HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: Re: Picket Fences: Worth a second look
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:02:19 GMT

Funny, this is a conclusion I've come to, as well.  Long-time Netter Jerry
Boyajian popped into our Cicely-suburb last week, and brought me the last
few issues on tape, and we watched the THanksgiving episode.  The characters
grow on you, and Baker and Skerrit are absolutely marvelous.

Sort of like a very good blending of the Waltons and the decent humor
element of Twin peaks.

                           "No, ma'am.  We're musicians."
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From: 737ochs@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Kill files (was Re: QL: FORM A NEWSGROUP ALREADY!!!!!)
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:01:45 EST
Distribution: na
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Nov17.134743.10014@athena.mit.edu>, amd@space.mit.edu (Ann M. Davis) writes:
>>, c9e-bt@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Postmaster) writes:
> |> 
> |> Instead of creating a QL newsgroup. How about people learning to
> |> use the kill command.
> |> There is a serious effort on part of QL posters to always include
> |> a "QL:" on each subject header.
> |> 
> |> I use this "anomaly" to separate all QLposts in order to read them
> |> sequentially, why don't you just do the same and kill them instead.
> |> 
> 
> Is there a way to do this in xrn (different from rn)?  Everyone keeps
> saying put it in my kill file, but as far as I know, I can only kill
> the entire subject line.  The minute someone adds a space, the article
> gets past the kill file, and I'm still indundated with articles.
> 
> 
> BTW, i see no problem with rec.arts.QL. Where does it say a newsgroup
> has to last for years to make it worth creating?

Yea I agree, I don't even think my newsreader has kill files,
(I'm using something called by the command UNEWS on VAX/VMS 5.something)
It doesn't really bother me though... I just don't read the ones I'm not
interested in.
Fred
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Flinstone's question
Date: 21 Nov 92 22:25:52 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: panther.ai.mit.edu

Who appeared first, Bam-bam or Pebbles?

For the life of me, I can't remember and I need to know.  Anyone who
can point to dates or what not would win my gratitude.  Email and/or
post.

Thanks!
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From: mathew@unixg.ubc.ca (Mathew B Englander)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: L&O: Goodbye Paul Sorvino **Major Spoiler**
Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:51:07 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

A query, after some blank lines (still haven't figured out how
to get a proper ^L on my editor):


























Why did the gun dealer shoot Ceretta? Did he realize he was a cop?
Or was he planning to kill him for his wallet? I found it really
puzzling.
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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Love and War, 11/16/92
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:43:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

Interestingly, in the episode that was a tribute to the late John Hancock,
there were a grand total of zero breaks in the proscenium.  Neither Dey nor
Thomas addressed the audience even once.  Frankly, I'm tiring of the gimmick
and was glad for the relief.

Did it look to anyone else that the opening credits listed Joel Murray twice
and left Michael Nouri out?  (No, David, just you.)

I hadn't thought of it before, but Murray and Hancock had also acted together
on "Pacific Station," one of whose other stars was Richard Libertini, whose
guest appearance on "Murphy Brown" preceded "Love and War" Monday night.

The ending scene (where Wally gives it to the yuppie exactly as Ike had done
to her when she first walked in) was priceless.  It would normally be a
little too early in the run of the series to get self-referential, but under
the circumstances it was perfect.

Nadine needs a personality transplant pretty seriously; Gleason is wasted
on that role.  Meg decided that the broth wasn't too weak after all but I
haven't changed my mind about it.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818
From: bf911@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David J Mulligan Jr)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Flying Blind's Tea Leoni
Date: 16 Nov 1992 04:10:10 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bf911@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David J Mulligan Jr)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, hora@ecf.toronto.edu (HO ROBERT ANDREW) says:

>I watch it and I think it's pretty good, although none of the following
>episodes have been quite as funny as the first.  I hope FOX doesn't give
>up on this show too quickly (last I saw, it wasn't doing too well in the
>ratings).

Figures.  The firstt show is the only one I missed.

>Robert Ho
>Univ. of Toronto
>hora@ecf.toronto.edu
>
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From: pi@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Paul Ilgenfritz)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:54:18 GMT
Subject: Re: MELROSE PLACE NOTES (11/11)
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv


>[a] When did Jake start having this problem with the water (when both
>his and the apartment above are using the hot water, the one belows
>gets the cold water)?

