HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re:What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons
Date: 5 Jan 1993 20:16:40 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

I won't put an attribution line for this drek:

>Are the Simpsons a cartoon just 
>to be enjoyed for the loony situations and characters that it entails or is 
>it something more? What Do you think? Ask yourself, these questions, and 
>maybe you'll think differently:
>
>Q:What color are the Simpsons?
>A:Yellow, like what type of people(Asians, Korean, Japanese, Asiatic Types)

Funny, I always thought Asiatic types were beige.

>
>Q:What hairstyle does Bart wear?
>A:Dreds, like what type of people(African-Americans)

First time I ever saw pointy dredlocks.

>
>Q:Who runs the local 7-11's?
>A:Who do you think??

Some very nice people.

>
>Q:What type of people do Bart and almost everyone in the town represent?
>A:Everyone, except for Caucasians. I know there a few Caucasians, but not
>many.

Name one "white-colored" person in the cartoon.

>
>Q:Who runs the power plant and the whole town? Remember he controls the 
>power. A:Two Causian men, the boss and Mr. Smithers.
              ^^^^^^^
              Caucasian

Aren't they basically the same color as everybody else?

>
>Now, I ask the question again, are the Simpsons really just a cartoon, or do
>the Simpsons describe something much greater?

If the person who wrote this had ever spent any time watching the show, they 
would have known that even real-life people (Linda Ronstadt, Jose Canseco, 
*YOUR FAVORITE REAL-LIFE PERSON HERE*) are depicted as yellow.

What does the color of a cartoon character have to do with anything in the 
real world?
From: dkumasaw@oracle.uucp (Darren Kumasawa)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Yes, it was obvious!!!!
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:22:02 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <y3FswB3w165w@netlink.cts.com> bigbro@netlink.cts.com (Kenneth Sullivan) writes:
>> Too young to remember the '84 olympics?!?!?!  Assuming the youngest age of
>> a reader of this newsgroup is 17 (which is probably even younger than the
.....
>
>Well, no, I'm 16, but I do remember the boycott very well.  Especcially 
>since back then everyting was simple, the Russians were the embodiement 
>of all evil, and we were always right.  It was probably the best olympics 
>I've seen(of course I can only remeber 3)
>

Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity, Kenneth.  I'm glad not everyone
grew-up clue-less.  (BTW, Anyone out there younger than 16 reading 
alt.tv.simpsons?  So far I was only one year off in my guess...)

Darren
From: chris.baird@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Chris Baird) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Another magazine article involving The Simpsons
Date: 3 Jan 93 11:44:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reply-To: chris.baird@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Chris Baird) 
Summary: The Night of the DYNs

From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Date: 3 Jan 93 11:59:39 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
 
Everyone who has yet to tire of professional commentators commenting on
the half-hour show, and affluent enough to not balk at the $9.95 sticker,
might like to trot down to their local ABC shop for a copy of `21*C'.
 
You guessed it, the cover story of the Summer '92 issue concerns
`The Simpsons' and the phenomenon known at the American sitcom family.
 
A netfind query showed the author has 'net access (a Communications
lecturer @mq.edu.au), so I've lost the nerve to try a critique, but I have
reservations for the credibility of someone who misspells `Marge'. >:(
 
[And at last here's something I can use to deflect all those communication
studies sophomores who come to me with enquiries about the show.:)]
 
-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
 
--- 
 . MkNet .  . QNet3. . USENET : HAL 9000 BBS - Ann Arbor, Michigan  (211:1/0)
 . QNet3. . USENET : Royal Castle BBS - New Castle, DE USA : (302) 322-4863
                                                                                       
----
+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| HAL 9000 BBS +1 313 663 4173 or 663 3959 | Four 14.4k v.32bis dial-ins |
| Public Access QWK-to-Usenet gateway      | With PCBoard 14.5aM & uuPCB |
+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump)
Subject: Making of the Simpsons
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:34:16 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD Austin, TX


Did anybody else see the little 5 - 10 minute segment on the making of
the Simpsons? I saw the last few minutes of it after the movie Class
last night on Fox. There were some brief interviews with some of the
creators and executives of the show.

