From: tkun@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Todd Kunioka) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper w Date: Mon, 1 May 95 02:58:49 GMT In <9504291346591.DLITE.leeja@delphi.com> leeja@delphi.com (Julianne Lee) writes: >> You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats >>are Gushie and Ziggy. > *here's Julianne, decloaking* > My dog is named Ziggy, but my cat is Spot. Am I semi-obsessed? >Julianne Hey, I had a cat named Spot, too. And, for the record, this was several years BEFORE Data got HIS cat! :-) Hmmm. Could this mean that Julianne is obsessed by both QL and Trek? Well, there is the "decloaking" phrase, too. Hmmm.... Cheers, Todd TTKUHIOK@ACD1.BYU.EDU (Ignore the address in the header, por favor) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ai530@detroit.freenet.org (Debra Kayann Dahl) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper w Date: 1 May 1995 15:38:50 GMT In a previous article, leeja@delphi.com (Julianne Lee) says: >> You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats >>are Gushie and Ziggy. > > *here's Julianne, decloaking* > My dog is named Ziggy, but my cat is Spot. Am I semi-obsessed? > >Julianne > > I received a pair of "Tiger" slippers from my kids for Christmas. They are cute and fuzzy with a tiger head at the toes and a tail at the heel (harder then the dickins to walk in, but after all they were a gift) Anyway, the left one is Sam, the right one is Al (we name -everything- in my family) So am I obsessed or are my kids just running my life too much? Debby -- ai530@detroit.freenet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ngener@aol.com (Ngener) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 1 May 1995 15:17:05 -0400 You know you're obsessed when ... You are listening to Elton John's Greatest Hits CD and "Rocket Man" makes you think of Sam, leaping around forever, alone "I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife, it's lonely out in space" The idea's the same Naomi (ngener@aol.com) "Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 1 May 1995 20:24:53 GMT Ngener (ngener@aol.com) wrote: : You know you're obsessed when ... : You are listening to Elton John's Greatest Hits CD and "Rocket Man" makes : you think of Sam, leaping around forever, alone : "I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife, it's lonely out in space" : The idea's the same : Naomi (ngener@aol.com) : "Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary : safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin Actually, I thought of Al during this song (even though I remember it from the first time it was popular) as he's the astronaut, and I always imagined him up in space after Beth has left him. I know, I'm hoplessly obsessed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper w Date: 1 May 1995 21:21:45 GMT ai530@detroit.freenet.org (Debra Kayann Dahl) writes: > I received a pair of "Tiger" slippers from my kids for Christmas. > They are cute and fuzzy with a tiger head at the toes and a tail > at the heel (harder then the dickins to walk in, but after all > they were a gift) > > Anyway, the left one is Sam, the right one is Al (we name > -everything- in my family) Oh boy! That's cute :-) Shouldn't Sam have been the right one, as the right side of the brain is the intuitive side, and the left side the action side? Though Al is pretty intuitive too, and Sam actually gets to do the action bit... *thoughtful frown* ...just ignore me :-) > So am I obsessed or are my kids just running my life too much? > Debby Umm... Both? ;-) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 1 May 1995 22:06:17 GMT ngener@aol.com (Ngener) writes: > You know you're obsessed when ... > > You are listening to Elton John's Greatest Hits CD and "Rocket Man" makes > you think of Sam, leaping around forever, alone > > "I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife, it's lonely out in space" > > The idea's the same > Naomi (ngener@aol.com) Yes, but it's getting a little stretched :-) Sign of a truly obsessed Leaper! As am I. I saw two trucks last week: - Ziggy's Finest Foods - The Leapley Company You know the rest... Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kes@nc5.infi.net (kes) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when Date: 2 May 1995 00:33:10 GMT > You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats >are Gushie and Ziggy. > Or Sam...... My cat is named Sam. He was so strange when I got him that I felt he was in his OWN time zone. Naming him Sam reflected this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SAWATSON@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (SCOTT A WATSON) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when Date: 2 May 1995 05:17:48 GMT In <3o3uk6$ems@lucy.infi.net> kes@nc5.infi.net writes: > > > You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats > >are Gushie and Ziggy. > > > > Or Sam...... > > My cat is named Sam. He was so strange when I got him that I felt he was > in his OWN time zone. Naming him Sam reflected