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From: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: YEAR IN REVIEW
Date: 2 Jan 93 16:12:59 GMT
Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA

>>>>> In article <2934979818.0.p00258@psilink.com>, "A.J. Janschewitz" <p00258@psilink.com> writes:
A.J.> I hope it would not be a violation of copyright (or too much chutzpah) 
A.J.> to ask that someone with a copy of the "long version" fax it to me at 
A.J.> (203) 292-6601?

It *is* a violation of copyright.  Don't.

Just another person who makes a living creating copyrighted material,
-- 
Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
merlyn@ora.com (semi-permanent) merlyn@agora.rain.com (for newsreading only)
phrase: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon ... home of the California Raisins!"
From: brian@sgmlinc.com (Brian E. Travis)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Dave's Year-in-Review
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 05:46:25 GMT
Organization: SGML Associates, Inc.
Reply-To: brian@sgmlinc.com

I just got Dave's Year-end-Review off Clarinet (yes, legally). I 
don't know if it has appeared in the papers yet.

I had a hard time keeping quiet. I read it in my office with the 
door closed, and people must have thought I had lost the rest of 
my mind. Very funny stuff. Dave at his best. "...the pound falls 
sharply against the lira, knocking it into the pfennig, which 
suffers a minor injury." "The Supreme Court votes 6-5 to strike 
down a federal law equiring audits of Supreme Court voting 
procedures." "True Item: Scientists announce the discovery of a 
massive, 1,500-year-old fungus in Michigan. It covers at least 37 
acres, making it the largest living thing on Earth, after Rush 
Limbaugh." Too many to list. Check it out.

BTW, the long version is available on Clarinet. I assume not all 
papers will print it (a shorter version is also sent to 
subscribing papers). Look for the long version.

--
Brian E. Travis                                              brian@sgml.com
SGML Architect,        Managing Editor,               Tele: +1 303 680-0875
InfoDesign Corp.       <TAG> The SGML Newsletter       Fax: +1 303 680-4906
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
From: rlai@pomona.claremont.edu (Mac Crusader)
Subject: Re: good news/bad news
Organization: Pomona College
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:44:23 PST

      Brad--

      I think a good idea might be for ClariNet to start adding headers or
      footers to Dave Barry articles that explain that this should not be
      passed around.  I don't mean legalese copyright notices, but just
      friendly requests, like "Please do not distribute this article. 
      Subscriptions to Dave Barry's articles are available by e-mail by
      contacting <whatever address>@clarinet.com"

      Certainly this is no deterrent, but it would let people know that
      this isn't supposed to be done.  From my experience, people pass
      things around on the Net because they don't know they're not supposed
      to, not because they're trying to break the law.

      Roger
From: adric@access.digex.com (William Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: Dave's Year-in-Review
Date: 31 Dec 1992 19:20:02 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <3044@tymix.Tymnet.COM> filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM writes:
>
>Washington Post: YIR will be in next Sunday's paper (3 jan); probably the
>magazine; don't know which version.
>

BTW, how faithful is the Washington Post in their printings?  Will we
ultimately miss one due to their vacation this past sunday?  Or will
they print two one week?  And what is this Daves Ultimate Christmas List
column?  I never saw it.  Was it in the Post?

Thanks.

Will.
-- 
Copyright (C) 1993 by William Johnson  All rights wronged, all lefts made
adric@access.digex.com                     without benefit of turn signal.
Will Johnson, 307 S. Reynolds St Box P-216, Alexandria, VA  22304
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have included a quote in your .sig file."
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
From: "A.J. Janschewitz" <p00258@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: long version
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:32:22 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

Please ignore my previous request for a copy of the long version of YIR. 
An alert editor at the Hartford *Courant*, seeing my consternation, 
inserted it in my morning paper, thus ensuring my continued subscription.

Happy New Year. May this year's material be as good.