The only interesting piece of information I caught was that it takes 6
months to put together one episode.

john

-- 
John Stump (auntbea.austin.ibm.com!jstump@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok)
Subject: Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!
Organization: Meiko Scientific Corp., Waltham, MA 02154, USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:13:53 GMT

In article <1id4p4INNntp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley) writes:
>
>glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu says:
>
>[Q/A musings about the unequal distribution of wealth and power as a 
> reflection of race (loved the parts about "Asiatic Types" and Bart's
> dreadlocks) in Springfield, U.S.A. deleted]
>
>>Now, I ask the question again, are the Simpsons really just a cartoon, or do
>>the Simpsons describe something much greater?
>
>The Simpsons are really just a cartoon.
>
> -Bucky "Reefer Bassoon" Whaley

How can they really be just a cartoon, haven't you noticed that the sky is
blue with white clouds and the cars have four wheels (near the corners of
the car too, this is obviously a reference to the distribution of wheels
on the average American car - no doubt we can find out where Springfield
is by doing a statistical analysis of the colours of the cars).  :-)

Mike
--
The "usual disclaimers" apply.    | Meiko
Mike Stok                         | Reservoir Place
mike@meiko.com                    | 1601 Trapelo Road
Meiko tel: (617) 890 7676         | Waltham, MA 02154
From: perry@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brendan Perry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Phoney Phone calls
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:31:39 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hi,

This isn't exactly about the Simpson's per se, but it's been puzzling
me for years...

A few years ago I heard this tape that must have been a 300th generation
dupe of a guy who constantly called this bar called 'The Two Bar' or 'Too
Bar' or something like that, with this gravelly voiced guy named Red as
the bartender. Anyway, the tape is about 60 minutes of almost every bad
pun imaginable, ones even Bart might not be clever enough to think up, 
though given enough time...

I remember the tape having a line something like 'why don't you come down
here and see me, you little punk? I'll gut you like a trout and let the
black
stuff run out...'. 

The point is, does anyone out there know what I'm talking about? I think
the tape made the rounds on college campuses, and I heard it while at a
party in Philly, near the U of Penn. The funny thing is I also heard a
sample from the VERY SAME TAPE on an album by the NY ska band 
"The Toaster's" entitled "This Gun's for Hire". Weird, but perhaps the
writer's of "The Simpson's" know all about this tape, yes?

Cheers,

Brendan
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: mg0001@medtronic.COM (Mike Graham)
Subject: Re: Oh, no, not again! Where is Springfield?
Reply-To: mg0001@medtronic.COM
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:40:48 GMT

In article 1icr65INN6a4@cs.widener.edu, KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil () writes:
>After thinking about Homer sitting on the sofa watching football while Marge 
>and the kids are at church:
>
>In the Eastern time zone, Sunday football *starts* at 1:00 PM.  By the time 
>the score got to 68 - 68 (or whatever it was), it would have been around 
>3:00, if Springfield is in the Eastern time zone.  Would church still be 
>going on?
>
>If Springfield is in the Pacific time zone, however, church could still be in 
>session, with the game starting at 10:00 AM, and the score 68-68 around noon.
>
>Of course, it was snowing heavily.  It would have to be some Pacific area 
>that encounters heavy snowfall.
>
>Any other ideas?
>


ALASKA?  Game Starts at 8:00 could be 68 - 68 by 11:00am
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Simpsons Illustrated -- BANNED IN OZ!!!
Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:51:10 -0500
Organization: S.N.U.H
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu


Well, sorta, almost; Australian Customs officials have detained a
shipment destined for the Aust. editors of "Simpsons Illustrated"
containing material for our Autumn '93 issue, until it gets the
okay from some random community pornography watchdog.

I'd been told the magazines's producers were pursuing less
conventional themes for a kids mag, but I never thought...

