuisine?"

	And how about...?

Roger Squires
rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu
From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.wobegon
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving broadcast
Date: 3 Oct 92 05:21:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: ima.1992Oct03.052114.8613
Organization: Formerly of Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA

In article <3330002@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> weisberg@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Len Weisberg) writes:
>She also suggested that perhaps "Got some old salt above you"
>should read "Got some old Sol above you"

Both wrong.  The word is "ozone"!

And the part I couldn't make out earlier has been identified as probably
saying "Or to fate or just to chance".  I guess I should post my rendering
now, huh?


Thursday in November
Rainy and gray
A sort of homey, kind of corny, holiday
You're a little bit bitter
Life a bit of a curse
But for today, consider all the ways it could be worse.

You know that a smile
Takes fewer muscles than a frown
You can give thanks for white corpuscles when you're feeling down
You can be thankful that your eyeballs
Are set in your face
You'd bump your head a lot if they were set any other place

You can give thanks to a creator
Or to fate or just to chance
That made the gases that you exhale
Be inhaled by the plants
You can be thankful that the food you eat
Can sometimes taste okay
And that your elbows do not bend the other way


There are only two sexes
We should be thankful, no doubt
If there were five or six, we'd very quickly all flip out
Got some ozone above you
Some topsoil below
You can be thankful that the continental drift is slow

On this little blue planet
Solar eclipses are fun:
'Cause by coincidence, the full moon looks
The same size as the sun
And just think how unfairly
We would all be impaired
If gravitational attraction weren't reciprocally proportional to distance squared

You can give thanks to a creator
Or to fate or just to chance
That made the gases that you exhale
Be inhaled by the plants
You can be thankful that the food you eat
Can sometimes taste okay
And that your elbows do not bend the other way


You may be a believer
And say that life is so fine
You may call that self-deceiving
And say it's not all that divine
But no matter the reason
For your fingers and toes
You can be grateful that your fingers fit inside your nose

You can give thanks to a creator
Or to fate or just to chance
That made the gases that you exhale
Be inhaled by the plants
You can be thankful that the food you eat
Can sometimes taste okay
And that your elbows do not bend the other way


Written by Jeff Balch from Chicago
Sung by Ivy Austin
on Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company of the Air, 23-Nov-1991
From: weisberg@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Len Weisberg)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 03:58:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving broadcast
Organization: HP Palo Alto Info Tech Center
Newsgroups: rec.arts.wobegon

Karl Heuer asks:
> [1] The thanksgiving song by Jeff Balch (sp?) was great!  But no matter how
> often I play it back, I can't make out what Ivy Austin is singing at the
> beginning of the chorus:
> 	You can give thanks to a creator
> 	Or [???] just to chance
> Anybody know what's supposed to fit in the blank?  (It's three syllables.)
> 
> --Karl

Thanks for Karl's spurring me to get around to transcribing that
delightful song.  Here's how it sounds to me. 
(One question:  what does "some old salt above you" refer to?
    Or did I hear it wrong?)

Enjoy,

- Len Weisberg - weisberg@corp.hp.com - HP - Palo Alto Info Tech Center
==============================================================================

        Thanksgiving Song   by  Jeff Balch (sp?)
sung by Ivy Austin   on Garrison Keillor's  American Radio Company  23 Nov 91

Thursday in November, rainy and grey,
Sorta homey, kinda corny holiday.
You're a little bit bitter, life's a bit of a curse.
But for today, consider all the ways it could be worse.

You know that a smile takes fewer muscles than a frown.
You can give thanks for white corpuscles when you're feelin' down.
You can be thankful that your eyeballs are set in your face.
You'd bump your head a lot if they were set any other place.

Chorus:
  You can give thanks to a Creator, oh it cannot just be chance
  That made the gases that you exhale be inhaled by the plants.
  You can be thankful that the food you eat can sometimes taste okay.
  And that your elbows do not bend the other way.

There are only two sexes, we should be thankful, no doubt.
If there were five or six, we'd very quickly all flip out.
Got some old salt above you, some topsoil below.
You can be thankful that the continental drift is slow.

On this little blue planet, solar eclipses are fun.
It's by coincidence the full moon looks the same size as the sun.
And just think how unfairly we would all be impaired
If gravitational attraction weren't reciprocally proportional
         to distance squared.

Chorus.

