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From: msubu@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr E D G Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf Movie, etc.
Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:26:14 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In article <1993Jan8.153925.2118@ericsson.se> etljmme@etlxd30.ericsson.se (Jim) writes:
>In article 4m02wB1w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US, pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:

>I accept that a hologram could pass through the wall but how does the
>light-bee projector, which is solid, pass throught walls, tables or
>whatever, hmmm?

Well, the light bee was only invented in the later series - earlier on, Rimmer
was _only_ light, projected from the ship (or, as in one episode, a Hologram
Projection Cage).  So an early-series hologram would have no problems going
'through' solid objects...

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From: markc@compnews.co.uk (Mark Cooper)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: FAQ?
Date: 4 Jan 93 12:35:42 GMT
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There are no less than five series of RD, amounting to a marvellous 30 episodes. The vagaries of the American TV broadcasting system are a mystery to me, so it's a shame you haven't had the chance to catch the rest of them. The BBC have released series 2-5 on video (why they haven't released series 1 is *also* a mystery to me, but that's the BBC for you!)

BTW, I seem to recall there are plans afoot for series SIX. When you guyz in foreign climes will get these is - yes, you guessed it, "a mystery"...

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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf Movie, etc.
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 08:50:38 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

cpbuehrer@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:

> > (And when has Rimmer ever walked through walls?)
> 
> He did it in the one with the stasis leak.  Both the future Rimmer and the
> future-future rimmer walked through walls/tables/etc.  Remember?

Yes, I do, and you're missing the point. In "Stasis Leak," Rimmer hid
inside walls and tables, which is not the same thing as walking through
them.  I have never seen Rimmer enter or leave a room by walking through
a wall.  He always uses the door.

I'm not suggesting that Rimmer isn't capable of walking through solid
objects -- of course he is.  But he simply doesn't do it.  Describing
him as "a man who walks through walls," as the original poster did, is
inaccurate.

-- 
Pat Berry - Cary, North Carolina, USA   |  "At least that's what *I* thought.
pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  But I have a history of missing the
**** Happy user of OS/2 2.0 ****        |  point of stuff like this."
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From: slqmr@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: REQ: Red Dwarf Theme Transcription.
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:07:15 MDT
Organization: Utah State University



Has anybody transcribed the opening or closing themes to this show? if so let
me know.

	Thanks,
		A Red Dwarf Fan
From: aa634@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill White)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf Movie, etc.
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:30:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa634@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill White)
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In a previous article, joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) says:

>
>The word I get is that there will be *NO HOLLY* at all in Season 6.   
>Although I don't like that personally, I can see why they're doing it.
>Holly is superflous now that they've got Kryten in there.  :(
>

Except for one thing. With no Holly, who's going to pilot the Red Dwarf?
There will have to be someone on duty in the Drive Room 24 hours a
day if Holly is completely done away with. As near as I can figure out,
there is NO AUTO PILOT (see the scene in "Backwards" where Kryten is
taking his Astro Navigation exam in Starbug 1). I know that Starbug's
only a shuttle craft, but I still assume that Holly is the Red Dwarf's
auto pilot because they've never mentioned any different in the series.
It seems logical (at least to me) that if the crew aren't pilotting
Red Dwarf, then Holly must be. He is after all the ships onboard
computer. Any other opinions?

--"There's a saying amongst the officers; If a jobs worth doing, it's
   worth doing well. If it's not worth doing, give it to Rimmer!
                     --Holly quoting from Capt. Hollister's personal log
                       Waiting For God
-- 
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From: dave@lister.apana.org.au (David Rowlands)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Mr Flibble
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 18:16:04 GMT
Organization: APANA

Does anyone know where to get a Mr Flibble Puppet?

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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: REQ: Red Dwarf Theme Transcription.
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 20:43:28 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

slqmr@cc.usu.edu writes:

> Has anybody transcribed the opening or closing themes to this show? if so let
> me know.

Sigh.  From the FAQ (which was posted only four days ago):

WHAT ARE THE LYRICS TO THE THEME SONG FROM THE END CREDITS?

