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From: caw@athena.mit.edu (Catherine A Womack)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: re. Best Episode
Date: 7 Sep 92 22:12:57 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep7.105559.7395@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jcatesii@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Cates III) writes:
>
>
>Someone began a thread about fave episodes. I held my response
>while I pondered it for a few days.

Hi.  I gave this question some thought, as there are many episodes I like; here
are some of my favorites:

* the one where Joel gets kidnapped by Adam and Eve, the wackiest couple on TV. 

* the circus one, featuring Bill Irwin as the flying man.  He is also in the
movie _Steppin' Out_; not a great film, but he is the best comic tap dancer since
Donald O'Connor.

* the one where Ed sees the spirit who helps him look for his parents.

Of course there are many others, but for my favorite, there is a tie between:

* the Joel/Jules/twin/takeoff on the Wizard of Oz episode (very silly, granted,
but most amusing);  AND

* the episode (from a while back) in which everyone is going crazy because of the
delayed spring thaw, resulting in Holling boxing with Officer Simansky (sp?) and
Joel's Robert Palmer video sex fantasy (one of the funniest scenes I have seen on
TV).

There you have it, my $.02.

--catherine womack	caw@athena.mit.edu
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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Death to Chris
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:34:34 GMT

In article <FRANL.92Sep11140002@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
>Chris is very philosophical (even theological).  He's at odds with the
>powers that be (a fugitive from justice).  His job as a DJ gives him a
>way to speak to many people and spread his ideas.  He's in his
>thirties and knows he'll die soon.  Add a 't' to his name and bingo --
>instant symbolism.

You mean you didn't get that during the cow-flinging episode?  It hit me
(like the proveribal rock) when I saw Chris, with his scraggly beard and
mustache, carrying this wooden thing, and my first thought was that he was
carrying a crucifix.

I commented on this to a cowatcher, who said, "Yeah, it's *got* to be
deliberate!"

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
sef@kithrup.COM  |  little effort you make to learn your way around."
-----------------+    -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
From: ehr@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Ernest H. Robl)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: syndication? not yet
Keywords: synbdication
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:41:55 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service


Someone asked in a post a while back -- the messages in this 
group have really poured in quickly -- when the show might be
going into syndication.  Since no one else has answered the
questions, this gives me a chance to contribute:

The magic number for a show going into syndication is generally
considered 100 episodes.  (I've seen this in a number of reliable
sources.)

The reasoning is that most stations that buy a show for syndicated
reruns -- as opposed to a first-run syndicated show like ST:TNG --
want to run it in what's called a "stripped" format, meaning that
the show runs in the same time slot, usually at least five times
a week.  With anything less than 100 shows, the stations feel that
they would be repeating the same shows too often.  With 100
episodes, they get at least 20 weeks of programming.

The way I count it, NX has only 38 episodes so far.  So we have a
little while to wait.  On the other hand, the thought of being able
to watch NX five times a week is something to look forward to.

-- Ernest

-- 

"My other computer is a Nikon N8008." -- Ernest H. Robl
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                                         FAX:  +1  919   286-1696
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 1992 11:09:38 MST
From: <IDJMW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: I had a dream...
 <1992Sep7.203836.9190@samba.oit.unc.edu>

And I have the 68 VW camper bus ready, willing, and ken kesey painted
to volunteer to guest shot with John Astin.

Actually, I wanted to write a screenplay for N.Exp. for my other car, the
66 Beetle. This way, neither would feel left out.
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From: kossack@owlnet.rice.edu (Jordan Marc Kossack)
Subject: Re: It on during football
Reply-To: kossack@qvi.com
Organization: NOT! 
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:16:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.144642.15736@ms.uky.edu> kaveh@ms.uky.edu (Kaveh Baharestan) writes:
- 
- >I love it but----my football is a must!
- 
- I cannot understand this.  How could anyone choose something as mindless
- as watching football over Northern Exposure.  What kind of Kreaton are
- you!!!!!!

