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Subject: Perls before Swine(was Quotes from NX in ASCII (Perl-Less!))
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From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M Langmead)
Subject: Voting eligibility
Summary: The Chris's inablility to vote doesn't agree with info from newspaper
Keywords: Chris Convicts voting elections NX
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:04:00 GMT

I always understood that Chris Stevens (Chris in the morning) couldn't vote
because he was had been convicted. I remember him saying so in the election
episode. I read it in the FAQ.

BUT...

Last Saturday in the Boston Globe's "Ask the Globe" section, there
was a question "Can prisoners vote?" The answer explained that except for
the ones that have been convicted of election fraud do have the right to
vote (if they are otherwise qualified.)

SO...

Do I have the wrong notion of why Chris can't vote?
(in hiding, or something.)

Do voting privlages get stripped after release from prison?
(Seems odd.)

Is this another example of how Cicely AK doesn't mesh with real life?
(I can live with that answer.)

Just curious...
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From: cbsmith@mobius06.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Smith)
Subject: Re: NX Psychology Quiz (was lil line under de O)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:03:41 GMT

-- 
>>
>
>What do you think will go wrong with the bubble-guy/Maggie relationship? (If
>anything?)  Does Maggie need sex in her relationships?  I don't know, she's 

This is what I got:  in the scene where Mike danced around the issue of
going for a walk, it looked to me like Maggie realized that Joel was 
right in his analysis that Mike is afraid of the world.  I think that 
Maggie only got him out in the space suit to defy Joel and prove to
Joel & herself that Mike wasn't crazy.  I think deep down she knows that
the space suit is no different than the dome, therefore, a break up is
eminent (sp?).

BTW, from the look on Joel's face, I'd say he's REALLY jealous!

Barbara Kane                                             Unify Corporation
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I don't know, I don't think Joel was *jealous* per se. I think it was more like he was amazed that he was proven wrong. The look on his face to *me* was typical of the look when Maggie has proven him wrong in the past.

--Bo ("the One who Knows")
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From: Henry Nunes <hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: NX: Rush Limbaugh...  It's true!
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:05:30 GMT

At 2:55 EST, Rush come out  of a commercial break with the  theme some of
Northern Exposure...
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From: mhw@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Murphy)
Subject: The Owl and The Pussycat
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:56:04 GMT


In a few days, I will receive a "surprise" package.  I've been getting clues
as to what this package includes; they are "Something to do with Northern
Exposure" and "Something to do with 'The Owl and the Pussycat.'"  

Now, my question to you is, what NE show had Chris reading from "The Owl and
the Pussycat"?  I'm pretty sure it was from the last season, or maybe from the
beginning of this season... but as I don't tape the shows, I can't go back and
check.  Can anyone help me?  Email would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Michelle
mhw@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
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From: Henry Nunes <hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Lingering questions....
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:08:47 GMT

In article <11NOV199218274458@romeo.caltech.edu> Broughton,
waynebro@romeo.caltech.edu writes:
>Ahem....

You should see someone about that...

>Does anyone know what Ed said (in Italian, I suppose) at the end of
>his dream? 

You'll have to ask someone who has access to a VCR for that one... mines about
30 miles away from here.

>I don't know diddly about golf: what WAS that dentist-invented-device
>that Joel kept on raving about?  How does it work?

It is a counter weight, I think... there is some mass in that tube that, when
the club is swung back, the weight goes to the handle, making club head
lighter.  When the club is swung, the mass goes to the end, accelerating the
club even faster... Then again, I could be totally wrong because I missed the
first few seconds of the show, where I think Joel tried to explain it to Ed.

>For all you English majors who think we should be discussing something
>else than editing errors, billiards, outgassing, lipstick colours, or
>motorcycles..... :-) :-)
>... how sincere was Maggie in claiming she didn't desire a relationship,
>considering how she had tried to impress Mike earlier and how she was
>looking at him on their walk at the end?  Did she really mean she didn't
>want to get involved with Mike in particular (but maybe Joel instead)?

Get out of here!!!  Of couse she WAS NOT sincere... infact, she was trying too
hard and Mike caught her on the fact, not letting her make the first move. 
You must remember that the Joel and Maggie thing has been put on the back
burner until winter, when things should heat up.  They are even trading
insults once again, something that usually subsides before anything happens
between them.