Cheers ...
==a.j.==
From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: Re: Dave's Year-in-Review
Date: 31 Dec 92 12:34:24 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

In article 1hulkpINNjnv@mirror.digex.com, adric@access.digex.com (William Johnson) writes:
>In article <C03CLF.M7D@csisun.uucp> jburnes@csisun.uucp (Jim Burnes) writes:
>>Could someone please test the copyright laws by posting the long version?
>>
>>J. Burnes
>>
>
>No.
>
A better idea might be for people to post newspapers where the long version
(how do you _know_ it's the long version?) appears, and check out your
local library.

Washington Post: YIR will be in next Sunday's paper (3 jan); probably the
magazine; don't know which version.

--f2

-------------------------
  .sig on vacation.  Back in nine days
From: ntraven@wuntvor.pillar.com (The Night Raven)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
Subject: long version
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 11:49:00 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK

     Does anyone know if the Dallas or Tulsa papers ran the long version?  If
so, what dates?

NR

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From: gimble@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (David Caruso II)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.naked-guy
Subject: CALLING NAKED GUY.  COME IN, NAKED GUY.
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:31:12 CST
Organization: America, Planet Earth

	I wonder if the Naked Guy has a computer account somewhere?  Hey Naked
Guy!  Are you out there?  Respond please!

	(Maybe this guy thinks he's still dreaming that dream we all dream 
where we walk around in our underwear or naked in a public place?  Should 
someone wake him up?  Maybe they shouldn't, because to do so would be too 
psychologically damaging.  Or, when he wakes up, everyone act like they 
don't know.  Hell, what do I care?  I don't go to Berkely ...)


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From: bur@ultisol.gsfc.nasa.gov (MAC)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.gooley,alt.pets.chia,alt.non.sequitur,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: walrus lawyers dance before Mormon missionary positions
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:56:45 GMT
Organization: NASA/GSFC code 923

In article <1992Dec23.144627.25418@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>
>	He heard a woman singing a spiritual, and ran down the deserted
>street, turned a corner, and stopped when he saw her.  When she had finished,
>he said, "That was beautiful.  And you're not even black."
>	She was a small woman of Oriental features.  "Oh, sorry," she said,
>changing race and growing a few inches.  "Better?" she asked, voice unchanged.
>	"That wasn't necessary," he said.  "Care for some breakfast?"
>	"All right," she said, neutrally thanks to some fine pH buffering,
>and they skipped down the street to an all-night diner which dined on them.
>	I watched all this from my apartment window, aided by a telescope,
>a sensitive parabolic mike named Fred, my gossipy young wife whom I had had
>converted from an ancient gray tabby cat, and a plate of concrete scones.
>I munched a scone reflectively, aided by my high albedo, and broke most of
>my teeth.  I shipped the fragments to Greece, where a pleasant peasant
>sowed them; armed men sprang up, and I felt a Cadmus and a Cadbury chocolate
>bar.  Gangs of ardent Chestertonians, drunk on Real Ale, boycotted and
>girlcotted and wainscotted me.
>Mark., burnt out
>gooley@netcom.com

Ch-ch-ch-chia,
Ch-ch-ch-chia pet!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.gooley,alt.non.sequitur,talk.bizarre
From: bur@ultisol.gsfc.nasa.gov (MAC)
Subject: Re: toxicity hymnal burrows into hobbledehoy, a most delightful thing
Organization: NASA/GSFC code 923
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:30:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.160918.1929@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>[deleted]
>my superego, Lawrence Eagleburger
>[deleted]

I have no joke here, I just like saying "my superego, Lawrence Eagleburger".
Newsgroups: alt.fan.gooley,alt.non.sequitur,talk.bizarre
From: "A.J. Janschewitz" <p00258@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: toxicity hymnal burrows into hobbledehoy, a most delightful thing
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:44:31 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

>DATE:   Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:30:22 GMT
>FROM:   MAC <bur@ultisol.gsfc.nasa.gov>

>I have no joke here, I just like saying "my superego, Lawrence Eagleburger".

Thank you for sharing. Have a seat.

