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From: bj835@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Connors)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Fez dispensers
Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:12:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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El Bairdo's summary reminded me that there was a thread earlier
about Ren Hoek's fez being a salute to MG's Akbar & Jeff.  It 
just occurred to me that while John K. is doubtless aware of 
OF2FTIGL (Our Favorite Two Foot Tall Identical Gay Lovers), it 
seems more likely to me that Ren's fez is not a salute to MG
(obviating the tenuous connection of this thread to a.t.s) but
rather a salute to Morocco Mole, sidekick of Secret Squirrel in 
the Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the '60s.  MM spoke in a fake 
Peter Lorre voice
Peter Lorre voice just like Ren does.  (Peter Lorre's 
most famous role is in Casablance (Morocco) as a sort-of spy
outlaw-fugitive-weasel.
	Must be Hanna Barbera salute month -- see "Monorail"
opening.
-- 
TJC       "Donuts: Is there anything
                   they can't do?" -- HJS

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From: jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald)
Subject: Re: DYNs from 9F11 "Selma's Choice"
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:44:32 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
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              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1k3pncINN4hh@cs.widener.edu> tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice) writes:
>>- The magazine cover: "Springfield Sperm Bank / 101 Frozen Pops / Monthly
>>  Edition".  Note the pun on "orgasm" = "Pop".  And of the three men on the
>
>um...or how about "pop" as in "father"???

do you know what a pun is?  it's a word with a double meaning used in 
a clever fashion.  Pop=father, no duh.  If it also =orgasme, then 101 Frozen 
Pops may be a pun.  It would be a bad one.  Most are.
-jd
-- 
"Cover for me!"	- Homer Simpson

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From: nmassey@cch.coventry.ac.uk (JoeFixet)
Subject: Re: Monorail (did you notice?)
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:01:15 GMT


>>In Marge vs. the Monorail, when the Seldom Break wire ruptures and the 
>>monorail kicks into high gear, we are shown all the passengers on it
>>screaming like fools. Besides being shown Nelson and Jimbo and a very calm
>>cool and collected Otto, we are shown Dr. Hibbert. Strangely enough, Dr.
>>Hibbert is also on the safety of the ground attempting to separate the Siamese
>>twins. Just a small faux pas, but I noticed it. Was I the only one?


  No but he had been transported down to safety by 'Spocky' to perform the
  operation.
  Either that or some evil changling took his place on the 'rail,or in the 
  operation....
  Anyhow what ever happened to the twins?

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From: KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: re: Selma's Choice
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:04:58 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world

>I wonder if the Duff Gardens commercial, where they said ". . . roaming 
>gardens aren't a problem any more." could be a reference to Magic Mountain 
>in California, which *has* had this problem in the past.

What an idiot.  Of course, I meant "roaming gangs."  The fingers are quicker 
than the brain.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael Stroucken)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice -- *EEEEENNNK!*
Date: 25 Jan 93 01:40:51 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1993Jan24.225217.29123@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>Look, *somebody* has to be the disignated episode-disliker, because it
>would be a violation of the laws of time and space if we all unanimously
>agreed about an episode; I saw a void for "Selma's Choice", so I filled
>it ;-)

I agree with you're criticism of this episode. Two different subjects were
messily glued together in "Selma's Choice". (My german teacher once gave me
a "5" because I wrote an essay without one clear subject that went through

the essay). I thought the episode was just a grab bag of gags, it did make
me laugh, but from a structural analysis it was worse than others I saw.
MS
-- 
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A: Jane Fonda went to Vietnam.
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From: tina@diamond.UUCP (Tina Cacolice)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: DYNs from 9F11 "Selma's Choice"
Date: 26 Jan 1993 11:43:24 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu

>
>- Re Aunt Gladys Bouvier: there's a last-name inconsistency here.  Patty and
>  Selma's last name is Bouvier, as is their mother's, of course.  But their
>  mother is MARRIED, so presumably she took her husband's last name when she
>  married.  So how come Jackie's SISTER's last name is Bouvier?  It should be
>  whatever Marge's Mother's maiden name was.


Jackie Bouvier still cracks me up.
Maybe the sister's last name was Kennedy.

>
>- The magazine cover: "Springfield Sperm Bank / 101 Frozen Pops / Monthly
>  Edition".  Note the pun on "orgasm" = "Pop".  And of the three men on the


um...or how about "pop" as in "father"???

