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From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Subject: Re: Nitpicking
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:12:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.175058.5332@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Cliff Chen) writes:
|> Now, forgive me if I'm wrong,
|> 
|> 	but isn't a spacesuit made from artifical substances?  If so, then
|> putting that thing on probably would have killed him (or at least set of
|> hundreds of allergies) rather than let him walk around.  :)

This question has been raised a zillion times.

Let's face it, if you want to justify everything you see, you can.  The
fact that just about everything in his geodome, plus the surgical garb
Ed was asked to wear, has something man-made in it.

The point I saw wasn't hypersensitivity to man-made chemicals, but to 
chemicals in general.  If he is sensitive enough to "smell" an alfalfa
field two miles away, it's very likely he's going to be sensitive to some
chemicals in the negative extreme.

I, myself, am hyper-sensitive to shell-fish.  However, I am not sensitive
at all to seafood that isn't shelled.  When I drive by a cafe, I can
tell if they're sauteeing their onions for the burgers :-).  I can't go
within about 20 yards of a chlorinated swimming pool because the chlorine
in the air will, within a short period of time, irritate my eyes so badly
that I'm basically forced to shut my eyes and wait three hours for it
to clear.  I am unable to drive or do anything during that time, obviously.
Imagine actually immersing myself in the pool water...  My skin is
extremely sensitive to the adhesive used in Band-Aid brand bandages, but
I have no reactions at all to Curad bandages.  I can spot a lone cigarette
smoker in a room of 1,000 people by the irritation alone.

If the character is hypersensitive, he may well indeed be more sensitive
to man-made chemicals, pollutants, etc. which are, almost by nature (no
pun intended) much more concentrated and "intense" than those created
naturally.  If you're sensitive to natural products, you're almost certainly
going to notice artificial ones much easier.

However, it's likely he's going to be insensitive to some others.  But when 
the odds are stacked against you (my sensitivities number extremely few 
while his apparently are on the high end), you avoid contact with new 
substances rather than test them.  Everyone is more or less hypersensitive
to _something_, but in the normal scope of things, that usually can be
identified as one or a very few number of items.

Quite simply, by obvious appearances, he is not sensitive to the materials
used to make the space suit (or the geodome, or Ed's clothing, or the
containers his food comes in, or the kitchen appliances, or...)  They may
smell horrible to him (or not at all), but he doesn't _have_ to be sensitive 
to _everything_ just because he may be sensitive to a huge percentage of 
things that exist.

-- 
Robert J. Granvin                                       School of Statistics
rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu                             University of Minnesota
From: garth@dojo.West.Sun.COM (Garth)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: Eden
Date: 5 Nov 92 01:42:10 GMT
Reply-To: garth@dojo.West.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: dojo.west.sun.com


Well, mostly true.  The Doctor (and leader...Dr. Sevrenson I believe) did
have a illness "bred in the air ducts and plastic life style" (or something
like that) of the time.  He wanted to go to eden to escape the pollutions
of technology.  The rest were just rebels being used for his cause.

One of the WORST StarTek episodes ever.  Yetch.

-Garth
In article 26127@news.cs.brandeis.edu, st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu) writes:
>	Look, I know this doesn't belong here, so don't flame me. But I just
>wanted to clear this up, and it is sort of relevant. That space-hippy
>episode of Star Trek, which was called "The Way To Eden", had nowt to do
>with whatever Mike has. The planet the hippies landed on was toxic--most
>of the plants gave off pure acid when you touched them, etc. They did not
>have an illness (except for using stupid sixties phrases, but after all it
>WAS the sixties), they just weren't prepared to be immune to neurotoxins.
>					Rosaleen Dhu
>
>Rosaleen Dhu |st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
>VOTE CTHULHU '92!!! Why not the worst?
>"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."--The Bard
>"Don't reach out and touch the world, you don't know where it's been."




