From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 1 Mar 1995 02:53:09 GMT Dean's Womens Wear? That's great. "ROTFL" You should get a picture of it, scann it, and put it in the "Gif" files. Now don't ask me how to do this as I get my "gif" picks from Elwyn. :-) -- 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: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 1 Mar 1995 17:42:19 GMT Freda Lee Whaley (fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote: : Dean's Womens Wear? That's great. "ROTFL" You should : get a picture of it, scann it, and put it in the "Gif" files. : Now don't ask me how to do this as I get my "gif" picks from Elwyn. :-) : -- : Freda whaleyf@mail.firn.edu : Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) : Member of DIGAS (Dean's Impish Grin Appreciation Society) Ooh I like it! :) I was just in a time management class for three hours this morning. One of the time management techniques, they told us to mange projects better, is called the "Swiss-cheese" approach. I started laughing, and since this class encompassed any employee of the university that was on staff, I didn't know anyone in the class and they didn't know me, So of course, they didn't see why I was laughing so uproariously. Naturally I thought of Leapers in general, our tongue in cheek reference to us all beeing swiss cheesed, and of course I thought of our favorite Quantum Physicist time-travler. :) What they were actually refering to was setting mini deadlines for your projects like breaking off little pieces of cheese, or picturing a hunk of swiss cheese, and looking at plugging the holes as mini deadlines to the project. I got this picture of a Sam in my mind that would not go away, and Al right there, helping Sam to plug up the holes in this hunk of swiss cheese. Am I obsessed or what? Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life." Addendum: Did you know that there are 86,400 seconds in a day? (24 hrs) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Shaw Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 16:34:12 -0800 You and your roommate are riding your bikes to school, whistling, humming, etc. the theme to Quantum Leap. Also, when I am banging Ziggy (my remote control), I (try to) make the peculiar sounds she makes on the show...pretty bad, I know... Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 2 Mar 1995 13:10:35 GMT The pictures on your wall at work -- pictures of family, people you've interviewed, Lion King stuff, encouraging little sayings -- instantly become overshadowed by an 8x10 of two guys (Scott & Dean) you've never met, a picture bought at a Con you didn't attend, a picture bought for you by a friend you met thru the QL group and barely knew but trusted anyhow with a wad of money because *she* was going to the Con. Oh, and did I mention that very few people you work with will *ever* realize the significance of this picture to you? *sigh* It's a great pic. Thank you, Nancy! *hug* Jenni B. "Please let there be one final Leap." -- Fate's Wide Wheel, unaired 2nd verse "Glitter Rock" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 2 Mar 1995 13:40:57 GMT You have a school project in US history to write a letter from a soldier who just survived a major battle, and you pick Guadalcanal and Mike wrote it to Kelly. In the letter, you mention Tom, Suzanne, and the Cherry Buster! (From the Leap Back). Of course you watch TLB for research! STacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@kakadu2.ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 14:12:45 GMT In article Matt Shaw writes: >You and your roommate are riding your bikes to school, whistling, >humming, etc. the theme to Quantum Leap. > >Also, when I am banging Ziggy (my remote control), I (try to) make the >peculiar sounds she makes on the show...pretty bad, I know... > >Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu Gosh! It is hard to try to make handlink squeals from a human throat. I feel totally stupid too when I realise how bad I do it too. \ \ \ \|/ / / / \ \ \\|// / / \ \ / / > > > > > O < < < < < > > > > > > --+-- < < < < < < > > > > > | < < < < < > > > > / \ < < < < / / \ \ Elwyn Chow / / //|\\ \ \ eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au / / / /|\ \ \ \ eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au "Vengence is mine, thus say-eth the hologram!" - Sam, The Leap Back -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pluim@xs4all.nl Subject: You know you really love Al when... Date: 2 Mar 1995 21:17:25 GMT You know you really love Al when you.... ...got a picture of him as a screensaver! (With the shortest time of delay possible of course!) :) Marianne "In case you haven't noticed, it's been a long time since I've been in control" -- Sam in "Catch a falling star" - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 3 Mar 1995 02:12:53 GMT When.. You are planning a banquet for the Senors and the other people want an Italian theme, and you say "Volare!" Well, it does mean something that could work for a theme... Anyway, 2 people liked it, but for the rest, let'sjust say it didn't fly! =-) STacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pluim@xs4all.nl Subject: QL vocabulary Date: 3 Mar 1995 22:17:34 GMT Ever since I started watching Quantum Leap, (and especially since I read the quotes-file), I discovered a few changes in my day-to-day vocabulary :) I've read about this phenomenon in a few other articles, but I thought collecting them all in one thread would be nice. As for me...I find myself using the following words and expressions pretty darn often: * Leap (I use the word 'leaping' far too much. 'Leaping into bed', 'leaping into the car', etc.) * Ain't that a kick in the butt * Oh, boy * Yumola! * Oh, ain't that the truth... * Ziggy ("Ziggy" has become my word for 'computer' in general, but I always use it when I talk to mine.... "C'mon Ziggy, speed it up!") (As a matter of fact....I _started_ talking to my computer since QL...) :) (And I'm soooo dissapointed when it doesn't do *squeeck!