HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: saseph@hal.unx.sas.com (Ed Hughes)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: What's Crow made of?
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:39:05 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: saseph@hal.unx.sas.com
X-Bytes: 2408

In article <70350@ut-emx.uucp>, hepfox@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Peyton) writes:
>
>
>Okay, MST3K fans, it's Trivia Time!
>
>A few months back, I recall seeing a clip on the making of MST3K.
>One of its most interesting aspects was that it demonstrated how
>the robots were assembled from various common items.  For example,
>Gypsy is basically a pair of baby's car seats at the end of a
>vacuum cleaner attachment.  Tom Servo, of course, is nothing more
>than a gumball machine with a pair of arms.  Unfortunately, I
>can't remember much about what was used to put Crow together.
>I'm *pretty* sure his eyes are a pair of painted ping pong balls,
>but nothing else about him looks all that recognizable.
>
>If anyone remembers this clip, or can provide more detail on
>Crow's construction, please come forward.
>
Here's the info on the bots, straight from the FAQ:

---------------------------------------
Q. What are the robots made of?

A.  Crow is mostly made of sporting equipment:

        Pingpong balls for eyes
        Plastic bowling pin for mouth
        His head (around his eyes) is a soap dish (!)
        Arms - adjustable desk lamp parts, with foam tubing
                on the upper part
        Neck -- a Popeet toy
        Thing on the back of his head - hockey mask (Cooper XL7FG)
        Torso: a piece of Tupperware from a set called "Floralier"
                (It was a flower-arranging set.  No longer made.)
        Legs -- he has 'em, but what are they made of?  (They look
                like more lamp parts)

Tom Servo is mostly made of toys:

        Gumball machine for head (painted Testor's "dark red")
        Barrel from "Barrell full of Monkeys" for body
        Flashlight heads for shoulders
        Springs or slinkys for arms
        His waist is cut from a plastic ball
        His hands are doll hands
        His base is made of foam tubing

Gypsy is made of household items:

        Flashlight for eye
        Child's car seat for head
        Hose for neck & body
        Lips are foam tubing

Cambot is made of ??:
        Rotating alarm light on top
        Some sort of hose, a la Gypsy

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

Ed Hughes, SAS Institute  | "See no evil...well, maybe just a little...
Cary, NC                  |  yeah!"
                          | --Joel, "Women of the Prehistoric Planet,"
                          |          MST3000
From: jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:05:53 GMT
Organization: Biology Learning Center

In article <1992Apr16.233237.12680@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, tmcdonal@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Tom McDonald) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Apr14.182836.14750@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> jahnke@biosci.
> arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke) writes:
> >
> >Boy who ever thought growing up in a place that calls a water fountain a 
> >"bubbler" would be a step up, inso?
> >
> 
> Oh, you's guys, have some pop (soda, that is) and let's watch the Brewers.
> 

No pop for me please, just Black Label Beer. And I don't do Brewers, but I will
see you at a Packer Game (just pick your home city, Green Bay, Milwaukee, or
Madison).

> 						-Tom
> -- 
> Okay, one more time.  This is your brain. (egg)
> This is your brain on drugs. (egg in frying pan)
> Any Questions?
> "Yeah, can I have mine scrambled?"

Jer,
----
Jerome Jahnke
Biology Learning Center
University of Arizona
'jahnke@biosci.arizona.edu' or +1 (602) 621-3820
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: lumiere@next11pg2.wam.umd.edu (That Redheaded Mermaid)
Subject: Re: Sidehackers
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:10:56 GMT

