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From: lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel)
Subject: Re: Potatoes Redux
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:18:08 GMT

david@randvax.rand.org (David Shlapak) writes:


>    Folks---

>    Someone asked about this earlier, but I never saw an answer.  In "Pod
>People," there were many, many, references to "potatoes" in a funny voice
>whenever Trumpy was wandering about.  Can anyone clue my wife and I in as
>to the reference?  Inquiring minds, and all of that.

I dunno _ don't remember ti that well.. possible reference to Mr Potato(e)
Head...???


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: kruger@plains.NoDak.edu (Donovan Kruger)
Subject: Re: MST Sound Bites To Be Created
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:14:35 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <Dec.28.21.58.43.1992.19428@pilot.njin.net> langbein@pilot.njin.net (John Langbein) writes:
>
>Hi.
>
>     I plan on making some '.au' files (Sparcstation sound files) next
>week. Here is what I plan on doing:

I noticed at the syrinx site, a fellow Amiga user has sampled quite a few
sounds.  Whoever you are, please keep it up, and please post whatever new
samples you make.  I LOVE THEM!  The commercial buffer is my startup sound!

>Pondering.....
>				John Langbein
>
>P.S. If I am duplicating efforts stop me now.

No-one's efforts should ever be stopped.  Please go on!
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From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:28:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.191541.15910@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>I don't think the point is for Joel et al. to read every name on the air.  I think
>we just want the folks at Best Brains to be reminded of their large net-literate
>following out there.
>
>-- 
>************************************************************************
>*            Sarah Skovronsky     starfish@u.washington.edu            *

They are quite aware of their following. They get a pack of hardcopy of
the groups every month or so, remember? Not to mention the calls they  get
from Netfolk on a regular basis. 
To tell you the truth, I get the feeling that they are kind of suprised,
and possibly a little paranoid about the groups. Ask Lisa about the 
letter she recieved a while back. 
But they probably never expected to have everything they do analyzed and
discussed to such an extent. But hey, that's the way it goes.
Happy <Insert holiday of choice here> To All!
Pax
					--Judex--
From: jwh3g@amazon.evsc.Virginia.EDU (Julia Hayden)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter (updates list-of-names)
Date: 2 Jan 93 05:08:37 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1hukicINNe52@life.ai.mit.edu> jfdiv@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Resident Lunatic) writes:
>In article <C04ADx.59w@ucunix.san.uc.edu> hopper@ucunix.san.uc.edu (FreeBird) writes:
   [first of all, the thought of you two writing...  ;)]
>> Gotta get mine on...D. Ian Hopper, hopper@ucunix.san.uc.edu
>	Resident Lunatic	rl@gnu.ai.mit.edu

	me too! 
	Julia Hayden          jhayden@smith.smith.edu
>>  They were just incredible at first, but when they ripped on System 7,
>>they were elevated to Godlike. :)
>
> careful with the mac cuts there, bird ;) okay, i liked it... nevermind ;)
>
	*grin* [guys. check out my uva .plan]
 
    and hey were elevated to "godlike" when  even my grandmother laughed. Now that  was a true miracle.

-- 
 Julia Hayden                   "Only the needle has been changed to protect  
 Jhayden@Smith.Smith.edu        the record."                   -Stan Freberg
 JWH3G@Virginia.edu              
 hepzibah@gnu.ai.mit.edu        99.4% human, .6% vegetable matter (diced)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: Lunchbox
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:42:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.182849.11483@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>>Well, the fulfilled and blue part I can understand, but I'm not sure that
>>this box is capable of holding food...
>
>[stuff killed with forklift]
>
>>I mean, it's solid plastic ("So don't settle for imitations" - sorry...), no
>>metal in the hinges or latch, no glass in the thermos.  The whole thing
>>weighs maybe 5 ounces.  It's a cheap snap-close box with a plastic handle, a
>
>Ben, how long has it been since you've eaten out of a lunchbox?  I, at the

Too long, I admit.  

>tender age of 17, can safely say that I have NEVER eaten out of a kid's
>lunchbox with "glass in the thermos," or metal in the hinges or latch.

I was surprised to see anything being called a "thermos" which was
all-plastic.  I thought the idea was to insulate the contents... anyway, the
plastic latch looks like it'd last about two weeks.

