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From: thormik@idt.unit.no (Thor Mikal Johnsen)
Subject: Re: Lisa and Bart's age and grade?
Reply-To: thormik@idt.unit.no (Thor Mikal Johnsen)
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:11:27 GMT

In the episode with Michael Jackson, Lisa is about to turn 8, and says something like: "It's a big number, almost double digit.", in which case Bart responds something like "Enjoy it while you can, everything changes when you hit the big one - 'O' ..."

=> Lisa is 8, and Bart is 10.

Thor Johnsen.
thormik@idt.unit.no.
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:17:15 IST
From: Shlomo <X42529@BARILVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Lisa and Bart's age and grade?
 <1992Aug19.131122.29198@newscan.canada.sun.com>
 <1992Aug19.160138.5893@Princeton.EDU>

In article <1992Aug19.160138.5893@Princeton.EDU>, rjc@onion.princeton.edu
(Raymond Chen) says:
>
>Lisa is eight years old and in the second grade.
>
>[7g08] ``Next up is the second grade, presenting Santas of Many Lands.''
>[7f15] ``You'd only resent the pity of an eight-year-old niece.''
>[7f18] ``It's hard to discover your inner beauty when you're yelling
>         at an eight-year-old girl.''
>[7f24] ``In two days, I'm going to be eight years old.''
>       ``Meditations on Turning Eight -- By Lisa Simpson''
>                (one of my favorite poems)
>--
>Raymond ``Marge, 34, another unappreciated wife''[7g01] Chen

you're forgetting one of the references, Raymond.
what about the episode with the jazz player?
Lisa's song goes "My dad act's like he belongs, he belongs in the zoo,
 I'm the saaaadest kid in graaaade number 2"
From: murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Best Simpsons Moment
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:56:24 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

>>>>Also, any bus driving scene with Otto-man in it has me rolling on the
>>>>floors till the next commercial.
>>>>
>>>>trav@wixer.cactus.org (traveller)

>>>Uh-huh.  I think that if you look up "easily-amused" in the dictionary, 
>>>there will be a picture of you!
>>>
>>>880348n@ace.acadiau.ca (GREGORY NICHOLS)

 >>Yeah, and your mug will appear under "asshole."
 >>
 >>Sparky

 >I feel sorry for anyone with an intellect that spits out profanities as a 
 >rebuttal.
 >
 >greg again

oh, come off it, greg.  since this is a.tv.s., you've gotta admit that
flaming someone for finding parts of "The Simpsons" funny is pretty stupid,
and that you've earned whatever verbage that gets thrown at you.
so "traveller" thinks otto is hilarious --- so what?  i don't, but i
think other parts are funny that my wife thinks are just boring.
amazing, huh?

ok
dpm
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter)
Subject: Re: 8-13 Episode (late better than never?) in the US
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 22:24:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.121234.15207@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
ide@studio.enet.dec.com (Jamie Ide) axes:
>
>What episode is on tonight?

Yikes!  I screwed up and didn't post it (yet) what with
this week being tattoo day for my minoxidil testing and
oil change day for my (relatively) new car...  *sigh*

Be still my heart...

Tonight's (13 AUG 92) episode is `Treehouse of Horror II'.

Regards,
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Origin of THE OLD MAN
From: flash@lopez.marquette.MI.US (Gary Bourgois,Hamshack)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:46:01 EDT
Organization: Great White North/UPLink

In <4683@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> damian+@pitt.edu (Liquid Cooled Spherical Imaging) writes:

>Hello,

>	I am sure all of you out there have either seen or discussed the
>old man that inavariably pops up in just about EVERY episode of the Simsons.
>You know, the guy with the bald head a long white beard.  Grampa Simpsons
>buddy.  Anyway, I was back at my parents house last weekend, and I was
>rooting around through some old comic books (for whatever strange reason).
>I came across and ad for sew-on patches in a comic from the 70's.  AND, one
>of the patches had a picture of a character who looked remarakble like the
>old man in the Simpsons episodes!  He had his hands behind his back, and he
>appears to be walking somewhere.  I think it says KEEP ON TRUCKIN' underneath
>him.  Do you think that this character had some place in 70's pop culture?
>I am almost POSITIVE that the character on the patch is somehow related to the
>old man in the Simpsons.  They look *too* much alike.  Anybody out there want
>to comment???


The cartoon character is Mr. Natural, a creation of cartoonist R. Crumb.