	That's Texan, not Kreton.    :-) 

	What you have to understand is that many Texans take their 
   football very seriously.  Just go to any good sized HS in Houston 
   (or even <gack!> Dallas) and you'll see ridiculously large stadiums
   (stadia???).  Go during a game and find those stands full.  Now ... 
   upscale that to College Football and then again to Pro Football.  

	To keep on the topic of Northern Exposure, football to many 
   Texans is like filmaking to Ed (or New York to Joel :-) 

	Take care.   

-- 
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From: jcatesii@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Cates III)
Subject: re. Best Episode
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
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	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 10:55:59 GMT



Someone began a thread about fave episodes. I held my response
while I pondered it for a few days.

My fave would have to be Joel's hunting trip. Has alot to say
about our perceptions of others and tolerance. And, hell, it was
hilarious.

Second to that would be the one where Ed meets the old woodcarver,
the flute-maker, that is. Nice one.

Jim

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From: charles@leland.Stanford.EDU (Charles Benjamin Roosen)
Subject: Re: Complaints
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:04:59 GMT

In article <0egCxSK00WAy473Ukq@andrew.cmu.edu>, jf47+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joel Walter Feldmeier) writes:
|> Listen,
|> I'm new to bboards, and being an avid fan of both Star Trek and Northern
|> Exposure I have greatly enjoyed reading the bboards on the two shows.
|> However, I  sometimes feel that people are whining or being
|> unreasonable. 

I agree wholeheartedly!!!  People can post whatever they like I suppose, but I
am especially tired of complaints that characters' actions are not in line with
their personalities, or that the show is not realistic.  Of course the show is
not realistic!  That's one of the reasons it's so enjoyable.  For instance the
rapt attention at the chess match was great because it was so unexpected.

Also, I don't see why people want to view the characters as real people, and
fault them for being PC or un-PC or verbose or whatever.  Clearly they are
everchanging mouthpieces for the writers.  Their characters are basically
consistent so why not let the writers (and in turn the rest of us) have a
little fun by suspending disbelief and just enjoying?

Cheers,
Charles Roosen
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From: saiki@spot.Colorado.EDU (Eileen Saiki)
Subject: Maggie's boyfriends
Keywords: bad luck
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:13:44 GMT

  Hi, 
    Someone asked about the history of Maggie's boyfriends.
    I replied personally, but thought there might be sufficient
    interest to post how they all met there ends:

       Harry ---- potato salad at a picnic
       Bruce ---- victim of a terrible fishing accident
       Glenn ---- took a wrong turn in his Volvo onto a missile
                  test site
        Dave ---- fell asleep on a glacier and froze to death
        Rick ---- hit by a satellite (how does Shelly say it?
                  "Rick ate the satellite?")

       This comes from the speech Chris made in the episode
        "Slow Dance" in the funeral scene for Rick. Poor Maggie!

     Eileen
       
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From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
Subject: Re: Best Episode + song question
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:18:07 GMT

crenner@eng.clemson.edu (charles renner) writes:

> "They Could Be Giants"

The name of that band is They Might Be Giants.
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From: richardg@ssd.intel.com (Richard Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Death to Chris
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Divison, Intel Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:39:11 GMT

In article <mwalker.PRV_QM_ENG-100992092756@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.>, mwalker.PRV_QM_ENG@wc_smtp_knet.wc.novell.com (Mel Walker) writes:
|> Does Chris remind anyone else of Cliff Claven (Cheers)? They're both big on
|> spouting on and on about things that they couldn't possibly have ever
|> really learned about, or learned just enough about to sound knowledgable.
|> And yet, Cliff is a likable character (at least to me). I think that they
|> should have thawed the frenchman and frozen Chris. Let the future deal with
|> him!

I like the Chris character and enjoy his philosophical ramblings.  I don't see
him as pompous or arrogant unlike Cliff on Cheers.  My wife and I always enjoy
the episodes when Chris's half brother Bernard shows up.


By the way. Does anyway know the name of the song used at end of the running
of the bulls episode?

