Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Josh Weinstein/Simpson mystery
From: jenkins@local.host
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:20:29 -0600
Reply-To: jenkins@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
Organization: Organization, City, State, etc.


Here's the original posting which started it all:

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons,alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Josh Weinstein On Simpsons?
From: Windsor A. Morgan <NHT@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:39:35 EDT

Pardon me if I'm hopelessly late with this news, but I saw the name
"Josh Weinstein" as a story editor on the 8-27-92 U.S. broadcast of
"The Simpsons".  Is this the same Weinstein who used to be on the
creative staff of Mystery Science Theatre 3000?

'Verily, there be no leader as wise as the Vision!'
                         Windsor Morgan (wmorgan@stsci.edu OR NHT@PSUVM.BITNET)
                         Space Telescope Science Institute
                         Baltimore, MD   21218
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And here's what came back (they didn't get cross-posted because the people
didn't "reply" to the article, they simply answered it):

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: followup on Mystery Science Fiction Theater 3000 questions
From: dhyatt@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hyatt)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 19:53:37 GMT


No, the Simpsons' Josh Weinstein is not MSFT3K's Josh Weinstein.


(Damn!  I lost 5 bucks!)

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: True Facts about Weinstein. And more!
From: mirsky1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mirsky)
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:09:41 EDT

I sent some posts from the past few days to Bill Oakley and 
Josh Weinstein. They wanted me to clear up a few misconceptions.

1. Josh is not the same Josh Weinstein who wrote for Mystery
   Science Theater 3000. (I assume he is telling the truth)
 
2. Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein did not write last weeks episode.
   It was just the first week in which their names appeared on the
   credits. (You can confirm this by scanning the credits of all the
   previous episodes and then comparing them with last week's credits).

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Well, that clears that up.  Weinstein *is* a widely-used name, and so
is Josh.  I've heard of a number of other people named Lisa Jenkins as
well, so it's not improbable.

Of course, we were then left to ponder this:

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: followup on Mystery Science Fiction Theater 3000 questions
From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:52:46 GMT

dhyatt@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hyatt) wrote:
>No, the Simpsons' Josh Weinstein is not MSFT3K's Josh Weinstein.

What in the hell is MSFT3K? There is an MST 3K on Comedy Central, but I've
never heard "Fiction" ever inserted in the title.

Tom

voice: "But then Kay came up with that all important question..."
Joel: "How do pop tarts work?"
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Wow!  Make a long name even longer!


Lisa                         Jenkins@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
1603 Thirteenth Street South
Moorhead, Minnesota 56560-3734

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