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From: rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)
Subject: Re: Gamera!
Reply-To: rck1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:48:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.132200.16096@news.columbia.edu> dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.053045.21431@midway.uchicago.edu> rck1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <Jan.5.19.50.52.1993.22072@pilot.njin.net> langbein@pilot.njin.net (John Langbein) writes:
>>>In article <1993Jan5.063245.2491@midway.uchicago.edu> rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong) writes:
>>>
>>>> A week ago, my family stopped in at a Japanese grocery
>>>> store/mini-mall which just opened up about a year ago. My brother
>>>> and I wandered into the toy store, and what should we discover but
>>>> TONS of Gamera figures! 
>>>
>>>Great! How Much were they? Perhaps you would take orders? :-)
>>
>>Oops, I didn't bother to check. Dunno..if a bunch of people want
>>them, I suppose I could take orders. I don't go down there often
>>(as evidenced by the fact that it's been open a year and I've only
>>been there once).
>
>The store you're talking about is called PONY TOY GO ROUND. It is a 
>chain, and has outlets in Los Angeles and New Jersey as well as in
>Chicago. The Los Angeles store is the largest, and it does take mail
>orders. I don't have the address or phone number, so just call 
>Los Angeles information for them.

Well, this sounds much better than going through me for the orders.
Not that I'm too lazy to go over there, mind you :-) but I can't
really guarantee that I'd be going over there any time soon.
Apologies to the few of you who wrote me about this (if there were
a lot of orders, I'd reconsider, but...)

Thanks for the info!


Robin C. Kwong ("er)
				"You are WRONG, Winky-breath!"
				   --Crow, "Crash of the Moons" 
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: chubbard@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Charles William Hubbard)
Subject: Re: About That Letter
Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 00:14:00 GMT

>  And what about "pizza"!!!!  ??!!   
>
>Heh heh heh.  I've been waiting since the summer to bring this up again.
>Wahahahahahahaha.
>
>Maybe I should just relax.

Yea, I never tire of pizza debate either.  Recently I've been re-recording
several of my mst3k episodes and I've noticed the word "pizza" at door 3
even on the early 1989 Larry episodes!  I haven't heard the doorbell at
door 4 but then I haven't been listening for it either.

C.

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: "The Magic Sword" on TNT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:51:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.195400.2468@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.163622.13325@b30.ingr.com> mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller ) writes:
>>
>>First one to mention that TNT showed "The Magic Sword" on New Year's Day.
>
>What's worse, out local NBC affiliate was showing "Attack of the Eye
>Creatures" this weeking.
>
>oh the pain, the pain...

It must have been painful, otherwise you'd have noticed that this movie
is actually "Attack of the the Eye Creatures." Maybe the affiliate cut
out the second "the"? 

I also noticed that the TNT "Magic Sword" had a number of scenes that 
MST3K cut; at least the Mad Scientists aren't as evil as TNT, who 
shows movies like this uncut!
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
From: ez008208@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Julian Burger)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Monster Go-Go
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:01:16 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

In article <1993Jan9.135605@ece.arizona.edu> evans@ece.arizona.edu (Glen Evans) writes:
>
>Did anyone think the skits were funny?

I found them funny, but not up to par with previous material.  Don't get me
wrong, I still love the show and really enjoyed this most recent episode, but
felt there was something missing.  Are they running out of steam?  Then
again, the mads' action figure was first rate.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: memco@cns.nyu.edu (Matthew Merkelson)
Subject: Re: Newsweek article (Tony Slattery)
Reply-To: memco@cns.nyu.edu
Organization: New York University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:44:44 GMT

In article 43378@sdcc12.ucsd.edu, pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:

>obComedyCentral: "Whose Line is it Anyway" regular Tony Slattery is
>in the movie "Peter's Friends".

He is also in the new movie "The Crying Game" by Neil Jordan.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: MST Weekend Schedule
From: jenkins@local.host (Lisa Jenkins)
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:44:29 -0600
Reply-To: jenkins@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
Organization: Organization, City, State, etc.

                        _Mystery Science Theater 3000_
                               Weekend Schedule

All times Eastern/Pacific

Friday,   January 15, 1993
 12:00 AM  Comedy Central  "Daddy-O"

Saturday, January 16, 1993
 10:00 AM  Comedy Central  "The Day the Earth Froze"
  2:00 PM  Lifetime        [unknown episode; two hours]
  5:00 PM  Comedy Central  SNL [Joel Hodgson appearance; half hour]
  7:00 PM  Comedy Central  "The Day the Earth Froze"

Sunday,   January 17, 1993
  8:00 PM  Lifetime        Cable ACE Awards [live; two and a half hours]
                           [MST is up for "Best Writing in a Comedy Series"]


                                 Lisa Jenkins
                         1603 Thirteenth Street South
                        Moorhead, Minnesota 56560-3734
                                     *-*-*
                        jenkins@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
                                     *-*-*
  The usual .signature has been deleted because of copyright infringement....