Right when the November sweeps began.
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Ben Stiller Show; anyone the 11/15 episode on tape?
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:24:11 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <1992Nov18.202339.8134@colorado.edu> fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j. a. fielden) writes:

>And Hey hey we're the Grungies"
>The best apart about that was they basically followed the orginal
>Monkee's clip visually they just changed the lyrics and added some
>musical "ornamentation" and placed it in Seattle.

I thought this show was great, and the week before this was a real
classic (Charles Mansons household tips and Oliver Stone World).
About the Grungies though. I'm just a few months short of forty. Since
I remember the Monkees first hand this was a great episode but I wonder
what people in their 20s or so thought about it.


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From: 21329BJ@MSU
Subject: Re: I'll Fly Away episodes needed.
Organization: Michigan State University
Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:59:36 EST

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: jaslow@bissun.kodak.com (Russell Jaslow)
Subject: I'll Fly Away episodes needed.
Originator: jaslow@bissun
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:16:21 GMT

Last night, my wife and I decided to catch up on I'll Fly Away episodes we
had on tape.  Expecting a 3-hour marathon, much to my horror, we only got
to watch one show.  I screwed up taping not one, but TWO, of the shows.
>You didn't screw up--TV Guide had them listed at the 10p timeslot, but
>NBC ran them at 8p.

I need the last two episodes: November 6 and November 13 (this one was
titled "Eighteen" I believe).  If anyone has these episodes on tape, I
would be very grateful.
>Maybe some kind person could summarize these eps. for us??  I'm sure alot
>of us are in the same boat.
>--Barb
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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Creating a newsgroup  (was Re: Kill files (was Re: QL: FORM ...)
Keywords: Quantum Leap, QL
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:26:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.134743.10014@athena.mit.edu> amd@space.mit.edu (Ann M. Davis) writes:
>
>BTW, i see no problem with rec.arts.QL. Where does it say a newsgroup
>has to last for years to make it worth creating?

Okay, you people who are whining about the lack of existance of the
rec.arts.tv.ql, you need to start reading news.announce,
news.announce.answers, news.groups, and news.config (I think those are
the right group names, feel free to correct them). Figure out how to
request a discussion of the group to be formed, and how to call for
votes, and take the vote. If you do this, and the vote passes, QL will
have its own newsgroup. If not, you'll just have to learn more about
your newsreader to kill QL articles, or maybe get your sys admin to get
the proper news reader that will help you with QL articles. You're going
to have to do it yourselves, we're not going to do it for you.

jam
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From: tufnel@camelot.bradley.edu (Timothy Bartley)
Subject: Re: Shows B&W --> Color?
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: 24 Nov 92 00:11:02 GMT


Wasn't there one color episode of Perry Mason?


tim
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: adelpha@hamp.hampshire.edu
Subject: Material on MTV
Organization: Hampshire College
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:52:10 GMT

Hi--I'm writing a book on the history of MTV.  I'm looking for
anybody who has the MTV 10th anniversary on tape or any interviews
with MTV personalities I could get copies of relatively soon.  My
deadline cometh.  Anybody who helps gets their name in the book.
Many thanks all.


Scott Nance
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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Re: Shows B&W --> Color?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:25:47 GMT



I haven't been following this thread, so these may have already been mentioned,
but just in case:

Bewitched
Gilligan's Island
and I think I Dream of Jeannie


Firestar
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From: leaper@ddsw1.mcs.com (Maria C. Munoz)
Subject: Re: QL Query: How tall are the boys?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:30:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

chrish@netcom.com (Christina M. Hill) writes:

:   That sounds right to me, 5'6" or 5'7", just a bit taller than me.
:   <I'm 5'5.5">
	Yeah, about as tall as my brother...so in a sense he slightly
towers my stature of 5'2" :)  Hi, Chris! <wave>
	
:   Chris Hill <partner in crime to Sally "Lucky Bitch" Smith> 
	And a good partner in crime too, I hear. :)
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From: dzembj@nuge115.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Subject: Re: QL: Write Letters Now/Possible Spoilers
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:56:07 GMT

In article <1ejrpkINNsn5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bs895@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande) writes:
|> 
|> I received a phone call from Harriet at Bellisarius.