* when I wack it!) * Original history (Hehehe, but people usually don't notice the weird meaning of this one!) * The '$10 hooker' expression (I know, I know....this is not a pretty one, but it gets the job done!) :) * Don't investigate this too closely (Thanks for this one, Don B.!) * Swiss-cheesed * Take a hike, Mr. Morals! * Tacky shirts (I know, tacky shirts have been around longer than QL, but I started to like 'em!) :) * Now look what the pig brought in... * Volare... (I'll just burst out into singing this one when everything else fails.) :) Anyone else on this one?? Marianne "Volare..." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@kakadu2.ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: Re: You know you really love Al when... Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 11:45:10 GMT In article <3j5cl5$2mt@news.xs4all.nl> pluim@xs4all.nl writes: >You know you really love Al when you.... > >...got a picture of him as a screensaver! >(With the shortest time of delay possible of course!) :) > > >Marianne >"In case you haven't noticed, it's been a long time since I've been in control" > -- Sam in "Catch a falling star" - I used to have the picture of Ziggy that is found in the QL Primer as wallpaper when I used MS Windows. I don't use it anymore because it was in GIF format and the conversion from GIF to BMP was lousy. When running XWindows on Unix, I used to use a big copy of that picture of Ziggy or lots of little Sam-in-the-accelerator pics as wallpaper. Once a friend of mine saw Sam and asked if that was a man on fire. :-) ___________ Elwyn Chow | * | "Ain't that a kick in the butt?" Science & Electrical Engineering | * | - Admiral Al Calavicci, University Of Melbourne | O-* | Quantum Leap | |__H | eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au | | | "H, in this precise Engineering eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au | / \ | diagram stands for handlink!" ----------- - me :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: Re: QL opening and You know you love Al when..... Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 16:19:44 -0600 Elwyn-- I know that one scene where Al is hitting the handlink with the annoyed expression is from "The Great Spontini." "Uh oh, Sam. I think I killed it." This I just have to put in here. Last night, I was in my RA's room and we were talking about Quantum Leap. (Actually, she was trying to coerce me into lending her one of my QL tapes.) She had just tossed The Lion King into the VCR and there were previews running. One of them was for "Angels in the Outfield." As we were talking and watching, a scene came on where Christopher Lloyd was talking to the little kid who plays the lead. He looks at the kid and says, "Only you can see and hear me." He then puts on an American League ump cap and says, "Call me Al." My RA and I were rolling on the floor laughing when we saw that scene. --Andie -- "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" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: phykmb@caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Kevin Martin Burt) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 09:12:11 GMT YOu know you are an obsessed Leaper when... You turn down a date with a female you have fancied for ages so that you can watch QL..... (sad but true) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Its amazing what you can do without a brain..... Kevin Burt phykmb@caledonia.hw.ac.uk Optoelectronics and Laser Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: You know you're obsessed... Date: 6 Mar 1995 21:27:14 GMT My Mom called last night to tell me that she & Dad are taking a few days to go to St. Louis. She asked for suggestions on what to do while there. Of course, I told her about the Arch, the zoo, and Six Flags...all the time thinking to myself "And find Scott Bakula's old neighborhood while you're there!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're obsessed... Date: 7 Mar 1995 01:16:47 GMT lisa-anne wooldridge (lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : My Mom called last night to tell me that she & Dad are taking a few days : to go to St. Louis. She asked for suggestions on what to do while there. : Of course, I told her about the Arch, the zoo, and Six Flags...all the : time thinking to myself "And find Scott Bakula's old neighborhood while : you're there!" In a related item this weekend, I saw an ad for a cheap romantic vacation. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was for St. Louis. My first thought was that's where Scott grew up. :) Nancy trying to post from home instead of work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Shaw Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 20:17:12 -0800 On Mon, 6 Mar 1995, Kevin Martin Burt wrote: > YOu know you are an obsessed Leaper when... > > You turn down a date with a female you have fancied for ages so that you can > watch QL..... (sad but true) OK, I've got two projects for r.a.s.t.q-l: 1.) We form soc.support.obsession.quantum-leap 2.) We all pitch in to buy poor Kevin a VCR! Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu Sam: "Is there anything you haven't done?" Al: "No! Oh wait...There's these twins at the fitness center..." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: L.F.Blackwell@massey.ac.nz Subject: Re: You know you really love Al when... Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 19:57:55 +1200 Elwyn Chow Wrote: >When running XWindows on Unix, I used to use a big copy of that picture of >Ziggy or lots of little Sam-in-the-accelerator pics as wallpaper. Once a friend >of mine saw Sam and asked if that was a man on fire. :-) I just thought I had to say "me too" re the Sam-in-the-accelerator pics as wallpaper. It's on a communal computer and most people don't seem to know what it is. How sad! Kerry P.S. This is my first post (but I've been lurking for a LONG while), so "Hi everyone." ------------------------------------------------------------------- The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes, like bacteria. - The Vor Game Lois McMaster Bujold Kerry Blackwell e-mail c/- L.F.Blackwell@massey.ac.nz or MonitorRes@massey.ac.nz ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 7 Mar 1995 14:25:42 GMT Matt Shaw (ez053178@peseta.ucdavis.edu) wrote: : OK, I've got two projects for r.a.s.t.q-l: : 1.) We form soc.support.obsession.quantum-leap I'll sign up as charter member and group discussion leader. (Finally, a use for that master's degree in counseling. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 7 Mar 1995 15:12:07 GMT lisa-anne wooldridge (lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : Matt Shaw (ez053178@peseta.ucdavis.edu) wrote: : : OK, I've got two projects for r.a.s.t.q-l: : : 1.) We form soc.support.obsession.quantum-leap : I'll sign up as charter member and group discussion leader. (Finally, a : use for that master's degree in counseling. :) I guess I'm really obsessed then. I don't want any help. I don't want to get rid of this obsession :) I've never had so much fun and challenges in my life, as when I became obsessed with QL :) Nancy (on break at her work computer where she can still post much easier) nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 7 Mar 1995 18:40:18 GMT nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : lisa-anne wooldridge (lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : : Matt Shaw (ez053178@peseta.ucdavis.edu) wrote: : : : 1.) We form soc.support.obsession.quantum-leap : : I'll sign up as charter member and group discussion leader. (Finally, a : : use for that master's degree in counseling. :) : I guess I'm really obsessed then. I don't want any help. I don't : want to get rid of this obsession :) I've never had so much fun : and challenges in my life, as when I became obsessed with QL :) Oh, Nancy, it's not to get rid of the obsession. :) It's to *wallow* in it with others who _understand_. :) Jenni B. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ez040692@rocky.ucdavis.edu (Margaret Mihoerck) Subject: Re: QL vocabulary Date: 8 Mar 1995 04:12:18 GMT pluim@xs4all.nl wrote: : Ever since I started watching Quantum Leap, (and especially since I read the : quotes-file), I discovered a few changes in my day-to-day vocabulary :) : I've read about this phenomenon in a few other articles, but I thought : collecting them all in one thread would be nice. : As for me...I find myself using the following words and expressions pretty darn : often: : * Leap : (I use the word 'leaping' far too much. 'Leaping into bed', 'leaping into the : car', etc.) : * Ain't that a kick in the butt : * Oh, boy : * Yumola! : * Oh, ain't that the truth... : * Ziggy : ("Ziggy" has become my word for 'computer' in general, but I always use it when : I talk to mine.... "C'mon Ziggy, speed it up!") : (As a matter of fact....I _started_ talking to my computer since QL...) :) : (And I'm soooo dissapointed when it doesn't do *squeeck!* when I wack it!) : * Original history : (Hehehe, but people usually don't notice the weird meaning of this one!) : * The '$10 hooker' expression : (I know, I know....this is not a pretty one, but it gets the job done!) :) : * Don't investigate this too closely (Thanks for this one, Don B.!) : * Swiss-cheesed : * Take a hike, Mr. Morals! : * Tacky shirts : (I know, tacky shirts have been around longer than QL, but I started to like : 'em!) :) : * Now look what the pig brought in... : * Volare... (I'll just burst out into singing this one when everything else : fails.) :) : Anyone else on this one?? : Marianne : "Volare..." Well, one that I use a lot is the ever-popular "nozzle"...especially when referring to bosses or politicians! :) My use of "ca-ca" has increased...I think the last time I used that one (when not inspired by Al) was when I was 10! I find myself singing "Fate's Wide Wheel" and "Somewhere in the Night" at work. I'm still waiting for someone to overhear and ask me what I am singing. Then when I tell them, I'll get that "Poor thing...she doesn't get out much" look... Ah, phooey on them! They don't know what they're missing! :) ...................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: pslandma@prairienet.org (Pamela S. Landman) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 8 Mar 1995 15:08:18 GMT Hello...my name is Pam and I'm leap obsessed. The show soundtrack tape mysteriously pops itself into my car tape deck while I'm driving to work. I find myself muttering "Gooshie, center me on my car keys," when I'm looking for same. And it's one of two things that I like better than chocolate. (Pardon me while I go wallow.) Leaping back to lurk.... -- Pam in Champaign -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 8 Mar 1995 17:18:36 GMT phykmb@caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Kevin Martin Burt) writes: > > YOu know you are an obsessed Leaper when... > > You turn down a date with a female you have fancied for ages so that you can > watch QL..... (sad but true) [Oh dear :-) perhaps you could have invited her to watch it with you?!] You turn down a cinema outing with the gang so that you can watch QL... (and never regret it: "8 1/2 Months" vs "Sleepless in Seattle") Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 8 Mar 1995 19:46:00 GMT Blue C. (blue@) wrote: : You turn down a cinema outing with the gang so that you can watch QL... : (and never regret it: "8 1/2 Months" vs "Sleepless in Seattle") : Blue. Hear, hear. I saw Sleepless when it came out on video. I don't understand what all the fuss was about. I'll take QL any day, over just about anything! Hi, my name is Jenni...and I'm QL obsessed.. Today, instead of painting my kitchen (just decorative work) and getting something "productive" done on my day at home, I sat down and watched "Nowhere to Hide" followed by USA's noon showing of "Good Morning, Peoria." Nearly 3 hours of Scott -- it's been a good day! :) Jenni B. <>< "Please let there be one final Leap." Quasi-official -- Fate's Wide Wheel, unaired 2nd verse Bday List Keeper "Glitter Rock" e-mail: lwooldri@silver.ucs.indiana.