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From: edelheit@smiley.mitre.org (Jeff Edelheit)
Subject: Re: Jamboree Troop Accomodations Washington DC
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:22:23 GMT

In article <1gotkaINN329@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ba432@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard D. Scott) writes:
>
>	But now to the point of this message:  I am fortunate enough to
>have been selected for the position of Scoutmaster for our (my) council's
>'93 Jamboree troop.  Through some confusion and lack of communciations we
>find that our sleeping accomodations in DC have not in fact been confirmed.
> We have made back up arrangments at Fort Belvoir near Alexandria.  This
>will require that we unload our tents from the bus and set them up.  Not
>impossible but we would like to find a dormatory or barracks if possible. 
>This could be tough because of the time.  Anyway the question is:
>
>	Does anyone out there know where I could find accomodations for 36
>boys and four leaders for a National Jamboree Troop for the nights of July
>30 & 31 and August 1.  We owuld like to find economical ( read free )
>places to stay while touring in the DC area.  Appreciate your reply via
>E-MAIL  here.  Thanks much.
>
>Yours in Scouting,
>Dick Scott
>Scoutmaster, Jamboree Troop #332
>Northeast Ohio Council
>

I can't help you out WRT to free.  However, you could contact George
Mason Univ. in Fairfax, VA; American Univ. and Geo. Wash. Univ. in DC
or U. of Maryland in College Park to see what they would charge for
staying in their dorms.  Given the large number of military in the
Nat. Cap. Area, most of them live "on the economy".  Belvoir's
facilities aren't bad (I had my Webelos Leader's Overnight Training
there.)  It is, however, a little bit of a trip into the District (as
we locals call it).

Regards,

Jeff Edelheit		email:  edelheit@mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation	voice:  (703) 883-7586
7525 Colshire Drive	FAX:	(703) 883-1397
McLean, VA   22102
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Newsgroups: rec.scouting
Subject: Lyme Disease E-mail Network...
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:57:45 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

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Newsgroups: rec.scouting
From: kahn@emav131.webo.dg.com (Mike Kahn)
Subject: Re: Words to "ANNOUNCEMENTS"
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 22:08:56 GMT
Reply-To: kahn@emav131.webo.dg.com (Mike Kahn)
Organization: Data General Corporation, Westboro, MA


AnnouncementsIn article <1gjanaINNn0s@west.West.Sun.COM>,
anet@penumbra.West.Sun.COM (Annette Thomas) writes:
> 
> Does anyone out there know the words to the song "Announcements"?
> 
> I know it starts something like....
> 
> 
> 	Announcements, Announcements, Announcements
> 
> 	A horrible way to die, a horrible way to die......
>

The version I remember went something like:

Announcements, Announcements, Announcements
A terrible death to die, a terrible death to die
A terrible death to be talked to death
A terrible death to die

(Insert your favorite "spirit" song here)

Announcements, Announcements, Announcements
A terrible death to die, a terrible death to die
A terrible death to be talked to death
A terrible death to die

(Insert another "spirit" song here)


Keep this going until the "victim" turns a very deep
shade of red.
 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your assistance!!
> 
> Annette Thomas
> Treas./Assist. Den Leader 
> Pack 545 - Dublin, CA 


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Eagle Scout
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Alexander Chokey)
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 02:00:03 GMT

In article <Dec.16.08.48.26.1992.9529@gandalf.rutgers.edu> cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) writes:
>
>What you have to understand about JIM'S JOURNAL is that it's not a gag strip.
>There aren't kneeslappers being written for it.  Instead, what humor there is
>(and not every day's strip is meant to be funny) comes from the little everyday
>ironies the artist encounters, stuff like people saying one thing and doing
>another, or people having to back down from untenable positions, or events
>whose cause Jim will never know.  In my life, they're the sort of things that
>bring a crooked smile to my face for a moment.

	Great, just what the world needs--  a Bil Keane approach to college
humor.  Well, at least _Jim's Journal_ lacks the nauseating sugar-coatedness
of the _Family Circus_ even if it does share in it's lack of humor.

	--  Jim C. <jchokey@leland.stanford.edu>






>
>The point is that, individually, these things are very forgettable, but
>cumulatively, they do indeed have a sort of humorous Zen.
>
>The strip's not for everyone.  No strip is.  There are people who prefer
>GARFIELD to CALVIN AND HOBBES.
>
>Actually, the funniest thing about JIM'S JOURNAL is the vehemence with which
>its opponents denounce it!
>
>
>
>-- 
>Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
>
>Chris Jarocha-Ernst			Rutgers University Computing Services
>Internet: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu       BITnet: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC
From: tom@math.ufl.edu (Thomas J Gillen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Calvin and Hobbes books question
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:46:35 GMT
Organization: University of Florida Department of Mathematics


	Has anyone been able to sort out which C&H collections contain
which C&H books, either in total or just selections.