>And what motivated Mike to suddenly want to take an "unencumbered" walk
>at the end?  Because he had been pschologically unencumbered by Maggie's
>announcement?

I think it was coincidence.  Remember, he was 'charting' his imaginary
currents of polution earlier in the show, so the fact that his walk happened
at the same time Maggie's intentions were exposed just happened by chance.

>Please e-mail any and all replies unless they are of *general* interest.

I think this is *general* interest.

>Grazie!  (Just about the only Italian I remember from my European trip
>this summer....)

Ravioli, Gucci?
 
>Caltech has no idea what my opinions are;  
>they think I'm working right now...

Stanford knows I ain't working.
From: rmt6r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Roy Matthew Thigpen)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: NX theme on the Simpsons!?!?
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:43:21 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia



I saw it too, and laughed my proverbial ass off.  The music wasn't the 
theme, unfortunatly (Copyright laws have a nasty habit of stopping that), but 
it was definately close enough to tell what certain show, that comes on at 10
eastern, on a certain network, on a certain monday night..... yeah thats right..
Da.....Northern Exposurezzzzzz...... Hmmm, doesn't sound right does it?  Anyhow
that Simpsons episode was probably the best one I've ever seen, even 
without Morty the Moose.  Well that's my $10.  


tern Exposurezzzzzz
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From: louise@cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy)
Subject: Re: NX Psychology Quiz (was lil line under de O)
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:08:06 GMT

Henry Walter Nunes (hwnunes@naranja-next.Stanford.EDU ) writes:
> In article <2g1cng2@Unify.Com> barb@ufycorp.Unify.Com (Barbara Kane)  
> writes:
> > BTW, from the look on Joel's face, I'd say he's REALLY jealous!
> 
> You know, I was expecting that, but I didn't find it.  I was actually  
> disappointed in this fact.

He looked flabbergasted to me.  I saw consternation, disbelief,
and a tinge of jealousy.

-- Louise Penberthy

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From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Subject: Re: RE:Bubble Man Identity
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:12:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.182620.44641@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, 2fuisoda@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
|> In his post of 11-11-92, Tuervaek@col.hp.com writes:
|> 
|> > ". . . [I] find it incredulous that so many here look for such deep meaning,
|> etc... in all of the episodes . . . I often stay away from this group as I feel
|> it brings me down to[o] much by reading all the analytical comments . . ."
|> 
|> It's unfortunate, though fine, that you feel this way.  Part of the magic of
|> NEX is looking into the writing and finding the links between the sub-plots,
|> character motivations, plot lines, anything.  To overlook these is to miss much
|> of what goes on in this series.

Within itself or within the universe it paints, but when people try to
apply it to their daily lives, use it as support for a political or
personal moral agenda or view, argue against a scene because it encourages 
wanton destruction of the environment (or whatever the argument is du jour)
on all us impressionable adults, etc. etc. etc., then it's looking too
far beyond what it is.

When you look at piece of fine art, you might be captivated by the choices
the artist made for the reds used.  To analyze how the blues and greys
interact to create a more deep vision and how the images work together to
present a "story" or "larger picture" is good.  To analyze what colors had
to be mixed from what materials were available at the time to generate
those shades of red may be interesting (or may even be unnecessary), but
it takes away from the enjoyment and purpose of the painting - to create
beauty - not a chemical analysis industry.

When someone wants an in depth review or presentation of something,
they should look to 60 Minutes, Frontline or something that is intending
to make a single clear point.  Northern Exposure is, first and foremost,
what nearly all television is - simple and pure entertainment.  There
just may _not_ be an Earth shattering message in there...  

Northern Exposure exists beautifully in the world it has created.  Leaving
all the various worlds separate and enjoy each for what it is makes the
whole thing much more enjoyable.

-- 
Robert J. Granvin                                       School of Statistics
rjg@stat.umn.edu                                     University of Minnesota
From: mcohen@vax.clarku.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: NX theme on the Simpsons!?!?
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:07:50 GMT
Organization: Clark University

Ok, there I was, watching the Simpsons with one eye and reading usenet with 
the other.  A neighbor complained to Homer about the Simpsons' garbage 
attracting wild animals.  Homer looks towards his garbage - and there's a 
moose with head in the can.  What music played???  Unless I was massively 
hallucinating, it was the NX theme!  Only lasted for a few seconds, but it got 
me rolling.

