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From: margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Question for the gals concerning hunks o' burnin' luv
Summary: how about...
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:46:09 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv


These are my fond hunk memories:

First, and foremost, Jon-Erik Hexum of Voyagers!

John J. York (Jon-Erik lookalike) from Werewolf (was on Fox)

Ron Ely from Tarzan (many many many moons ago)

Lee Horsely -Matt Houston, that western that died, Paradise?

James McNaughton -Planet of the Apes tv series

Tom Wopat -Dukes of Hazards

Josh Taylor -Kris Kosichek from Days of Our Lives, the dad on that show
	with Jason Bateman, Sandy Duncan...

Duncan Regher -Prince Dirk Blackpool, V, Zorro

Marc Singer -PBS Taming of the Shrew, V, etc... except for that episode
	on Highlander recently, that was awful!

This is my list.  The ones, at least, that come quickly to memory.
I didn't put in ones that were mentioned in the posting that I first
saw this thread.  Ah, Dirk... my first poster pin-up!

margaret
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From: smay@boi.hp.com (Scott Smay)
Subject: Re: NEXP: Sentence?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:35:43 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Mikemoe (millerm@oakhill.sps.mot.com) wrote:
: I missed a few key words in what the judge ruled. Could 
: someone please explain what the ramifications are of
: the ruling?
: 
:
Chris is not to be extradited for three years, at which point he is to be 
turned over to WV authorities IF THEY CHOOSE TO COME AND GET HIM.

scott 
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From: jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu (John Sloan
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:21:02 GMT

From article <1992Dec11.190200.13202@sco.com>, by stevegz@sco.COM (Steve Gzesh):
	:
> asked me to wrap a gift "just like they do on TV".  It took forever to
> wrap that dammed box!  :-)
	:

That's because you didn't have the special spray-paint special effects
departments use for stuff like this. It comes out looking like wrapping
paper right out of the can. You can also get polka-dot spray paint, plaid
spray paint, etc. The original technology was developed by the military
to pain camo patterns on tanks, HUMMVs, and such.

;-)

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From: sasse@netcom.com (Ellen Sasse)
Subject: Faith Daniels - the *WORST* talk show hostess
Organization: Netcom
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:59:44 GMT

jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes about Jenny Jones:

> Jenny Jones has got to be the biggest ignoramus in TV talk show  
> history.  She never listens to her guests (...)

> Jones repeatedly tries to find something to make her show seem more  
> "juicy" (more scandalous, more out of the ordinary, more unique) than  
> it is. (...)

> Finally, she also never has conversations with her panel members, she  
> talks at them and never allows them to complete most of their sentences  
> before firing some thoughtless question or comment at them (...)

I don't watch the Jenny Jones show all that often, but I do like her.
If I saw the show more often perhaps I would feel the same way, but
when I checked it out at the beginning I liked it. I just don't watch
it very often.

What I find ironic, is that your complaints are specifically why I always
abhorred Faith Daniels. I always found FD to be the most shallow,
self-involved, egotistical fakeynewsperson and talk show host I have ever seen.
She makes Geraldo Rivera look humble.

Is there anyone else who finds Faith Daniels to be among the most annoying
shallow people to be given a show?? IS anyone else amazed that *she's* been
around so long??!!

Ellen
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From: wcsanil@superior.carleton.ca (Anil Prasad)
Subject: Re: Faith Daniels - the *BEST* talk show hostess
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:17:17 GMT

The best talk show hostess or the best-looking talk show hostess?

:)

Sorry, couldn't help that one!!!

Anil Prasad
wcsanil@ccs.carleton.ca
From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:05:47 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <BzD2vs.G1C@cck.coventry.ac.uk>, mei172@cch.coventry.ac.uk (guru) wri
tes:
>In article <BzBrCn.D50@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna C
onstantine) writes:
>>
>>No, THIS is MacGyver's Law:
>>
>>Duck tape is like the Force; It has a Dark Side, and a Light Side,
>>and holds the Universe together.
>
>guru sez:
>       that's DUCT tape.....

No, it is Duck Tape, that is why you never hear ducks quacking on TV and why
they never run around the shows, they are attached to each other and taped
around the mouth with DUCK tape, don't laugh, duck infestation destroyed many
a good TV studio.  Conversly however, Duck sauce is neither made of Duck nor
particularly effective as a condiment for Duck.  BTW Wasn't McGyver's law that
given enough time, a piece of paper, an empty oil drum, a wad of chewing gum
and three wooden nickles, even the average man can produce a passable weapon,
means of transportation or nuclear power plant.