>Well, let me qualify that last part.  ALL-metal lunchboxes used to be
>more prevalent, but they have been replaced by the ALL-PLASTIC kind, like

A sign of the decay of civilization as a whole, if true.  I guess I'll have
to go to a store and look at the current crop.  I know you don't have the
neat sheet-metal ones I used to have in grade school, all of what, 15 years
ago at most?  (I'm 22 - hardly an old geezer)  Come to think of it, I
probably started using paper bags around 2nd grade.

>cartoon characters on them and the like.  I don't think Best Brains is
>being terribly cheap--that
>s how the suckers are MADE nowadays.

NO!  It can't be!  Never! 
 
>All right, the plastic itself isn't worth $20, but the souvenir value
>(and the fact that these are produced in limited quantities) can jack
>the price up.  Welcome to the 90's.  :)
 
Yes, as I said, it's worth it as an MST3k item, but I expected something
nicer, for the money.
 
>I wouldn't carry my lunch in it anyway.  It's a collector's item!  :)
>I'm not entirely sure they intended for the lunchbox to be an actual
>working model, anyway.  It's just that it seems so COOL, in a juvenile,
>look-I've-regressed-to-my-childhood, do YOU have a lunchbox this cool? kind

Exactly.  It's the perfect item for them to offer.  Well, _a_ perfect item.
I'd like to see the Satellite of Love Play-dough set, where you can stick
the glop into a plastic machine and get little Tom Servos or Crows... MST3k
shrinky-dinks... or a normal-sized Operation game with Frank.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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|"Don't tug on that - you never know what ][The Raster Image IS responsible |
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: hopper@ucunix.san.uc.edu (FreeBird)
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter (updates list-of-names)
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:29:57 GMT

 
 Gotta get mine on...D. Ian Hopper, hopper@ucunix.san.uc.edu

  They were just incredible at first, but when they ripped on System 7,
they were elevated to Godlike. :)

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: This Is VH-1
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:30:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.233138.20595@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>Right now, at this very moment, "This Is MST3K" (saw it, hated it, taped it)
>is on...on *VH-1*, for heaven's sake.  VH-1.  With the stupid VH-1 logo in
>the corner.  Maybe this is a good trend...maybe they'll start showing actual
>EPISODES on VH-1 (so I could catch the 10 AM Saturday show).  Hey, after all,
>they show Gallagher...
>
>-- 
>************************************************************************
>*            Sarah Skovronsky     starfish@u.washington.edu            *

 I knew the thing was made to sell the show to someone else. But do we
want it on VH-1? I suppose it would help with the folks who can't get
Comedy Central, but I bet you a buck that the places that switch
CC with VH-1, will do so at just the right moment to block the show on 
both networks!
Pax
					--Judex--

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel)
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:45:16 GMT

donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:

>It's a nice idea, but I doubt that they are going to read any list of
>names that long, over the air. Hate to be a doomsayer, but it just
>doesn't seem like the kind of thing that they would do.
>Ah well.

I do't think the point is to read all the signatures on the air (though it
WOULD be kinda neet - it would wax the invention exchange and all the host
segments - they wouldn't have to write any that week)

The object would be to read the LETTER, and have Joel unfurl this horrendouslylong list of names.  (and if you are using an account under somebody else's
name, just send Charles a correction.)

I say :  DO it, Or I'll kill you with a forklift!


"I _WILL_ kill him!"  anonymous forklift driver


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: Lunchbox
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 16:40:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.182849.11483@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
>>Well, the fulfilled and blue part I can understand, but I'm not sure that
>>this box is capable of holding food...
>
>[stuff killed with forklift]
>
>>I mean, it's solid plastic ("So don't settle for imitations" - sorry...), no
>>metal in the hinges or latch, no glass in the thermos.  The whole thing
>>weighs maybe 5 ounces.  It's a cheap snap-close box with a plastic handle, a
>
>Ben, how long has it been since you've eaten out of a lunchbox?  I, at the

Too long, I admit.  

>tender age of 17, can safely say that I have NEVER eaten out of a kid's
>lunchbox with "glass in the thermos," or metal in the hinges or latch.

I was surprised to see anything being called a "thermos" which was
all-plastic.  I thought the idea was to insulate the contents... anyway, the
plastic latch looks like it'd last about two weeks.

>Well, let me qualify that last part.  ALL-metal lunchboxes used to be
>more prevalent, but they have been replaced by the ALL-PLASTIC kind, like

A sign of the decay of civilization as a whole, if true.  I guess I'll have
to go to a store and look at the current crop.  I know you don't have the
neat sheet-metal ones I used to have in grade school, all of what, 15 years
ago at most?  (I'm 22 - hardly an old geezer)  Come to think of it, I
probably started using paper bags around 2nd grade.

>cartoon characters on them and the like.  I don't think Best Brains is
>being terribly cheap--that
>s how the suckers are MADE nowadays.

NO!  It can't be!  Never! 
 
>All right, the plastic itself isn't worth $20, but the souvenir value
>(and the fact that these are produced in limited quantities) can jack
>the price up.  Welcome to the 90's.  :)
 
Yes, as I said, it's worth it as an MST3k item, but I expected something
nicer, for the money.
 
>I wouldn't carry my lunch in it anyway.  It's a collector's item!  :)
>I'm not entirely sure they intended for the lunchbox to be an actual
>working model, anyway.  It's just that it seems so COOL, in a juvenile,
>look-I've-regressed-to-my-childhood, do YOU have a lunchbox this cool? kind

Exactly.  It's the perfect item for them to offer.  Well, _a_ perfect item.
I'd like to see the Satellite of Love Play-dough set, where you can stick
the glop into a plastic machine and get little Tom Servos or Crows... MST3k
shrinky-dinks... or a normal-sized Operation game with Frank.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

--
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|Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-6208.| 
|"Don't tug on that - you never know what ][The Raster Image IS responsible |
|it might be attached to." Buckaroo Banzai][for everything I say! | *Amiga* |
From: mduhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Matthew Duhan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter (updates list-of-names
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:01:25 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


   What's the deal with this letter thing?  I'm away for a week and things 
go haywire (not to say that I don't like haywire).  Let me know what this
is all about please.

Thanks,
Matt

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      o       |      |       -[O]-           ( )             |#/)         
    ROBOT     |  []  |      /_____\          |<|            (oo)          
     ROLL)    | o__] |      |/   \|         /{"}\           (=)/         
    CALL      |  ||  |       \   /          /_"_\          __=__        
     | |      |CAMBOT|       GYPSY        TOM SERVO       CROOOOW!     
              |______|        \_/         /_______\       | /_\ |      
 (let's go)  (pan left)   (hi, girl)  (what a cool guy) (wisecracker)   
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From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k,alt.fan.mst3k
Subject: Re: Gamera Film Info requested
Date: 26 Dec 92 23:25:21 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.mst3k
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Well, for song lyrics and host segment transcriptions, go check out
the Mailing List Archives. There's three or four songs and sketches
by me alone there, along with a bunch of others.

Let's see which I can remember . . . there's "Boy, is he smart!",
"Klack!", "SPACOM", bunches more . . .

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   ("Some parts may be made out of chicken! Buy bonds! Mommy!")
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E-mail suggestions to the address cleverly hidden in the header.
From: roy@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Roy Alan Radosevich)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Favorite episode dilemma!
Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:51:12 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Dec20.004637.20673@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes:
>
>(could someone explain the Norm Abrams references?  "Sounds like Norm Abrams
>getting killed..." and so forth.  Who is he?)
>
>

I just about had a seizure when they made the Norm Abrams references in 
"Pod People", as well as with "HUZZAH". By the way, Norm is the master
carpenter/cabinetmaker on PBS's award-winning(IMHO) saturday afternoon
woodworking show "The New Yankee Workshop". He is also the host of one of
PBS's other home shows, "This Old House".


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* the alligator in the swamp              *                                 *
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* safety of my helicopter."               *                   Roy           *
*                 M. Perkins              *                                 *
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: ludwigj@CS.ColoState.EDU (Vilkata (Joe Ludwig))
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf on satellite
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:07:32 GMT
Organization: BadgerCom Industries

In alt.tv.red-dwarf, kirstein@bohemia.metronet.org (Dale Kirstein) writes:
>By the way, did you notice that they run station IDs that are supposed to
>relate to the programming, and before Red dwarf they run the "Science" ID.
>Makes you wonder if anyone at KRMA watches their own shows!