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pluim@xs4all.nl Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 8 Mar 1995 20:16:05 GMT * one hand in the air * Hi, my name is Marianne, and I am Leap obsessed. When I say something to my imaginairy friend Al out loud, I actually enjoy people asking: "Who's Al???" * wallow wallow wallow * (Maybe we can make this one the group cheer?) :) Marianne -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 8 Mar 1995 22:55:27 GMT You know you are obsessed when.... I don't like Chemistry class. in fact, I hate it. well, I procrastinate on the homewordk, and am doing horrible. Well, my friend, a fellow leaper, (from France!) is SMART in Chemistry, and is a GENIUS not unlike Sam. She will graduate at the same age Sam did!!!!!!!!! is fluent in 4 languages, is esp good in math and science, though excels in everything, ANYWAY... She made me a chemistry folder so I will remeber to do my homework. She put Scott on the cover!!!!!!! STacy (who just might start doing her Chem home work now...) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pluim@xs4all.nl Subject: Re: QL vocabulary Date: 9 Mar 1995 16:45:17 GMT In article , aba@westmx.westmont.edu (Anne Anderson) writes: >>* Ziggy >>("Ziggy" has become my word for 'computer' in general, but I always use it >>when I talk to mine.... "C'mon Ziggy, speed it up!") >>(As a matter of fact....I _started_ talking to my computer since QL...) :) >>(And I'm soooo dissapointed when it doesn't do *squeeck!* when I wack it!) >Gosh, I would think your computer would do worse than go *squeeck!* if you >wacked it. :) True, true. I only wack the monitor, actually.... > I've been talking to my computer since long before QL, >but the people I work with are used to it. My computer (which runs Linux, >a PC version of Unix) has the hostname of ziggy.westmont.edu and all the >computers in our Library (where I work) are named after fantasy characters. >So we have gandalf, arwen, eowyn, aragorn, etc. and also pooh, tigger, piglet, >and owl, and calvin and hobbes, and so on. I like that! Tiny amounts of Volts go thru a computer, you know. They're very sensitive... :) (And I _adore_ Calvin & Hobbes, btw!!) >>* Now look what the pig brought in... >I don't remember where this is from... "Look what the pig dragged in." "It's 'cat'." "You never lived in Puerto Rico." -- Angela, about Al, and Sam, "It's a Wonderful Leap" Marianne -- "The air is filthy and the cars are still on the ground, but we're working on it" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper Date: 10 Mar 95 10:57:28 +0500 Okay, how's this for an obssession story? "My name is Jennie and I am an obsessed Leaper" Over Christmas break my mind must have gotten swiss-cheesed because I totally forgot that I could stockpile QL eps to watch at school. (We don't get USA or the Sci-Fi channel in the dorms *sob!* so I have to go to the Baptist Student Union at eleven AM on MWF if I want to watch--they have FULL cable!!!:) ) Anyway, I didn't remember until the day before I had to go back to School that I could tape QL, so I set my VCR to rec the 11AM ep on USA...and didn't watch it so I could be surprised while unpacking. It turned out the ep I got was "Ghost Ship"--the only ep on a tape, mind you. Until Mardi Gras when I restocked my supply, I must have watched that one episode over fifteen times!!! At least the repeat viewing helped me to figure out what got Al so scared. AL: And we've flown out of the Triangle? How do you explain that? SAM: Could be that UFO that's been circling us. AL: (checking windows) UFO? WHat UFO? I don;t see any UFO. Here Sam walks behind Al. AL: Oh, boy..the TRiangle must have swallowed him up. Previously I had thought Al had been referring to the UFO, until about the fourth or fifth time through the ep. :) God Bless, Jennie Rowland -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 11 Mar 1995 23:16:14 GMT av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) writes: > > If I were to win the > lottery, the first thing I'd do is buy the QL rights from Universal > to see that the movie gets made (my way, of course... ;) ) Let's all hope that Barbara will win the lottery! Let's all start buying lottery tickets!! Let's all form a QL lottery group, thus increasing our chances!!! Just kidding. Well almost. I hope you're buying tickets, Barbara :-) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 12 Mar 1995 04:26:48 GMT In , blue@ (Blue C.) writes: >av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) writes: >> >> If I were to win the >> lottery, the first thing I'd do is buy the QL rights from Universal >> to see that the movie gets made (my way, of course... ;) ) > >Let's all hope that Barbara will win the lottery! Let's all start >buying lottery tickets!! Let's all form a QL lottery group, thus >increasing our chances!!! > >Just kidding. Well almost. I hope you're buying tickets, Barbara :-) > >Blue. Actually, not a bad idea! We could pool our money, buy a ton of tickets, eventually win, and then buy the rights! or, we could just pool our money, and eventually, we might just get enough to buy the rights without winning... There are a lot of leapers out there, you know! Or, how many of you get those publishers clearing house stuff? I'm sure that perhaps someday a leaper would win... Buying the rights from Universal is actually quite pluasable! =-) Stacy (Who is collection donations for buying the rights from Universal as we speak... er... read. =-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: What happened last week? Date: 13 Mar 1995 11:42:56 