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From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Yes, Prime Minister
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:59:43 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
Organization: The Pen
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In article <1992Aug10.172640.26202@pony.Ingres.COM> bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:
>In article <1992Aug6.191747.8557@spider.co.uk> davidf@spider.co.uk (David Fraser) writes:
>>Paul Eddington (PM) - an old favourite on this group; well known for his
>>   part in "The Good Life"

>That's "Good Neighbors".

No it isn't.

Well, not >really<, anyway.  The show's real title is "The Good Life."

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From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: GREAT BLACKADDER SCRIPT PROJECT
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:19:46 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
Organization: The Pen
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In article <BsxF1D.HE3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> wsherman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (William Sherman -Visualization) writes:
>I'm not sure what order these were originally broadcast, but here (Champaign-
>Urbana) they have aired (both times I've seen them) 1, 4, 3, 2, 5, 6, which
>according to your dates are in chronological order.  If they've always been
>broadcast (i.e. by the BBC) in chron order, then perhaps you should reorder
>your list.

The original airing was of course in order 1-6, but the syndication --
and even videotape -- order is as you list.  The new order is `official'.

But, you know, it seems that episodes of the second series also need to
be moved around.  In "Bells," Percy starts out bearded, then shaves.
In the next episode, "Head," Percy is bearded throughout.  In all the rest
of the episodes, he is clean shaven.  It looks to me like those first two
episodes need to be swapped.

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From: cdds01@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Tony Hancock - The First Night Party
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:44:56 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

Those of you interested in Tony Hancock might like to know that BBC Radio 2 is broadcasting the original,
(the the first ever broadcast) of Hankcock's Half Hour. It's called
"The First Night Party". I for one will be listening, my copy of it is a bit dodgy to say the least, i'll now be able to update it.
Anyone out there got any of his early episodes on audio cassette, or have good copies (silly me how will you
know if your copy is better than mine?)?
Email me if you are interested in any swaps.

Pete
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: c9107143@cc.newcastle.edu.au (IT'S BETTER TO BURN OUT THAN TO FADE AWAY... THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE)
Subject: BA-The Cavalier Years??????
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:56:02 GMT

Can someone please tell me what BlackAdder The Cavalier Years is about
and when it was released?
Also is it available on video, or has it been shown on Australian TV?
and lastly is it any good??
thanks a lot
later
Kurgen
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Saturday, 15 Aug 1992 01:49:49 EDT
From: Marty Helgesen <MNHCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: AYBS and AYBS Again
 <1992Jul28.040213.29397@news.unomaha.edu> <chrisco.3.712782301@emx.utexas.edu>
 <DODD.92Aug5112659@mycenae.cchem>

On Friday, Aug. 14, WLIW on Long Island had a marathon of all of the
available episodes of AYBSA, through the American tourists episode.
It was a fund-raising marathon--are there any other kinds on PBS stations?-
--primarily to get money to buy the NEW series of six AYBSA episodes
that have just been cmpleted, or so the people making the pitches said.

Marty Helgesen
Bitnet: mnhcc@cunyvm  Internet: mnhcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
"Just say know to Gnosticism."
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: harry@dnlunx (Harry Fluks)
Subject: Re: PLANK
Keywords: Unknown
Reply-To: H.W.Fluks@research.ptt.nl
Organization: PTT Research
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:50:09 GMT

nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:

>  Has anyone ever watched "The Plank"?.

Yes, I have. About 4 or 5 times..

Harry Fluks
PTT Research, Leidschendam, Netherlands
H.W.Fluks@research.ptt.nl
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: 10563903@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (DUNCAN HEARD)
Subject: Mr Jolly lives next door (Comic Strip???)/Goodbye Pork Pie
Keywords: Comic strip, comedy
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:20:40 GMT

"Mr Jolly Lives Next Door" is the funniest movie I have ever seen...
I saw it at a Canon cinema in London in 1987, and have been dying 
to get a copy ever since then.  

