From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #78 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, May 7 1997 Volume 02 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Re: The Tap Room, ou est il? [Bill Hargreaves ] Alloy: VH-1, Take 2 [Elaine Linstruth ] RE: Alloy: VH-1, Take 2 ["Stansell" ] RE: Alloy: VH-1, Take 2 [Elaine Linstruth ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 13:24:51 +0100 (BST) From: Bill Hargreaves Subject: Alloy: Re: The Tap Room, ou est il? At 15:08 03/05/97 +0100, Croydon wrote: >Hello one and all. > >If the plan has been to remove the Tap Room without trace, Netrex has done >a pretty poor job. It's (mostly) still there. Go to: > >http://flatearth.tdolby.com/cgi-bin/MessageView.cgi?thread=838217713&handle= >YourHandle > >(and by YourHandle I mean you should type your handle) > Dog dammit, he's RIGHT, I can still get in. >And you'll find the Tap Room is still functioning. Without graphics, >though. Since there was some concern, I've saved the HTML files of chapters >3 through 11 of The Emeritus Prof while I was there. Chapters 1 and 2 have >gone. I think I have them lurking on my harddisk somewhere from last time, >however. > Gosh, I feel rather naughty doing this. It's a bit like sneaking in to your office on a Saturday when you've no right to be there. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 14:05:25 +0100 (BST) From: Bill Hargreaves Subject: Alloy: Re: The Tap Room, ker plop At 11:45 05/05/97 -0400, Melissa R. Jordan wrote: >At 04:01 PM 5/4/97 BST, the_copse wrote: >>After all, you know how difficult it is to find a good pub these days..... > >Damn straight. But you're all invited to Hank Dietle's "Cold Beer and >Packaged Goods" down the street from my office. There's putt-putt golf >right across the way - I say we tie one on and then try to hit the ball >through the windmill... I'm buyin'... > Great idea. I used to have great fun with Crazy Golf, especially with a few friends, but I don't know of any courses near me these days. Perhaps we whould ask the new FES managers to provide a VR version so we could play together from our PCs. The BBC had a VR site associated with their "Net" programme recently (not golf, but various 'worlds'), and it was a real hit with the participants. Slarv ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 14:04:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: VH1 For those of you who don't know, there is a music video channel here called "VH1." I think their market is the adult contemporary side of MTV. They have a show called Pop-Up Video, in which they show music videos with little pop-up bubbles with mostly tongue-in-cheek factoids in them. Usually the factoids refer to the video, like perhaps where it was filmed, or what the director's theme was, or the fact that an elephant was rented and painted with water-based purple paint; stuff like that. Anyway, this past Saturday I happened across the show and guess whose video for "She Blinded Me With Science" was featured. Here are the factoids they offered, in order: (opening sequence) "She Blinded Me With Science, The Golden Age of Wireless, EMI 1982, Director: Thomas Dolby" - -Filmed at a real London sanitarium in May, 1982 - -Thomas Morgan Robertson, Born October 14, 1958, Cairo Egypt - -Egypt was also a birthplace of science in 3,000 B.C. - -(with arrow on "Miss Sakamoto") Actress hired from a catalogue - -Activists claim 14 million animals each year are blinded by scientists. - -Dr. Magnus Pyke -- host of a BBC-TV science show. - -He says, "science!" on the record. - -He taught at a school Dolby's sister attended. - -(at Miss Sakamoto's red skirt) Psychologists say red can represent lust. - -Most popular color car in the US: red - -Chemicals called pheromones are more important than a sense of sight in mating. - -(at TMDR's sniffing while on Pyke's couch) They don't have a smell. - -Thomas was nicknamed Dolby by high school friends. - -They read it off the tape recorder he was always fiddling with. - -He settled a trademark lawsuit with Dolby Labs in 1987. - -Only 2% of people hurt by health care providers sue (while Pyke is knocking TMDR's knee with a reflex hammer) - -Percentage of suits won by doctors: 76 - -Butterflies were released but they flew away too fast to be filmed (at the mad scientist with the 4-pronged butterfly net) - -(at the other scientists on the grounds) These extras were hired for their 'mad scientist' look. - -(at the scientist shuffling across the grass with the smoking presumably-jet-powered skates) Dolby's father, an archaeologist. - -The guy on the roof is a singer and Dolby protege. - -A decade later he jumped off a building to his death. - -The Grateful Dead appeared on a 1992 Dolby album. (I thought this one was rather tasteless, myself.. after the reference to the suicide.) - -Dolby went to a psychiatrist once in his life. - -He left feeling overcharged (at the electroshock therapy headgear part) - -St. Vitus' Dance (n.): a brain disease causing bizarre movements (outside, looking at the mad scientists dancing weirdly) - -Pyke refused to wear a lab coat because he wasn't an M.D. - -Fine for impersonating a doctor: $5,000 - -Dolby married Dynasty's Kirby Colby in 1988 (picture of Kathleen) - -Fine for impersonating an actor: $0 ...and unfortunately that's where I mistakenly taped over the remainder of the video. There were only a few factoids left, among them that Thomas referred to Dr. Pyke as a "tough old bird" or something similar, and said that Pyke had kept bugging him about cab fare after the shoot. Oh, and that Pyke was irritated because when he visited the US after the video's release people kept coming up to him and yelling, "science!" The show seems to repeat its same too-few episodes over and over ad nauseum, so the next time I see it I'll post the remaining factoids for you, verbatim. I was surprised to see the Dolby explanation.. he's really had that nickname since high school? And that Mr. Robertson was in the video, that was interesting. The last factoid seems to quote Thomas about Pyke, so we can reasonably assume that all TMDR-related facts above were "checked." - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 17:31:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: VH-1, Take 2 I just saw it again, here's the rest: - -Two years later he played a sexually frustrated vampire in Rockula. - -The title cards were added after Dolby found the video "obscure." - -Pop-Up Video was added to VH1 14 years later. - -Dolby calls Pyke a "stodgy old bird" who badgered him throughout the shoot about his cab ride home. Although well-known as a scientist in Britain, Pyke was upset when he traveled to America and people kept coming up to him and yelling, "Science!" I thought he played a bartender in Rockula, I'm confused. Anyway, that's it. This episode also contained "Unbreak my Heart," "Ironic," "You Gotta Be," and "Take Me Home" -- for those of you that might run across the show. "She Blinded Me With Science" is 5th out of 5. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 20:02:20 From: "Stansell" Subject: RE: Alloy: VH-1, Take 2 >I thought he played a bartender in Rockula, I'm confused. Anyway, that's Actually, he plays Stanley, an undertaker with a used-car salesman approach, who is also the bad-guy / love striken vampire hunter in this film. (I actually have a copy of the film on laserdisc, it was in the deep-discount bin for $2.00) - -Keith Stansell Salt Lake City, UT www.concentric.net/~kasman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 19:25:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: RE: Alloy: VH-1, Take 2 On Tue, 6 May 1997, Stansell wrote: > (I actually have a copy of the film on laserdisc, it was in the > deep-discount bin for $2.00) Lucky you! I never find good laserdisc deals. I was thinking of Howard the Duck I think, sorry. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #78 **************************