     	"It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
     	I'm all alone, more or less.
     	Let me fly far away from here,
     	Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

     	I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose,
     	drinking fresh mango juice.
     	Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes,  *
	Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun,
     	Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun."

	(*:  There has been some debate over this line -- it is not sang very
	 clearly, and many fans think it is simply "Goldfish ARE nibbling..."
	 However, in the fourth season episode "Meltdown," the end theme is
	 performed by "Elvis" [Clayton Mark], and the word "shoals" is more
	 distinct.  Also, some fans who have seen the episode on closed-
	 captioned broadcasts report that the subtitles do read "shoals."
         A "shoal" is a school of fish.)  

-- 
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pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  But I have a history of missing the
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From: aa634@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill White)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf Movie, etc.
Date: 9 Jan 1993 13:45:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa634@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill White)
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In a previous article, pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) says:

>ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio) writes:
>
>> "Rude alert! Rude alert! An electrical fire has knocked out my
>>  voice-recognition unicycle! Many Wurlitzers are missing from my
>>  database! Abandon shop! This is not a daffodil!"  --Holly
>
>What episode is *that* line from?  I haven't heard it before, but I
>haven't seen Series 5 yet.
>

It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I believe that the quote 
mentioned is from "Demons & Angels" which is indeed a season 5 story.

-- 
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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf Movie, etc.
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 20:51:11 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

aa634@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill White) writes:

> In a previous article, pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) says:
> 
> >ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio) writes:
> >
> >> "Rude alert! Rude alert! An electrical fire has knocked out my
> >>  voice-recognition unicycle! Many Wurlitzers are missing from my
> >>  database! Abandon shop! This is not a daffodil!"  --Holly
> >
> >What episode is *that* line from?  I haven't heard it before, but I
> >haven't seen Series 5 yet.
> 
> It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I believe that the quote 
> mentioned is from "Demons & Angels" which is indeed a season 5 story.

Whew!  For a minute there, I was wondering if *my* database was shy a
few Wurlitzers.

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From: msubu@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr E D G Robertson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf Movie, etc.
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:13:59 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In article <C0oLvo.82@brunel.ac.uk> cs92njc@brunel.ac.uk (Nicholas J Clayton) writes:

>Rimmer can't walk through walls.
>(Definitive answer or what <grin>)
>
>Because he is projected by that little light bee doobrie flying around inside
>his image, he can go where ever it goes. Since it is solid and can't walk
>through walls, neither can Rimmer.
>
>I suppose the closest they could get would be to have two light bees, one on
>either side of the wall, to give the illusion of him passing through walls.
>And presumably Holly can switch Rimmers transmission from site to site. But if
>he stays with the one light bee then he pretty much has to use conventional
>exits (though their size could be dramatically smaller of course.

	BUT the lightbee was only thought up in the later series - originally
Rimmer was projected from nonmobile hologram projectors, which is why in <I
forget the exact episode - but it started with a 'rock' concert on a small
moon with a breathable atmosphere> Rimmer was in a Hologram Projection Cage -
again, in these earleir episodes, Rimmer couldn't have holo-objects - when he
asked for (I think) a double shot of whisky from Holly, you only saw his
facial grimace as Holly simulated the effects for him - but no visible thing.

	Regards,
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From: nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett??
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:58:45 PST
Organization: The Canned Ham, San Jose, CA (408) 971-8530

jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner) writes:

> nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong) writes:
> |I have been told by certain people that Gordon Bennett
> |(as in -- Holly: `Gordon Bennett yes Chen..EVERYBODY'S DEAD DAVE!')
> |is rhyming-slang for something.  Could somebody  please tell me what
> |that mysterious something is?
> 
> Gordon Bennett is not rhyming slang. He was originally an Australian
> general but I think he commanded British troops. Anyway he was so
> unpopular that the troops started using his name as a swear-word, and
> when they went back to civilian life the expression continued to
> spread in Cockney circles.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Garner B.Math (Newcastle NSW Australia) - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au
> 

is THAT why anyone I asked who DID say it was rhyming-slang told me that 
for some reason or another (they varied) they would not tell me  what it 
was rhyming-slang FOR...