this. I had a hamster and named it Sammy. I was going to name it Sam but then it turned out to be a girl so I figured I'd make the name more feminine sounding. Though I guess Sam can be a woman's name too so I should have left it at that. Anyway, the point is I named a pet after Sam too! :-) Scott Al: He had the pale complexion, the beady eyes, the lustful glare... Sam: Al, you just described yourself! "Blood Moon" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Shaw Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 15:03:59 -0700 On 2 May 1995, kes wrote: > > You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats > >are Gushie and Ziggy. > > Or Sam...... > > My cat is named Sam. He was so strange when I got him that I felt he was > in his OWN time zone. Naming him Sam reflected this. You know, I don't know why I never mentioned this before...but I have a black tabby named Sam! Actually, he's Sammy Malone, as in Cheers, but he is just so smart and such a nice guy...I guess Sam Beckett would have been appropriate as well! Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~mshaw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu (JENNIE) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 2 May 95 10:10:54 CDT In article <3o3ga1$g6r@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) writes: > Barbara E. Walton (av214@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote: > > : In a previous article, nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) says: > > : >katie auslander (auslan94@matrix.newpaltz.edu) wrote: > : >: lisa-anne wooldridge (lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: > : >: : Pamela J Mitman (mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: > : >: : : blue@ (Blue C.) writes: > : > > : >: : I kinda go for the purple ensemble myself.... :) > : > > : >: : Jenni B. <>< > : >: i myself have happily drooled over his purple stuff... > : >: QL to purple... one obsession to another. > : > > : >: -Katie...:) > : > > : > > : >Well, being Purple is my favorite color, and Dean looks great in it, his > : >purple outfit, with some kind of color coordinated shiney vest is mine, > : >and I must admit, there's been a sigh and a drool or two, but one of my > : >favorite out fits for Al, is his silver shiney flight? jacket, with a > : >bright vivid blue shirt, with matching silver shoes, and black slacks. > : >I just love that outfit! > : > > > : I like the purple ensemble, but I think my favorites are from "Glitter > : Rock" (the floating road signs jacket was awesome) and "Play Ball" (he > : looks adorable in his old baseball uniform shirt). > : -- > : -- Barbara > : Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, > : "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." > : -- C.S. Lewis > Yes, I thought he looked great in that old Navy baseball uniform too, > and Am I nuts, or didn't Al wear that stopsign, road sign jacket in > "Run Away" when he's asking Gooshie/Gushie to Center him on the mother, > and he ends up floating in the air while Sam's trying to rescue her > (Emma) as the fire works are exploading in the air all around their > efforts. > > Nancy > nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu > "Imagination is the spice of life" > No, Al wears that jacket alot. I really liked the turquoise jacket he wore at the end of PLay Ball too (though I positively *drooled* over the baseball jersey) I got really thrilled b/c it reminded me of the fabric in my Junior Prom dress. What a man to share tastes with, eh? --Jennie :) :) :) :) <>< "You know it's guaranteed, plant the seed and you get the flower." Al Calavicci *Alphabet Rap* ---<--{(@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Pamela J Mitman) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when Date: 2 May 1995 22:25:10 -0500 Matt Shaw writes: >On 2 May 1995, kes wrote: >> > You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats >> >are Gushie and Ziggy. >> Or Sam...... >> My cat is named Sam. He was so strange when I got him that I felt he was >> in his OWN time zone. Naming him Sam reflected this. >You know, I don't know why I never mentioned this before...but I have a >black tabby named Sam! Actually, he's Sammy Malone, as in Cheers, but >he is just so smart and such a nice guy...I guess Sam Beckett would have >been appropriate as well! >Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~mshaw Okay, since everyone else is confessing...we're only allowed to have birds and fish in our apartments, so I bought two finches. You guessed it. I named them Sam and Al. They were originally Sam and Alberta, but the male bird is so brilliantly colored that I had to switch their names to Al and Samantha. :) Pam M. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charlene Zimmermann <74462.2260@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: RE:You know your an obsessed leaper when... Date: 3 May 1995 19:30:05 GMT You know your an obsessed leaper when... You name your son Sam and contemplate calling your next one Ziggy. -- Oh Boy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tminkoff@crash.cts.com (Tony Minkoff) Subject: Re: i need sam!! Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 06:32:50 GMT In article <3MAY95.00312194@marcie.wellesley.edu>, wrote: >do you think sam would leap in and take my calculus exam? or is that to little >of a promblem??? > keisha It's not too little of a problem, but I don't think it's quite Sam's style. More likely, he would Leap into somebody else to tutor you and help you learn the importance of good study habits and the value of the courses you are studying. This would help you not only on this one exam, but on other exams, and in other courses, and in life in general. Hmm, maybe Keisha will take this to heart. Maybe this little article will slightly improve Keisha's life. And then, maybe Sam Leaped into Tony Minkoff to post this article. Somebody ask me in a few days whether I remember posting it... :^) Tony Minkoff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... Date: 4 May 1995 10:05:42 GMT .. when you go to Stockmann, the most expensive department store in Helsinki, and buy a *very* colorful shirt which happens to be on sale (so you can afford it :) just because it looks like something Al would wear... .. when, after watching "The Wrong Stuff", Mike Oldfield's "Songs of Distant Earth" take on a whole new meaning... .. when you're watching some TV show that's not in the least QL-related (at least as far as I know) and in the opening credits you discover that one of this week's guest actors plays some guy called Ziggy and throughout the film you pay special attention to this guy even though he has hardly anything to say or do... .. when you finally finish this appointment manager program you've been hacking on for months, in order to be able to keep track of all those birthdates... (OK, I admit, that's more about "obsessed r.a.s.t.q-l readers". ;) 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: Matt Shaw Subject: Re: RE:You know your an obsessed leaper when... Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 18:38:47 -0700 ...when a friend of yours has your nickname in her email address book as "Quantum-Geek". (Of course, I noticed *SHE* was on the Bday list too!) Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~mshaw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ouayvar@alinga.newcastle.edu.au (McNamee P) Subject: Re: You know your an obsessed leaper when... Date: 5 May 1995 01:53:57 GMT Charlene Zimmermann (74462.2260@CompuServe.COM) wrote: : You know your an obsessed leaper when... : You name your son Sam and contemplate calling your next one Ziggy. Well I didn't name my son Ziggy (no kids), but worked it so that I could call my car Ziggy!!! It's a Corona (I live in Australia), which is a type of cigarette, hence ciggy (slang term here for cigarettes), then only a short hope across to Ziggy. I know, there's just no hope for me ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know your an obsessed leaper when... Date: 5 May 1995 07:49:31 GMT Hello! Matt Shaw (ez053178@peseta.ucdavis.edu) wrote: :> ...when a friend of yours has your nickname in her email address book as :> "Quantum-Geek". (Of course, I noticed *SHE* was on the Bday list too!) *grin* This happened to me too! :) Well, I'm not "Quantum-Geek", but something like this in Finnish, anyway. 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? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 04:20:47 EDT From: Aaron Thomas Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... You know when your're an obsessed leaper when... You listen to the end of _Abbey Road_ (the Beatles, of course) and you can't help thinking of Sam. "Once there was a way to get back homeward..." "Boy, you've got to carry that weight, carry that weight a long time..." and a whole bunch other lovesick, starcrossed type stuff. Aaron (So how do we get the rights to this for the movie? :-) Thomas ObBeatleSongsForQL: "I'm Going Home" - "Within You Without You" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 8 Mar 1995 07:25:50 GMT lisa-anne wooldridge (lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : Barbara E. Walton (av214@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote: : : Hi, my name is Barbara, and I'm Leap obsessed... : : (the first step in true wallowing is admitting that you *need* to : : wallow ;-) ) : Hi, my name is Jenni, and I'm Leap obsessed... : My folks went to St. Louis & I wanted to suggest they find and tour : Scott's old neighborhood as a tourist attraction. : My best friend told me tonight she's moving to CA, and all I could think : was "It's not fair, Al." : I put up a picture of men I've never met, bought at a Con I didn't : attend, in an office where no one besides me will appreciate it. : My QL group has become another family to me. :) : (Do I qualify yet? :) : 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 Well, Jenni, I think I can definitely say that you qualify! :) Of course my big Picture of Scott and Dean is in my bedroom at home across from the Accelerator poster, and a few feet from the framed Xerox cover of the script "Roberto" with Scott's, Dean's and Delane's signatures which is another three ft from my QL calander 1993 that I keep having to by new bottoms to, in order to keep the yer current. Help! I need this group badly :) Wallow Wallow Wallow! :) As for your best friend moving to CA, think of it this way and it might help. You can vistit her in CA, maybe around con time next year. And, if you need a face to face encounter support with Leapers, look up Heidi me, after all all three of us live in this town. I know it's not the same but maybe it'll help. Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 8 Mar 1995 20:43:57 GMT Well, I've already admitted my obsession; I guess I should list how it affects me. I watch the thoroughly mediocre "John Laroquette" show because Liz Torres ("Angela") and Gigi Rice ("Tina") are in it. In the month I was in L.A., I vistited Dean's star several times. I scheduled my job-hunting trip to co-incide with LeapCon, even though February is not an especially good month to find a job. I haven't been able to finish writing any story that isn't QL-based for two years. I sent a copy of my novella backstage to Dean Stockwell, and I would die happy right now if he said he liked it. I answer almost every thread here, and am more likely to ponder the effects of Al's saved marriage on the QL timeline that the effects of the Republican Congressional victory on US policy. (Well, to be fair, I hated politics *before* QL, and would've just substituted something else.) 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... ;) ) I believe the second step is to admit that I have no control over this obsession... -- Barbara "This time-travel business is some confusing sh-t, isn't it?" Susannah Dean, The Waste Lands, Stephen King -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Shaw Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... (WAS: Re: Public Apology) Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 13:19:31 -0700 On 9 May 1995, Jennifer Bohn wrote: > Jenni B. <>< Sam and Al: "God's clean-up crew" > RASTQL List Keeper (It's A Wonderful Leap) > - Bdays > - E-mail addresses > - Geo locations e-mail: c-leaper@bluemarble.net > > > P.S. Matt -- IT WORKS!!!!! Yay! You know you're an obsessed leaper when you're up at 1:15am, sending emails back and forth, to get your QL-oriented sig ready for the day's posting (that'd be Jenni), and you know you're obsessed when you're up at 11:15 your time doing the same, trying to help a fellow leaper right a net.wrong! (That'd be me)... Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~mshaw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu (JENNIE) Subject: Leap Obsession Strike Again...... Date: 9 May 95 12:58:23 CDT I came across the great wallowing of my Leap Obsession through a totally un/sub/conscious action while I was writing my last two finals.... Every time I went to write the word "back" in any form, I ended up having to delete and retype it. It kept coming out "bakc"---I'm sure you'll recognize the significance of the first three letters..... :) Primarily a Dean Drooler, but Definitely a Scott Sigher, --Jennie :) :) :) :( :( <>< (T-minus 4 days and counting) "You know it's guaranteed, plant the seed and you get the flower." Al Calavicci *Alphabet Rap* ---<--{(@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andy Blackman Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 12 May 1995 00:01:09 +0100 In article: <95125.042047ADT105@psuvm.psu.edu> Aaron Thomas writes: YKYAOLW.... You are start sitting in a meeting with the chief executive of a company, repeatedly looking at your watch as it nears QL time (6pm here), begin to feel you have to tell him you must leave and then run home (I don't drive) to make sure you don't miss anything!! Andy -- Andy Blackman EMail andy@imnota.demon.co.uk Phone:0116 2559060 A friend is the best experience anyone can have! :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: meleslie@scs.unr.edu (Megan E. Leslie) Subject: you know you are obsessed when... Date: 11 May 1995 19:41:40 -0500 Hmmm... You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you are writing a totally non-QL-related story and one of your newest bit part characters (who wasn't supposed to stick around long) sees your "other world" main character and all you can here him say is "Oh, boy". THEN you start to develop this once-nobody into something larger than you'd planned and start adding mysteries like the use of the word handlink for a communicator and the character's name just had to be Sam Beckett spelled backwards (Ttekceb Mas). He's also developing Sam-like dialogue and characteristics as I keep writing. But the real question is... Is it really Sam or is it Lieutenant Mas? Well, sometimes one and sometimes the other but usually both. "I don't try to explain it." -Bill Maxwell from "The Greatest American Hero" who I couldn't bare to see in the last episode so I pulled him out and put him in my stories. I pulled this quote from my very own "My, What If?" query: how many people in