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From: petersen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jim Petersen)
Subject: Re: long island lolita
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:07:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan08.185640.5124@microsoft.com> wayneh@microsoft.com (Wayne Hazle) writes:
>
>By the way:  Lolita   was a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick 

Well, there is a movie, but first and foremost Lolita is a book
by Nabakov. The movie isn't bad, but it's not very relevent to the
book, simply because the girl in the movie is WAY too old. The
Lolita in the book is about 12--she is a nymphette, not the fully
developed young woman we see in the movie. The movie is worth
seeing on its own terms though, Peter Sellars (sp?) is, as usual,
great in it. The book, however, is even more worth reading, if you
like excellent descriptive writing. If you're looking for soft-porn
though, don't bother. That's where all the hype is, but there is
basically nothing in the book that will get you hot (unless, perhaps,
you suffer from an unnaturally powerful attraction to nymphettes like
Humbert Humbert does).

Obligatory Stern Content: Who was that chick who called in yesterday
(Thursday morning) and blasted Howard on the topic of Spike Lee? She
wasted him, he couldn't even get it up enough to hold his own! I
loved it, seeing Howard have to take it for a change. (Note: this
is certainly no flame on Howard! It's was just fun to hear him lose
an exchange, because she was SO good.)




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From: bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: Call letters
Date: 10 Jan 1993 13:00:56 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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I think Howard's point iis this:  When people fill out the reating's forms (I'm not
quite sure how this is done, ads I have not had the opportunity), LKAX and LKSX look the same at a glance.  So, people didn't do
a double-take, since there are no call letters near to KLSX iin previous polls, so they marked the wrong station.



PS:  Sorry for the errors.
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
From: acs@leland.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Caldwell Schneider)
Subject: Re: Stern in Buffalo: Confirmed!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 05:36:53 GMT


Has anybody heard rumors about the show coming to a bay area station?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
From: djp@peewee.enet.dec.com (dave parker)
Subject: Re: Call letters
Reply-To: djp@peewee.enet.dec.com (dave parker)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:24:50 GMT

In article <93006.233728TRM900@psuvm.psu.edu>, Tony R. Marasco <TRM900@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
|> 
|> If you haven't heard, one of Stern's competitors closed the gap in the
|> ratings war in L.A.  Stern blames this on the FCC.
|> 
|> A competitor allegedly changed call letters to sound almost like ths LA
|> call letters.  Their position on the dial is relatively close, so Stern
|> feels that the ratings were incorrect because people were confused...
|> 
|> 
|> I'm curious to see how long he'll stay on this topic...
|> 

Yeah, but you are leaving out the best stuff.  The station that had the huge
jump in ratings is not really a direct competitor.  It's a Spanish station and
it was typically the lowest rated station until this big leap!

The other thing is that Mark & Brian did not capture any of the ratings that
Howard lost.  You'd think his competition would take some of his ratings, not
a Spanish station!

Sounds like Howard might actually have a right to whine about this one.

Dave
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
From: greg@puck.webo.dg.com ()
Subject: Picking up the Show
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:45:22 GMT
Reply-To: greg@puck.webo.dg.com
Organization: NSDD-X.500, Data General Corp.

I managed to pick up HOward this morning in Worcester,MA
from the Buffalo Station, but it came in like shit after about
7:30, does anyone have any suggestions as far as anything I
can buy or construct to pick up the AM signal better, thanks,
 Greg
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:25:21 CST
From: The Magnet <U28310@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Ratings/Chicago

While we're on the subject of radio ratings, does anyone know
how exactly it is measured? Is it in anyways like the TV's Nielsen
ratings or is it something totally different? Also how accurate
and reliable are they?


As for Stern in Chicago. You must understand that there are a lot
of established stations here. A few stations are 50,000 watts or
whatever the big huge wattage stations are, like WLUP and WGN that
caters to the adult market.  And recently a All sports station
similar to that of WFAN in NY called WSCR the Score has been on
and taking over the ratings.  As you might know, Superfans on SNL
is not just a skit, it shows how passionate Chicagoans are about
Sports, Ditka, Jordan, Da Bears, Da Bulls, etc.

And then there are a couple of other FM stations that cater to the
teen/young adult crowd with more music.