You may be a believer, and that say that life is so fine.
You may call that self-deceivin' and say it's not all that devine.
But no matter the reason for your fingers and toes,
You can be grateful that your fingers fit inside your nose.

Finale chorus.

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From: belville@athena.mit.edu (Sharon Belville)
Subject: Re: Songs (was Re: Thanksgiving broadcast)
Keywords: song lutheran supper
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:55:54 GMT


And does someone have the lyrics to "Tuna Casserole" (to the tune of
"Whispering Hope")?

Thanks!
--
Sharon Belville
From: weisberg@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Len Weisberg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.wobegon
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving broadcast
Date: 2 Oct 92 05:30:15 GMT
Organization: HP Palo Alto Info Tech Center

Well, I really did try to be careful, but my wife pointed out that I had
an extra word in one of the lines:

> You may be a believer, and that say that life is so fine.
 should, of course, read
  You may be a believer, and say that life is so fine. 

She also suggested that perhaps 
> Got some old salt above you, some topsoil below.
 should read
  Got some old Sol above you, some topsoil below.
 where Sol refers to the sun.
 Does Jeff Balch read rec.arts.wobegon?   :-)

Cheers,
 
- Len Weisberg - weisberg@corp.hp.com - HP - Palo Alto Info Tech Center
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From: JB <jbl@mesaadm.cre.nt.com>
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving broadcast
Organization: NT/BNR
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1b3
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 11:41:56 GMT

In article <3330001@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> Len Weisberg,
weisberg@hpcc01.corp.hp.com writes:
>(One question:  what does "some old salt above you" refer to?
>    Or did I hear it wrong?)

Isn't "old Sol" referring to the sun more appropriate?
JB
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From: rlm@sei.cmu.edu (Richard Murphy)
Subject: Re: Thanksgiving broadcast
Summary: words to "i did it my way..."
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 12:29:23 GMT

Here's my copy of "I Did It MY Way."

    "I Did It Their Way."

It was Richard Huehn (whose last name I cannot spell) who sang it; someone
mentioned that the words are by someone else?  Anyway, the tune is of course
"I Did It My Way."


I came; I bought the books; lived in the dorm; followed directions
I worked; I studied hard; made lots of friends that had connections
I crammed; they gave me grades, and may I say, not in a fair way,
But more, much more than this, I did it their way

I learned so many things, although I know I'll never use them
The courses that I took were all required -- I didn't choose them
You'll find that to survive it's best to play the doctrinaire way
And so I knuckled down and did it their way

Yes, there were times I wondered why I had to cringe when I could fly
I had my doubts, but after all, I clipped my wings and learned to crawl
I learned to bend, and in the end I did it their way

And now, my fine young friends, now that I am a full professor,
Where once I was oppressed, now I've become the cruel opressor
With me, you'll learn to cope, you'll learn to climb life's golden stairway
Like me, you'll see the light and do it their way

For what is a man, what can I do?  Open your books, read chapter 2,
And if it seems a bit routine, don't talk to me; go see the Dean
They get their way, I get my pay
We do it THEIR WAY!
 
Enjoy!
From: reno@cps.msu.edu (Gerald L Jr Reno)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Where in the World is Doctor Who?
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:22:19 GMT
Reply-To: reno@cps.msu.edu (Gerald L Jr Reno)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Originator: reno@arctic.cps.msu.edu

In article <1992Sep22.105406.23426@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> HISC9016351D@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (MAMMONE,Robert) writes:
>> 
>Africa: (it is conceivable that the first story there was An Unearthly Child)

Conceivable, maybe even likely, but quite unproven. Question:
Did the script for An Unearthly Child ever explicitly state that
they went back in EARTH's past? (actually, yes; a time was given
as a year B.C.) More correctly stated: Did they ever explicitly
state that they were on Earth?

Jerry Reno reno@cps.msu.edu
From: dc@ohm.york.ac.uk (Dave Cullen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Ragnarok
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:25:15 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK


 Wasn't Ragnarok the Norse mythology equivalent of Armageddon. Fenris Wolf
and Thor are supposed to kill each other, as are Odin and the Midgard 
Serpent (might have got these mixed up, come to think of it) in the final,
last, absolutely no more after this one, humdinger of a punch up!

        Dave (the Harlequin) Cullen
From: danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Anybody want to lend me a few books?
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:51:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: rpi.phlzyvl
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.