GMT Hello! Did anything important happen last week? I couldn't read news... and I couldn't watch QL on TV... and I couldn't watch old episodes I taped... I was on a study trip to Lapland for a week, and anybody familiar with Scandinavian geography knows that by going all the way up to Tromso I managed to get a whole subcontinent in between me and all my QL stuff. *sigh* So, did I miss anything important in this group? Speaking of missing things: I certainly did miss QL during that week... I mean, all those Arctic culture museums and Saami sacred places were really interesting, but between them, on those long car rides through all sorts of taiga and tundra (with snow all the way up to your hips in some places, and the occasional reindeer trying to walk through it)... *sigh* again... Whenever I closed my eyes and went to sleep (which I did a lot on above-mentioned car rides) I dreamed something about QL, but it was too confused for me to remember any details after waking up. (Or maybe I was just being Swiss-cheesed again.) And of course I was worrying all week about what horrible things would probably happen to my VCR back in Helsinki in order to prevent it from taping last week's episode... :-} Worst (or best, depending on your point of view) one of the guys in our group took his Finnophone with him... er, Finnophone is what I and some (non-Finnish) friends call cellular phones because all the Finns seem to use them excessively (no offense meant to all Finns who happen to be reading this ;) ... and of course this guy used it excessively too (well, he's Finnish :) ... and every time he did so I thought it was a handlink and then of course was reminded of all the good QL stuff at home, so far out of reach... But there was one advantage of traveling around with an international group: we were speaking English most of the time, which meant I at last got around to using all those "Oh boy"s and other QL-isms stacked up in my brain's linguistic center. ;) But I'm afraid nobody could really appreciate them... And you can guess that when I came home last night the first thing I did was watch last week's episode. :) :) Phew. Sorry for going on and on and on like this, but I really had a lot of things on my mind during this trip. :-} BTW, Joerg, if you're reading this: Are you still looking for German QL fans? (You were the one looking for German QL fans, weren't you?) If so, check out de.soc.kontakte... when I mentioned QL there a few weeks ago I had no idea how many people in Germany actually know, let alone like, QL... :) 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: lajandy@aol.com (LAJAndy) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 14 Mar 1995 23:39:34 -0500 av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) wrote: >> If I were to win the lottery, the first thing I'd do is buy the QL rights from Universal to see that the movie gets made (my way, of course... ;) ) << YES!! That's it! Let's all play our various state lotteries and pool our winnings to make the QL Movie! Production decisions can be based on amount of winnings... Andy lajandy@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam: Do you have any data on Admiral Calavicci? Ziggy: He'll kiss the girls and make them cry. Quantum Leap, "The Leap Back" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: More you know you'r obsessed from me. : -) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 04:21:57 GMT Yes. More You Know You're Obsessed stories from me. You know that you're obsessed with Quantum Leap when you have to write a program in a computing language (C in my case yesterday and I had to write a program that sorted out three numbers in order) and you program the computer program to be arrogant, rude and egotistical to its users. :-) Yes! Computers should not be big number crunchers! I'm giving my programs ego so they can be breakthoughs! Yeah! ___________ Elwyn Chow | * | "Ain't that a kick in the butt?" Science & Electrical Engineering | * | - Admiral Al Calavicci, University Of Melbourne | O-* | Quantum Leap | |__H | eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au | | | "H, in this precise Engineering eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au | / \ | diagram, stands for handlink!" eydc@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au ----------- - me :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Derek Subject: Re: More you know you'r obsessed from me. : -) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 11:45:09 GMT On Fri, 17 Mar 1995, Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW wrote: > Yes. More You Know You're Obsessed stories from me. > > You know that you're obsessed with Quantum Leap when you have to write > a program in a computing language (C in my case yesterday and I had to write a > program that sorted out three numbers in order) and you program the computer > program to be arrogant, rude and egotistical to its users. :-) > Yes! Computers should not be big number crunchers! I'm giving my > programs ego so they can be breakthoughs! Yeah! > > > ___________ > Elwyn Chow | * | "Ain't that a kick in the butt?" > Science & Electrical Engineering | * | - Admiral Al Calavicci, > University Of Melbourne | O-* | Quantum Leap > | |__H | > eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au | | | "H, in this precise Engineering > eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au | / \ | diagram, stands for handlink!" > eydc@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au ----------- - me :) > > > You go! You'll have a ziggy up and running in no time!!! I-L-QL, Derek Huston | ---- ------ "Tis better to be silent | |-\ | ____ and thought a fool than | | \-| speak and remove all doubt." | ---- ------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: k086952@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie E. Elsila) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 18:33:13 GMT