So basically Howard will have a uphill fight if he wants to capture
the Chicago market.
From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: Howard on Boston Radio
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:13:36 GMT
Organization: HMS

In article <1993Jan6.211024.3521@webo.dg.com> greg@puck.webo.dg.com writes:
>Does anyone know if the agreement if final between INFINITY and
>the FCC in regards to their new stations in Atlanta and Boston
>broadcasting the Stern Show, this is in regard to the provision 
>that the FCC imposed that INFINITY could only purchase these stations
>if they did not broadcast the Howard Stern Radio Show, thanks,
> 
>Greg

If you listen to Jesse Helms then it's yes. But remember that Infinity now
owns *2* stations in Boston. So Howard may actually end up on Infinity's
other station which was not covered by that agreement.

Hopefully,Infinity's lawyers are hard at work to find a loophole in that
agreement that would allow them to put Howard on the air in Boston and
Atalnta. I'm very surprised the way Infinity, which has a strong
reputation of opposing any form censorship,let themselves be
manipulated and suckered into this crap by right-wing Helms.

Later,

-Mark
From: carlos@carlos
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Re: long island lolita
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 23:24:20 -0500
Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA

In <1993Jan7.211803.24521@cbnewse.cb.att.com> ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis) writes:

>could someone explain to me what is the signaificance of this expression:
>"long island lolita"?  on any account i'm sick of hearing about it and i
>totally refused to watch any of the network miniseries on this because i
>think it's entirely brain-dead and i don't want to do anything that might
>encourage the networks to pull this kind of stunt again.  furthermore, i
>can't think of anyone involved for whom i'd want to, in any way, contribute
>to their wealth and wellbeing.  and the fcc is going after stern and not
>this kind of crap?  unbelievable.  the stuff is *totally* devoid of redeeming
>social value [which makes it seem pretty obscene to me]...

Howard likes ratings. The Long Island scumbags brought him ratings.
 
I would wish that all involved would just go away already. I'm sick
of hearing about these people all day all night. Ugh!


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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:37:28 EST
From: Tony R. Marasco <TRM900@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Call letters

If you haven't heard, one of Stern's competitors closed the gap in the
ratings war in L.A.  Stern blames this on the FCC.

A competitor allegedly changed call letters to sound almost like ths LA
call letters.  Their position on the dial is relatively close, so Stern
feels that the ratings were incorrect because people were confused...

I have two comments:

1)  I work in radio and Howard is right.  People have no idea to what they
    listen.  I have people argue that my station is doing something that
    the competition is.  Therefore, anything semi-vague in a poll could
    show incorrect results.

2)  I was under the impression that when a station applied for a call letter
    change the new letters had to be approved by "it's neighbors" as well as
    the FCC.  Unless this station travels far, Andy Bloom should have had a
    word in the new call letters.  How did this get by?

I'm curious to see how long he'll stay on this topic...


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From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
Subject: Mike: how do you get stock footage?
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 20:31:57 GMT

     I watched WOSAT again recently.  I saw all of the labels of "stock
footage" from which you were grabbing segments.  I was wondering how hard
it is to get that stuff, and is it royalty-free?

			Thanks in advance,
				-=:[ VAL ]:=-
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From: Keith.Dickinson@f338.n280.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Keith Dickinson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: JITTLOV@GUMBY.CS.CALTECH.EDU ADDRESS
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 15:46:42 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:280/338

Just a note to everyone who may not have gotten the word yet... Mike is no
longer logging into GUMBY due to a couple of problems (one of which is the
fact that he's trying to earn a LIVING).

PLEASE do NOT send any more E-Mail to gumby for Mike.  I will pile up there
until the system is some-day wiped, or a miracle happens and the Wizard can
make enough time to call in....

L8r G8r's
  Keith

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From: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Ghost!
Date: 5 Jan 93 04:22:46 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hey, Mike..  I was watching "Ghost" the other day while home with my
family, and I decided to watch the credits really closely, and then
the credits came for the "Dark Shadows" (or something like that),
and, lo and behold, "Mike Jittlov" was there!

Actually, I had heard that you had done that, but I wanted to see
for myself.  I pointed it out to my parents, and they asked me
"Do you know him?"  I had to respond "Not personnaly"...