Richard

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From: alexho@microsoft.com (Alex Howerton)
Subject: Re: Best Episode
Date: 09 Sep 92 17:43:48 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Keywords: life, flinging, cow, piano 

>a homemade catapult.  Originally he'd planned to fling a cow (poor
>cow), but was disheartened when he found out that Monty Python did
>it first (thank-you Ed :) ).  Two things about this episode stick
Anyone (Monty Python fans) notice that Ed got the reference wrong? He
said they flung the cow into the castle, when in fact the Frecnch snots
flung the cow out of the castle (whereupon Arthur commanded hid knights
to "run away). And Ed calls himself a film buff!
From: drenze@icaen.uiowa.edu (Douglas J Renze)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: Best Episode
Keywords: life, flinging, cow, piano
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:29:33 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

aja+@pitt.edu (Dan E Steele) writes:

>In article <1992Sep08.225203.4479@ssc.wa.com> tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook) writes:
>>In article <Bu8vBu.Fqv@news.udel.edu> dmccoy@brahms.udel.edu (Don McCoy) writes:
>>>
>>>	One more thing (all philosophy aside):  I *loved* watching
>>>that piano fly!  How often do you see something like that, even on
>>>cable?

>    Ya know... in all this talk about the flying piano show I have 
>    failed to read anyone mention one thing that I thought was odd.

>    It was a very brief shot, from inside the KBHR station (looking out
>    the main window. Chris, dirty from his work, was draging a very heavy
>    piece of wood (I think it was a T frame) down main street. His hair
>    was down in a tangled mees and he was dragging (the apprently heavy)
>    wood frame by himself over his sholder. He was led and followed by a
>    pack of laugfing children and at least one barking dog. He looked
>    very serious, and the kids were making fun of him.


>    Now...it might just be me...but I thought it was a very subtle, but
>    very affective Crist refrence. 

I noticed this, too...but then, from the beginning, I've seen Chris as
the Christ figure in the show.

Even the name suggests it...CHRISTopher.

Just my $0.02.

-- 
| Douglas J Renze            | "Jerry [Brown] is the equivalent of a          |
| drenze@icaen.uiowa.edu     |  drive-by shooting."                           |
| drenze@chop.isca.uiowa.edu |                                                |
| drenze@aol.com             |         * NPR's Morning Edition, 13 July 1992  |
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From: jps4800@tamsun.tamu.edu (John Parrish Schweers)
Subject: Re: Death to Chris, Joel, whoever
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:32:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.185348.5103@unixg.ubc.ca> hlee@unixg.ubc.ca (Henry Lee) writes:
>In article <10SEP199209454367@zeus.tamu.edu> wkl5819@zeus.tamu.edu (LEVERICH, WILLIAM KENT) writes:
>>If Rob Morrow doesn't get his contract situation straightened out, Joel may
>>become the sixth victim of the Curse of Maggie O'Connell.  Can anyone think
>>of a clever way for the next victim to die?  It would be very hard to top
>>death by falling satellite.
>
>I thought that Morrow's contract was finalized some number of weeks ago
>and that everyone in the cast was now in the current run of
>shooting new episodes for the upcoming year.
>
>-- 
>Henry Lee   <hlee@unixg.ubc.ca>

Yes, the contract was settled.
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From: pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander)
Subject: Re: Best Episode
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:22:08 GMT

In article <BRENNAN.92Sep8211645@yosemite.hal.com> brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan) writes:
>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Sep 1992, alix@indetech.com (Alexandria North) said:
>
>>>  Originally he'd planned to fling a cow
>
>> I found this episode repulsing.
>> ...
>> I couldn't help but picture a cow in the same place, and felt deeply 
>> sickened. 
>
>Are you by any chance a vegetarian?
>
> (Deleted)

I can't conceive of Chris throwing a *live* cow.  It would be quite easy 
to convert a live cow to a dead cow at throwing time.

Paul Hollander    pholland@iastate.edu
Behold the tortoise: he makes no progress unless he sticks his neck out.


