From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 2 Jun 1995 09:00:18 GMT ..when your local TV station sends QL on a summer break (let's all pray it's just a break and nothing worse! At least they never used the word "cancelled"... all I could find out is that there will be no QL in June) and suddenly you get this really strong urge to wear really crazily colored clothes and to yell at your computer and to use words like "Swiss-cheesed" etc. even more often than you do anyway and to look at your face in every reflecting surface you come across just to see if you're still wearing the same aura as the last time you checked... and new plot ideas start to invade your head like there was no tomorrow... not to mention all the O'boy brand cocoa you just *have* to drink. (I guess I'll die of calcium poisoning all day, with all that milk...) *grin* Speaking of crazily colored clothes... there is this wonderful shop, "Indian Bazaar", here in Helsinki where they sell clothes in color combinations not even Al would wear (and where I take a large amount of my money... go figure)... I love this shop! I hope I'll get lots of money for my birthday. ;) 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: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 2 Jun 1995 09:46:46 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: :> (I :> guess I'll die of calcium poisoning all day, with all that milk...) ^^^ oops... that's supposed to be "one" 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: colorado@crl.com (Scott Matteson) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 3 Jun 1995 11:27:28 -0700 You know you're an obsessed leaper when you find yourself playing with a calculator as if it were a handlink, punching several buttons at once, hitting the side, and pretending to wave a cigar. Or when you turn on "Beverly Hills Cop II" or "Blue Velvet" and wonder how people can see and hear Dean Stockwell, and why he's dressed so conservatively. Or, for that matter, when you see Scott Bakula on "Murphy Brown" and keep expecting him to look into a mirror and see someone else's face. -- Scott Matteson "Then the mountains loomed ahead, all green. After colorado@crl.com this climb we would be on the great central plateau Boston, Massachusetts again and ready to roll ahead to Mexico City." Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Jun 1995 08:18:32 GMT .. when you're reading a recipe newsgroup, misread "Baklava" and start wondering what kind of recipe this might be that they called it after Scott... 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: acalavicci@aol.com (ACalavicci) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 5 Jun 1995 23:07:40 -0400 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when as you're mowing the lawn, you notice on the mower engine the words "Quantum Power" and you have this crazy vision of a tiny accelerator chamber inside the mower's engine. *thwaps self in head* Yikes! Does anyone else get the feeling I should slow down on my QL viewing? --Andie "If you believe--even in the face of your so-called facts--miracles can happen." --Dr. Sam Beckett "Quantum Leap: A Single Drop of Rain" *a certified, card-carrying Dean-drooler :)* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 6 Jun 1995 06:59:16 GMT Hello! ACalavicci (acalavicci@aol.com) wrote: :> You know you're an obsessed Leaper when as you're mowing the lawn, you :> notice on the mower engine the words "Quantum Power" and you have this :> crazy vision of a tiny accelerator chamber inside the mower's engine. Similar things happen to me whenever I see/read about those Quantum something computer thingies... (No, I don't know what the heck they are! I'm not a hardware specialist! I just know that there seems to be a computer hardware company called Quantum something-or-other... and every time I come across this stuff I think, oh, how neat, Quantum Leap computers! ;) 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: michaeld@stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael-Dennis Biemans) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 6 Jun 1995 14:47:00 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : Similar things happen to me whenever I see/read about those Quantum : something computer thingies... (No, I don't know what the heck they are! : I'm not a hardware specialist! I just know that there seems to be a : computer hardware company called Quantum something-or-other... and every : time I come across this stuff I think, oh, how neat, Quantum Leap : computers! ;) Quantum make harddisks, and I have one. But it's too big for the operating system to handle, so I made two partitions : the first is Quantum, so I called the second Leap. Those names show up on my iconbar in the right (Quantum Leap) order. Do I qualify for being an obsessed Leaper ? :-) MDB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: acalavicci@aol.com (ACalavicci) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 6 Jun 1995 21:59:53 -0400 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when, on your work nametag you keep a Quantum Leap lapel pin with a picture of Al on it. When your boss asks you about this, you tell her "Well, everyone else has a guardian angel pin on their nametag. Mine just happens to carry a handlink, dress in brightly