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From: dattier@gagme.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Subject: Re: Maggie's Voice
Originator: dattier@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access Seraglio, Chicago, Illinois  60656-1252
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:58:14 GMT

rjc@onion.princeton.edu (Raymond Chen) wrote in
<1992Aug21.210905.8103@Princeton.EDU>:

| In article <1992Aug21.012353.11131@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
| jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
| >The Simpsons got their start on the Tracy (sic?) Ullman Show.  The cast
| >of the Simpsons is identical to that of the Tracy Ullman Show, with one
| >notable exception.
| 
| Lessee, there's Anna Levine, Sam MacMurray, Joseph Malone, Paula Abdul...
| 
| And it's spelled "Tracey".  With the "e".  

And it's spelled "McMurray".  With only one "a".  We're talking about Sam,
not Fred.  (We're not talking about my relatives, either; their name is
McMurry.)

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
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From: schwim@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rosebud)
Subject: [8F23] Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
Organization: The Land of Chocolate
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:14:31 GMT


Well, a lot of stuff has been noted already, but there's a few things up for
grabs.  I don't have access to a VCR right now, so I'm going on what I saw
as it came.

Overall, I liked the episode.  Maybe it's because there has been a new
one for a while and this had Danny Devito, but it had enough style and fun
for a good show.

First, I can't believe no one has posted the chalkboard yet:

	I will not fake seizures

(I do hope I got this one right :)

The couch scene was a repeat of the four doing flips and then pulling Maggie
up.

DYN:
Back in 1985, the Simpsons actually had a nice light show for xmas?
	(well, it was probably put up in '86...)
Barney's blood on the bar room door?
Burn's Award for Excellence looks like an Emmy?  (well, actually, I'm assuming
	it looks like an emmy.  Were there any prominent faces in the crowd??)
Herb used a "Oscilloscopes 4 Less" oscilloscope?  (did they spell it
	oscilliscope or oscilloscope?)
What did the back of the baby translator say?  I couldn't read it.
The flashback to a previous episode [7F16}?  (has this been done
before?)

***
Lists (sorry, need a VCR for this ;(:
***
- Train
	Toxic Waste with glowing green slime
	Krusty's Sulfuric Acid	(loved this one)

- Homer's Recollections of the couch:
Who Shot Jr. Episode?
Hands Across America
Berlin Wall Coming Down/Gomer Pyle
- Great Works of Literature for Children
Less than Zero
- Baby Inventions
Dog in a Ball
Baby Remote Control Airplane
Baby Translator

***
Liked, but already mentioned or not quite a DYN:
***
-Lisa reads the New Republic for Kids
-Bart gets a NRA membership (but status of armor-piercing cyanide bullets is
	in limbo ...)
-2001 scenes on the chair (drool and eyes were nice touches)
-They still haven't gotten Monopoly down right, apparently
-Homer with 104% body fat, a chicken leg, and his three-headed sperm
-Bart/Lisa on the Emmy's
-(paraphrase) "If a shyster is going to cheat you out of your money, it
might as well be your brother." -- Bart

- The baby translator
	True, it takes a leap of faith (both how he got the idea, its
execution, and the marketing.)  But, who cares?  They also all have
four fingers...  Anyways, this is where Devito shines.  The deliveries
of what the babies are saying are perfect.
- Bart's pole vault and Lisa's complicity in the cover-up.  Well done.
So, how many kids are going to get stiches from this stunt over the
next week?
- Maggie

	'nuff said

			Larry Schwimmer
{las}
From: purtell@netcom.com (Mike Purtell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Baby Translator, MG's address
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:44:40 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Baby translation is not possible with an oscilloscope alone.  The pitch
of the voice would require a spectrum analyzer with a waterfall function
to display frequency composition over time, or a digitizer with memory,
DSP, and a processor. The display of the translator is only necessary
for troubleshooting or demonstrating the operation of the unit; not for
the basic operation.

Did anyone else wonder how Smither's sperm was on hand, to allow comparing
normal sperm to tainted sperm (Homer's)?  Was Smithers also a subject of
the employee testing, or did he mix up a quick batch to prove his assertion
that Homer is sterile?

Does anyone still have the email address for Matt Groening?
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From: rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele)
Subject: Re: I said, "things couldn't get any worse."
Reply-To: rob@ll.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 21:47:56 GMT

Homer looks right at the "camera" when he says it!  I think it's a  
self-referential joke.
-------------------------------------------------------
Rob Steele                            rob@ll.mit.edu
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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From: rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele)
Subject: Re: '...less like the Simpsons?!' (George Bush speaks)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 14:04:28 GMT

In article <iroderic.714715216@cunews> iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian  
Roderick) writes:
> Utopianism is NOT unique to the left.  Utopianism has a long tradition
> in the 'West' in both secular and non-secular didactic writings of all
> political persuasions.  If anything, secular utopianism, as it is most
> frequently expressed, is a modernist concept and not just a left one.