this newsgroup DO write stories? Hmmm... Megan, who can only be on the 'net until early Wednesday, the 17th. "Calavicci", Al: "a hard core personality with a twist." ...seein's how Chunovic said that "calavicci" means "screwdriver" in Italian. I love plays on words! "Ain't that a kick in the butt!"x3 -Al, The Pilot episode . . . . * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: arsantos@mtholyoke.edu (Anacristina R Santos) Subject: Re: you know you are obsessed when... Date: 12 May 1995 07:00:51 GMT You know you're obsessed when you hide from campus Public Safety in an academic builiding just to watch QL at midnight because there's no cable in the dorms :) ! Oh, boy! tina ps. special thanx to Jenni ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wicklund@ix.netcom.com (Thomas Wicklund) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 12 May 1995 07:13:00 GMT How about, When you have a older brother named Al, whose oldest grandchild is named Sam, and you're the only one in the family who giggles about it? Regards! Lin <>< "Oh, puer. Me Avelle, Scotti, nullae striaturae tollens in stella vaga sunt!" [Oh, boy. Beam me up, Scottie, there are no Pampers on this planet!] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 12 May 1995 09:10:24 GMT .. when you're dicussing clothing styles with a friend, and he describes a favorite (and very "cute" - his words, not mine :) dress of his girlfriend's and asks you if you own something similar, and you reply "no, I don't own anything cute" and add in your mind, "because I'm about as feminine as Scott Bakula in "Raped"." (That episode made me aware of exactly why I'm feeling uncomfortable in "feminine" clothes... I guess I can add that to my personal "What I learned from watching QL" list. ;) 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: Michelle.Kusik@uhb.fr (Michelle Kusik - CIREFE - 99 33 52 52) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... Date: 12 May 95 12:23:55 GMT You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you walk into Translation class late, hear someone say the word "nozzle", and assume it's being used as a pejorative, rather than as a word in a text about a Sherman tank! --Michelle (michelle.kusik@uhb.fr) ########################################################## "Whack the Barney!" --M.A.S.K., inspired by a cross between short stories by Phil Zeman and Gina Goff ######################################################### -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: You know you're an obsessed Laeper when..... Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 12:36:12 -0500 Well guys, I'm going home to Chicago tomorrow morning, so this will probably be my last post until I can get net access again. *sob* One more time! You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you use Quantum Leap as a foundation for your final exam essay in which you talk about using real life history in fictional literature. Incidentally, I just found out I got an A on both that exam and in the class. It seems my short story teacher is also a Quantum Leap fan. Kind of a fitting end to this semester, eh? Incidentally, if anyone out there is going to IndyLeap, look for me. I'll be the one in the black fedora carrying the calla lilies. :) Have fun guys! --Andie -- "Al? Who's Al?" "A friend. A good friend." "Well, let's not get all mushy about it." --Sam, Seymour, and Al "Quantum Leap: Play it Again, Seymour" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: keiser.11@osu.edu (the Shrew) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 18:06:11 -0500 How about ... You know you're an obsessed leaper when you can fully identify the entire plot of each episode before Sam even gets close to saying "Oh boy" in the opening sequence. JCK PS - all my friends think I'm quite the freak since I can do this without fail. -- "Use the right word, not its second cousin." -- SLC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wicklund@ix.netcom.com (Thomas Wicklund) Subject: This ever happen to you? Date: 18 May 1995 02:31:44 GMT I suppose this should really be under "You know your dedicated Leaper when....." I was reading a very serious article in a major periodical which shall remain nameless and got to: "...according to Republican State Senator Michael Nozzolio, chariman of the Senate Elections Committee...." ^^^^^^^^ I stopped reading, started hooting with laughter and woke up my poor long-suffering husband. When I managed to choke out, "But this politician really IS a NOZZLE!!!", he just rolled his eyes at me and covered his head up with a pillow. *snort* *guffaw* *choke* (BTW, my apologies to anyone in New York State whom Sen.N-n-n-....you-kno-who represents. I really can't help myself. I'm sure he's quite capable....) Regards! Lin <>< "Oh, boy. Beam me up, Scottie, there are no Pampers on this planet!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 May 1995 09:11:26 GMT .. when you judge every English-to-something-else dictionary you consider buying by the translation(s) it gives for "nozzle"... Happened to me just a few days ago... 