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From: jsfjp@acad1.alaska.edu (PERRICONE FRANK J)
Subject: Re: QL: Female Episodes
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC
Organization: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:28:00 GMT

>>For the record, there are EIGHT episodes where he leaps into women:
>>    What Price Gloria?: Secretary fighting harassment in 1961.
> 
>Why do people keep saying this episode was fighting harassment.  Has
>EVERYONE forgotten that Gloria tried to jump off a building because of
>some scum married man??

*Samantha* was fighting harassment from her boss... Gloria, of course, would
have welcomed the attention, and she was the center of the episode, but
Samantha was nonetheless being harassed (at least while Sam was there, we don't
know what Samantha thought herself) so the theme did come up.  The listing
above should probably not list the harassment problem as if it were the main
theme of the episode, though.
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From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell)
Subject: Re: QL: Dr Ruth continuity error
Keywords: glasses
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:41:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.211356.15072@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> krk1@pyuxe.uucp (24228-knights) writes:
>In article <Jan.21.15.06.32.1993.11851@gandalf.rutgers.edu>, dak@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Dorothy Klein) writes:
>> SPIOLER for "Dr. Ruth", 1/19/93 Quantum Leap episode, though this is really 
>> minor....
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>> 	When Dr. Ruth arrives, it is without her eyeglasses -- Al brings her a
>> replacement pair along with the jacket  (Fermi suits look better on some
>> folks than others?).
>> 	When the vampire leaps in, the first thing he does is remove
>> HIS eyeglasses!
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>No, I think he removed the eyeglasses which Al supplied to Dr. Ruth,
>just as he was still wearing the white jacket he gave her.
>I did a double take on this one, too, but they look like the same
>glasses.  SO, just as the leapees always leap into the fermi suit,
>they also leap into anything else the previous leapee might have added.
>(So I guess you should hope the guy before you knew something about
>accessorizing.)  :-)

They're definately not his glasses. That's why he takes them off
and looks at them like he's gonna say, "where the hell did these
come from?"

Flip


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From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: DS9 and TNG
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:40:00 GMT

MANTEL@adcalc.fnal.gov (MANTEL) writes:
>Deep Space 9 is about as bad as you are going to get for a big budget
>Sci-Fi show.  As far as I can see there is nothing new or innovative about
>the show.  The only decent characters are the non-humans at least they have
>real emotions.  Commander Sisko.  Is about as bland as you get. And the
>Major is about as bad an actress as you get.  I don't like to make
>predictions because they usually never comme true but in this case I don't
>foresee the show going more than a season.  Unless some major changes are
>made.  I am sure you trek fans out there will say that TOS wasn't liked by
>the masses at first either and look at how it has withstood the test of
>time.  But if you are a true Trek fan you wouldn't spend you time watching
>DS9.

Thank you very much for defining to us what a Trek fan is.  Can you please 
tell me what acting, sets, costumes and plots on TOS are any better?  That 
show was ok, for its time, but watching them again now is embarrassing!  They 
don't hold up.  The characterizations on TNG and TOS are *much* better.  
Admittedly, the plots tend to be redundant, but I watch for character as much 
as anything.  I think I,Borg is one of the best TNG episodes of the 5 
seasons.  And I'm beginning to enjoy DS9.  It's early -- give it a chance.  I 
like the teenaged Ferengi, and the Cardassian merchant.  I also think Major 
Kira is one of the best characters on the show.  Gee, what a concept, a 
strong woman!  The doctor is *annoying*!  Come on, he's 27 years old (they 
gave his age in the premiere episode), not a teenager!  He acts like he's on 
his first crush with Dax.

But just because some of the characters are bad, doesn't mean they all are.  
I liked the line Odo gave this week about spending the night in a pail in his 
office.  But then, i thought in the first episode that he didn't know what 
his original shape was?

OK, it's not great art.  So, let's all boycott this show.  And TNG, because 
it isn't perfect.  And Time Trax.  And Space Rangers.  And then the TV moguls 
will say, "Nobody wants to watch SF on TV."  And nothing will ever get 
better.  If we watch these shows, as the lemming-like character of TV 
executives has shown us in the past, we'll see more SF on TV.  And then 
maybe we *can* get great art.

