From: lajandy@aol.com (LAJAndy) Subject: Re: how QL changed my life Date: 17 Jan 1995 21:15:28 -0500 You know you are obsessed with Quantum Leap when: * You smack your $100 Casio fx-9700GEW calculator on its side when you press a wrong button just because you've seen Al do it so many times. * You're playing Monopoly with friends and say "Oh boy!" and immediately remember you're missing Quantum Leap on TV. * Your best friend says "My brain is swiss-cheesed today, to borrow one of your expressions," when he's being absent-minded. * You grab the TV at 10:00 and watch trash just so your roommates won't be able to change the channel when QL comes on at 11:00. * You try to name the IBM AS/400 minicomputer at work Ziggy, even though AS/400s only have serial numbers, not names. * You make the QL leap sound effect, which is 7 seconds long in itself, your Windows startup sound (Windows usually takes 30 seconds to load w/o a startup effect). * You make the QL leap sound effect your Windows exit sound, too. * You positively BLOW your America Online time telling the rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap USENET group how QL has changed your life, and feel great about it! Yeah, I psycho. Gotta go grab the TV! I think someone said the B**** episode is on tonight! (Why can't we type "Bogeyman?") Lawrence Andrew Johnson lajandy@aol.com or just Andy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: STU_MXTHOMPS@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (MEG X THOMPSON) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 18 Jan 1995 19:11:30 GMT In <3feqtb$675@news.primenet.com> prflatt@ibm.net writes: > "oh Boy!" has become a standard part of my vocab. And like > Sam, I am learning to use it in every situation!! > > We ought to make a "you know you are obsessed with QL > when..." list! You know you are obsessed when... ...you annoy all your non-Leaper friends by saying "He/She was on Quantum Leap" when watching other shows. Speaking of which, I saw two Leap Alums on MacGuyver the other day. The man who was Martin Luther King's great-great-great grandfather and also Sam's son in "The Color of Truth," and the man who played Thames. They were both bad guys, but I missed the beginning of the show so I'm not sure what they were doing. Something to do with voodoo. -=Megasus ,-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-. |Meg Thompson |Choose the name/nick/process name which best suits what| |aka Megasus | you know of me. If all else fails, my email is | |aka Amaryllis | stu_mxthomps@vax1.acs.jmu.edu | |aka Ashkevron | Obligitory Quote: "If I had some bacon, I could have | |aka Dr. Karen Vanyel | some bacon and eggs, if I had some eggs." | `-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: You know you're obsessed when... Date: 19 Jan 1995 04:05:03 GMT You start quoting QL even if the quote doesn't fit exactly Everytime someone (besides yourself) says Oh Boy, you silently wonder if it is Sam... Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: aa811@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 19 Jan 1995 12:13:51 GMT You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.... You can listen to the oldies station and name off every episode that "April Love" was played in. And your boss knows when your face lights up that that song was on Quantum Leap. :-) Terri in Cleveland -- "Girls who have glasses have lots & lots of energy!" Al--Single Drop of Rain Terri Librande aa811@cleveland.Freenet.edu--Assistant Sysop The Science Fiction and Fantasy Sig--Go SCIFI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 19 Jan 1995 13:34:30 GMT You know you're obsessed with QL when: 1. You wear a QL polo shirt to work and nobody bats an eye-lash. 2. Your co-workers make it a point to tell you (If they know) that Scott or Dean is going to be in something that night on tv 3. Your co-workers make it a point to tell you that Scott or Dean were on something last night (and of course you taped it) 4. One of your co-workers make it a point to mention casually that they were flipping channels and came across an episode of QL and watched it, but they ask you to fill in what they missed, and you give them the title besides filling them in on the part they missed. 5. You read a plot in the tv guide, and say, "Hmm? Didn't Sam and Al have to do something like this once?" 6. Your boyfriend (who's a treker) reluctantly gives into you, so you can watch QL even though STNG is only half over, or he knows he'll be in the proverbial dog house (This happens from last of Apr-Last of Oct). 