In article <Apr.6.13.40.30.1992.8813@cadenza.rutgers.edu>  
masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
> Can someone let me know what "sidehacking" is?
> 
> Or kill me with a forklift.
> 
> - Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu)


well, I don't know what "sidehacking" is exactly, but I have always  
wondered, ever since Dr. Forrester brought it up in the WILD REBELS  
experiment, what is that noise that Frank always uses?  I must say it is  
quite annoying sometimes.  His explanation of it being "just a noise" just  
didn't quite cut the mustard for me...any other psychoanalytical  
explanations out there for me?  Someone want to delve deep into the psyche  
of the one they call Frank?  I think it might be something in his past,  
like falling in love with a cow or something like that...but, that is just  
me.  Of course, I have always felt kinda sympathetic towards Frank ever  
since he sang: "If Chauffeurs Ruled The World"...does anyone happen to  
have the lyrics to that moving song?  :: SNIFF :: 

 Paraphrased:
  "What do you think they produce in Citrusville?"
   "ohhh, probably Dairy products"   -- WIIIIILD REBELS (what a crunchy,        
					tasty breakfast treat!!! )

  Hey, I'm in it for the KICKS!!!

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: mcginj@aix.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Thomas Mcginley)
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:16:25 GMT

If you can't imagine a real life situation where "Saaaaayyy!" (The all purpose
scantily clad female on the screen announcement) you're probably spending too
much time inside watching stupid  movies.  (but then again aren't we all?)

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Subject: May MST3K Schedule, please...
Reply-To: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:24:41 GMT



...as soon as it's known, that is.  I plan to subscribe to the Comedy
Central newsletter at the end of the month, after I've moved.  (!)
Anyway, I would REALLY appreciate it if somebody could post at least the
first few May episodes as soon as they become known.  I'll repay the
favor by posting the schedule for some future month, thereby helping
out others just as somebody helped me.
   Thanks a zillion!

"Uh, oh...looks like the splunkie's about to hit the fan!"  --Tom Servo

		-EMeyer

-- 
"Unstable condition--a symptom of life       | Eric A. Meyer (eam3@po.CWRU.edu)
 In mental and environmental change          |  President, Beta Nu Chapter of
 Atmospheric disturbance--the feverish flux  |      Theta Chi Fraternity
 Of human interface and interchange-"  -N.P. |  Drink 'Bite The Wax Tadpole'!!
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
From: sparrish@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:54:13 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

A friend of mine tapes MST3k on Martha's Vinyard and brings them here
(Connecticut, where we don't get comedy central :( ) for our tv enjoyment. 
"I'm Huge!" hasn't been a problem, but "Does this bug you? Does this bug you? 
I'm not touching you!" and "Bitter? Oh, a *tad*", both from "It Conquered the
World" have become permanent additions to our lexicon and serve to alienate us
mildly from the rest of the college community ... not really, but it does set
us apart.  "Does this bug you? I'm not touching you" is particularly useful
when someone is at a terminal two blocks away and you keep sending them
messages just to make their terminal beep.  Tee Hee.

__________________________________________________________________________
Cor imbutum nectare volat ad superna. 			
I do not think it means what you think it means.
---------------------------  | In a waxless manner, and hoping for replies
sparrish@eagle.wesleyan.edu  |		      *Sparrow*
---------------------------  |      Heretic, escripvaine, shade
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: betel@camelot.bradley.edu (Robert Crawford)
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:18:26 GMT


	"I have eliminated one of the hoo-mans." has been showing up
as a bizzarre-statement inserted into conversation... I find this
truly weird because of my friends, I am one of two who has seen the
show, and the other one didn't like it...

	MST3K is not only addictive, but it actively spreads even
without the influence of the show...
From: whall@cactus.org (J. Wayne Hall)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:15:19 GMT
Reply-To: whall@cactus.org (J. Wayne Hall)
Distribution: na
Organization: The Capital Area Central Texas Unix Society


My favorite quotes that I use during somewhat normal conversation...