colored clothes, and smoke a cigar, but hey, I *like* him that way!" *sarcasm mode on* God, I LOVE Wal-Mart! *sarcasm mode off* --Andie "If you believe--even in the face of your so-called facts--miracles can happen." --Dr. Sam Beckett "Quantum Leap: A Single Drop of Rain" *a certified, card-carrying Dean-drooler :)* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: colorado@crl.com (Scott Matteson) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 6 Jun 1995 20:02:55 -0700 ACalavicci (acalavicci@aol.com) wrote: : You know you're an obsessed Leaper when, on your work nametag you keep a : Quantum Leap lapel pin with a picture of Al on it. When your boss asks : you about this, you tell her "Well, everyone else has a guardian angel pin : on their nametag. Mine just happens to carry a handlink, dress in : brightly colored clothes, and smoke a cigar, but hey, I *like* him that : way!" : *sarcasm mode on* : God, I LOVE Wal-Mart! : *sarcasm mode off* : --Andie : "If you believe--even in the face of your so-called facts--miracles can : happen." : --Dr. Sam Beckett : "Quantum Leap: A Single Drop : of Rain" : *a certified, card-carrying Dean-drooler :)* Yow. What a coincidence. I picked up the habit of talking to myself quite openly at work (peer pressure - everyone there did it and now I do too). When newcomers to the office ask me who I'm talking to, I always reply "My invisible friend, Al." Weird. -- Scott Matteson "Then the mountains loomed ahead, all green. After colorado@crl.com this climb we would be on the great central plateau Boston, Massachusetts again and ready to roll ahead to Mexico City." Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Casey Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:33:49 GMT Yesterday I was walking my son around town when I heard a bunch of giggling coming from a parked car. Finally, a little girl (probably the rotten sister type :)) called out "Hey lady...Sam loves you." I'm sure that little boy almost died of embarrassment, but I was thinking of another Sam...oh boy! :) That evening, I took my son out for ice cream and announced it was his birthday. The girl behind the counter told us another birthday boy was in the back...Scott Bakala (or something REALLY close). I noticed I stopped breathing until I realized the name WAS different. Ya, like Bakula would stop in Foley...another little fantasy shot to blazes... Tootles! Casey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Reality is Fiction, Controlled by Fantasy, and Written in Dreams... KC 1987 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: c-leaper@shooter.bluemarble.net (Jennifer Bohn) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 10 Jun 1995 11:36:14 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when you're reading a recipe newsgroup, misread "Baklava" and start : wondering what kind of recipe this might be that they called it after : Scott... ROTFL!!!! I'm sure some of us around here could come up with some Scott and Dean recipes if we really tried....... -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 11 Jun 1995 23:10:58 GMT You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you're in Wal-mart looking in the Barbie-like doll section for a Fran fine doll, and you come across a blonde talking Tina doll. You push her tummy and she says to you in a high voice "Nice Outfit", and you immediately think she's referring to Al :) Actually Heidi and I just did this yesterday (6/10/95). You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you go to all the garden shops, looking for Callalillies, so you can plant some outside of your apartment. (We're also on a quest as she calls it to find some so she can plant some outside her apartment building. Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: u944107@student.canberra.edu.au (Reid / David Roy (COM)) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 12 Jun 1995 04:56:08 GMT You know you're an obsessed leaper when..... Whenever you come across a slide from one of those "Ink-blot" tests. (someone will know the correct name for them, but the one's as seen in "Shock Theatre"), you feel the urge to say.... "That looks like the sub-atomic nuclear structure of a quark......WHAT THE HELL IS A QUARK?????", in the voice of Jesse Tyler. Dave "Well, at least I say it" Reid -- Dave Reid _--_|\ Dave's thought of the week: u944107@student.canberra.edu.au / \ "Insanity is only a \_.--._/ state of mind." I like chips in brown gravy!-Eccles v -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 12 Jun 1995 05:58:05 GMT .. when you're visiting a friend and because the evening is a lot colder than you anticipated she has to borrow you a jacket and so you wind up wearing a brightly-colored sort of tartan patterned lumberjack shirt over your purple Indian dress, which looks really ridiculous in your opinion... and when she objects and tells you it looks "kinda nice" you laugh and tell her she's watching too much QL... and she actually knows what's so funny about that! :-))) .. when you notice that a friend of yours has a streak of white hair right in the middle of his forehead, and you start to wonder... even though he's African! .. when you watch the Columbo episode "Ransom for a Dead Man" and this scene where the Murderer Of The Week (tm) tries to teach Columbo how to fly a plane