Hi, everyone! Just wanted to say how much I enjoy reading this newsgroup -- it's so friendly. I usually lurk because I don't have much to add to the conversation, but I guess I can add my own experience to this thread. I started watching QL my first year of college, which was also the last season of the show:-( Trying to follow the QL schedule on NBC was pretty difficult, but we found the reruns on USA and started watching them. To do so, we had to overcome a few obstacles. First, we had to use the dorm lounge TV, since it had cable. However, we had to use a pair of pliers to turn it on and off. NO problem -- we just kept our pliers handy. Then the TV broke. No problem -- I had a portable TV that we hauled down three flights of stairs to hook up to the cable every night. Then somebody stole the cable. We ran around frantically to all of our friends and found somebody with a VCR who let us borrow her connecting cable, which we then hauled downstairs with the TV to hook into the outlet. After a couple of months of this, the college did fix the TV and cable, so we got to finish the year watching QL in comfort:-) Jamie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lajandy@aol.com (LAJAndy) Subject: Re: More you know you'r obsessed from me. : - Date: 19 Mar 1995 17:14:11 -0500 eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) wrote: >> Yes! Computers should not be big number crunchers! I'm giving my programs ego so they can be breakthoughs! Yeah! << All right dude! I recorded some sound clips from "The Leap Back," so now my computer says "It's about time you got around to me" when it starts up. EGO IS COOL!! Andy lajandy@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam: Do you have any data on Admiral Calavicci? Ziggy: He'll kiss the girls and make them cry. Quantum Leap, "The Leap Back" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kboss35@news.calvin.edu (Karen Boss) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 20 Mar 1995 15:12:45 -0500 Hi, my name is Karen and I think I'm becoming an obsessed leaper...... I was sitting in biology class today taking notes when my professor started talking about 1953.....all I could think about was that it was Sam's birth year.....then it snowballed and I started thinking about the topic being discussed and what could've happened that Sam would've leapt in to change history for the better and.....well....I think I missed about 10 minutes of notes daydreaming about possible QL episodes....and thinking that Al would be wishing it was CHEMISTRY class or something like that.......it was MUCH more interesting than the lecture...... anything would be, but it was more fun dreaming about Sam and Al!!! I think I need some therapy! Two more weeks and I can watch at least nine eps of QL!!!! Does anyone know when the April schedule is coming out and if someone will post it on the newsgroup? Karen kboss35@ursa.calvin.edu *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-\ What's up with this IRC business, and can I get on- line with y'all? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kboss35@news.calvin.edu (Karen Boss) Subject: Re: Does anyone else.. Date: 20 Mar 1995 15:22:11 -0500 lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) writes: >Karen Boss (kboss35@news.calvin.edu) wrote: >: As soon as I get home from college, I will be taping all episode of >: QL....well, hopefully anyway. It'll mean taping over many movies and >: buying a load of new ones, but, personally, I think it's worth it. I may >: sound crazy, but hey, Scott's worth it! >Worth every minute of it!!!! I've actually taped nearly 2 sets now, the >first one was really random, getting what I could off of USA and NBC >first-runs at the same time, so the seasons are all mixed. Then I went >back and (even with cuts for more commercials) worked on 2nd set from USA >all in order. I only need 4 or 5 to finish out that set now. (Not to >mention the infamous QL Greatest Hits Video! :) >Jenni B. <>< Holy cow, woman! I hope that someday I might boast a complete library of QL episodes....that way I can watch any episode at any time.....now I've gotta find me a man who will sit on his butt and watch them with me! He's got to sweet, sensative, and understanding.....because I think that I'm getting way addicted to this whole thing! I'm so excited to see Sam and Al!!!! I haven't watched an entire ep for a loooooong time! I think I'm having withdrawal symptoms: i.e. talking to my computer, saying things like "What a nozzle!" and "Ain't that a kick in the butt?"....I've heard there are those who suffer similarly! It's an epidemic! =) CU! Karen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:04:59 -0600 Hi all. I'm doing this from my computer at home so it may look a little weird. Here's another Leaper-obsessed tale. My mother had dragged me out of bed yesterday morning and I had stumbled downstairs for my morning shot of caffeine. (sp) I was sitting there chugging away when she said to me "My God, you even wake up with these obsessions." It took me a minute to realize what she meant. I was sitting there drinking hot Earl Grey tea out of a mug with the QL logo and a picture of Al in his admiral uniform on it. My three obsessions in life are Star Trek, Dr. Who, and Quantum Leap. BTW, anybody notice that Scott still had his white hair in "Murphy Brown"? I'm happy. --Andie -- "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" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kboss35@news.calvin.edu (Karen Boss) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 22 Mar 1995 16:19:35 -0500 pflatt@primenet.com writes: >In , kboss35@news.calvin.edu (Karen Boss) writes: >>thinking that Al would be wishing it was CHEMISTRY class or something >>like that.......it was MUCH more interesting than the lecture...... >He He! Cute story, sorry I snipped so much. REminds me of me, except, now >I HAVE to pay attention in Chem class. BTW, why would