From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V5 #268 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 Tuesday, November 1 2005 Volume 05 : Number 268 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] LL in Vampire Bats 10/30/05 ["Jackie M. Young" Subject: [chakram-refugees] LL in Vampire Bats 10/30/05 Well. That was pretty bad. At least with Locusts I was half-paying attention to the storyline, but with VB I was happy doing other things and the so-called "plot" and "acting" hardly engaged me at all. LL was hardly believable as a univ prof (not many of them run around in tight tees and revealing dresses, believe me!), and the students looked like they were permanently dressed up for Halloween. ;P LL's accent slipped out more than in XWP, and not even she could raise the level of the muck that was the writing in this show. The predictability of the writing was so bad, that I found myself finishing actor's sentences for them. ;( Like I said previously, "oh, how the mighty have fallen". ;( Just MO, - --Jackie ****************************************************** * Proud to have the same birthday as Lucy Lawless! * * * * JACKIE YOUNG, JYOUNG@LAVA.NET * * * * * ****************************************************** ========================================================= 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: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:00:49 -0500 From: cjlnh@webtv.net (Cheryl LaScola) Subject: [chakram-refugees] Xena on all day -12 hour marathon on Oxygen today Just caught this (came home early). Xena eps on until 8 pm tonight..ides at 4, FIN 1&2 at 6&7 ========================================================= 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: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:01:28 -0500 From: Lee Daley Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] LL in Vampire Bats 10/30/05 Snippage with abandon! >the so-called "plot" and "acting" hardly engaged me at all. > >LL was hardly believable as a univ prof (not many of them run around >in tight tees and revealing dresses, believe me!), Does seem to be a movie and TV fantasy, however. >LL's accent slipped out more than in XWP, and not even she could >raise the level of the muck that was the writing in this show. The >predictability of the writing was so bad, that I found myself >finishing actor's sentences for them. ;( Like the robots in Science Fiction 2000? >Like I said previously, "oh, how the mighty have fallen". ;( A gig is a gig especially if the paycheck is good. Lee Daley Warrior Jester leedaley@optonline.net ========================================================= 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: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:18:02 -0600 From: Lilli Sprintz Subject: [chakram-refugees] bats for halloween? bat facts from the minneapolis star tribune here is a rather batty article (friendly one) in today's newspaper. http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/5697861.html there is a great picture of this woman who raises and rehabilates injured and sick bats, and takes them off the hands of people who are scared of them and don't want them in their schools or homes. here are some "cool bat facts" also listed: 1. They're mammals, more closely related to monkeys and apes than to rats or birds. They have fur, not feathers. They do not lay eggs. A bat mother feeds her baby milk from a nipple under each wing. Unlike many birds, bats are awake at night, sleep during the day. 2. They can eat up to half their weight a day in insects. 3. They're the only flying mammal. (Don't even let a flying squirrel cross your mind; it only glides.) 4. They sleep hanging upside down by their toes. If it's cold, they wrap their wings tightly around their bodies. 5. They don't move their wings like birds. They look more as if they're rowing a boat. 6. They live in every part of the world except the Arctic and Antarctic. Western countries generally have regarded them with superstition and fear, but in China they're depicted in art and handicrafts as the symbol of happiness and good luck. 7. Bats are great moms. They nuzzle, adopt orphans and have unique vocabulary to communicate with their young. Most bats have just one or two babies a year (in June and July in Minnesota). Babies are born live, feet first. The mom's tail and wing skin form a safety net to catch them. 8. Thin but tough skin stretches over arm bones and long finger bones to form its wings. (If our fingers were proportionately as long as a bat's, they'd be 6 feet.) Most bats are small and lightweight. Their flying agility would make any Blue Angel pilot jealous. It's not just for show; they eat, drink and even nurse their young in flight. 9. Bats use their webbed tails like a catcher's mitt to scoop up insects as they fly. One small bat can eat 2,000-mosquito sized insects a night. They control larvae-laying moths and crop pests. Some bats can eat half their weight in food every night. If bat populations drop, farmers use more potent pesticides. Guano (bat feces) is used to fertilize crops worldwide. 