==a.j.==

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From: goldek@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Ken Goldenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Upcoming Eddings Books
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:05:03 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY


 
'lo,
 
 
Someone posted saying that there would be a book on Polgara and a book on
Belgarath following the Tamuli, after which Eddings would turn to other
fields--like Sci-Fi.  What I want to know is are the other two books going
to come out after the last two books in the Tamuli?  Or will they be
released in alternation?  Also, can anybody tell me when the next Eddings
book (whichever one it is) will actually be coming out?
 
 
 
					-Mitch (for a friend)
 
 
P.S.  IMHO Erastide is Christmas.

-- 
_____
goldek@rpi.edu                                SkateAway, that's all  
Kenneth Mitchell Goldenberg                   "It's a running gag"
From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Re: Eddings and Chirstmas ?
Keywords: Eddings, Christmas
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:19:28 GMT
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

It turns out that Christ probably wasn't born round the 25th December anyway.
Xmas was put then to correspond with the winter solstice and the celebrations
at that time by the Romans (I can't remember what it was called).

Virtually every (northern) culture has/had celebrations at that time because
of the solstice, and, to make it more acceptable to the average pagan, Xmas
does as well.

Hope this is clear...

Donal.
--
"Everything that is not nailed down is mine.
 Everything that I can pry loose is not nailed down."
    - Collis P. Huntingdon
From: mecew6@jane.uh.edu (Broze, J.)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Question
Date: 24 Dec 1992 17:49 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jane.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Keywords:  
Ok all, I have a question.  In the latter parts of _The_Seeress
Of_Kell_ Garion notes that light is capable of change, while dark
is not.  Would this show edding's views on the Status Quo?

Personally I think I have spent too much time in english class,
and need to have my head examied for finding deep meaning in 
fiction.

(ain't nobody here but us .sig(s))

Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
From: cantor@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor)
Subject: Re: Eddings and Chirstmas ?
Keywords: Eddings, Christmas
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:37:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.180425.9525@nntp.hut.fi> r32554j@kaira.hut.fi (Kirsi Lindh) writes:
>In article <yZHDwB2w165w@cibbs.UUCP> cupcake@cibbs.UUCP writes:
>>njewijn@cs.vu.nl (Wijngaards NJE) writes:
>>
>>I've read them all (the Belgariad and the Mallorean) to much length..if yoy
>>know what I mean.  (I'm not MUCH of a sap...I just like them)  And the only
>>referance to X-mas was Erastide.  I have yet to get the Elenium because of
>>
>>Lady Cupcake
>>aka Elizabeth


>What I've read, I got the feeling that Erastide was later in the winter.
>More like spring. I always thought more of it being an equalient to Easter.
>

	No, I think if you take a look at Pawn of Prophecy, you'll see it as
being a mid-winter holiday.  The early scene in the first book is by far the
most complete description of the holiday, and they clearly mention it as being
in the middle of winter.



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From: wai@unixg.ubc.ca (David Wai)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Re: Eddings gave up on Malloreon - rumour?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:07:49 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca
Summary: I think he just finished.
Keywords: Belgariad Mallorean new other book

In article <Bzo1n9.I50@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> u2d92@seq1.keele.ac.uk (MJ Gumbley) writes:
>Hello all,
>
>  A friend of mine told me that David Eddings was getting tired of writing
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How about the possibility that he finished the series?

>the Malloreon, and there won't be another series, no separate stories, etc.
>
>  Is this true? Will there be any more stories set in this world?
[rest of posting deleted]

IMHO, Eddings has decided enough has been written about Garion and
friends.  I mean, he is forging ahead with another double series
(Elenium/Tamuli).

Actually, I think the Belgariad/Mallorean series has finished in a
very nice place.  I think we can rest assured that Eriond can keep the
world peaceful and happy, and that it would be too boring to write
another book about it. :-) :-)

On that note, how do people (and especially fans :-) feel about the
concept that "enough is enough" and that there comes a time when a
story must stop?  Or what about *gasp* that ideas are no longer new
and refeshing?  Just something to think about.

