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From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: QL: Nowhere To Run (Comments and SPOILERS!!)
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 14:41:41 GMT

Gawd, do I love Global! I had a conflict with seeing Quantum Leap on 
Tuesdays at 8, and they moved it this week to Mondays at 9! That means
I (and all other Canadian Leapers who get Global) can watch it a day
before everyone else; if it's a good episode, we can watch it twice!
But enough gloating. Time for some comments.




































































Overall, a good episode. Sally was right; I did *love* the way they handled the
fact that Sam could still walk, even if the guy he leaped into couldn't. But
I still had one problem with it: the inconsistancies with other episodes. 
In NTR, Al appeared almost right away to tell Sam not to get up, because the
person Sam leaped into (hereafter referred to as ``tpSli'' :-) had had both
legs amputated. This was explained by Al when he said something like, ``As
soon as I saw that guy in the Waiting Room, I rushed right over.'' BUT AL SEES
THE PEOPLE IN THE WAITING ROOM AS SAM!! (Caps off. :-)

I suppose I could explain this away, by saying that, since tpSli had no legs
below the knees, Sam's aura would sink into the floor up to his knees, thus
alerting Al. But I seem to remember (not exactly, though. Damn my memory! :-)
that sometime later in the episode, Al makes a comment like ``That's how they
see you, not like I do.'' Or something like that. (I wish I could remember! And
I'm not going to be home tonight to watch it again. Oh, well...perhaps someone
else can supply the quote I'm looking for.) Anyway, this episode was inconsist-
ant with other episodes like ``What Price Gloria?'', where Al definitely saw
Sam as tpSli.

I know, I know. ``Don't investigate this too closely.'' :-)

Next week: Sam's got a gun again! But this time, I think he's on the wrong 
side of the law. Oh, boy!

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: nittmo@camelot.bradley.edu (Christopher Taylor)
Subject: Al's Last Name
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date:  7 Oct 92 01:30:24 GMT

In response to the question:
 
Does anyone know Al's last name?

I have a few answers:

Franken?
Alda?
Hrabosky?
Jones?
Smith?
Volkov?
Puccini?

Hope one of these is the Al you're looking for.
From: spinoza@next01wor.wam.umd.edu (Yon Bonnie Laird of Cairn Robbing)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: SNL: source of Sinead's 2nd song
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:06:15 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.145201.10470@ils.nwu.edu> pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David  
Pautler) writes:
> In article <1992Oct6.141125.27506@ils.nwu.edu>, pautler@ils.nwu.edu  
(David Pautler) writes:
> > In article <MPYTHON.92Oct6020326@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,  
mpython@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (... and the flying circus) writes:
> > > >>>>> On 4 Oct 92 08:22:26 GMT, EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (EMILIANO  
A DIAS) said:
> > > EDIAS> uIn <acmksb.718183624@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> acmksb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
> > > EDIAS> writes:
> > > EDIAS> I though Sinead O'Connor was really awful.  The first song  
she
> > > EDIAS> did was over orchestrated and pretentious and the second was
> > > EDIAS> sounded like it was made up on the spot.
> > > 
> > > I recognized the beginning of the second song as a cover of some
> > > reggae tune... *not sure which or by whom*.. I didn't get to hear  
the
> > > rest of the song, 'cause my friends muted it... don't think I missed
> > > much
> > 
> > A local radio station, WXRT, says it's a speech by Black activist
> > Haile Silase (surely misspelled) that Bob Marley then turned into
> > a song.
> > 
> > 	-dp-
> > 
> 
> Woops!  Haile Selassie was Emperor of Ethiopia when Mussolini invaded
> in 1935.  I should have checked my facts first, sorry.
> 
Haile Selassie, the self styled "Lion of Judah", was in fact, the emperor  
of Ethiopia until 1975, I believe it was. They recently found his remains  
in the basement of his former palace, where he was confined following the  
coup that removed him as head of state.
j
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi Channel-- Anyone got it yet?
Date: 3 Oct 92 04:09:19 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: na
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Oct2.085729.3691@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> un027713@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
<
<While I don't doubt any of this, our *snicker* cable *raucous laughter* company
<*ahem* can't use that as an excuse.  Two movie channels are at 98 and 99.  I
<don't know what frequencies these are at, but it must be much higher than
<400 Mhz.  I'd think that if they can put two channels up there, they could
<use at least channel 36 (which is the first unused channel on our system).

Sorry, normally 98 and 99 are used to get at cable channels A-1 and A-2.  Those
two channels are right below cable channel 14 and right above the end of the
FM band (108 MHz).  You can't go by the numbers they give you.