On Time and the Rani, I would *NOT* be surprised if that particular book was
pulled for a re-numbering. There was a big novel-numbering snafu around that 
area (#126-#128) which resulted in the wrong numbers being printed BOTH on the
outside AND inside of TatR. 

Or, perhaps, it's scheduled for re-printing. That'd be nice... I didn't really
like the Tetrap photo-cover.

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From: bn823@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Mullaney)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Many Questions About Dr. Who
Date: 5 Oct 1992 12:32:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bn823@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Mullaney)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, doctor@somenode.uucp (Daniel Klugh) says:

<much deleted>

>Gallifreyans are sterlie.(at least the females are)
>
Is that anything like sterile?  What show is this statement made in?  The 
first Doctor calls Susan his GRANDDAUGHTER and she calls him GRANDFATHER,
the logical inference is that he has reproduced.  Of course it never says
that he reproduced with someone of his own race.


>
>As much as anyone is going to defend your spelling.(sic)

Was this referring to your spelling errors (typos) or the original poster's?


-- 
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From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Subject: Re: About as useless a bit of trivia as you can imagine.
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:34:34 GMT

In article <9209291256.AA00324@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:
>>3) In the same story, Douglas Adams slipped in an in-joke to The
>>Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (look at the author of the book that
>>the Doctor is reading while trapped under the beam).
>
>Uh, who would that be?   (The author of the book)
>It'll be a while before the local station gets back to that one and
>I don't have it on tape.
>  Thanks
>   -Dan




The Doctor was reading "Origins of the Universe" by Oolon Calluphid.

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From: markc@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: Re: Invasion of Time
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:04:48 GMT

Article 17183 of rec.arts.drwho:
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From: 1669899@BNR.CA ("Nick  Pitfield", N.T.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: UK Gold & Dr Who
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:59:31 GMT

For all those that asked for further info....

UK Gold will be operated by the BBC & Thames TV, and will be broadcast from the
Astra satellite; it is a completely separate operation from BSkyB.

I have no information as to what episodes will be broadcast, but I suspect they
will run from the beginning (ie Hartnell to McCoy) as they will be broadcasting
an episode a day.

I'm sorry but I cannot make copies of these broadcasts for anybody because (a)
I'm too busy & (b) I have no VCR-VCR capability.

Regards.


	Nick Pitfield.

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From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
Subject: Re: Theft from Gallifrey
Organization: Lakes Public Access
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 07:03:29 GMT

steven.k.manfred@UWRF.EDU writes:

> And another thing Marc C,
> 
> 
> there is a BIG whopping difference between the kind of theft that ou
> say so easily takes place in "Trial of a time Lord" and the type of
> theft we're told about in "Mawdryn Undead."
> 
> The Sleepers from Andromeda in "Trial" were stealing information from
> the Matrix.  The Matrix is by definition the biggest computer net
> in the Universe.  It has scanning beams stretching all across space
> and as far forward in time as "Frontios."  It is this computer network
> that the Sleepers broke into and starting taking files from.
> 
> This is quite different from theft of an actual physical device that
> we see in "Mawdryn Undead."
> 
> Hardware vs. Software.  
> the only thievery in "Trial" is software.
> Hardware theft from Gallifrey is next to impossible due to Gallifrey's
> extensive defensive systems.  The only way onto and off of Gallifrey
> is by TARDIS, and even then the Matrix can detect that ("Arc of Infinity"
> for reference there) and guards can be despatched to impound the machine
> as they are in "Deadly Assassin" and "Invasion of Time."
> 
> the regenerator was hardware, it came from Gallifrey originally as a 
> physical real device, and it was stolen from Gallifrey.  the ONLY way
> this could have been achieved is either by someone on Gallifrey or by
> one hell of a crafty Time Lord with a "cloaked" TARDIS, a device we
> have never seen.
> 
> Steve/Iain
> 

All very well and good, but you neglect one obvious exception:  that the 
genrator was removed from Gallifrey legitimately and it's keepers either 
died, were ambushed, etc., thus allowing it to fall into the wrong hands. 
 This is a very common ploy in fiction for having super secret tech in 
the hands of morons.  And certainly there are precedents for the 
explanation of such an event:  there seem to be quite a few travellors 
who are time lords.  Any in good standing who were to take ill might 
reasonably call for help if they found themselves in need...
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From: quiz@nemesis.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Quiz 4 REPEAT - Dr. Who Quote Quiz
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:18:00 GMT
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Nf-From: nemesis.UUCP!quiz    Oct  5 21:18:00 1992


--------------------   Quiz  4  -  2nd Posting  ---------------------------
Division A	Last quiz too tough?  Bet you can solve this one!