	If anyone out there has a copy on
VHS/PAL I would be glad to swap for a copy of "Cozy Cool" - a 70's
B-Grade Australian Bikie movie - or one of many Divine/Roger Waters
movies such as Desperate Living or Female Trouble...

	Also if anybody has a copy of the NZ cult movie "Goodbye 
Pork Pie" I would love to do a swap. - email me.


Duncan Heard
Melb. Australia.
Xref: sparky alt.comedy.british:1762 rec.arts.tv.uk:4879
From: alph@wsinfo01.win.tue.nl (G.J.W. Hagenaars)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Mr. Bean, or why the CBC is soooo coooool! :-)
Keywords: mr. bean
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:23:25 GMT
Reply-To: alph@win.tue.nl
Followup-To: alt.comedy.british

eia018@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr.A.Wilson) writes:

% In article <naran.713687048@sfu.ca> naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran) writes:
% >
% >Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get an episode list and
% >wether or not it was still in production and, I guess, how many episodes have
% >been aired to date. Thanks. :-)
% >

% Mr Bean isn't a series as such.  The `episodes' are only shown periodically
% (often Bank Holidays as a kind of treat).  They are still being made, I
% think.  I don't know exactly how many have been made.  Probably only half
% a dozen at a guess.  I believe that some are available on video which
% have been shown as cinema fillers but have not been broadcast on TV.

I *know* there is a video with all of the Mr Bean episodes, including
one (in a library) which has not been broadcasted.

Other than that, I don't think that there are any other episodes planned.
(being made that is).

If I think hard enough I might be able to give you a list of episodes.
But there must be some netter who actually *has* the aforementioned video.

% Andrew Wilson
% Linguistics
% Lancaster Univeristy, UK


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From: chrisc@ramrod.lmt.mn.org (Chris Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Yes, Prime Minister
Date: 11 Aug 92 19:20:25 GMT
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN  USA

In article <1992Aug10.172640.26202@pony.Ingres.COM> bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer) writes:
>From: bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer)
>Subject: Re: Yes, Prime Minister
>Date: 10 Aug 92 17:26:40 GMT

>In article <1992Aug6.191747.8557@spider.co.uk> davidf@spider.co.uk (David Fraser) writes:

[...]
>That's "Good Neighbors".  Still turns up perenially on various PBS
>stations - Penelope Keith is hilarious.

Wrong!  The show is called The Good Life.  Only in the US is it renamed to 
Good Neighbors.

Note:  That's not even the _real_ spelling of neighboUrs...

Chris


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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Fybush)
Subject: Re: Black Adder Series 1 and 2
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:57:59 GMT

michael@marcel.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin) writes:

>As for question three, I know that WGBH (PBS run by Harvard) puts
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Uh-unh.  WGBH is owned and operated by the WGBH Educational
Foundation, which is unrelated in every way to Harvard.  Yes,
WGBH is near Harvard, and yes, a lot of Harvard people are on
WGBH, but there is no direct connection.  Just may nit-picky
2 cents.

>Maine normally, since your e-address says Canada) there is a 
>shop near Harvard Square called the Learningsmith, which offers
>everything for sale in the WGBH catalogue. I've seen the
>second series and the fourth series there, for US$20 per tape,
>two tapes per series. I assume they were just out of the 1st+3rd.

You can call Learningsmith at +1 617 566 8257 for more info.

Scott Fybush
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: sprackle@rel8.ncsa.uiuc.edu (David Spracklen)
Subject: Re: AYBS and AYBS Again
Organization: ncsa
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:06:40 GMT

I have also seen the sex AYBS Again episiodes.  I figure that it
will get better (I hope).  I enjoyed the third episode a lot,
HATED the second, and the rest were ok.  After finishing the
second episode, I was sick to death of the lame double-meaning
type of jokes (Mr. Humphries fans who have not yet seen the new
series should take the effort to find them).

I think that they need to get a Mr. Lucas character back in.  The
original show slipped a bit when Trevor left; his debates with
Mrs. Slocumb and goofing off with Mr. Humphries were never
properly replaced.