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From: noel@umbc1.umbc.edu
Subject: Post me!
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:40:14 GMT

	While watching "Treehouse of Horror II" I noticed another of Homer's 
idiosynchrosies.  When he wants something he says "[name of something] me"

For example:

In the Money's paw segment "Paw me"
With the country singer "Fudd me"
With the blowfish "Ubu Me"

Can anyone else list some of the "me" things Homore ahs asked for?

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
Subject: Oh the shame!
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:13:46 GMT

Oh the shame!  I cannot for the life of me (nor can anyone I know)
remember the "three sayings that will get you through life"!

All I can remember is:

1) Good idea, boss.

2) It was like that when I got here.





Can someone tell me the third!

Cal.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: japg6581@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Petterchak)
Subject: Re: Simpsons Prophetic?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:06:17 GMT

noel@umbc1.umbc.edu writes:


>	While hearing news about the riot in Montreal resulting from the Guns 
>'n' Roses concert, I couldn't help but think of the opening sequence of "The 
>Otto Show"

>both had:

>A heavy metal rock band playing a mid-sized city
>A band member injured my a faulty prop
>The concert ending early becasue the group would not go on
>The fans riot and cause a lot of damage 

>It made mego "hmmmmm"  I am definately watching future shows to see if this 
>parallel was just a fluke or if Matt "Nostradomus" Groening is really onto 
>something

Well, I don't know about the band member being injured, but I think the riot
at the Spinal Tap concert was a reference to the Guns 'n' Roses riot in
St. Louis last July. 

-- John Petterchak
From: aspgtoc@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Claude Toupin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Lisa and Bart's age and grade?
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:52:05 GMT
Reply-To: aspgtoc@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Claude Toupin)
Organization: Environment Canada

In article <jf0mpa+.dcm@netcom.com>, dcm@netcom.com (David MacMillan) writes:
|> What are Lisa and Bart's age and what school grades are
|> they in? Do these ever change (birthdays, summer
|> vacations, etc.)?
|> 
|> David MacMillan
|> dcm@netcom.com

As long as I can remember, Lisa is 8 years old and she's on 2nd grade
and Bart is 10 years old and he's on 4th grade.

Guru
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: schmasey@leland.Stanford.EDU (Casey Carlton O'Hara)
Subject: Re: Oh the shame!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 20:16:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.171346.11166@ee.ryerson.ca> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
>Oh the shame!  I cannot for the life of me (nor can anyone I know)
>remember the "three sayings that will get you through life"!
>
>All I can remember is:
>
>1) Good idea, boss.
>
>2) It was like that when I got here.
>
>Can someone tell me the third!
>
>Cal.
Wasn't it something like "cover for me?"  It's been quite awhile, and
I can really only remember the first two.


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From: C0031018@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Johannes Heyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Danny Elfman CD
Date: 20 Aug 1992 08:17:47 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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Hi,

the CD by Danny Elfman ("Music for  a darkened theatre") mentioned in the FAQ
is not easily available  in Germany. So, before I order it  at a local record
store it want to know a little more  about the CD. Can someone please send me
a list of the tracks included on the CD?

Thanks
       Johannes

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From: franz1@franz.Helsinki.FI (FRANZ1)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: comments wanted!
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:08:07 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences

I am doing a study on simpsons and I would appreciate if you fans of
Simpsons would lend me a helping hand.

1) I would like to know if any of you have done any kind of 'serious' analysis
on The Simpsons -saga.
2) Have you seen any articles written about Simpsons?

I have tried do a preliminary analysis of the story. I started with ideas of
Vladimir Propp (folktales) and Will Wright (westerns). Bart-tales (stories were
Bart is the main character) I managed to shorten in five functions which were
present in episodes studied.
1) Bart is revealed bad/poor
2) Bart gets a mission to do
3) Bart needs help to do the mission
4) Bart makes the main mission by himself
5) Bart is revealed not bad/poor (note: he is not revealed good)

It's difficult for a Finn to understand every gags in stories. My intention was
to continue with humor in the Simpsons and to categorize it somehow?? (sounds
easy??????)

If you have ideas please answer to

Harri.Rissanen@helsinki.fi  (internet)

Student of sociology, Helsinki university, Finland
Life is hell ... when you miss Simpsons. Thank God for Videos!!!
Xref: sparky alt.tv.simpsons:4404 alt.politics.bush:2188
From: ejo@kaja.gi.alaska.edu (Eric J. Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: "...less like the Simpsons?!"  (George Bush speaks)
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:05:11 GMT
	<1992Aug18.192220.13279@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Organization: Citizens for Boysenberry Jam Fans

In article <1992Aug18.192220.13279@news2.cis.umn.edu> gjnelson@ee.umn.edu (Grad student Greg Nelson) writes:

>If it's the same quote he used before, it's "More like the Waltons and
>less like the Simpsons."  Jay Leno's comment on this quote was
>something like, "Hey, say what you will about Homer Simpson, but
>at least he has a job, owns his own house, and didn't have more
>kids than he can feed!"