"When ...<insert phrase>... someone must die"
                             Crow

"Chief???? McCleod!"
                             Pod People

"You know how to whistle don't ya?  Just put your lips together and cut
 to the boat..."
                             Crow, Catalina Caper


Wayne
whall@cactus.org
From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Death-n-Taxes transcript
Keywords: Itsa fuunny surren
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:55:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

The Scene: Shot Black & White, made to look old (i.e. film flaws).  In
the foreground, Crow faces right, Tom Servo faces the camera, Joel (as
Death) sits in the background.  A Chopin piano piece plays (the name
of the piece escapes me; its the one you hear and say, "that's Chopin,
right?")

         Spoken					   Subtitles
--------------------------------------		---------------------

Crow: Dete					[Death...]

Tom:  Tax-ess					[Taxes...]

Crow: Dete					[Death...]

Tom:  Tax-ess					[Taxes...]

Crow: Oon April Fifteen-e			[On April Fifth]

Tom: Taxe Tag					[Tax Day]

Crow:  De Coomedy Centrallen Illuminaten 	[Comedy Central illuminates 
       de teuen tings in lifen surren	  	 the two sure things
						 in life -- ]
	

	mit alle tag mere dammen		[with 15 hours of
						 shows about Death...]


Tom:  und tax-ess				[and Taxes.]

Crow: Featuring une vonce in der lifen		[Featuring a special 
				         	Once-In-A-Lifetime...]

(Tom gasps in horror)

Crow: Mystery Science Teater Three-Tousand!  	[...Weeknight showing of 
					         Mystery Science
						 Theater 3000]


Tom:  Der dead hoond blowen der brete 		[The hound of death blows 
      in mine soul			 	his cold breath on my soul.]

Crow: Tell me about it				[Til mir abot et.]

(Joel/Death drinks from a coffee cup; the two robots turn to look at
him, he nods.)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: rjfennem@descartes.waterloo.edu (Ryan Fennema)
Subject: Script ...
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:30:36 GMT

Just taking the opportunity to (publicly) thank Ed for the 
excellent transcription of War of the Redenbachers!

He's good. Real good. :-)

Ryan.
From: rrmst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Roberto R Molinari)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: newsletter
Date: 9 Apr 92 04:17:32 GMT
Reply-To: rrmst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Roberto R Molinari)
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys

Boy am I glad to see this newsgroup!  I've been a loyal follower of Joel and the
bots since I first saw it 2 years ago.  Unfortunately since I've relocated to
Pittsburgh I've really lost touch since the local cable operators dont carry
comedy central (or whatever they call themselves now).  The discussions that
I've seen here sem to indicate that there haven't been too many new episodes
though, so hopefully if I'm back in a comedy central area this fall I won't
have missed much.

Anyhow, does anyone know how long it takes before the kind folks at Best Brains
kick you off the mailing list?  I joined the fan club about 1 and a half years
ago, but haven't gotten a newsletter in about 5-6 months.  In fact they even 
printed one of my letters once in the newsletter and I didn't even send in a
crayon drawing of the cast!  Keep those reviews coming for those of us who
are bypassed by the cavalcade of whimsy known as mst3k!!

later,
bert


"The greatest comedy duo since Scott Baio and Willie Aames" - crow
From: jbrowne@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jim Browne)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:56:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr16.005612.23144
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Our personal favorite around here is from the "Pod People"


'Tommy?  What are you doing?' - movie
'Just tending to the incubus, mother.' - Joel


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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jbrowne@ncsa.uiuc.edu	stgadmin@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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From: whelan@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (John T. whelan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Theme song
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:40:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: sbphy.whelan.703132824

JRB128@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

><   "In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D."

>       I thought it was, "Next SOMEDAY A.D.", which would make a lot more
>  sense than "SUNDAY". What does SUNDAY have to do with anything, anyway?