	For example, if *Indispensable* contains *Revenge of the
Baby-Sat* and *Scientific Progress Goes Boink*, are these books
included in their entirety, or does *Indispensable* contain some extra
strips, also?

	I remember somebody posted a rundown on this some time ago,
but I've since lost it.

	Any help would be appreciated.

	Thanks,

	Tom
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: hathaway@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: 12/18 Far Side
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:41:46 GMT

In article <dct.724717801@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu>, dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle) writes:
> parker@navier.math.uh.edu (Ronald L. Parker) writes:
> | seurer@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Bill Seurer) writes:
> |> Does anyone know what the little "And a tip of the hat to..." box in the
> |> lower corner is for?  Did Gary Larson have some kind of contest for
> |> Far Side ideas?
> |
> |Don't quote me on this, but I thought it was a takeoff on the (ancient)
> |"There oughta be a law" comic strip, which used ideas sent in by readers
> |and showed those everyday things that really irritate us...
> 
> I vaguely remember a comic strip with this theme that was called
> something like "They'll Do It Every Time" (that is, if my memory isn't
> playing tricks on me).  Of course, there may also have been more than
> one such strip.  I hesitate to call it a "relic", but it's definitely
> geared toward older audiences, sort of like National Challenge and the
> venerable Jumble.
> 
And don't forget Zippy's 'A Tip of the Pin to' acknowledgments to fan's 
mailed in suggestions.  ...  The TFS one was a great one though.
WHH
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: EDIAS@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (EMILIANO A DIAS)
Subject: Jim's Journal
Organization: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:38:56 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Our college newpaper prints "Jim's Journal".  IMHO, this is the worst
comic strip I have ever read!  I've been told that this strip is a 
nationally syndicated strip, is this true?

The drawing is simplistic and really bad to boot and the strip doesn't
even try to be funny.  I think that the strip tries to provide little
glimpses into everyday life.

  Has anyone out in net-land ever seen this strip?
  What do you think of it.

     perplexed...				Tony Dias

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: tg@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Tom Gearty)
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Organization: Intermetrics Inc, Cambridge MA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:14:25 GMT

In article <BzBD4w.8KI@nic.umass.edu> EDIAS@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (EMILIANO A DIAS) writes:
>Our college newpaper prints "Jim's Journal".  IMHO, this is the worst
>comic strip I have ever read!  I've been told that this strip is a 
>nationally syndicated strip, is this true?

Jim's Journal is available nationally. In April 1991, I bought a book of
Jim's Journal comics, and showed it to the people at the newpaper I 
worked for at the University of Virginia. Enough people liked it that
the paper decided to purchase it for publication, and Jim's Journal has
been running in the University Journal since September 1991. (I think)

If memory serves me right, information on how to get the syndicated
strip was printed in the book.

>The drawing is simplistic and really bad to boot and the strip doesn't
>even try to be funny.  I think that the strip tries to provide little
>glimpses into everyday life.


Jim's Journal seems to be one of those strips that people either love or
hate, without much opinion in the middle of the road. I think the "Zen"
quality someone else mentioned either attracts or repels the reader.

I happen to like Jim's Journal. While the strip does not have a joke and
punchline everyday, I enjoy reading about Jim's observations of life.
The cumulative effect of reading it day after day is soothing (for lack
of a better word--more of that Zen stuff!) and made the strip funny for
me.

tom gearty			Intermetrics, Inc.	
tg@inmet.com			733 Concord Ave, Cambridge MA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: mpg92115@dit.upm.es (Cesar Alba Perez)
Subject: Far Side
Organization: UUES, Asociacion de Usuarios de UNIX, Spain
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:38:24 GMT

	Hello!

	Is anyone so kind to tell me the names of Far Side collections after
	Wildlife preserves? I can't get them here in Spain so I'm a little 
disconnected.

	Thank you very much.

	Greetings and Merry Xmas. Cesar (Spain).
From: dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Date: 16 Dec 1992 17:25:40 GMT

cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) writes:
>page@student.physics.upenn.edu (Chris Page) writes:
>>
>>When I was an undergrad at Rutgers University (90-91), the paper I was
>>working for printed this for a year. The drawing stunk. The art was
>>pathetic. But the worst offense was that the strip was never funny...