-- Chris Baird,, "Hey, my photo!"[7g10]
From: tl24@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Tami  Luhby)
Subject: Simpdication
Reply-To: tl24@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Tami  Luhby)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:51:03 GMT

I'm wondering if the Simpsons will ever go into syndication?  It could be huge.
Do they have enough episodes to do it?  It would be amazing because there are 
like no bad episodes...
-tl24
From: glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:16:33 GMT
Organization: Drexel University

Are the Simpsons a cartoon just to be enjoyed for the loony situations and
characters that it entails or is it something more? What Do you think?
Ask yourself, these questions, and maybe you'll think differently:

Q:What color are the Simpsons?
A:Yellow, like what type of people(Asians, Korean, Japanese, Asiatic Types)

Q:What hairstyle does Bart wear?
A:Dreds, like what type of people(African-Americans)

Q:Who runs the local 7-11's?
A:Who do you think??

Q:What type of people do Bart and almost everyone in the town represent?
A:Everyone, except for Caucasians. I know there a few Caucasians, but not many.

Q:Who runs the power plant and the whole town? Remember he controls the power.
A:Two Causian men, the boss and Mr. Smithers.

Now, I ask the question again, are the Simpsons really just a cartoon, or do
the Simpsons describe something much greater?

                        Chad J Glover
           glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu      
       Drexel University Software Testing Lab
   If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he
                        isn't fit to live. --MLK
From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Homer & God
Summary: Poe in Baltimore
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:05:37 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <105634@bu.edu>, abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky) writes:
> In article <1992Dec24.140848.8594@cbfsb.cb.att.com> colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten) writes:
> +
> +BTW - I once went looking for Poe's birthplace (it was a really
> +      dull vacation day and we were desperate) without finding it.
> +      However, it was in Baltimore, Maryland.  Not sure that
> +      tells us where Springfield is (let's not start THAT
> +      again - but it's a clue :-)
> 
> Looking for Poe's birthplace in Baltimore? No wonder we can't decide
> where Springfield is... Poe was born in a lodging house once located at
> 62 Carver Street, near Park Square, in Boston.
> 
> Possibly you were looking for his gravesite? 
> 
> "D'oh" <slaps forehead>


No, pretty sure it was "Poe's Hou" (hope we didn't fall for that
old "Po' House" joke).  Didn't say he was born there, or died there,
just lived there.  Knowing tourist traps as I do, he could have lived 
there one day.

marc colten
From: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: MARGE VS. THE MONORAIL
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Burgess) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

I heard on "Entertainment Tonight" that Marge vs the Monorail will be
broadcast on January 14th, so that means it will air next Thursday
night.

Chris Burgess
chris.burgess@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael   Stroucken)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:59:52 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1993Jan7.134901.3502@netnews.noc.drexel.edu> glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu writes:
>If you don't know what dreds look like try to find an African-American and make
>a comparison.

	Hey Whitey! Dreds hang down and have fused together. I say Barts hair
is the hair of a boy who doesn't wash and comb it. Furthermore, not too many
blacks have dreds anymore.

MS
-- 
	      Die Intelligenz verfolgt Dich, doch Du bist schneller...
Internet: mxsst1@pitt.edu,       Anonymously: wi.6194@n7kbt.rain.com        :)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: tebarth.bln@sni.de (Dominik Tebarth)
Subject: Re: Back in Germany
Organization: SNE , Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:36:49 GMT

phineas@brombeer.sta.sub.org (Stephan Freundorfer) writes:


> Hi OFF-Fans!


> I just wanted to express my joy to you. The Simpsons are back in
> german television with 24 new and 14 old episodes, starting today.
> For some foolish reason they are broadcasted at 2.30 pm each day
> (children's prime time). The people in Germany didn't catch the
> meaning of the show (same thing as with ST:TNG), so it went to the
> children's hour. But the rest of the german Simpsons-Fans will
> hopefully record every episode on the VCR, so do I.