			= = = = = = =
  | Garth R. Doverspike		Sun Microsystems, S.E. Seattle |
  | garth.doverspike@west.sun.com			       |
From: timmi@asylum.sf.ca.us (Timothy G. Reynolds)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: November 9th's show
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:51:50 GMT
Reply-To: timmi@babyoil.ftp.com
NNTP-Software: PC/TCP NNTP

>However, now that someone said that Ed is really blonde, I look at him in 
>a new way.  I just can't picture him as a blonde.  Maybe he did an old 
>commercial too (and it will actually be shown in Canada) so that I can 
>see what the real Ed looks like.

If you want to see Ed as a blonde and have the ability to do so, rent
a movie called _Class_of_200_ or _Class_of_2001_ or something like
that.  Be warned that it is one of the worst movies ever and after
watching enough to see Ed's blonde hair you should stop it imediately
or risk damaging your brain permanently.

>Is there anyone else out there who liked last night's show?

I did.  In fact, I've liked all of this season so far.  By far my
favorite is the "midnight sun" episode.
--
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From: tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos)
Subject: Re: Macs again
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:52:05 GMT

Mitch Cohen writes:

Yep, at first I thought it was one of the new Powerbook Duos, as it was
smaller than my 140.  But since they only came out a couple weeks ago, I
realized it wasn't, then remembered the Powerbook 100.  Best guess is that's
what it is.
 
Beat dog, beat.
___________________________

Yup, the Mac in question was indeed a Powerbook 100.  The 100, unlike the 140, 
145, 160, 170 and 180 has a curved front, as do the Duos.  But the Duo's are a
darker shade of Grey and have a slightly recessed trackball.


Brought to you by your friendly campus Mac reseller
Chris in Montreal
____________________________________________________
All men by nature desire to know
                          - Aristotle

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From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
Subject: Re: Bubbleguy observation...
Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213   _USA_
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:39:54 GMT


In article <1992Nov7.160330.6104@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, hmc6442@ultb.isc.rit.edu (H.M. Chau) writes:
|> The fact that Maggie had showered (I thought she said only once) since
|> she had used her perfume, and Mike had detected the perfume was the
|> ONLY proof that I noticed that Mike was not "off his rocker."
|> 

A lot of people spray perfume onto their clothing.  If Maggi
was wearing a wool sweater, for instance, at the time, the
sweater, if not dry cleaned in the meantime, could have
retained the scent of the perfume.

My sister wears one perfume, and has been doing so for years.
She just gave me some of her old hand-me-down coats.  She
hasn't worn the one coat in over a year and it still smelled
vaguely of her perfume.



Barbara Zayas				Software Engineering Institute
Information Management			Carnegie Mellon University
bjz@sei.cmu.edu				(412) 268-6378
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From: julie@skatter.usask.ca
Subject:  Bubbleguy observation, another view...
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:53:50 GMT

From article <1992Nov7.160330.6104@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, by hmc6442@ultb.isc.rit.edu (H.M. Chau):
> The fact that Maggie had showered (I thought she said only once) since
> she had used her perfume, and Mike had detected the perfume was the
> ONLY proof that I noticed that Mike was not "off his rocker."
> 
> This only points out that he has a sensative nose, or Maggie uses too
> much perfume, or both.  There was a guy at my college who used TOO MUCH
> cologne.  We thought that his "after shower" amount was still pretty
> strong.
> 
> After accepting that someone can smell someone's perfume after a shower,
> you can't expect me to automatically accept that he can detect
> things occuring on the other side of the planet.
> 
> This pessimistic view belongs to
> AAron@sun.soe.clarkson.edu

Hmm, as someone who has allergies (not to this extent of course), I
would be more likely to give Mike the benfit of the doubt.  Allergies
can be tested for, and people's skin reacts in a visually detectable way.
Why is it so far-fetched that someone could develop such a severe case
of allergies?  After all, people who are allergic to such things as
peanut butter have died from ingesting just a little bit.

Just my two cents...