and tells him to "treat the plane like a woman" really puzzles you... ;-) 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: SAWATSON@vax1.acs.jmu.edu (SCOTT A WATSON) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 12 Jun 1995 15:31:03 GMT In <3rghd8$492@csc.canberra.edu.au> u944107@student.canberra.edu.au writes: > You know you're an obsessed leaper when..... > > Whenever you come across a slide from one of those "Ink-blot" tests. > (someone will know the correct name for them, but the one's as seen in Not sure of the spelling but they are called the "Rorshach" test, I guess after the guy who first developed the concept. Leave it to the psychology grad student to knnow this one.... > "Shock Theatre"), you feel the urge to say.... > "That looks like the sub-atomic nuclear structure of a quark......WHAT > THE HELL IS A QUARK?????", in the voice of Jesse Tyler. > And here's my own personal contribution to this thread, you know you're an obsessed leaper when... You watch any tv show or movie where someone looks into a mirror and you expect them to look like Sam when they turn away. (i know this has probably been said before, but what the heck?) Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 13 Jun 1995 10:55:02 GMT .. when you are downtown, far away from your phone at home, and have to call someone (no, I still don't have one of those nice handlink - er, cell phones, so please wish me luck so I'll get one of the programming jobs I've applied for so I'll get rich and can buy a cell phone :-) Er... where was I? OK, you have to call someone and when you are about to approach a public phone which takes coins you hear Al saying in your head, "It ate my dime", and, starting to worry, decide to use the card phone next to it instead. 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: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 13 Jun 1995 15:43:40 GMT I've got another one. You know you're an obsessed Leaper, when you're working on a new QL story (that's an obsession in itself), and you decide to place it on your college campus (IU 1973), and you decide to have the character Sam Leaps into stay in a place called Stockwell house in your old college Dorm of Wright Quad, and you start laughing madly, because you only just realized what you've done. (Actually a Viola major friend of mine lived in Stockwell House from 1976-1979. We also used to call the men in Stockwell the Stockwell Studs) Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Gee, Sam, that's quite a coincidence" "Coincidences are scientifically explainable" Sam & Al "Ghost Ship" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: c-leaper@shooter.bluemarble.net (Jennifer Bohn) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 13 Jun 1995 22:13:48 GMT Mary K. Wallace (bb881@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote: : Whenever you listen to "Dulcinea" on the QL soundtrack, you : replace Dulcinea with Scott Bakula: : scott-bak-U-lahhhhh! You know you're obsessed when..... You read an idea like this, and immediately run get out your CD and give it a try! "And thy name is like a prayer an angel whispers...Scott Bak-U-la....." : Mary Wallace : mwallace@iquest.com -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tminkoff@crash.cts.com (Tony Minkoff) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 05:18:28 GMT In article <3rm06g$lkp@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>, Julia A M Simon wrote: >Hello! > >Linda M Kolar (kola0021@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote: > >:> Hey, has anyone ever collected all these "you know you're an obsessed >:> Leaper when..." threads? > >I've tried, but I'm sure I've missed some of them. Anyway, I have close >to 300 by now... :-) How about, "You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you save 300 articles from a 'you know you're an obsessed Leaper...' thread"? Tony Minkoff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse) Subject: You know your an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: 17 Jun 1995 05:17:14 GMT .... while watching the end credits for Batman Forever, you see the name 'Diamond Farnsworth' and try to figure out what stunts were his. (Probably the most spectacular ones!) For the newbies, Diamond is Scott's stunt double in Leap and stunt coordinator for Leap (and any other show Scott has done/is doing). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tkun@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Todd Kunioka) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 04:36:36 GMT In blue@ (Blue C.) writes: >> I thought that was a quote from Blackadder, not QL. >"Treat X like a woman" is a common line. X = some kind of machinery >is even more common. _My_ first car will have a male name ;-) Yeah, I bet it will: SCOTT ;-) Then you'll have something else to add to the Obsessed Leaper thread that you so recently swore off. Hee, hee. Todd Kunioka (TTKUHIOK@ACD1.BYU.EDU *not* the address in the header to this message, unless you really want to get a vacation autorespond message :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Jun 1995 17:43:46 GMT tkun@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Todd Kunioka) writes: > blue@ (Blue C.) writes: > > >> I thought that was a quote from Blackadder, not QL. > > >"Treat X like a woman" is a common line. X = some kind of machinery > >is even more common. _My_ first car will have a male name ;-) > > Yeah, I bet it will: SCOTT ;-) Not a chance, I'm a Dean woman ;-) > Then you'll have something else to add to the Obsessed Leaper thread that > you so recently swore off. Hee, hee. Oh dear :-) Actually, "James" has been my choice for years (if you can't have a car, have a name :-) ). Y'know, like James West, James Bond, James Kirk... all those menly men under my hood ;-) Blue. (What _am_ I doing on this thread still?) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 19 Jun 1995 12:52:49 GMT .. when... well... I guess this needs some short explanations first for those of you not familiar with the latest gossip about German politicians. ;) OK, here we go: Oskar Lafontaine, the current head of government for the part of Germany where I come from, has just married his girlfriend, who thus became his third wife; and one of his ex-wives is an artist. Now my mother told me that for her last birthday she was given some piece of jewelry manufactured by "Mrs. Lafontaine number two", as she called her; and of course I at once thought of Al and all his ex-wives, who tend to be referred to with numbers too... 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: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 19 Jun 1995 13:26:36 GMT You know you're an obsessed Leaper when You're watching the Columbo episode "Troubled Waters" (ran on Indy 23 Saturday night), and Dean (60's with the curly hair) is playing the piano in the band for this not so talented singer singing Volare, and you're thinking, that's where he learned the words to tell Sam so Sam could sing it, and then wishing heartily that Sam *was* singing it! Also when Dean's character is accused of murder, but Columbo doesn't believe it, but he can't prove it, you with Dean could get Ziggy out and help him! Then the next night when you're watching In the Line of duty the price of Vengence, you see Dean at a computer, and you think too bad he doesn't have access to Ziggy!, also you recognize the guy who married the bad guy to the twitty lawyer assistant as the guy who played Dirk Simon, and Dean gives one of those disgusted looks, and walks out of the courtroom! Then you break for a commercial, and there's a public service announcement by the guy who played Bobby Lee in "Song of the Soul" Telling you to think about being a teacher! Boy talk about my mind. Where's that support group? 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... Date: 19 Jun 1995 18:59:52 GMT In a previous article, nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) says: >You know you're an obsessed Leaper when You're watching the >Columbo episode "Troubled Waters" (ran on Indy 23 Saturday night), and >Dean (60's with the curly hair) is playing the piano in the band >for this not so talented singer singing Volare, and you're thinking, >that's where he learned the words to tell Sam so Sam could sing it, >and then wishing heartily that Sam *was* singing it! Loved his eyebrows in this one.... > >Also when Dean's character is accused of murder, but Columbo doesn't >believe it, but he can't prove it, you with Dean could get Ziggy out >and help him! > >Then the next night when you're watching In the Line of duty the price >of Vengence, you see Dean at a computer, and you think too bad he >doesn't have access to Ziggy!, also you recognize the guy who married >the bad guy to the twitty lawyer assistant as the guy who played >Dirk Simon, and Dean gives one of those disgusted looks, and walks out >of the courtroom! I just started laughing when Dirk showed up, and the look from Dean was great! I wonder if that was originally in the script, or if he did it for us... (probably the former, since it made sense in context, but I wonder if he thought of us...) I hope we never cause one of hte guys to go on SNL and do a "Get a life" sketch. >Then you break for a commercial, and there's a >public service announcement by the guy who played Bobby Lee in >"Song of the Soul" Telling you to think about being a teacher! > >Boy talk about my mind. Where's that support group? > I guess I'm obsessed, too, since I noticed all those things, pretty much in the same order. -- -- Barbara It's a dangerous business going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. Tolkien -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rachelr@tiac.net (Rachel Rice) Subject: Re: You know your an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:32:12 -0400 . . . when you spend most of your tax return on all the QL novels. Rachel -- Rachel Rice | Well, thee knows, it takes a mighty good husband Chilmark, MA | to be better than none. (attributed to an 8 cats and one | elderly Quaker woman, 1887) imaginary horse | named Phantom | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bb881@yfn.ysu.edu (Mary K. Wallace) Subject: sightings of QL allusions Date: 21 Jun 1995 22:10:11 GMT I just found a QL allusion on the net. The local university here in Huntsville (the University of Alabama in Huntsville) has a web page called Project Starbright (http://info.uah.edu/ starbright.html) which has links to various entertainment pages. QL was listed, but the link was down when I tested it. Also, last time I was in Atlanta (Georgia), I saw an ad for a store called Quantum Leap. Obviously it caught my attention. Ironically, it was a new age shop selling crystals, etc. Any other allusions intended or otherwise? Mary Wallace mwallace@iquest.