But then there will be people who will say, "But it's not TOS," and they'll 
tell us that true SF fans wouldn't watch it.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil

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From: ps70awg@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (mel rupinski)
Subject: Re: QL question (Insignificant SPOILER on Dr. Ruth episode)
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-28957]: rs1.tcs.tulane.edu
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:33:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.012720.7185@zip.eecs.umich.edu> jirwin@emunix.emich.edu (Jane Irwin) writes:
>In article <93021.083251RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>I want to know how the hell did Dr. Ruth's body (albiet with Sam's mind)
>>take a couple of hammers to the jaw and real nasty shove into some kitchen
>>applience by some guy who looks to be about 6'0", 180 lbs and then come back
>>and kick his ass?
>>
>>Martial arts or no martial arts, I don't think an old woman can brush off
>>that kind of punishment.
>>
>>Needless to say, I was laughing my head off when I was watching the
>>climactic fight scene!  Heh hah!
>
>FOR THE LAST TIME- IT'S *SAM'S* BODY THAT LEAPS!!!!
>THE AURA OF THE PERSON IN QUESTION SURROUNDS HIM, AS HIS AURA SURROUNDS
>THE PERSON IN THE WAITING ROOM!!
>
>
>sorry for the yelling- i must have answered this question a thousand times.


Just to avoid any more confusion that may arise, the auras mentioned above
are "physical auras", and not those which spiritualists claim to be able
to see. . .

mtr


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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Subject: Re: Time Trax
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:18:56 GMT

In <1993Jan21.112231.6098@sol.UVic.CA> mmcalees@cs16.UVic.CA (Michael McAleese) writes:

>   After viewing the two hour debut movie of Time Trax, I have to give
>it the old thumbs down. It wasn't exactly that it was bad... it just 
>wasn't good.
>   I'm glad I taped Space Rangers, which was running concurrently. 

I'm very sad that I choose to watch Time Trax instead of Space Rangers. It
was WORSE! How is this possible?

Yuck.

-Geoff
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From: roy@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: QL: Dr Ruth continuity error
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:49:29 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: roy@trigger.watson.ibm.com
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Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In <Jan.21.15.06.32.1993.11851@gandalf.rutgers.edu> dak@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Dorothy Klein) writes:
>SPIOLER for "Dr. Ruth", 1/19/93 Quantum Leap episode, though this is really 
>minor....
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>       When Dr. Ruth arrives, it is without her eyeglasses -- Al brings her a
>replacement pair along with the jacket  (Fermi suits look better on some
>folks than others?).
>       When the vampire leaps in, the first thing he does is remove
>HIS eyeglasses!
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>       Just an observation,
>       Dotty

Actually, if you look at it the other way, the first thing he did was
remove Dr Ruth's glasses.  You know, the ones she was wearing that
were given to her?  She wouldn't leap with those on because Sam was
wearing her pair and her dress.  Get it?

Regards,
Tom Rogers
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From: jmstreck@carson.u.washington.edu (John Streck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL Guest Stars (aka Repeaters)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:43:34 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

grj@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Gary R. Jackson) writes:

>In rec.arts.sf.tv, hamlet@zeus.tamu.edu.FC.HP.COM writes:

>> 
>> Last night on the Dr. Ruth Ep there was a really attractive woman
>> playing the part of the sexually harrassed secretary.  I've seen her 
>> before, but I can't remember where or who she was.  I figured this 
>> question fits right in with our current discussion.

>She currently is on Doogie Howser, M.D.  as a nurse, or nurse's aide, who is
>Doogie's current love interest.  I haven't seen her anywhere else that I can
>remember right now.

>Gary R. Jackson
>grj@fc.hp.com

Her name's Robin Lively. Her big break (I think) came with The Karate Kid
III, and I think she was involved with that show called Freshman Year (?)
which I believe came and went (probably in the same episode) a few months ago.

john streck
jmstreck@u.washington.edu
From: bugsy@wpi.WPI.EDU (Christopher Sean Moran)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Red Dwarf
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:15:25 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

I have read the book Red Dwarf and seen a GIF of the cast.  But,
I cant find the show anywhere.  Is it on in America ?  This
is very typical of good British comedy.  Theres not enough
of it in America.


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From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: Galaxy Rangers (list) Question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:52:08 GMT

charris@eos.ncsu.edu (CHESTER  HARRIS) writes:


>  I have heard from a friend of mine that there were 70 - 75 episodes of GR.
>       Might he me right?

The episode list from the encyclopaedia of cartoons (Some lovely person
from Canada sent me this) listed just 63 (I had thought there were 65
for some reason.).  Unless there was another season no one has ever heard 
about before, then I would assume your friend heard wrong.