--
It's not that I like the Empire.  
I hate it, but there's nothing 				Jules
I can do about it right now! 
	- Luke Skywalker.
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From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu)
Subject: Re: "On Your Own"  review
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:19:31 GMT

	YES! That was such a great line. (It's particularly useful for me
right now...:) :) :))
	Is it just me, or was the Maggie-turning-domestic thing completely
mis-handled? I mean, if they wanted her to act different, they surely could
have come up with something better than such a jarring personality
switch. And why would Mike want her to be more domestic, anyways? And yeh,
she does throw like a girl. (My brother, about five summers ago, tried to
teach me to throw a frisbee. Finally he got dismayed and yelled, 'Ro! You
throw like a girl!' I just stared at him and went "Yeh, so, what's your
point...' [for those of you who don't know, I _am_ a girl])
				Rosaleen Dhu
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From: jdt@ulysses.att.com (Jonathan D. Trudel[ftd])
Subject: Re: Lingering questions....
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:21:48 GMT
Reply-To: jdt@ulysses.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Keywords: Italian, Golf, English majors, Bubbles

In article <11NOV199218274458@romeo.caltech.edu>, waynebro@romeo.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy) writes:
|> ... how sincere was Maggie in claiming she didn't desire a relationship,
|> considering how she had tried to impress Mike earlier and how she was
|> looking at him on their walk at the end?  Did she really mean she didn't
|> want to get involved with Mike in particular (but maybe Joel instead)?

Haven't you ever alluded to something you don't want in an attempt to get
someone else to convince you that you want what you really want?  It was
her try at getting Mike to say he liked her.  It's a (supposedly) well-known
method to draw someone out.

|> And what motivated Mike to suddenly want to take an "unencumbered" walk
|> at the end?  Because he had been pschologically unencumbered by Maggie's
|> announcement?

To convince Maggie that he wasn't a lost cause.

						Jon


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From: Henry Nunes <hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: NX, ABC, and TV Ratings in General
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72702F7E70300F0@naranja-pc-175.stanford.edu>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 11 Nov 92 18:35:35 GMT
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 02:34:00 GMT

Has any one beeing keeping an eye on the first results of the beginning
November Sweeps month?  Here are a couple of my observations.

First of all, NX is doing very well, too well.  The episode which introduced
us to Mike the Bubble man was the Highest rated show on Monday.  Not only did
it beat out Monday Night Football (which was a blow out last week), but it
clobbered Murphy Brown and Love and War, NX's two strong lead ins.  I would
guess that more women are getting control of the TV's because NX is the #1
show for women BTWN the ages of 25-48, or maybe MNF was really boring because
NX is also the number #1 show of men 28?-48 when MNF is not on.  In any case,
Murphy Brown, which has hurt themselves bigtime with the baby/Dan story (both
unfunny and boring), is not doing well, yet NX can still bring an audience to
the hour... very good sign.

Another observation is that ABC is cleaning up during sweeps week.  Normally I
wouldn't care, but they are doing it with programming that makes Fox's grid
look respectalble.  Full House, Hangin w/ Mr. Cooper, Family Matters, Stepp by
Stepp, HomeImprovement...  The best example is Friday nights.  CBS badly out
classes both networks with Bob, DWimin, Mdad (I'm sorry, but putting DWimin
near MajorDad is like having a Pat Buchanon talk show next to a Tom Harkin
Variety show), Golden Palace (still the same lame show), and Picket Fences
(easily the best new show... if you like NX, tape/watch this one before it
goes away).  NBC shows nothing memorable, while ABC gives us Family MAtters,
Step By Step, some more garbage, and 20/20 (tabloid journalism with a budget).
 Yet ABC wins the night easily... WHAT IS UP WITH AMERICA!!!

Boy, am I really incoherant this evening.

Condensed version... So far, NX is doing better than Great in the Nov sweeps
while ABC is getting all the supid viewers.
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From: Henry Nunes <hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Bubble Man Identity
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X-Xxdate: Wed, 11 Nov 92 18:07:23 GMT
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 02:05:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.155846.16821@col.hp.com> Tom Vervaeke,
tvervaek@col.hp.com writes:
>Isn't the bubble man the same guy who played Goose on the Top Gun movie?
>I.E. the guy who rode in the back of Tom Cruise's airplane and who was
>killed late in the movie? It looks a lot like him (with a little less
>hair of course). 