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: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: To all Al fans out there... (Birthdays) Date: 26 May 1995 09:25:58 GMT Hello! Yesterday I talked to my mother on the phone, who lives in Germany and will be visiting me in a few weeks. She will be arriving on June 15... well... and so she asked me if this day is a holiday in Finland too. I was speechless for some seconds (which happens very rarely; but my first thoughts really were, "What!? They made June 15 a holiday!? Why didn't I read about this in r.a.s.t.q-l?" ;) and then realized that of course there are far too few Leapers in Germany to make Al's birthday a holiday. ;-) It turned out that one of these movable Catholic holidays happens to be on June 15 this year and I didn't know about it because Finland is mostly Protestant so *we* have to work then... What a pity that I cannot explain the deeper meaning of that date to my mother, since she hates QL. :-( To her it's just the day before my birthday... hmm, I wonder how I'll manage to keep her happy while I'm watching that week's episode... 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: Matt Shaw Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... (WAS: Re: MI theory) Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 12:46:15 -0700 On Thu, 25 May 1995 mmckean@uoft02.utoledo.edu wrote: ...when this is the case: > But I've been thinking about it for the past four hours, and reading > stuff from the archive and this newsgroup, and I've come up with a > potential theory for the episode that makes it, for me, a bit more > satisfying. ...i.e. when after seeing a QL episode, you begin to hypothesize, and find yourself doing exhaustive research for extended periods (been there, done that...). Matt Shaw mbshaw@ucdavis.edu http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~mshaw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... (WAS: Re: MI theory) Date: 27 May 1995 14:49:06 GMT ... when you go by your favorite vintage clothes store, and see a fifties outfit in the window, with black pants, a blue jacket, and a loud print tie, bottomed off with shiny wingtips, and think -- hey, now I know where Al shops! Then you go in looking for costumes you've seen in Leaps... -- -- Barbara The ideal is terrifying to behold... threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it; nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of clouds. -- Victor Hugo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 30 May 1995 08:05:05 GMT (something else that happened to me these days...) ..when, after spending half a night creating your own Windows desktop background from the QL logo (that was one of my first "obsessed Leaper" activities :-) , you spend another night changing the Windows startup logo to something QL-related which you spent half of the night creating with some VERY obscure graphics editors (no, I still haven't got any manuals)... even though you know you should catch some sleep because in the morning you have sort of a date with this INCREDIBLY cute guy and it'd be a shame if you slept through it... (FYI, it was only "sort of" a date because we didn't actually plan to meet, we were just bound to run into each other on this kind of smallish conference; and I haven't seen this guy for almost a year since we live several thousand miles away from each other so it was really important for me; and no, I actually managed to stay awake while talking to him! :-) (Gee, I hope he doesn't read this group... he has no idea I find him cute... or at least I hope so. ;) But it was worth it... now I have a really "leapy" Windows! Next thing on my to-do list is to earn a lot of money and get a soundcard so that I can have a "leapy" Windows startup sound too... ;) I just wonder why I seem to be unable to do such things during daytime so that I get a chance to sleep at night every now and then. :-} 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: opera@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU (Susan Dunn, Susan Dunn) Subject: Re: you know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 31 May 95 13:08:49 GMT ...you read a tiny article in a national magazine about scientists working on bio-engineered super computer chips and your first thought is "Great, Sam, you're almost there!" THEN you realize that Sam has already made the first leap and start to wonder how he's messed up history and worry you'll have to accept Barbara's theories on MI and AtAB THEN after hours of worry and thought you remember that QL is a government run affair and realize the article was just a dis-information plant that Sam and Al are laughing about right now AND soon Scully and Mulder will be investigating a vanished quantum physicist at a top secret government run project in New Mexico . . . oops! just leaped into a different obsession! Susan . . . don't look with your eyes, look with your hearts! - Sam Beckett Single Drop of Rain --------------------------------------------------------------------------------