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From: peac@boo.sybase.com (Jeff Peacock)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: obnoxious PUBLIC television
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:13:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.014055.27339@gallant.apple.com>, unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
|> In article <Bz0IuM.CKB@ns1.nodak.edu> Justin J. Clark, jclark@plains.NoDak.edu
|> writes:
|> >I believe those short commercials are probably the spots saying that:
|> >"Funding for this program was made possible by grants from ______"
|> >(fill in the blank with any company)  These are shown at the beginning and
|> >ends of several shows and are getting a little too close to looking like
|> >commercials all the time IMO.
|> ....
|> >Why don't they just show commercials?  Because they are not allowed by
|> >federal law to show commercials, that's why.  That's why those spots
|> 
|> Actually, I did see the exact same commercials you see on commercial TV on at
|> least one PBS station a few years ago. It was KCSM channel 60 in San Mateo
|> I'm 
|> fairly certain.

FYI, About 10 years ago the FCC decided to give Public stations permission to
air commercials.  I don't know if they're changed their minds since, but I do
know that many stations had some vigorous discussions about this.  It was a
powerful temptation since they're chronically short of money, but even those
who thought they ought to air commercials seemed to feel it was a bad idea. 
But not as bad as going under.  In the end we seem to have ended up with more
commercial-like messages on many stations, but few actual commercials.  I think
of it as a triumph of ideals over greed.

-Jeff
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From: jenkirtl@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Jennifer Kirtley)
Subject: Re: QL: PAIN!!! AAIIIEE!!!
Keywords: oh no nonononon!!!
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:28:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.230716.28318@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> ack@coos.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes:
>Definition of depression: After having my VCR tape every single repeat off of
>USA Cable every night for 3-4 months finally (FINALLY) getting a complete set
>of Quantum Leap episodes (I had the few they accidently missed already) and
>feeling glad that I could free myself from my weekly slavery of feeding my
>VCR a new tape.... sigh. I went to watch the one Ren and Stimpy episode I was
>also trying desperately to get on tape (it was on a tape with 5 Leaps) when
>my VCR ATE THE $*#&$ TAPE!!!! Chomp.
>
>No more tape.
>
>VCR in repair shop.
>
>Just TWO DAYS after taping the last episode.
>
>-A


Um, I don't suppose that tape had any of the "cursed" episodes, did
it?  Y'know, more than one of those on any single tape is surely
asking for a VCR meltdown! :)

Good luck with the machine, and catching the episodes you 
need (again).

  -Jenni

"Theorizing that one could travel through Boston on the MBTA,
Dr. Sam Beckett stepped onto the Green Line...and vanished!
Trapped on the `T', Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from
station to station, using `T' Passes that are not his own...
His only companion is Al, a `B' line car that only Sam can
see and ride..."
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From: roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper)
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:12:09 GMT

<1992Dec12.210015.27399@microsoft.com>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
 
In article <1992Dec12.210015.27399@microsoft.com> raymondc@microsoft.com
(Raymond Chen) writes:
>Things that I've learned:
>
>* Someday, you will meet another person who looks exactly like you.
>  (The two of you need not be related.)
>
Actually, about ten years ago, I had just wandered into Marcon (a
science-fiction convention in Columbus, Ohio) when an attractive
young woman in a karate-type costume walked up to me and said,
"I really enjoyed your sword-fighting demonstration."
 
Being extremely clever, I said, "Excuse me?"
 
"The demo you gave earlier this afternoon."
 
Now, I hadn't even arrived at the con by then, and I have never in my life
given a sword-fighting demo.  "I think you may have mistaken me for
someone else."
 
"Really?  Gee, you look just like him."  And off she went.
 
I always knew I was living in a situation comedy.  Or maybe a soap
opera...
-- 
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From: tchambers@TrentU.CA (panda's bear)
Subject: Re: TV Crushes
Reply-To: tchambers@TrentU.CA
Organization: Trent University, Peterborough
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:52:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.181731.1732@netcom.com>, jwells@netcom.com (Court Jester)
writes:
>tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes:
>(in "Question for the gals concerning hunks o' burnin' luv"):
>
>Well, although my TV star crush isn't a man, I can't help but to jump in
>anyways.

Ditto!

My TV crush was on Alyssa Milano of Who's The Boss? ...  She was so HOT 
back in the late '80s!  :-)  She still is I guess!

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From: Dale@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Dale Gee)
Subject: Re: Where is Lake Edna? (KFC)
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:26:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.162635.1444@sequent.com> dog@sequent.com (Paul Parenteau) writes:
>You know how Paul Simon says he doesn't know why but he must go to
>Graceland?
>
>Well, for some strange reason I want to visit the Lake Edna KFC that has
>been featured over the past few months in KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) tv
>ads.
>
>Does anyone know if Lake Edna really exists?  Where is it?  Inquiring minds
>want to know.