...and he works in a nuclear power plant!

Eric Olson <ejo@kaja.gi.alaska.edu>
From: d1wzm@dtek.chalmers.se (Kristian Wiklund)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Land of Chocolate?
Date: 16 Aug 92 13:00:39 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

shawn@panix.com (Shawn Herzinger) writes:

>I have all of the Simpsons episodes on tape.  Which episode did "The
>Land of Chocolate" sequence appear in?  I would like to revisit this great
>scene without having to scan through five tapes of shows!

>Thanks.

>Please E-mail to shawn@panix.com

The 'Burns-are-selling-the-powerplant'-episode.

greetings,
K. Wiklund / d1wzm@dtek.chalmers.se
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From: schrey@oak.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy M. Schreyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Favorite Moment from "Treehouse of Horror II"
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: schrey@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems

In article <1992Aug14.100608.18737@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, jamesf@cae.wisc.edu (James Friedmann) writes:
|> There was one scene from Treehouse II that really floored me.
|> 
|> It's right after Burns pulls out Homer's brain.  
|> He puts the brain on his head and says 
|> 
|> "Look at me! I'm Davy Crocket!"
|> 
   I always die in this one when RoboHomer goes berserk and Smithers yells
   "Run, sir! Run!".  Burns' attempted running gives me hysterics.

       TIM

   P.S. Those may note that Burns was plenty strong enough to capture Homer
        and whap him with the shovel, but he can't run:-).
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Xref: sparky alt.tv.simpsons:4339 alt.fan.dan-quayle:2391
From: rone@alcor.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons,alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: DON'T RESPOND TO: Re: Oh, Danny Boy!!!
Followup-To: alt.flame,misc.test,junk
Date: 12 Aug 1992 17:06:24 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1992Aug12.202713.7503@wam.umd.edu> pi@wam.umd.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes:
>Please!  Those of us at alt.tv.simpsons are tired of reading your crap
>about Dan Quayle!  Please edit your newsgroup list when you respond to this
>in the future!  And remember to E-mail your flames directly to me--I don't
>have time to wast reading alt.politics.x!  Take your opinions home for
>christ's sake!!!

Do you think Dan Quayle could match wits with Maggie Simpson?

Nah, me neither.  Maggie'd crush him.

5150
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele)
Subject: Re: '...less like the Simpsons?!'  (George Bush speaks)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 15:20:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.203500.14616@news.iastate.edu> jerrett@iastate.edu  
(Gregory A Jerrett) writes:
> In article <1992Aug20.184204.13737@morrow.stanford.edu>  
AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark) writes:
> >In article <djr.1.0@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu>,
> >djr@vthnw.cvm.msu.edu (Dan Redder) writes:
> >>>From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
> >
> >  A number of times.  Many established actors will refuse roles that
> >  conflict with their politics.  For example, you're not likely to see
> >  Charleton Heston in a film which, in his view, is biased towards the
> >  left.  It's not likely that you'll see (hear) him in "The Simpsons",
> >  either.  But that's his problem.
> 
> I have been debating this very subject with my roommate lately.  For 
> the most  part I think that you are correct, but think about this 
> anomaly: Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, Omega Man.  Each of these 
> movies contains elements of anti-nuke, anti-war, pro-environmental 
> issues themes. The first time I saw  Heston doing an NRA commercial I 
> was surprised, I figured that a guy who did movies like he had, would 
> certainly be a liberal.  I think that he probably changed sides like 
> Ronnie Ray Gun did.

Who's RR Gun?  And what do you conceive Republicans to be?  Do you think  
we're _for_ Armageddon and dirty water?  And what makes people think we're  
annoyed by _The Simpsons_?  The irreverence?  It's the left that demands  
obeisance to its precepts.  Okay okay, maybe George Bush is annoyed.  I'm  
more annoyed by _The Walton's_ though, so much that I'd never watch it and  
of course I never miss our favorite family.  They're so much more real,  
you know.