Finally, something I have not seen mentioned in this group: Does
anyone have an opinion on _The Losers_?

David Wai
wai@unixg.ubc.ca
-- No .sig is good .sig --
From: jeffreyw@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Jeffrey Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Re: Eddings and Christmas ?
Keywords: Eddings, Christmas
Date: 23 Dec 92 12:36:30 GMT
Reply-To: jeffreyw@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Jeffrey Wood)
Organization: RHBNC


In article <BzoFEM.Cq9@cs.vu.nl>, njewijn@cs.vu.nl (Wijngaards NJE) writes:
|> I seem to remember that in the Belgariad Eddings introduced a feast
|> called "Erastide", in which Garion got his first dagger, on which he
|> cut his finger to which Aunt Pol remarked "It was inevatable (sp?)".
|> 
|> I have read the Belgariad, Mallorian and the Elenium (the only one I
|> own) and I can't remember any other reference to a feast slightly
|> related to Christmas.
|> 
|> Or have I missed something in one of the books? If you're going to
|> re-read them - have a look, please :-)

At least three other references spring to my mind :
	1) At the beginning of "Queen of Sorcery", there is another reference to
	   Erastide, which in this case occurs 'between the narration of the
	   two novels'.  I may be mistaken, but I seem to remember Barak gives
	   Garion a sword at this one.
	2) Doesn't the crowning of Belgarion itself occur on Erastide?
	3) In "Guardians of the West', Garion gives Errand Horse on Erastide.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were some other references around somewhere.
I'm not quite sure what time of the year Erastide is supposed to be, but I seem
to remember snow in Riva at the time of Belgarion's arrival.  However, this
doesn't mean much, since Riva is a pretty cold place.

	Joyous Erastide, folks!!
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
From: pwy6d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Phil Yarrington (SG))
Subject: Help (Robert Jordan fans ...)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:01:22 GMT

Hi all,

I haven't posted here in a while, and I haven't really kept up with
the group since most of the conversations started to repeat
themselves.  When I used to read this group however, several people
recommended a series of books to read by Robert Jordan called "The
Wheel of Time."   Well, I am about half way through the fourth book,
now, and while the series has been (and is) excellent so far, I have
seen no mention in any of the books of how many more volumes the
series is going to go through.  Can anyone help me here.  As I said,
the books are excellent, but I'm in the middle of so many series, that
I wish some of them would start to wrap themselves up.

Sorry this post really has nothing to do with Eddings, but I didn't
know where else to post this, and I figured that a lot of Eddings fans
had read these books.  The ones that haven't read them would probably
enjoy them as much as I have.

E-mail responses would be appreciated.

pwy6d@virginia.edu

Thanks
-phil
From: cd678@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul E. Rybski)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Re: Eddings gave up on Malloreon - rumour?
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:51:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


vI read "The Losers," and, as a "real world" novel, I would say
that "High Hunt" was much better.  Eddings does a lot of "the 
moral of the story is" in a lot of books, and that's cool, but
it was pretty weak in "The Losers," IMHO, and I think he spread
out what he was trying to say too far.  Don't get me wrong--I 
enjoyed it, but it was rather weak, especially for David Eddings,
whom I just discovered in November, but have since read all of 
his works (and am now drooling over "Domes of Fire", which my
Public Library doesn't have yet).
***


rybskip@lawrence.edu
From: Belgarion@mad.UUCP (Kevin Nikiforuk)
Subject: Re: Domes of Fire
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:02:36 MST
Organization: The Spectre BBS

James Farrell (jfarrell@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
: OK, there ARE people out there.
: 
: So what did you people think of _Domes of Fire_. I got to do something
: to get some posts here. I'm very new, and finding almost NO posts.
: (OK, exams are a good excuse)

I liked it.  It was good to see the characters back again, and once again, Eddings is in top form.  This series is going to be interesting as it explores an entirely new continent with new cultures and characters thrown in.  I can't wait for the next book!
From: u2d92@seq1.keele.ac.uk (MJ Gumbley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Eddings gave up on Malloreon - rumour?
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:59:32 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

Hello all,

  A friend of mine told me that David Eddings was getting tired of writing
the Malloreon, and there won't be another series, no separate stories, etc.