On our system, the scrambler decoder uses 55 to get at channel A-1.  The idea
of using 55 is that it is one higher than the expected 54 channel system.

<Our cable company used the "upgrading" excuse to raise our rates.  They
<promised a clearer picture (which I never saw) more channels (for those who
<were not already getting all the non-premium channels), and all the other
<usual "promises" that cable companies usually make.  In the end, they took
<off three channels (all non-premium), and added three (one of which is now a
<movie channel).  So in the end, I lost a channel and got charged more for
<it.  As far as I'm concerned, cable re-regulation can't come soon enough.

This is one of the reasons for the new cable bill.
-- 
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From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL idea
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:40:09 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Tuesday, 29th September 1992 at 3:39pm BST
Originator: imc@msc2.comlab

In article <1992Sep28.194801.18879@news.columbia.edu>, egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) wrote:
>On 24 Sep 92 07:37:33 GMT, bbs.lar@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Larry Greenfield) said:
>> Here's an idea for a QL show.. how about... Sam Leaps into
>> Jean-Luc Picard?

>Hmm.  Wouldn't they notice?  I mean, they DO have Troi there.

And Guinan as well, don't forget.

Guinan: "There's something that's not quite right around here..."

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
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From: EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (EMILIANO A DIAS)
Subject: Re: SNL: October 3, Really Bad.
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 08:22:26 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

uIn <acmksb.718183624@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> acmksb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu writes:

> sorsha@wam.umd.edu (Laurie Beth Brunner) writes:
> 
> 
> >But Sinead was different.

I though Sinead O'Connor was really awful.  The first song she did was
over orchestrated and pretentious and the second was sounded like it was
made up on the spot.

     I SNL continues like this I hope this is the last season...

     Heck even during the early eighties they had Eddie Murphy,
     Now they have nothing...

						Tony Dias
From: peercy@crhc.uiuc.edu (Mike Peercy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Cable Re-Regulation
Date: 29 Sep 1992 01:05:13 -0500
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: lasso.crhc.uiuc.edu

jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:

| mppg9231@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Peercy) writes:
| }jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
| }| So until the phone company really gets into 
| }| the cable TV business and provides some real competition, I have no problem
| }| with the government stepping in.

| }I love this.  "So until the phone company really gets into the cable TV
| }business and provides some real competition...."  You act as though it
| }was the phone company's fault they didn't compete with cable.  It was
| }against the law!  By FCC decree.  By government's prior "stepping in."

| You did an amazing job of reading something that I never wrote.  I "act"
| as though it was the phone company's fault?  I "acted" no such way.  I
| simply stated that, barring a true competitive market, I prefer a government
| regulated monopoly to an unregulated monopoly.  How the hell you got from
| that that it's the phone company's fault is beyond me.

Sorry.  I should at least have said "sound" instead of "act", and I was
taking some dramatic license.  But you must admit, your reasoning for
government interference sounds a lot like a conversation between two
medieval physicians after a bloodletting.  "Doctor, the patient is
still nonresponsive."  "Well, let's bleed him some more."

| }If you want the government to do
| }something, get the government to make it illegal for the government to
| }grant monopoly powers.

| Fine, I'm all for that.  Is there such a bill before Congress that I can
| support?

Not that I'm aware of.  Governments are notoriously adept at holding
on to powers over the populace once they've got them.

| }You know, I have yet to hear the supporters of this bill claim that the
| }cable industry pulls in huge profits.  This leads me to believe that
| }cable prices are not going to drop.  And since extra burdens are placed
| }on cable companies by this bill, I wouldn't doubt it if their rates
| }did go up.

| Well, I can't cite you a specific source, but it is my understanding
| that cable industry profits have increased dramatically since the previous
| de-regulation.  I'd be interested to hear if you have information that
| that is incorrect.

I have no information either.  I've only heard that prices have gone up
80% (three times the rate of inflation) in the last decade.  But one
wonders how much services have gone up as well.  Perhaps the 50% of the
rate increase not attributable to inflation?

But I'll wager that more than nine-tenths of the people who have called
their Congresspeople on this issue have even less information than we.

Mike Peercy
peercy@crhc.uiuc.edu
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From: paslll@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (Paul  Sabourin)
Subject: Re: Schoolhouse Rock
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:04:46 GMT

In article <BvEwJ9.Gru@nic.umass.edu> EDIAS@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (EMILIANO A  
DIAS) writes:

(stuff about "Timer" shorts deleted)
> 
> Another one was about fruit juice popsicles.
> "Tell your mom that you've been itchin' to do
> somethin' in the kitchen and oh yes,
> the mess will be a minimum."