	I seem to recall hearing that when Joel & co. got started on
UHF in Minnesota, they were on Sundays...
						John Whelan

--
,',',','  Each game of chess               ,',',','  Each day got through
,',',','  Means there's one less          , ',;,`,'  Means one or two
,',',','  Variation                      ',;'.: :    Less mistakes
,',',','    left to be played   ,       ` ',  '        remain to be made
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: jamesb@nevada.edu (James Bender)
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:28:36 GMT


In article <1992Apr13.212352.3753@cco.caltech.edu> tlynch@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch) writes:
>sparrish@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>
>Heh.  My wife and I use "I'm Huge!" all the time at this point; the number of
>places where it's apropos is startling once you start looking at it.  And
>"Joel" has become a verb in our house: "to joel" is to give a piece of 
>celluloid a proper MST treatment.
>
>Tim Lynch

	Wow! I thought everybody did! I do this a lot when I'm eating dinner
with my parents(make comments that is, not tell them how huge I am). It's
usually because they're watching somthing I don't like, and I'll sit there
during dinner, and make a lot of MTS3Kic comments. Doesn't everybody!?

					James B


From:     		jamesb@redrock.nevada.edu
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Waffles are nothing more than a vehicle for butter and syrup"
							-- Dr. Forrester



Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Kreme thats all just K-r-e-m-e)
Subject: Re: Sidehackers
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 10:43:44 GMT

lumiere@next11pg2.wam.umd.edu (That Redheaded Mermaid) writes:

>In article <Apr.6.13.40.30.1992.8813@cadenza.rutgers.edu>  
>masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
>> Can someone let me know what "sidehacking" is?
>> 
>> Or kill me with a forklift.
>> 
>> - Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu)


>well, I don't know what "sidehacking" is exactly, but I have always  
>wondered, ever since Dr. Forrester brought it up in the WILD REBELS  

Ymm... guys?  Anyone home?

One of the movies was called "Sidehackers" a very poor attempt at a 
dramtic documentry thing... I dunno.

Sidehacking has something to do with riding "outboard" on a Motorcyle.

Sorry I can't be more specific, painful memories are automatically
deleted from my memory banks :-)

means every time I see MST3K, it's ALL NEW!

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: craig@pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu (Craig Segawa)
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Organization: University of Hawaii
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:04:12 GMT

>PS:  Posters please remember that MST3K doesn't get outside of
>north america (if I'm not mistaken) so you might want to
>remember to limit your distribution to "na"

You're mistaken.  I'm glad I can get MST3K here in Hawaii.  btw I'm not
trying to start a Flame war by posting this, I just wanted to let the
_world_ know that I read this group.  =)

Laters, "Mr. Craig"
From: kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt M. Bose)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Joel: any connection to Iowa State?
Date: 12 Apr 92 07:38:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.9vvj65k
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Apr11.225418@IASTATE.EDU> cupples@IASTATE.EDU (Robert L Cupples) writes:
>I saw the episode about the Viking Women a few weeks ago (don't remember
>the exact name of it) and before the movie there was a short promotional
>film about home economics at Iowa State (from the 60's??).  Being a
>student at Iowa State, I thought it was a laughing riot.  Does Joel have
>any ties to ISU?  If not, did he go to college?  Where at?
>

Have to admit that I'm not sure of anyone's ties but I doubt it is THAT
necessary to have gone to ISU to remember this video.  Our clique watched it
and decided (after the laughter died down) that it was easily the funniest
half hour of MST3K any of us have ever seen.  GET "Viking Women vs. the Sea
Serpent!" if you haven't seen 'The Home Economics Story'.  I took it home to
my family (who all busted a gut) only to find that my mother had seen it while 
in high school!  (NB: Joel wasn't in it. B') )

We taped it and have seen 'Home Ec' about twenty times since it aired. Please,
no requests to tape it, as we only have the one VCR.  I have about five tapes
full of MST3K (13 episodes) and will post a list as soon as we have 2 VCRs
(probably in the fall; I should have another 20 episodes on tape by then) for
release to anyone in the Western US by then.

PS: to the person who wondered about ComCen vs. VH-1 and cutting in the middle
of a program:  My first guess would be that it is the cable company that does
that, as we have two channels here in Alb. for the two stations.  However, 
since multiple locations seem to piggyback the two channels, I imagine that
there is some sort of feed put out by a central location (MTV Prods???) for
pickup by cable operators.