Yes it is... I think his name is Anthony Edwards (Tony Ed for short :) )

>I'd also like to comment briefly that I love NX, and find it incredulous
>that so many here look for such deep meanings, etc... in all of the
>episodes.

Your feeling coincides with probably 99.999943% of the people who  watch the
show, including me.  It kinda steams me too when people get on here an
profundly talk about things other people see, but they are free to do so, I
guess.

> I just watch the show for entertainment and the zaniness of
>it. I often stay away from this group as I feel it brings me down to
>much by reading all the analytical comments.

Oh, come on.  just skip the thesis papers on the meaning of life based on NX
and focus on the fun stuff, like "geeze... Janine sure chose an awful dress
for here appearence on Arsenio."

> It's amazing (and great)
>that folks can be so different!

Funny how it works that way.

>Regards.

Take'r slow.
From: winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Cirque du Soleil music--and the Flying Man returns
Date: 7 Nov 92 06:10:13 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <WVOSS.28.0@novell.com> WVOSS@novell.com (Wes Voss) writes:
>>The second piece is from the Flying Man episode -- the music from
>>Cirque du Soleil -- and I'm about to write a letter up to Canada.
>>Just off-hand, has anybody tried ordering the music from them?

You can mail-order their CDs, audio cassettes, and videotapes by
calling (800) 678-5440. The music used in that episode of NX is from
their "Nouvelle Experience" show.


> BTW, if you have never seen their circus (Cirque du
>Soleil) you are missing a real treat. 

Amen to that!

BTW, Bill Irwin will be back on next Monday's episode, reprising his
role as the Flying Man. The mime troupe Mummenschanz will be with him.
(Anyone know who played the contortionist, etc. in the first circus
episode?)


Patty
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From: Henry Nunes <hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Boy was I wrong
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X-Xxdate: Mon, 9 Nov 92 21:13:22 GMT
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:13:26 GMT

Boy was I wrong. There, I admit it.
From: barb@ufycorp.Unify.Com (Barbara Kane)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: NEXP on CBS This Morning (minor spoilers)
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:55:54 GMT
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization

In article <1992Nov4.023042.4739@mercury.cair.du.edu> aeckert@diana.cair.du.edu (AMY E. ECKERT) writes:
>In article <Bx5BHG.I8D@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> cbsmith@mobius08.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Smith) writes:
>>-- 
>>I didn't know ex-con's weren't allowed to vote? (Call me ignorant.) Is this true???
>>
>>--Bo ("the One who Knows")
>
>This rule only applies to ex-felons.
>Amy
>             

It's not because he was convicted that he can't vote.  It is because he 
jumped bail.  If he registered, he might be found.

Barbara Kane                                             Unify Corporation
* Thus did Moses lead the Children of Israel out of Eqypt together with  *
* the Teenagers of Israel, the Adults of Israel, and the Geriatrics of   *
* Israel.      - Jeremy Pascall                                          *
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From: cbsmith@mobius06.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Smith)
Subject: Re: Out-gassing
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:12:01 GMT

-- 
They why can't Mike have all the pleasure of home, so long as they are old???
Doesn't make sense.

--Bo ("the One who Knows")
From: djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: NX:  "On Your Own" 11/9
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:49:54 GMT
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

>How many times does the Flying-Man need to be shot down before he
>gets the point.

OK, anyone want to summarize the flying-man episode for those of
us that missed it?


And speaking of Maggie and Joel - I think they make a more entertaining
pair than Maggie and Bubbleman, probably because they're such
complete opposites.  A nice harmonious relationship would be
boring to watch.
-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
  - Grad school - just say no.
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From: louise@cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy)
Subject: "Running of the Bulls" nude?  (was Re: question about the actors in real life)
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:41:03 GMT

Barbara Kane (barb@ufycorp.Unify.Com ) writes:
> IMHO, he's [Rob Morrow] extremely intelligent, but like a lot of actors I've known - very
> technical.  I think he sometimes goes a bit too far.  Many actors try to 
> make as much of the illusion of theater as real as possible.  Example being
> the Spring Break episode.  He apparently convinced the other actors to
> really do the "Running of the Bulls" scene nude.  I think it really added
> to the realism in that scene, but I don't think those types of extremes are
> always necessary.  I still like him, though!

