Errors-To: ecto-owner@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #729 ecto, Number 729 Tuesday, 31 August 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* recommendation state :) Jeopardy, MST3k, Winona RhodeSongs Re: Jeopardy, MST3k, Winona Re: You don't have to be Juha to love Levy's Rye--or ecto Momus discography Lisa Scones Re: Actresses for $400 Net access, physics Re: Jeopardy, MST3K, Winona internet access Re: YES! They played it! Heidi Berry Re: movies Hello there! OOps Cath Carroll ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 10:36:04 +0200 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: recommendation state :) Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting Cocteau Twins - Treasure Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses All About Eve - Scarlet And Other Stories Diamanda Galas - You Must Be Certain Of The Devil Danielle Dax - Dark Adapted Eye Dead Can Dance - Under The Realm Of A dying Sun Lene Lovich - Flex Meredith - I'm going to order all the albums I can get hold on by Rainbirds anyway :) And Heidi Berry is already on my list as well....(and remember - my name is Yng(v)e not Yng(w)e :) I've already bought Lisa germano's album and love it very much already. A.C. Marias is put on my list (thanks to Vickie :) Banderas is off for now...... Yngve -- T ---- Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul.............. H | --- ----- ---- --- - -- - - - - - --- E |-- | | | | | | |__| | | |_ | | | | | |--- | | | | | --- --- - - ---- - - - -- - - - --- --- Yngve Hauge (yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no).....University of Tromsoe...Norway ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 01:59:40 -0700 From: "Alex Gibbs" Subject: Jeopardy, MST3k, Winona > From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) > The big thing I have to practice is my reflexes.. waiting for Alex > to finish reading the question and timing my buzzer-ringing just > right... when you come down to it, Jeopardy is basically a reflex > race. I always wondered, does the Jeopardy button not register any presses until the somewhat-ambiguous moment Alex is finished talking? Do you know a Jeff Thompson from Berkeley who was on Jeopardy only a few months ago? I think it was an undergrad college tournament. He said he was from Tucson, where I am, and I knew off a Seth Thompson in high-school but they weren't related it seems... anyway... Being new here, I was wondering if you knew when you were going to be on the air? >>>>> > From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com > Um, now that that's done, and while in Sci-Fi mode, does anyone here > know when MST3K changes hosts? Promises to be an interesting show or two > (but they all are!) Did you see the TV Guide article a while back (July 24)? It just says: "In October, when MST3k completes its 100th episode, Hodgson..." "Though the MST3k staff won't divulge how the transition of stars will take place-- ... --we know that it will happen during a program featuring 'Mitchell,' a 1975 movie in the defiant-cop genre, starring John Saxon, Linda Evans, and Joe Don Baker." Doesn't say if October means taping, or showing date. >>>>> > From: KELLY BAKER > so is square dance good,then? i've been wanting to see it just so i can > say i've seen every winona movie ever made, but i didn't know if it was at > all worth seeing otherwise ditto. --- Alex R. Gibbs |\| | (~, ]-[ ~|~ ]-[ /-\ \/\/ ]< arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.arizona.edu ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 10:48:13 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: RhodeSongs Hi folks, I've just found RhodeSongs in my mailbox. YAY! Can't await to go home and listen to it. The cover is WONDERFUL, especially all the small pictures inside. Is this Kevin, the guy with the long hair? And Happy signed the cover with a silver pen :-) Yesterday, I bought the Blood Of Eden CD5 for half the price. The Mercy Street remix is great. I really love the William Orbit stuff. His _Best Friend, Paranoia_ is one of my favorite songs from _Plus From US_. Does anybody have his solo albums (Strange Cargo I-III)? And I found Thomas Dolby's _Silk Pyjamas_, the first volume of a limited-edition-two-CD5-set with rare stuff. Sounds really interesting. I'll write my review of RhodeSongs, tomorrow. Dirk P.S.: YIPPIIIIEEEH! I'm so in love! After all those years of monkish abstinence, when I nearly lost all hope and often thought about suicide (no, not really), I met HER. She's so sweet 8-) I hope that it won't be a temporary affair (keep your fingers crossed for me :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ || \\\\\ || ///// | dkastens@dosuni1.