>  Lisa:    "Can't talk, cutting down [?]"  This sounded similar to Homer's
>    "Can't talk, eating" from 9F06, "New Kid on the Block".  But I couldn't
>    make out Lisa's exact words there.


Coming down.  In an earlier post, someone else thought that it meant
"coming down with something", but I'm pretty sure they meant "down" as
in coming down from a drug high.


By the way, I've been to Busch Gardens and I didn't think they mentioned
beer too much.  I was really young at the time, and right near the park
is the brewery and you can tour it, but I don't think it was overdone.
(For those who care...)
From: c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au (Chris Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Fwd: Michele Pillar on Thurs' Simpsons
Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:33:05 -0500
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
Distribution: world
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Discovered in rec.music.christian while grepping through the newsspool
at 5am in the morning... 

tothmd@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Michael David Toth) writes:
> [...]
> Thursday's Simpsons ended with Selma (or was it Patty) petting Jub-Jub,
> the iguana left by their recently deceased aunt, caring for it like the
> child she never saw herself having.  She began singing "(You Make Me
> Feel Like a) Natural Woman." As the credits rolled, the vocals dissolved
> into a more faithful rendition of the song, and the credits read: "Vocal
> performance by Michele Pillar."  Sure enough, it sounded like the
> Michele I remember.  
>
> (Who originally recorded that song anyway?) 
>
> Too bad she didn't get a Simpsons-looking characature appearance on the
> show like Spinal Tap, Leonard Nemoy, and Tom Jones have this season...
>
> For the r.m.c weird patrol,
> Michael David Toth.

-- 
Chris Baird,,  <c8923075@mystra.newcastle.edu.au>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
Subject: Re: Lisa on acid!
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:58:30 GMT

un036321@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>On the last episode last night, I wonder how much slack Fox will get for
                                                   ^^^^^
                                     I think you mean, "flack".


Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE          | "...My brain IBM"
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute    | "So if you see me, acting strangely..."
Toronto, Ontario, Canada           |                  STYX, Mr. Roboto
From: syracurg@lp.musc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: RE: "101 Frozen..."
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:15:07 GMT
Organization: Widener University Mail/News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.widener.edu


     "...the act of coition..."
                    ^^^^^^^
     now what kind of act might that be? (Perhaps, more appropriately,
     it might be referred to as the act of "coercion.")
From: mxsst1+@pitt.edu (Michael Stroucken)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Marge vs. Monorail: about that cabin...
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:53:41 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1jtg5vINNof6@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley) writes:
>falls on Jebediah Springfield's birthplace, which proceeds to
>*explode in flames*.  I wanna know what was going on in that simple
>"cabin" to cause such a conflagration.  (Or was this just a
>sacrifice of verisimilitude to pyrotechnics in an effort to appease
>our escalating hunger for eye-boggling thrills?)

Remember the milk truck exploding into flames after the beetle hit it?
MS
-- 
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A: Jane Fonda went to Vietnam.
Internet: mxsst1@pitt.edu,       Anonymously: wi.6194@n7kbt.rain.com        :)
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From: amb55929@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Braverman)
Subject: Re: the definitive answer as to where springfield is!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:25:02 GMT

Should I bother pointing out that they flew to DC...or was that just a joke.

Anyway, any info on the upcoming Beatles episode would be
greatly appreciated... where does the FAQ get this insider info???


Alan Braverman
From: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Cindy Kandolf on lutefisk... (was Re: Duff Gardens)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:50:06 GMT
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch, Archival Division
            <1jph7l$35g@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: bw462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bucky Whaley)
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gplong@nyx.cs.du.edu (George Long) asks:
>Oh, and could someone clue me in as to what a "lutefisk" is?  I know
>the whole story behind it (except for the part about what it is), so
>if someone could let me know, I'd appreciate it.

On 15 Mar 92, cindy@solan.unit.no (Cindy Kandolf) defined lutefisk 
 for readers of alt.tv.simpsons:

"[...]                     It's dried fish soaked in a lye and water
 solution until it gets ripe, then rinsed, poached, and (yeep) eaten."

Mmmmm.

 - Bucky "puts the `shi' in yeshiva" Whaley

-- 
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                                       - Homer [7F13], Fat Tony [8F03]
From: greg@hal.com (Greg Hilton)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: What was that chip????
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:12:13 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Jim Browne (jbrowne@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: 
: 
: When Homer was eating the Great Aunt's chip collection, what was the second
: chip supposed to resemble?  I ask this 'cause he stared at it for a bit before
: eating it, while he paid no attention the the first.

