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From: staggers@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ken Staggers)
Subject: WLS in Chicago Goin' Country
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 07:47:25 GMT

Hey Rush, slow down that station count.  Your listener totals are about
to come down...temporarily of course.  The 50,000 watt WLS-AM and its 
sister station WLS-FM, both Cap Cities/ABC owned and both broadcast the
same talk radio shows, are going country in September.  

With ABC cancelling Tom Synder effective late November, with Deborah
Norville leaving, and with ABC getting out of talk radio in Chicago (what's
happening with New York?), what does that mean for Rush?  If I am not
mistaken, Rush lets his ego get a hold of him when he says EIB network.
Does ABC own his show?  Did they own his show?  Did they own the show
at first and then, like with Oprah, sell the rights to him?  I am not
saying that Rush is getting out of radio, not at all.  I just wonder if
the company that backs him is getting out of talk radio.

--Ken
From: schurko@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Robert Schurko)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: mailing address?
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:02:55 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

I am posting this for a friend:

	I am a Canadian Rush fan who does not have access to the 1-800 phone 
line and I would like to get in contact with the man. Is there a mailing address
for the show? (He never seems to mention one during the show that I pick up from
St. Paul, Minnesota.)
	As well, could somebody please post the FAQ for this newsgroup. Bless 
you.


	Regards, Jeff.

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From: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu (William M. Porter)
Subject: Re: Buchanan's speech
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 08:05:00 GMT

Kelley Miller, in a recent posting, responded to a message of mine in which I
asked for examples of gay-bashing, religious-narrowmindedness, or racism in Pat
Buchanan's speech. After quoting several remarks of mine, Mr. Miller inserted
simple remarks such as "!!!!!" or  "Hmmmm". After I spoke of my close
friendship with a number of gays, Mr. Miller offered a silly parody of my
statement, which began "some of my best friends are colored....heck, I got one
working for me...."

Mr. Miller misses his mark. I am neither a religious fundamentalist nor a
Republican of long-standing. I have voted in every election since 1972 (or
thereabouts: I'm a bit hazy about McGovern) and this will be my first time
voting Republican. I was a Dukakis delegate in 1988.

I wish that people who are incapable of rational discourse would stay away from
these discussions. I suggest that Mr. Miller get the copy of Buchanan's text
that was posted in this newsgroup, read it, and try responding to my questions
in a more intelligent fashion.

Let me try once again to make a distinction that many, many people today seem
incapable of grasping: the distinction between tolerance and support. Tolerance
need not be uncharitable: it is a humane and civilized virtue. I do not recall
suggesting that gays be denied voting rights (or blacks or anyone else). Mr.
Miller is not responding to a straw man but to his own blowup doll.

William Porter  * * * Classical Languages: University of Houston
Internet: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu /or/ CompuServe: 75430,1351

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From: wjpirkl@iastate.edu (William J Pirkl)
Subject: Stop your BITCHING
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:04:03 GMT


I beleive this happened last Friday on Rush's show:
Rush was complaining (endlessly) about how King George's ratings in the
polls has dropped 65 POINTS in the lat year and a half.  He said,"nothing
has changed.  Why the drop in popularity?"

I have a theory.  Some things have not changed.  Unemployment remains high,
we are still in a recession, George still says recovery is "around the
corner" , etc.  
However some things have changed.
  1.  We now know that Saddam learned nothing, and he is still slaughtering
      his own people, and flaunting U.N Security Council obligations.

  2.  George, after saying for 2+ years, that we didn't have a recession,
      finally admitted that we are in one.  He now says all economic signs
      say we are in recovery.


Well, that's my theory.
Bill
wjpirkl@iastate.edu


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From: mhl@spirit.ece.cmu.edu (Mikko H. Lipasti)
Subject: Re: Buchanan's speech at convention
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:29:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.145514.15183@news.ysu.edu> ae642@yfn.ysu.edu (Kelley Miller) writes:
>Funny.....My Webster's (copywrite 1990) defines "child" as follows:
>
>Child, n, pl. children 1. A son or daughter. 2. a young person or baby.
>3. a person thought of as the product of a given place, time, influence,
>ect. 4. a descendant. 5. a person inmature in judgement.
>
>Going down through the next 6 entries (childbirth to childlike) I see
>no reference to "unborn person".
>
>Likewise, under "Person", "Human", "Man", and all dirivitives of these
>words, there is no reference to "unborn person".
>

Since my Webster's is at home, and I'm at work, let me just introduce 
the relevant part of the entry from our online American Heritage Dictionary:

CHILD
1. A person between birth and puberty.  2. a. An unborn infant; fetus. 
b. An infant; baby.