The theme those Heston movies share is anti-utopianism, which is  
anti-left-wing.
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From: andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.Com (Andre Giroux - SSS Sun Montreal)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Lisa and Bart's age and grade?
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:11:22 GMT
Reply-To: andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.Com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

According to the episode with Michael Jackson, Lisa is about to turn 10, since
Bart tells her :
It's not the same thing when you hit the big "one - 'O'", you legs are weaker,
candy doesn't taste the same ...  
So I assume Lisa is about 10 and Bart 12.

Of course I may be wrong ...

andre
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From: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Origin of THE OLD MAN
Date: 14 Aug 1992 17:03:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

>> I am almost POSITIVE that the character on the ["Keep On
>> Truckin'"] patch is somehow related to the old man in the
>> Simpsons.  They look *too* much alike.
> That's "Mr. Natural" by R. Crumb! . . . But as for Mr. Natural
> inspiring Jasper (I think that's him), it sounds REAL iffy to
> me, but I'll admit the resemblence.

=o= Mr. Natural is basically just a ripoff of the great E.C.
Segar's character, Professor O.G. Whattasnozzle.  (Indeed,
you can make lots of Crumb's characters by ripping off Segar:
just use a thicker pen and lots of cross-hatching.)

=o= I don't think Jasper resembles The Natch much,
myself; he's more Groeningesque than Segaresque.          .-.  .-.
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Favorite Moment from "Treehouse of Horror II" 
From: psantucci@desire.wright.edu
Date: 15 Aug 92 16:27:52 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <1992Aug15.090331.3491@desire.wright.edu>, psantucci@desire.wright.edu writes:
> 	This was Nancy's second silver screen appearance, but for her U.S.
> fans, Paul Verhoeven's medieval epic ("Fire and Ice", I believe; been a while
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> since I've seen it) might as well have not been theatrically released. It is 
> available on videotape - she plays a comic relief servant to the heroine.
> 
> Pat "I am not a 31 year old woman" Santucci.

Mea Maxima Culpa Faux Pas. I just got a new video catalog, and "Fire and Ice"
is an incredibly cheesey sword and sorcery flick. I was thinking of "Flesh and
Blood", which is just great. Rutger Hauer stars.

	I know its bad form to followup one's own post, but I couldn't sleep
with the thought of a.t.s readers wasting money on "Fire and Ice"

Pat "maxillary avian embryosis" Santucci
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: stu5s14@bcrka287.bnr.ca (James Cherry)
Subject: Re: Another trivia question
Originator: stu5s14@bcrka287
Keywords: Burns, age
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:24:23 GMT

andre@avalanche.Canada.Sun.Com (Andre Giroux) writes:

>Ok Simpsons freaks, tell me HOW OLD IS BURNS ????
>
>(and what episode they are talking about it ...)
>
>Andre

Mr. Burns is 81.  It's from "Simpson and Delilah", I believe:

Mr. Burns: Simpson, how old do you think I am?
    Homer: I don't know.  A hundred and two?
Mr. Burns: No, I'm only eighty-one.

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Win a Bart guitar contest (was Re: NEW EPISODE: August 27)
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:23:57 GMT

dhyatt@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hyatt) writes:
>P.S. I entered the "Win a Bart guitar" contest in the most recent
>Simpsons Illustrated 50, count 'em: 50 times.  I'd better win.

Quite a lot of people of all sorts read that there thang, not just Simpsons
scholars like us ya know.  I bet they have more than a thousand entries.  Even
that number may be humorously low.

I do hope you win, though, if that's any help.
From: damian+@pitt.edu (Liquid Cooled Spherical Imaging)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: The Origin of THE OLD MAN
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:50:23 GMT
Organization: RaveReaction CandyLoop Clothing

Hello,

	I am sure all of you out there have either seen or discussed the
old man that inavariably pops up in just about EVERY episode of the Simsons.
You know, the guy with the bald head a long white beard.  Grampa Simpsons
buddy.  Anyway, I was back at my parents house last weekend, and I was
rooting around through some old comic books (for whatever strange reason).
I came across and ad for sew-on patches in a comic from the 70's.  AND, one
of the patches had a picture of a character who looked remarakble like the
old man in the Simpsons episodes!  He had his hands behind his back, and he
appears to be walking somewhere.  I think it says KEEP ON TRUCKIN' underneath
him.  Do you think that this character had some place in 70's pop culture?
I am almost POSITIVE that the character on the patch is somehow related to the
old man in the Simpsons.  They look *too* much alike.  Anybody out there want
to comment???

dieselBoy 

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