As they say in New England "You can't get there from here"
I ran the name through the Univeristy of Michigan Geographic Name Server.
According to that it dosn't exist.  I have had good luck with the server
in the past so I woud say it's correct.

Sorry to disapoint you. Maybe you could find some other tv location to 
travel to.
From: giordano@andromeda.rutgers.edu (E. Giordano)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Lawrence Pressman
Date: 17 Dec 92 04:09:11 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Can anyone tell me what TV show Larry Pressman
used to be in?
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From: buc@world.std.com (Quantum Buc)
Subject: Re: Enough of the QL stuff
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:03:48 GMT

jenkins@local.host (Lisa Jenkins) writes:

> In article <BzAzGn.D7r@world.std.com>, buc@world.std.com (Quantum Buc) writes:

> >There's entirely TOO MUCH Tv-related posting going on here!
> >Everyone knows that TV stuff belongs only in alt groups, not in the rec
> >hierarchy.  Now, let's cut that out!!!

> Uh, this is rec.arts.tv.  What are we supposed to talk about?

How does I reply?  Pick and choose:

1) I collapse into a fetal position, and get taken away
2) Quote Foghorn Leghorn : "It's a joke, son, a JOKE! <smack to the head>
   ("Son, being gender free, of course)
3) Quote Mork:  "Humor. Ar Ar."
4) Give up and drop the subject.  Allow somebody else to explain the subtle
   humor I weas attempting.

I choose 4!!!

Adios!

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From: rsato@EBay.Sun.COM
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Date: 12 Dec 1992 07:02:36 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rsato@EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: simpsons.ebay.sun.com

> This sounds like an interesting topic ... anyone else have any others?
> What valuable lessons do we learn from watching TV? 

When someone is given a drug via a hypodermic needle, the effect starts to
kick in almost immediately... sometimes while the plunger is still going 
down!!


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From: spady@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Robyn Spady)
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Organization: Boeing
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:28:19 GMT

>> What valuable lessons do we learn from watching TV?
>
>Everyone on TV is good looking. (except in those Little Caesar ads)
 ^^^^^^^^
EVERYONE?????

You would have a difficult time convincing me that anyone on _Roseanne_ is even
average looking.

I also think there's some real bow-wows on daytime television . . . Anthony
Geary? Oh please!

Oprah's secret is to have a crew available to put her hair together and do her
make-up . . .Other than that, she's a pig!

There are many people on tv that are average (or below average) in appearance.

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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Re: Angel voices on 90210
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:52:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

hphri@usho26.hou281.chevron.com (P.H.Rice) wrote in
<1992Dec17.153152.510@nntpserver.chevron.com>:

| What are the names of the people who played the voices of the angels on
| Beverly Hills 90210?  Thanks.

Their names were in the opening credits: Robert Costanza as Clarence and
Bonnie Urseth as Miriam.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
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From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: BOB/MAD ABOUT YOU (was LOVE AND WAR)
Summary: Norm Peterson's secy
Date: 18 Dec 92 14:17:29 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <BzG7x4.BAt@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:
> In article <BzFCCp.Gn5@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>, spady@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Robyn Spady) writes...
> >Seeing the subject LOVE AND WAR reminded me of something my husband said to
> >me the other night that I believe is incorrect . . . 
> > 
> >My husband says that Helen Hunt played Norm Peterson's secretary on CHEERS.  I
> >sure don't remember that . . . if he's right . . . which I don't think he is.
> 
>      Get on the right thread!  This is about LOVE AND WAR not MAD ABOUT YOU!
>      I'm not sure either, incidentally, but I don't think that was
>      Helen Hunt who played Norm's secretary...

The daughter (Cynthia Stevenson?) on BOB played the secretary on
Cheers.

marc colten
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From: hoahosth@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (ANDREA HOSTH)
Subject: Thaao Penghlis
Organization: Halls of Residence, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:16:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.191159.28757@novell.com> mlinda@novell.com (M'Linda Taylor) writes:
>From: mlinda@novell.com (M'Linda Taylor)
>>>[.....]
>>>Other crushes:  Thaao Penghlis (MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE, General Hospital, and
>>>                              now Santa Barbara)
>>
>>Ooh yes ooh yes!  How could I have forgotten about HIM?!
>>
>>What nationality is he, anyway?

>Greek.  I saw him on a Talk show some years ago and he believes
>in arranged marriages and fully expects his family to select his
>wife.  