Just thought you'd all want to know.  Better put my other eye back on the TV.

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From: cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: faq?
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:42:54 GMT
Organization: Rowan College of New Jersey

yes? where?
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From: cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Cliff Chen)
Subject: Re: NEX makes the grade
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 17:40:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.071629.19154@netcom.com> bilan@netcom.com (Steve Bilan) writes:
>Just turned on the late night tv (as opposed to the daytime tv) and
>noticed that NEX has made the grade and has already gone into
>syndication.  Only five years and it's in re-runs already!

	Are you sure you weren't just confused by the fact that CBS
broadcasted TWO episodes of Northern Exposure last night?  One at the
normal time and a re-run of "Democracy in America" at 11:30 broadcast
because today is Election Day?
	I don't think that it's in syndication and besides this is only the
fourth year of NEXP.  :)

						Cliff Chen
						cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: News from Roslyn: On location (long)
Date: 8 Nov 92 16:04:09
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.3.116
In-reply-to: hmc6442@ultb.isc.rit.edu's message of 8 Nov 92 18:45:22 GMT

  This is an article from a small newspaper near Roslyn.

	 Vicky is currently working with the prison warden at Monroe,
  who will be calling shots for footage which will be filmed there
  for a new-season show.

Hmmm...  Looks like Chris is going to jail.
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"It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself."  -- Chris Stevens
From: daniel@borland.com (Dan Veditz)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: Wait a minute!!
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:25:30 GMT
Organization: Borland International
Originator: daniel@genghis.borland.com

avdh@sunnyboy.dazixco.ingr.com (Alain van der Heide) writes:
>If the bubbleman is hypersensitive to man made fabrics, how the hell
>could he wander around in a space suit?  Also, why didn't Joel or
>Maggie point this out?

I had exactly the same problem--he complained about "out-gassing"
from plastics, yet his entire dome appeared to made of plastic and
his furniture was all of the ultra-modern metal and plastic type.  The
TV was bad, but there was no problem with a stereo?  Not to mention 
that everything was painted that classy white--what about the chemicals 
in paint?  wouldn't it have made more sense if he lived in a purely 
natural log cabin?

Then they threw in the space-suit at the end.  Either the writers 
and/or set designers are the typical Hollywood "have a great idea
and blow the follow-through" type, or Joel is completely right and 
it's all in the bubble-man's head.

-Dan Veditz
From: waynebro@romeo.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Lingering questions....
Keywords: Italian, Golf, English majors, Bubbles
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:27:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Ahem....

Does anyone know what Ed said (in Italian, I suppose) at the end of
his dream? 

I don't know diddly about golf: what WAS that dentist-invented-device
that Joel kept on raving about?  How does it work?

For all you English majors who think we should be discussing something
else than editing errors, billiards, outgassing, lipstick colours, or
motorcycles..... :-) :-)
... how sincere was Maggie in claiming she didn't desire a relationship,
considering how she had tried to impress Mike earlier and how she was
looking at him on their walk at the end?  Did she really mean she didn't
want to get involved with Mike in particular (but maybe Joel instead)?
And what motivated Mike to suddenly want to take an "unencumbered" walk
at the end?  Because he had been pschologically unencumbered by Maggie's
announcement?

Please e-mail any and all replies unless they are of *general* interest.

Grazie!  (Just about the only Italian I remember from my European trip
this summer....)

Wayne.
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Wayne J. Broughton                 Take the road less travelled by.  
waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu    
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech, Pasadena, CA  91125

Caltech has no idea what my opinions are;  
they think I'm working right now...
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From: m4safran@student.business.uwo.ca (Melissa Safran)
Subject: November 9th's show
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:05:53 GMT

Either no one had seen it by the time I got to read the latest postings, 
or everyone but me thought that the show was awful.  I really liked it, 
and, although I do miss Joel, I thought that this was the best show so 
far this season.

Marilyn was finally something other than stupid sweet Marilyn.  She had 
real substance and I was touched each time she rejected Bob.  That whole 
storyline was very touching.  The NX writers finally believed that we 
could get subtleties (this season) such as the rocks that Marilyn gave to 
Joel as Bob's goodbye.