Jeez, talk about a memory coming back to hit you in the face...I'm so glad to  
know that there are others out there who remember these.

> And the last one was about eating well.  
> Where timer takes us along for a trip through our digestive system.

I recall there being a full after-school special where Timer took a couple of  
kids through their father's (uncle's?) internal systems...Dad (Uncle) didn't  
take very good care of himself)

Oh, God, it's *all* coming back now...remember the Scatman Crothers classic?

"They call me Yuckmouth
'Cause I don't brush;
Oh, I like my teeth like this.
They call me Yuckmouth--
No, I won't brush.
How'sabout a little kiss? (SMACK!)
I got roash beef in my teeth
Got some chicken too
<touches a tooth>
Ouch! That's a cavity!
Hey, that's new!
Well, if you don't brush your teeth,
Then, yes, you too
Can be a Yuckmouth!"

..I'm so ashamed.

I hanker fer a hunka' cheese,
Paul.
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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: New fox show, "The Edge"
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:45:20 GMT

In article <BvEsID.KsD@rahul.net> bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth) writes:
>
>There is a new show starring Julie Brown (the "white" Julie Brown from MTV
>with the red hair, *NOT* "Downtown Julie Brown" :-) and a lot of
>other people called "The Edge" (I think that is the name?).
>
>It is basically a parody show.  The show premiered last Sunday, I believe,

  Actually, that's Saturday, and it began the week before.  The
premier show had spoofs of a Mariah Carey video, Cops (called
"Exterminators"), Designing Women, and a Reebok Pump commercial (among
other things).  The Designing Women bit was especially good, with
Julia standing up every other minute, giving a tirade about why all
men should be castrated, with dramatic canned applause following.  At
the end, Delta Burke came back, except Godzilla sized.  It was silly,
but funny.

>There were some parodies of other shows, and general offensive humor that I
>really find engaging.  Was wondering if anyone else liked this sort of
>humor, as I didn't hear anyone comment yet!

  I really like Julie Brown (does anyone remember when she was on "The
Comedy Store" as a waitress?  (I probably have the show name wrong--it
was the original comedy club show, from the late 70's/early 80's)) so
that's why I tuned in.  They had some good bits, and the Plimpton
animation shorts are cool, but I wish they would cut the awful laugh
track!  Sure, a comedy needs to sweeten its laughs, but this was
ridiculous--sudden, loud bursts of laughter, at every possible joke.
That sort of ruined the program for me.


--Raymond Flournoy        
======================================================================
flournoy@cs.stanford.edu                 "Throwing away happiness with 
Computer Science Dept.                    both hands, since 1966."
Stanford University, CA
From: deryl@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: QL: Leap for Lisa questions...
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:28:09 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Pardon my lateness in discussing the 'Leap for Lisa' episode, but we've only
just had it here in NZ a few days ago.  Since I couldn't really follow the
prior discussion of this episode without having seen it, could I call on a 
few of you QL deep-thinkers to clarify a couple of points for me?
(Not-withstanding the 'don't investigate this too closely' cop-out.. :-) )

When Al returns after Sam finds Chip's cigar butt in the car, would he
be the same Al as he was pre-leap, or a different Al, with a different past?
For example, presumably Lisa's survival would change his life.  And would
Al remember any of his pre-leap version of history, or would he now have
no memory of Lisa ever crashing & dying?

Also, why didn't Sam know who the 'new Al' (Roddy McDowell) was? Presumably,
Sam's history would also have changed for him to have paired up with Roddy,
so how come he can't remember it?  Hmm....

I try these kind of questions on my long-suffering husband, but he's not
as into navel-reflection as me, and I just get an ".... it's only a TV
Show!" response.  It's so great having you guys to ponder with!

:-)

Deryl

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From: gilberts@cae.wisc.edu (Jeff Gilbertson)
Subject: Re: Get A Life:Chris
Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, Marketing Division
Date: 27 Sep 92 04:44:39 CDT

In article <1992Sep25.035845.8104@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
>
>No way, dropping GAL was totally INHUMAN!!   Those rat bastards...
>

Yeah!  Unfortunately, I didn't realize how much of a GAL fan I was until
after they cancelled the show.  So I didn't get a chance to tape the
episodes... I don't think I have any!  I also didn't realize until after
reading your episode guide (excellent, by the way) how many I missed!  :(
I guess my only hope now is syndicated reruns (very fat chance).

