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From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Pornography charges against Simpsons Illustrated/Oz are dropped.
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:35:08 GMT
Organization: The Dave Shutton School of Journalism
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Yours Truly put on his investigative reporter greens to uncover
the complete story,,

Customs officials mistakenly identified the package that arrived at
Sydney airport containing the `bromides' (for those who've yet to see
one, the films used in the production of the magazine are shipped in a
container ~90cm x ~90cm x ~9cm) as something used to transport movies.
And since there was no cinema classification on the declaration,
everything had be considered by `The Community Protection Group' to
see if Groening Inc. was attempting to sneak Europe's finest R-rated
movies into the country...

It took the CPG a few days to realise Customs had intercepted a
magazine.  Needless, the editor of SIOz is going to play the incident
for all its worth. >:)

Other information I procured from my source...

Australian companies have shown little enthusiasm in following the
North American Itchy&Scratchy merchandising bonanza; wisened by the
poor demand in the past for Simpsons stuff.  (Plus we hardly ever get
to see them over here, so the popularity of the cat and mouse is
significantly less here than elsewhere.)
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From: rnelson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu (Robert Nelson)
Subject: Re: Dreadful Thread (was Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!)
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:12:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.171520.5797@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley) writes:
>From: Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley)
>Subject: Dreadful Thread (was Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!)
>Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:15:20 GMT
>glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu writes:
>>>*Does* Bart wear dreads? I haven't been able to discern any particular style 
>>>in his yellow mop.
>>
>>If you don't know what dreds look like try to find an African-American and 
>>make a comparison.
>
>If *you* don't know what dreads look like, try to find a Rastaman and make
>a comparison.  WRT Bart, picky head (brush cut) I could go with maybe, but 
>no way dreadlocks.
>
>
I agree.  It's got to be either a crewcut or flat top.
From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: Magazine article
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:19:58 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu


     Just for the record, for all of us "foreigners", what kind of
   magazine is 21*C and what's an ABC shop?
     Thanks
mjs
From: frodo@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Frank Wagner)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Back in Germany
Date: 11 Jan 1993 12:16:13 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de

In alt.tv.simpsons you write:

>  About the Simpsons on german TV, do they talk in german  or is it 
>  the original version (not translated)?

Of course they speak german. Here on German-TV there are practical no
tv-broadcasts in the original version. Sometimes you have "Zwei-Kanal-Ton",
then you have the original sound on one and the german translation on the
other channel of an stereo tv-set, so done with the Golden Girls but not
with the Simpsons. It's a pitty that they don't do this with all foreign
tv-series, and I don't know why they don't do it.
From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Back in Germany
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:51:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <phineas00031930004074225@brombeer.sta.sub.org> phineas@brombeer.sta.sub.org (Stephan Freundorfer) writes:
>
>For some foolish reason they are broadcasted at 2.30 pm each day
>(children's prime time). The people in Germany didn't catch the
>meaning of the show 

	Maybe the program directors didn't watch the show, they just saw it as
a cartoon and placed it next to the Sesamstrasse or whatever.

>(same thing as with ST:TNG), so it went to the
>children's hour. 

	Now thats something. What child could understand that show?

But the rest of the german Simpsons-Fans will
>hopefully record every episode on the VCR, so do I.

	Thank god for modern technology. What station are they on anyway?

> "Wer im Schlachthaus sitzt, soll nicht mit Schweinen werfen"
:)
MS
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From: ffr@strider.UUCP (F Frank Rowe)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: definition please
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:26:54 GMT
Reply-To: ffr@adc.com
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

I know what OFF stands for (since it's in the FAQ),
but what is "ObSimpsons"?
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Nietschze (sp) on the Simpsons
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:08:47 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>After his first heart attack on Homer's Triple Bypass, Homer asks Dr. Hibbert,
>"Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger, right?"

Nietzsche
-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Akbar and Jeff au naturel
Date: 9 Jan 1993 23:47:46 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


On the cover of the January 5 issue of the Village Voice:  Akbar
and Jeff, in the buff and deeply tanned, toast the New Year from
an undisclosed tropical clime.  And let me see...  Yep, that's 
definitely Akbar featured in full frontal pose.

-- 
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                                       - Fat Tony, `Bart the Murderer'
From: dkumasaw@oracle.uucp (Darren Kumasawa)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Darren
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:15:25 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <B2mPwB3w165w@wuntvor.pillar.com> ntraven@wuntvor.pillar.com (The Night Raven) writes:
>
>     I'm 17, and I do remember the Olympics in '84, but don't ask me to tell
>you about anything else that year.. My mind was on GI JOE and Transformers, not
>the Soviet Boycott.
>
>:)
>NR
>

Ok, so maybe your mind wasn't on the Soviet boycott back then, but did you
at least know about it then or find out about it since then?

Darren
From: dkumasaw@oracle.uucp (Darren Kumasawa)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Homer the Heretic
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:28:28 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
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              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1993Jan8.014151.22604@ee.ryerson.ca> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
>Just something from tonight's episode:
>
>How many out there in net land keep oily rags....
>
>
>                         ... in a box labeled "OILY RAGS"?
>

Where else would one keep them?  In a box labeled "SOILED LINEN"?

