From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #112 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 4 2005 Volume 14 : Number 112 Today's Subjects: ----------------- for those who have not yet left the Decemberists in the dust for something newer and trendier... [Ji] RE: fegmaniax-digest V14 #111 ["Shane Apple" ] Re: Scooter Lou ["Randalljr" ] Re: Tool's suckitude + Eels [Eb ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #111 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: RH and archive.org [James Dignan ] Bright Eyes vs. Jay Leno [Tom Clark ] Re: Bright Eyes vs. Jay Leno [Eb ] Re: Attention Firefly fans.... [Capuchin ] Re: furiously beating a stuffed dead horse [Capuchin ] Re: furiously beating a stuffed dead horse [Jeff ] RE: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: Q: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? [wojizzle forizzle ] Re: Bright Eyes vs. Jay Leno [Tom Clark ] Re: furiously beating a stuffed dead horse [Eb ] Lucky I'm a family guy.... [bayard ] Re: Lucky I'm a family guy.... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Lucky I'm a family guy.... ["Jason R. Thornton" ] RE: Lucky I'm a family guy.... ["Bachman, Michael" Subject: for those who have not yet left the Decemberists in the dust for something newer and trendier... ...Bob Boilen (the director of All Things Considered) sent this to the Decemberists list today. >Friday night May 6th. NPR's online music show All Songs Considered will >feature the entire show as it happens from the 9:30 club. >There will be details on this page sometime on Wednesday the 4th. >http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/ >But basically the show including the opening act Willy Mason will be >available as high quality audio from NPR.org >There will also be an interview with Colin Meloy, an interview that will >also air on NPR's All Things Considered, perhaps as early as Wednesday >May 4th, though that date is not set in stone. >More information will also be available in a newsletter that will go out >on Thursday. To sign up for All Songs Considered's newsletter go here. >http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/updates/index.html >We are big fans of the Decemberists here at All Songs Considered and >have featured their music a few times. If you don't know the show, check >it out. >Thanks >Bob Boilen I couldn't quite believe it. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:41:22 +0000 From: "Shane Apple" Subject: RE: fegmaniax-digest V14 #111 Tews: >interestingly (or not) my fave albums of '01, '02, and '03 are all being >followed-up this year: from TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL No kidding? Geez. Speaking of sucking ninety different kinds of ass! TOOOOOL? On every mailing list that I am on (2), I feel like an outsider because I just do not get the Eels. And I liked E's first solo album just fine. I have probably half of the Eels' albums and just can't see anything remotely remarkable about any of them. Tom Waits even is apparently a big fan! Sorry, Tom. I love Harry Partch, but the Eels just seem blander than bland. - --Shane n.p. Bunnybrains. Not sure why I bought this. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today it's FREE! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:37:24 -0700 From: "Randalljr" Subject: Re: Scooter Lou From: "Nora B." > Capuchin >> I was speaking to an old schoolmate about a mutual friend of ours that >> apparently now has a quite successful website devoted to her nudity and >> near-nudity. I asked, "Wow, did she get into much better shape?" and was >> answered with this gem that I now repeat daily: >> >> Photoshop is the best diet ever! > > No fair telling that story without including a link! You got that right!!! Is it (pant...pant) Viv? Vince ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 15:30:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Tool's suckitude + Eels Shane Apple wrote: >> interestingly (or not) my fave albums of '01, '02, and '03 are all >> being >> followed-up this year: from TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL > > No kidding? Geez. Speaking of sucking ninety different kinds of ass! > TOOOOOL? Only 90? Quit hedging. > On every mailing list that I am on (2), I feel like an outsider > because I > just do not get the Eels. And I liked E's first solo album just fine. I > have probably half of the Eels' albums and just can't see anything > remotely remarkable about any of them. Tom Waits even is apparently a > big > fan! Sorry, Tom. I love Harry Partch, but the Eels just seem blander > than > bland. I think the Eels have an undervalued "production" element, moreso than the other '90s singer-songwriters whom people are tempted to lump E. with. Some folks may just judge him on the pure sheet-music quality of his (less than mindblowing) songs, which is kinda missing half the picture. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 19:33:07 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #111 Shane Apple wrote: > >... Eels just seem blander than bland. eh? Electroshock Blues, bland? What? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 13:20:48 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: RH and archive.org >Allen Rendel says: > > > XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO > >Kind of overkill on the XOs, but, hey, to each his own ;) I just thought it was an ad for beef stock, a la The Who Sell Out :) James xxxxxxxxx X! - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 20:35:31 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Bright Eyes vs. Jay Leno I just buzzed through last night's Tonight Show to check out Bright Eyes, and I don't think he did the song the producers wanted him to: "When The President Talks To God" When the president talks to God Are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to rape our womenms' rights And send poor farm kids off to die? Does God suggest an oil hike When the president talks to God? When the president talks to God Are the consonants all hard or soft? Is he resolute all down the line? Is every issue black or white? Does what God say ever change his mind When the president talks to God? When the president talks to God Does he fake that drawl or merely nod? Agree which convicts should be killed? Where prisons should be built and filled? Which voter fraud must be concealed When the president talks to God? When the president talks to God I wonder which one plays the better cop We should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke No, they're lazy, George, I say we don't Just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke That's what God recommends When the president talks to God Do they drink near beer and go play golf While they pick which countries to invade Which Muslim souls still can be saved? I guess god just calls a spade a spade When the president talks to God When the president talks to God Does he ever think that maybe he's not? That that voice is just inside his head When he kneels next to the presidential bed Does he ever smell his own bullshit When the president talks to God? I doubt it I doubt it ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:06:36 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Bright Eyes vs. Jay Leno > I just buzzed through last night's Tonight Show to check out Bright > Eyes, and I don't think he did the song the producers wanted him to: > Well, Leno did introduce it as a "protest song." It was a cool TV moment, in any case. Very stark and uncompromising...little sense of "showbiz." Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:31:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Attention Firefly fans.... On Mon, 2 May 2005, Sumiko Keay wrote: > I was terribly disappointed to get all "children's movies" in the > trailers before H2G2. I was hoping for "Serenity" and/or "Batman > Begins". We didn't have all childrens' films, but we did have ALL remakes or sequels. Every single one. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:46:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: furiously beating a stuffed dead horse On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Jeff wrote: > In fact, since we've made and remade movies from movies, TV shows, > comics, videogames, and for all I know, advertisements, we should start > making movies based on other media, like bathroom graffiti, cereal > boxtops, and scrawlings on the inner grooves of old LPs. And then remake > them a few months later. > > It couldn't be any worse, could it? The foresight and vision of Bob and David is again apparent. There are few things in the world funnier than Mr. Show's "Coupon: The Movie" sketches. The boardroom full of film executives passing the buck and not taking responsibility for making the crappy movie ("I was going to use the profits to start a trendy heroine habit!" "I was going to use the money to put my children -- little Suzie and Tommy -- into good schools. Now I'm not even sure I want to have kids!"). Then the courtroom wherein the movie studio sues the people of the United States of America for making the studio believe they wanted a movie about the coupon ("Everyone used the coupon, so of course my client will want to make a movie based on the coupon!") and then not seeing the movie. And, of course, the trailer for Coupon: The Movie itself ("'The movie everyone in America must see!' - -- U.S. District Judge Marvin Sanders" "And you won't believe the shocking twist ending... where this happens.") And finally, audience reactions after the movie ("This woman TOTALLY used a coupon to buy some socks!" "I believe in unicorns now."). Oh, dear. This is going to happen in the next five years. Has there been a movie based on an advertisement? I'm thinking there must have been, but I'm blanking right now. There was, after all, a Garbage Pail Kids movie. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 03:23:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Bands I'll never see..... On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > I have no others. After all, I did see Neutral Milk Hotel live, and > y'know, my life's complete now. I gotta say, in retrospect, every Elephant 6 band I saw live was phenomenal. Olivia Tremor Control were amazing both times I saw them and Neutral Milk Hotel at Satyricon was absolutely sublime. I saw Elf Power twice, but only really paid attention the second time and loved the show. (The first time, I just hung at the back while Viv and maybe gnat had a good time up front. I did end up having a little chat with Elliot Smith at the back of the room. He was just mopey.) Besides the Robyn shows, those were the only shows in that era that really got me going. Now I'm thinking about how long it's been since I've seen a really great show. March Fourth Marching Band has been just about it around here for the last couple of years. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 07:09:07 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: furiously beating a stuffed dead horse On 5/4/05, Capuchin wrote: > Has there been a movie based on an advertisement? I'm thinking there must > have been, but I'm blanking right now. There was, after all, a Garbage > Pail Kids movie. I'm almost certain there has been...but I can't remember it right now. Or at least, based on characters created for an ad? - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 07:41:31 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Q: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? A: the Ernest series with Jim Varney, and any movie involving the Smurfs. At 07:09 AM 5/4/2005, Jeff wrote: >On 5/4/05, Capuchin wrote: > > > Has there been a movie based on an advertisement? I'm thinking there must > > have been, but I'm blanking right now. There was, after all, a Garbage > > Pail Kids movie. > >I'm almost certain there has been...but I can't remember it right now. >Or at least, based on characters created for an ad? > >-- > >...Jeff > >The Architectural Dance Society >http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 08:54:56 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Q: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? On 5/4/05, Dolph Chaney wrote: > A: the Ernest series with Jim Varney, and any movie involving the Smurfs. The Ernest thing was the one I was thinking of...but were the Smurfs originally ads? I thought they were a cartoon... Actually, I think someone should make a movie using characters exclusively from ads - just put a bunch of them all together. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:11:28 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? Doplh: >A: the Ernest series with Jim Varney, and any movie involving the Smurfs. Was that series of commericals with that English man and woman visting each other for cup a coffee and other things ever made into a movie? It was for a coffee company. Michael B. NP Heliotrop - Romance of the Rose, Feminine Vices from Medieval France >At 07:09 AM 5/4/2005, Jeff wrote: >>On 5/4/05, Capuchin wrote: > >> > Has there been a movie based on an advertisement? I'm thinking there must >> > have been, but I'm blanking right now. There was, after all, a Garbage >> > Pail Kids movie. >> >>I'm almost certain there has been...but I can't remember it right now. >>Or at least, based on characters created for an ad? >> >>-- >> >>...Jeff >> >>The Architectural Dance Society >>http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:22:41 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bands I'll never see..... Capuchin wrote: > > I gotta say, in retrospect, every Elephant 6 band I saw live was > phenomenal. Of Montreal are continuing the trend. Kevin Barnes has got all rrrockstarrr, yet he share the stagefront with the late bp helium very well. And Matt Dawson is an awesome bass player, and a really, really nice guy -- he was doing the merch at the show. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:09:51 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? The Gold Blend commercials? For them baby murderers Nestle? Never made into a movie, though Anthony Head went on to become a household name... Cheers Matt >From: "Bachman, Michael" > Was that series of commericals with that English man and woman visting >each other for cup a coffee and other things ever made into a movie? It was >for a coffee company. > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:25:54 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? - -----Original Message----- From: Matt Sewell [mailto:matt_sewell@hotmail.com] >The Gold Blend commercials? For them baby murderers Nestle? Never made >into a movie, though Anthony Head went on to become a household name... Yeah, that is the one I was thinking about. Didn't know if it was made into a movie or not. Was there ever talk of developing a script for a movie? Michael B. >>From: "Bachman, Michael" Was that >>series of commericals with that English man and woman visting each other >>for cup a coffee and other things ever made into a movie? It was for a >>coffee company. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:32:36 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Q: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? My bad -- I had always heard that the Smurfs were originally created for a BP ad campaign in Europe. I have double-checked and learned otherwise. from (exclamation points not mine) Smurfily, Dolph _______________ Peyo (Pierre Culliford) created the smurfs in 1958! They first appeared in a comic book with Johan and Pewitt as guests. The smurfs became rather popular and got their own stories! ... PVC-Smurfs were first sold in Holland at the BP-gas stations in 1965. They came to the USA in 1978. A few years later they concurred the world ! >From: Jeff >Subject: Re: Q: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? >To: Not Reg > >On 5/4/05, Dolph Chaney wrote: >> A: the Ernest series with Jim Varney, and any movie involving the Smurfs. > >The Ernest thing was the one I was thinking of...but were the Smurfs >originally ads? I thought they were a cartoon... > >Actually, I think someone should make a movie using characters >exclusively from ads - just put a bunch of them all together. > >-- > >...Jeff > >The Architectural Dance Society >http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:54:48 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: The Who Sell Out and Whoa, that woj Congratulations to you Jill on 26 years of marriage! My 30th is coming up on May 30th. Marriage: after a few bad years in the late 80's, It actually got better. Must have been the fact that we had a hyperactive toddler and a home business at the same time and in the same house. Husband did something yesterday which I thought only happened in cartoons - he stepped on a rake which hit him squarely on the nose. My sympathy was mixed with laughter. Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:12:25 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Q: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? Dolph Chaney wrote: > A: the Ernest series with Jim Varney, and any movie involving the Smurfs. I thought that Father Abraham & The Smurfs was a european TV program first? 'Smurfing Beer' has to be the worst earworm ever. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:37:08 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Time to change that tattoo! This is a hell of a predicament for Fundamentalists. What do they tell the children now? Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC Link NATIONAL POST Latest News Beast's real mark devalued to '616' Revelation fragment Chris Wattie National Post May 4, 2005 Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all. A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist. Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil's prime number. "This is a very nice piece to find," Dr. Aitken said. "Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast." The tiny fragment of 1,500-year-old papyrus is written in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, and contains a key passage from the Book of Revelation. Where more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the "number of the beast," or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the book's apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616. "This is very early confirmation of that number, earlier than any other text we've found of that passage," Dr. Aitken said. "It's probably about 100 years before any other version." The fragment was part of a hoard of previously illegible manuscripts discovered in an ancient garbage dump outside the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Although the papyrus was first excavated in 1895, it was badly discoloured and damaged. Classics scholars at Oxford University were only recently able to read it using new advanced imaging techniques. Elijah Dann, a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Toronto, said the new number is unlikely to make a dent in the popularity of 666. "Otherwise, a lot of sermons would have to be changed and a lot of movies rewritten," he said with a laugh. "There's always someone with an active imagination who can put another interpretation on it. "It just shows you that when you study something as cryptic and mystic as the Book of Revelation there's an almost unlimited number of interpretations." The book is thought to have been written by the disciple John and according to the King James Bible, the traditional translation of the passage reads: "Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." But Dr. Aitken said that translation was drawn from much later versions of the New Testament than the fragment found in Oxyrhynchus. "When we're talking about the early biblical texts, we're always talking about copies and they are copies made, at best, 150 to 200 years after [the original] was written," she said. "They can have mistakes in the copying, changes for political or theological reasons ... it's like a detective story piecing it all together." Dr. Aitken said, however, that scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone's name, she said. "It's a number puzzle -- the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero." Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. "It's a very political document," Dr. Aitken said. "It's a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but it's written in coded language and riddles." ) National Post 2005 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 12:45:57 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: Q: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? one time at band camp, Stewart C. Russell (scruss@sympatico.ca) said: >I thought that Father Abraham & The Smurfs was a european TV program first? >'Smurfing Beer' has to be the worst earworm ever. i have that lp! woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:46:34 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: has there ever been a movie based on an ad? On 5/4/05, Matt Sewell wrote: > The Gold Blend commercials? For them baby murderers Nestle? Never made > into a movie, though Anthony Head went on to become a household name... As did his brother, Richard. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:34:16 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Reap? DaD Easytr...I mean Dimeadozen appears DOA... - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [bot-dimeadozen-org] Server down -- Update -- Pls read! Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:08:57 -0000 From: jupiter2101 Reply-To: bot-dimeadozen-org-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com To: bot-dimeadozen-org@yahoogroups.com Hi folks, Well, bad news... the hosting service has taken the servers offline because the customer (we) have repeatedly offered music for download... lol... The Admin is trying to get hold of someone from the hosting service's management to clarify the matter, but it may take some time (lunch break time here, plus tomorrow is a bank holiday, so many folks are taking the afternoon off). We'll keep you posted. Take care! jupiter2101, DIME Mod - ------------------------ Yahoo! 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Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:48:52 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Bright Eyes vs. Jay Leno On May 3, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Eb wrote: >> I just buzzed through last night's Tonight Show to check out Bright >> Eyes, and I don't think he did the song the producers wanted him to: >> > Well, Leno did introduce it as a "protest song." > > It was a cool TV moment, in any case. Very stark and > uncompromising...little sense of "showbiz." > Yeah, I went back and watched it again, this time listening to Leno's intro. It was pretty amazing considering what a toooooooooool Leno is. Maybe they considered it equal time since Laura Bush was just on there recently. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:31:00 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: furiously beating a stuffed dead horse > Has there been a movie based on an advertisement? I'm thinking there > must have been, but I'm blanking right now. There was, after all, a > Garbage Pail Kids movie. > It was only a TV movie, but there was a film based on that cute old Coke (?) commercial where the little kid offered his Coke to tired-and-sweaty Mean Joe Greene. Eb currently a crashing bore: Godspeed You Black Emperor ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 12:03:22 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: Lucky I'm a family guy.... Thanks for that, Ed. A friend of mine actually threw a party so we could all watch the premiere. I don't think that kind of thing has ever happened to me before. But the less said about "American Dad," the better (looks like the show creators are trying to punish Fox with that one...) So this one and the original Star Trek, (they had an aborted 3rd season, yes?) what other shows have been brought back from the dead? I want to send a shout out to my feg woj for adding those important bits I left out in my post about archive.org. Thanks fo' keeping it rizzle, my fizzle. And good to see you're back on email (people were emailing me asking about you and "Is Tori on tour?") =b PS. it IS "All the things that make us effin' cry!" They changed it to "laugh and cry" at one point, but it's back now as it was originally. You can see it in the closed captions. Just thought you'd like to know. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 12:29:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Lucky I'm a family guy.... bayard wrote: > Thanks for that, Ed. A friend of mine actually threw a > party so we could all watch the premiere. I don't think > that kind of thing has ever happened to me before. But > the less said about "American Dad," the better > (looks like the show creators are trying to punish Fox > with that one...) So this one and the original Star > Trek, (they had an aborted 3rd season, yes?) what other > shows have been brought back from the dead? "Cagney & Lacey" "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:58:09 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Lucky I'm a family guy.... At 12:03 PM 5/4/2005 -0700, bayard wrote: >Thanks for that, Ed. A friend of mine actually threw a party so we could >all watch the premiere. I don't think that kind of thing has ever >happened to me before. But the less said about "American Dad," the better >(looks like the show creators are trying to punish Fox with that >one...) So this one and the original Star Trek, (they had an aborted 3rd >season, yes?) what other shows have been brought back from the dead? Star Trek was cancelled during the second season (ie, everyone was told there would not be a third season) and then renewed for a third season DURING the second season, after a letter writing campaign to NBC. So, it never really got a chance to die before being resurrected. Coincidentally, I was over at my buddy's place last night, and he had the third season on DVD, and just had to show me the bonus featurette on the third season. Best part was, they referred to a woman who helped organize the letter writing campaign as a "Star Trek Activist." - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:21:32 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Lucky I'm a family guy.... bayard wrote: > Thanks for that, Ed. A friend of mine actually threw a > party so we could all watch the premiere. I don't think > that kind of thing has ever happened to me before. But > the less said about "American Dad," the better > (looks like the show creators are trying to punish Fox > with that one...) So this one and the original Star > Trek, (they had an aborted 3rd season, yes?) what other > shows have been brought back from the dead? "Twin Peaks" was halted half way into the second season, then brought back after several months of no new shows. Michael B. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #112 ********************************