Al rather be in >Chem? >Stacy Hi, Stacy! I just thought that with Al's train of thought anything that had to do with chemistry (i.e. body chemistry, physical attraction) would be interesting to him....sorry, I know it's a little far off, but I hope you see what I'm getting at! =) BTW, were you the one I read about who started doing chem homework after a friend gave you a folder with QL pics on it? Just wondering!! That's cool! I wish Sam would've been a teacher! I would never fall asleep during a lecture......then again, I might not catch most of the lecture as I would be too busy staring dreamily at the poor man! Yumola! Sorry, didn't mean to prattle on about my obsessions! Hee hee. =) This is fun. I'm glad I found this newgroup! Karen &*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*& "....it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it!" --Anne of Avonlea &*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*& -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: avid q.l. fan Date: 23 Mar 1995 08:26:59 GMT Hello! Derek (derek@winnie.fit.edu) wrote: :> My roomate always starts laughing :> when I recite the opening lines to each show. Obviously this roommate cannot appreciate your love for really good TV entertainment. ;) *grin* Last night, when I and one of my flatmates were watching some of the episodes I'd taped and she started singing along with the QL theme, I almost started laughing too, but then, who am I to laugh about things like this when I've got this obsession of having to drink O'boy brand cocoa (which would taste really good even if it had a different name, BTW) every time I watch QL... ;) 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: Hilary Bates Subject: Re: Does anyone else.. Date: 23 Mar 1995 21:12:46 GMT > As soon as I get home from college, I will be taping all episode of > QL....well, hopefully anyway. It'll mean taping over many movies and > buying a load of new ones, but, personally, I think it's worth it. I may > sound crazy, but hey, Scott's worth it! You know you're an Obsessed Leaper when... your weekly bill for videotape is bigger than your grocery bill... (quoted from a flyer found at the '94 Con.!) Hilary hbates@amgen.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: griz@cs.tulane.edu (Grizabella) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 24 Mar 1995 20:29:09 GMT Well... I myself notice my obsession when: 1) My fiance knows not to call me from 7-8 or 11-12 any weeknight. (Although it's not a problem now, since he's moved in with me-- now he just informs me "Your show is coming on in 10 minutes." As if I didn't know... :) ) 2) I can tell any episode by hearing the first (non-"Oh Boy") line or by watching the first 5 seconds-- and I can *name* the episode, not just tell the basic plot. (Last night, I was cleaning the kitchen or something, and glanced up to see the Leap Effect, then Sam's face. I immediately stated, "Justice." I could tell by the shirt he was wearing.) 3) I nearly tear apart a magazine when I glimpse a picture of Scott and realize that it's a new movie that will be coming out soon. 4) I have at least one copy of every episode that ever aired-- most of them I have two. 5) When I was leaving home for a week, I left my mother extensive notes on how to use the VCR, when to put in new tapes, and what to do in case the power went off at any point during the week. 6) I can list the majority of the episodes-- in order. *Sigh* Anyway... I've been away from the net for a while, unfortunately, so I haven't been able to respond to E-mail or News or anything, but I'm back now and I'm so HAPPY!!! :) P.S.: Someone had requested some tapes from me back months ago, and I never had a chance to get them to you because I lost net access and didn't have your address or anything. I apologize profusely for letting you down. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rassilon@aol.com (Rassilon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 24 Mar 1995 21:08:10 -0500 You know you're an obsessed leaper when... 1) You try to build an Accelerator, Waiting Room, Imaging Chamber, and Parallel Hybrid Computer all from household appliances. (If you hear my mum screaming that she can't find her hair dryer, please just keep quiet!) 2) Pressured to prove your theories or lose funding, you step into the Quantum Leap Accelerator...and VANISH! (Hey, if this happens, obsession is a POLITE word!) Well, hope someone found these amusing. I have to get back to work now. :) _________________________________________________________ "Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" _________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ai530@detroit.freenet.org (Debra Kayann Dahl) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 25 Mar 1995 18:28:13 GMT In a previous article, rassilon@aol.com (Rassilon) says: >You know you're an obsessed leaper when... > >1) You try to build an Accelerator, Waiting Room, Imaging Chamber, and >Parallel Hybrid Computer all from household appliances. (If you hear my >mum screaming that she can't find her hair dryer, please just keep quiet!) > >2) Pressured to prove your theories or lose funding, you step into the >Quantum Leap Accelerator...and VANISH! (Hey, if this happens, obsession >is a POLITE word!) > >Well, hope someone found these amusing. I have to get back to work now. >:) >_________________________________________________________ >"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer > falls into the pit which he digs for another." > -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" >_________________________________________________________ > ROTFL! And as long as we are talking obsessed! My 9 year old daughter (who is very shy and quite) has invented an imaginary friend named - you guessed it - Al! She loves talking to Al and occasionally tells me to watch where I'm walking or I'll bump into Al. I am watching her for other signs of