<throwing a fit>  Wah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--
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From: gt6139a@prism.gatech.EDU (Brian Clinton Dominy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: WANTED:  Game Show Episodes/Music
Date: 4 Oct 92 03:40:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I have only recently began to read from this newsgroup, and I was
disappointed to see how game shows have pretty much been left
out totally.  I think that the game show genre is one of the most
exciting (and certainly the oldest) in television, and I'm sure
that there are many, many game show fans around; some of them
probably don't even realize it.

I'm sure some of you are thinking about "You Bet Your Life"; and I
admit that I have seen a few articles on it.  But that's not quite
the kind of game show I'm talking about.  Much more interesting are
programs like "Jeopardy!" for educational value, "Price is Right" for
everyday people, and "Family Feud" for entertainment mostly.

I'd like to see more info on game shows put here, and I would gladly
appreciate any e-mail on the topic, too.  But before I close, I have
a few requests.  Any of you who have, in your opinion, "classic"
episodes of shows in the past 20 years, let me know!  Especially if
one of those happens to be the coveted two-day episode of "Press
Your Luck" in which one player won $110,000.  Also, if you have any
audio tapes of game show theme/prize music, let me know as well.  By
the way, I already have all of the tapes to "Wheel" and "Jeopardy!"

-- 
Brian Clinton Dominy
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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From: matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Q-Leapers in Boulder, CO Tape Loan
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
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Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 16:36:09 GMT
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I'm looking for someone in the Boulder Colorado area who's been 
taping Quantum Leap since the beginning.  I've watched it off and
on since it started, but have missed more than I've seen, and would
like to borrow the tapes to see all of them.  I would treat the tapes
with tender loving care, and promise to return them in the same
condition in which they were loaned.  

Anyone out there interested?

E-mail would be best for a reply, since I only get to this group
about once a week and would hate to miss the reply.

Kellie Matthews-Simmons
Internet::matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Chad Pfefferle (Timothy Fall) on "BOB"
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:16:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <Sep26.230831.68451@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman) writes:
>Does anyone else think Chad Pfefferle (sp? played by Timothy
>Fall), the weird comic book drawer on "BOB", is the funniest
>character in the world?  He's been in both of the first two
>episodes and was really funny, but wasn't on much.  I'm going

Wait till you see the 6th (?) episode (the one that's scheduled for
Oct. 30). He has a speech that is weirder than anything he's done so
far. It had the audience in hysterics on both takes.

Sally

-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
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From: steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman)
Subject: Re: SNL - Oct 3, Latest on Sinead reaction
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 02:51:30 GMT

margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman) writes:

>Sting stupid?  Sting on the same level as Sinead O'Connor??  I don't
>think so.  He may not be as bankable as Michael Jackson, but he sure
>isn't stupid.  Thank you very much!

What does bankable have to do with this?  I was referring to Der Schting's
habit of couching everything in terms of the latest bit of trendy
non-fiction he's just digested.  Reading a lot and then regurgitating it
verbatim is *not* a sign of intelligence. 

Rocks stars who name their albums after the works of great thinkers are
invariably not.  They're just pompous gits who want people to think they're
sooo clever and intelligent.
--
Dave! - just 'cos you read it don't mean you *understood* it.
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: democrats
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 19:15:44 GMT
Organization: None for me, thanks . . . I'm driving.

TKOZMA@cms.cc.wayne.edu writes:

>> =-=-=-=-= JFK, LBJ, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton =-=-=-=-=
>
> What's wrong with the above series???

All together now: "What-e-ver be-caaame of Huuuuu-berrrt..."

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
From: marc@hemlock.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Ghostbusters - victim of violent knife attack?
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:03:48 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Originator: marc@hemlock


In article <38890081@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>, apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt)
writes:
> [quite a bit deleted]
> ...again, ITV is the worst offender when it comes
> to cropping the film for the television screen; you often find two half heads
> talking to each other, or someone talking to themselves).
> 
> That's enough for now,

I read (or heard) somewhere that the TV companies have two approaches to 
dealing with the different aspect ratios of film and TV screen: the first,
and cheapest option is to `aim' squarely at the centre of the picture, thus
arbitrarily cutting the edges off.  This is done most often.  The second,
far more expensive, and rarer option is to `pan' the view to the most 
appropriate part of the scene.

Three guesses as to which the Beeb and ITV are most likely to choose ;-)

[M][a][r][c]
From: MCPerry@cen.ex.ac.uk (M.C.Perry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Married with Children
Date: 27 Sep 92 16:18:39 GMT
Distribution: rec.arts.tv.uk
Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK

Anyone see the episode where aliens come into Al's bedroom and steal his socks
to use as fuel for their space ship... a classic!
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