From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 1 Feb 1995 05:14:28 GMT In <3gl5gf$hf@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: >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. :-} > Julia, you are not alone! Sounds just like me when I hadn't taped all of the QLs yet! Maybe it's the b day... Stacy =) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pbury@tyrell.net (Brian P.) Subject: Re: how QL changed my life Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 05:34:06 GMT I just wanted to bring this thread back to what the title of it means...(ahem) I too wuz an average citizin. I had nuthin' to do at 11:00 (central time) on week nights. Then I discovered kwontum leep. Suddenly, I had money, friends, and a ferrari. You too can discover the joys of watching kwantum leep and earn hudreds of dollars in your own home. [by the way, the preceeding was a total joke brought to you by a grad student who has had a very long day. please laugh, groan, or disregard altogether.] =========================================================================== brian - kcmo - Leaping from life to life... =========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sb52@prism.gatech.edu (Sandra K. Bullock) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when...(Re: how QL changed my life Date: 2 Feb 1995 08:54:36 -0500 My mac is Ziggy on our subnett at work. -- Sandra Bullock Systems Analyst Georgia Tech Internet: sb52@prism.gatech.edu "Love your self's self where it lives." Anne Sexton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 16:49:49 -0600 I guess this thread must be at an end because I haven't seen very many of these lately. You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: your answering machine message goes like this. "You have reached the headquarters of Project Quantum Leap. Dr. Sam Beckett is currently Leaping through time and is unable to take your call. But if you leave your name, number, and the time you called, when we bring him home, he'll be glad to get back to you." You start planning magic routines around music from the QL soundtrack. No lie. I've done both of these things. That's exactly what my answering machine says to anyone who calls. (I've gotten some pretty weird comments from my mother.) I'm also an amateur magician (Needless to say, one of my favorite episodes is "The Great Spontini.") and I just bought the QL soundtrack. I'm working on a slight of hand routine using "Sam's Prayer" from "A Single Drop of Rain." I'm also working on a levitating ball routine using Scott's version of "Imagine." I'm also working on a vanishing person routine using "Somewhere in the Night." If I could get hold of half of the music I've heard from other episodes, I could probably put together a two hour show. --Andie -- "I am NOT into necrophelia." "At last, something sexual he's not into." --Al and Sam "A Portrait for Troian." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Elwyn Ying Dak Chow) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 3 Feb 1995 00:41:16 GMT You know you're an obsessed Quantum Leap fan when... after you reenroll at Uni and they give a "free" student diary, you write in: - every Leap date, - every Leapee name, - make cartoon balloons from people's/cartoon character's mouth's with words such as "Oh Boy!" and "Gooshie!!! Centre me on Sam!!!". - Elwyn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 3 Feb 1995 04:07:43 GMT Elwyn Ying Dak Chow (eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU) wrote: : You know you're an obsessed Quantum Leap fan when... : after you reenroll at Uni and they give a "free" student diary, you write in: : - every Leap date, : - every Leapee name, : - make cartoon balloons from people's/cartoon character's mouth's with words : such as "Oh Boy!" and "Gooshie!!! Centre me on Sam!!!". : - Elwyn Now there's something I hadn't thought of.... marking all Leap Dates on my calendar, just to have a QL point of reference at all times. I *like* it. Jenni B. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prflatt@ibm.net Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 3 Feb 1995 22:52:35 GMT In <3gsa6f$5us@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) writes: >Elwyn Ying Dak Chow (eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU) wrote: > >: You know you're an obsessed Quantum Leap fan when... >: after you reenroll at Uni and they give a "free" student diary, you write in: >: - every Leap date, >: - every Leapee name, >: - make cartoon balloons from people's/cartoon character's mouth's with words >: such as "Oh Boy!" and "Gooshie!!! Centre me on Sam!!!". > >: - Elwyn > >Now there's something I hadn't thought of.... > >marking all Leap Dates on my calendar, just to have a QL point of >reference at all times. I *like* it. > >Jenni B. Oh, my calender is FILLED with all the Leap dates! I can hardly write anything else on the calender! BTW Temptation Eyes is still going on (Started on the 1st and ends the 14 of Feb) and yesterday was "Thall Shall Not" day. Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ez040692@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Margaret Mihoerck) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 5 Feb 1995 10:05:31 GMT prflatt@ibm.net wrote: : In <3gsa6f$5us@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) writes: : >Elwyn Ying Dak Chow (eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU) wrote: : > : >: You know you're an obsessed Quantum Leap fan when... : >: after you reenroll at Uni and they give a "free" student diary, you write in: : >: - every Leap date, : >: - every Leapee name, : >: - make cartoon balloons from people's/cartoon character's mouth's with words : >: such as "Oh Boy!" and "Gooshie!!! Centre me on Sam!!!". : > : >: - Elwyn : > : >Now there's something I hadn't thought of.... : > : >marking all Leap Dates on my calendar, just to have a QL point of : >reference at all times. I *like* it. : > : >Jenni B. : Oh, my calender is FILLED with all the Leap dates! I can hardly : write anything else on the calender! BTW Temptation Eyes is still going : on (Started on the 1st and ends the 14 of Feb) and yesterday was "Thall : Shall Not" day. : Stacy Oh Boy, Stacy! That's right...TE took place right before Valentines. When I read your post, the realization gave me goosebumps. (TE is another of my favorite episodes...I guess I am a hopeless romatic at heart! :) ) Oh, I have another one... You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you go through the following ritual every time you buy a new tv guide: - you turn to when QL is shown and just check to verify that it is printed for the correct time and channel. - you look through it, checking to see if "Necessary Roughness", "Sibling Rivalry", "The Boy With the Green Hair", "Dune", or any other Scott or Dean movies are being shown anywhere. - you check "Murphy Brown" to see if Scott is on this week. :) -------------------Margaret A. Mihoerck (aka Star Pirate)-------------------- *Trek Fan *X-Phile *Leaper "I am not full of virtues and noble qualities...I love, that is all. But I love strongly, exclusively, steadfastly." George Sand -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jenlcb@aol.com (JenLCB) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 6 Feb 1995 16:30:28 -0500 Oh I know....you know you're an obsessed leper when... You wake up in the middle of the night and you think your husband is Sam, and you become more excited than you have in weeks! --Jen, to whom this has *NEVER* happened -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jenlcb@aol.com (JenLCB) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 6 Feb 1995 16:32:55 -0500 I'm glad I'm not the only one who said "Leper" when I meant "Leaper." By the way, my friend Denice is a preschool teacher (or was up until she quit last week) and one time she was discussing TV with a 4 yr old. He said he was really Sam, and that he was telling Al all about her. She asked him what he was there to do, and he said AL hadn't told him yet. She promised him she wouldn't give his secret away, and that she would offer him all she help she could. --Jen, who doesn't know how to have a little quote at the end of my messages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 7 Feb 1995 10:44:24 GMT Hello! prflatt@ibm.net wrote: :> Yep, typo. I meant 615= june 15, Al's bday and the day before :>mine. :>Stacy (and evidently your bday too! =) Yes, isn't that great... :-))))) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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 you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 7 Feb 1995 10:49:32 GMT Hello! prflatt@ibm.net wrote: :>In <3gl5gf$hf@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: :>> :>>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... [etc. etc.] :>Julia, you are not alone! Sounds just like me when I hadn't taped :>all of the QLs yet! Maybe it's the b day... Yes, probably... We Gemini are supposed to be really nervous most of the time anyway. ;) Yesterday was another one of these, well, un-enjoyable Mondays, and it got worse and worse as the day went on, so I decided to skip one class to get home in time for watching QL when it was actually on TV instead of worrying about my VCR. (I really do hope the professor whose class it was doesn't read this. :-} ) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 7 Feb 1995 13:09:27 GMT JenLCB (jenlcb@aol.com) wrote: : Oh I know....you know you're an obsessed leper when... : You wake up in the middle of the night and you think your husband is Sam, : and you become more excited than you have in weeks! : --Jen, to whom this has *NEVER* happened Jen -- Maybe it's never happened, but if you're even *thinking* about it, I'm not surprised your husband won't let you watch it anymore. :) (Actually, come to think of it, I'm surprised my husband still lets *me* watch it......and Murphy Brown.....and the movies....) Jenni B. (who knows what you're talking about!