Really?  The only one I've ever noticed was the Comedy one.  Although they 
haven't always watched their own shows either.  (They once showed a Flying
Circus episode with (*Gasp*) nudity in it.)

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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Red Dwarf-athon at EveCon
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:25:25 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Originator: sokay@cyclone


Just a brief plug for a local con around here:
EveCon 10 1/1/93-1/2/93 will be holding a RedDwarf-athon, starting Saturday
afternoon 1/2 and going quite possibly until the end of the con. They will be
starting with "The End" and going all the way up to the most recent US-available
episodes. 

I'll be there at the marathon between 4-6 on Sat. afternoon helping out and
probably for quite sometime afterwards just watching and toasting my brain..

EveCon 10 is being held at the DoubleTree Inn (formerly the Holiday Inn Crowne
Plaza) 300 Army-Navy Dr., Arlington, Va.  Its a general SF con with a couple
LARPS, 24hr movies, gaming, Art Show, Dealers Room, Panels(drop by the zine
panel on Sat. afternoon and watch me make a fool of myself..) and other
weirdness. 
Registration is $25 at the door.

---Steve
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From: xuegxae@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Payne)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf books
Date: 26 Dec 1992 23:25:16 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <913@idanm.pfbs.philips.se> joho@pfbs.philips.se (Hans ter Horst) writes:
>
>
>I've read "Red Dwarf - Infinity welcomes careful driver" and "Better
>than live". Does anybody known if there are any more books available
>in the Red Dwarf series ?

The 'RD omnibus' combines these two plus a few other bits from the
authors ... no major new material in book form.


-Andrew


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Subject: posting of GIFs to this newsgroup
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 03:59:55 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)


Hey, just a warning about the posting of GIFs to non binary
newsgroups.

Don't. (Well, at least don't go posting masses of the things anyway)

Why not?

Because many sites don't get binary newsgroups due to lack of disk
space and/or modem connect times.

A lot of sites don't have much spare space, and a lot of Usenet
still connects at 2400 bits per second via long-distance phone links.

Consistant posting of GIFs to a group may result in annoyed/frazzled
system administrators stopping the group being fed.

Please remember other people have to pay for the net, even if you don't


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: spm@dar.csiro.au (McEWAN Shane)
Subject: Re: Holoships
Organization: CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:49:07 GMT

u920381@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Alexander Lum) writes:
: 
: * Giving up "constant, guilt-free sex" to join the Red Dwarf crew? I think
: not.
:   Rimmer's been the only one to get any since the accident, AND that was on
: the
:   Holoship!

What about in "Parallel Universe?" Lister must have "got some" in order for
him to get pregnant.

--

  Shane McEwan     CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research    spm@dar.csiro.au
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: jamull01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Joseph A. Muller)
Subject: Request for Episodes on Tape
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:47:39 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

 A very good friend of mine in Maryland has recently just gotten into red dwarf,
but unfortunately he has only been able to view part of season 3 before
his PBS station stopped showing it.  His thirst for the show is unquenchable,
and recently he bought all the available books on the show.  Since his birthday
is coming up I would like to give him the suprise of his life, so I was 
wondering if there is a kind soul out there in netland that could possibly 
provide me with all 5 seasons on VHS tapes ?  My episode collection is 
pretty incomplete, no thanks to our local station.  Of course I will provide the
tapes and pay for all shipping costs.  I would like to have one season per tape,
with the quality of the recordings being as good as possible (ecspecially since
I will be making myself a copy : )  I would need these as soon as possible,
preferabbly by the third week in January (as that is when his birthday is.)

   Email any replies and thanks in advance.
From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf books
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 13:09:42 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong) writes:

> What on earth is Red Dwarf Smegazine? :)

From the FAQ List:

	There is also an official magazine for the series being 
	published in England.  There are supposed to be overseas
	subscriptions available, and you can find it at some specialty
        shops and convenions.  The magazine seems aimed at a younger 
	audience, but is fairly clever and has nice interviews (and 
	great photos).  For more information, write to:

	RED DWARF MAGAZINE
	FLEETWAY EDITIONS LIMITED
	3RD FLOOR
	GREATER LONDON HOUSE
	HAMPSTEAD ROAD 
	LONDON
	ENGLAND
	NW1 7QQ

I suspect that this is what people sometimes call the Smegazine.

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