Although Maggie was perfectly in character with the little speech to the 
Bubble man, I thought that this story line was drawn out and boring.  Who 
chose (a) that dress (b) that lipstick and (c) that much mascarra.  She 
supposedly isn't wearing make-up and her lashes are clumpy and her lips 
are purple.  Please!  Not even social outcasts who have never seen women 
would believe that these features are natural.  

The Ed storyline was perfect for NX.  It had the usual amount of 
wierdness where we wonder if these things are real or imaginary and then 
realize that it doesn't matter.

However, now that someone said that Ed is really blonde, I look at him in 
a new way.  I just can't picture him as a blonde.  Maybe he did an old 
commercial too (and it will actually be shown in Canada) so that I can 
see what the real Ed looks like.

Is there anyone else out there who liked last night's show?

Ciao!

m4safran@student.business.uwo.ca (Melissa Safran)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
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From: Henry Nunes <hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Music from NX on the radio.
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 02:12:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.230946.16170@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Simon E. Booth,
sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu writes:
>Something I heard on Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday 11/10, as part of a lead-in
>from a commercial:

NO WAY.  That is so cool (from my perspective anyway).  You know, Rush might
be a great entertainer, but he does find a way to screw his affiliates (all
530 of them... wow, rush is on more radio stations that NX is on TV stations).
 He plays the music with out the record companies permission, then forces the
affiliates to pay for it... kind of a raw deal.

FYI: a local SF radio station, KKSF, has been playing "Alaskan nights," a
David Schwartz composision from the NX soundtrack.

I'll have to listen to Rush tomorrow and listen for my self.
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From: san7675@zeus.tamu.edu (STEPH)
Subject: Re: Barry Corbin in Swan Lake
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:17:00 GMT

In article <lflmbvINNlmt@boogie.cs.utexas.edu>, swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes...
>I mentioned this a week or two ago, and it apparently hasn't been
>discussed to death here, so here's the full story.
> 
>I saw a TV interview with Barry Corbin back last spring (I came in
>late, so I don't know what show it was -- not ET, for sure).  The
>interview focussed a lot on his long career in obscurity before he
>"hit the big time" (he did a lot of summer stock and B westerns).  At

I saw him on an episode of M*A*S*H - the one where the re-enlistment officer 
(played by Corbin) tries to get Klinger to re-enlist.

Stephanie
From: brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Ed's postmark shirt
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:19:15 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Austin, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: hysteria.hal.com

Did anyone else notice the "postmark" shirt Ed was wearing in the
(awful) 11/09 episode?  I think the zip code on it was 99684 which
corresponds to Unalakleet, AK.  Unalakleet is south-east of Nome
on Norton Sound, south of Norton Bay.

--
Dave Brennan                                      HaL Computer Systems
brennan@hal.com                                         (512) 794-2855
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From: cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Cliff Chen)
Subject: Nitpicking
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 17:50:58 GMT

Now, forgive me if I'm wrong,

	but isn't a spacesuit made from artifical substances?  If so, then
putting that thing on probably would have killed him (or at least set of
hundreds of allergies) rather than let him walk around.  :)

					Cliff Chen
					cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
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Subject: PERL for the Quotes List?
From: rich@csusb
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:26:36 PST
Organization: California State University, San Bernardino
Nntp-Posting-User: armyrman

Having just downloaded the NX Quotes list, I noticed that they are
in the Unix PERL format. Does anyone have PERL for the PC? I'd love
a good Maggie-Quote to start the day off with!

For those PERL-Less souls, like myself, I wrote an editor macro which
stripped all the stray numbers and punctuation off the quotes file.
If anyone would like a copy sent back via e-mail, please drop a line
to me.

-Rich

RICH@MCVAX.CSUSB.EDU
===================================================================
                         "Come on, Cicely, let's fling something!"
                                                  Chris


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From: avdh@sunnyboy.dazixco.ingr.com (Alain van der Heide)
Subject: Re: Wait a minute!!
Organization: Dazix - An Intergraph Company
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:22:41 GMT

...And, how did our hyper-allergic friend travel to Cicely anyway?
Any form of commercial travel is out, as would be using a private car.

Any ideas?

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From: hwnunes@leland.stanford.edu (Henry Nunes)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: NX, ABC, and TV Ratings in General
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:01:21 GMT
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
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In article <1dtmmgINNiu4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Ted B Samsel,
bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>This season is getting too silly. Not silly ha ha but silly
>DUMB.....

NX's season or the TV season?
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