HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: `Streetcar Named Marge' - 8f18 - Oh! Streetcar!
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:11:03 GMT
Reply-To: toma@sail.labs.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

In article <1992Oct5.200527.16518@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:

>Someone mentioned earlier that the song was an attempt to avoid banality.
>Most songs about cities--I left my heart in San Francisco and New York,
>New York come to mind--are sappy, sacharin tributes.

How could you forget "Capitol City"?

(Also "Springtime in Paris", "My Kind of Town [Chicago is...]", "Gary,
Indiana", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" (actually an anti-LA song?),
"Buffalo Gals"...)

-- 
Tom Almy
toma@sail.labs.tek.com
Standard Disclaimers Apply
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: lyford@dagny.webo.dg.com (Lyford Beverage)
Subject: Re: Hindu God Wearing Sunglasses, more
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 20:15:34 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation

In article <1992Oct10.003959.26608@leland.Stanford.EDU>, kessler@roses.Stanford.EDU (Will Kessler) writes:
|> My roommate swears that the Hindu Elephant God in the 7-11 was
|> wearing sunglasses... any concurrence out there?
|> 
|> 

Nope.  Not unless it had two sets of eyes, anyway.  It looks like the bottom
of whatever the headgear is.  
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: Re: bart/maggie simpson ascii headers/pictures
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 14:00:24 GMT

In a previous article, Chris Baird said:

|> This may not satisfy your request for /ASCII/ renditions of OFF, but
|> the following is a uuencoded ANSI graphic image of Bart which a friend
|> snarfed from FidoNet,, (a graphic of Maggie to appear later.)

Okay, I uudecoded it, and I got gibberish. How does one translate it to a
viewable format after the uudecoding?
-- 
By the way, please don't try to e-mail me between September and December
1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
Thanx. (However, feel free to e-mail any flames! :-) :-)

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From: hora@ecf.toronto.edu (HO ROBERT ANDREW)
Subject: Re: `Lisa the Beauty Queen' - 9f02 - Mo' SloMo Mania, refs, misc.
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:20:57 GMT

In article <Bw8E8u.Gq8@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> cik6239@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Devore) writes:
>U.S version
>>>
>>>Blackboard:  I will not defame New Orleans
>>>             I will not defame Ne
>>>
>Canadian version
>
>>Apparently, "I will not prescribe medication." What gives, I wonder?
>
>
>Perhaps the different versions are due to the fact that New Orleans is a
>city in the United States and the writers feared the meaning would be
>lost in Canada (just a speculation).

Actually, as was mentioned last week, Canadian viewers saw "I will not 
defame New Orleans" in the opening of "Homer the Heretic" (while American
viewers saw a shortened version of the opening credits with no blackboard
scene).

>
>Even if this were true, the meaning of the U.S. version is lost on me, a
>U.S. citizen.  If someone could explain the meaning, I would greatly
>appreciate it.

This is in reference to the tiny bit of controversy stirred up by the
opening song of "Oh Streetcar!" sung in "A Streetcar named Marge" (I don't
know whether this reference was more likely to be understood by Americans
rather than Canadians, but I did read about it in the paper during that
week so I understood it).

>
>Another thing, I currently have every episode but one on tape.  The
>missing episode was broadcast during the week of May 7, 1992.  As far as
>I know, this episode dealt with Milhouse getting a girlfriend.  If there
>is anyone who knows whether this is true or not, that would be
>appreciated.  Or if there is someone who has a copy of this episode and
>is willing to share a copy with me _PLEASE TELL ME_.
>
>Hasta Lambada...
>
>Jeff Devore


-- 
Robert Ho
Univ. of Toronto
hora@ecf.toronto.edu
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From: canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson)
Subject: Re: Lorne Michaels in '66 ?
Reply-To: canderso@nyx.UUCP (Chuck Anderson)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 23:40:37 GMT

> pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes:
 [re: Lorne Michaels]

>You're right... it was '75.  And I have no clue what else LM could have
>been doing before then except to say he's old enough to have had a
>career in '66. Any old timers out there born before '66?

Geesh!  Old timers born before 1966?  I guess I better start picking out
a plot for these ancient old bones.

--
  *************************************************************************
     Chuck Anderson                uucp    :         uunet!nyx!canderso
     Boulder, Co. (303) 494-6278   internet:         canderso@nyx.cs.du.edu
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From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
Subject: Re: The Birds?? HAH!
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:08:04 GMT

>Chuck Anderson) writes:
>Not only was there a Hitchcock cameo, but I believe it was the same one that
>he used in "The Birds,"  walking the white, long-haired dog.  Hitchcock is
>supposedly in all of his movies.  The only other one I remember is from "North
>by Northwest," when he *just* misses a bus (I think it's right at the end
>of the opening credits).
>

Not to get too far off the Simpsons, but in Hitchcock's Psycho, near the
beginning of the film when the star that was killed early (Janet Leigh [sp?]),
is stopped at a traffic light, one of the pedestrians crossing the street
is Hitchcock.


Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE            |    MY CANADA INCLUDES CANADIANS!
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute      | I would really like this to include
Toronto, Ontario, Canada             | Quebec - but I won't hold my breath.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: adpeters@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Andy Peters)
Subject: Re: Six Months to live....and future episodes
Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:30:50 GMT

In article <1b4uc7INNfg8@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu> fjs@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu (Frank J Sereno) writes:

>I have posted this before, but for those who missed it here it is again....
>
>Several weeks ago at the radio station that I work at, we received word on our
>Associated Press Newswire about some upcoming episodes of the Simpsons as given
>by the shows' spokesperson (a Mr. Silverman).  The Newsbit contained the
>following information that might help explain the six months bit....
>
>It said that in addition to Aunt Selma becoming artificially inseminated, Marge
>leaving the Simpson household to pursue a job, Homer meeting God
>face-to-face, and Bart finally having a crush on a *girl*, Homer was also going 
>to have a heart-attack (look at this past show with the super-waffle and stick of 
>butter!!  This could be a prelude...).  This episode of the 'heart-attack' was 
>said to be quite graphic...
>
>So far, one down and four to go..........
>
>As I said before, if I see any relevant information come down the Wire
>again.....I would be happy to post it.

I predict a Near Death Experience for Homer.

>Frank Sereno


-- 
* Andy Peters                     * "Slugs are small and portable    *From
* Program in Evolution,           * Just stuff 'em up your nose      *"Slugs,"
*      Ecology, and Behavior      * They'll fit beneath your armpits *by David
* Indiana University, Bloomington * Or right between your toes"      *Greenberg
From: noel@umbc2.umbc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Ben Franklin in heaven/possible reference
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:40:09 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County


	I watched on tape and it sure looked like Ben Franklin to me.  Which 
brings up the reference:
	In "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", Bill & Ted visited heaven and saw 
various famous people, among them were Albert Einstien and Ben Franklin 
playing charades.  The whole scene reminded me of that sequence in the movie.
From: jwlr@okeeffe.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: How many characters represent each group?
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:17:16 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

pi@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes:

>In article <1b9qcaINN5ht@cs.widener.edu> syracurg@lp.musc.edu writes:
>>      How about Willy(?) Is he the only maintenance man in Springfield.
>>   Seems like he always shows up everywhere to fix whatever's broken.

>    Just like Kent Brockman is the only news person, Mayor Quimby is the
>only politician, Troy McClure is the only movie star, Apu is the only
>convience store clerk, Dr. Hibbert is the only doctor, Rev. Lovejoy is
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the only priest, Principal Skinner is the only Principal, Burns is the
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>only millionaire, and tons of others I'm probably forgetting.
>    The point is that the Simpsons only needs one of each kind of person
>to satiriize that group and make fun of them (or us).

Actually, there is a Protestant minister (Lovejoy), a Catholic priest
(???) and a Rabbi (Krustowcewicz ?). (from "Like Father, Like Clown")

			James Willer
{the opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all}
From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: `Homer the Heretic' - 9f01 - Misc...
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:21:05 GMT
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development

In article <1992Oct9.025820.2674@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rcarter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ron Carter) writes:
|> *sigh*  While others will have liked this episode, I was disappointed...
|> 
|> `Short' opening...  No blackboard... Cut to Homie in driveway...
|> 
|> Living room scene...  No couch, OFF stare at where it should be.

Really? I saw something completely different. Though I didn't get the 
exact blackboard quote, here in Canada (or at least, here on Global)
it was something like, ``I will not defame New Orleans''. Had me laughing
my head off! 

The living room scene was different, too. OFF all get on the couch. The
floor and wall then spin around (a la the fireplace in ``Indiana Jones and
the Last Crusade''), taking OFF with it! On the other side is an identical
couch with nothing in it.

I don't know if this is a repeat (but I doubt it, since both reference
``A Streetcar Named Marge''), or if it's just a Canada/Global thing.
But I still liked it!
 
By the way, please don't try to e-mail me between September and December
1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
Thanx. (However, feel free to e-mail any flames! :-) :-)

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|      Mike Hammond      | ``Yes, I'm...too wascally for Bugs Bunny,  |
|     BNR Ottawa, and    |   Too wascally for Bugs Bunny,             |
| Co-op Student from the |   So wascally...it's almost funny!''       |
| University of Waterloo |                        Right Said Fudd,    |
|      Math Faculty      |                      ``I'm Too Wascally''  |
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P.S. The other episode shown last night on Global was ``Mr. Lisa Goes
     To Washington''.
From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: Where is Springfield...
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:04:58 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu


     We're getting closer - now that we know it was 11 degrees below
   zero in Springfield that Sunday, we can certainly rule out at
   least 2/3 of the US.
     
