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Subject: Crazy enough to do it...
From: mduhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Matthew Duhan)
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:29:35 EDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Harvard University Mystery Science Center 3000

I'm sorry I cannot include the file or the name, but I lost it.

While the invention exchange was going on, someone posted their idea for
a device to MiSTy any movie.  The design was similar to those Executor
things where you push different buttons for different sayings.  Well, I'm
just bored and crazy enough to be willing to make one.  It would be a 
hypercard application for the Macintosh.  Is anyone interested? If so, let
me know and I will make it and upload it to the syrnx site.  Also, if the
person who first invented it could mail me another copy with his or her name,
then I can design it accurately and give the appropriate credit.  Thanks.

Matt      mduhan@husc.harvard.edu

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: davidl@ssd.intel.com (David Levine)
Subject: Re: Frank's the best! (was Re: Leave em lost)
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:22:57 GMT

In article <REGLI.92Aug25083637@drinkme.cme.nist.gov> regli@drinkme.cme.nist.gov (William C. Regli) writes:
>TV's Frank is the best.  He was the catylist, the missing link, that
>transformed the show from UHF wierdness to the best show on
>television.

I've been wondering for some time... why "TV's Frank"?  I thought he was
just "Frank"...

- David D. Levine, Intel Supercomputer Systems Division == davidl@ssd.intel.com
  "Push the button, Max."  [BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: Who played "Max"?]
From: jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu (Chuck Jordan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: The Magic Sword
Summary: Hey, everybody all right!  Frenchie's gettin' some!
Date: 1 Sep 92 06:02:52 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <BtuvFK.8uL@news.udel.edu> conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) writes:
>This was an interesting choice of movie, after the arguments about
>"alltime worst MST3K movie."  The Magic Sword, for me, was ALMOST too
>good for their purposes.

I agree!  I think that MST usually gets better when the movie is almost 
tolerable.  For example, experiments like Hercules vs the Moon Men and
Castle of Fu Manchu have something going against them starting out -- the
movies are just so horrible.  Especially druing Fu Manchu, the comments
about how bad the movie was got to the point where they just weren't funny
anymore; the movies were just too intolerable.  I grew up watching bad TV
and am almost immune to it, so I could see myself maybe turing my mind off
and watching Fugitive Alien or Master Ninja without the comments, so I think
the experiments made them downright entertaining.

There was something bizarre I noticed about Magic Sword, though... the
pan-European knights were all just so... BAD.  Frenchie's accent was just
barely recognizable, and the Irish guy -- what in the hell was going on there?
But, when I looked at the credits, I noticed the names "Liam," "Angus," and
"Jacques," among others.   Is it possible that these guys were actually of
Irish or Scottish or French descent or are we to assume these are just fanciful
names along the lines of Mr B Natural?

USENET's Chuck


-- 
                  Chuck Jordan | jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu
SPY Magazine's 1,000 Reasons Not to Vote for George Bush:
NO 361: He vetoed a bill that would have allowed Chinese students to remain
in the US after their visas expired.
From: barnett@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Play MST for me
Date: 4 Sep 92 07:44:29 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

I guess I used the term "recently" loosely. It took about five weeks to get
my stuff. I also ordered the poster and bumper stickers as well. All were
shipped at once. Maybe they had a rush of orders.  (?)

Eric Suchanek
From: bellaire@cs.tulane.edu (TV's Steve)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Catch-Phrase Catalog v1.0
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:44:13 GMT
Organization: Gizmonic Institute
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-21027]: jupiter


In article <Bu2AJ3.E1v@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom) writes:

> --"What's that boy?  Daddy's hurt?  Down in Deadrock Canyon?" (???)
Lassie, any given episode

> --"O.K. Teen Gang! Let's get 'em!" (???)
Scooby Doo, any given episode

> --Show titles with death in them: "Two wheeler. Four Wheeler. DEAD wheeler."(?)
Any Quinn Martin Production


-- 
Pour me a cab, I just can't drink no more.     |         St. Steve
				--Tom Waits    |   bellaire@cs.tulane.edu
					       |
It's a southern thing, you wouldn't understand.|    Shoes for Industry!
From: memco@cns.nyu.edu (Matthew E. Merkelson)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: FTP sites, new! sound files
Date: 29 Aug 92 16:32:20 GMT
Reply-To: memco@cns.nyu.edu
Organization: New York University

In article 10164@babbage.ece.uc.edu, kcd@flash.ece.uc.edu (Karen Davis) writes:
> 
> I hate to be an utter dodo, but how do you make use of these sound files?
> Now that the Pizzapizzapizzapizzapizza line is digitized, *I HAVE TO KNOW!*
> 
> I use a SPARC2 with Openwindows, so this should be easy, right?  Somebody
> please enlighten me.