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From: lambda@cis.umassd.edu (David G. Beals)
Subject: Re: Monster A Go-Go
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:01:30 GMT

In <1993Jan10.023444.8347@netcom.com> afhetzel@netcom.com (A.F. Hetzel) writes:

>In article <19930109123448ECZ5BXW@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> ecz5bxw@mvs.oac.ucla.edu writes:

>>BTW -- Where was the go-go in Monster A Go-Go?  From the title,
>>I had visions of Dracula, Frankenstein et.al. doing the Watusi.
>>I feel cheated.

>Perhaps the "Go-Go" had something to do with that unimportant scene (name one
>that wasn't) with the kids' party... prior to the attack on that teenager
>(attack not shown).  One of the few films I've seen worse than "Cave
>Dwellers."

I have three theories about the "A Go-Go" part of the movie's title:

1> It had something to do with the odd Go-Go spaceboots the alien wore in
   the movie. You know, the ones that were always shown walking over a
   picture of the galaxy, symbolizing the long march the viewer had to endure
   to get to the end of the film.

2> It had something to do with the dance party where Recessa-Annie and the
   introspective Jack Kerouac-like character meet and drive off to meet
   their doom. 

3> The film made the audience want to "A Go-Go" out of the theatre as soon
   as possible!

One final thought: was it just me, or did the monster look like Lwaxana Troi's
porter in Star Trek: The Next Gen.? "Mr. Holm, stop creatively mangling people
this instant!"

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From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: Gamera
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:57:28 GMT

In article <MMEYER.93Jan7105002@m2.dseg.ti.com> mmeyer@m2.dseg.ti.com (Mark Meyer) writes:
>	Yeah, I liked Gamera as a kid.  Now, as an adult watching
>MST3K, I see those movies in a completely different light.
>

Here's another "me too".  I was luck enough that while I was growing
up the local TV stations would show all of the old Japanese 
"guy in a suit" movies along will the 50's and 60's American
horror/sci-fi movies.

Kids today just don't know what they're missing.  I'll take Ultraman over
Captain Planet any day.


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From: kruger@plains.NoDak.edu (Donovan Kruger)
Subject: Re: Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors!!???
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:04:35 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1993Jan12.001239.22770@bmw.mayo.edu> blj@mayo.edu writes:

>You are Correct!  I also remember watching "Land of the Lost",[...]
>the name of this one (HELP!)  These shows were all by SID and MARTY KROFT.
> Are there any cable channels showing these?  I want to see them again!!

Land of the Lost made a comeback a couple of years ago.  Too bad you
missed it.  A friend and I had an interesting discussion about Cha-Ka,
Will, and Holly.  (yeah sure)  But we could never remember the name of the
baby brontosaurus they had as a friendly helper.  ANyone?

KroFFt, with two F's.  How can you forget that rotating logo? :)

>blj@mayo.edu
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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Let's send in a letter (updates list-of-names)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:09:18 GMT

In article <skipb.726114682@cwis> skipb@cwis.unomaha.edu (Skip Burrell) writes:
>lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
>
>>>> careful with the mac cuts there, bird ;) okay, i liked it... nevermind ;)
>
>>>Well, I'm a die-hard DOS-lover, so I laughed myself silly at the Mac cuts.
>>>What's with Tom Servo, though? Everybody knows the difference between a 
>>>backslash and forward slash! And besides, only weenies use WordPerfect 
>>>anymore. The real pros now are using **DESKTOP PUBLISHING*** programs. 
>
>> I dunno - I use Messy-DOS, Apple, and UNIX systems almost daily... and 
>>_I_ certainly get confused... if somebody is used to using just one
>>system, looking for those silly back-slashes is NOT natural (since Messy-DOS
>>is the only system _I_ know of that uses them with any regularity)
>
>I also use all three types of systems, The backslash isn't that big a deal 
>since I do alot of C and shell programming where the backslash is used as
>an escape character. But I also think that MeSsy-DOS is a dinasaur that has 
>outlived its purpose. The Mac was a great innovation but is beginning to
>show its age. Apple needs System 8 right now, Windows needs to be freed from
>DOS, and Unix/X-Windows is way cool!! ;-)
>
>>and,in a true effort to start a non-topic related flame war: what anybody
>>sees in a hacked up, bastardized, CRIPPLED UNIX is beyond me.. (yeah - that's
>>Messy-DOS).  I'd MUCH rather use the real thing - in any flavor!
>
>Me too. In fact, my 386 DOS machine will soon be a *nix box, and hopefully
>MeSsy-DOS will be just a memory!

