HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)
Subject: Re: QL Font for Mac
Reply-To: rck1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:42:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.025850.1810@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> cgallagher@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
>
>
>	Does anybody know of an ftp site that has the font that QL 
>uses for their logo?

No, I don't know where the font can be found, but...

As near as I can figure, QL uses a modified version of an
already-existing font. Said font is one that I've seen often on dust
jackets, on storefronts, in magazines, etc. The QL title font
re-styles the "Q" and "A" slightly (the other letters, as far as we
can see them, have been untouched), and adds the "halo" effect.

If this unmodified font has shown up in so many places, it
shouldn't be impossible to locate. Then, with a little (hopefully
not illegal :-) judicious tinkering, well...

Anyone have more info on this?


Robin C. Kwong ("er)
				Observers do it imagingatively!
From: jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: mid-80's tv series
Date: 20 Nov 1992 01:35:46 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <9211200053.AA16632@rutgers.edu> MB05704@swtexas.BITNET writes:
>I've been trying to remember the name of a series that came
>on sometime during the early to mid-80's.
>
>It was the one about a family that while visiting one of the
>great pyramids over night (?) gets transported to an alternate
>universe where they are constantly hunted by the government there
>and have to keep moving from province to province.

	Otherworld!

>The only episode I can remember is when the two kids decide to
>become rock stars by singing old earth songs.  They become very
>popular.  Eventually their popularity spreads and the gov't finds
>out where they are and they have to move again.

	My favorite was the first one, with the android city.  That one sent
chills down my spine (I was about ten at the time), and I've wanted to see it
again since then with no luck.

								-Jay


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From: jasstev@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (stevens jason)
Subject: Re: Highlander
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:17:41 GMT

iwsbarke@acs.ucalgary.ca (I W Scott Barker) writes:

>Dave Lister (pjm6z@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
>> I would tend to agree that the introduction of Fazeil would be an excellent
>> to end the series and kill off Duncan.  The epsiode could end with Fazeil
>> killing Duncan and Connor chasing off after him.  This would lead up directly
>> to the beginning of the first movie.

>I'd have to disagree with that. If Connor was chasing Fazeil because Fazeil
>killed Duncan, why would he say "Fazeil, wait..." in a tone of voice which
>made it sound like they knew each other fairly well, and Conner didn't really
>want to fight. It always seemed to me that Fazeil was the one hunting Conner
>in those opening scenes anyway.

>Perhaps it would be better to have Duncan killed off rather randomly, which
>may help to explain why Connor seemed rather "happy go lucky" in the series,
>but he seems rather broodish in the movie - he has seen to many friends and
>loved ones die. I believe someone else mentioned an idea like this before.


    No NO NO No NO!!!!
    Bring back the Kurgan!!!! make Connor save Tessa and Richie after the
    Kurgan pops off Duncan. Now there is a good idea.
    there can be only one!!!!
    Jason.
    `
>Scott Barker
>iwsbarke@acs.ucalgary.ca

>"Asking if a computer can think is like asking if a submarine can swim"
>   - Edsgar Djikstra
From: aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Joshua Henry Geurink)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Highlander - TV Series (+HL2 *Spoilers* for those who care)
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:01:19 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <17000@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:

>I actually saw HL2 before the original, so I was seeing it as a straight
>science-fiction movie.  I still laughed myself silly.  The lines were one
>cliche after another, and even Christopher Lambert embarassed himself with
>his aged persona (which sounded so much like a bad Godfather imitation,
>the entire theater was laughing).  And every last scene was ripped off
>from somewhere -- right down to the scene in the trash compactor -- whoops,
>giant fan chamber.  We all shouted "Use the Force, Conner!  --Oops, wrong
>movie."  The only thing that was bearable was Sean Connery, who was clearly
>having a blast.

Well, of course he was having a blast!  Highlander 2 probably paid for a 
new driving range or something while requiring minimal effort.

And I never said Highlander 2 was a GOOD movie out-of-context, but at
least a bearable one... but what kind of planet name is Zeist?  It 
sounds like something out of a bad comic book! 

CannonFodder Earthling:  Oh no! it is the evil alien invaders from the
	planet Zeist!  surely we must surrender or kill ourselves!

Captain Bozo:  Fear not, EArthman!  For I, _I_ Captain BOZO am here
	to save you from the malicious malcontenents from the planet Zeist!

Ugh.

>They never said it was New York.  It's just the Generic City (tm) that so
>many TV series take place in.  Hmm, maybe it's Gotham...
>And I don't think it was said that the Gathering automatically draws
>them to one set place.  I think it just draws all immortals together.
>New York just happened to be the place where the last survivors were
>in the first movie.