>Actually, the funniest thing about JIM'S JOURNAL is the vehemence with which
>its opponents denounce it!

Indeed.  I like JIM'S JOURNAL, as do most of the people I've shown the
strip to.  I see in Jim things I (and, I expect, most of us)
experienced in college, and that's a good part of its appeal to me.
But I will agree that it definitely works better in book form (which
is the only way I've seen the strip).

I would venture that those people who react more emotionally to the
content of comic strips (especially those who actually threaten to do
harm to cartoonists whose work they despise -- we've seen such
postings here in r.a.c.s) would tend to react negatively to JIM'S
JOURNAL, which by design doesn't deliver the belly laughs every single
day.  It's not a strip for hardcore Type A personalities (which I am
not, thankfully :-).

By the way, I'd be very interested in hearing whether there are any
other JIM'S JOURNAL books besides I WENT TO COLLEGE AND IT WAS OK.

--
David C. Tuttle, Biomathematics   ----> dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu <----
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         (713) 792-2606
Mail Stop 237, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX  77030-4096
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Worst Comics.  Was (Re: Jim's Journal)
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:00:33 GMT

jmk9313@hertz.njit.edu  writes:
> 
>      I've never read Jim's Journal, but the fact that some people seem to like
> it makes it infinitely better than the abomination the Vector (NJIT's school
> paper) printed with painful regularity a few years back.  It was done by a 
student here who either graduated or had mercy on the entire campus and stopped
...
That's nothing.  For about four months, the Omaha (NE) World-Herald ran a strip
called "Mike From Mars".  This tried to be a continuity humor strip, and the 
art was terrible!  How terrible?  You could reduce the image by 50% and still
make out the pictures; the lines were that thick.  It featured a martian (read
fish out of water), a dog who talked (the smart one of the group) and a truck
driver who had the IQ of a rutabega.  It was not unusual for all three panels
to have the same art work, and usually it was difficult to tell what lines 
belonged to which characters.  

Thankfully, a local morning radio show started making fun of the strip, and the 
artist and writer were either fired or quit.  The artist was the same guy who
did the Herbie the Husker prediction cartoons that were featured on the front
page any time the Nebraska football team played.  This too has been sent to
the Great Circular File in the Sky.

Any more nominations for Worst Strip in a Daily Newspaper?
 "   "        "       "  Worst Strip That is Nationally Syndicated?
 "   "        "        " Worst Strip That is No Longer Syndicated?
	My nomination for the last is "Lollie", although "Winston" comes close. 
Does anyone remember a strip called "Conrad" about a prince frog with the 
manners of a bum?  It was sort of crude, but I liked it.

Torsten at Omaha
From: efox@unssun.nevada.edu (Eric Fox)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: COLLEGE: best strip contests???
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:52:45 GMT
Reply-To: efox@unssun.UUCP (Eric Fox)
Organization: University of Nevada-Reno

In article <1992Dec10.222527.29243@mail.cornell.edu> drh2@cornell.edu (Dave Horlick) writes:
>In article <5020@equinox.unr.edu> Eric Fox, efox@unssun.nevada.edu writes:
>>(I really shouldn't be telling anyone this because it just decreases my
>>chances of winning if any of you decide to enter...but oh well, I'm
>>just a nice guy, I guess...:-)
>
>Why, do you write a comic strip?

           Yup.  I draw it, too.

				-Fox-
From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: To Eric FOXR
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:12:32 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha

jpeg8496@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu  writes:
> Eric,
>  I saw your note here on the net.  Good luck with the Schulz award.
>  I'm entering, too.  I have a strip published in the Daily Illini
>  at the University of Illinois.
>   My question to you, is:  Have you had any success getting your material
>   published elsewhere?  I've been able to get my strip into a few no-pay
>   magazines (for which I'm grateful), but certainly haven't had any success
>   with syndicates, and don't know of many other avenues.  Got any
>   suggestions or points to discuss?
>    Wanna start a syndicate?
>     Jeff
>     p.s. I'm posting to the net because my mail to you got kicked back
>     at me.  e-mail a reply to me directly, if possible.
If you plan on making any money, I would collect your endevours and publish a 
comic book, which will get you more exposure than trying to convince a 
syndicate.  You will also have more control.  And who knows, you might be the
next Kevin Eastman.