Not that we all wish there were more GR episodes.
It woudl make some of us very happy, to maybe see Zach get Aliza back,
and Goose and Niko finally get a clue.


sigh.


LJC
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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Re: QL question (Insignificant SPOILER on Dr. Ruth episode)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:03:14 GMT

In article <93021.083251RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I want to know how the hell did Dr. Ruth's body (albiet with Sam's mind)
>take a couple of hammers to the jaw and real nasty shove into some kitchen
>applience by some guy who looks to be about 6'0", 180 lbs and then come back
>and kick his ass?
>
>Martial arts or no martial arts, I don't think an old woman can brush off
>that kind of punishment.
>


It's not Dr. Ruth's body -- it's Sam's body, her aura.  That's been said 
before, most recently in Killin' Time.


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From: millinsj@cs.aston.ac.uk (SJ MILLINGTON,,,,)
Subject: Re: QL'ing in England.
Reply-To: millinsj@cs.aston.ac.uk
Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:55:02 GMT

Unfortunately we, on this side of the atlantic, have still to get to episodes
like shock theater(re?), and the one where al leaps.  Could anyone tell me (as
many gory details!) about the evil leaper and the one in which al leaps.
My curiosity is killing me and we are at the hands of the BBc who have still
not put QL back on air after the christmas break.

To those who were saying LASERDISk, all i have to say is PAL!  THere are lots of 
people in England who would buy the tapes on the appropriate format.  So to those
who know a man who can, pass on this message, please!!!!!!
Sam
(no relation to the quantum physicist)
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From: jirwin@emunix.emich.edu (Jane Irwin)
Subject: Re: QL question (Insignificant SPOILER on Dr. Ruth episode)
Organization: Eastern Michigan Lunatic Asylum
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:27:20 GMT

In article <93021.083251RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> <RHK106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>I want to know how the hell did Dr. Ruth's body (albiet with Sam's mind)
>take a couple of hammers to the jaw and real nasty shove into some kitchen
>applience by some guy who looks to be about 6'0", 180 lbs and then come back
>and kick his ass?
>
>Martial arts or no martial arts, I don't think an old woman can brush off
>that kind of punishment.
>
>Needless to say, I was laughing my head off when I was watching the
>climactic fight scene!  Heh hah!

FOR THE LAST TIME- IT'S *SAM'S* BODY THAT LEAPS!!!!
THE AURA OF THE PERSON IN QUESTION SURROUNDS HIM, AS HIS AURA SURROUNDS
THE PERSON IN THE WAITING ROOM!!


sorry for the yelling- i must have answered this question a thousand times.

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From: roy@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Time Trax
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:37:00 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: roy@trigger.watson.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In <2B5ECE67@ssd0.laafb.af.mil> KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL writes:
>1 - Why did they insist on calling it the Smithsonian Institute?  It's the 
>Smithsonian *Institution*.

No, it is 'Institute', isn't it?

>10 - Has Michael Warren *really* gone bald since Hill Street Blues?  And 
>haven't they found a cure yet in 200 years?  I always ask the same question 
>about Jean-Luc Picard.

He is that bald.

Regards,
Tom Rogers
roy@trigger.watson.ibm.com
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From: Jakob Nielsen <nielsen@bellcore.com>
Subject: Re: Time Trax
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In article <1993Jan21.112231.6098@sol.UVic.CA> Michael McAleese,
mmcalees@cs16.UVic.CA writes:
>    After viewing the two hour debut movie of Time Trax, I have to give
> it the old thumbs down. It wasn't exactly that it was bad... it just 
> wasn't good.

There were also several errors showing lack of care in production. The
worst (given its prominence) was probably the sign saying "Smithsonian
Institute" when in fact it is called the "Smithsonian Institution". Another
error (that admittedly might only be caught by a Scandinavian) is the scene
where somebody gets the Nobel prize in physics and the diploma reads
"Awarded by the Norwegian Nobel committee." The Norwegian Nobel committee
only awards the peace price, whereas the other prizes are awarded by the
*Swedish* Nobel committee.
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From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: "Cut & Choose" for several players
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:57:06 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <43725@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs161fir@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Anthony Minkoff)  
writes:
> 
> Now I want a method for distributing the pile among n players, so
> that no player feels that any other player received a better
> portion.
> 
I'm following up to rec.puzzles, rather than sci.math, because my solution is not  
mathematical.