You're right.  Take the Third Reich, for example.

> Have you ever read Thomas More or Thomas Hobbes to name but two
> examples?  

Nope.  Should I?

> What do you think a vision of a world salvaged through
> "family values" constitutes?

Certainly not utopia!  Maybe subtopia :).
-------------------------------------------------------
Rob Steele                            rob@ll.mit.edu
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood St.                   Your basic human being
Lexington, MA  02173            is not such a hot item.
617/981-2575                      --Ben Stein's sister
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From: erchul@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David A. V. Erchul)
Subject: Did it stop
Summary: Capsules 
Originator: erchul@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:53:56 GMT


Did Raymond Chen stop doing the capsules?  
I didn't see one for 8f23...   

And this was the time my VCR would give out on me too...

D'oh    


D.A.V.E.
From: SOWHALEY@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Ethan Frome
Date: 28 Aug 1992 21:37:15 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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Ted Frank <thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu> writes:

>The book Lisa did get was some maudlin novel, whose name I forget, but
>which I inwardly smiled at.

I disagree that Edith Wharton's _Ethan Frome_ is "some maudlin novel."
It's not one of my favorites, but it's very directly and sharply done
and the ending is so painful and ironic it still evokes an involuntary
"Eww" whenever I think about it.  It certainly ranks as at least a
minor classic among American novels.

All of Unky Herb's gifts reflected his understanding of what matters
most to each member of OFF.  I thought the point of Lisa's gift was
that it is real literature, definitely *not* a kid's story--reflecting
her uncle's insight that in many ways Lisa isn't a child at all but
has tastes that would be pretty sophisticated even in an adult.

-Bucky Whaley
 sowhaley@ecuvm1.bitnet

"Mmm...lutefisk!"
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From: schrey@prc.unisys.com (Timothy M. Schreyer)
Subject: Re: 8f23 Brother, can you spare two di?es?
Reply-To: schrey@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:32:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.164132.15174@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley) writes:
|> 
|> In a previous article, rsteele@adam.ll.mit.edu (Rob Steele) says:
|> >
|> >I'm not literate enough to know what the common theme is in the books  
|> >Lisa mentions but I would guess they're politically correct.  As far as  
|> >I know, there is no shared theme in the official great books apart from  
|> >their having been written by the dreaded Dead White Males.
|> 
|> I've no idea if the irony is intentional, but--judging by the books
|> Lisa lists, at least--there's no reason to believe anyone other than 
|> DWMs is deemed worthy of inclusion on even the Great Books second-
|> string team.  Fortunately Unky Herb is a little more discerning:
|> Edith Wharton is a first-rank writer, even if _Ethan Frome is not her
|> best.
|> 
   Lisa also says from "Beowulf" to "Less Than Zero."  The author of
   "Less Than Zero," Brad Eliot Easton, I believe, is not a Dead White
   Male, yet (unless I missed some news).  "Less Than Zero" was his
   acclaimed first novel about disenchanted, drugged-up, California
   rich kids.  He has followed up with a book called something like
   "American Psycho" which was panned and banned as unnecessarily
   violent, misogynistic, and bad.  (Also there was another one in there
   about college social and sexual disorientation -- maybe called
   "Rules of Attraction.")

   I liked "Less Than Zero."  I read it while at college.  It gets its
   name from an Elvis Costello poster the narrator had on his bedroom
   wall at home.  "Less Than Zero" was made into a movie because of its
   popularity as a novel.  The Bangles re-did Simon and Garfunkel's
   "Hazy Shade of Winter" as the movie's theme song.  You may remember
   the video.  I sort of remember seeing the movie on video...

   I didn't really like "Rules of Attraction"(?) and have never even seen
   "American Psycho," if that's its name.

       TIM
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From: og@access.digex.com (Gary Goldberg)
Subject: Re: [8F23] Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
Organization: Personal Account - Digital Express Greenbelt, MD
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:36:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.071431.24791@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> schwim@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rosebud) writes:
>DYN:
>Back in 1985, the Simpsons actually had a nice light show for xmas?
>	(well, it was probably put up in '86...)

Since Homer didn't know what the switch did, it is likely that they were put
there by the previous occupants of the house? Although the timing may not work out. - Gary

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Info on 'The Simpsons'? Let me know.