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE || ))))) IRK || ((((( ASTENS | "Music's the way, the only way I know" || ///// || \\\\\ | Happy Rhodes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== From: rhogan@chaph.usc.edu (Ron Hogan) Subject: Re: Jeopardy, MST3k, Winona Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 02:23:55 -0700 (PDT) -> > From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) -> > The big thing I have to practice is my reflexes.. waiting for Alex -> > to finish reading the question and timing my buzzer-ringing just -> > right... when you come down to it, Jeopardy is basically a reflex -> > race. -> -> I always wondered, does the Jeopardy button not register any presses -> until the somewhat-ambiguous moment Alex is finished talking? This is how it works, yes. I, too, have passed the Jeopardy test and am waiting for them to call me to actually do a show. It should be kind of fun, if it ever happens. -> "In October, when MST3k completes its 100th episode, Hodgson..." -> "Though the MST3k staff won't divulge how the transition of stars will -> take place-- ... --we know that it will happen during a program featuring -> 'Mitchell,' a 1975 movie in the defiant-cop genre, starring John -> Saxon, Linda Evans, and Joe Don Baker." I've since heard 23 October would be the air date. Looking forward to seeing Joe Don Baker MSTified. Now, if I could just find out if there is any truth to the rumor that they did an episode with "The Magnificent Ambersons." Prob not, but it would be classic. Ron ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: You don't have to be Juha to love Levy's Rye--or ecto Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 10:27:15 BST On Fri, 27 Aug 93 at 17:04:35 CDT "I survived the mailbombing of August '93 :-)" wrote: > I, too, was curious about the alternate meaning of "Fanny" in the British > idiom; so I looked it up in a dictionary of British English, and found that > it once had the additional referent of the pudenda, though creeping Americanism > is causing that to be displaced by the meaning more familiar to us Yanks. I think the "once" is overstating the case. The situation, as I experience it, is that amongst the reasonably well aware both meanings are understood and that the apparent nationality of the speaker is used to distinguish between them. This may be translated as "we realise the poor, benighted Americans can't speak our langauge properly and allowances have to be made when they use crude words unintentionally". It's certainly not a term *I* would use in polite company on this side of the water! On the other hand, I couldn't guarantee not to ask if anyone had a rubber they could lend me while on a business trip to the US, so it all works both ways. > it looks to me like there's probably an unusual > bug in the mail software over there; it's unusual for reports like this to > come to my attention, particularly since the mailer here sends the handle > strings out in quotes when they contain special characters. The copy of Steve' > s post that was addressed to me directly reached me uneventfully, with only > a line in the header referring to a parsing error due to unbalanced parenthe- > ses. It seems as though the mailer here has a simple algorithm for dealing with replies to addresses of the form: "any old text string" by converting them to: user@apparent.domain.address (any old text string) > >The moral of this story is to take care not to trust the addresses > >generated by Mr. "Different name everytime I post" > > Like the scorpion in the parable related by Forest Whitaker in _The Crying > Game_: It's in my nature :-). And I see you've tried it on again this time! Grr!! -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 10:25:55 BST Subject: Momus discography For those that asked here is the complete (as far as I know) CD discography. Dont Stop the Night [Creation CRE CD 052] Monsters of Love [Creation CRE CD 059] The poisoned boyfriend [Creation CRELP 021 CD] Circus Maximus [Cherry ACME 2CD] Tender Pervert [Creation CRELP 036CD] Hippopotamomus [Creation CRECD 097] Live Whilst Out of Fashion [Monde 3CD/Richmond] Voyager [Creation CRECD 113] Sorry about the delay in getting this posted. Our mailer bit the big one on Friday and has only just come back online!! ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 10:29:53 BST Subject: Lisa I really like the new album. The cover of "These Boots Were Made for Walking" is great fun. tim ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 10:40:09 BST From: GTP10@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Scones I said: }This is true. However, the delicacy which we Brits call a scone }(pronounced to rhyme with "on" or "own" depending on your }upbringing) is very similar to the US biscuit. The ingredients }are different but they do taste almost identical. To which Meredith responded: >No, scones are much denser and usually have things like currants >in them, don't they? I *love* scones, and would move to England >just to get them if they weren't occasionally available over here >nowadays, but they're not really like biscuits, although they do >taste somewhat alike, depending on what you put in/on them. Scones do vary quite a lot. They can indeed be quite dense and include dried fruit (usually raisins or sultanas - currants go in currant buns) but the mass produced supermarket scone is (these days) quite like a US biscuit - not as light and fluffy as the lightest, fluffiest biscuits but pretty close. Geoff Parks ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Actresses for $400 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 10:45:56 BST On Mon, 30 Aug 93 at 2:31:15 EDT WretchAwry wrote: > Is Jeopardy talk completely confusing everyone outside the USA? Is it > or a similar show received elsewhere in the world? The name "Jeopardy" certainly means nothing to me. What kind of a show (or "programme" as we call them in this part of the world) is it? -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 02:43:10 -0700 From: "Alex Gibbs" Subject: Net access, physics >>>>> From: guetzlaf@gravity.cray.com (Cathy Guetzlaff) > My very dear friend Larry is moving to Geneva, Switzerland the middle of > September to work for a software consulting company there. He would > really like to have access to the net so we can email each other instead I'd also like to know the answer as I have a friend in Munich that would like access. >>>>> From: Manic Digressive > Subject: Scooped through my own inaction :-) > > Alex said: > > > Vickie told me that no one here knew that Lisa Germano hosted > >ABC In Concert. I guess I was just lucky to have caught it! > > Actually, I caught it too, and was meaning to say something in these pages, > but it fell through the cracks. I may still be the first to mention that Doesn't look like either of us is a very quick "scooper" considering when the show appeared. :) > Reminds me of a typology which appeared at the bottom of a handout in my > undergrad physics class: Is it me, or does it seem like there is an extra-ordinary number of physics-related people on Ecto? (I'm a physics BSer, take that either way) --- Alex R. Gibbs |\| | (~, ]-[ ~|~ ]-[ /-\ \/\/ ]< arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.arizona.edu ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 02:55:28 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Re: Jeopardy, MST3K, Winona Alex buzzed in: > I always wondered, does the Jeopardy button not register any presses > until the somewhat-ambiguous moment Alex is finished talking? Yep. One staff member's job is to activate the buzzers when he hears Alex finish the question. Buzzing in before he activates will register nothing, so it's almost pure luck being the first to buzz in. > Do you know a Jeff Thompson from Berkeley who was on Jeopardy only > a few months ago? I called him on the phone after I saw him on the College Tournament. I'm getting a Quiz Bowl Club started at Berkeley, and I thought he might be interested. He was, and still is, so once the club gets rolling, I'll probably see him a lot. Haven't met him in person yet. I have other friends who've been on Jeopardy. One guy, Ron Triguero, was a 5-time champion a few years ago. Kinda nebbish, though. D^2 ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 13:12:17 BST Subject: internet access Sorry this hasn't got any ecto related info but can anyone suggest a cheap way of getting internet access in Boston (just for email)? thanks for any info. tim ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 09:22:49 -0500 From: "Dennis G Parslow" Subject: Re: internet access >DATE: Tue, 