HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ft@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Frances Teagle)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: accents
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:44:32 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Sep8.163515.1664@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:

> Does anyone know what accent the
>actor (sorry, brand-new fan; don't know his name; either Craig something
>or Chris something)

CRAIG CHARLES

> who plays Lister is using? (Is it his own?) In the 
>episode with the anti-crime planet he refers to being from, or having 
>committed crimes in, Liverpool...but as a serious Beatles fan, I'll be damned
>if that's a Liverpudlian accent. 

Liverpool it is.  My Scouse cousins complain bitterly that
Liverpudlians on tv use an exaggerated accent more akin to
Birkenhead accross the Mersey, so Lister's mild one sounds
right to me.  I believe he is a genuine Liverpudlian.

FT.
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From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Subject: Re: QUESTION
Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:48:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.130556.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
> I'm sure everybody appreciates your explaination of syndication but perhaps,
> you'd better explain the wonderful concept of cable.
> 
> -If you don't I will!!!!

  Heaven forbid!!

  Okay: Cable grew out of the minds of corporate executives that asked
themselves "Gee, having a commercial break every 10 minutes just isn't getting
us enough money" which was instantly responded to by an overzealous
moneygrubber, whose name is lost in the mists of credit grabbing.

  The idea was simple.  Not only would they continue presenting an almost
obscene level of advertising, but on top of that they would charge people to
watch it.  Since you can't keep people from watching something if it is broacast
over the air, cable TV was born.

  As an added bonus, some cable channels were scrambled, so even after paying a
monthly fee for commercial television, you still had to pay more to see anything
decent.  Kind of like taking the worst of PBS and Commercial broadcasting, and
putting it together in to one hideous lump.

  And yes, I _do_ get cable.

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From: mjb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (M.J.T. Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Scousers
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:51:58 GMT
Reply-To: mjb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

Further to the discussion on Listers accent -
If you want to know want scousers are really like: try and see
THE HARRY ENFIELD TELEVISION PROGRAMME - series 1 or 2
where there are several sketchs called 'THE SCOUSERS'
I supposed you will have to have watched 'Brookside' and 'Bread'
(a soap and a sitcom respectively) to truly appreciate 'The scousers'

HOW TO SPEAK SCOUSE - LESSON 1
==============================
Try saying - "Oh de do dough don't de dough !"
repeat repeatedly.
                                                         ______
                                        Later ...       /\__  _\
                                                       /  \_\ \ \
                                                      /  \ \___\_\
                                                      \ \ \/ __ //
                                                       \ \/ ___ /
                                                        \/_____/
      +-------------------------------+
     / The names Bell..  Mark Bell ! / \
    / but my friends just call me   /   +-----------------------------------+
   / m.bell@uk.ac.daresbury.gserv1 /   / "Eh up son, you'll never play for /
  +-------------------------------+   /    Yorkshire ! - no offence." -   /
 /                                 \ /George Whitebread aka Harry Enfield/
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
                                     \                                 /
                                      +-------------------------------+
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From: byrdie@milton.u.washington.edu (Renee Ann Byrd)
Subject: Re: Holly's IQ
Summary: 60?  6,000?  Who knows?
Keywords: Holly, IQ, "White Hole"
Organization: Jupiter Mining Corporation -- Scutter Maintenance
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:50:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.131006.4851@cs.nott.ac.uk> nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook) writes:
>Well, my scutters question was kind of answered, but I still want to
>know what happened to Holly's IQ. In the White Hole episode, they try to
>get Holly's IQ back up to its original 6000 or so, from the 60 (?) is was
>at the start of the episode. Have I missed something? What happened?
>
>Neil.

	Spoiler alert for "White Hole".



	The scheme to get to bring up Holly's IQ from 600 (I think) to
	6,000 was was shown to have a few glitches when Holly's IQ dipped
	to 60 before skyrocketing to oh, say, 60,000.  Since her IQ grew 
	exponentially, her life span shortened exponentially  (Kryten explained
	this while tinkering with Talkie Toaster).  With three minutes to live,
	she shuts herself off, and consequently shuts off almost the entire 
	ship.  The crew discovers mysterious time distortions, figures out 
	that they've been captured by a White Hole and are more or less on 
	their own to save themselves since Holly's not responding much.

	Once they DO escape the range of the White Hole, what's	happened 
	during the Hole's influence fades away -- including Holly's IQ changes.
	This is explained by Kryten towards the end of the episode.  Thus 
	she's back to 600 (or whatever it was).

					       -- Renee
From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:21:29 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <BuKHIK.7CK@acsu.buffalo.edu> v026ltr5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Monty) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.075949.1747@spider.co.uk>,
>andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes...
>>Trying to entertain some people is like pissing into the wind.
>
>How so?
>

Futile. God, do I have to explain everything I say and do you smeghead  ?