This week's (12/14/92) Comics Buyer's Guide has an article about the college 
cartoonist who draws the strip "Adventure!", which is presented weekly in CBG.  
While I don't think they pay anything, it is probably the best place to get
exposure, as both fans and pros read it.

(They also publish some strip called "The Spirit".  Worst strip I've ever seen.
The guy couldn't tell a story to save his life.)    

Torsten (will probably never get an Eisner Award) at Omaha
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Wings that Work--Did I miss it? Again?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:44:32 GMT

Matt--

You didn't miss it; it's airing on Christmas Eve.

--Aaron

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Worst Comics. Was (Re: Jim's Journal)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:16:06 GMT

torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

>Any more nominations for Worst Strip in a Daily Newspaper?
> "   "        "       "  Worst Strip That is Nationally Syndicated?
> "   "        "        " Worst Strip That is No Longer Syndicated?

Re: the first two categories. Wasn't there recently some sort of informal
survey/poll over the net on best and worst comic strips. As I recall, The
Family Circus won as Worst Strip *easily*. (Not surprising, really.)

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
** Hon Cog Sci  Min Psyc  Senate  URC  FARSIDE  LEAD  CCCS  COCP  PSU  **
These opinions are mine. Mine!! ALL MINE!! No one else's! NO ONE ELSE'S!!

"Kitchen utensils and vegetables! Yesssss!!" --"S.S.", on the new Purity Test
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 05:11:28 GMT
Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team

rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu writes:

> Rumor is that the strip started here at UW-Madison and that Jim lives
> here.  Not sure if it's true, though. 

I'm sure it is; the original edition of the book (June 1989) was published
by Pip Press in Madison.  The strips in that edition at least (maybe in
both, I don't have the Andrews/McMeel version) are signed and copyrighted
by "Dikkers".

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
From: dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: 12/18 Far Side
Date: 18 Dec 1992 22:30:01 GMT

parker@navier.math.uh.edu (Ronald L. Parker) writes:
| seurer@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Bill Seurer) writes:
|> Does anyone know what the little "And a tip of the hat to..." box in the
|> lower corner is for?  Did Gary Larson have some kind of contest for
|> Far Side ideas?
|
|Don't quote me on this, but I thought it was a takeoff on the (ancient)
|"There oughta be a law" comic strip, which used ideas sent in by readers
|and showed those everyday things that really irritate us...

I vaguely remember a comic strip with this theme that was called
something like "They'll Do It Every Time" (that is, if my memory isn't
playing tricks on me).  Of course, there may also have been more than
one such strip.  I hesitate to call it a "relic", but it's definitely
geared toward older audiences, sort of like National Challenge and the
venerable Jumble.

--
David C. Tuttle, Biomathematics   ----> dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu <----
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         (713) 792-2606
Mail Stop 237, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX  77030-4096
Today's anagram of "David Charles Tuttle" is:  IT'S A TRAVELLED DUTCH
From: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:48:26 GMT
Organization: Miskatonic U. Computer Operations & User Services

page@student.physics.upenn.edu (Chris Page) writes:

>When I was an undergrad at Rutgers University (90-91), the paper I was
>working for printed this for a year. The drawing stunk. The art was
>pathetic. But the worst offense was that the strip was never funny. Some
>people tried to pass off that Jim's Journal was a "Zen" sort of thing,
>but in my mind that was just a cheap excuse that could be applied to
>any comic strip that was not funny.

>Rutgers kept it for another year, and may have it for this year too - for
>some bizarre reason there were a few editors that liked it, as opposed
>to anyone else on the college campus.

Well, it's still here.  And I enjoy it, despite my having *no* connection
whatever with the Daily Targum.

What you have to understand about JIM'S JOURNAL is that it's not a gag strip.
There aren't kneeslappers being written for it.  Instead, what humor there is
(and not every day's strip is meant to be funny) comes from the little everyday
ironies the artist encounters, stuff like people saying one thing and doing
another, or people having to back down from untenable positions, or events
whose cause Jim will never know.  In my life, they're the sort of things that
bring a crooked smile to my face for a moment.

The point is that, individually, these things are very forgettable, but
cumulatively, they do indeed have a sort of humorous Zen.

The strip's not for everyone.  No strip is.  There are people who prefer
GARFIELD to CALVIN AND HOBBES.

Actually, the funniest thing about JIM'S JOURNAL is the vehemence with which
its opponents denounce it!



-- 
Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,

Chris Jarocha-Ernst			Rutgers University Computing Services
Internet: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu       BITnet: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC