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From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: Stimpy and Sven Sitting in a Tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G.
Date: 10 Nov 1992 17:36:18 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede) says:
>seed@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Steven Seed) writes:
>>    This weekend was the first time I saw the Sven Hoek episode. I don't know
>>if anyone else noticed, but Stimpy and Sven got pretty intimate in the litter
>>box. Another thing is that there was grafitti on the walls saying "Sven Loves
>>Stimpy" and a heart with "Stimpy + Sven" written in it. Are they trying to
>>tell us that Stimpy is a homosexual cat? Hmmmmmm. No sir, I don't like it.
>>I guess even animals have the freedom to sexual preference, but I'm not sure
>>how to feel about this.
[...]
>Yes, and did you notice how when Stimpy shows Sven his brain, Sven says
>"It's so big!", and then he says "Do you want to see mine?"  And then 
>Stimpy gets real happy, like he's doing something naughty, and says
>"OK!"  It seems like this is the homosexual "You show me yours, and I'll
>show you mine"...
>
>*shiver*

And this thread is the homophobic "You show me your itty bitty brain, and
I'll show you mine."

*shudder*

 -Bucky "Get back, man!  Don't make me use this!" Whaley

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From: mikeh@col.hp.com (Mike Hammar)
Subject: Pleezzz..
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:47:59 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

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From: sagan@netcom.com (Mike May)
Subject: Re: Need a brain jolt on Sven.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:40:02 GMT

Ariel.A.Vitali@dartmouth.edu (Ariel A. Vitali) writes:
: Hi, boys and girls!
: I was on-call tonight, and since it was quiet, I got to watch the show.
:  "Sven Hoek" was on tonight and I am trying to figure out something:
: That first line ("I am Ole, you are Sven")...wasn't that from "The
: Flintstones" or "The Jetsons?"  Please _email_ me and let me know.  I
: don't have time to check the USENET, now that I'll be getting an
: "Action Log." :-)

  "I am Ole, your are Sven" is from the Flinstones, on episode
where Wilma let a swedish? band stay at there house for a few
extra bucks.  I couldn't remeber either until you mentioned it!
It was driving me CrAZy!  :)

sagan@netcom.com 
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_-_-   Mike May             |  "Now, it's either I'm dead and I haven't -_-_
       sagan@netcom.com  OR |   done anything that I want, or I'm still
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From: 126580828@ucis.vill.edu (Matador of M83)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: closing
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:30:00 GMT
Organization: Villanova University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

Hey Guys!

I missed the last episode!!! I know, I am a bloated sack!  I understand that 
there was a new voice for Ren at the closing!!! Was the closing new as well???
If so, can someone please email me or post the dialouge from it? If it was an 
old one, please tell me which one! OH PLEEEAAZE!

The Matador of M83
Villanova University
Site of VOTE! '92
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: donnell@starfish.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: New adventures of Mighty Mouse
Keywords: on fox
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:23:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.182240.3092@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards) writes:
>
>Has anyone heard a definite start date and time for the New Adventures of
>Mighty Mouse on FOX?
>
>-- 
>8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888
>88  Barth Richards                  "Language is a virus from outer space."  88
>88  att!ihlpf!barth                           - William S. Burroughs         88
>8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888



Of Course not. Fox likes to keep their
viewers in the dark until the last minute, much as they did with the showings
of "George Of The Jungle". They must want us to start watching at 6:30, and
stay glued to the set until they finally show it. If it is not  in the new
TV guide, <which is quite possible>, we will probably have to do just that.
Pax
					--Judex--
From: miket@astro.umd.edu (Mike Tripicco)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: Sven Hoek censored?
Keywords: sven, censorship
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:53:19 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland @ College Park, Astronomy Dep't

In article <1992Nov8.134515.21160@wam.umd.edu> jengagne@wam.umd.edu (Jenny Lynne Gagne) writes:
>
>(BTW - who else here thought that the live-action accordian bit in the
>beginning could have been done without?)
>
Me. However, I'm guessing (as someone else said, I think) that it was a
last-second replacement for the original credits due to all the legal
stuff.  But I came *that* close to hitting the "pause" on my VCR remote
thinking that it was a commercial stuck in after the opening titles of
the show.  Luckily I found the patience to wait it out... ;-}
>
>I was a bit surprised too that so much of Sven Hoek managed to be aired. I
>guess Nick is getting some backbone at exactly the wrong time.
>
Yup.
-- 
====================================================================
 Mike Tripicco   Astronomy Dep't, UMD, College Park MD 20742
    (301) 405-1548, 604-3814         Internet: miket@astro.umd.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: Sven Hoek = God
From: ngsippel@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:42:38 EDT
Organization: Watch Ren And Stimpy or Else!

In article <92312.215136EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu>, EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto) writes:
> In article <92312.213306TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu>, Sime <TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>>
>>Can you believe they got away with that episode???
>>That was GREAT!
>>I'll bet it goes the way of PTM and is never shown again...I'm glad I got it
>>on tape.
>>Ren's new voice, at the end (what do we do segment) will take some getting
>>used to I'm sure.
> 
> It certainly will.  You could clearly tell where John K had done his
> animation, and where the new animation was doe.  Still, I actually laughed
> heartily at this one.  I don't think R&S are going to go the way of the
> dinosaur droppings anymore.  If any of the others are like this, I'll be
> enjoying them just as much as the old ones.
> 
>>It's about time we got a new episode, and I wasn't disappointed.
> 
> This bris up a question.  The new animation in this episode looked just like
> the animation for the other episodes of the new season.  So who was actually
> doing those episodes, then?  I have a hard time believing John K did "Rubber
> Nipples."
> 
>>Best line:  Ren- But first, I gotta take a whiz!
> 
> The entire scene where Ren loses it is a classic!
> My favorite line: "Yeah....you're scared, huh?"  --Ren as he confronts
>                                                    Stimpy and Sven.

My fav line (which they cut out) was where Ren blows up and says,
"I'm gonna GOUGE your eyes out!"  He gives a real evil look.

Joy!

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     / / \/ \  \  / Happy! Happy! \      
    /__|O||O|__ \ \   Joy! Joy!   / 
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    |          ||\   Norman Sippel
     \        //_/   alias Norman "Muddy" Stimpy
      \______//      
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From: whoward@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Will Howard)
Subject: Re: Are Ren and Stimpy Homosexuals?
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:24:09 GMT

In article <BxKHzB.Frp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jpeg8496@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey P.
Elbel) writes:
>My impression is that cartoon characters of this nature
>are generally sexually ambiguous, or asexual.
>
>How about Bugs Bunny in drag?  Yow, what a looker!
>

I think the great thing about cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Ren&Stimpy etc. is that
they can poke fun at sexual situations because of their ambiguity. Having said
that there are some Ren&Stimpy scenes  that suggest characters' sexuality: like
Ren thinking he sees a female chihuahua outside the tent in Marooned ("Baby, I
loove you"), or Stimpy's poolside admirers in "The Big Shot" (granted this
doesn't necessarily say anything about Stimpy, just the women).On the other
hand R&S sleep in the same bed, in the "bedtime story" episodes and in
"Stimpy's Big Day," and nobody's so far said they were gay. I think it's kind
of a non-issue, but I wonder how censors percieve this stuff.
From: kipilman@cats.ucsc.edu (Lou Kipilman)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Rubber Nipple Salesman?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 22:33:27 GMT
Organization: Team Slack
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


	I'm afraid I've never seen nor heard of this cartoon.  If someone
could briefly post or e-mail me with the specifics of it (i.e. has it aired,
what cartoon(s) is it coupled with), I'd really appreciate it.

-- 
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| Lou Kipilman - University of California, Santa Cruz    TEAM SLACK       |
| kipilman@cats.ucsc.edu  or  kipilman@cats.bitnet                        |
|                                                                         |
| "I, Powdered Toast Man, do solemnly swear to relieve the American       |
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From: eric@soda.berkeley.edu (Eric van Bezooijen)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: Ren&Stimpy in your very own home!
Date: 10 Nov 1992 07:44:29 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.32.149.19

In article <92308.141929AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET> AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>Wow, check on the price of these stuffed Ren & Stimpy guys... I want a set! :-)

At Berkeley Beach in Berkeley, California, they are selling for:
	Ren: $20.00
	Stimpy: $25.00

(Prices are $US and approximate)


-- 
"And do you know what's inside?  A priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiize!" - Stimpy
"You gave away ... FORTY-SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS?" - Ren Hoek
Ren and Stimpy and Ren and Stimpy and Ren and Stimpy and more Ren and Stimpy
Eric van Bezooijen - eric@soda.berkeley.edu
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From: egp41980@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M)
Subject: New adventures of Mighty Mouse
Summary: saturday
Keywords: on fox
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:17:11 GMT

Fox mentioned today at the end of one of their shows that Mighty Mouse: the new
Adventures would be on Saturday. Is this the same one made by John K a few 
years back on CBS?


-- 
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Subject: Re: Are Ren and Stimpy Homosexuals?
From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:17:03 GMT
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us

In <BxIvx9.HFw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jpm56290@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Duner) writes:
>I heard from a friend that they are gay.

They are cartoon characters, drawn by someone who wants to make as many people
uncomfortable as possible.  Game, set, and match to John K.

>She said that in an interview with their creator (John K. I guess), he said he
>wanted to make them homosexuals.  Asked for what interview and she couldn't
>remember, but she remembered the homo part.  

Maybe a few hundred people will quote the actual interview, but your friend
should invest in some memory courses, or possibly reading comprehension courses.
John K. said that a lot of homosexuals think R&S are gay, and he enjoys
stringing them along.  I'll bet he also enjoys making fundamentalists uptight
over whether or not they are gay.

> Some stuff that doesn't support this, is in _Marooned_.  Where Ren is hugging
> and alien saying, "I love you" and Stimpy screams in that "what a babe" kind
> of scream.

Stimpy sees a bag of kitty litter.  What does this say of his sexuality?

They're cartoon characters!  Not flesh and blood, like we are!  They're...
puppets!
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: My favorite quote...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:07:26 GMT

blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

>I use the quote from the Yak Shaving day, as the Yak is considering his
>bearded face. The 'Whoa! Hmmm. Ahh!'
>I use that a lot when considering something.

All the "Ahhhh!"s on R&S are terrific: 

1.  The Shaven Yak (or Shavin' Yak) in the bathroom.
2.  The Frilled Ren cooling off his feet.
3.  Stimpy working on the Happy Helmet in his lab.


                       --Steve Stelter
                         sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: johnsonchris@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: R&S: Homosexuals?
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:31:26 CDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

In article <1992Nov11.015421.19840@Princeton.EDU>, ajackson@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew William Jackson) writes:
> In article <1992Nov11.013723.18042@Princeton.EDU> datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper) writes:
>>	I don't suppose it's dawned on anybody yet, so I'll state what
>>should be obvious: Ren & Stimpy (well, Stimpy anyway, as this thread has
>>mostly focused on him) are _bisexual_.
>>
>>	Face it, Stimpy had his fling with Sven, cavorted with Hollywood
>>bimbos in his kitty-litter pool... Who ever said they had to be gay or
>>straight, but not both? As for Ren... hmmmm. I don't have any tapes, so
>>I can't go back and give some examples for him. However, I'm sure some
>>kind soul out there will help me out.
>>
>>David A. Tepper
>>"What'll I do till next time?"
>>-- 
> 
> It seems quite obvious to me that both Ren and Stimpy are asexual.  
> Why is it that since two guys love each other everyone thinks 
> they are homos?
> 
> ajackson@ernie.princeton.edu
> 
  Ceeer-ipes!  Their cartoons for christ sake.  Cartoons are certainlly 
rotting your minds.  No one ever said, "Well, Bugs dresses in in women's 
clothes and kisses men, so he must be a transvestite-homosexual."  Their 
cartoons, cartoon characters live together, no matter their sex.  It's part 
of the cartoon law, just like all american cartoon characters must have 
only three fingers and an opposable thumb.
 
  Just watch the show, don't anylize it to death.

--CLJ
From the (Tooth) Beaver Cave VAX Lab
Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: NEED REN & STIMPY COMIC #1????
Keywords: ARE YOU LOOKING FOR R&S #1???
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:12:52 GMT

In article <BxDDxA.H14@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jdrapa@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (VOTE STIMPY!!!!!!) writes:
>Marvel Comic Books' REN AND STIMPY comic book #1 sold out instantly!
>
>But if you're looking for some to buy for your collection, you can
>still get them!!!
>
>If any of you die-hard Ren & Stimpy fans are looking to get your hands
>on some of these priceless works of art, I can help you out...

I don't want to impede the flow of market forces and capitalism here,
but I had some luck finding R&S #1 at non-comic book stores - regular
book and drug stores, for instance. You know, all those places that 
have comics dating back to the Jimmy Carter administration. I picked
up two copies just last week, so it may not still be too late.
-- 
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                           | Support the coup!
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From: torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair)
Subject: Re: Ren & Stimpy in your very own home!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:29:30 GMT

jrs@netcom.com  writes:
> Ren and Stimpy the Comic Book #2 is out and it's great! Buy it and learn
> about the Beaver Fairy, about the Fur Club for Dogs, about Frankenstimpy,
> and how comic books are really made! Great stuff!

	And for you depraved souls who do not live near a comic book store, 
R & S #1 is now available at your favorite neighborhood newsstand!
	
Torsten at Omaha
From: squippy@redorc.chi.il.us (Sean Courtney)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Subject: Re: R&S GIF PIX
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:57:16 GMT
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

>Ok first, to the above.... OH YEEEEES... you gotta get many of those R&S
>gifs up on FTP.  I would just love it...
>
>Second... you don't know how it joys me to find this base here.  I am from
>ontario Canada and we have now had a total of 9 episodes aired... (what a
>coincidence, i have 9 episodes on tape 8-)   R&S is on in Canada only on
>Much Music on thursdays (12:30 and 8:30) They play 2 back to back episodes
>with no putting up thier logos (i've read that this is a problem with other
>networks) but they have a commercial in each one....
>
>Third.... Anyone willing to mail a VCR tape to Canada? (i don't want to wait
>for the episodes that have not been air'd yet.)
>
>
>I'll be singing HAPPY HAPPY, JOY, JOY, all day now that iv'e found this
>group because..... "You are not like the others.... you like the same things
>i do...."
>
>Keith

First, what does "FTP" mean?  And, like I said, I'll upload it as soon as I
download it!

I'm not much of a GIF fan.  I have a Commodore, and a GIF viewer for my
Commy....it takes forever to read a gif, and all it is is a picture you look at
while picking your butt or something....but if I find something that I might
like, I'll download it...
Made a bad choice....Time Vortex had a Sgt. Pepper GIF...really sucked..
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From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: Recycled cartoons
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:56:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.141513.23638@davidge.com> rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.064932.5183@news.unomaha.edu> weiss@cwis.unomaha.edu (R. Jason Weiss) writes:
>>I was wondering if I was the only one who watched Mighty Mouse the New
>>Adventures, back when.  I stopped when I saw one they cobbled together
>>entirely out of clips from previous New Adventures.
>>
>>...Jay
>>
>>-- 
>>weiss@cwis.unomaha.edu
>
>I too was a fan of the new Mighty Mouse (+ Pee Wee's Playhouse, back-to-back.)
>In particular, the Tree Weasels episode.  When I first saw R&S, my immediate 
>thought was that this must be done by the same demented mind that did MM!
>
>Unfortunately, MM suffered much the same fate as R&S.  It was a good thing
>I liked the Tree Weasels episode, because they showed it every other week!
>
>
>Robert
>-- 
>Robert Cianchette, Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC | rmc@davidge.com
>-------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Every other week? I taped it every week for quite a while and I only got 
the Tree weasels episode twice.
And there are quite a fewe more of the MM-TNA than there are of 
RNS. I have 24 or so shows, and I am still short episodes.
but the pressure to crank out that many is probably why there is so 
much recycling in MM-TNA, far more than RNS.
Pax
				--Judex--

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From: bellaire@cs.tulane.edu (TV's Steve)
Subject: Re: New adventures of Mighty Mouse
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-25563]: babylon
Keywords: on fox
Organization: Gizmonic Institute
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:24:29 GMT


In article <BxHFx1.KE4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, egp41980@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M) writes:
> Fox mentioned today at the end of one of their shows that Mighty Mouse: the new
> Adventures would be on Saturday. Is this the same one made by John K a few 
> years back on CBS?

The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse was done by Ralph Bashki, but I guess John K
could have been involved, do you know something I don't know?  I hope this 
series reruns the Bashki episodes, there were good!

-- 
Pour me a cab, I just can't drink no more.     |         St. Steve
				--Tom Waits    |   bellaire@cs.tulane.edu
					       |
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From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Subject: Re: Episode order
Reply-To: mckelvey@fafnir.com
Organization: Fafnir Software, Saugus, CA, USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:16:37 GMT

In article <40504@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> dlou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
> 
> Is there a proper order for all the episodes?  It would seem to make
> sense that Fire Dogs comes after Big House Blues since both make
> reference to "...my foist material possession!".
> 
> If nothing else, in what order were all the episodes aired?
> 

Or do you mean "in what order were all the episodes created" ?  The difference  
might be substantial, as the network programmers decide what airs and when.   
That might have nothing to do with when they were made.  Does anyone have info  
as to the cartoon creation dates?  (I know that this can be complicated: when  
it was started; when it was finished; when it was conceived; etc.  Let's do the  
best we can ...).
-- 
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in
accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct
in the world. - Sigmund Freud
Jim McKelvey                      mckelvey@fafnir.com
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From: novick@spot.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Novick)
Subject: Re: new products
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:33:45 GMT

blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

>BOOTLEGGED ITEMS ARE ILLEGAL.
>REN AND STIMPY ARE COPYRIGHTED CHARACTERS.
>YOU ARE STEALING, ANDREW.

I suppose you have never taped an album from someone either, right?
Or videotaped a movie?

>Damn right I'm upset. The artist may end up with a small royalty from sales,
>but you are greedy enough to even rip off that small portion from them, in
>order to make a cheap buck.

I'm trying to provide Ren & Stimpy fans with products they might
not be able to get - and at lower prices than they might pay.
I won't make much money from this - only enough to send out the
items, get the items for myself, and order the next batch of stuff.
Nick doesn't even make coffee mugs or bumper stickers or Mr. Horse
shirts, so how can you say I'm ripping them off?
I'm promoting the show for Pete's sake.

>Remember- somebody had to >WORK< to create those images you are stealing.

I have to WORK to provide these items for fellow fans, and if I
charged for my time, the prices would have to be higher.

>PROTECT THE ARTISTS RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY FROM THEIR CREATIONS

Most artists don't make ANY money from their creations - and it's 
not MY fault.  Most artists are not in it for the money, if they
were, they would have quit a long time ago.  Enough said.