I dunno about that one... I'm fairly certain the first movie STATES the
location for the gatering is New York.  I'd have to see it again to make
sure... boy, life is hard!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
King Rat                       | "You got the power (Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)"
Josh Geurink, C.V.E.           | "You got the might (No way!)"
_C_ertified _V_ampire _E_xpert | "Get ready for battle (Give me your money!)"
aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu    | "Defeat the Black Knight!"
`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'`:'

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From: kellyb@ccsua.ctstateu.edu
Subject: Re: Highlander - TV Series
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:41:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.012813.3863@microsoft.com>, lauriec@microsoft.com (Laurie Corrin) writes:
> In article <jfarmer.721671725@sfu.ca> jfarmer@fraser.sfu.ca (Jason Michael Farmer) writes:
>>aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Joshua Henry Geurink) writes:
>>
>>>And, yeah, SURE this takes place in New York.  Especially with those Pacific
>>>West telephone booths scattered throughout the city...
>>
>>And the BC Transit Buses, and the Canada Post trucks, and the obvious Gastown
>>locations, and..... another hilarious attempt to turn Vancouver, B.C. into
>>a shitty American town.  (Hey, just kidding).  
>>
> 
> I think it's supposed to be either Seattle, or just a generic American city.
> Do they ever say where it's supposed to be set? I recognized the Vancouver 
> locales, but all the license plates say Washington State.  

I think it's the planet Ziest!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
From: dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton)
Subject: Re: QL:  The Leap Back?
Organization: Intermetrics Inc., Washington Division, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:18:09 GMT

In article <9760@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> willdm+@pitt.edu (William D Moore) writes:

   Could someone either verify or correct my observation concerning the 
   syndicated running of Quantum Leap on USA.  If I remember correctly,
   they aired the episode "Shock Theater" on Friday, Nov. 13th.  Naturally
   the next episode to be shown would have been "The Leap Back".  But when
   I turned on the TV at 7:00 pm on Monday, Nov. 16th to watch it, they were
   instead showing the episode "Play Ball".  What the hell?

This has been asked several times.  USA does show Quantum Leap on
Saturdays, at the same time (7:00 PM eastern).  The Leap Back played
last Saturday.

					Dave Barton
					dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 23 Nov 1992 13:41:52 EST
From: Rick Thibeault, UMPI <RICK@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Leaping Outside Your Life (series finale)
 <By1Fp1.L4t@sdf.lonestar.org> <1992Nov22.181905.8716@gboro.glassboro.edu>





>In "Last Dance Before an Execution", Sam leaps into a convict on Death Row.
>He leaps out just before that convict is executed.  During the time that Sam
>was in 1971, the convict was in 1990-something.  We know the convict dies in
>1971.  Therefore, the convict leaped OUTSIDE of his own lifetime.

>We might cook up some metaphysics to argue that Sam can't leap to _before_ he
>was born, but it seems to me that we've already made clear that people can
>leap to a period after their own death.  (Other examples might include "The

Has Al ever been able to talk to the leapee when we know they are dead
in Al and Sam's present?  If not maybe they can't leap past their own life.
We know that some of them have been unable to talk(shock, etc), maybe this
applies to the dead as well.  They have vital signs, but nothing else.
From: finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL - Attention Al Fans!
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:41:11 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter) writes:

>Jeez, I always *thought* I was an Al fan.  I mean, I've always had this
>sneaky suspicion that I was an Al fan.  But now, now I *KNOW* I'm an Al
>fan.  For once, my life makes sense to me...


>Keep leaping (and observing)...



Oh, and BTW, another reason you know you like Al better when...

You actually watched that Shelley Long movie "Fatal Memories" las week when
you couldn't sit through Scott's BAD TV movie (which I even forget the name
of) last year.

-- 
* Tracy E. Finifter			  *                                   *
*  finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu		  *    "Leapers do it time after      *
*  Douglass College, Rutgers University   *        time after time..."        *
*  New Brunswick, New Jersey		  *  	                              *
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From: ecohn@indyvax.iupui.edu
Subject: Re: day of the triffid(s)?
Organization: Purdue University, Indianapolis
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:21:29 -0500

In article <1ecpooINN20n@agate.berkeley.edu>, pete@plutonium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU (Pete Goodeve) writes:
> In article <17016@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:
>>In article <1e7o6fINN6a9@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@plutonium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU (Pete Goodeve) writes:
>>
>>>The first was a bloody awful one -- made in the early '60s, I'd guess --
>>>starring Howard Keel.
>>
>>Also starring a young Carole Anne Ford, from the original Doctor Who cast.
>>She screamed a lot, as I gather.
> 
> That throws my estimate of `early 60s' off a bit then...  I guess she was
> 16 or 17 in '63 Dr Who, and couldn't have been more than 12 in the movie.
> Which makes the latter '58 or '59 at the latest.

