From: ag154@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy C. Radwan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: The Firwood Lemur Rating System
Date: 15 Dec 1992 14:44:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ag154@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy C. Radwan)
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In a previous article, kruger@plains.NoDak.edu (Donovan Kruger) says:

>
>HEY!  ST II is thE BEST Star Trek movie ever made when it comes to action
>packed sequences.  I have yet to see a Star Trek episode (TNG or TOS) or
>movie with more action (shoot-em-up).  The Laserdisc is one of the best
>around for surround sound.  It is quite an experience!!
>
>ST II should not have ANY Lemurs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Sorry, just trying to defend a favorite...
>

Ok, before I get myself lynched, I had better explain this, as I didn't
seem to do a good job the first time. We came up with this over the summer,
so I'll try and remember everything. It involved a long heated debate and
discussion over mathematics and such...I'll do my best.


==============================================================================
                      Firwood Apartments Presents:

                        The LEMUR Rating System

    Created by: Jeremy Radwan, Dave Nellis, Rik Lain, Dave Durkalski
==============================================================================

	The LEMUR Rating System was conceived after a viewing of
 	"King Dinosaur" on Myster Science Theater 3000, which
	involved a strange phenomenon known only as Joey the Lemur.

	Movies are rated by believability and overall stability. The
	worse a movie is, the more LEMURs it gets.

1 - 10 milliLEMURs  - films in this class are unbelievably good, and hardly
		      ever occur. I don't think we could come up with an
	              example of a milliLEMUR movie. If we did, I don't
		      remember it.

1 - 10 LEMURs  -  this depicts a pretty good, believable film. Star Trek II
	          is a 2 LEMUR movie (that Genesis device kicked it up to 2
		  LEMURs from only 1).

1 - 10 kiloLEMURs - this is where you start getting into the bad movies, 
		    although they're not terrible...yet. An example: Star
		    Trek V was a 6 kiloLEMUR movie.

1 - 10 megaLEMURS - if a movie is rated in megaLEMURs, you KNOW it's bad.
		    basically ANY MST3k experiment fits into this category.

Note that the LEMUR Rating system works on the WMSoM method, or the "Warped
Metric System of Mathematics." Explanation is as follows:

10 milliLEMURs = 1 LEMUR

10 LEMURs = 1 kiloLEMUR

10 kiloLEMURs = 1 megaLEMUR

Pretty simple, eh?
==============================================================================
    The LEMUR Rating System - Created by those Crazy Guys in Firwood 3B
     Copyleft, Copydown, Copyall-around (c)1992 by Firwood Productions
==============================================================================

Ok, that's it!

Ready...aim...flame!
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