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghawley@ssb1.saff.utah.edu (Gayle Hawley) Subject: Re: sightings of QL allusions Date: 22 Jun 1995 20:43:34 GMT >Any other allusions intended or otherwise? > >Mary Wallace >mwallace@iquest.com I don't know if it was intended, but one of my favorite ski runs is at Sunday River, Maine, and is named "Quantum Leap". I skiied it just for the name and had the thrill/rush of a lifetime. It is steep and bumpy with lots of twists and turns. Wait, am I describing the show or the run. Actually, this might fit under the "You know you're obsessed when . . ." as "when you take a difficult ski run just because it is named QL". Wow - I finally found proof that I AM an obsessed fan (sort of). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: deepher600@aol.com (Deepher600) Subject: Re: sightings of QL allusions Date: 22 Jun 1995 20:22:58 -0400 There's a vegetarian restaurant called Quantum Leap in Greenwich Village in NYC. I don't which was around first, the restaurant or the show, but I always think of the show whenever I walk by the restaurant. --Michelle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 24 Jun 1995 12:06:27 GMT Hello! nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: :> You know you're an obsessed Leaper when You're watching the :> Columbo episode "Troubled Waters" (ran on Indy 23 Saturday night), I've been waiting for that particular episode for ages (OK, not for ages, but for all those weeks since they announced they'd re-air Columbo here in Finland)... I wanted to write a "Gee, I'm still waiting for that one" message yesterday, when I read this, but I didn't, and, surprise, last night's Columbo episode actually was "Troubled Waters"! I'm so happy! (Especially about that VCR of mine that worked reliably as usual. And about that empty video tape I had... now it's not empty any more. :-) :> and :> Dean (60's with the curly hair) Yes, I almost didn't recognize him with all this hair and the moustache, but when he started talking I recognized his voice. (Here's yet another argument against dubbing... I'm still collecting them... ;) And once I had identified him I could get out of that "where is he? where is he? *panic*" phase and enjoy the show... :> Also when Dean's character is accused of murder, but Columbo doesn't :> believe it, but he can't prove it, you with Dean could get Ziggy out :> and help him! *grin* What I thought was more like, hey, doesn't Columbo know Al (sic) is one of the good guys? ;) 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: kawaliva@mtu.edu (Kristie A. Walivaara) Subject: obsessed leaper Date: 25 Jun 1995 10:01:11 -0400 Am I crazy or just an obsessed leaper ? Everywhere I go I here somthing to do with Q.L. For example when I was listen to the radio some guy was talking and I thought he was talking about Q.L! J.P. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: obsessed leaper Date: 26 Jun 1995 06:29:26 GMT Hello! Kristie A. Walivaara (kawaliva@mtu.edu) wrote: :> Am I crazy or just an obsessed leaper ? Everywhere I go I here somthing to :> do with Q.L. For example when I was listen to the radio some guy was :> talking and I thought he was talking about Q.L! Don't worry, in this newsgroup you are in good company. It happens to us all the time too. :-) 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: Re: sightings of QL allusions Date: 26 Jun 1995 07:47:48 GMT Hello! When I first read Dave Marinaccio's book "All I really need to know I learned from watching Star Trek" I didn't know QL yet, so I didn't understand the allusion on p. 31 (for anyone who wants to check): "It doesn't take a degree in quantum physics to leap to this conclusion." At that time I thought, what a strange metaphor, can't this guy write normal English? But when I re-read it (after becoming QL-obsessed ;) it had me ROTFL. :-) 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: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 Jun 1995 07:54:25 GMT This might belong to the "obsessed QL fan fiction reader" more than to the "[normal, whatever that might be] obsessed Leaper" category, but since I became a QL fanfic reader because of my QL obsession, here we go. :-) .. when you're starting on a new job and get introduced to all your new colleagues, and of course there's far too many of them to remember all at once, and not only do you wish you had a photographic memory, but also when you talk to one of aforementioned new colleagues about how difficult it is to remember so many new names you say how nice it would be if everybody wore name labels all the time, and of course this idea only occurs to you because that's exactly what Sam wishes for at the beginning of a Leap in some fan fiction story you once read when *he* doesn't know anybody's name! 