1.	"You, as a female are far more interesting."

2.	"I still think it could be a fire-demon, sire."

3.	"I must ask you to come down to the station with me."

4.	"Don't move.  You might spoil a priceless work of art."

5.	"Find your TARDIS, Timelord.  Much good will it do you now."

Division B

1.	"Now, I am going to turn the machine over to total self-control.
	 It will be entirely independent of all outside influences.
	 A living, thinking, self-supporting creature."

2.	"Emergency!  Emergency!  Unable to disengage from control position!
	 Humans on the bridge!"
	

Hint for Division B: Same black hats
REMEMBER: THIS HINT APPLIES TO DIVISION B ONLY.
	  DIVISION A AND B THEMES MAY BE DIFFERENT!


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From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Inconsistancies (sp?) and Boo boo's
Keywords: writers stuffed up
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:18:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: murdoch.1992Oct5.181814.17581
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1992Oct5.024729.28901@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rez@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Anestis Kozakis <Rez>) writes:
>I admit that as to watching Dr Who, my knowledge is only from the
>fourth, parts of the fifth, none of the sixth, and a bit of the seventh
>doctors.
>As for reading..I've read almost any Dr Who novel that I can lay my
>hands on..
>The other day, I read Dalek Invasion of Earth (with the first Doctor). I
>found something quite interesting.
>The Daleks (in that story) were controlled by radio signals, and once
>the antenna was blown up, the dalek in the control room stopped working.
>This would mean (I assume) that in that story, the daleks were just
>machines, with no living mutant to control it.
>It seems to me that in the writers in the later episodes (4th doctor
>onwards (can someone confirm this?)), made a huge mistake in adding the
>mutant part to the dalek. They obviously did not do their homework.
>Anybody care to try and close this gap?
>Rez.
>-- 
>Anestis Kozakis
>rez@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au               ent670w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
>"Off days" are a part of life, I guess, whether you're a cartoonist, a
>neurosurgeon, or an air-traffic controller. -- Gary Larson.

I haven't read the novel in a long while, so I don't know what's said
in there, but from the context of the serial itself, I think the Dalek
transmitter system that Susan and David sabotage had two functions,
one) communications  two) power transmission for the Daleks to receive
via the dishes on their backs.  Thus when S&D destroy it, one of two
things occurred, either the Daleks all had a sudden surge of power
through their communication sets or all poweer was cut off from all
the Daleks.  From the Doctor's comment that I do remember of "We don't know
how long this will hold them," I think the second case was the accurate
one, since if it were the first each and every Dalek would need repairs
and that's bound to be time-consuming.

Either way, the mutants in the casing are not contradicted.
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From: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers)
Subject: Re: Quiz 4 - Dr. Who Quote Quiz
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for High Energy Physics
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 17:18:07 GMT

Did I miss something?  I didn't see a single question, just various
quotes.  Are we suppose to say to answer who, what, where, why,
which, or is?  (i.e. Who said it?  What episode was it from?  Where was
it said?  Why did they say it?  Which character said it?  Is this a
quote from Dr. Who?)  Jeese, you don't read these things for a while
and they start becoming awfully cryptic.

                              Bill
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From: chiner@nova (Chris Hiner)
Subject: Re: WTVS Detroit....whassup?
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:51:25 GMT

wfrey@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Warren Frey) writes:
: Am I the only WTVS viewer (in Canada or Detroit for that matter) that is 
: getting a little annoyed with WTVS's bizzare jumping around of stories in 
:  the last while? WTVS showed "the Mind Robber" two saturdays ago, then 
: proceeded to show "The Silurians" last week. This makes building a 
: collection from the station impossible, which is a shame since the image 
: quality is quite good. Anyone know why WTVS is showing Doctor Who in such 
: a haphazard manner?

Just recently, I talked to someone from Motor City TARDIS, who told me
that WTVS is going to stop showing Dr. Who in January... I've got a sheet
that has most of the schedule for the rest of the year.  I'll try to 
remember to post it tommorow.  They said that they wanted to avoid 
oversaturation, since the Sci-Fi channel is also showing it.  They said
that they'll look at restarting it sometime in the middle of next year.
I'll post the details tomorrow.

Chris Hiner    chiner@nova.gmi.edu