-Nightsong
From: bbs.dalvenja@tsoft.net (Sven Nielsen)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: REQ: Red Dwarf Theme Transcription.
Date: 11 Jan 93 00:20:22 GMT
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238

slqmr@cc.usu.edu writes:

> Has anybody transcribed the opening or closing themes to this show? if so let
> me know.
> 	Thanks,
> 		A Red Dwarf Fan

Here it is, as put up in a post by ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles 
Rubio) of the 3rd season show "Polymorph":
It's cold outside
There's no kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone
More or less
Let me fly
Far away from here
Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun
I want to lie
Shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh
Mango juice
Goldfish shoals
Nibbling at my toes
Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun
Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun
That's it. Enjoy!
-Dalvenjah

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From: nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf Movie, etc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:54:14 PST
Organization: The Canned Ham, San Jose, CA (408) 971-8530

> Another very good point.  Kryten does have a much better record with
> that sort of thing.  The only thing I remember Holly inventing is the
> Holly Hop Drive -- which worked, but not at all the way he expected it
> to.

Well the thing about HOLLY that you have to remember is that as QUEEG, he 
managed to make his normal self look stupid while QUEEG looks really 
smart and has everything in the rules, tests, etc..memorized.  It COULD 
be that Holly's intelligence problem is just yet another put-on.

-Nightsong
From: Steve.Lake@brunel.ac.uk (Steve M Lake)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: What's a wormdo ?
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:14:36 GMT
Distribution: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

What's a WormDo ??

It wiggles along the floor like this

 \/\/\/\/8   


 "FISH!" Cat
 "Today's fish is trout al'a creme, enjoy your meal" AutoChef
 "FISH!" Cat
 "Today's fish is trout al'a creme, enjoy your meal" AutoChef
  "FISH!" 
  Ad Infinitum.

  -Steve
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From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Gordon Bennett??
Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:39:36 GMT

In <1993Jan10.184412.12558@scorch.apana.org.au> jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner) writes:

>nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong) writes:
>|I have been told by certain people that Gordon Bennett
>|(as in -- Holly: `Gordon Bennett yes Chen..EVERYBODY'S DEAD DAVE!')
>|is rhyming-slang for something.  Could somebody  please tell me what
>|that mysterious something is?

>Gordon Bennett is not rhyming slang. He was originally an Australian
>general but I think he commanded British troops. Anyway he was so
>unpopular that the troops started using his name as a swear-word, and
>when they went back to civilian life the expression continued to
>spread in Cockney circles.

<Bzzzzzzz> Wrong answer but thank you for playing.

This has been done in a number of groups now so I'll attempt to stamp it
out here before you all get as bored of it as I am.

Gordon Bennett was (I think) US American, he was a newspaper
publisher/editor/owner who had an obscene amount of personal wealth, he
was, as a result of this enormous wad at his disposal, noted for his
unbeleivable actions. For instance, the most quoted piece of Bennett
folklore was one visit to his fave restaurant, where he had a fave table.
When he arrived one day, someone was sitting at his fave table, he tipped
a waiter to sort it so that this guy could move tables and Gordon could
have the usual table. The guy refused to budge so Mr Bennett, being the
cool-headed, logical sort of guy, bought the restaurant on the spot, had
the guy thrown out and (reportedly) gave the waiter that threw him out the
restaurant as a tip.

His name was therefore linked to outlandish, unbeleivable acts and as it
bears a resemblance to the word God (as pronounced by people from the
South of England) used as a mild curse when such an event occurs.

Hope this helps.
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From: cn577@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cyberspace Vanguard Magazine)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf,alt.fan.piers-anthony,alt.galactic-guide,alt.tv.prisoner
Subject: Where to find CYBERSPACE VANGUARD
Date: 11 Jan 1993 04:11:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Just to let you know, the first issue of Cyberspace Vanguard:
News and Views of the Science Fiction Universe has been posted
in the following groups:

alt.zines
rec.mag
rec.misc
alt.fandom.misc

(There are other copies in other places, but this is the "no-typos"
version.)