According to the tape I have of the Dave Letterman show that Rob
Morrow was on, Morrow did convince all of the extras to run that
scene nude, without the skin-colored shorts that are usually
supplied.  He said he had to bribe all of the extras $30 before
they would do it.  But that version of the scene was censored.
Apparently their butts were visible.  In the end, the version of
the scene with them wearing the shorts, which were not visible at
all because of the snowbanks, made it into the episode.

Sorry.

-- Louise Penberthy


Louise Penberthy                |  "A lot of people think 'a capella'
Dept of CSIS, Kennesaw State    |   means 'without clothes.'"
College, Marietta GA  30061     |        
louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu     |        -- Barry Carl, bass, Rockapella
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From: jdt@ulysses.att.com (Jonathan D. Trudel)
Subject: Re: Eden
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:19:32 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

In article <1992Nov4.223107.26127@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>"The Way To Eden", had nowt to do
>with whatever Mike has. 
>They did not
>have an illness (except for using stupid sixties phrases, but after all it
>WAS the sixties), they just weren't prepared to be immune to neurotoxins.

Xenopolycethemia (or however it was spelled) was what Dr. Severin had.
It was a disease that he "caught" from the aritifical society of the future.  

He had it, and was convinced that the primitives of the planet Eden would
be able to "cure" him of his "affliction."

So there.
From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: November 9th's show
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:30:17 GMT


With all the unusual performers walking about in Cicely I think a we need
a more appropriate title for the 11/9 episode:



Operation MIMECRIME.

(sorry folks, I never did like mime very much) Liked the episode though :-)
(ok, the scene with them in the Brick was interesting, IMHO)
Simon (still likes NX overall, not at all disillusioned with this season!!)
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From: louise@cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy)
Subject: Re: Out-gassing
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:31:45 GMT

Darin Johnson (djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu ) writes:
> >What about when he put the ziplock bag with the money in the microwave...  
> >and you got to tell me he can't have a TV, but a regular GE SpaceSaver  
> >microwave over is OK?!?!?
> 
> Put the TV in an enclosed room, with a window to the screen.
> Then just use a remote control...  If he really wanted to
> watch TV that much, it shouldn't have been that hard to figure
> out.

Yes!  Exactly what I thought of!  Except that he might be
bothered by what the remote is made of.

>  Maybe it's a martyrs complex?  (canary complex?)

Canary complex.  Definitely.  Joel (once he's over his intial
skepticism), can discover it, study it, name it, and get that
fame he's been waiting for.  :-)

-- Louise Penberthy
From: welty4466@iscsvax.uni.edu
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Subject: dir
Date: 9 Nov 92 01:08:55 -0600
Summary: no sum
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <4217@cvbnetPrime.COM>, gdolgner@chelsea.prime.com (Gene Dolgner) writes:
> 
> In article <FRANL.92Oct29101815@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
>    For .signature purposes, I want to get Chris' infamous fling quote
>    correct.  Can someone comment on whether this is _exactly_ what he
>    said:
>    
>      "It's not the thing that you fling, it's the fling that's the thing."
>    
>    Thanks in advance.
>    --
>    franl@centerline.com   || Fran Litterio, CenterLine Software R&D
>    617-498-3255           || 10 Fawcett St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138-1110
>    "It's not the thing that you fling, it's the fling that's the thing."
> 
> It's in the .sig ...
> 
> 
> Gene Dolgner, contractor at large (I may reappear at any time!)
> Computervision, Bedford, MA  -  gdolgner@chelsea.Prime.COM
> "It's not what you fling, it's the flinging."  -  Northern Exposure



It's not the thing you fling it's the fling itself

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