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From: dmoskowi@jarthur.claremont.edu (Denis "Tesser" Moskowitz)
Subject: Re: Where are the children?? (And who needs 'em! :-)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:42:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.144058.1709@uts.cc.wayne.edu> tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson) writes:
>There was a show where Ed did a movie of the town. At the end of the show, Ed 
>showed the movie. I'm sure there were scenes in that movie that had kids in 
>them. Many if I remember correctly. So there are kids, we justs aren't in 
>those parts of the town were you would get a chance to see them (I guess).

Also, there were kids in the slides that Joel showed at the Conference, that
Marilyn had mixed up with his E. Coli.
-- 
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dmoskowi@jarthur.claremont.edu  sovagxajn vangharojn, kaj liajn ungojn kaj
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From: wkl5819@zeus.tamu.edu (LEVERICH, WILLIAM KENT)
Subject: Adam Arkin
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:50:00 GMT

I think I know why Adam Arkin looks familiar.  Wearing the same costume from
Northern Exposure, he could have been cast as a third Darryl on Newhart.  The
difference is that while Darryl and Darryl never spoke, Adam can never shut up.

Kent Leverich
WKL5819@ZEUS.TAMU.EDU 
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From: tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook)
Subject: Re: Best Episode
Organization: very little
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:25:36 GMT

In article <92252.163110C09615ST@wuvmd.wustl.edu> C09615ST@wuvmd.wustl.edu writes:
>
>  1) Who plays the Flying Man?  I saw him before in the otherwise forgettable
>     Steve Martin film "My Blue Heaven" as an FBI agent.  He strikes me as a
>     tremendously talented physical actor.

That was Bill Irwin.  He was in Seattle a few times with his stage shows
THE CLOWN BAGATELLES and REGARD OF FLIGHT.  I think they also played
New York.  He is a wonderful mime.



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From: Mike.Peacock@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Mike Peacock)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Going To Extremes
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:58:58 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

I caught the pilot episode of 'Going To Extremes' last Wednesday.
It's hard to tell from just one show, but it definitely has possibilities.
It is also obvious that it's from the same warped minds who brought us
NX.  There is a Joel, a (potential) Maggie, and even a Chris (the guy on
the beach doing Tai-Chi and who doesn't take notes because he memorizes
everything).  Anybody else catch this and have any opinions ?

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From: hankdtank <hank@waffle.sns.com>
Subject: Re: Oddz n' ens
Organization: Systems'n'Software, Fremont, CA  94539-6669
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 08:51:36 PDT

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

> In article <1992Sep14.231010.9499@cs.wm.edu> sletten@cs.wm.edu (Brian J. Slet
> 
> >Has anyone heard about a connection between "Doc Hollywood" and NEXP?
> >Someone tried to convince me that "D.H." was supposed to be the basis
> >for NEXP... anyone else hear this connection?
> 
> It must just be me.  Has no one suggested the NORTHERN EXPOSURE - TWIN
> PEAKS connection?
> 
> -- 
> ____ Tim Pierce                / "I don't know how much support NAMBLA
> \  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  has in the gay community."
>  \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Clayton Cramer, August 1992


People who compare these two shows (usually reporters or critics) have never 
really watched these to shows.  The only real connection is that both are 
filmed in Washington.  That's it.  Over all, TP is about small town evil, 
while NX is about small town utopian ideals.
 
BTW: I know the abreviation for "Northern Exposure" used to be NEXP, and now 
its NX (I kinda like it now), but why wasn't NE used?  Is there already a 
show using NE?  WHat about "Going to Extremes?"  SHould it be GX because TV 
newsgroups want 2 letter abreveations?

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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: It on during football
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:43:01 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

>>> That's Texan, not Kreton.    :-) 
 
>> That's creton not Kreton.
 
> That's cretin, not creton.
 

And this group is about NEXP not spelling!!!