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: you know your an obsessed Date: 9 Feb 1995 12:11:20 GMT Hello! Hmm... this one might only be understandable to Germans, but I'll post it anyway. :) Yesterday I finally got an opportunity to look at the planned German orthography reform in all its glory (ahem), and while reading this information booklet I couldn't get one picture out of my mind: Al, looking VERY worried, saying, "Sam, you *really* messed up..." CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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: "A. Stabler" Subject: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:42:49 -0600 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: the fashion brand name Cavaricci looks uncomfortably close to the name Calavicci--and you're tempted to buy the shirt you've seen for that exact reason. *stands up* "Hi, my name is Andie. I'm an obsessed Leaper and I can't go to LeapCon." *sob* "I joined this support because I WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE DEAN STOCKWELL!!!!!" *sob* *wail* *cry* BTW, whoever was asking about the UFO episode. It's called "Star Light. Star Bright." --Andie -- "She has the biggest, roundest--" "Camera lens in Vietnam. Yes, I know." --Al and Sam "Quantum Leap: The Leap Home II--Vietnam" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 17 Feb 1995 00:37:14 GMT In , "A. Stabler" writes: >You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: >the fashion brand name Cavaricci looks uncomfortably close to the name >Calavicci--and you're tempted to buy the shirt you've seen for that exact >reason. My goodness, it took a few moments for me to realize it WASN'T Calavicci! > >*stands up* >"Hi, my name is Andie. I'm an obsessed Leaper and I can't go to >LeapCon." >*sob* >"I joined this support because I WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE DEAN STOCKWELL!!!!!" >*sob* >*wail* >*cry* Sounds like me. =-( Just replace Andie with: Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ez040692@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Margaret Mihoerck) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 17 Feb 1995 07:03:56 GMT pflatt@primenet.com wrote: : In , "A. Stabler" writes: : >You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: : >the fashion brand name Cavaricci looks uncomfortably close to the name : >Calavicci--and you're tempted to buy the shirt you've seen for that exact : >reason. : My goodness, it took a few moments for me to realize it WASN'T : Calavicci! : > : >*stands up* : >"Hi, my name is Andie. I'm an obsessed Leaper and I can't go to : >LeapCon." : >*sob* : >"I joined this support because I WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE DEAN STOCKWELL!!!!!" : >*sob* : >*wail* : >*cry* : Sounds like me. =-( : Just replace Andie with: : Stacy Can I join, too?! This is definitely a pain that should not be left inside...no, this is a pain that should be shared with others who can understand!! *sigh* Maybe I'll be able to go next year...but that doesn't mean that I don't want to go to this one! I think I feel a marathon coming on...it definitely won't be the same, but it'll help a little... MAM -------------------Margaret A. Mihoerck (aka Star Pirate)-------------------- *Trek Fan *X-Phile *Leaper "I am not full of virtues and noble qualities...I love, that is all. But I love strongly, exclusively, steadfastly." George Sand -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 19 Feb 1995 00:21:11 GMT Valerie Levy (vl001d@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) wrote: : I totally agree - btw this group still needs a name! =) : Val : founder of the quantum leap con support group (see what I mean, just doesn't : work....) : and *desperately* would like to go to the con! OK, these may be tacky, but at least I'm making the effort.... PQL - Project Qrying Lots SAADS - Sam And Al Despression Society 8 1/2 Months - How long this weekend *feels* knowing I'm not there... SAM - Sad And Miserable AL - Another LeapCon (and we'll be there) (Yeah, these *are* pretty bad.....) Humbly submitted, Jenni B. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 19 Feb 1995 01:53:26 GMT I have got to vote for "Project Qrying Lots" PQL. At least you brought a smile to my lips tonight.. -- Freda whaleyf@mail.firn.edu Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) Member of DIGAS (Dean's Impish Grin Appreciation Society) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mrobert@pogonip.scs.unr.edu (Robert Moore) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 19 Feb 1995 17:43:20 GMT True story follows: one night as we were falling asleep, I asked my wife how she feel if Sam were to Leap into at that moment. Her response, "Ooooooo." I admit I caught here when she was weak and tired, but do you think I'll _ever_ let her forget it? Naaaaaa. By the by, she's the cute redhead hanging out with Ginjer Buchanan at LeapCon. Please tell her I said, "Hi!" (*snicker*) bob -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 19 Feb 1995 20:33:38 GMT Freda Lee Whaley (fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote: : I have got to vote for "Project Qrying Lots" PQL. : At least you brought a smile to my lips tonight.. : -- : Freda whaleyf@mail.firn.edu : Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) : Member of DIGAS (Dean's Impish Grin Appreciation Society) Thanks, Freda. Now I know they weren't *all* hopelessly tacky. :) Jenni B. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 20 Feb 1995 10:24:40 GMT Hello! Margaret Mihoerck (ez040692@rocky.ucdavis.edu) wrote: :>pflatt@primenet.com wrote: :>: In , "A. Stabler" writes: :>: >You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: :>: >the fashion brand name Cavaricci looks uncomfortably close to the name :>: >Calavicci--and you're tempted to buy the shirt you've seen for that exact :>: >reason. :>: My goodness, it took a few moments for me to realize it WASN'T :>: Calavicci! [Gee, I really shouldn't quote that much.] *grin* Me too; I first did read "Calavicci" instead of "Cavaricci" until I realized that this sentence up there was about these two being two *different* words... so I had to re-parse it. ;) But speaking of Al, I've noticed that my clothing style got a bit more... well... multi-colored since I started watching QL, and some days ago I realized I tend to "talk with my hands" a lot nowadays... the funny thing is, I realized this while talking (yes, with sometimes more gestures than words ;) to a friend of mine called Sami, which happens to be the Finnish form of... guess what. Must be that birthday thing. ;) :>: >*stands up* :>: >"Hi, my name is Andie. I'm an obsessed Leaper and I can't go to :>: >LeapCon." :>: >*sob* :>: >"I joined this support because I WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE DEAN STOCKWELL!!!!!" :>: >*sob* :>: >*wail* :>: >*cry* :>: Sounds like me. =-( :>: Just replace Andie with: :>: Stacy :>Can I join, too?! This is definitely a pain that should not be left :>inside...no, this is a pain that should be shared with others who can :>understand!! *sob* Count me in, too... I'm living on the wrong continent, I guess... :-((( CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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: phd@bf.rmit.edu.au (Paul Duncanson) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 20 Feb 1995 11:22:01 GMT lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) writes: >Valerie Levy (vl001d@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) wrote: >: I totally agree - btw this group still needs a name! =) >OK, these may be tacky, but at least I'm making the effort.... >PQL - Project Qrying Lots >SAADS - Sam And Al Despression Society >8 1/2 Months - How long this weekend *feels* knowing I'm not there... >SAM - Sad And Miserable >AL - Another LeapCon (and we'll be there) How about Safety Net. No-one should Leap without one. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Paul "Sir Robin" Duncanson phd@otto.bf.rmit.edu.au "You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are dumber than THAT." - J.R. "Bob" Dobbs ______________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 21 Feb 1995 02:25:19 GMT > >But speaking of Al, I've noticed that my clothing style got a bit >more... well... multi-colored since I started watching QL, and some days >ago I realized I tend to "talk with my hands" a lot nowadays... the >funny thing is, I realized this while talking (yes, with sometimes more >gestures than words ;) to a friend of mine called Sami, which happens to >be the Finnish form of... guess what. The talking with my hands! Oh boy! I do that sooooooo much since I started watching! Also, When I use a calculator w/ a pen in my hand, it is reminicent of Al and the cigar! Now, don't worry, I don't smoke. =-) I just hold pens like that when I use Ziggy! My calculator. > >Must be that birthday thing. ;) Definatly. =-) I still can't get over how neat that is! BTW, I checked out a book on names, and there were a lot of cool Finnish names int here. They looked really neat, but I had no idea how to prouncounce most of them! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Elwyn Ying Dak Chow) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 22 Feb 1995 04:14:46 GMT In article <3i0r3q$dck@news.primenet.com> pflatt@primenet.com writes: >In , "A. Stabler" writes: >>You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: >>the fashion brand name Cavaricci looks uncomfortably close to the name >>Calavicci--and you're tempted to buy the shirt you've seen for that exact >>reason. > >My goodness, it took a few moments for me to realize it WASN'T >Calavicci! >> >>*stands up* >>"Hi, my name is Andie. I'm an obsessed Leaper and I can't go to >>LeapCon." >>*sob* >>"I joined this support because I WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE DEAN STOCKWELL!!!!!" >>*sob* >>*wail* >>*cry* > >Sounds like me. =-( >Just replace Andie with: >Stacy > "Hi, my name is Elwyn. I'm an obsessed Leaper who hangs around Star Trek fans ,when I'm not in cyberspace, who can't even like Quantum Leap." *mega-sob* *cry* "I'm also bummed out because I want to use my Uni's scanner and someone else is using it!" *wail* "I don't know why I joined this support group!" \ \ \ \|/ / / / \ \ \\|// / / \ \ / / > > > > > O < < < < < > > > > > > --+-- < < < < < < > > > > > | < < < < < > > > > / \ < < < < / / \ \ Elwyn Chow / / //|\\ \ \ eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au / / / /|\ \ \ \ *** Pavlov's bell and Quantum Leap both cause drooling. Cool! *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: 22 Feb 1995 12:27:52 GMT Hello! pflatt@primenet.com wrote: :>The talking with my hands! Oh boy! I do that sooooooo much since I started :>watching! Yesterday I noticed that one of my lecturers does it a lot, too. Maybe one day I'll have enough courage to walk up to her and ask her if she's a Leaper, too... :>Also, When I use a calculator w/ a pen in my hand, it is reminicent :>of Al and the cigar! Now, don't worry, I don't smoke. =-) I just hold pens like :>that when I use Ziggy! My calculator. Hmm... that's funny... I have a very fancy :) notebook with a pen to point at the screen with instead of clicking at things with a mouse. (I have a trackball too, for emergencies, but it's not as cool. :) I guess I should sort of observe myself when I'm using it... But then, maybe I shouldn't. I already spend most of my online life in this newsgroup and I keep thinking QL thoughts and doing QL things during the rest of my time... maybe I should dig out some of my Star Trek books to have something else to think about. Or maybe I should just study really hard for that exam tomorrow AND try really hard not to sort of cross-reference everything I have to learn about for that exam to something QL-related... but this is going to be really hard, as most of the stuff I have to know is about history in some way or another, and I keep thinking things like, "Gee, if Sam would have leapt in at that moment, then...", and besides it's the class with the talking-with-her-hands lecturer. :-} :>>Must be that birthday thing. ;) :>Definatly. =-) I still can't get over how neat that is! BTW, I checked out :>a book on names, and there were a lot of cool Finnish names int here. :>They looked really neat, but I had no idea how to prouncounce most :>of them! Well, if you send me a list, I can tell you... or write some text about Finnish pronunciation for you... or something like that. I've been through that "Oh boy, how can anyone pronounce 'h"a"ay"oaie'" phase too, you know. (Er, well, not exactly. I didn't say "Oh boy" at that time, since I first watched QL *after* coming to Finland and learning how to pronounce that word. ;) And don't ask me about the time when I was practising to pronounce "tietokonelingvistiikka", which I felt I should be able to pronounce, since I'm studying it here. ;) Terveisin, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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: zchah12@ucl.ac.uk (Alexander Chen) Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper, Con support group and others Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 18:07:44 GMT In article <3i62tn$mtk@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) writes: >OK, these may be tacky, but at least I'm making the effort.... > >PQL - Project Qrying Lots >SAADS - Sam And Al Despression Society >8 1/2 Months - How long this weekend *feels* knowing I'm not there... >SAM - Sad And Miserable ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ohhhhh! Jenni! Surely this is blasphemy?!!! Are you suggesting that Sam is an acronym for S & M ?! ( That sounds even worse now!!! -- I was referring to Sad & Miserable, not anything else! ) I think you're ( we're ) treading on _very_ thin ice here...! >AL - Another LeapCon (and we'll be there) > >(Yeah, these *are* pretty bad.....) Well... _one_ of them might be... ;-) >Humbly submitted, > >Jenni B. Don't be offended Jenni, I was just joking :) Alex Chen. In London, where the LeapCon is _not_ happening -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: Quantumsims Date: 24 Feb 1995 19:44:15 GMT I find myself saying "I'm in trouble here" a lot, mentally adding "Al" to the end of it. :) And my use of the word "ca-ca" has expanded considerably. Not to mention "Oh Boy." Jenni B. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Shaw Subject: Re: Quantumsims Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 14:40:08 -0800 On 24 Feb 1995, lisa-anne wooldridge wrote: > I find myself saying "I'm in trouble here" a lot, mentally adding "Al" to > the end of it. :) > > And my use of the word "ca-ca" has expanded considerably. Not to mention > "Oh Boy." For the last five years, most people have given me quizzical looks when I refer to someone as a "nozzle". Definately my favorite quantumism. Also, my computer's broken monitor, that works if you hit it hard enough, has spawned the naming of my computer "Ziggy". Of course, I know a lot of readers here have their own Ziggys. I also have a remote control named Ziggy. Keep on leaping! Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Shaw Subject: Re: you know you are obsessed... Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 03:28:49 -0800 I was watching the X-files this week and they had a "Blake Towers construction site" scene. What popped into my head? Why "Blake Plaza" from "A Little Miracle", of course! There's a leap-reference for every situation... Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Shaw Subject: Re: you know you are obsessed... Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 03:54:30 -0800 Uh-oh...Matt broke out his physics book again; look out. Hope nobody mentioned these before and I missed it... RuTh (Ruthenium and Thorium) - Ruthie, or Dr. Ruth BeLiSArIO - Uncle Don BeLiSArIUS - Uncle Don's company I know, I know, there are two L's, but there's no "legal" way to do that... BeAcKS - Dr. Beaks, if that's how it's spelled. SWISS CHeEsEs - what Al and Sam were in TLB. Note that "W" is the "abbreviation" for Tungsten. Why does Zinc have to be Zn ?!?!? I was going to spell "nozzle". Oh well...enough for now... Keep on leaping! Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christine Finecy Subject: Re: Quantumsims Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 15:30:52 -0600 On 24 Feb 1995, lisa-anne wooldridge wrote: > I find myself saying "I'm in trouble here" a lot, mentally adding "Al" to > the end of it. :) > > And my use of the word "ca-ca" has expanded considerably. Not to mention > "Oh Boy." > > Jenni B. > > You too... I have actually started using the phrase "Bing, Bango, Bongo" as an exclaimation. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- ## "This is the way the world ends... ** This is the way the world ends... Christine Finecy ## This is the way the world ends... cf3@evansville.edu ** Not with a BANG, but a whimper." a.k.a. "Vampire" ## ** -T.S. Elliot ## "The Hollow Men" ****************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jenlcb@aol.com (JenLCB) Subject: Re: Quantumsims Date: 25 Feb 1995 16:33:28 -0500 I forget the exact quote, but the word is : HINKY--as in, "Things are a little *hinky* around here!" This word was used in the "Fugitive" movie. Tommy LEe Jones' assistant uses it, and he looks at him, and says not to use that word again or something. It was really funny, and it had me giggling and clapping my hands! :) Also, 2 Easters ago my boyrfriend John and I (now my husband) were driving home, and he said, "It's Easter. Oh boy!" I started laughing hysterically, thinking, "Wow! How cool!" But it turned out he wasn't using a Quantumism. He was using a Cronkitism! This was before I was born, but Walter Cronkite, on the news in 1969, said, "A man on the moon! Oh boy!" John later said he thought it would be cool to have had Sam leap into Walter Cronkite just after he said "A man on the moon--" and then he realizes where he is, and who he is, and says, kinda quietly, "Oh boy...." Pretty clever of the old boy, wasn't it??? --jen, who hasn't been able to *totally* convert her husband to a leaper Be curious, though interfering friends my frown Get furious at each attempt to hold you down. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cornerj@cyberspace.com (Jeremiah Corner) Subject: Ziggy he/she thing! Date: 26 Feb 1995 11:16:14 -0800 Ok, I think I figured out whats with this Ziggy he/she thing...but don't quote me I'm not sure. It may/may not be true. But hey, I'd buy it if someone offered it. OOOOK, Now in 'Shock Theater' Sam gets shocked and Beeks explains his 'personalities' as other 'ego's filling in where there is a gap...So, other persons egos can cause change in personality (understatement) SOOOO, If I remember correctly in the episode where Al and Sam switch, near the end Sam is yelling at Ziggy...and so... ---------------------- Sam: What if Al doesn't have xxhrs? Ziggy: I believe your brain is still slightly magna-fluxed Dr. Beckett or you would remember, I never experance guilt. That is a flaw found only in human computers. Try me again in xxhrs. Sam: Ziggy! Dona: It's no use Sam. Sam: Why did I have to give 'HIM' Barabra Strizan (excuse the butcher on the spelling) ego. ^^^ -------------------------------------- Ego, A Female Ego, the computer might be male, but act like a female...Why? Tina? Change in time? Someone Trip over something? Intentional? Who knows, but that might explain why 'HE' acts the way 'HE' does :=-) Also, if Ziggy wasn't at least part female, he wouldn't have made the comment.... -------------------------------- Sam: Tina get me a fermies suit Ziggy: Oooo, Nice legs Dr. Beckett -------(Sillyness Follows)--------- Jeremy: Isn't it scary when you can remember quotes and you haven't see the episode since it orginally aired, and you were half-asleep? Ziggy: Yes, It certainly is Jeremy. Jeremy: I thought so. ------(Sillyness Ends)----- You have no idea how hard it was to keep a 'Nice Butt' comment out of that last bit >;-> :=-) Jeremy. cornerj@cyberspace.com - Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and then getting out of the way before it is understood. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 27 Feb 1995 10:06:03 GMT Hello! JenLCB (jenlcb@aol.com) wrote: :>when you are subbing and the teacher is there in the morning to get you :>started, and she says, "Today the 8th graders will be playing Bingo"and :>you mentally finish, "...Bango, Bongo." *grin* This reminds me very much of my thoughts every morning when I pass this "Bingo on Tuesday nights" sign on my way to university... ;) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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: how old are we? Date: 27 Feb 1995 10:35:25 GMT Hello! Linda Freund (RFCX68B@prodigy.com) wrote: :>I :>enjoy the show because it takes me back to my past -- not the past as in :>100 years. This is my lifetime they're talking about. Unfortunately this hardly ever happens to me - I guess I'm too young to have a past. ;) But sometimes QL takes me back to my mother's past - you know, the fifties and sixties, and also the forties sometimes (like in The Leap Back, which is one of my favorites :) . It's really interesting to see times my mother gave me a Middle European view of from an American point of view... especially if important historical events (I mean, things that made it to the headlines or at least got noticed both in Europe and America) are mentioned! CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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: Obsessed Leaper; dates Date: 28 Feb 1995 08:13:28 GMT Hello! A few days ago I was doing some kind of general knowledge test (for those of you familiar with German magazines, it was published some time at the end of last year in Der Spiegel) and one of the test questions was about associating dates with important historical events... Now, June 17, 1953 is quite an important day in German history. (No, I'm not sure exactly what happened then. Please don't flame me for that. ;) And I suppose you all can guess what my first thought on seeing that date was... of course nothing even remotely associated with German history, but "Hey, Sam was born in that year... and look, that day is just two days after Al's birthday!" In Germany they also did a survey on the Germans' general knowledge based on these questions. I wonder if they got any answers like that... fortunately they never asked me! ;) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.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: kebl0036@sable.ox.ac.uk (James Saunders) Subject: Re: you know you are obsessed... Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 15:08:39 GMT pflatt@primenet.com wrote: : GdTiFW -- God, Time, Fate, Whatever is Leaping Sam around Gadolinium, Titanium, Fluorine, Tungsten : BeTh -- Beth, Al's 1st wife Beryllium, Thorium : Er -- ER, the tv show that many QL alum have appeared on Erbium -- ________________________________________________________________________ | 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/ | |------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "I couldn't play chopsticks in chinatown" | | -Sam, "Blind Faith" | |________________________________________________________________________| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ksmit2@metz.une.edu.au (Kathryn Smith) Subject: Re: You know you're obssessed... Date: 1 Mar 1995 10:21:35 +1100 Just thought I'd enter the thread... You know you're an obssessed QLer when a friend comes over and asks if you want to play Bingo and you run to the VCR. Yes, I know, but I couldn't resist. Watched Mirror Image again last night - still cry at the end... K. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 17:41:49 -0600 Here we go again folks! You know you're an obsessed Leaper when: You're riding back to your dorm on the bus after your last class and you see a shop called "Dean's Women's World"--and you start laughing out loud for no apparent reason. Honest to God! This just happened to me about an hour ago. I'm sure everyone thought I was completely crazy. (Of course, they were right!) --Andie P.S. I was the one who posted the quote about Al's five stages of love. I'll dig it up and repost it later. -- "This isn't fair. A beautiful body like that and I'm just thinking PURE THOUGHTS! Dammit!" --Admiral Al Calavicci "Quantum Leap: The Leap Back" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------