This issue carries interviews from Space Rangers, Time Trax, Babylon 5,
Batman: The Animated Series, and "more news than hours of net surfing."

If your site doesn't carry these groups and you would like a copy,
or if you want to be an e-subscriber, let us know.

-- 
                     CYBERSPACE VANGUARD MAGAZINE
           News and Views from the Science Fiction Universe
TJ Goldstein, Editor      |   Send submissions, questions, comments to
  tlg4@po.cwru.edu        |         cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: W73A000 <W73A@UNB.CA>
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf books
Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:41:54 GMT

In article <10yZwB5w165w@anarky.tch.org> nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong) writes:
>ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio) writes:
>
>>
>> In article <BRyqwB12w165w@anarky.tch.org> nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong)
>> >What on earth is Red Dwarf Smegazine? :)
>>
>> The official monthly magazine.
>>
>> >Also, I really liked the books.  Really liked them.  Liked them a whole
>> >lot.  Want more of them.  Et cetera.
>>
>> Speaking of which, has `Better Than Life' been released in the U.S. yet?
>> I'm told there is a British Books store in Los Gatos, California, which
>> isn't too far from where I live.  Perhaps I should try dealing with them.
>>
>> Even if BTL is out, what I'd rather want to know is when -- if ever --
>> will `Red Dwarf Minibus' be out.  Although I have read `Infinity Welcomes
>> Careful Drivers' and do still have it, I haven't paid for it and intend
>> to destroy it (it's a coverless, you see) when I purchase the `minibus'.
>>
>> I have seen BTL being offered as a pledge gift from my local public station
>> (KTEH 54 in San Jose, which will show RD again starting on January 31st,
>> with two episodes from the second series at 8 p.m. each Sunday, as part of
>> the expanded -- to more than six hours -- Sunday Science Fiction Night).
>> However, I have not heard that BTL actually is released in America.
>>
>> "I've never really ridden a fire-breathing racing yak before."
>>
>> (Gee, I wonder if that yak was shaven!)
>>
>> --
>> Email replies must be sent to keeper@deeptht.armory.com
>>
>
>Well BTL is out in Canada FOR SURE..I saw it where you did (KTEH pledge
>break)...I preferred to order from Canada..
>.
>.
Both books, RD & BTL, are available in Canada, but not in most book
stores.  I have seen the two books combined into one novel, and that
was at a specialty comic/games store in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(Wilkie's Wonderful World of Comics & Cards, Robie Street, Halifax,
NS).

Unfortunately, while the books are available, none of the
local/cable television stations available are running RD anymore.
:-(

"Time is a character in this novel.  It does strange things:  moves in
strange directions, and at strange speeds.  Don't trust Time.  Time
will always get you in the end." Prologue to "Better Than Life";
Grant Naylor (Alexandria, 25 BC)

Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: bhostetl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Brian Hostetler)
Subject: Come on weasels, send me the FAQ!
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:47:53 GMT

	What, do you think that I am a dog--here to beg?  Someone send
me the FAQ before I cry!!!


-- 
-brian

bhostetl@ucs.indiana.edu          |      "Even if the brain is removed,
bhostetl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu   |     the insekt continues to live..."
Newsgroups: alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy
From: L616015@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Uh, Someone Seems a Little Confused Here
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:09:07 PST


  Reference Articles:

Assimilation for R&S   <93011.083230JXM182@psuvm.psu.edu>
Borg and protoplazm    <93012.080757JXM182@psuvm.psu.edu>

  By <JXM182@psuvm.psu.edu>

>Troi:(pulls a megaphaser out of her o so tight fitting uniform.....

----only line that made any sense in both articles included, all else deleted--

    Look guy,(can I call you JXM for short?) you have obviously been watching
so much TV that you're relaxing right into a mental breakdown, confusing up to
three different shows. Now this is the way it works, two of the shows are about
people pretending to be cartoon characters, the other show is about cartoon
characters pretending to be people. The other show is what we're intrested in
here, not the first two, so get some sleep, you're relaxed enough.

The Space "And Not That Show Either" Ranger
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