In a real social situation, I suppose you could do this:

Player 1 of n (decided perhaps by lot) must divide up the entire lot into n  
bundles. Every player, including player 1, agrees to take any one of these bundles  
unless he wishes to challenge the division, in which case he must re-divide the  
entire lot himself. The kinds of division resulting from each challenge might be  
radically different, reflecting the different values of the players.

Any number of challengers may redivide the lot until no further challenges are  
offered - after which each must take any one of the bundles (chosen randomly or in  
some ordered fashion). The person making the final challenge does not suffer the  
penalty of taking the last remaining bundle, since any other player could have  
redivided the lot.

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From: Bob_Hearn@qm.claris.com (Robert Hearn)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Are you sure? (* SPOILER *)
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:22:50 GMT
Followup-To: rec.puzzles
Organization: Spartacus Software

In article <1993Jan22.131719.36@janus.arc.ab.ca>, morgan@arc.ab.ca (Sean
Morgan) wrote:
> 
> You meet the daughter of a friend of yours on the street.  You know that your
> friend has two children.  You think to yourself, "Ignoring the occurrence of
> twins, and sex-linked differences in birth rates and infant mortality, what are
> the odds of this girl's sibling also being a girl?"
> -----------------+-------------------------------
> Sean Morgan      |  ALBERTA  6815 - 8 Street N.E.
>                  | RESEARCH  Calgary, AB, Canada
> morgan@arc.ab.ca |  COUNCIL  T2E 7H7


I don't think you asked that quite right.  It's supposed to be, "A man
has two children.  One of them is a boy.  What are the odds that the
other one is also a boy?"
The answer, which surprises most people, is 1/3.  There are four
possibilities: boy/boy, boy/girl, girl/boy, and girl/girl, all equally
likely.  Since one child is a boy, the last possibility is eliminated.
That leaves two out of three cases where the other child is a girl.

However, meeting one of the children on the street changes the odds,
because if they are both girls you'll be twice as likely to meet one
of them.  That is, after meeting the girl you do know that there are
only three possibilties, and that they are not both boys, but the
three possibilities are not equally likely.  Assuming, that is, that
your odds off meeting someone of type X on the street depend on how
populous people of type X are.


Bob Hearn
Spartacus Software

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Subject: Re: Are you sure?
From: morgan@arc.ab.ca (Sean Morgan)
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:59:07 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Alberta Research Council

In article <1993Jan22.131719.36@janus.arc.ab.ca> morgan@arc.ab.ca (Sean Morgan)
writes:
>You meet the daughter of a friend of yours on the street.  You know that your
>friend has two children.  You think to yourself, "Ignoring the occurrence of
>twins, and sex-linked differences in birth rates and infant mortality, what
are
>the odds of this girl's sibling also being a girl?"
>-----------------+-------------------------------

(Some of my mail says "not again", and some says "please post a solution".
 Since you can't please all of the people all of the time...)

Two child families are uniformly distributed between MM,MF,FF,FM, in birth
order.  Again, all four possibilities are equally likely.  Stop here.  Make
sure you believe that.

Now, since at least one is F, the MM drops out, leaving MF, FF, FM, so that
there is only a one third chance that the sibling is a girl.
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From: jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu (Joseph Hernandez)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Reverse city names (Was Re: Cities with an internal border)
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:14:38 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility

In article <matthew.727989239@base.cs.ucla.edu> matthew@base.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Merzbacher) writes:
>dant@techbook.com (Dan Tilque) writes:
>>So far, I've found about half a dozen in North America (some are fairly
>>small though), but none on other continents.
>If you watch "The Third Man", you will know that Vienna *used* to be
>divided into five "quarters" (Russian, American, French, British and
>International).  Of course, for years Berlin was divided.
>Also, Jerusalem was politically divided between 1948 and 1967.

I am not sure this counts but I'll try it anyway. There is a city in southern
Arizona named NOGALES. Across the international border in Mexico, there is a
city named NOGALES also. Now, I'm not sure if they were the same city before
and were divided up or if they started out separately.

Now, in Southern California there are two cities bordering each other that
have interchangeable syllables in their names. The places I'm thinking of are
CLAREMONT and MONTCLAIR. I know the spelling is different but I think you
understand my point. Are there other places in the country with this
distinction? What about the world?

Sidenote: Also in Southern California, there is CALEXICO and across the
          border in Mexico, there is MEXICALI.

Just my 8% of a quarter's worth--
Joe Hernandez the SCRINC (Southern California Resident In Northern California)
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