From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #45 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Thursday, February 19 2004 Volume 04 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] OT Cars (Was Captioning, etc. ) [Lilli Sprintz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:14:38 -0600 From: Lilli Sprintz Subject: [chakram-refugees] OT Cars (Was Captioning, etc. ) Meredith wrote: (Most ... off-topic ... thread ... EVER ... Ife remarked: >It hadn't occurred to me >>that maybe cruise control might not even come with stick shifts. > > Meredith replied, My manual transmission ("stick shift") VW Beetle has cruise control. It only works in 5th gear, though. - -------------------- No, no no. Didn't Xena drive a car with Cruise Control in ? ....Only kidding. ;-) Lilli ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:15:46 +1300 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Re: OT Cars (Was Captioning, etc. ) On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:39, IfeRae@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/17/2004 9:18:34 AM Central Standard Time, > > cr@orcon.net.nz writes: > > Umm, I'd better clarify (before I drop this thread as too OT) - you > > quoted cruise control as something originally developed for disabled > > drivers. I don't think cruise control could ever be a substitute for > > proper disabled driver hand controls. > > Arghhh! I meant hand-controlled operations which previously depended on > the lower exremities -- like increasing/decreasing/maintaining speed > without using the gas pedal. Cruise control was just the first example > that popped into my head of a convenience that *may* have begun with or > evolved from vehicles originally designed for the disabled. It is *not* a > substitute for *all* operations. Okay? Whew! > > -- Ife OK. Sorry if I seemed to be hairsplitting, I guess I tend to be a bit literal-minded about the technical stuff. cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:59:42 -0800 From: "Creation (Sharon Delaney)" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Lucy on Access Hollywood tonight Feb 18 As well as Entertainment Tonight she's also going to be on Access Hollwood tonight. More Euro Trip promotion. Sharon Official Xena Fan Club ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:51:55 -0500 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] The Furies I just watched The Furies commentary and a couple of things struck me. First I thought Liz Friedman and Rob did a great job and seemed to really enjoy each other. I loved Rob's astonishment that they got away with the Furies' lap dance with Ares. Anyway here are a few points I thought were interesting. I was a bit surprised when I heard that TPTB seriously considered making Ares Xena's father. That certainly would have been a mistake. I agree with the studio that it would have made the show too much like Hercules and it would have diminished Xena as a hero. It would have certainly would have killed the any idea that there could be any sexual tension between Ares and Xena (of course we could have played around with godly incest but I think that would have been just too icky). However I thought leaving just a bit of doubt in that audience's mind about what exactly Xena and Ares relation was, wasn't a bad idea - it left just a bit of mystery there. I always thought the TPTB did that on purpose but obviously I was wrong. Rob and Liz said the ambiguity was just bad plotting on their part. I also was surprised to hear that the "star and the director" didn't get along. Too bad Rob didn't elaborate on that. I wondered if it was just a personality thing or something having to do with the episode itself. I thought the director did a pretty good job of foreshadowing that Xena's insanity was going to be a very serious problem. Yes at first the episode did treat it lightly but I think showing Gabrielle being really worried by Xena's strange behavior from the very beginning pointed out that this would developed into a very serious episode. One of things Rob and Liz seemed puzzled about was why Gabrielle was always being sent off on her own. I always assumed Xena kept trying to get rid of Gabrielle to make sure she didn't hurt her friend while she was insane. Let's see what else. It was nice to hear Rob's obvious admiration of Lucy's comedic skills. He is right Lucy is a wonderful physical comedian. It's too bad there doesn't seem to be any place for that kind of comedy today on TV. During the 50's you had Lucille Ball and Joan Davis on TV and they were wonderful clowns. Even later on you had Carol Burnett but I don't think there is a female today who does that kind of comedy. It would be nice if Lucy could bring that kind of comedy back again. Rob is right it was a shame Lucy never won a best actress award from someone for Xena - he's probably right that she didn't care - but she still should have been recognized for Xena in someway. Now lastly the most astonishing revelation made during the commentary was that the woman who played Alecto, Asa Lindh, was a nurse with no ambitions to be an actress. Now how exactly does a nurse with no acting ambitions wind up on the set of Xena dressed in next to nothing doing a lap dance with Kevin Smith? Did the casting department troll the streets of Auckland kidnapping unsuspecting Kiwis and make them act in Xena episodes? Did the production people discover they were one Fury short and call 911 and when the ambulance crew arrived, they just shoved the nurse into the skimpy costume and sent her out to dance her little butt off? I would just like to know "the rest of the story". CherylA ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #45 *************************************