Use archie to find the program SOX, which is a conversion program for sound.
Use it to convert wav,voc and other formats into .au files.


> 
> I'd also like to know how to put up nice pictures as my background, but
> I'm too embarrassed to ask how to do that, too.

The program xv can put any gif,jpeg,rasterfiles,xbm or ppm file into the background
for you. I'm using it now. Use archie to find it also.


> 
> I will gladly RTFM if someone will tell me where the M is!
> 
> karen.davis@uc.edu

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From:  (JLoC)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Worst Movie (IMO)
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:44:53 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.mst3k
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada

In article <BtnGvJ.7HI@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, daver@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David
Ruby) wrote:
> 
> (JLoC) writes:
> 
> >  As movies go, "Ring of Fear" was pretty stinky. 'Nuff said.
> 
> Ring of Terror perhaps? puma?  PUMA?  Puuuuuuuuma?
> 
> I still can't make it through a whole Phantom Creeps episode.
> 
> David Ruby                                 daver@uiuc.edu   
> Lincoln Hall Network Administrator         University of Illinois
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "You know, you have to be real stupid to get hit by a car AFTER
>  the apocolypse." - Crow (City Limits) Mystery Science Theater 3000

  I thought it was "Ring of Fear". Oh well. I meant worst as in the movie
had no redeeming qualities, ie, no plot, or interesting characters to speak
of. Reminiscent of many of cinema's offerings today.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: ketter@mdd.comm.mot.com (Cindy Ketterling)
Subject: Door #3
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:53:00 GMT

In article <msf.715329052@skaro> msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright) writes:
>On a similar note, am I the only person who hears the word 'pizza' in a
>female's voice after Door #3 closes? It sounds like a door-closing noise,
>but it also sounds like a 'subliminal' suggestion (no i'm not paranoid!).
>

Nope, if you listen very closely, the voice says "Fisher", like from the
Fisher ads when a voice whispers that when the can is opened.

I'm pretty sure, anyway.
- Cypherkat
From: trudel@athos.rutgers.edu (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: President
Keywords: yes, this belongs here
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:04:25 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew) writes:

>... if its written down, its not improvised.  (Unless I misunderstand,
>by your definition, all comedy could be defined as "improvised".)

I would have to agree with Charles here.  Since we all seem to know
what goes on with the MST3K episodes, I know that the same could be done 
for the political conventions and speeches.  I have only one comment
to make regarding the political coverage on CC:  Deeeeeep Hurting.
Deeeeeeeeeep Hurting.  

> Writing good comedy is not easy.  Writing good
>political comedy is perhaps the hardest of all.  (Bad political comedy
>is funny to people who have the same political slant as the comedian.
>Good political comedy is funny to a wider spectrum.)


How true.  CC should take the same apporach that MST3K does on their
episodes.  Perhaps there could even be a Law Exchange...
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Subject: Re: Best Brains and the Internet
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:04:21 GMT

Well, I mentioned once before, so I'll mention again... :-)

sialis.com is a SMALL machine that has enough capacity to easily handle a
site like BBI.  email and news (whatever I carry) is not a problem at all.
I'm going to assume that the most they probably want in alt.tv.mst3k and
perhaps a few other groups.

sialis.com is not on the internet.  However, it's Trailblazered into my
MX record holder who _is_ on the internet.  Plus, it falls back to a 
terminal server for modem access if TB+ lines are busy.  In the last six
months, I think I've encountered one busy signal on the terminal server.

Realistically, unless BBI wants a full or large newsfeed, extremely rapid
email traffic, ability to "talk" to users online and ftp, they aren't going
to need internet.

If they don't want to go through the hassle of setting up PC or Mac
software on their end, I can handle individual users as well, though 
my modems are a little busy sometimes to support that as well as I'd 
like.

In any case, the point being, a site like sialis.com can handle BBI without
any hassles.  It's free, and it's a local call.  And there are a number of
other sites as well.  However, I seem to be systematically reducing all the
large overhead (read: news :-) sites that I serve, making the modems very
accessible.

Not a big deal.

-- 
Robert J. Granvin                                       School of Statistics
rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu                             University of Minnesota
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Who is he?
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:51:25 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug28.115457.12375@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> scduncan@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Sean C. Duncan, Idiot) writes:
>This has got to be a FAQ, but who the faq is Richard Basehart?