That's Belisarius...one l in the name of the company, two in Don's last
name.  Go figure.

|> NBC
|> C/O Warren Littlefield
|> 30 Rockefeller Plaza
|> NY, NY  10019

Can't show the address too often.  Write, people, write for all you're worth.

|> 
|> Also, she said she'll let me know by the end of next week--by Wed.
|> at the latest, the full definite details on Leap Con so those of us
|> on the East Coast can have adequate time to buy plane tickets,...

Been there, done that.  Just waiting for news on the hotel and I'm set.
(Well, there is the trivial matter of money to pay for the trip, but...)

[Rumor deleted to prevent panic in the masses...]

|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Possible spoilers about ep now filming. 
|> 
|> 
|> Current ep filming is called "Tale of Two Sweeties" by Robin Jo Bernheim.
|> Sam is a bigamist.  No further details yet.  I hate that title.  Hope they
|> change it!

I actually like it. Sure, it sounds a bit cheesy, but after such titles as
Lee Harvey Oswald and Trilogy, it shows some signs of thought.  :-)  By the
way, her name is Robin Jill Bernheim, not Robin Jo.


							- Jason
							(net.chronologer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Re: Highlander *SPOILER*ex
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 22:07:07 GMT

hodge@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:

>In article <1992Nov18.074908.23627@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
>> Here's a possible spoiler...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I saw on America Online that it's possible Richie may turn out to be
>> an immortal.  Does anybody else know anything about this possibility?
>> [...]

>  It will be surprising if this turns out to be true, since Duncan can
>sense other immortals nearby, even without seeing them! (Of course, maybe
>he's known it all along and only the audience is in the dark.)

Yes, this was what I was thinking.  Richie may not be aware of the
fact, and Duncan may be keeping it from him and keeping an eye on him
- trying to keep him on the side of good...

Mike
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From: finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: The Leap Back
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:04:40 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:

>I only saw 'M.I.A.' as the original broadcast (which I recorded) and never
>the re-run. In the original, I think, the episode ended with the leap-out
>from Al's perspective. Didn't the episode close on Al's wife (calling out
>Al's name.) If this is true, where did the leap into the next episode
>come from?


When "M.I.A." was originally broadcast as the season ender for season 2, they
never showed the leap in for season 3's opener which was "The Leap Home I".
I don't remember ever seeing anything suggesting Sam had leapt into himself
until NBC started running promos for it towards the end of that summer.
"M.I.A.", "The Leap Back", and "Lee Harvey Oswald" have the distinction of
being the only three episodes with no leap in for the next episode.


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From: comjudi@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Judi Geistlinger)
Subject: Re: Leno/headlines?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:39:02 GMT

maire@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:

>Fans, please forgive my lack of knowledge, but I have a question.  Does
>Jay Leno still feature the funny newspaper headlines on the Tonight Show?
>I ask because I almost never see the show, but I recently came across
>an item that would be absolutely perfect for it.  Please let me know
>via e-mail, as I don't usually monitor this group.  Also, if you know
>an address where I could send it if he still features them, I would
>appreciate that too.

I too have a headline that I want to send in. If anyone has the address,
please post it also.
-- 


Judi Geistlinger
j-geistlinger@uiuc.edu
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From: Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
Subject: Re: MELROSE PLACE NOTES (11/11)
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:04:39 GMT

> NICOLE WHITNEY FOX writes:
>
> I think that the real question is: what crisis are left for Melrose Place?
> These people have way too many problems!
>


The big crisis left is the cancellation of the show. I heard that the show
was on thin ice. How are the cast members going to handle it? :)

In January, they are adding HEATHER LOCKLEAR to the cast, supposedly to cause
friction between Billy and Alison.

On another note, someone asked whether Sandy was gone for good. Amy Locane
has left to pursue her film career. I'm not sure if she left on her own
accord or if she got terminated.

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From: jenkirtl@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Jennifer Kirtley)
Subject: Re: Abortion adds [sic] are ruinning [sic] my dinner!
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:10:46 GMT

In article <6yG=Z6@engin.umich.edu> stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes:
>In article <1992Nov16.165543.25237@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
>	writes:
>>Using offensive ads to further a political cause seems unacceptable to me.
>
>Think about it, though - if the ad offends you so much, why doesn't the
>notion of abortion offend you equally as much?