So do I, but did you notice that german tv station ZDF cut
the episode on Jan 5 down to 22 minutes ? Or is this
the original length ? 
(The episode where Homer is declared insane)
Besides, I also have the impression, that the Simpsons
are NOT a big success among german adults. I know many people
who usually like the kind of humour displayed by the Simpsons,
but they didn't watch the show, because ZDF always
sold it as a children program. Another reason may have
been, that the original place (around 6 p.m.) is not
regarded as a time to expect an intelligent and good
tv program by many germans.
All in all a bit sad:
One of the best tv programs ever - and not a big success 
among german adults.

Any Germans who read this but don't like the Simpsons want to
comment ?


/******************************************************/
  |\/\/\/|  	"I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM"
  |      |     	"I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM"
  | (o)(o)   	"I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM"
  C      _)    	"I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM"
   | ,___|    	"I WILL NOT BELCH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM"
   |   /     	"I WILL NOT BELCH THE NA.......      "
/******************************************************/

Dominik Tebarth Berlin 44 Thomasstr.79

> Stephan.


> --
> Stephan Freundorfer               phineas@brombeer.sta.sub.org
> Neu-Esting/Germany                +49 8142-49146   
>  "Wer im Schlachthaus sitzt, soll nicht mit Schweinen werfen"
From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Homers Waffles
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:13:18 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch, Office of the Chief Trencherman
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


msallen@hemlock.cray.com (Michael S. Allen) says:

>I tried to make the waffles from the last Simpsons show but they didn't
>turn out!  Not enough stiffness to wrap the stick of butter.  

You'll get better results if the Liquid Smoke is at least two years old.

 -Bucky `pink doughnut eater' Whaley

-- 
bw462@cleveland.freenet.edu            "It's funny because it's true."
                                       - Fat Tony, `Bart the Murderer'
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: hagmeier@dfki.uni-kl.de (Joachim Hagmeier)
Subject: !!!! Hilfe !!!! help
Organization: DFKI Kaiserslautern
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:53:33 GMT


To all the German readers of this newsgroup:

Irgendwas ging schief mit dem VPS-signal am Di. 12.01.93.
Ich kam heim, und die Folge "einmal Washington und zurueck" war
nicht auf Band.
Ich habe bisher alle in Deutschland gesendeten Folgen auf Video.
Nur diese eine Folge kenne ich nicht.

Wer kann mir helfe? Wer kennt jemanden, der mir eine Kopie der Folge
besorgen kann?

Antwort unter e-mail : hagmeier@dfki.uni-kl.de

Danke
	Jimmy
From: glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: What U Didn't Know about the Simpsons!!
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:49:01 GMT
Organization: Drexel University


>>Q:What hairstyle does Bart wear?
>>A:Dreds, like what type of people(African-Americans)
>
>
>*Does* Bart wear dreads? I haven't been able to discern any particular style 
>in his yellow mop.

If you don't know what dreds look like try to find an African-American and make
a comparison.

                        Chad J Glover
           glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu      
       Drexel University Software Testing Lab
   If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he
                        isn't fit to live. --MLK
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
Subject: Re: Homer the Heretic
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:19:00 GMT

dkumasaw@oracle.uucp (Darren Kumasawa) writes:
>cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
>>Just something from tonight's episode:
>>
>>How many out there in net land keep oily rags....
>>
>>
>>                         ... in a box labeled "OILY RAGS"?
>>
>
>Where else would one keep them?  In a box labeled "SOILED LINEN"?

Perhaps, remember that we are talking about the Simpsons!  :-)
For a family that would be careless enough to keep oily rags around,
don't you think it is a little organized (if not anal-retentive) to
keep them (in a messy way with some hanging over the edge) in a box
actually labelled "OILY RAGS"?  Kind of like labeling empty boxes as
"EMPTY BOX".

Now to avoid flames from other points of view, I am aware of the fact
that many viewers would completely miss the joke of them having oily
rags in the basement if the box was not labelled.  I am however suggesting
that the joke is make even funnier by the organized labeling.