Australian, actually. Greek blood.
From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: energizer bunny's resume
Date: 20 Dec 92 02:53:38 EST
Reply-To: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Executive Networks Information

Quoth Dwt regarding ENERGIZER BUNNY'S RESUME on 12-18-92:

D >jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates) wrote in
D ><2018@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>:
D >| There's an irregularity commercial spoof that the Bunny crashes.
D >
D >I've never seen that one, though Firmatene was just the opposite: an
D >anti-diarrheal.  If you can remember the name of the product, email me
D >or post again.

This one would give a whole new meaning to the phrase, "It just keeps 
going, and going, and going..."

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From: indy@immacc.prepnet.com (Dave Tartaglia)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: David Ring Gospel Hour
Date: 15 Dec 1992 13:22:08 -0600
Organization: 'Immaculata College, PA '
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


I am looking for the address and/or phone number of a televangelist named
David Ring. I believe that his show is called the "David Ring Gospel Hour,"
and appears on stations in the southeastern US.

If anyone knows of this program or even what television stations it airs on
please email me.

He is currently running ads selling something or other and inadvertently
using my company's toll-free long distance line, so I am paying the charges!
Unfortunately, none of the callers has been able or willing to provide 
information as to where they saw the show.  

Thanks for you help.
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From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: News Flash!
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:40:41 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <Bz0H35.EuA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <Bz1423.EI0@world.std.com>
  <Dec.10.14.17.17.1992.8071@pilot.njin.net>

>> Were you really that annoyed that you missed one day's worth of "Another
>> World" when Reagan was shot?
>
>When I was in school, I was shocked. It was very important news. When
>I got home, and saw the coverage, I could only say 'How many times
>will they repeat 'we have nothing new but let's see it again'.

   I'll never forget that day. It was just after 2:00pm and I'd just
   gotten home from school when the ABC anchor (Frank Reynolds, pre-
   Peter Jennings) came on and announced that the President had been
   shot. They didn't have that famous video clip right away, either.
   It was some time (within the hour, I think) before they started to
   show the image of Reagan being shoved into the limo and everyone
   hitting the ground. I also remember Reynolds hearing a report
   from off-screen, obviously telling him that Reagan was dead, but
   wisely refusing to air that rumor.

   It is in this arena that TV News Special Reports excel. They bring
   the country together for truly important events. However, the
   pointless coverage of Somalia was in no way, shape, or form, Special
   Report material. It has been a slow news period since the election,
   and our friends in the media went entirely overboard.
   
>I think I would be happy with a dateline across the bottom of the
>screen every few minutes saying what happened and a message that they
>will show more footage/info later... With perhaps a break if there is
>some major new development.
>
>> Anyway, if you need a QL fix, that's what USA at 7:00 is for. :)

  Except that USA failed to broadcast "Temptation Eyes", and it was
  "Temptation Eyes" that NBC cut into to show us a bunch of helicopters
  flying around.
  
  -Brian
From: 9073hammesm@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:33:21 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: 9073hammesm@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

>>> This sounds like an interesting topic ... anyone else have any others?
>>> What valuable lessons do we learn from watching TV?
>>> 
>>

No one on TV ever has to look up a phone number.

When two guys are fighting, the woman is somehow rooted to her spot
and can never pick up anything to help the good guy.

Mary H.
From: wdw@sybase.com (Wayne Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Is Super Dave really Bob Epstein?
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:27:20 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

In article <10189@pyrdc.UUCP> mike@pyrdc.UUCP (Mike Whitman) writes:
>I was watching a special on Steve Martin last night and they interviewed Bob
>Epstein as a co-writter on the Smothers Brothers Show. I think he is Super
>Dave Osborne. Does anyone know for sure? 
>
>-- mike --
>

That's him all right. In fact, longtime Smothers Brothers fans
may remember him as "Officer Judy", the deadpan motorcycle
cop who occasionally stopped the brothers during their
routines and questioned them. This was on their CBS show
of the late Sixties.


Wayne
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From: holliman@sounder.csc.ti.com (Ed Holliman)
Subject: Re: Slight time goof in QL:  Promised Land (no real spoilers)
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:07:34 GMT

In article <BzGr5M.5zs@encore.com> jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich) writes:

   In article <BzG4Bu.2vG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cad28526@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
   (Chuck Douglas) writes:
   > The episode takes place on December 22, 1971.  When the sheriff calls
   > over to the bank to talk to them, the show a push button phone ringing
   > in the bank that Sam goes to answer.  According to my roommate, who used
   > to work for a phone company, said that push button phones were not
   > introduced until 1975!  Oops.  :-)  Oh well...No big deal.

     I think your friend is wrong.  I moved to Florida in 1974,
     and the first phone I got was a push button.  I remember
     thinking how cool it was (though not the extra monthly fee
     for having one).

   jan

I know that I had one about 1972; in Mississippi, no less.

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