To me it looked like that picture of the marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima.
Uh oh.  I sense the start of "The Great Potato Chip Debate".  =:)

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From: doli@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Oliver)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:27:42 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <1jpbknINNpf6@cs.widener.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
>References:
>I wonder if the Duff Gardens commercial, where they said ". . . roaming 
>gardens aren't a problem any more." could be a reference to Magic Mountain in 
>California, which *has* had this problem in the past.

I haven't had a chance to look at the tape, but I'm pretty sure he said
"...roaming GANGS aren't a problem anymore."  Evidence being the three punks
(whose names I can't remember right now, but I'm sure dozens of kind netters
will remind me, no email please) in the commercial.

-David Oliver (doli@troi.cc.rochester.edu)

>
>Rick Kitchen
>kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: courtney@sequent.com (Courtney Powell)
Subject: DYN stuff, Samples Ahoy, Episodes?
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 21:10:16 GMT

	Take a look at "Marge Vs. Monorail" again: when Kent Brockman is
introducing the star of Springfield Heights 90210, take a look in the 
background crowd: you'll notice a identical clone of Kent Brockman, with the
exact same coloring, tie, suit, hair, etc, staring blankly into the sky. Is
this Kent's brother, or what? Actually, I believe this is a reference to a set
of identical twin reporters in Idaho... oh, never mind. =)

	Also, when Quimby checking out the town charter (Two cumly lasses of
virtue true...) check out the mono-thingy in the background as it wizzes by.
We see assorted charters.. Apu.. Barney.. then Nelson, undoubtedly giving a 
Nelson-grade "Haa-Haa!" because the next window is full of what appears to be
Vomit (!), and then next to that is that queasy kid who always throws up on 
bus rides, who's name I can't believe I've forgotten. Anyhow, I place $5 on 
the fact that he tossed his cookies.. I mean, if it happens on a bus ride, 
it'll surely happen on a monorail hitting 150 MPH!

	Also, I sampled a ton of stuff from "Marge Vs. Monorail", and have my
computer set up so that every time I boot it randomly selects a sound sample
and plays it. This session, I got "Do you want to change your name to Homer Jr?
Your friends can call you hO Ju!". Would anyone be interested in any of these
samples? They're all IFF format:

DH2:sounds/simpssamps

AndyCapp -- 66218 bytes -- "You wife beating drunk.."
Mr.Snrub -- 101574 bytes -- "Hello, I'm mister .. Snrub"
Monorail -- 640588 bytes -- The ENTIRE Monorail song, ending with "Mono- D'Oh!"
Ho-Ju    -- 58844  bytes -- Aforementioned
TurningOn -- 246046 bytes -- The ENTIRE "Am I turning you on" sequence
SlipInShower -- 76730 -- What if?
CrazyBreed -- 91886 -- We monorail conductors are of a crazy breed..
SnackHolder -- 59910 -- or, if you will, cupcake!
Possums -- 98066 -- I call the big one bITey!
Pacifier -- 2790 -- Maggie's sucking noise... very useless, really.
Ballet -- 83788 -- The cosmic ballet, goes on. Does anyone wanna switch seats
Dounts -- 56078 -- Is there anything they can't do?

	Let me know, ah?

	Finally, any new episodes left this season? I dread the day I don't 
look forward to Thursday night..

-C.M.S. / Simpsons Freak Extrodinarre

	Please, don't E-Mail me at this address! E-Mail me at:

cabelsa@catseq.catlin.edu
From: marty@Shiva.COM (Marty Del Vecchio)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Duff Gardens
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:14:03 GMT
Followup-To: alt.tv.simpsons
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge, Ma, USA

In article <1993Jan26.170832.17888@athena.mit.edu> rcharbon@athena.mit.edu (Ray Charbonneau) writes:
>In article <1k0tfmINN4fr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:
>|> 
>|> beppe@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Beppe Sabatini) writes:
>|> 
>|> >"Walk on the Wild Side" which is about gay prostitution (or something like
>|> >that) and is among the most sleazy pop songs ever.
>|> 
>|> Walk on the Wild Side a pop song?  Try again . . .
>|> 
>|> (And the the song is not sleazy.  It's about the underbelly of American
>|> culture generally.)
>
>Sometimes I feel so old...
>
>WOTWS (a new acronym!) was indeed extremely sleazy for its time.  Time has
>passed, however, and soon I expect to see it used for a sports car commercial.
>

It's already been used for a Honda motor scooter commercial, starring Lou
Reed himself.  His only line:  "Hey, why walk?"