            Andy
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| Misplaced Yorkshireman |                                                   |
|   Spider Systems Ltd   |"No, what seperates us from the animals is that we |
|  andrewc@spider.co.uk  |don't clean our own genitals with our tongue"      |
From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
Date: 14 Sep 92 07:59:49 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <BuFs4M.Fu5@taligent.com> josh@taligent.com (Josh Goldenhar) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.081624.5811@spider.co.uk> Andrew Cannon,
>andrewc@spider.co.uk writes:
>>>
>>>.emit tsrif eht meht dessim i ;meht tsoper esaelp 'sdrawkcab'
>>>morf stpircs sdrawkcab eht detsop ohw nosrep eht dluoc
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.
>>
>
>Use a little imagination!  It's BACKWARDS!
>
>could the person who posted the backwards scripts from
>'backwards' please repost them; i missed then the first time.
>
>Just trying to help the poor huddled masses....
>Josh

Some people are just so stupid. Han'nt you seen the episode "Backwards" ?

Trying to entertain some people is like pissing into the wind.
-- 
|      Andy Cannon       |"Love is what seperates us from the animals"       |
| Misplaced Yorkshireman |                                                   |
|   Spider Systems Ltd   |"No, what seperates us from the animals is that we |
|  andrewc@spider.co.uk  |don't clean our own genitals with our tongue"      |
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From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:25:26 GMT

In article <BuFs4M.Fu5@taligent.com> Josh Goldenhar <josh@taligent.com> writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.081624.5811@spider.co.uk> Andrew Cannon,
>andrewc@spider.co.uk writes:
>>>
>>>.emit tsrif eht meht dessim i ;meht tsoper esaelp 'sdrawkcab'
>>>morf stpircs sdrawkcab eht detsop ohw nosrep eht dluoc
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.
>>
>
>Use a little imagination!  It's BACKWARDS!
>
>could the person who posted the backwards scripts from
>'backwards' please repost them; i missed then the first time.

.nairagluB dnatsrednu t'nac yllaer I ...hsilgnE kaeps I, yrroS

			   trebmaL yrreT
	moc.llevon.yawetag@trebmal_yrret
		  ude.rebew.suraci@yrret

								---
fo esoht ton dna nwo ym era gnitsop siht ni snoinipo ynA  :remilcsiD
				   .sreyolpme suoiverp ro tneserp ym
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From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: PBS explained to foreigners!
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:06:22 GMT

PBS is the Public Broadcasting Service. (or is it "System"?)  Before
the advent of cable, it was the "fourth American network", unique in
that it doesn't sell advertising.  The public stations get their money
from voluntary contributions from viewers, from producing programs and
selling them to other public stations, and from government grants.

---
I don't know what system you use,  you might try vodka in Evian bottles.   Some
people like  cream in  their morning coffee,  I spike  mine with  a little  JD.
Mickey's Big Mouths are an excellent choice, you can use the empty bottles as a
desktop vase.                               -Hoodlum Empire "Get Drunk At Work"
Richard Stueven        gak@wrs.com         attmail!gakhaus!gak        107/H/3&4

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From: mowen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Guinny)
Subject: Background Muzak
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 12:45:34 GMT

Just noticed last time I was watching series II : during
'Stasis Leak', when Lister and the cat are in the foyer
of the Ganymede Holiday Inn, the background music being
played in the hotel is none other than the tune of
'Tongue Tied', albeit played much slower and without
the singing.

Anyone else noticed this or any other tunes being re-used?

Guinny
--
Guinny the Undead  (Still walking but in need of a life) 

May your path lead to wisdom, and in wisdom, know ye peace
					A.J.Rimmer (sort of)
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From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender)
Subject: Re: Vindaloo (was Re: On Rationalizing Continuity)
Organization: University of Oregon Chemistry Stores
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:47:30

In article <715596912.14924@minster.york.ac.uk>
ken@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

   Jeffrey Baron (jbaron@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
   : respectable (or otherwise) British restaurants or I may throw up. Either
   : that or that I be totally wrong and that 'vindaloo' is simply the Euro
   : term for 'Ambrosia' and that we poor Yanks simply don't get the joke.

   You don't get the joke.

Just so you don't think all Americans are utter smegheads, before
I had ever seen an episode of Red Dwarf I ate Vindaloo at a local
restaurant specializing in Greek and Indian food.  Imagine my
surprise when I saw it pop up in a Red Dwarf episode.  I ate a
quite authentic vindaloo, one that made the Vindaloo Monster that
showed up in "D.N.A." seem perfectly realistic to me.
--
Steve VanDevender 	stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu
"Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population.
Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the
classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."
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From: Steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft)
ReplyTo: Steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: accents
Distribution: world
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:51:00 +0000


In article <25653@castle.ed.ac.uk> gu@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Ushaw) writes:

>
>Alexei Sayle has a Birmingham accent - Brummie. As opposed to Craig
>Charles' scouser accent from liverpool, ok chuck?
>

Rubbish!  Alexei Sayle is as Scouse as they come.  Good grief.