      How about Willy(?) Is he the only maintenance man in Springfield.
   Seems like he always shows up everywhere to fix whatever's broken.
From: CHARLIE@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re:  Barney Gumble
Date: 17 Oct 1992 00:12:19 -0400
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>>P.S.-Is there anyone else out there that laughs like hell when 
>>    Barney Gumble appears?
>>
>>                          .....Mike

>HAHAHAHAHA.... Yes I do! He's got to be one of the best characters on the show!
>Everything he's ever done from the first episode he appeared in, (which I can't
>recall at this moment) has had me rolling on the floor. Especially when he 
>burps. They need a spinoff of Moe's tavren with all the regulars, they could 
>call it....  MOE'S!

>             Dave "Sounds interesting" Clark

Me too...I mean me three.  Every time I pass one of Barney's burps on a 
taped episode (especially from the first two seasons), I rewind it and
watch it in SLO MO to get the full effect of his lips flapping in the
majestic breeze produced by one of these Belly Busters.

My recent fave Barney moment was in Kamp Krusty when he was hired as a
stand in for Krusty.  They hadn't shown him wobble like that before,
at least not to my recollection.  Priceless!

Chuck [had a friend who used to burp the whole alphabet] in NS.
From: lebeld@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Lebel David)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Hendrix and Franklin
Date: 13 Oct 92 05:44:43 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1992Oct11.194831.10489@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kwright@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ken Wright) writes:


>Kinda on this topic: Skeet shoot? Fooz-ball (sp)? I'm sure I saw another
>name posted for what I've always called AIR HOCKEY! Are these other
>terms refering to the same thing, or something different?

	The real name is Shufflepuck, or atleast, it's the name I use
myself to describe this game.



-- 
David Lebel, Universite de Montreal | " Let me hear you make decisions
  Internet: lebeld@jsp.umontreal.ca |   Without your television
           and david@ariane.cam.org |   Let me hear you speaking just for me "
          (514) 343-6532 ext. 44644 |       - Martin Gore, Depeche Mode
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Cartoon/Sitcom Law of Conservation
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:13:59 GMT
Keywords: Will Maggie ever grow up?

pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn ) writes:

>In article <1992Oct11.030922.771@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>>I think they are pushing things with the fire in the Simpson household 
>>if they expect us to just unblinkingly forget all about it by next
>>episode, as we see the house fully intact, and no reference made to the
>>fire.  I mean, come on, even "Happy Days" accepted and acknowledged
>>change due to fire (remember the new Arnold's?).  What's particularly
>>annoying is that the Simpsons, much more than other shows, makes references
>>to past episodes.  For example, we know that "The Head" is safely stowed
>>in the basement, and other such minor details.
>>
>>Of course they've done this kind of thing many times before; how many times
>>has Homer become famous, only to be a totally obscure schmuck again next 
>>episode?  (Or other family members, for that matter.)
>>
>What bothers me is the way that Burns, no matter how many times he has
>run-ins with Homer, never seems to know or remember who he is. I haven't
>figured out yet if that is supposed to be a running gag, or if each
>episode is supposed to be viewed alone, in which case Burns not 
>recognizing one of his "faceless drones" makes perfect sense.

It's a running gag, underscoring the incredible lack of interest Burns
has in his employees.


                        --Steve "Simpson, eh?  I'll remember that name..."
                          Stelter
From: dave@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Dave Hall)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: References
Keywords: Moo
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 23:05:21 CST
Organization: Bovine Hospital (General Admittance)

TMCCART3@ua1vm.ua.edu writes:
 
>In article <1992Oct9.213837.28841@athena.mit.edu>
>johnnyp@athena.mit.edu (John Piscitello) writes:
>>        Please! Enough of these idiotic attempts to find references
>>which are clearly not there.
>>
>AMEN! Sure, some things are references, and some are their for their own
>sake.
 
Dave climbs on his soapbox and waves his cane feverishly about:
 
  A lot of people enjoy finding such references.  I must admit--I'm very
  lousy at such stuff, but do enjoy them when people point them out--no
  matter how vague or abstract.  Perhaps you're really persecuting these
  people because they simply call their observations (of seeing/hearing
  the *same event* play out in something else) references?
 
  >I don't see how you can enjoy the show if you're hunched in front of
  >the VCR with a remote control in one hand (one finger poised on the
  >slo-mo button, of course), and a notebook in the other.
 