Carole Anne Ford was about 22 when she first appeared in "Doctor Who".

Ellen - the crime doctor

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From: rwillis@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard "Crash" Willis)
Subject: Re: "Concept Theft:" B5 v DS9 and Roddenberry (Re: BABYLON 5 vs ST:DSN)
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:26:44 GMT


I don't know if this has been said or not, but, according to an article I
read in either StarLog or a info file, B-5 was filming and ready to go
before DS9 started. The only reason it is being shown after the premiere
of DS9 is because they want it to be concurrent with the other shows
that are on the new warner brother network.            

	I know this doesn't mean that ideas couldn't have been stolen, but
I wonder if this would be a question if B5 had come out first, or if
people would be questioning DS9 instead.
	
	Also, according to the same articles, B5 already has a 5-8 year
storyline already set up, indicating that a lot of creative work
has gone into it as an orginal idea, and that the tone of B-5 is entirely
diffrent that Star Trek, taking on a much darker and 'realistic' view
of the future than Star Trek. I've heard that the unofficial motto
of B5 is "No Cute Kids or Robots...ever."

	But, besides the above, don't you think we should wait and SEE it 
first, BEFORE we past judgement on it? Remember everyones reaction to
the idea of Star Trek:TNG trying to take the place of Star Trek? Personally,
I'm looking forward to seeing (hopefully) another quality Science Fiction
show out there - I love Star Trek, but variety (and a little bit of competition)will spice things up. :)


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From: dzembj@jec304.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Trilogy, Part I (Book I?)  *SPOILERS, PART I (BOOK I?)*
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:08:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: rpi.20y13af
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

In article <1eccpvINNi0k@mozz.unh.edu>, mre@kepler.unh.edu (MikE) writes: 
|> BTW, who played the leapee's wife?  I heard hear on the net that it was
|> Meg Foster..."Too weird", as Al would say.

The opening credits had Meg Foster listed separately from the guest cast 
as a special guest.  I've never heard of her, so I don't know what the big
thing is about her being a special guest, but I'll presume that she was the
wife.

						- Jason
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From: fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie)
Subject: QL: Al's Cigars...
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:33:31 GMT


	Okay.  I posted this before, but no one responded.  So, I wondered
if it was ever posted at all.  Anyway, I had posted something like a trivia
question:  WHAT KIND OF CIGARS DOES AL SMOKE?

	If you know, please enlighten the huddled massess...Thank you.

--

______________________________________________________________________________
Alan S. Lurie, Esq., Time Traveller Extrordinaire - fletch@camelot.bradley.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	"You don't care what people think, do you?" he asked.
	Travnicek's voice was defiant.  "Why should I?"
	Bloat looked down on him.  There was a touch of sadness in his tone.
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From: kay@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (k)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: "DUfE": further observations
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:25:38 GMT
Organization: Project Quantum Gweep
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Nov17.190621.21173@u.washington.edu> iho@cac.washington.edu writes:
>A new topic.  Was this the first episode where Ziggy was referred to as
>"she"?
>

Oh heck no.  In "The Leap Back" (which was, what, last season's opener?), 
Ziggy was shown, and her voice was most definitely female.  (Also quite
sexy, IMHO.)  I'm not sure if that was the first, but it was definitely
long before this episode.

later
k
-- 
super-kittycat theory and how it applies to time travel and its effects.
just one of the many pressing metamechanical problems being addressed at
the institute for applied wedge physics and petrarcosmology worcester ma
kay@wpi.wpi.edu  chief observer and research head  project quantum gweep
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From: fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie)
Subject: QL: Al Trivia!
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:24:24 GMT


	Hey, here's something that someone should be able to answer (if he/she
is a REAL Quantum Leap fan...).  For $300 here's the question:

	WHAT KIND OF CIGARS DOES AL SMOKE?????