7. You hear 50's 60's and some 70's tunes on your tape, cd, or radio, and you say, Hey, that was in Quantum Leap and everytime you hear that song, no matter if you heard it before QL ever was written, you can't think of anything except certain episode, or Sam and Al situations that this song was played in. 8. You find yourself exclaiming "Oh Boy" and not even realizing it until your boyfriend or non-QL friends remark on the frequency of use. 9. You keep your highliters for work in the QL Accelearator Mug, and your Sam and Al Mugs in your bedroom on a shelf on display (rather than put beverages in them. 10. You have magnets on your computer pole at work, but two of those magnets are Dean and Scott. (the rest are Koalas). I'd better stop. I knew I was obsessed, but I hadn't realized the degree I am. Isn't it wonderful!! Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pslandma@prairienet.org (Pamela S. Landman) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 19 Jan 1995 14:36:33 GMT You know your an obsessed Leaper when... ---Your brother-in-law knows that Scott is going to be on Murphy Brown and calls in the middle to see if he can bug you. (Nope--that's what VCR's are for. :) ) ---Your husband wants to know if there's going to be a hospitality suite for non-Leaper spouses at IndyLeap '95 so they have a special place to rest up from eating, sleeping and breathing QL. ---Your car tape deck plays nothing but QL soundtrack album or Romance/Romance, or Three Guys cast recordings. ---Your 8-year-old daughter says: Mommy, Scott's on Entertainment Tonight; promise you won't drool again. ---You spend half or more of your Internet or other online time reading QL newsgroups. ---You have lots of e-mail pals who understand *why* you appreciate QL. Leaping back to lurk.... -- Pam in Champaign -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: You know you're obsessed with QL when Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:23:41 -0600 You know you're obsessed with QL when: You start looking in the mirror everytime you feel off kilter. You think you're being watched by some dude in funky looking oufits. Yeah, yeah. They're not very good, but brain is swiss cheesed tonight. --Andie "I swore I'd never have anything to do with you again, but you can't do this. He's done too much. He's helped to many people. You can't take him like this." --Admiral Al Calavicci praying for Dr. Sam Beckett. "Leap of Faith" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 20 Jan 1995 13:10:32 GMT You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you hit nearly every small electronic device as if it were the handlink! Some of my QL tapes the tracking is getting bad. It was so bad I couldn't even watch QL! So I thought, what the heck, hit the tape really hard on the side just like Al and the handlink. I put the tape back in, and low and behold, the tape was fine!! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 20 Jan 1995 16:56:01 GMT You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... You unconsciously mimic Sam or Al's mannerisms. Truly! I caught myself passing my hand over my face the way Sam does when he's overwhelmed, something I would never do naturally. I quickly trained myself out of it :) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: WB5589@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (Billy (the kid) Bunting) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL c Date: 20 Jan 1995 22:37:35 GMT In blue@ writes: > You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... > You walk around all day repeating the narrative: Theorizing that one could travel within his own lifetime... Billy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 20 Jan 1995 23:01:44 GMT You know you are an obsessed Leaper when... *You watch the movie Speed and think "That guy who keannu Reeves played was probably Sam." (If you have never seen the movie, I won't spoil it, but Reeve's character (other that the bad words) is the "guy with the white hat" to quote Scott. He saves a bunch of people. *some ones says I line similar to something said in Ql and immediatly you think of the episode where someone said that. *you are watching a tv show or movie and someone looks similar to someone on QL, and you can't get your mind off of that! I had experiences with all of these things.. today! I was watching Speed at a friends house. At one point, a very tence point, some oone says "Call the cavelry." I burst out laughing, because I thought about when Al says "'Cause we're going to need the cavelry" in TLH part 2. Oh, and all of those other things y'all have been coming up with, I have done/been accused of everyone!! Keep thinking, guys! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lee_Choquette@Novell.com (Lee Choquette) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL c Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 16:26:27 -0700 In blue@ writes: > You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... The thought comes to you at least once a day: What if Sam leapt into me at this particular moment? How would things appear to him and how would he figure out what's going on? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lee Choquette . . . . . .http://www.cs.utah.edu/~lchoqu . . . . . Lee_Choquette@Novell.com. . My tastes are simple. I like the best. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: You know you're obsessed with QL when Date: 20 Jan 1995 23:27:16 GMT In , "A. Stabler" writes: > >You know you're obsessed with QL when: >You start looking in the mirror everytime you feel off kilter. >You think you're being watched by some dude in funky looking oufits. > >Yeah, yeah. They're not very good, but brain is swiss cheesed tonight. > No, they're fine! Here's another one that is true for me anyway! You tell people your imaginary friend is named Al. Does anyone else do this? Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 20 Jan 1995 23:34:31 GMT In , blue@ (Blue C.) writes: >You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... > >You unconsciously mimic Sam or Al's mannerisms. > >Truly! I caught myself passing my hand over my face the way Sam >does when he's overwhelmed, something I would never do naturally. >I quickly trained myself out of it :) > Oh, I have funny stories about this one!! Al has much more movement so I copy him most. i used to not want to mimic him, because I would think "Oh, Boy. Now I've really gone off the deep end!" But, I just can't stop it, and if you can''t bea em join em. Anyway, one that I always do is this little snap-point thing like al did in THe leap back. He snaps his fingers, then points his index finger. I also whack things like he does to the handlink, and I talk with my hands much more. I can't think of anymore at the moment, but wait a few minutes, and I'm sure to copy something else! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: Re: You know you're obsessed with QL when Date: 21 Jan 1995 05:04:28 GMT You know you're obsessed with QL when you name your computers: Ziggy Ziggy too Ziggy Baby and Old Ziggy Freda whaleyf@mail.firn.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: You know you're obsessed with QL when Date: 21 Jan 1995 05:54:54 GMT In <3fq4kt$l2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) writes: > >You know you're obsessed with QL when you name your >computers: > >Ziggy >Ziggy too >Ziggy Baby >and Old Ziggy Actually, my calculator is named Ziggy! After the hybrid computer, of course! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kebl0036@sable.ox.ac.uk (James A Saunders) Subject: Re: how QL changed my life Date: Sun, 22 Jan 95 13:19:56 GMT LAJAndy (lajandy@aol.com) wrote: [snip.snip] : * You grab the TV at 10:00 and watch trash just so your roommates won't : be able to change the channel when QL comes on at 11:00. This one really hits home. I study at an Oxford University college, and recently, as Quantum Leap is shown at 6pm every thursday, a friend and I went to watch TV, after the most popular show in the UK had finished (Neighbours - Australian soap), at 5.55pm, I patiently switched over to BBC2 where ql is shown. Just as the pre-opening tune sequence was running (Portrait for Troian), about 5 people wanted to watch another Australian soap, Home and Away. Outvoted 5-2, Quantum leap was missed, and now I can never watch it because this stupid, trashy australian soap is marginally more popular - it's the only TV aswell ! - and although I have a TV of my own at home, I can't bring it to college because i can't afford the TV license fee of about 100 pounds ($170) which I would have to pay for taking it away from my home ! -- ________________________________________________________________________ | Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr Sam | | Becket stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | James A Saunders | | | | www : http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~kebl0036/ | |________________________________________________________________________| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy Finifter) Subject: Re: You know you're obsessed with QL when Date: 22 Jan 1995 18:20:31 -0500 prflatt@ibm.net writes: >In <3fq4kt$l2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) writes: >>You know you're obsessed with QL when you name your >>computers: >> >>Ziggy >>Ziggy too >>Ziggy Baby >>and Old Ziggy >Actually, my calculator is named Ziggy! After the hybrid computer, of course! >Stacy There is an increasingly small chance that I will be getting a job which will give me my own Sun workstation with its own machine name on the Internet. If I do, you can be sure there will by a ziggy.rutgers.edu. -- Keep Leaping... * finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu * http://www-usacs.rutgers.edu/~finifter/ * * "You do it, I'm bitter." * * Crow T. Robot, MST3K * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jw21727@nyssa.swt.edu Subject: you know your an obsessed Date: 23 Jan 1995 00:12:50 GMT you know your an obsessed leaper when... you pretend that your calculator is a handlink! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 23 Jan 1995 02:21:24 GMT In , "A. Stabler" writes: >Sorry, I haven't seen any of these lately and I decided to throw one out. > >You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: >You find yourself singing "Quanta La Gusto" out of habit. That's a good one, except for me, it is usually "Volare"! STacy > >--Andie > >"She winds up alone." >"Alone?" >"Without love." >"Without love?" >"In CLEVELAND!" --Sam and Al "The Play's The Thing" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 23 Jan 1995 02:26:09 GMT In <3fusa2$c89@central.server.swt.edu>, jw21727@nyssa.swt.edu writes: >you know your an obsessed leaper when... > >you pretend that your calculator is a handlink! Or even worse, you actually _think_ your calculator is a handlink! That is why mine is named Ziggy! STacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL c Date: 23 Jan 1995 13:02:54 GMT Hello! I've been following this thread for some time, and it made me think about in what ways *I'm* obsessed... well, here you are: When people ask me if, and why, I (as a foreigner) like living in Finland, the first thing that comes to my mind is, "They don't dub QL on TV." (I'm from Germany, where they dub almost everything. Horrible, if you ask me.) I bought a VCR for the sole purpose of being able to tape QL. (Later I found out that it's also useful for taping other things, if they'd only broadcast them... ;) I actually planned my last trip sort of around QL... it's broadcast on Monday afternoons, and so I left for my vacation on a Tuesday and came back on the following Sunday... (As you can see, I don't entirely trust my VCR on important matters. ;) All that ski-jumping during the last weeks drove me crazy... the Finnish word for ski-jumping, m"akihyppy, looks *so* similar to Aikahyppy, which is the Finnish name of QL, so whenever I discovered something containing "hyppy" in the TV guide I jumped for the TV only to find out that it was yet another bunch of guys with skis on their feet jumping from high places around the Alps. Oh well. I actually spent half an afternoon and most of the following night creating my very own QL screen background (based on the QL logo) for MS-Windows, with some strange graphics program of which I don't even know where (or why) I got it, and of course I don't have a manual for it, and I hardly even use Windows at all, but I just *had* to do it. (Well, now I do use Windows a lot more often than before... :) And when I was finished at last, I almost called my boyfriend (who is into computer graphics) to tell him about "hey, guess what I just did", but then I remembered that he, as a person who almost never watches anything on TV, certainly wouldn't know what QL is anyway, especially in the small hours of the morning just after being wakened by the phone... Lee Choquette (Lee_Choquette@Novell.com) wrote: :>In blue@ writes: :>> You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... :>The thought comes to you at least once a day: What if Sam leapt into me at :>this particular moment? How would things appear to him and how would he :>figure out what's going on? Like, for example, this moment, while I'm looking through rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap? ;) Yes, I've been wondering a lot about that too... especially as I lead a life that is very different from anything we see on QL... I really wonder how Sam would react to having to attend lectures about linguistics held in Finnish. ;) But I've found out that it is a great way to solve problems... "Let's see, if I was Sam Beckett, what would I do to leap out of here?" BTW, here in Finland there is a cocoa brand or something called "O'boy"... I guess one day I'll have to try that stuff. ;) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@kruuna.