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: theslice@solar.sky.net (Jesse Slicer) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 Jun 1995 13:54:19 GMT : I'm already working on it... I've been saving articles from this thread : (unfortunately not all of them) since January. But I'm afraid it'll take : some time; I really have a lot of articles to look through and I don't : have much time... BTW, thanks to all people out there wishing me luck; I : got that job I wanted to get, and that's one of the reasons I don't have : much time! :-) : CU, : Julia 8-) You know you're an obsessed leaper when... you dream that you are in a restaurant parking lot, and Dennis Miller and Dr. Ruth are walking toward the restaurant and you exlaim "Hello Dennis! Dr. Ruth! Dr. Ruth, I liked your bit in that Quantum Leap episode!" Ain't that a kick in the butt? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 27 Jun 1995 15:01:22 GMT .. when you're having a nightmare in which you have a horrible disease which will kill you within a few months and your first thought (in the dream - fortunately I'm quite healthy IRL :-) about that is, oh no, I'll miss all the QL episodes aired after I die! .. when you read that some politician in some Bavarian (?) town suggested that policepeople (to avoid the longish "policemen and -women" ;-) should be paid a lot more than they are right now because they're taking risks all the time when working, more than people in any other profession, and they often have to very quickly decide things that affect lots of other people's lives, and you think that in that case time-travelling quantum physicists should get paid a lot more, too, because everything this guy mentioned applies to them too! 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: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 28 Jun 1995 05:46:50 GMT when you're reading this usenet group's obsessed Leaper stories & you realize it's 15 min. before the next episode is airing on USA, you got 15 min to get in the car and drive home, and you can't decide whether to read some more posts or see QL. ...gotta go! Hans Cathcart___________________________________________________ @home in Cyberspace: hans@american.edu on the Web: http://www.eagle.american.edu/hans.html IRL: Redwood City, California - USA - Earth - Sol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "To serve, to strive, and not to yield." - Outward Bound Credo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alan Lothian Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 09:17:18 GMT When you keep on saying "quantum phisicist" "Bekett" and "Calavicci" instead of things like "shopping centre" "car" and "phone call" Kirsty Lothian Who is about to go to the quantum phisicist in the Becket because of a Calavicci. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 29 Jun 1995 13:55:16 GMT .. when you're trying to find the best way to connect your own VCR to a friend's VCR you just borrowed, and your method of testing is trying to copy parts of QL episodes. OK, I know this is not a good one, but I'm tired, OK? Besides, it's getting better (I hope). :-) .. when you have to read some really boring texts for linguistic purposes (anything in the name of Science ;-) , and in a text about Japanese electronics manufacturers you read about a toy they created: somewhat larger than a normal pocket calculator, with some buttons which will trigger certain sounds to be played when pushed, and you add in your mind, yeah, and you can also whack it and yell for Gushie... .. and in another text (this one about Swiss law :-P ) you stumble across laws about marital status and missing persons and persons presumed dead and all you can think of is Al... .. and finally, when you receive news about the latest way town planners in your home town have found to mess up the public transportation system even worse than they managed during the last five years or so, you get this sudden urge to write a QL fanfic containing the following scene: Sam leaping into somebody who is just reading that very same information material, and Al looking at it, pressing some buttons on the handlink (which produces some horrible noises) and commenting about the part where they call the changes described "historical": "Some historical decision... Because of these changes the traffic broke down totally in the city center, which led to utter chaos in the surrounding areas... and oh, Sam, here it says that people started to leave town and today there's just some ruins in the desert left..." (Imagine that, in southern Germany! One day I'll *have* to write a story that uses that one... that'll be my sweet revenge... now I know why I like living in Finland so much better!) 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: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 30 Jun 1995 12:23:55 GMT Hello! I just noticed I write a lot on this thread... One day I'd like to do one of these association tests to find out if I'm really that much "QL-contaminated". ;-) Anyway... today I noticed that, when talking about artificial intelligence as opposed to "natural intelligence" (or whatever it's called ;) I like to use the term "human computers" when referring to the human brain, probably because I've once heard Ziggy use that term. And I also noticed that, since I work with Unix a lot, I often use the "ls -al" command, so today I was curious and tried what happens if you type "ls -sam". I was amazed (and happy :-) to find that command actually does something useful... 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? * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------