This is of course not the place to get into this political kettle
of worms, so I'll stick to the `do we have to see it on TV?' issue.

Now, as a staunch supporter of the First Amendment, the idea of
censoring something because it might, or actually does, offend
someone sets me to squirming.  Hey, I know what an channel button
is for -- when ever the subject of dentistry, roaches, or
truely asinine politicians appear, *click*.

Of course, this doesn't explain why a politician would use a
really offensive commercial in order to get votes.  It sounds to me
like the commerical in question upset *everyone* on both sides
of the political fence, and if it was making people physically ill
at the same time, who was left to pay attention to the politican's 
platform?  In general, I support President-elect Clinton and
Governor Weld (MA), but they're both pro-death penalty, and I'm
not.  If they subjected me graphic pictures of executions, that
portion of thier political platforms is going to become my focus
when it comes to the voting booth -- and they'd both likely loose
a vote. (I know, I know, *click*; but with a 30 second spot,
you've seen half the commerical before you get a chance to find
the remote which has burrowed into the couch or buried under 
some magazines...)

I suppose the long and short of this tirade is this; is current
thinking amongst political wranglers `offence sells'?  I'm assuming
that someone who is anti-choice is going to vote for the anti-choice
canidate, and someone who is pro-choice is not.  Is someone who is
undecided really going to be moved by a commerical which causes them
to loose their lunch?



  -Jenni

"Theorizing that one could travel through Boston on the MBTA,
Dr. Sam Beckett stepped onto the Green Line...and vanished!
Trapped on the `T', Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from
station to station, using `T' Passes that are not his own...
His only companion is Al, a `B' line car that only Sam can
see and ride..."
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From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell)
Subject: Re: _Soap_ : help me get dinner for free
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:56:52 GMT

In article <28499@castle.ed.ac.uk> dom@castle.ed.ac.uk (Dominic A. Varley) writes:
>Hi All,
>	can anyone help me, we have just watched _She's_Having_a_Baby_
>with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern (and a little bit of Alec Baldwin,
>with a *bad* hair cut), which having sat through it all is not a movie I 
>would recommend.

WHAT???

_She's_Having_a_Baby_ was a GREAT film!!!!!

Flip


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From: jeffy@cray.com (Jeffrey Neau)
Subject: Re: Picket Fences -> Mention of masturbation?  Oh boy.
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:50:33 CST

In article <3934@master.CNA.TEK.COM> johnbr@master.CNA.TEK.COM (John Breeden) writes:
>In article <1992Nov19.232822.156592@zeus.calpoly.edu> kjaskiew@zeus.calpoly.edu (Keith Ross Jaskiewicz) writes:
>
>>As anyone who watched the 11/18 episode of _Seinfeld_ will attest, the
>>_Picket Fences_ brief and subtle mention of masturbation pales to the 30
>>hilarious minutes of the Seinfeld gang's contest to see who could last
>>the longest without "using their body like an amusement park."  As far
>>as I can recall, the 'M' word was never once uttered.
>
>This was absolutely one *the* funniest things I have ever seen on TV.  The "in 
>bed at night" scenes had me falling off the couch!  Especially the last one.

"I am still Master of my Domain"  hilarious!

I missed the first 5 minutes of the show.  How did Jerry's friend tell everyone
what his mother had caught him doing?
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From: jackie8@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (ogin la)
Subject: Re: Kathy Baker's (from Picket Fences) credits?
Organization: Bellcore - Piscataway, NJ
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:49:59 GMT

In article <2236@sousa.tay.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>
> Hi, I'm convinced I've seen Kathy Baker (who plays Jill Brock) in something
> else. Does anyone have a list of her credits handy? I really enjoy Picket
> Fences, but every week I get distracted and say "I _know_ I've seen her
> somewhere before..." 

From a couple-of-months-old actress listing that's posted every so
often on r.a.t:
Baker, Kathy		Article 99
			Clean and Sober
			Dad
			Edward Scissorhands
			Image, The (TV)
			Jacknife
			Killing Affair, A (1988)
			Mister Frost
			Nobody's Child (TV)
			One Special Victory (TV)
			Permanent Record
			Right Stuff, The
			Street Smart


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