From: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu (Me)
Subject: Re: MST3k Withdrawl!  HELLLP MEEEEE!
Reply-To: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu (Me)
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:57:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.191244.1913@bvc.edu>, johnsonchris@bvc.edu writes:
>
>I must tell you, life has really become rough since I was forcefully ripped
>from my gentle confines and forced to live without the luxury of MST3K.  It
>is horrible, you cannot understand the pain you must endure.  A proud 
>watcher for over 3 years (hey, I even turned down the lights EVERY TIME as
>the instructions say), I have been forced by various outside reasons to 
>live in an area that (shock) DOES NOT GET MST3K.  I am in early withdrawl, 
>and now that I have discovered the MST3K newsgroup, I must say the healing 
>process is beginning.
>
> Now that I got that off my chest, I am suprised that there aren't too many 
>Minnesota viewers on here.  To get a good portion of some of the jokes, you 
>must be a resident Minnesotan (or at least from Minnesota in your growing 
>years.)
>
>Item:    The Rennaisance Festival Punching Bags
>           -- Seems to me Joel and the gang do not care for a Minnesota
>              tradition, the RenFest.  Huzzah, I must say.  What's not
>              to like about a gang of gypsies performing medieval antics
>              such as lobbing various liquids at you from high trees, etc.
>
>Item:    The "huzzah!" quotation
>           -- The above explains it, except to say there was a terrible
>              ad campaign for the RenFest a few years back, and Huzzah!
>              was about the only thing people remembered about it.
>
>Item:    The "Do you want to go faster!" quotation
>           -- Mere miles from the RenFest is another Minnesota tradition, 
>              VALLEYFAIR.  This overpriced amusement park has a certain
>              ride named "The Catepillar", where during it a madman with
>              a microphone screams at the riders, "Do you want to go faster
>              raise your hands!", etc.  After which 100s of riders are
>              thrilled by a ride that is not really that fast.
>
>Item:    The "Senator Paul Wellstone not included" remark.
>           -- Great bit of humor.  Who remembers "Gamera Vs. Barragon?"
>              During it they had a "Make your own Gamera Movie" toy kit,
>              complete with "Peace Protestors (Senator Paul W. Not
>              included.)
>
>There are tons more, more than I could name.  The humor in MST3K is 
>boundless, but the added knowledge of it's creators home state makes it
>even more so.  It makes me wish I had watched it when it simply was just a 
>local show, not on Comedy Channel or Comedy Central.  But I did not find it 
>as humorus then.
>
>Oh well, I'm rambling, but I need to to get over my withdrawl.  
>If anyone can help my withdrawl with anything, email me.
>
>"Uh oh, looks like dad found your stash!"  -  Teenage Caveman /Ala MST3k
>
>--CLJ
>
To CLJ:  I, too, was dragged from my Minneapolis home, kicking and screaming, 
and am in similar straits.  I'm stuck in Montana.  however, there's hope.  Not
only do I have 32 hours of MST3K on tape, I also have MST#K friends at home who
have kindly offered to mail us the entire season.  I love these people.
Meanwhile, I wear the MST t-shirt My SO bought, and watch"The Pod People".
(We went to the uptown to see Joel & the 'bots live. We even heckled Joel when
he was being a smartass and heckling the crowd. Fun, fun.)

                    Hang in there, we know what you're going through;
                              La Morte.(AKA Creepy Girl)


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