Ha! You know what I've down on my unix machine? I've added aliases so I could
use MS-DOS commands instead of unix stuff! Deal with it, pink boy!
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors!!???
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:30:32 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

blj@mayo.edu (Brian Johnson) writes:

>You are Correct!  I also remember watching "Land of the Lost", "H.R.
>Puffnstuff", and "Dr. Shrinker".

Are you sure that "H.R. Puffnstuff" is Krofft?  I thought it preceded
Krofft by several years.

>  There was another one with the *schlepp car*, but I can't remember
>the name of this one (HELP!)

That would be "Wonder Bug".  Ugh.

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From: fay@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Patrick, we harldy knew ye
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:03:40 -0600
Summary: Too bad on party
Keywords: Try again?
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

I, for one, am saddened to hear that the Patrick Swayze Xmas gathering has been
cancelled, and sadder still that Best Brains is beginning to let their lawyers
in on things like this.

I don't know if I was the only one, but last summer I suggested that those of
us who live in the Midwest think about getting together a party in late
December/early January (when those of us on a University schedulae have way too
much free time anyway).

Lisa took the idea and ran with it, until it got shot down.  She tried to do
something very cool...it just didn't work out.

Still, I have the idea that meeting people who are also MST3K fans would be
fun.  Is there anyone in the Twin Cities area (as one possible example) with a
big place who wants to supply the location?  Could we have some kind of
potluck/BYO party sometime this summer?  Will John and Mary ever find true love
and happiness?

Well, to Lisa I say thank you for trying.  To those of you far away from the
Midwest, maybe you might want to try to do get-togethers as well?  

Just looking for a way to put faces and elbows to the names and sig.s.

Bucky2001
From: bm560@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas D. Salyers)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: latest update on names-for-letter, last call
Date: 5 Jan 1993 17:25:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


   slap my name on that there letter-type thing...=)

-- 
Tom Salyers    "Now is the Windows of our disk contents
Denver, CO      Made glorious SimEarth by this son of Zork."
IRCnick: Aqualung              --from _Richard v3.0_
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller )
Subject: Re: My Saturday Fix
Organization: Intergraph
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:55:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.232226.26652@news.acns.nwu.edu> dorf@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Stephen Dierdorf) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.174032.23386@eskimo.com> lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel) writes:
>>sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke) writes:
>
>>If you ask me, CC is gonna have to do someting soon... their programming is
>>starting to actively suck.. I mean, with the exception(THANK GOD!) of MST,
>>all yu have is pretty much 24 hours of stand-up comedians doing their schticks - over and over and over...
>
>I have to agree with you. The only thing CC has to offer in the way of
>original, worthwhile entertainment is MST3k. Some shows, such as
>"Whose Line is it Anyway?" are good, but aren't original, and some
>shows, such as "Short Commercial Span Theater" (as i have taken to calling
>it) and "Night after Night" are just plain unentertaining. A network
>cannot survive, IMHO, showing nothing but reruns and diced up stand up 
>comedy. This would not bother me overly much except for the fact that

Check out Almost Live! M-F 5:30 p.m.  I especially like the semi-regular
"The Lame List" and "Mind you Manners with Billy Quan."

ObMST3K:  they seem to be making a lot of Bullwinkle refs. lately.  Did
one the the writers just discover it?

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From: sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke)
Subject: Re: Monster Go-Go
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:28:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.145955.27327@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bobd@marune.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula) writes:
>
>Did anybody (other than me :-) catch Crow T. Robot saying that his
>operating system was UNIX (I believe he said "I work under UNIX")?
>:-)

Crow: Is it that I work off UNIX, and can use a variety of operating systems?

Gypsy: Well, I guess that's a start.



Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: cwc@ssesco.com (Craig W. Carlson)
Subject: Re: My Saturday Fix
Organization: SSESCO
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:33:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.232226.26652@news.acns.nwu.edu>, dorf@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Stephen Dierdorf) writes:
|> I have to agree with you. The only thing CC has to offer in the way of
|> original, worthwhile entertainment is MST3k. Some shows, such as
|> "Whose Line is it Anyway?" are good, but aren't original, and some
|> shows, such as "Short Commercial Span Theater" (as i have taken to calling
|> it) and "Night after Night" are just plain unentertaining. A network
|> cannot survive, IMHO, showing nothing but reruns and diced up stand up 
|> comedy. This would not bother me overly much except for the fact that
|> I fear that the demise of CC will inevitably result in the demise of MST3k.
|> It does not seem likely to me that anyone will pick it up if CC goes under
|> (but I hope I am wrong).
|> 	I think that many of us agree that MST is the only bright spot
|> in an otherwise unoriginal broadcast line-up, as would many TV critics.
|> MST is the only show, in fact, that I have ever heard mentioned by a critic
|> that airs exclusively on CC. If this is the only thing they have going
|> for them, why do they choose to preempt its broadcast with that ridiculous
|> "Stand-up COunt-up"? I realize that they want programming that is easily
|> automated (i.e. they can program their computer to show 400 episodes
|> of "The A-List" and go to their New Year's Eve parties), but it seems that
|> NEw Year's is a perfect time to show MST. It allows us college students(who
|> don't get cable at school) to record more episodes and "keep circulating
|> the tapes" amongst our peers while exposing another sector of the population
|> to MST. I personally know of 10 people who got hooked on the show as a
|> direct result of the Thanksgiving Marathon. If I ran the zoo, I would do
|> everything I could to show MST. It is true that oversaturating the airwaves
|> with MST could rob it of its charm and cult flavor, but I think that CC
|> is limited enough in its national coverage to preserve this. 
|> 	Well! I'm sorry that was so long winded. The thought of
|> being deprived of MST puts me in a mood. Feel free to email me
|> with flames, etc.

No matter what you may think of Night After Night (a show that I liked)
it also got good reviews from critics.  As far as I know that makes only 
two shows on CC that could make that claim.  So what they have done
is drop one of their two good shows (the other of course being MST3K) so
they can show more of their mediocre shows like Stand Up, Stand Up (which I
absolutely despise).  I think it's right to be worried about the future of
CC (and thus MST3K) since there have been other comedy networks that went
off the air since they had nothing to offer but the same boring stand-up
routines over and over.

Just my $.02.

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From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: seeking parts list for the 'bots
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:06:41 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.mst3k
Organization: (Evil Eye Creature from Mars, Inc.)

In article <1992Dec31.193414.12138@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>,
mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) wrote:
> 
> 
> Once upon a time, I saw a parts list for the 'bots posted.
> I'd appreciate it if someone would either post it or
> mail it to me.  I'm looking for Tom's list specifically.
> 
> After _The Human Duplicators_, finding a good gumball machine
> may be hard to do.

Did anyone catch the comments what the special space ship
that resembled Crow was built of (Human Duplicators)? I think that 
Joel gave out a lot of hints for future Crow robot builders...

Kent
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From: langbein@pilot.njin.net (John Langbein)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Letter from Best Brains re Patrick Swayze X-Mas
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:13:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Information Builders, Inc.


In article <1993Jan06.224117.24592@microsoft.com> juliewa@microsoft.com (Julie Walker) writes:

> Jim Mallon, the producer of MST3K, asked me to post this letter
> on his behalf.  Any typos are mine.
> ________________________________________________________________

> Recently there has appeared notice about a holiday party called
> "A Patrick Swayze X-Mas" posted by Lisa Jenkins.  We want you to know
> that we have not sanctioned this event in any way and that no one
> from the cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 or the staff of Best
> Brains will be attending.  We apologize to anyone who was planning to
> attend this event based on the belief that we would be in attendance.

I am sorry, but I must seriously doubt the validity of this letter,
because Lisa NEVER EVER EVER PROMISED that they would show up. She was
saying she was TRYING to get them, but NEVER said they WOULD be there.
Jim Mallon is a VERY intelligent person, and I am sure his scrutiny
would have picked up on this fact. Lisa NEVER claimed it to be a
sanctioned event.

If my memory is faulty, or it is a real letter, I apologize, but I
was following the letters, because I was considering going. In fact,
from what I recall, Lisa had posted last that it was delayed (Just
before she dissappeared off the net for a bit) because they coudn't
attend, and she wanted to try and get a time someone could show up.

Still, the person that can clear this up the fastest is Lisa.
Hopefully, her net problems are totally resolved and she can respond
to this quickly. 

The opinions are mine. The facts are only as good as my memory of a 1
month old conversation from one group of the many that I read.
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