>Oh....you must have the Pro(anything but)Life edition of Webster's....
>

I think it's your edition that's Pro(anything but)Life...

I hope that clears up the controversy.

-Mikko
From: steve@celia.UUCP (Steve Tyree)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Buchanan's speech
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:15:24 GMT
Reply-To: celia!steve@usc.edu (Steve Tyree)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood

In article <36980@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pvanmeur@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Pim van Meurs) writes:
>
>Might it be that Buchanan's speech was full of attacks against
>homosexuals, feminists, illegal immigrants, people of color, women
>in battle... You name it... Personal attacks on Hilary Clinton... I
>love it.... Continue like this and the total women's vote will go to

 His best line was when he looked into the camera and said,
  "Speak for yourself Hillary"
 She is some example of a liberated, assertive women. The democratic party
leaders have closed her mouth shut and her supporters seem to like it. Very
odd indeed. Lets hear what Hillary has to say !
 I have Buchanans speech on tape.
 Give me one example of an attack on people with color ?
 Give me one example of an attack on illegal immigrants ?

ps - I am a Free Market Conservative who admires Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan.
     Please dont try to tarnish the entire Conservative movement with attacks
     that didnt occur. However, Buchanan is to conservative on social issues
     for me.

 Steve Tyree - These opinions are mine and mine alone.
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From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
Subject: Re: Tax Cuts and Limbaugh Bias
Organization: Psych Department, Indiana University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:42:56 GMT

cb926@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edmund Joseph Ryan) writes:
>As far as Limbaugh bias goes, he regularly practices censorship.

    Well to the extent that he tries to control the content of his 
program I guess he does. Sometimes he has topic hours and censors
people who don't want to talk about that topic. He also has very little
interest in "conspiracy kooks" which I can sort of understand. Sometimes
he even takes calls off the air to screen jokes. I guess it's his program.
He's got the right to do what he wants with it. I think he does a good 
job, but that's just my opinion.

>Apparently he doesn't want to discuss ISSUES. 
>Why not? Are they too topical? Apparently he likes
>censor his calls. If his viewpoint is so important,
>why doesn't he go head to head with the verboten
>folk? He doesn't like debate.

    Well, he's explained this several times in "Caller Clinics". Basically 
what it boils down to is that the object of the call is to make the host 
look good. If you start out angry, being soothed by his words helps to 
make it a "good call". If you start out perplexed, being enlightened by 
his words is the way to go. The best of all would be an on-the-air 
conversion from liberalism or to tell him what a difference he makes in
*your* life.

    As to debates, it really depends on the debaters. I've heard some
calls in which Rush has seriously debated a person over 3 or 4 breaks
and evidently had a great time doing it. Having calm, polite, substantive
debates makes the host look good, so when those calls happen (far too 
rarely) I think Rush really does talk turkey because (IMHO as always)
he really can deal with the issues and debate in a rational way, and 
it's not often that he gets to go up against a person as polite, composed,
and articulate as he is. I couldn't do it. I'd be too nervous (NO, the
thought of Rush stroking my back with a Rush-Relaxer is not in the least 
comforting).

    He doesn't seem to like being yammered at, so to be a "good call" 
requires a lot of tact on the part of the caller. Yet it can be done, 
even sometimes when the caller wins the debate (I'm thinking of the lady 
who called complaining about Rush's reference to the "lesbian synchronous
swimming" event at the Olympics; she got an apology out of Rush, but she
was very calm and polite so it was a "good call").

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From: shou1@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Roger Shouse)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Buchanan's speech
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:45:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC

Whether you agree with the content or not, Buchanan gave a hell of
a speech.  I mention this because (1) it's true and (2) because it's
what all the news commentators said after speeches by Cuomo and 
Jackson.  Unlike the Dem convention, however, I did not hear any
major network commentator say this about Buchanan's speech.  Also,
I don't recall either Cuomo or Jackson's speech receiving  the sort of
instant counterpoint given to Buchanan's.  On CNN, for example, Mike
Kinsley was given an immediate opportunity to explain all the supposed
"factual misstatements" in Buchanan's speech.  I guess this must be
because speeches by Cuomo and Jackson contained no exagerations or 
misstatements. (NOT).
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From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Clinton & Taxes: 7% for health
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:10:26 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation

In article 1794@celia.UUCP, steve@celia.UUCP (Steve Tyree) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.194433.29027@lsil.com> mitch@lsil.com writes:
>>One other point I left out before regarding Japan, the income tax rates
>>in both Japan and Germany are considerably above 50% (closer to 70%)
>>which certainly make's the US tax rate of 31% look very cheap.
> What is Japan's State Tax, Sales Tax, Estate Tax, Commodities Tax etc. etc.
> The US total tax rate is over 40 percent. My guess is that the total
> theft performed by the government exceeds 50 percent of the semi-free
> markets GNP. When you add in buissness taxes and regulation expenses.
> Our government tries to hide its crimes.

I believe that the "hidden" taxes in Japan are far more severe than
what we "enjoy" in the US.  Estate taxes are outrageous, often leaving
nothing to heirs.

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From: umrice02@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stephen Rice)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: HHGTTG on YTV
Summary: I saw an add recently...
Keywords: HHGTTG, YTV, dna
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:34:38 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

I was watching YTV recently (sci-fi, what else?) and I noticed an add about
'British Sci-Fi' coming in September.  I don't know if anyone else saw this
add but there are clips from the HHGTTG tv series throughout...YEAH!

This will mean that I will be able to re-tape my copy which is getting rather
worn (does anyone else have HHGTTG as a copy from a copy? - don't look at me,
other people have taped mine too :-) ).

Ready them VCRs!!
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From: linda@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Linda Penington)
Subject: Re: .
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:39:24 GMT

PATRICK FERREL (v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu) wrote:
: 
: I have a crazy idea.  Why not use the same actors from the TV show?  You all
: seem to be basing your opinions of what the characters look like from the TV
: show.  Where does it say that Slartibartfast looks like Father Time?  Where does
: it say that Hotblack Desiato is overweight?  

In the book, silly!  These characters are all quite clearly described in
the books.  I seem to recall something about...erm...long white beards
and flowing robes wrt slartibartfast, and Hotblack was described by Ford
as follows: 
"You're looking great! Really very very fat and unwell!"
or words to that effect - I'm thousands of miles from my copies of the
books, and several years from my last reading of the books, so please
forgive any inaccuracies.  :)


: I don't see why you have to have
: "big name" actors in this movie.  I think we'd like it no matter who was in it.
: I think I'd actually like it better seeing familiar faces.

Allow a bunch of fanatics our harmles diversions, hmm? :)
Some of the suggestions have been pretty apt, I thought.

Linda
 (who appends a .sig despite the chilling certaintly that the readers of
this group will pick it to pieces due to the errors it most likely
contains...:)


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%*		 the more corrupt ones - this.  The previous sentence
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From: thanatos@korova.uucp (Thanatos)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: RE: HA! GOT IT..         
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 15:29:38 CDT
Organization: VHF void tube of the mind (713) 492-2783

rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us (Michael Quintero) writes:

> thanatos@korova.uucp (Thanatos) Message-ID: <563gPB2w165w@korova.uucp> writes
> >flatline@eskimo.celestial.com (Flatline) writes:
> >
> >> Hmm... Christopher Lloyd as Slartibartfast? Ah, he does not really fit the
> >> I mean, think 8,000 year old man who has just been woken up and gets a kic
> >> of talking about his fjords. I do not really have a good suggestion, but C
> >> does not fit my idea of Slarty.
> >>
> >> Chris, however, would be PERFECT as Wonko The Sane! Perfect opportunity to
> >>
> >
> >
> >Well.. Yeah, i could see him as a good Wonko.. but we are leaving someone
> >out here.. What about Zarniwoop?  Who could play that annoying idiot?  Or
> >how about the hitchiker that helps out Zaphod on his journery to the that
> >prison planet (The name escapes my mind at this moment..)?
> 
> Zarniwoop, I think, should be that guy next door from "Empty Nest" and
> the Toyota commercials (I forgot his name), or John Larroquette (the
> Assistant DA from "Night Court").
> 
> The hitchhiker should be somebody a little weird .... um, I got
> it - Gallagher (that idiot that smashes watermelons)!
> 
> >
> >Ohwell, just a though.. another choice for Slartibartfast would have to
> >be well damn.. the name escapes my mind at the moment..=(.. ohwell..
> >
> 
> I think the first guy was perfect, personally.
> 
> Mike Quintero ( rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us )
> ___
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Well.. I dunno.. I think David Liesure (The guy from Empty Nest) would be 
a little TOO annoying..(It he was on the ISIZU<sp> commercials..) 
 