-- 
================================
Marty Del Vecchio
Software Engineer
Shiva Corporation
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From: amb55929@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Braverman)
Subject: Re: Wendel
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:18:34 GMT

Actually, according to Simpsons Illustrated, when the opening
credits quickly pan over a scene in Springfield, all of the
bus riders have left the bus since Wendel puked, so his first
appearance is in the first regular episode's opening credits.


am I being too picky?

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From: "robert konigsberg" <robert.konigsberg@execnet.com>
Subject: access via e-mail
Reply-To: "robert konigsberg" <robert.konigsberg@execnet.com>
Organization: Executive Networks Information
Distribution: alt
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:46:37 EST

All,

  How can I access this group with nothing but a bitnet account that can
send and receive email through the internet?  (No, this isn't for me but
on behalf OAF)

                -Rob Konigsberg
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From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Selma's Choice (1 more reference)
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:21:22 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

The robotic head quivering on the table was obviously a
reference to Alien (or was it the Birds? :-)

				jaMesa Willer
[any opinions above are copyrighted and may only be used with my permission]
From: skydive@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: Monorail (did you notice?)
Date: 22 Jan 93 08:26:21 -0400
Distribution: world
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1jmn1pINNhpr@cs.widener.edu>, KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
> psraah@uta.fi (Rami Ahonen) writes:

In Marge vs. the Monorail, when the Seldom Break wire ruptures and the 
monorail kicks into high gear, we are shown all the passengers on it
screaming like fools. Besides being shown Nelson and Jimbo and a very calm
cool and collected Otto, we are shown Dr. Hibbert. Strangely enough, Dr.
Hibbert is also on the safety of the ground attempting to separate the Siamese
twins. Just a small faux pas, but I noticed it. Was I the only one?


                 "I am personally going to spit in every 50th burger."
                                                  -Krusty
> 
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From: brucef@shell.portal.com (Bruce M Franklin)
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice -- *EEEEENNNK!*
Organization: Portal Communications Company
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:31:51 GMT

wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:

>Well, let me throw MY two cents in, seeing how the people who have
>commented so far obviously are brain-dead neandertals :-) :-)

>Selma's Choice was NOT a good episode, it was a very poor one, right
>down there with The Otto Show.  A bunch of unrelated stories and gags

[unlightened opinions deleted to save bandwidth]   ;-)

Karl - I'm surprised that you didn't like this episode.  It had me howling! 
>-- 

brucef@cup.portal.com  (who can't think up an original signature file)

Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
From: max@tantalus.uchicago.edu (Max Ziff)
Subject: Re: Duff Gardens
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:54:32 GMT

Previously, beppe@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Beppe Sabatini) wrote:

>OK, so who was the actor who played Zeus, and what was his significance?

Norman Fell, who played the landlord on Three's Company (before Don
Knotts took over).  Paunchy, ugly, generally not a Greek god.  I took
this basically as a non-sequitur.

Could someone with a vcr (or a good memory!) give us a full list of
the Seven Drunks?  I particularly liked the one with a name like
"Maudlin", or something.
--
Donald Ziff (Max)                                    ziff@cs.uchicago.edu

"Dad, do you know what _schadenfreude_ means?" -- Lisa Simpson
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Selma's Choice -- *EEEEENNNK!*
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:52:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.185131.22644@oracle.us.oracle.com> jdonald@us.oracle.com (John R. Donald) writes:
>
>What was wrong with the plot?  In case you missed it, Selma wanted to have
>a baby, but after taking Bart and Lisa to Duff gardens, decided that she
>wasn't cut out to have kids.  A simple plot, the best kind.  When the show
>has too laborious a plot, too much time is spent trying to tell the story,
>leaving not enough time for the jokes.  I thought this episode was hilarious.

I explained what I thought was wrong with the plot in my original post --
that it was obvious, badly executed, and apparantly slapped together in
a poorly integrated way.  I also explianed why I thought that regardless
of being hilarious or not, a show can still be bad, in my follow-up post.

Look, *somebody* has to be the disignated episode-disliker, because it
would be a violation of the laws of time and space if we all unanimously
agreed about an episode; I saw a void for "Selma's Choice", so I filled
it ;-)
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From: larocqu@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (JOHN LAROCQUE)
Subject: Selma
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:13:40 GMT

Just watched Time Trax last week. Turns out his computer friend (who
is a database stored in his credit card) is names Selma. Real neat.
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