Dave Spracklen

"Perhaps they didn't bring the water to a boil."
"They will get to the bottom of it eventually."
"Yes, I expect they will in the end."


Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Springfield, MO
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:45:46 GMT

ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
 
> Have any of you ever been to Springfield, Missouri?  And no, the Simpsons
> dont live there.
> 
> There are a bunch of good Chinese restaurants!

Here in Las Cruces, it looks like a new Oriental restaurant is opening up every  
few weeks.  For a city of some 70,000 residents, I think there's close to  
twenty "Eastern Cuisine" restaurants.  Nonetheless, there's still more Mexican  
places.

Buffalo is home to an umpteen number of Greek "family restaurants" ... it seems  
like there's one on every block, with an especially heavy concentration on the  
West Side, North Buffalo and in the northern 'burbs.  I don't know why there  
are so many Greek and Middle Eastern places in Buffalo; it might be because it  
is so expensive to start a new restaurant in NYC, so budding immigrant  
restauranteurs move Upstate.  

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Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
From: scholl@uvmark.uucp (Kathryn Scholl)
Subject: Re: Springfield and the Simpsons
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 12:19:42 GMT
Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.

In article dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>
>Speaking of "Springfield", which Springfield DO the Simpsons live in?
>I keep getting the impression that it is Springfield, Mass, as there is a
>
>yet I am wondering if it was ever established (or strongly
>hinted at) where this "Springfield" is in the series.
>

I wonder if "Springfield" was chosen, because, as I read "somewhere,
one time", that Springfield is the only city in the U.S. that resides
in every single state.

Maybe because it was genuinely the most generic!


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Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
From: dmr@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Daniel M. Rosenberg)
Subject: TEST
Organization: The Very Large Software Company of America
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:03:04 GMT

This is a propagation test, to see if we can
get from Stanford to Sun.


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Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Springfield and the Simpsons
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:05:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.044852.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>  writes:
> 
> Speaking of "Springfield", which Springfield DO the Simpsons live in?

Matt Groening supposed said that "Springfield" isn't in a atate per se ...  
Springfield is the most common United States town name.  There are other  
factors we can use to determine where it is, for example ...

- There is frequent train service
- There is some history relating to Spanish conquistadors
- The surrounding country is fairly hilly

My guess is that Springfield is between Chicago and Kansas City, probably in  
Missouri.  No, it isn't Springfield, Missouri, because the real Springfield is  
a state capital, while Simpsons Springfield is a train ride away from "Capital  
City" (Chicago?).


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Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Springfield and the Simpsons
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:18:50 GMT

scholl@uvmark.uucp (Kathryn Scholl) writes:

> I wonder if "Springfield" was chosen, because, as I read "somewhere,
> one time", that Springfield is the only city in the U.S. that resides
> in every single state.

Springfield, Hawaii?  Springfield, Wyoming?  Doesn't sound right ... :)

It is a fairly generic sounding name, though.  Most suburb names tend to be  
rather pleasant and bland, compared to the city they accompany.  A prime  
example is Cleveland, where it seems like every suburb is called "Something  
Heights".  

I like Buffalo suburb names ... they're usually unpronouncable to the outsider,  
and often to people that live inside those communities.  Take for instance  
Cheektowaga, Lackawanna and Tonawanda.  Buffalo suburb names, with a few  
exceptions (Amherst, Orchard Park, Lancaster, Wheatfield) really don't sound  
that suburban at all. 

> Maybe because it was genuinely the most generic!

What is the most generic suburb name you can think of?  I would think it could  
be [name of tree species/geographical feature] [park/grove/forest/heights].   
River Heights.  Oak Park.  Forest Grove.  You get the idea ...

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From: aljones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Alice L Jones)
Subject: Re: Springfield and the Simpsons
Keywords:  Simpsons in "Springfield"
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:57:12 GMT

It is my understanding that The Simpsons' "Springfield" is deliberately
vague.  There is a Springfield, Mass, a Springfield Mo., and Springfield,
Ill....... I suspect that Groenig & company picked the name specifically
for its generic application.... making it kind of an "everytown."