  That's reserved for DYN/FF spotting. (And I use a computer.)  There is
  no enjoyment of being hunched over in front of a VCR (specially if you
  have a bad back), but the rewards is the gratification that comes
  later, when you've found something you never have notice before (even
  after you reviewed the episode several time).
 
  In all, I think there's probably a lot of posters feeling dejected
  right now--and a lot more feeling suppressed from sharing further
  views, fearing differentiation.  I, however, welcome such posts--in the
  hopes it'll encourage further discussions.  I certainly won't mock and
  humiliate the person who only enjoyed Picasso's paintings by what went
  into them.
 
Dave picks himself up from the floor (because someone kicked his soapbox
from under him).  With dignity, he brushes himself off, gathers his
belongings and exits with a quote from that A.T.S. guru, Jym Dyer...
 
 ``Don't get so hysterical that your behaviour would be indistinguishable
   from that of a person giving birth to a large bovine animal -- In
   other words, Don't have a Cow, Man!''

--
Internet: dave@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
Smail: P.O. Box 44058,  Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  R2W 5M3
From: dd@ra.cs.umb.edu (Dave Dunbrack)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F01] Homer the Heretic
Date: 14 Oct 92 07:36:55 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS

>In article <4oeDsB1w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca> dave@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Dave Hall) writes:
>
>  Like when Apu reached down, behind the counter, I thought he was going
>  to pull out a weapon, instead he produced the little boy (did anyone
>  catch his name?).  And yet another surprise when the boy produced the
>  weapon and the looks on Jimbo, Kerny and Dolph's faces when he cocked
>  it? (Ah, there's nothing like the sound of a shotgun being cocked to
>  chill the hearts of young thugs everywhere >;)
>
  Only problem is, you can't pump a *double barrel* shotgun. Movie and tv
people seem to love this sound effect; the same mistake was made in the
movie "Johnny Handsome".

	Dave
From: jefhkahn@iastate.edu (Jeffrey H Kahn)
Subject: Quick Question
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:52:22 GMT


Since I'm new at this newsgroup thing, could somebody
answer a question for me?  What do FAQ and OFF mean?
Are they Simpsons-related or generic newsgroup terms?


Thanks.
Carry on with the Simpsons banter.

Jef.
From: ST201383@brownvm.brown.edu (Eric Handler)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Tortilla--huh?
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:09:39 EDT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

Concerning God's mention of Tortilla, Mexico, I thought that maybe this was a
reference to the recent citings of God around the US, particularly those in a
small town in Kentucky.  A man claimed that God came to him every first Sunday
of the month.  The last "appearance," which was supposedly at the beginning of
October, attracted several thousand people, from as far away as Louisiana.
From: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.COM (Gillett, David)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Ayn Rand books (was Re: Chase scene ref in "Homer the H
Date: 15 Oct 1992 16:21:20 -0400
Organization: Reuters APL Software Division
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dgil@ipsaint.ipsa.reuter.com (Gillett, David)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

     In _For the New Intellectual_, Rand treats readers to:

a)  assertions of "scientific fact" which are contradicted in the scientific
    literature,

b)  errors which suggest a naive and/or incomplete understanding of Free Market
    economics,

c)  a view of the art of writing fiction, of what distinguishes quality in the
    art of writing fiction, entirely at odds with the views of other respected
    authors, and

d)  an improbable view of human history, supported only by the implication that
    all concrete evidence for this view has been suppressed by an international
    conspiracy.

     Please, folks, if you *must* read Rand, don't disengage your critical
faculties while doing so.

ObSimpsons:  Quoth the Raven, "Eat my shorts!"

                                      Dave Gillett

-----------Message forwarded from IPSA Mailbox-------------
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: kessler@roses.Stanford.EDU (Will Kessler)
Subject: Hindu God Wearing Sunglasses?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 00:16:50 GMT


-- 
Will Kessler
kessler@roses.stanford.edu
Rehabilition Research Division
Dept. of Veterans Affairs
From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: [9F01] Homer the Heretic
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:00:29 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

In article <1992Oct15.014801.27137@ee.ryerson.ca> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam) writes:
>- the reference to the opening of "Mission Impossible" when the cigar
>  set fire to the magazine and house.  The trail of the flame plus the
>  high pitch music had me anticipating the beat of the Mission
>  Impossible theme, but it never came.
>
Ah, good, I wasn't imagining it... or rather, at least I wasn't the only
one to imagine it.  I guess they couldn't get the rights to the actual
theme song?  Or were they just trying to fake us out?

Or maybe we are both reading just a *little* bit too much into this...

Nah.

-- 
                    ' ",      *
Karl Wagenfuehr         ,         "Weisst du, wieviel Sternlein stehen an dem
wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
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