You Createons!  :^)

Greg Bole                               "Are you coming?  Yeah, well see the 
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu             train moves, not the platform."
                                       John Lovitz in _A Leauge of Their Own_
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From: kpl@engin.umich.edu (Ken Laberteaux)
Subject: Re: Reasons for fandom
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 13:58:54 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: usa

In article <BuABv2.BK8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> meg@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Meg Geddes) writes:
>Why do I watch Northern Exposure?  Because (even though Cicely is fictional)
>if I had to live anywhere other than where I am now, Cicely is where I would
>like to live.  Cicely's inhabitants are the types of people I would like to
>live amongst.
>
>-- 
>Meg Geddes      <No admitted affiliation with anything>    Ann Arbor, MI                       
>meg@netmeg.ann-arbor.mi.us

Funny, but I too would say that Ann Arbor has a lot of similarities with
Cicely.  We've got plenty of Joel's and Chris's, and a few too many Maggie's
(by the way, there are plenty of women Joel's and Chris's and plenty of
male Maggie's :)).  Sadly not enough Marilyn's (Those that know the truth
but keep it to themselves unless asked).  Well probably the same is true
everywhere.

Those of you who like Cicely should come out to A^2 and hang for a while.
-- 
------------------------------------

Ken Laberteaux
Tellabs Research Center
From: p_emond@pavo.concordia.ca (PATRICK EMOND)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Favorite character...
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:48:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


 I'll just make an unofficial poll on this thread, e-mail your choices (and why)
 and I'll tally things up when the votes run out, and post the results & reasons
 on this group. So take ten steps forward, turn around, and vote...

 address: p_emond@pavo.concordia.ca

Patrick 'In The Afternoon' Emond
 (...I like to sleep in)
Montreal, Canada
 (did someone say Northern?)
Looks like Joel, with Ed's hair
Prefers Shelly to Maggie
From: cfeem@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Eleanor Midkiff)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Re: Reasons for fandom
Summary: Satellite
Keywords: hilarity
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:24:56 GMT
Expires: ?
Distribution: usa
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

In article <6218@transfer.stratus.com> dennist@sw.stratus.com (Dennis Tetreault) writes:
>I'm a reasonbly new NE fan.  It's a lite break from reality (reality is fleeting).
>Anyhow, I am waiting for 1 episode in particular. I have not seen it yet, but am 
>told it involves Maggies boyfriend being struck by a satellite. 
>Can you fill me in on the storyline??

This one has my nomination for the best story so far.  The satellite not
only kills him, it also melds with him (no pictures, only verbal
descriptions -- hilarious).  One of the funniest parts is the shape of the
coffin they have to bury him in.

Maybe I just have a taste for graveyard humor?

Eleanor
-- 
Eleanor Midkiff
(cfeem@eiu.edu)
From: p_emond@pavo.concordia.ca (PATRICK EMOND)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.northern-exp
Subject: Poll update
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:05:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


 Just an update on the Favorite Character poll:
 (vote at p_emond@pavo.concordia.ca)


    Character          Votes
    Joel               4
    Ed                 3
    Chris              3
    Adam               3
    Maggie             2
    Bernard            2
    Ruth Ann           1
    Marilyn            1

    Keep your votes coming... poll stops when the pot boils dry.
    Coming SOON--Least Favorite Character poll 

    Patrick 'In The Afternoon' Emond
    Montreal, Canada 
    Still likes Shelley better
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From: puckett@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Puckett)
Subject: Re: Reasons for fandom
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:55:52 GMT

ehudon@reed.edu (Elizabeth Hudon) writes:


>I'd like to respond to the recent critiques of Chris.

>I believe he's necessary and just as quirky as the rest of them. Yes, he
>muses in the same way that pretentious college folk do, but there's an
>important distiction. Chris muses in the course of everyday life, whereas
>college-age intellectual poseurs muse outside the realm of mundane
>existence (and usually for the purpose of one-upping someone nearby).

another distiction - Chris _never_went_to_college_!

Good Morning, Cicely!
jim p.
-- 
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Huntsville,AL (205)461-4922  
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would have been given instructions....