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland Things are only impossible until they are not. - Jean-Luc Picard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pslandma@prairienet.org (Pamela S. Landman) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL c Date: 23 Jan 1995 14:55:26 GMT You know you're an obsessed Leaper when--- Your 8-year-old child is behaving especially well (almost to the point of severely out of character) and you ask her: "So Dr. Beckett, why are you here?" -- Pam in Champaign -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL c Date: 24 Jan 1995 00:19:01 GMT Lee_Choquette@Novell.com (Lee Choquette) writes: > > You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... > > The thought comes to you at least once a day: What if Sam leapt into me at > this particular moment? How would things appear to him and how would he > figure out what's going on? My mother asked me not long ago 'What would you do if you were me?' about something. My initial answer was that I would never have got(ten) into that situation in the first place. I then realized that I wasn't being very helpful, so I tried something else: 'OK. Let's pretend I'm Sam, and I leap into your life. _Then_ what would I do?' It was fun, but difficult: Al's presence was sorely missed ;) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lajandy@aol.com (LAJAndy) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 23 Jan 1995 19:45:38 -0500 jw21727@nyssa.swt.edu wrote on 23 Jan 1995 00:12:50 >you know your an obsessed leaper when... >you pretend that your calculator is a handlink! Gee, thanks! Now I know either I'm not going insane or, at the very least, if I am going insane, I'm not alone! Andy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 24 Jan 1995 12:21:52 GMT You know you're an obsessed leaper when it's your birthday, mine was yesterday (50th) and all you want for your birthday is to watch Quantum Leap all day long without someone saying "are you watching that again?" -- Freda Whaley whaleyf@mail.firn.edu Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 24 Jan 1995 21:39:31 GMT You know you're an obsessed leaper when: you carry a string around in your pocket and keep explaining time travel to people. -- Freda Whaley whaleyf@mail.firn.edu Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 24 Jan 1995 23:41:14 GMT In <3g3s2j$rc0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) writes: > >You know you're an obsessed leaper when: > >you carry a string around in your >pocket and keep explaining time travel to people. Oh, my goodness. I have actually done this. I am dead serious too! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jimmy.anderson@vdim.com (Jimmy Anderson) Subject: You know you're obsessed Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 20:06:00 GMT prflatt@ibm.net says: PR>You start quoting QL even if the quote doesn't fit exactly Done it... :) PR>Everytime someone (besides yourself) says Oh Boy, you silently PR>wonder if it is Sam... Last yrea, when our IBM equipment needed service, the local service guy named Sam (yes I thought of QL) was talking about a local professer he knew and someone I work with commented that he knew him. Sam said, "Ain't he a kick in the butt!?" My mouth flew wide open. jimmy.anderson@vdim.com jla4268@erc.jscc.cc.tn.us --- * OLX 2.1 TD * Taglines void where prohibited. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jw21727@nyssa.swt.edu Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 25 Jan 1995 20:59:45 GMT In article <3g3s2j$rc0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) writes: > >You know you're an obsessed leaper when: > >you carry a string around in your >pocket and keep explaining time travel to people. >-- >Freda Whaley whaleyf@mail.firn.edu >Founder of IHELCIC >(I hate evil leaper concept idea club.. i love this one ! its great! explaining the string theory to everyone you meet! i used to get into it telling people about the show! also don't worry! dean stockwell is in your club as well! he *hated* the whole evil leaper thing! i like the later installments, but the first one was terrible! the butchred it, and they mixed the jimm episode with the evil leaper, i didnt like that, but i got better! oh well! jamie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 26 Jan 1995 13:23:45 GMT In <3g6e41$ieg@central.server.swt.edu>, jw21727@nyssa.swt.edu writes: >In article <3g3s2j$rc0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) writes: >> >>You know you're an obsessed leaper when: You are thinking about changing your class schedual but decide against it cuz your current teacher lets you watch Ql sometimes and your new teacher may not. This is actually happening ot me!! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: magic@esu.edu (Mark I Rosendorf) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 26 Jan 1995 16:41:54 GMT ...Everytime a problem comes up your first reaction is to look up and say "Oh boy" or look at your imaginary friend and ask him why your here. ...While most people during embarrassing situations look for a rock to crawl under and die, you look for a Quantum Leap Excellarator to go into and vanish. -- -Magic magic@esu.edu MARK R. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 26 Jan 1995 17:08:15 GMT Mark I Rosendorf (magic@esu.edu) wrote: : ...Everytime a problem comes up your first reaction is to look up : and say "Oh boy" or look at your imaginary friend and ask him why : your here. : ...While most people during embarrassing situations look for a : rock to crawl under and die, you look for a Quantum Leap Excellarator to : go into and vanish. : -- : -Magic : magic@esu.edu : MARK R. One more I thought of because it's true! You know you're obssessed, when you crawl out of a sick bed with a 101.7 degree temp (my normal fluxuates between 96.4 and 97) and drag yourself out to the living room to watch the noon showing, and then the midnight showing, of QL even though you're barely aware of anything else, but you force yourself to be coherent enough to watch the episodes being shown that day. (This scenario was enacted by me several times, but the most recent was Nov. 28-Dec 2 1994.) Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: C615650@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Counselor Lara Nicosia) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 16:29:06 CST You know you're an obsessed leaper when... You're sitting at a Board of Directors meeting that you're supposed to be covering for your college radio station newscast and when they start talking about the "Katie Beckett clause" you think, "Hey, that's Sam's sister ftom Quantum Leap!" Of course, this could apply to anytime you hear a name and think that that was the name of a character on any episode of the show. :-) Lara ------------------- Lara Nicosia c615650@Mizzou1.missouri.edu "Death first!" - Westley in THE PRINCESS BRIDE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 27 Jan 1995 00:58:07 GMT In <3g8jci$gkh@jake.esu.edu>, magic@esu.edu (Mark I Rosendorf) writes: > > ...Everytime a problem comes up your first reaction is to look up >and say "Oh boy" or look at your imaginary friend and ask him why your here. I have done this!! I also tell people I have an imaginary friend named Al. Of course, I know he's not imaginary! =) Stacy > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 27 Jan 1995 01:11:23 GMT You know you an obsessed Leaper when.... You wake up at 4:00 in the morning because you can't wait to see the episode you taped at 1:00 last night. In the Valentines day edition of the School paper, you put in a little note saying: "To S.B. and A.C. I know your out there somewhere!! Love, You know who OK, Ok! I confess!!! I did both of those things!!! I quit watching QL (I know what you're going to say....) because my mother said they were "Unappropriate" I was in 8th grade for the 4th season. I got frustrated when my mom would stop the tape I was taping it on. So, I stopped taping and watching all together. I did miss the show (mostly I missed Al!, but I missed everything), and in 9th grade I watched it when I could catch it. When the finale came on, I forgot to set the VCR!!!!! I felt sooooooo awful!!!! Then in 10th grade, I was flipping channels and Saw Scott on Entertainment Tonight. He was talking about the soundtrack. suddenly, I felt soo bad!! I missed the show to much to bare!! So, I checked the TV guide for times it was on cable and started taping. I din't want my parents to think I was obsessed, so I would watch the shows either in the middle of the night or early in the morning while they were still asleep. I always went to school in a good mood!! Origionally, I was going to tape over episodes, but I couldn't part with them! And now I have them all. If you did your math right, I am a junior in HS. Even if you didn't do your math right, I am still a junior! Wow, I babbled on and on. Oh well, this is the plce to bable about that! Now for #2. I am on my school's paper staff. We are doing free classified type ads for Valentines day. What You read abouve there, is what Is going to be in the paper. My good friend (the non Leaper who completely understands) will get it, as wil a few others. So, what's your story? STacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: vl001d@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Valerie Levy) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 21:49:16 GMT .....you find yourself blaming weird mood changes to the fact that quantum leap isn't being shown that day. Valerie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 28 Jan 1995 00:31:05 GMT You know you are an obsessed Leaper when.... - you have a project in US history where you have to title it. The title has to be "omnibus immigration bill S.B." and then some number. The number you automacally pick is related to QL, and when it says SB, you like either Sam Beckett or Scott Bakula. The number I picked was 3588615. 3-5 = march 5, Dean's B day. 8-8 = august 8, Sam's b day. 6-15 = june 16 (the day before my bday) and Al's bday. BTW, when is Scott's bday? Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: You know you're obsessed when... Date: 29 Jan 1995 05:54:57 GMT You go out to eat and you see some butter and you start reciting from memory, the "Well, If butter's all it takes, I got me a dairy farm..." scene from TLB. OKOKOK!! I admit!! We went out to dinner, and Iput butter on my bread, and that scene came to mind, and I actually recited about 5 mintutes worth from memory. I am not kidding, either!!! My sister thinks I am crazy to think QL thought all day. I have a friend whose name is Suzane. Whenever I see her, the "Suzanne Elsinga, what are you doing?" "Sucking face, pal. very big in the 60s 70s 80' sucka sucka.." "Will you shut up?!" "No, I will not shut up! That woman you're ravaging is practically my wife!" "not anymore!" Etc, etc. I can recite almost the whole episode. HeHeHe. Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jimmy.anderson@vdim.com (Jimmy Anderson) Subject: Re: You know you're obses Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 07:07:00 GMT fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) says: FLW>You know you're obsessed with QL when you name your FLW>computers: FLW>Ziggy Yeah! I've got my Windows Program Manager named that. I've got an icon like a volcanoe that also looks likethe moutain at the project for it. jimmy.anderson@vdim.com jla4268@erc.jscc.cc.tn.us --- * OLX 2.1 TD * Taglines void where prohibited. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 30 Jan 1995 12:39:21 GMT Hello! prflatt@ibm.net wrote: :>B day. 8-8 = august 8, Sam's b day. 6-15 = june 16 (the day :>before my bday) and Al's bday. Hey, wait a minute, June 15 does NOT equal June 16; and besides June 16 is *my* birthday (don't tell me it's yours too? That's amazing! :) and it made me feel REALLY good when I found out that Al's birthday is just before mine... :) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@kruuna.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Elwyn Ying Dak Chow) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(eRe: how QL changed my life Date: 30 Jan 1995 23:58:36 GMT I've been away for awhile. Stacy said that there was a post about naming things Ziggy. I've named my PC, my calculator and my toy Trek TNG tricorder Ziggy. "Oh Boy" is a major part of my used vocabulary. When noone is around, I say "nozzle" and "yummola" a lot too. - Elwyn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Elwyn Ying Dak Chow) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 31 Jan 1995 00:43:17 GMT When nobody is around, I shout to an invisible man called Gooshie! I also say things to my computer, named Ziggy, like "Ziggy baby! Give me what I want!" - Elwyn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 31 Jan 1995 11:04:47 GMT Hello! Valerie Levy (vl001d@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) wrote: :>.....you find yourself blaming weird mood changes to the fact that quantum :>leap isn't being shown that day. Hmm... that's strange. Most of *my* weird mood changes occur on Mondays, the day QL *is* on TV here in Finland, because I'm worried all day about my VCR not taping QL for some reason... Before leaving home in the morning I check the programming for at least 20 times and then STILL am worried about having overlooked something or the station suddenly changing their schedule, and lots of horrible things happening to my VCR... so on Mondays I'm usually unbearable for most people around me. :-} CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@kruuna.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 31 Jan 1995 13:31:03 GMT Yesterday, during a... well... sort of boring lecture my mind started wandering and took me to such important questions as, "If Sam leaped into me right now, would he be chewing my gum or would it be leaped away with me?" and "... would his hair keep falling into his eyes like mine just did (for the umpteenth time)?" and then I started worrying about all the trouble he would have trying to find out who he was supposed to be, as my ID papers were in some *very* inconvenient place I was afraid he'd never find... ;) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@kruuna.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 31 Jan 1995 23:37:49 GMT In <3gimlp$i63@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: >Hello! > >prflatt@ibm.net wrote: > >:>B day. 8-8 = august 8, Sam's b day. 6-15 = june 16 (the day >:>before my bday) and Al's bday. > >Hey, wait a minute, June 15 does NOT equal June 16; and besides June 16 >is *my* birthday (don't tell me it's yours too? That's amazing! :) and >it made me feel REALLY good when I found out that Al's birthday is just >before mine... :) > Yep, typo. I meant 615= june 15, Al's bday and the day before mine. Stacy (and evidently your bday too! =) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------