>No, this just implies that God changed his mind about telling Homer the
>meaning of life while he was still alive.  Why would God postpone Homer's
>death AND tell him the meaning of life?  If God's plans for Homer had
>changed, the most logical thing to do would have been to tell Homer, and
>then kill him right away.  As it is, I think we can assume that Homer will
>still die 6 months from that point even though he now knows the meaning
>of life.

Perhaps.  I'm not trying to argue one way or the other -- just thought
I'ld throw in another twist on this much-talked-about item.

>>Secondly, it occurred from me that the producers *copied* an idea that
>>I and a friend used in a short film we made in 1982.  Of course I said
>>"*copied*" because I can say with reasonable certainty that none of them
>>could have seen our film.  Anyhow, the film was about a guy that was
>
>How could the writers "copy" an idea from a movie that they have never seen?

I never said "copy", I said "*copied*".  Note the asterisks!
It was said tongue-in-cheek, as I was pointing out how the way the end
of the scene was played out (with the verbal explanation starting and
fading into the closing music) was similar to something I was a part of
years ago.  Also, I do state that they could not possibly have seen
our film.

>Obviously, the writers just thought of the idea on their own.

Absolutely.  This just goes to show that it is possible for some ideas
to be duplicated in differnt places and different times WITHOUT anyone
stealing or plagerizing (sp?).

>It's not
>a particularly *clever* idea, after all.  Amusing, definitely, but not
>an idea that any decent group of writers wouldn't come up with in a half-hour
>brainstorming session.

Most certainly.  And it probably will be used again without any realization
that it may have been done before.


Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE          | "...My brain IBM"
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute    | "So if you see me, acting strangely..."
Toronto, Ontario, Canada           |                  STYX, Mr. Roboto
From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [*] weekly discussion sum
Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:27:21 GMT
Organization: The Global Lutefisk Watch
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


john.russell@canrem.com ("john russell") says:

>I agree that alt.tv.simpsons gets a lot of unnecessary traffic.
>How about restricting the distribution of those "butchered in Oz"
>postings to, well, Australia? :-)

I enjoy the `biO' postings, as I do the occasional articles about
Canadian and European broadcasting policies and idiosyncracies.

-- 
bw462@cleveland.freenet.edu            "It's funny because it's true."
                                       - Fat Tony, `Bart the Murderer'
From: alan.j.rosenthal@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Alan J Rosenthal) 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Simpsons Illustrated for U.S. and Canadian readers
Date: 2 Jan 93 15:14:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reply-To: alan.j.rosenthal@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Alan J Rosenthal) 
Summary: The Night of the DYNs

From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Date: 2 Jan 93 15:26:11 GMT
 
joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) writes:
>You know, I've seen quite a lot of references to these Simpsons 
>Illustrateds, but I've never actually seen one, nor do I know where to 
>get one.   Can someone point me?  :)
 
The Winter 1993 issue of Simpsons Illustrated offers subscriptions to Canada
too (for the first time)!  To now, I've bought them in bookstores.
 
It says to call 515 243 4543 or write Simpsons Illustrated, P.O. Box 10195,
Des Moines, Iowa 50340.  It also says that the "basic" subscription price for a
year is $7.80 in the U.S. and $11.56 in Canada (which includes GST :-( ).  It's
funny, because the fall 1992 one (which didn't permit Canadian subscriptions)
said that the price for a one-year subscription was $9.97 but also said that
the "basic" price was $12.50!
 
--- 
 . MkNet .  . QNet3. . USENET : HAL 9000 BBS - Ann Arbor, Michigan  (211:1/0)
 . QNet3. . USENET : Royal Castle BBS - New Castle, DE USA : (302) 322-4863
                                                          
----
+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| HAL 9000 BBS +1 313 663 4173 or 663 3959 | Four 14.4k v.32bis dial-ins |
| Public Access QWK-to-Usenet gateway      | With PCBoard 14.5aM & uuPCB |
+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+