-- 
| KWACK!                  "Damn tree-hugging-chin-spinach-lettuce-eaters
| Kbos@carina.unm.edu       already have their blue dots; what the hell
| Kurt M. Bose UNM           do they want NOW!?!?!?!?"
| Albuquerque, New Mexico                        -The Grand Platypus
From: jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu (CHARLES JORDAN)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Sidehackers
Summary: You magnificent bastard
Keywords: For those of you scoring at home, Rita is DEAD
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:23:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Apr6.181056.14808@wam.umd.edu> lumiere@next11pg2.wam.umd.edu (That Redheaded Mermaid) writes:
>well, I don't know what "sidehacking" is exactly, but I have always  
>wondered, ever since Dr. Forrester brought it up in the WILD REBELS  
>experiment, what is that noise that Frank always uses?  I must say it is  
>quite annoying sometimes.  His explanation of it being "just a noise" just  
>didn't quite cut the mustard for me...any other psychoanalytical  
>explanations out there for me?  Someone want to delve deep into the psyche  
>of the one they call Frank?  I think it might be something in his past,  
>like falling in love with a cow or something like that...but, that is just  
>me.   

I think it's about you, isn't it?

Koo-koo kids go for koo-koo kicks!


Deal with it, you little free-rotating skanky boy!

Chuck
-- 
		Chuck Jordan  |  jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu
From: omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie *banjo* Mitchell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: MST3K infiltrating vocabulary...
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:12:40 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711


yeah, the young IndianaJones chronicles cried out to be mst'ed, but my favorite
add-in was that everytime indiana met a woman(about 10 times in this show), her
husband had died in the war and I found myself blurting out... "how fortunate,
this will simplify eveerytheng"
Ocie

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From: imsne145@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: Re: MST3K info & tapes wanted
Reply-To: imsne145@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 04:01:30 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.054057.5721@midway.uchicago.edu>, wes5@quads.uchicago.edu (Diane Westerfield) writes:
>Hi, fellow MST3K fans.  We here at the U o' C science fiction club have become
>rabid fans in the past few months on account of a few tapes that were lent
>us and thereafter much contested for.  We can't watch MST3K as much as we'd
>like 'cause #1) our @#!? cable has one channel for VH1 and the comedy thing,
>and MST3K tends to be on when it's switched over to VH1; and #2) our @!#?
>VCR can't tune in that channel so we can't tape MST3K when it is on.  
>"Hey, what gives?  I'm on the milk carton!"
>"A rock group staying at my house?  Too much!"
>"She's zestfully dead!"
>"Geez, Tracy, stay away from the kid's animals."
>"Look, Pocohantas, Rick's mine!"
>"The helpless cough of a squirrel with a crushed face -- that's what life's
> all about."
>and of course the immortal "It sucks!"
>

You forgot "Smuckers Strawberry Preserves"
and
Trumpie, Trumpiee, ....
" CHEIF...MCLOUD"

Hello from lonely Bozeman mt. where our cable company has yet to here of
Comedy Central (that's about to change...or else) and the only thing happening
is the MSU spring Rodeo.  Other than that there are many people who are having
severe mst3000 withdrawals.  Our only tape source has been cut!!!  We need more
episodes ASAP!!!  Even "Ring Of Terror" is starting to wear out.  We only
discovered this group last week,  (we've been junkies for about 2 months) and
we'd really like to find a way to get more tapes.  We'd be willing to buy,
trade, borrow, drive several hundred miles.....

Anyway, glad to know you're all out there.  We've been getting some really
strange looks here when one of is shouts "I'm huge!!!" for no apparent reason.
Does anyone else have this problem, or any interesting stories to tell?

Paul R. Deming

imsne145@trex.oscs.montana.edu

"OH NO!, it's the geometric nucleus!"