What!?! You never saw Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!?! This was a 
classic TV show about a nuclear-powered sub that explored the earth's
oceans and discovered all sorts of things. They had a nifty flying sub
and introduced a number of great advances in TV drama such as "sub gets 
hit by enemy, everybody leans to the right, everybody leans to the left."
Without this show, Star Trek would never had reached its true glory!
-- 
John Switzer               | "Don't mess with me, man!
                           | I'm a higher mammal!"
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | 
jrs@netcom.com             | 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: sieferme@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman)
Subject: Re: Who is he?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:06:49 GMT

In article <0vdnz+_.jrs@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.115457.12375@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> scduncan@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Sean C. Duncan, Idiot) writes:
>>This has got to be a FAQ, but who the faq is Richard Basehart?
>
>What!?! You never saw Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!?! This was a 
>classic TV show about a nuclear-powered sub that explored the earth's
>oceans and discovered all sorts of things. They had a nifty flying sub
>and introduced a number of great advances in TV drama such as "sub gets 
>hit by enemy, everybody leans to the right, everybody leans to the left."

Accompanied by the immortal line:  "DAMAGE CONTROL!  DAMAGE CONTROL!"
My normally dour father actually lauged whenever the sub was
lurched to-and-fro.

Another noteworthy (mst3k-like) aspect of this show was its incredibly
large reliance on stock footage.  Even as a youth, I noticed
that this week's scene of the sub hitting the sea bottom looked
just like last week's scene of the sub hitting the sea bottom.

VTTBOTS also frequently featured hoaky latex sea monsters, many
of whom bore suspicious resemblance to the hoaky latex space
monsters seen on that other 60's classic, "Lost In Space",
to which Joel and the Bots make occasion reference
(oh the pain, the pain...).




-- 
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| U. of W., M.C.I.S.        |    (206) 685-3104                     |

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: jengagne@wam.umd.edu (Jenny Lynne Gagne)
Subject: Re: President
Keywords: yes, this belongs here
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:56:19 GMT

Wait a minute... didn't they have a copy of the prepared speeches at the
republican convention?  Couldn't they have pulled an MST3K and wrote heckling
jokes ahead of time with that material?

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From: fay@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Works every time
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:12:23 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa


Hoping we clear some more stuff up.



"Am I a clown?  Do I amuse you?"  Joe Psci in Goodfellas.


"Works every time"  to me, that always sounds like Billy D Williams in those
Malt Liquor commercials (complete w/semi0smug grin)

I haven't checked my tape, but is one of the doors a basketball backboard. 
See, no hoop, but you would sort think you see the thing and the 

P.S.  How can you not plan on spending part of Labor Day watching Jerry?
(unless you like life, I suppose)


Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Best Brains and the Internet
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:39:53 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202) writes:

>Aren't these like 10 or 15 year old museum pieces?  Why didn't you go
>for a cheap PC clone instead?

Anyone with a computer and a modem can get access to at least send
E-mail, and generally get UseNet news as well.  Sometimes it may take a
long-distance call, but generally not.  UUCP is (almost) everywhere.
Check newsgroups like alt.internet.access.wanted and alt.internet.services
for details.  Groups like comp.mail.* can be helpful, as well as the
nixpub listings.

If Best Brains wants to be on the alt.tv.mst3k newsgroup, then there's
no reason they can't do it.  Only ignorance is keeping most folks off
the net.

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Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold)
Subject: Re: Yet another MST3K-able movie
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:39:49 GMT

eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer) writes:

>    Here's another:  "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity."
>    Honest.
>    It isn't a porno movie (well, not quite....there is this one soft-core
> scene....) but it is wretched.  Funny, but wretched.  Some friends and I
> rented it for our "Master Ninja" party two weeks ago.

	I actually saw this one, too and I must say it has some of the best
low budget sets I have ever seen -- however, I must state that I do *not*
think that these are appropriate MST fodder. The reason is simple: it's too
good and silly by itself.

	I view the classification of B movies as having three general families
symbolized by three pop icons.   

	1) First, we have the MST style films. This is a big category and 
includes as its defining characteristics that is be (generally) G-rated and
really lame. This includes, of course, everything sci-fi in black and white
plus all Japanese films and most 70's action series amongst others.

	2) Second, we have the USA Up All Night style of films. These are 
(generally) gland comedies which have been edited for TV. Lots of T&A, very 
little seriousness about them but having a discernable and followable plot.
There are few sci-fi films in this category. The above mentioned film fits
nicely here, as well as 'Hell comes to Frogtown' and 'Attack of the Killer 
Bimbos'.

	3) Lastly, we have the Joe Bob Briggs wing of the party. These are
basically Drive-in films. Included are Women in prison flicks, Gore flicks,
Kung-Fu (chopsocky) flicks, Stephen King flicks (Big Steve), and other films
you wouldn't want your Mom to watch with you. These films are hard core.
(PS, if there are other Joe Bob fans out there, let me know how many gallons
of blood there were.)