>
>
>Incedently, two things occurred to me in the closing scene where God starts
>to tell Homer the meaning of life.
>
>First, when Homer wanted to know, then God said that he'ld have to wait
>unitl his death, then Homer replied, "I can't wait that long", then God
>said that it would only be six months (we all know the treads that
>resulted from this), as God said, "Well alright..." and proceeded to tell
>Homer, this could imply that the *plans* for Homer's future had been changed.
>After all, if He decided to postpone Homer's death, then He would have
>reason to tell Homer the meaning of life.
>

No, this just implies that God changed his mind about telling Homer the
meaning of life while he was still alive.  Why would God postpone Homer's
death AND tell him the meaning of life?  If God's plans for Homer had
changed, the most logical thing to do would have been to tell Homer, and
then kill him right away.  As it is, I think we can assume that Homer will
still die 6 months from that point even though he now knows the meaning
of life.

>Secondly, it occurred from me that the producers *copied* an idea that
>I and a friend used in a short film we made in 1982.  Of course I said
>"*copied*" because I can say with reasonable certainty that none of them
>could have seen our film.  Anyhow, the film was about a guy that was

How could the writers "copy" an idea from a movie that they have never seen?
Obviously, the writers just thought of the idea on their own.  It's not
a particularly *clever* idea, after all.  Amusing, definitely, but not
an idea that any decent group of writers wouldn't come up with in a half-hour
brainstorming session.

Darren
From: jwlr@monet.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Dreadful Thread (was Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!)
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:44:24 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

rnelson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu (Robert Nelson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.171520.5797@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley) writes:
>>>>*Does* Bart wear dreads? I haven't been able to discern any particular style 
>>>>in his yellow mop.
>>>If you don't know what dreds look like try to find an African-American and 
>>>make a comparison.
>>If *you* don't know what dreads look like, try to find a Rastaman and make
>>a comparison.  WRT Bart, picky head (brush cut) I could go with maybe, but 
>>no way dreadlocks.
>I agree.  It's got to be either a crewcut or flat top.  

Definitely crewcut!
For a referential flat-top, see the "Do The Bartman" video.

				Jamesa Willer
[any opinions above are copyrighted and may only be used with my permission]
From: phineas@brombeer.sta.sub.org (Stephan Freundorfer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Back in Germany
Date: 10 Jan 93 17:37:13 GMT
Organization: King Ralphs Palace , Munich

gagnonr@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Gagnon Real) writes:
>
> >> I just wanted to express my joy to you. The Simpsons are back in
> >> german television with 24 new and 14 old episodes, starting today.
> >One of the best tv programs ever - and not a big success 
> >among german adults.
> 
>   About the Simpsons on german TV, do they talk in german  or is it 
>   the original version (not translated)?
> 

They are dubbed like every foreign show or film is dubbed over here.
I've never heard the original voices and I read some people here,
saying the german voices are bad, but personally I think the voices
really fit (but there's no characteristic "d'oh" from Homer). Like in
the original show Bart's voice is done by a young woman.

Stephan.

> -- 
> ------------------------------------------
> Real Gagnon,        Universite de Montreal
>                   gagnonr@jsp.umontreal.ca
> ------------------------------------------


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley)
Subject: Dreadful Thread (was Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!)
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch, Jammin Division 
            <frank2.36@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> 
            <1993Jan7.134901.3502@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:15:20 GMT

glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu writes:
>>*Does* Bart wear dreads? I haven't been able to discern any particular style 
>>in his yellow mop.
>
>If you don't know what dreds look like try to find an African-American and 
>make a comparison.

If *you* don't know what dreads look like, try to find a Rastaman and make
a comparison.  WRT Bart, picky head (brush cut) I could go with maybe, but 
no way dreadlocks.


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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: The premiere a.t.s weekly digest,,
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:28:11 GMT

Zapper@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Zapper) writes:
>I, along with most Canadians I am sure, always thought that the episode codes
>were either a a.t.s. invention or else insider information, but the FOX
>airings actually give the episode code on one of the closing credit screens.

So does Global in the Toronto area.  Could you time one of your typical closing
sessions and post the time, or e-mail it to me, so we can compare?  I think we
get the full one here.
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: MARGE VS. THE MONORAIL: Nimoy Confirmed
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:58:21 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Sorry. The engineer, not the conductor. 

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I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: shindle@ocf.berkeley.edu (Richard Michael Shindle)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Hermans HeadH
Date: 11 Jan 1993 05:54:49 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: planecrash.berkeley.edu

In case you missed Yeardley Smith's line on Herman's Head:

"For the billionth time NO!. Herman, do I sound like that girl Lisa
Simpson?"

"No. Of course not."

I thought everyone on this net would like this. (I hope)


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From: beppe@ssl.berkeley.edu (Beppe Sabatini)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: (none)
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:10:22 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

Something interesting in the Homer the Heretic rerun last night.  You may
remember when it first aired, Homer found his lucky penny and said "Ooooh --
1991."  This was because (I assume) it was the first time he had seen a
penny with the new year's date on it, which made it doubly lucky.  If you
remember back to third grade or so, that used to be a big thrill.

