From: geoffrey@CPSC.UCALGARY.CA (Geoffrey Brandenburg)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Hiho
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:51:12 GMT

Greetings, toonsters.  Welcome to my first posting to this group.


First of all, I'd like to thank Robert Jung for pointing me towards the
Berkeley server so I can post now.  I have two accounts--one allows posting
but doesn't give me access to the alt.* groups.  The other accesses all
groups but doesn't allow me to post.  Grrrrr.  You'd think after four years 
at this accursed institution of higher education I'd have found out about the
server before now...

My TTA knowledge is close to zero, so be patient with me; last month I was
looking for a new group to read and browsed through a.t.t-t.  Everyone's 
anticipation of HISMV intrigued me so I bought it when it came out.  Wow!!!
By now, I've seen it too many times to count.  I'm watching the TTA episodes
now, on the few occasions I'm home when it's on (I can watch videos on my
VCR but the taping mechanism is essentially dead).  The quality of the
episodes is wildly variable, but on average I think they blow away most shows 
on TV.  Especially most prime-time shows.


Various things to address:

Whoever said that they couldn't get past Babs's "You are really so... alert"
line in HISMV without collapsing hit it dead on.  It was the *perfect* climax
to the scene and by far it's my favourite line in the movie.  It's getting so
I watch HISMV just to hear that one line.  And to watch Babs too, of course. :-)


Flame wars>> Anyone who thinks that there are flame wars on this group has 
obviously never read rec.humor (aka alt.flame!!).  In the month I've been
here I've yet to see a real flame.  Thank goodness.


R.J.> Second pet peeve ... Disney Co. in the '90s (especially under Mike 
      Eisner) is 100% geared torwards making mucho bucks, and cashing in 
      on that innocent-and-friendly image that Walt built up. 


If that's a pet peeve, you're obviously not a business student!  :-)  I respect
Disney for marketing strategies that border on sheer genius, a product that 
is much more unique and beneficial than what is produced by most corporations, a 
very hard-nosed, no-nonsense business philosophy, and the ability to combine
all of it into an incredibly powerful money-making machine.  (Probably within
twenty years there will only be four mega-corporations left--Disney, Sony, 
Coca-Cola, and Pepsico :-)  

But this is off-topic.  Say, why doesn't some unscrupulous hacker on here
syphon several millions out of Disney's accounts into WB's so we can get a 
silver-screen version of "How I Spent My Vacation II -- Babs's Revenge"


R.J.> Did you know, for instance, that any new ideas dreamed up by a Disney
      employee are automatically property of the Walt Disney Co.?

Standard business practice, not at all unique to Disney.


Oh, to Fifi's fan club:  Sorry, but I don't think you can consider yourself
a drooling fanboy unless you specifically learn French on the slim hope
that you'll bump into Fifi if you accidentally enter an alternate universe.  ;-)


Say, if there *is* a WB employee reading this newsgroup, why don't you get WB
to give Charlie, Tress, et al an account with USENET access so they can join in???


Sean Brandenburg  
geoffrey@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
167.4 hours to my degree and counting...