Which brings me to a question I have been pondering lately.  What is the
attraction of the name "Lebanon" as a town name in the midwest corn belt?
There's a Lebanon, Missouri, a Lebanon, Illinois, a Lebanon, Indiana, a
Lebanon, Ohio, and I think a Lebanon, Michigan.  Anybody got any ideas what
made "Lebanon" such an all-fired popular name?
Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
From: ttasset@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
Subject: Springfield, MO
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:34:51 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


Have any of you ever been to Springfield, Missouri?  And no, the Simpsons
dont live there.

There are a bunch of good Chinese restaurants!

	-Tom-
Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: TOWN: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 02:53:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.201333.243@Csli.Stanford.EDU> dmr@Csli.Stanford.EDU  
(Daniel M. Rosenberg) writes:
> Berkeley Heights, New Jersey (and environs)
>
> (stuff deleted)
> 
> The town council has been agonizing over the downtown area for years,
> and there have been several plans to tear up the old Foodtown,
> post office and Drug Fair and reconstruct a downtown that has a "center,"
> or an identity.
> 
> Currently, the buildings are being torn down and replaced with 1990's
> versions of themselves, since the themes the council has presented all
> seem inappropriate -- such as clusters of adobe buildings. (Adobe
> is not a typical mid-Atlantic building material.)

Adobe will *melt* in the northeast because of the high rainfall and high  
humidity.  The traditional flat roof of an adobe building might not be able to  
withstand a large collection of water.  However, the use of stabilized adobe  
could be a possibility, if the roof was sloped gently to allow the runoff of  
rainwater.

Even here in Las Cruces, adobe buildings aren't too common.  They're everywhere  
in older neighborhoods, but somewhat infrequent in newer post-WWII develoments.   
Adobe costs a lot to build, and it's a bitch to maintain, so most newer adobe  
homes are in upscale developments.  However, fake adobe (frame w/brown stucco)  
buildings are frequently seen in new subdivisions.



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Newsgroups: alt.suburbs
Subject: Springfield and the Simpsons
From: dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:48:52 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University


Speaking of "Springfield", which Springfield DO the Simpsons live in?

I keep getting the impression that it is Springfield, Mass, as there is a
certain resemblance, ie, sort of depressed town, mayor and politicians all have 
Boston (or Lowell) accents, a river running to the West of the town, a number
of auto bridges running over the river, etc. (Dunno if there is a nuclear power
plant nearby though...)

Obviously this can describe a number of towns (Harrisburg, PA sort of meets the
above criteria), yet I am wondering if it was ever established (or strongly
hinted at) where this "Springfield" is in the series.

Obviously not one of your more pressing issues...! :)

-Doug

dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu
dreuben@wesleyan.bitnet

Newsgroups: alt.prose
From: carl@ecr.mu.oz.au (Carl_Ivan BREWER)
Subject: Re: Story about Kibo
Keywords: Kibo
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:38:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.032627.28304@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> csquared@coos.dartmouth.edu (C Squared) writes:
>                            **QUIZ**
>
>
>2) Why wasn't there any sex in the story?
>   a) To piss off the people in alt.sex.stories
>   b) Who the fuck cares?
>   c) Both

there wasn't ???  


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From: mfc1493@venus.tamu.edu (Ratboy)
Subject: OOPS!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:28:00 GMT

Someone emailed me about symbolism in my Darkness Descending piece, but I
accidentally deleted the message before I could respond. I would like to
discuss it, but I lost the address. Please mail me again if you would still
like to discuss it.

Sorry to those who don't care. :)

Michael
From: coyote@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (cats)
Newsgroups: alt.prose
Subject: Re: Thanks but I'm ok
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:29:46 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


Kids-
PLEASE take these threads to alt.prose.d.
-coyote