How about.. John Cleese?  I think he would make a great Zarniwoop.. just 
put a business suit on him and a beard..(It does say he had a beard when 
Zaphod saw him on that train/subway thing on the prison planet..)
I think he'd be just wierd enough to do it..

Thanatos

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From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams,rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: The 3 Doctor Who Novels that should be
Date: 15 Aug 92 09:32:24 GMT
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando

yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) wrote:
>You write 3 of the best Doctor Who scripts, 'the Pirate Palnet', 'The City of
>death", and "Shada" and you have NOT novelized them !!  You nut, don't you
>realize how much money you can make?  DW fans and your personal fans would go
>bonkers if those books made it to market!!

Why would Who fans go bonkers? I know some people read all the novels, but I
think the average fan will NOT read the novel if the story exists on video.
Shada is now on video with the script, why buy the novel (if it existed)? Sure,
you can collect everything with Dr. Who on it, but other than that who cares.
I guess that people who don't see Dr. Who often might want the novel. Finally,
given that these are no McCoy stories, what could possibly be in the novel that
is not in the video. 8-)

Perhaps we should be bugging the author of Penasacata (Christopher Bimead)
since nothing of that exists at all.

Tom

P.S. A Palnet is something you catch friends in.
From: v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (PATRICK FERREL)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: .
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:00:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


I have a crazy idea.  Why not use the same actors from the TV show?  You all
seem to be basing your opinions of what the characters look like from the TV
show.  Where does it say that Slartibartfast looks like Father Time?  Where does
it say that Hotblack Desiato is overweight?  I don't see why you have to have
"big name" actors in this movie.  I think we'd like it no matter who was in it.
I think I'd actually like it better seeing familiar faces.

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From: bahn@main.mndly.umn.edu (Christopher Bahn)
Subject: Now that we all know what an FAQ is...
Organization: the Minnesota Daily (U of MN Student Newspaper)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:21:39 GMT

Could someone post the FAQ list for alt.fan.douglas-adams?
From: michael@mileva.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Young Zaphod
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:38:30 GMT
	<1992Aug11.184502.29984@u.washington.edu>
	<1992Aug20.141201.3620@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: cb705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 20 Aug 92 14:12:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.141201.3620@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> cb705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason K. Green) writes:
   In a previous article, fenick1@husc10.harvard.edu (Sharon Fenick) says:

=>The before, I'd venture, is "Young Zaphod..." and from what I hear the after
=>might be _Mostly Harmless_.
=>

=A couple of notes.  On about my third reading of "Young Zaphod"
=I noticed that the coordinates of the planet which must be made
="perfectly safe" correspond to the coordinates of Earth.  I
=hypothesize that the android escape was the real reason the
=Vogons destoyed Earth and that the hyperspace bypass was an elaborate
=cover.  Any thoughts out there?

Well, either that, or psychiatrists wanted to keep their jobs, ala
the 1st book. The bypass *was* a cover, though not so elaborate.

As for the android, its identity is more interesting to me.
The choices are either John Winthrop (1588-1650), Governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Company and Colony, or, more likely, John F. Kennedy.
Both spoke of a "City upon a Hill"- Kennedy quoting Winthrop at one
time. Winthrop had said "We must consider that we shall be as a
City upon a Hill." I think it's about as good an explanation of the
assassination as the Warren Report.

=Second, what is _Mostly Harmless_?  I've never heard of it.

Everybody says it's the new DNA book. *I* believe them.

  =Jason K. Green
  =cb705@cleveland.freenet.edu
  =jkg4286@hobbes.NebrWesleyan.edu

Chaplin.
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From: lendl@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Otmar Lendl)
Subject: Re: HHGTTG tapes. Get 'em while they're hot! 
Organization: University of Salzburg, Austria
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:00:32 GMT

In article <713977959snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
>and as long as we're talking about great things in the tapes, how
>about the old man in the shack?
>        [.........]
This is one of my favorites:

MAN: I think fish is nice, but the I think that rain is wet, so who
	am I to judge ?

>and of course, there's always the instructions at the end of the fifth
>on how to get a copy of the book:
>
These remarks all al very good: 
The one about tee in easy to swallow capsules, or the most bizarre:
  "Towels can be harmful if swallowed in large quantities."

.... and of course I've got a good quote in my .sig  (as all HHG-fans do)

/Otmar

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