  Is this true? Will there be any more stories set in this world?

  Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I've only just
subscribed to the newsgroup.

  Have a great Christmas and a prosperous New Year, folks!

--
Matt J. Gumbley              || Still needs a good signature, not liking
u2d92@seq1.cc.keele.ac.uk    || any of his recent feeble improvements on:
University of Keele, England || Why can't _I_ think of a good signature?
From: Dave_Durant@vos.stratus.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
Subject: Re: Domes of Fire
Date: 30 Dec 1992 03:18:20 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: m113-12.eng.stratus.com

In article <n0a3ft@ofa123.fidonet.org> Mark.Perew@p201.f208.n103.z1.fidonet.org wrote:  
>I had a friend in the UK ship me a copy of DoF as soon as I knew it was out.   
>I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I've now seen the US edition and I notice that the 
>cover art is different and the maps in the US edition are more detailed. [..] 
> 
>Can anyone comment on these differences? 
> 
My parents lived in the UK for a few years and brought be back their copy 
of the Belgariad to replace copies that my slime friends borrowed and never 
returned. All the covers are _totally_ different.  

The US PoP had young Belgarion and (old) Pol with some guy on a horse (Ash- 
arak?) in the distance. There's a map of Sendria for a background. 

The UK PoP version is a picture of a mountain range with a valley/lake in 
the middle and Garion, Belgarath and Pol standing on a mountain in the fore- 
ground.  

Maybe whoever publishes the book (US:Ballantine; UK:Corgi) gets to pick the 
artwork.  

We should all pitch in $25 and buy Mr. Eddings a PC so he can get on the 'Net 
and start answering some of the questions that come through here..  
-Dave 

Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
From: tao@fine.princeton.edu (Terry Tao)
Subject: Re: Eddings and Chirstmas ?
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: Eddings, Christmas
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:53:50 GMT

Well Yuletide is an old word for Christmas, so Erastide sounds more like
Xmas than easter...

besides, Erastide was the day the Gods created the world: a celebratory
time like Xmas, not the anniversary of Christ's death (I wonder if Torak's
death becomes a holiday... all bye the bye, of course..)

finally, everyone gets presents on Erastide.  So it's got to be the
Belgaraid version of Christmas.


Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
From: rodney@larri.bhpese.oz.au (Rodney Lewis)
Subject: Different Cover Artwork (was Re: Domes of Fire)
Organization: BHP, Newcastle, Australia
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:28:03 GMT

Dave_Durant@vos.stratus.com writes:

>>I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I've now seen the US edition and I notice that the 
>>cover art is different and the maps in the US edition are more detailed. [..] 
>> 
>My parents lived in the UK for a few years and brought be back their copy 
>of the Belgariad to replace copies that my slime friends borrowed and never 
>returned. All the covers are _totally_ different.  

>The US PoP had young Belgarion and (old) Pol with some guy on a horse (Ash- 
>arak?) in the distance. There's a map of Sendria for a background. 

>The UK PoP version is a picture of a mountain range with a valley/lake in 
>the middle and Garion, Belgarath and Pol standing on a mountain in the fore- 
>ground.  

>Maybe whoever publishes the book (US:Ballantine; UK:Corgi) gets to pick the 
>artwork.  

	What would be nice is if some kind person with a scanner could
	scan in some of these different artworks and either post them or put
	them up for FTP. It'd be great to see them all. Does anyone know if
	someone has already done this?

-- 
Rodney Lewis                         |"Under the most rigorously controlled
BHP Information Technology, Newcastle|conditions of temperature, pressure,
ACSnet  : rodney@bhpese.oz           |humidity, volume and other variables, the
INTERNET: rodney@larri.bhpese.oz.au  |organism will do as it damn well pleases."