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From: dube@carson.u.washington.edu (Ric Dube)
Subject: I said, "things couldn't get any worse."
Summary: not a flame
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:59:41 GMT


I think that the delay after Homer said "I said, 'things couldn't get any
worse," was not because they were waiting for the loudspeaker to tell him
to report to Mr.Burns' office.  I think Homer was hoping someone would
reassure him, tell him that his life is not so bad.  There was a similar
scene in "Separate Vocations" when Homer asked at the dinner table why
nobody wanted to follow in his footsteps.  The family sat in silence and
in the distance we heard a hound howl.  It was well done.

Y'know, is there anyone else out there who watches the show, sees scenes
like the christmas light scene in this last episode and thinks, "Oh, jeez
the show-analysts are going to have a ball with this one."  It makes me
wonder if these people laugh at the funny parts or just quickly leaf
through their notes to see if the scene is consistent with previous
episodes.  
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From: aj137@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Jeffries)
Subject: Re: Sourround Sound]
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 15:37:12 GMT


I agree that the Simpsons really doesn't use the surround channel as 
much as I'd like.  Star Trek does a pretty good job but Dinosaurs is the best
I've found yet.  I never watched the show until I picked up my Dolby Pro.
There's all sorts of ambient noise coming from every channel.  Really good.

-- 
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MERZBOW/MOBY/NEW ORDER/HAFLER TRIO/LAIBACH/SPEEDY J/ANDRE MARROU
"You give funky love, funky love."------Cathy Dennis
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Strange episode!!!
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:33:47 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Kathryn Brennan <kb3i+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Did anyone think that Sunday's episode (where the Simpsons went to a
>cookout at Mr. Burns' house -- and Homer became disenchanted with his
>family...) was a little strange?  Both my husband and I thought that the
>voices (of Homer especially) sounded a little different and that the
>cartoon drawings themselves seemed somewhat different.  

>Also, I found Marge and Lisa's reactions to Homer very
>out-of-character!!!  I think normally, Lisa and Marge would be the FIRST
>to agree with Homer's realization that their family was
>less-than-perfect, and that they should get some counselling... 
>Instead, they seemed perfectly content with their dysfunctional family
>-- this goes against all the beliefs that Marge and Lisa have had in
>previous episodes... (watching too much TV is bad, etc...) 

>Am I crazy, or did other people notice these things?  Can anyone explain?

I missed that episode, but it sounds as if you're describing "There's No
Disgrace Like Home," a very early first-season episode.  Homer's voice
sounded different for the first six or so shows of the first season,
and the animation and characterizations were likewise a little rough.

                                         --Steve Stelter
                                           sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: Hildum@beowulf.cs.umass.edu (David W. Hildum)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: 8f23 Brother, can you spare two di?es?
Date: 28 Aug 1992 02:26:39 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Hildum@cs.umass.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

In response to the original post, I have three things to say:

[1] I find myself in a complete and utter mind-numbing daze.

[2] Are you absolutely out of your fucking mind?

[3] Where is the Robber Barron when we need him?

Sincerely,

        - David W. Hildum (hildum@cs.umass.edu)
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From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
Subject: Re: Lights on roof mistake
Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 04:31:53 GMT

In article <17m6mdINNqsl@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU> ST702459@brownvm.brown.edu (Jordan Schwartz) writes:
>Minor inconsistency: The lights on the top of the house ("Uh, I don't know
>what this switch does") read "Merry Christmas and Happy 1985".  However,
>in a previous episode (Burns runs for governor) the lights on the roof
>read "Burns for Governor" or "Vote Burns" or somesuch nonsense. Meaning,
>either the Burns people left the lights up there, Burns ran for governor
>before December 1985, or, more likely, they are not as astute as yours
>truly.

Or maybe they think a good joke is more important than being astute.


-- 
"Dammit Jim, I'm a free man, not a number!"
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From: skister@us.oracle.com (Scott Kister)
Subject: Anybody in the Bay Area tape 7G04?
Originator: skister@dvlseq.us.oracle.com
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, California
Distribution: sf
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:07:16 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

I didn't realize that the repeats Fox showed on Sunday would be from the first
season. The electric-shock therapy was one of my favorite episodes and I did
not tape it. Does anybody have this episode on tape? I have two vcr's, so I can
tape it if I can borrow your copy. I will pay for postage, or pick it up if you
live in the peninsula area. 
                                                Thank you.
                                                Scott Kister
                                                skister@us.oracle.com
                                                (415)506-3361

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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: More simpsons INFO
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:28:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.155551.15101@husc3.harvard.edu> mirsky1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mirsky) writes:
>
>9F08  Lisa's First Words

I can't believe I'm the first person to notice this...
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From: George.Harris@bbs.oit.unc.edu (George Harris)
Subject: Re: `Brother Can You Spare 2 Dimes' - 8F23 - Mo' SloMo Mania
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:24:09 GMT

In article <MAX.92Sep1131050@tantalus.uchicago.edu> max@tantalus.uchicago.edu (Max Ziff) writes:
>
>|Omoo and Typee...perhaps esoteric to English majors, but well known to
>|crossword puzzle afficianados!
>
>I'm not an English major (nor do I play one on tv), but I am a
>Melville fan.  Typee is quite a fine book, a first person narrative
>about experiences with polynesian natives after jumping ship in the
>South Seas.  There's a fascinating description of various ways of
>preparing breadfruit.  