So, when's the NEXT time you're gonna come to MIT?  I missed that
one trip where they showed you around the 'tute!  Maybe next time!
:-)

-derek

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: pernMUSH
From: sammie@onyx.kiwi.gen.nz (Samantha Tibbit)
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:59:46 GMT
Reply-To: sammie@onyx.kiwi.gen.nz (Samantha Tibbit)
Organization: Household UNIX, Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand

I would just like to add to Cin's comments on the previous message. I have
really enjoyed my times on PernMUSH, and am very sad to be losing access to
telnet and therefore pern. I will try to log on occasionally but the cost is
a little too high for regular logons.

I would just like to say hi to a few people that mean a lot to me.

Varoni (VRSO)
Arjaii (Jman Healer)
Seranna (Sr Appr Healer)
Steff (Sr Appr Healer)
Kachiren (Sister *grin*)
Encil (Master Smith sometimes *grin*)
Valaer (Jr Appr. Healer)
Evarel (I have no idea)
Erimines (My Firelizard *grin*)

Thanks all for a great time on Pern. Mail me at sammie@onyx.kiwi.gen.nz, I
would love to hear from you (and anyone I forgot - sorry!)

Samantha Tibbit (Moriana Etuul, Jr Appr Healer
                                Jr Appr Herder
                                Trainee Dragonhealer.)

PS: AND I'm going to miss the High Reaches Weyr impression. *FUME*





Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
From: bchamber@vlin1.vsla.edu (Bill Chamberlain)
Subject: Re: SF Book Club--how to contact?
Organization: Virginia State Library
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:17:45 GMT

the address for the club is

Science Fiction Book Club
Member Services Center
6550 E 30th Street
P.O.Box 6325
Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-6325

Good luck with it. I get many of my books through them.

Bill Chamberlain
bchamber@vsla.leo.edu.
to read a book is the begining of wisdom - perhaps.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: Re: SF Book Club--how to contact? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:51:22 +0000

In article <#2xrqfl@lynx.unm.edu> kogoma@triton.unm.edu writes:

>In article <23010515223895@vms2.macc.wisc.edu> DBBARBER@macc.wisc.edu (Deborah
> B. Barber) writes:
>>In the FAQ and recent postings about Rescue Run, this club has been mentioned.
>>
>>How do you contact the club, what advantages and pitfalls are there to
> ordering
>>from it?
>
>Step 1: Go to a local newsstand or magazine shop.
>Step 2: Get ahold of a copy of _Analog_ or similar SF-related
>magazine.
>Step 3: Page througewriter on occad the inveitable ad from the SF book
>club.
>Step 4: Either purchase said magazine and clip out the ad, or note the
>address.

OK, let's rephrase that.  How do I contact them from England?  And will
they export to there?  We don't have any similar club, at least not one
that does new US books...

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
Subject: Re: Thread parasites (spoiler potential)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:24:44 GMT

laborde@oak.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Gregory R. LaBorde) writes:

>In article <damiene.726285679@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>>
>>I was under the impression that the long intervals were caused not
>>by the zebeddees, but by the explosions altering the orbit.
>>
>Go back and re-read it in ATWOP. AIVAS clearly cites the long intervals as
>evidence that the parasites were working.

Well, I'll take it as read (no copy with me :) ) but it makes more
sense the othewr way around, at least to me...... Why would
zebeddees work for one Pass and not the next?

Eccles
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: Re: Thread parasites (spoiler potential)
From: athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson)
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:21:30 +1300
 <1992Dec18.045417.22875@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <damiene.726285679@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> <1993Jan6.073415.8439@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

In article <1993Jan6.073415.8439@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, laborde@oak.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Gregory R. LaBorde) writes:
> In article <damiene.726285679@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles) writes:
>>
>>I was under the impression that the long intervals were caused not
>>by the zebeddees, but by the explosions altering the orbit.
>>
> Go back and re-read it in ATWOP. AIVAS clearly cites the long intervals as
> evidence that the parasites were working.
> 
> -grl.
> -----
I've just finsihed reading ATWOP, as far as I can tell, AIVAS does not make
fully clear that it is the parasites or the explosions that caused the long
intervals. 
> 
> 
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies re: Thread
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 08:13:44 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <RBRUNNER.93Jan3220626@vanadium.sedona.intel.com> rbrunner@sedona.intel.com (Richard Brunner~) writes:
>
>Hi. I've just started reading this group and noticed the discussion
>on inconsistencies within the books.