Anyway, it wasn't a very good joke (the episode was aired in 1992, after
all).  A few people posted, saying they didn't get it.  

So last night, they cut this line out!  Maybe some postings do trickle
through to production people after all.  

Am I imagining all this?  I taped the rerun but not the first airing.  Can
anyone compare?  Does anyone know of any instance of any show being edited
by its production company for prime-time reruns?

Thanks, 
Beppe Sabatini

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: vagle@hsr.no (Laban Seigemann)
Subject: episode numbers
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:43:03 GMT

I live in Europe and was just wondering :
   What episode is the newest shown in USA ?

Here in Europe Sky One has just shown episode 9F09.


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From: bucky.whaley@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bucky Whaley) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Misc Didya notices and Freeze-frame Fun,,
Date: 2 Jan 93 15:14:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reply-To: bucky.whaley@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bucky Whaley) 
Summary: The Night of the DYNs

From: Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley)
Date: 2 Jan 93 15:52:53 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch, Nasty Memories Division
 
chris@glencoe.apana.org.au (El Bairdo) writes:
 
>[8F16]	HomerKong-sized plot hole:  Why didn't Edna recognise Bart's
>	handwriting?
 
Perhaps she was too swept away by the content to pay much attention
to the form.  (Actually, she must have been too swept away by the
*idea* of the content to pay much attention to some of the content
itself...)  Or maybe Edna, embittered by loneliness, boredom, and
the erosion of her youthful dreams, no longer actually reads 
anything the students write, but randomly marks test answers right
or wrong according to whimsy.  I once had a teacher who didn't even
bother to do that much.  She simply threw away everything we turned
in without looking at it at all.  I believe she "retired" after 
only a couple of years in the profession.
 
 - Bucky Whaley
   co-author, TYPING ANSWER BOOK
 
 
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From: t9613aa@sun1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Karl Wild)
Subject: Re: Back in Germany
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: lrz
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:32:13 GMT

 
I'm glad that the Simpsons are back on German TV, too. On the other hand I'm
disappointed that ZDF is broadcasting only castrated episodes of the Simpsons.
      
Especially I'm missing the original language. Isn't it possible to broadcast
the Simpsons in stereo mode so you can choose between English or German?
I have no idea how complicated and costly this is. But maybe German Simpsons
fans can convice ZDF to broadcast the Simpsons in stereo.


Karl



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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: 1910694ps380@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Homer the Heretic
Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:27:18 GMT


Did anyone notice that God had *five* fingers (instead of the usual four!), 
and was wearing Birkenstock sandals? Just thought I'd point that out.


	Russ

Captain McAllister: Arrrrrr! Six bells! Time for closing.
Homer: Can't talk. Eating.
From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: D'oh! Another rerun!
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:36:52 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

 IT was Homer Alone again tonight (I must've seen that episode 12 times
easily by now) and then Global showed that baseball episode after.

Sigh. I haven't seen a new episode in WEEKS! I need it! I want it!

Steve, another Thursday nite in front of the tube
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From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: USENET BBSs
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:42:34 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <L93VwB5w165w@tsoft.net> bbs.lar@tsoft.net (Larry Greenfield) writes:

>   Hi all. I know this is off the subject, but please, I
>NEED YOUR HELP if you can help!
>   I don't think I can afford to call long distance from the
>LA area up to San Fransisco every day to get usenet/internet
>anymore.  Does anyone have a list of public access
>internet/usenet BBSs in the Orange County/Seal Beach area of
>Southern California? --- in the (714) or (310) area codes?
[stuff deleted]

The right place to post this is alt.internet.access.wanted.

Carl Oppedahl

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From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: DID ITCHY EVER LOSE A
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:56:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

-> Have I answered this already?  No matter.
->
-> Itchy's came close -- in ``There's No Disgrace like Home'' Scratchy
-> has a meat cleaver above his head just before Homer turns off the TV.
-> But otherwise the animators abide with the standard ``The Cat always
-> gets it in the end'' like that before "Tom & Jerry" entered their
-> `kinder, gentler' phase.
->
-> --
-> Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>

Actually, Itchy also lost in that one episode that was never aired,
where Marge resolved the dispute over a pie by the pair sharing the pie,
but in Roger Meyeres' original version, Itchy was thrown in a vat of
acid by Scratchy. Too bad Marge changed it... (this is from "Itchy &
Scratchy & Marge" [7f09])

Chris Burgess
chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
                                                                                                              
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: "john russell" <john.russell@canrem.com>
Subject: poe reference
Reply-To: "john russell" <john.russell@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 9 Jan 93 14:54:35 EST

I missed the postings after "Homer's Heart Attack" -- did anyone else
think the business with Homer getting stuck behind the truck towing
Poe's house was a reference to

    The Telltale Heart!

Especially since when he pulled into the service station and his
heartbeat was audible to both Homer and the attendant.

John
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