Steve
|  Steve Loft                                  steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk   |
|  Doncaster,                                                             |
|  South Yorks.                                                           |
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From: khill@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (Katrina Hill)
Subject: Re: a question about the robot from a red dwarf newbie.
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 04:14:56 GMT

In article <9226009.18646@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> schuller@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Wayne Schuller) writes:
>I am new to red dwarf and I am liking it very muchly. My question is, there was one episode where the robot was going to be replaced and that other big robot
>came to kill and replace him and the robot told him there was no robot heaven.
>Afterwards the robot said he lied. Then in the next episode, or a few later, thecool dude with the long hair was trying to teach the robot to insult and lie to people, but the robot was having ALOT of trouble getting the hang of it.
>Isnt this kind of wierd. 
>
>Sorry for not remembering all the names. Could someone please explain or have I
>found a flaw?
>
>schuller@mullauna.cs.mu.oz.au
>
	There is a flaw, but not by the program itself.  The ABC in its
	infinite wisdom has decided to show the program out of order because
	apparently the order didn't matter [that's what THEY say].

	Kryten was trying to learn to lie earlier, but now seems to be getting
	a bit better at it by the time you saw the "first lie" albiet the "second	lie"!!

	I hope that makes sense!!

	trina

	(In other words, put the lie about silicon heaven after the learning 
	of lies by Listy)

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University of Tasmania @ Launceston (UTL): you for one brief second?'
Phone: 263870 - AUST.  Ext: 3445 (260445): -  Kryten,  
Technical Services - Applied Comp. & Math:         distracting the Inquisitor
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:31:51 EDT
From: Jill Rhoads <JRHOADS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Red-dwarf in DC

Oh....help me...help me...help me....I saw Red-Dwarf a couple weeks ago and
think it is one of the best shows I've seen in a long while.  Could someone out
 there please tell me when it is on TV here in DC?   I saw it on My Public
Television here and can't remember when or what time I saw it at.  Please tell
me when it was...I'm dying to introduce my friends to it (not literally of
course...but I could be.).

                                                  THANKS....JILL
From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Vindaloo (was Re: On Rationalizing Continuity)
Date: 7 Sep 92 08:07:49 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <1992Sep4.142419.12827@ctr.columbia.edu> daniel@csgi63.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.085601.20030@cs.nott.ac.uk>, nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook) writes:
>
> (Loads of stuff deleted)
>
>Leeds and (particularly) Bradford have some *excellent* curry houses. If you're
                          ^^^^^^^^
>ever in this neck of the woods...
>

Try visiting all the Curry houses around the University and College and have 
a vindaloo in each. (Theres about 30 in one square mile) Prizes for doing it.
(It took me 3 years to get round them all)

Americans don't know what they are missing.


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| Misplaced Yorkshireman |                                                   |
|   Spider Systems Ltd   |"No, what seperates us from the animals is that we |
|  andrewc@spider.co.uk  |don't clean our own genitals with our tongue"      |
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From: kludge@hardy.u.washington.edu (MoonMan)
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:49:21 GMT

In article <BuFs4M.Fu5@taligent.com> Josh Goldenhar <josh@taligent.com> writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.081624.5811@spider.co.uk> Andrew Cannon,
>andrewc@spider.co.uk writes:
>>>
    [Backwards question deleted]
>>>
>>
>>I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.
>>
>
>Use a little imagination!  It's BACKWARDS!
>
>could the person who posted the backwards scripts from
>'backwards' please repost them; i missed then the first time.
>
>Just trying to help the poor huddled masses....
>Josh

  Apparently you didn't see the episode, or you would have gotten his joke...
:)
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From: Josh Goldenhar <josh@taligent.com>
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6D674357301C313@zaphod.taligent.com>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 11 Sep 92 16:05:09 GMT
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:05:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.081624.5811@spider.co.uk> Andrew Cannon,
andrewc@spider.co.uk writes:
>>
>>.emit tsrif eht meht dessim i ;meht tsoper esaelp 'sdrawkcab'
>>morf stpircs sdrawkcab eht detsop ohw nosrep eht dluoc
>>
>>
>
>I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.
>

Use a little imagination!  It's BACKWARDS!

could the person who posted the backwards scripts from
'backwards' please repost them; i missed then the first time.

Just trying to help the poor huddled masses....
Josh
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From: scottm@intime.intime.com (Scott Michel)
Subject: RD in LA area
Organization: -- J/24 -- Racers Home for Programmers
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:17:53 GMT

Anyone know what KCET did to RD? Is it on another station yet? What time,
channel?