	I don't know about you, but when someone says `There's a fascinating
description of various ways of preparing breadfruit,' I generally stop paying
attention.

>	<rest of post deleted.>

	Oh, by the way -- :-) :-)

>Donald Ziff (Max)                                    ziff@cs.uchicago.edu
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From: rolf@geoserv (Rolf Wilson)
Subject: The MB award for excellence
Reply-To: rolf@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:20:51 GMT

Hmmm, has no one picked up on the parallel between the Montgomery
Burns award and the Malcolm Baldrige excellence awards? Or has a
similarity of initials and my fevered imagination led me astray again?
-- 
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From: atkinson@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (David Atkinson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Shearer and Brokaw
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:26:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom) writes:

>Did anyone else think that on last night's episode (8/27) Harry Shearer
>was imitating Tom Brokaw on that clip Homer was watching of the Berlin
>Wall coming down? 

Hmmm.  I was thinking David Brinkley.
Xref: sparky alt.tv.simpsons:4561 alt.folklore.urban:22417
From: miked@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Mike Doskas)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Bitmap "smallhomersperm.mask"
Keywords: simpsons, bitmap
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:32:00 GMT
Reply-To: miked@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Mike Doskas)
Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada


The mask for the "smallhomersperm" bitmap.


--- BEGIN smallhomersperm.mask (cut here) ------------------------------
#define smallhomer_width 32
#define smallhomer_height 30

static char smallhomer_bits[] = {
 0xe0, 0x0f, 0x0e, 0x00, 0xf8, 0x3f, 0x3e, 0x00, 0xfc, 0x7f, 0x7e, 0x00,
 0xfc, 0xff, 0xfc, 0x01, 0xfe, 0xff, 0xf8, 0x03, 0xfe, 0xff, 0xf1, 0x07,
 0xfe, 0xff, 0xc1, 0x0f, 0xfe, 0xff, 0x81, 0x0f, 0xfe, 0xff, 0xc1, 0x0f,
 0xfe, 0xff, 0xf1, 0x0f, 0xfe, 0xff, 0xf9, 0x0f, 0xff, 0xff, 0xfd, 0x07,
 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x01, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0x7f, 0x00,
 0xfe, 0xff, 0x3f, 0x00, 0xfe, 0xff, 0x3f, 0x00, 0xfc, 0xff, 0x7f, 0x00,
 0xfc, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0xfc, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0xfc, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00,
 0xfc, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0xfc, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0xf8, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00,
 0xe0, 0xff, 0x7f, 0x00, 0x80, 0xff, 0x3f, 0x00, 0x00, 0xfc, 0x1f, 0x00,
 0x00, 0xf0, 0x0f, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
 };
--- END smallhomersperm.mask (cut here) --------------------------------


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From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Price is Right?
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:55:22 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Aug28.192112.24078@news.iastate.edu> glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha) writes:

>I put it on freeze frame and frame-by-frame'd it, but it was still too
>blurry to read (it looked like $547.??). Does the price remain the same
>every time, or does it change? Are the only two things which change the
>blackboard and couch arrangement?

The first year it consistently rang up "tilt".  I have never been able
to make out what it rings up since.

					James Willer
{the opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all.}
From: dave@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Dave hall)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Emmys
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:41:09 CST
Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB

rjc@onion.princeton.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:

> The Simpsons received six emmys, all in the category of "Voice-Over
> Performance".  (I'd never noticed this category before.
 
> Raymond ``What a kick in the teeth!'' Chen
 
But didn't Ms. Smith look great for that 20+ second presentation? :)
 
                                        "Victory party under the slide!"
                                         Bart's premature announcement.

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From: canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson)
Subject: Homer: Another definition
Organization: Center for Life Fulfillment
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 00:05:48 GMT

I just finished reading Tom Robbins "Jitterbug Perfume."  I was amused more
than was intended when I read how the god Pan called all humans "homers."

[homers: "what the surviving greek gods secretly called mortals, a
disparaging term taken from the name of the so-called bard who had spread
so many lies about them."]

So we're all "homers."

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