obsessive behavior. BTW - someone want to tell me when (or if) I should start to worry. Debby -- ai530@detroit.freenet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 25 Mar 1995 18:37:47 GMT Rassilon (rassilon@aol.com) wrote: : You know you're an obsessed leaper when... : 1) You try to build an Accelerator, Waiting Room, Imaging Chamber, and : Parallel Hybrid Computer all from household appliances. (If you hear my : mum screaming that she can't find her hair dryer, please just keep quiet!) LOL! I LOVE IT! (Tell mum I'll send her a new hair dryer if it's really a problem!) :) Jenni B. <>< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 25 Mar 1995 23:01:57 GMT OK, two thoughts for now... #1 -- On my system, it says this particular Obsession thread was started by Andy. I suggest we take it as a challenge to keep it alive and going until he gets back to the group in a month or so. Any takers? #2 -- This morning my husband came into the room where I was reading a book (non-QL -- hey, I have to take a break sometime!:) ). I made the comment that whenever comes around I start feeling all warm and snuggly and wanting to cuddle. He said something about it being his "aura," and I about dropped my teeth! (And that would be hard to do, since they're still firmly implanted in my gums!) Then I got to thinking, if it *was* Sam who had leaped into Jim, and I kissed Jim (who has a beard), would I feel the beard? Or would I feel Sam's clean-shaven chin? WHich brings up a question: Sam didn't leap into too many hairy-faced guys (beard or mustache). Of those he did leap into, were any of them kissed, so that the SO might wonder? Oh well, just my experiences for the day. :) Jenni B. <>< Semi-official List Keeper - Bdays - E-mail addresses - Geographic locations e-mail: lwooldri@silver.ucs.indiana.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: L.F.Blackwell@massey.ac.nz (Kerry Blackwell) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:07:38 I had been reading all these posts and smugly (or should that be sadly?) deciding that I wasn't obsessed. I might be enthused, but I wasn't obsessed. Then (dramatic chords please) it caught up with me. I'm an avid cross-stitcher and I've been getting around to downloading a program to turn graphics into cross-stitch patterns for months. (Actually, I've been waiting until I had some money to pay for it and then my nice mother offered to do so for my birthday on Friday - thanks Mum!) Anyway, my first attempt to use it involved taking the picture of Sam in the Accelerator and seeing what happened. The information came in fine, but the colours were VERY strange. I have just spent the last hour going through my collection of blue cottons and fixing the colours and I think I'm happy with it now. All that's left is for me to go home and start stitching. So perhaps I'd better admit I'm obsessed after all. Kerry ------------------------------------------------------------------- The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes, like bacteria. - The Vor Game Lois McMaster Bujold Kerry Blackwell e-mail c/- L.F.Blackwell@massey.ac.nz ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:06:34 GMT I bet no one else does this... I used to number my rechargeable batteries so I could identify which ones needed to be recharged or don't need it. Now I give them names such as Ziggy, Al, Sam, Alia, Lothos and of course... Bingo Bango Bongo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : -) ___________ Elwyn Chow | * | "Ain't that a kick in the butt?" Science & Electrical Engineering | * | - Admiral Al Calavicci, University Of Melbourne | O-* | Quantum Leap | |__H | eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au | | | "H, in this precise Engineering eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au | / \ | diagram, stands for handlink!" eydc@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au ----------- - me :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: More "Obsessed Leaper" stuff... Date: 30 Mar 1995 09:04:21 GMT Hello! I'm still stuck at this §!üÅ()ö/ terminal with no ESC key, but I just had to write this... Yesterday me and my Leaper flatmate went to a cinema to watch "Stargate", and... (Warning: "Stargate" spoilers ahead) .. when they lifted that wall to reveal the Stargate I thought, wow, they have their own Accelerator Chamber... .. and when they entered the Stargate and this nice special effects scene was shown I thought, oh, they're leaping... .. and then, when those aliens dressed as Egyptian gods attacked, I spoiled it all by thinking, oops, there's the Borg again. ;) Oh yes, I almost forgot, at some time during my constant nit-picking about the movie's horrible confusing of incompatible periods from Egyptian history it occurred to me that Sam should have leaped in at some time during the production of that movie, for AFAIK he should have been able to detect and hopefully correct at least the worst mistakes... :) 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: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 31 Mar 1995 02:29:20 GMT ... when you go to a furniture store sale to buy bunk beds for your daughter (so she has extra room when friends come to spend the night), and you see that the sales lady who waits on you has the *first* name "Beckett" (HONEST!), you start looking for streaks of white in her bangs..... ...and you take the whole thing as a good omen about this being the right place and time to buy the beds... ...and when you tell your family about this at dinner, the daughter mumbles under her breath, "Like Sam Beckett." :) I coulda hugged her (but she was on the other side of the table and I would've gotten my shirt in the spaghetti sauce). :) Jenni B. <>< Sam and Al: "God's clean-up crew" That List Lady (It's a Wonderful Leap) - Birthdays - E-mail addresses - Geographic Locations --------------------------------------------------------------------------------