[snip - the Prologues being inconsistant]

Well, ignore the Prologues completely. They're being told by an
omniscient observer anyway, and don't contribute much at all to
the development of the story. To try and make sense of their
contradictions is pointless and impossible.

What you could say is that they are based on what the population
of Pern thought at the time. However, since they include things
that the people of Pern couldn't possibly know, or had forgotten
anyway, thats no solution.

Joshua
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
From: kogoma@triton.unm.edu (Taki Kogoma)
Subject: Re: rescue run
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 05:18:44 GMT
Organization: Nit-Pickers for a Better Tomorow Afternoon
Distribution: usa

In article <1993Jan5.231907.18533@bradley.bradley.edu> sreardon@bradley.bradley.edu (Steven Reardon) writes:
>Hmm, so how long is Rescue Run?

Hrm...page count in my _Analog_ copy is 53 pages.

>Is it short enough that someone with some OCR software and a scanner could
>reprint it here?
>
>Is it short enough that someone who is really bored could type it all in?
>
>And post it?

Is it worth the legal hassle of potential (if not actual) copyright
infringement?

-- 
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From: mossap@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Moss A D)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: Re: pernMUSH
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:00:29 GMT
Reply-To: mossap@essex.ac.uk (Moss A D)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK


Hello everyone!
	I`ve only just recently started reading the DragonXXXXX series, so I was wondering if you could help me. I've only ever read the novelette "Weyr Search" and I am now reading "Dragonquest". While it is not difficult to follow, I don't feel that I am familiar enough with the characters. I assume that this book is not the first in the series. Could someone please tell me what order these books come in?
		Thanks!
		
Regards,
	Adam Moss
		mossap@essex.ac.uk
From: julius@cco.caltech.edu (julius yang)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies re: Thread
Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:53:51 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: alt
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

rbrunner@sedona.intel.com (Richard Brunner~) writes:

>There are a few that I have found and  I would like to know if anyone
>has discussed these previously or come up with any rational explanations for
>them. Many thanks in advance for any comments or insight provided! 

As Josh said, ignore the prologues. :)
Pseudo-scientific rationalization follows:

>2. What is thread?:

>     I realize that the pernese understanding of thread might change or
>develop but one would expect the author's to stay the same.
>     In the forward to Dragonsong, thread is described as " spore life which
>proliferated at an incredibel rate on the Red Star's wild surface..".
>     It is called "the indigenous life of the wanderer (Red Star)..." in the
>prelude to Dragonquest, the inro to Dragonflight, and the prologues to The
>White Dragon, and Moreta.
>     The prologue to Nerilka's Story calls it "parasitic organisms indigenous
>to the wandering planet...".
>     In All the Weyers of Pern,  it is pretty well established that thread
>comes from the Oort cloud and is not indigenous to the Red Star but is simply
>carried by it to Pern.
>     This is a major difference. Either thread is indigenous to the Red Star
>or it isn't.  And, in order to make this new explanation of thread work, a new
>interpretation of what happened to F'nor and Canth is developed which is
>obviously a change from the original meaning when it was written.  

The DLG, if remember aright, claims Thread to be some sort of organism about
ninety feet long or so that erupts out of big spore balls which periodically
rain down on Pern.  The balls come from the Red Star, which passes through
the Oort cloud on its orbit.  Whether the Threadballs are native to the 
Oort or the Red Star, they apparently infest both places.  The balls, I
assume, are dragged from the Oort by the Red Star and follow in its orbit,
as there is NO WAY Pern's gravitical attraction could pull off Thread from
the surface of the Red Star.

As for what Thread actually is, I have absolutely no clue.  Earth biology
obviously breaks down here--the only thing that can eat forests that fast
would be living tubes of acid.  Heck, that sounds good, let's call it that.
If we demand Thread to be carbon-based, I'd say it virtually transmutes
organic material into Thread material via some incredibly fast chemical
reaction.

F'zik
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From: DBBARBER@macc.wisc.edu (Deborah B. Barber)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: SF Book Club--how to contact?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:24:15 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In the FAQ and recent postings about Rescue Run, this club has been mentioned.
 
How do you contact the club, what advantages and pitfalls are there to ordering
from it?
 
Post or email, as you see fit.  Thanks in advance.
 
Deb Barber
dbbarber@macc.wisc.edu
 
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