--

______________________________________________________________________________
Alan S. Lurie, Esq., Time Traveller Extrordinaire - fletch@camelot.bradley.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	"You don't care what people think, do you?" he asked.
	Travnicek's voice was defiant.  "Why should I?"
	Bloat looked down on him.  There was a touch of sadness in his tone.
From: dzembj@jec304.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: USA 11/18
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:04:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: rpi.y0y130d
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

In article <BxyBn8.JFA@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes:
|> I am just now catching last season on USA, and the leapin tuesday was
|> for the KKK episode (Sorry, I don't know the names for this season)
|> and they showed "Permanent Wave" instead.  Can someone re-post the
|> USA schedule so I can figure out what's going on?
|> 
|> thanx
|> 
|> LJC
|> -- 
|> Lady Johanna Constantine | "When you remove the pin, Mr Hand
|> tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu    |  Grenade is no longer your friend"
|> Founder of the Church of Our Lady of the Perpetually Clueless
|> Disclaimer: The U of I doesn't give a damn or blast WHAT I do

I don't have the schedule handy, but I vaguely remember someone mentioning
that some of last season's episodes were cut from USA's scheduling for no
good apparent reason.  The episodes were "Justice"  (the KKK episode), 
"Temptation Eyes" (with the psychic) and "The Last Gunfighter" (where Sam
is an eldery gunfighter).  There was a fourth one, I believe, but I don't
remember what it was.  Anyhow, this doesn't explain why they still showed
the leap-in to Justice.  That's just something USA does to irk us.  Sort of
like "The Leap Home" controversy a few weeks back.

						- Jason
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From: ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: BABYLON 5 vs ST:DSN - THE DEBATE BEGINS!
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:31:17 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <By06EF.3wA@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell) writes:

>Did anyone else find it strange that the subject was brought up by
>Kirk in the first place?

No, why should we?

>I find it "logical" for Spock to question the being, not Kirk.

Oh, so when Spock is around, no one else is allowed to come to any
logical conclusions?  What happens when you get two Vulcans together?
Who gets to ask the logical questions then?  The older one?

>Probably had something to do with Shatner writing and directing this
>movie. 8-)

Probably had something to do with the fact that anyone with an IQ over 12
could have come to that conclusion, and Kirk just happened to ask faster
than Spock.


-- 
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Georgia Institute of Technology  |  the years to come, in your most private
Office of Information Technology |  moments...my hand at your throat.  I want
ccoprdj@prism.gatech.edu         |  you to remember the one man who beat you."
From: finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: The Musical Collection
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:13:10 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:

>We have the music from Northern Exposure, and Twin Peaks, but when is
>the QL CD coming out? And what will be on it? Somewhere in the Night?
>The Impossible Dream? Al's rap? I'd buy it.

>jam

For any powers that be that might see this, I would also love a QL CD.  Here
are a few suggestions for it:

Scott singing the following songs:
  Imagine
  Dulcinea
  the song from "Piano Man"
  the song from "Pool Hall Blues"
  Great Balls of Fire

as well as these:
  "Georgia on my Mind" (by Ray Charles, of course)
  "Unchained Melody"
  "Runaway"
  "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" (can you tell M.I.A. was one of my favorite
                                    episodes?)
  "The Twist"

I could, however, live without Al's rap.

-- 
* Tracy E. Finifter                       *                                   *
*  finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu           *    "Sanity is overrated."         *
*  Douglass College, Rutgers University   *                                   *
*  New Brunswick, New Jersey              *                -- Kimberly Weston *
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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,alt.tv.prisoner
Subject: Re: In The Village with Number 6
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:16:01 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke  ) writes:

>	A while back I posted asking if any one could mail me a Prisoner
>FAQ list.  It was really just a follow-up "me too" kinda post to some
>other guy's request.  Well he later got it, but I didn't.  I'd really
>appreciate someone e-mailing me such a list, as I'm curious about the
>fine points of the show.  Thanks in advance.

Actually, there are lots of folks who can't get alt.tv.prisoner
and who might want to see it.

Is it too long to post it to rec.arts.sf.tv?
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
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From: dzembj@nuge115.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Subject: Re: QL: Al's Cigars...
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:05:27 GMT

In article <fletch.722288011@camelot>, fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie) writes:
|> 
|> 	Okay.  I posted this before, but no one responded.  So, I wondered
|> if it was ever posted at all.  Anyway, I had posted something like a trivia
|> question:  WHAT KIND OF CIGARS DOES AL SMOKE?
|> 
|> 	If you know, please enlighten the huddled massess...Thank you.
|> 

Well, I don't smoke, myself, but I believe Al smokes Habanas (Havanas?).
I haven't a clue what one of these is, but I remember him mentioning that
sort of cigar in "A Little Miracle."  In another episode, I believe it was
"The Wrong Stuff", Al mentions the place where his cigars were made, I believe
in connection with where one of the doctors was originally from.
Hope that helps.

						- Jason
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