-scottm
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Subject: Re: QUESTION
From: dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:05:56 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Sep7.153752@IASTATE.EDU>, kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
> In article <1992Sep6.194600.18306@cs.hw.ac.uk>, neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil
> Postlethwaite) writes:
>> Haven't got a bastard clue what you mean by 'are we just seeing whatever
>> Britain's version of syndication is?' though.
> 
>   Syndication is that wonderful institution where you get to watch the same
> drivel over and over again, even if has been canceled.
> 
>   In America, it gets hard to fill all the time slots on 36 channels (less w/o
> cable, but not much easier).  Rather than actually produce new TV shows, the
> local cable company blesses us with reruns of the entire series, over and over
> again ad nauseum.
> 
>   Note that this exceptional status can only be granted to the worst shows, with
> only a few minor exceptions (Star Trek became popular in sydication).  As only
> pure drivel is syndicated (with the few exeptions above) I very much doubt that
> would ever happen to RD.

I'm sure everybody appreciates your explaination of syndication but perhaps,
you'd better explain the wonderful concept of cable.

-If you don't I will!!!!

> 
>  |  __L__   *******************************
> -|-  ___    * Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub   *
>  |  | o |   * kv07@iastate.edu            *
>  |/ `---'   * Iowa State University       *
> /|   ___    * Math Department             *
>  |  |___|   * 400 Carver Hall             *
>  |  |___|   * Ames, IA  50011             *
>  J  _____   *******************************
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From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu)
Subject: accents
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:23:10 GMT

Does anyone know which accent actor Chris Charles used for Dave Lister? (Is
it his own?) I couldn't place it. In one episode (the one with the anti-crime
planet) Lister refers to himself as being from, or having committed crimes
in, Liverpool...but as a Beatles fan I'll be damned if that's a Liverpudlian
accent. My jerkface brother, who went to London last summer, syas i
it is a Scottish accent...but it doesn't correspond to any Scottish accent
I've heard. Alexei Sayle, star of "Alexei Sayle's Stuff" (the BBC comedy show
which replaced "Red Dwarf" as the second show on New Hampshire Public TV's
British Comedy Hour, from ten till eleven Sunday nights) has the same accent.
Can anyone tell me what it is--it's going to be very useful for a future
character if I can get it right.
					Rosaleen Dhu
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From: ins769v@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Veltyen)
Subject: Re: QUESTION
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:02:15 GMT

I AM THE ONE THE ONLY ONE JUST GIVE ME THE PRIZE (c9107143@cc.newcastle.edu.au) wrote:
: >decent.  Kind of like taking the worst of PBS and Commercial broadcasting, and
:                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: 
: No would you like to explain what PBS is please????
: thanks
: later
: Kurgen

I think (bad idea) that it stands for "Public Broadcasting Service"
pretty much like the ABC or SBS. But then again I don't know I am only
an Australian.

-Veltyen

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*ins769v@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au   *   Castrate your Sisters boyfriend?"    *
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From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Subject: Re: QUESTION
Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:37:52 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.194600.18306@cs.hw.ac.uk>, neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil
Postlethwaite) writes:
> Haven't got a bastard clue what you mean by 'are we just seeing whatever
> Britain's version of syndication is?' though.

  Syndication is that wonderful institution where you get to watch the same
drivel over and over again, even if has been canceled.

  In America, it gets hard to fill all the time slots on 36 channels (less w/o
cable, but not much easier).  Rather than actually produce new TV shows, the
local cable company blesses us with reruns of the entire series, over and over
again ad nauseum.

  Note that this exceptional status can only be granted to the worst shows, with
only a few minor exceptions (Star Trek became popular in sydication).  As only
pure drivel is syndicated (with the few exeptions above) I very much doubt that
would ever happen to RD.

 |  __L__   *******************************
-|-  ___    * Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub   *
 |  | o |   * kv07@iastate.edu            *
 |/ `---'   * Iowa State University       *
/|   ___    * Math Department             *
 |  |___|   * 400 Carver Hall             *
 |  |___|   * Ames, IA  50011             *
 J  _____   *******************************
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:33:05 EDT
From: <JAP8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: accents

Number one:  Craig Charles plays Lister (Chris Barrie is Rimmer)

Number two:  It's Liverpudlian.  The Beatles aren't the standard for Liverpool.

Number three:  Scotty's accent veered more toward Irish than Scottish...I found
   this out once when I mentioned his accent to a Scottish friend of mine and
   watched him explode over the "damn Americans ruinin' a pair-fectly good
   accent!"  It didn't matter to him that James Doohan is Canadian.  If you
   want a really good example of Scottish...watch anything with Billy Connolly
   in it...i.e. the last season of Head of the Class or Billy or his stand-up
   routine, Pale Blue Scottish Person.

                                 Cheers,
                                 Jean aka Chainsaw

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