10. By Halloween, most of Minnesota's seven bat species have migrated or are hibernating. Three species -- the red bat, hoary bat and silver-haired bat -- are solitary, tree-living species that don't enter buildings and migrate south for the winter. The other four are colonial bats, so named because individuals of the same species gather in colonies at various times of the year. The most common and the ones most likely to get into buildings are the little brown bat, about 3 inches long, and the big brown bat, only another inch longer. Bats pollinate agave plants, from which tequila is producted. happy "cool" halloween. 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: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:31:36 -0500 From: "Mirrordrum" Subject: wandering off Re: [chakram-refugees] bats for halloween? coool stuff. i love this. thanks. i notice, however, that they don't deal with the kind of bat that attacks whilst you're in your swimming pool. that was one of perhaps 3 2-minute [or possibly 2 hour and 2 minute--they seemed endless] snatches of the bat horror i yawned through last night--a bunch of bats dive- bombing some hapless young thing in a pool in the dark. pool-lit dark. i also wondered why lucy's hair looked vaguely towel-dried in 2 different scenes including 1in a classroom. was that a college classroom? never mind. i doubt that it really matters. that's probably a very happening look right now. son of a bacchae. rob et al did soooo much better with sooooo much less. ah well. byegones. and at least we have our memories and our dvds. :) happy halloween. md--whittering away - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lilli Sprintz" To: Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:18 PM Subject: [chakram-refugees] bats for halloween? > bat facts from the minneapolis star tribune > > here is a rather batty article (friendly one) in today's newspaper. > > http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/5697861.html > > there is a great picture of this woman who raises and rehabilates > injured and sick bats, and takes them off the hands of people who are > scared of them and don't want them in their schools or homes. > > here are some "cool bat facts" also listed: > > 1. They're mammals, more closely related to monkeys and apes than to > rats or birds. They have fur, not feathers. They do not lay eggs. A bat > mother feeds her baby milk from a nipple under each wing. Unlike many > birds, bats are awake at night, sleep during the day. > > 2. They can eat up to half their weight a day in insects. > > 3. They're the only flying mammal. (Don't even let a flying squirrel > cross your mind; it only glides.) > > 4. They sleep hanging upside down by their toes. If it's cold, they wrap > their wings tightly around their bodies. > > 5. They don't move their wings like birds. They look more as if they're > rowing a boat. > > 6. They live in every part of the world except the Arctic and Antarctic. > Western countries generally have regarded them with superstition and > fear, but in China they're depicted in art and handicrafts as the symbol > of happiness and good luck. > > 7. Bats are great moms. They nuzzle, adopt orphans and have unique > vocabulary to communicate with their young. Most bats have just one or > two babies a year (in June and July in Minnesota). Babies are born live, > feet first. The mom's tail and wing skin form a safety net to catch them. > > 8. Thin but tough skin stretches over arm bones and long finger bones to > form its wings. (If our fingers were proportionately as long as a bat's, > they'd be 6 feet.) Most bats are small and lightweight. Their flying > agility would make any Blue Angel pilot jealous. It's not just for show; > they eat, drink and even nurse their young in flight. > > 9. Bats use their webbed tails like a catcher's mitt to scoop up insects > as they fly. One small bat can eat 2,000-mosquito sized insects a night. > They control larvae-laying moths and crop pests. Some bats can eat half > their weight in food every night. If bat populations drop, farmers use > more potent pesticides. Guano (bat feces) is used to fertilize crops > worldwide. > > 10. By Halloween, most of Minnesota's seven bat species have migrated or > are hibernating. Three species -- the red bat, hoary bat and > silver-haired bat -- are solitary, tree-living species that don't enter > buildings and migrate south for the winter. The other four are colonial > bats, so named because individuals of the same species gather in > colonies at various times of the year. The most common and the ones most > likely to get into buildings are the little brown bat, about 3 inches > long, and the big brown bat, only another inch longer. > > Bats pollinate agave plants, from which tequila is producted. > > happy "cool" halloween. > > 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. > ========================================================= ========================================================= 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. 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