31 Aug 93 13:12:17 BST >FROM: Tim Cook > >Sorry this hasn't got any ecto related info but can anyone suggest a cheap >way of getting internet access in Boston (just for email)? > >thanks for any info. > >tim > PSI offers news and mail feed (dowsload your stuff, deal with it on a pc) at 2400 baud for $9/month. Faster speeds are more. Dennis Parslow "I'm glad I not here over satellite, because Troy, NY 12180 that seems to really weird you out!" p00421@psilink.com Kate Bush (referring to Gary Numan) ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 08:41:32 CDT From: Chip Lueck Subject: Re: YES! They played it! On Tue, 31 Aug 93 1:51:32 EDT Vickie said: >Chip, which version are they playing? Album or acoustic? I've been They played the album version. I was going to ask questions about how they got it, etc., but when they *finally* answered the phone I was impatient and just asked them to play it. Maybe I'll try again today. -chip ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 16:35:38 CET From: Ilka Heber Subject: Heidi Berry Could somebody please be so kind and let me know whether the Heidi Berry CDs are available in Europe at all? Does anybody have the order numbers? I'd appreciate if somebody could help me with this. Thanks, Ilka = ) ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 23:07:07 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: movies In apana.lists.rec.happy-rhodes, article , you wrote: > > That was "Quigley" (known in the US as "Quigley Down Under") - not a bad > > time-filler, and Laura's performance was fun and a lot better than the role > > demanded. > > agreed...i've been wondering, though...was that accurate...about the > aborigines? Was what accurate? You mean the hunting down by evil English land barons of the aborigines to kill them as "pests"? No, not as depicted in the film; the early settlers here, though, did persecute, maim, kill, and subjugate the native people here; not as official "policy" but in uncontrolled incidents. I don't know enough about that period in Australian history to be authorative about it; persecution of the Aborigines, though, continued for many years, and the effects are visible today. > now if i could just find bloodlust..... ;) I'm told the US video deal hasn't been inked yet. So you'll have to wait to experience the artistic realms of this particular production. Thankfully. :-) I can always tape it for you, Kelly, if you're that keen to see it... :-) Anthony (not in the rec.arts.movies actor list. Thankfully!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 09:05:35 PDT From: kyrlidis@speedracer.cchem.berkeley.edu (kyrlidis) Subject: Hello there! Hi everyone, Well here I am in Berkeley. My new account is: ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 09:07:37 PDT From: kyrlidis@templeton.cchem.berkeley.edu (kyrlidis) Subject: OOps Well as I was saying my new account is kyrlidis@templeton.cchem.berkeley.edu Please direct personal e-mail here for the time being, as I am still getting used to the system, and I have no idea what type of quota I have. Oh do I miss Cambridge already... Angelos ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 17:21:07 BST Subject: Cath Carroll > the worst aspects of a lot of these guitar pop bands. the robert mappel- > thorpe cover is keen though (cath carroll, if anyone is interested or knows > about her). another $2 score, though this one is probably worth the $9 or > so that it should go for in stores. Is that the same Cath Carroll that was signed to Factory records? ======================================================================== From: brianb@lobby.ti.com (Brian Bloom) Subject: Re: Hello there! Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 11:47:36 CDT Kyrlidis piped up: > > Hi everyone, > > Well here I am in Berkeley. My new account is: > OOh, don't tell me... let me guess.... Hmmmm... Oh boy, I *love* charades!! Uh, 2 syllables... starts with... um... sounds like...? br!an -- __ ____ __ ____ __ __ (__==__) /\ \ / \_\ / /\ / \ \ / |\ / /\ (oo) ( moo.) / \_\ / /\ |_| / / /| /\ \ \ / ||/ / / /-------\/ -' / /\ | |\ \/ /_/_ / / / \ \/ \ \ / |/ / / / | U.T.|| / \/ |_| \ __ \_\ /_/ / \ /\ \_\ / /| / / * ||----|| / /\ ./_/ \ \ \/_/_\_\/ \ \ \/_// / | / / ^^ ^^ \ \/ |_| \ \_\ /_/\ \ \_\ /_/ /|_/ / Br!an Bloom \__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/ brianb@lobby.ti.com .. but music hides me so well, ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)