Hope this helps, as only the MST style films are really appropriate for MST, 
even though all three groups are to varying degrees really bad.


steve

-- 
   The only difference between a Communist        G. Steve Arnold
   and a Socialist is that the Socialist will     Dept. Math and Stats.
   only confiscate the resources that are         BGSU
   profitable.                                    sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: bobscott@access.digex.com (Bob Scott)
Subject: Re: Catch-Phrase Catalog (was: Hercules vs. the Moon Men)
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:28:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.145949.22577@uunet!tellab5!odgate> teg@uunet!tellab5!odgate (Todd Grinnell) writes:
>Cliff Chaput <chaput@ils.nwu.edu> writes:
>
>>Perhaps we should compile a catch-phrase list.  Here are some I can
>>remember:
>
>>"A planet where apes evolved from men?!" (Planet of the Apes)
>>"I AM KIROK!" (ST:TOS)
>>"You *will* bow down before me!" (???)
>                                   ^^^I need to know this!
>>"You did it!  You finally did it, you goddamn dirty apes!" (PotA)
>>"My mother was a saint!" (Public Enemy #1?)
>>"I got nowhere else to go!" (Officer and a Gentleman)
>>"It's my way or the highway." (Roadhouse)
>
>>Any others?
>
>"Tonight...on...Rescue IX I I" (William "Stop me before I act again" Shatner)

>"FOOTBALL PRACTICE!" whenever someone wakes up (What does this mean?)
 Recurring dream of not making it to football practice, math class, etc.
 You only have these when you're NOT in school, so be patient Cliff :-)

>"Did I mention Uncle Bob and a clown suit?" when someone wakes up
>
>Let's keep this going!
>

OK, How about:
"Oh the Pain, the Pain.." (Lost in Space)
"Hooker's a good cop!" (grabbing somebody)  (TJ Hooker)
"Smucker's Jelly and Jams..." (cheesy fake blood, etc)
"I wonder what THEY wanted..."
"By this time, my lungs were aching for air.." (Sea Hunt)
"Waaahh Ricky I'm /not funny/dead/a Lucy sketch/etc." (I Love Lucy)
"HEE HEE HEE!  Do you like our little FILM?!" (Tales from the Crypt)
"Am I a CLOWN?!  Do I AMUSE YOU?!" (???)
"Do you find me pleasing?  Do I please you?" (???)
"NEXT on MacGyver/etc" (something blows up)"
"Animels vill be bred und SLAUGHTERED!" (Dr. Strangelove)



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From: v133kdq8@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Amy L Levine)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Side hacking
Date: 30 Aug 92 19:53:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Any professional side hackers out there?
From: ledgerj@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Jim Ledger)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Catch-Phrase Catalog (was: Hercules vs. the Moon Men)
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:31:39 GMT
Organization: Ada Joint Program Office

How about:


"Sssaaaaayy!" Usually spoken by Servo whenever something...shapely...appears
              on the screen.

"Oh wow."     Joel seems to say this whenever a double entendre is uttered.
              Examples:

              Demi Moore in Master Ninja I : "Whatever you do, don't stop."
                                      Joel : "Oh wow."

              Basil Rathbone in Magic Sword: "My dragon will relish the flesh
                                              of the princess."
                                      Joel : "Oh wow."

"C'mon, row row row your boat. C'MON SING! ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT!" (usually in
a threatening tone)
                   -- from Dirty Harry


Jim
From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: More HUH?!?
Date: 1 Sep 1992 14:49:52 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us (Patrick McCarthy) says:

>First one of Mendoza's underlings kills McBain's partner (this is when McBain
>shouts "MENDOOOOOOOOOOOOZAAAAAA!"), then later McBain throws Mendoza out
>the window.  I usually refer to the partner/wife/girlfriend/whomever who
>gets killed (naturally, it's obvious within the first 5 minutes of the movie
>who it's going to be) as the "superfluous motive for revenge".

   I saw "Bulletproof" on a local station last night (well, the last half
of it, anyway) and was surprised to see Henry Silva playing a bad guy.
   My jaw almost dented the floor when I heard some guy yell, "McBain!!!"
in the middle of a firefight.  Could it be?  It couldn't be....it was!!!
The mythic McBain, right in my very living room!
   So here's a question for all of you who seem to know what's going
on:  How many McBain movies are there, and what are the titles?  Does
Gary Busey star in all of them?  And for bonus points, what else has
Busey done (as far as 'acting,' that is)?
   Thanks youse,

		-EMeyer

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 Atmospheric disturbance--the feverish flux  |---------------------------------
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