From: blynch@ix.netcom.com (Brent Lynch ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: sightings of QL allusions Date: 1 Jul 1995 19:20:22 GMT In <3sa5c3$bgh@news.ysu.edu> bb881@yfn.ysu.edu (Mary K. Wallace) writes: > > >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? Strangely enough Universal is using it to promote their BACK TO THE FUTURE ride in Southern California in tv ads saying "Take a Quantum Leap through...." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 2 Jul 1995 09:56:43 GMT .. when you're outside and it starts raining and you've forgotten to take an umbrella with you but you think, "I don't care if it's raining, I'm a hologram." (I almost fell down laughing yesterday when this actually happened to me and I realized just what I was thinking...) .. when you spend so much time thinking about the technical details of leaping etc. that every time you're watching a Columbo episode and Columbo is smoking a cigar you think, wait a minute, we're not supposed to be able to see all that holographic smoke, or are we? before realizing that it's supposed to be *real* smoke so it's alright if we see it. Warning: possible spoiler for "Babylon 5" ahead! (Gee, I hope that Ctrl-L thing works.) .. when the decision whether to rent the pilot episode of Babylon 5 or something else from your local video store for the weekend is made a lot easier by the fact that Tamlyn Tomita (sp?) (who played the psychic in "Temptation Eyes") is in it... and then, when you're watching the episode, you're worried because she *never* has any visions or anything so they need to bring in *another* telepath (and then, of course, you realize that that's probably because she doesn't play a telepath in this show ;-) . .. when you discover a new color (I do some painting, so I look around for new colors all the time) and you immediately start to wonder how Al would look in clothes of this color. .. when you find that you not only frequently misread "Baklava" when looking through recipe newsgroups (I mentioned that a few weeks ago), but living near Helsinki becomes a lot weirder now that you also frequently misread the name of that big Helsinki department store, "Stockmann"... :-} I'm so glad my parents (and other non-understanding individuals I know) don't read this group, or they would have me locked up by now. ;-) 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: nancy mathews Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're obsessed with QL when.... Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 21:03:13 -0500 (EST) Forwarded message: > From owner-topten%LISTSERV.CLARK.NET@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU Sat Jul 1 12:14:50 1995 I subscribe to the Top Ten List, because in my area of the country QL is on during this, part, so I have it mailed to me. I nearly died laughing when I read Friday's TOP TEN List. All I could think of was Al during his astronaut days (I realize some of the references might not coincide to the years he was in the program, but I wanted to share it with you. I apologize in advance if this offends anyone. > Subject: TOP TEN LIST - Fri 6/30/95 > To: Multiple recipients of list TOPTEN > From New York: Pardon our dust while we remodel ... it's THE TOP TEN LIST for Friday, June 30, 1995. And now, the man who brought communism to its knees ... David Letterman! From the home office in Grand Rapids, Michigan ... TOP TEN ASTRONAUT PICK-UP LINES 10. "Let's initiate a docking maneuver" 9. "My pants are approaching escape velocity" 8. "I am experiencing 10,000 G's of L-U-V" 7. "You know, I'd really like to get in your pants before the Russians" 6. "Would you help me de-ice my nose cone?" 5. "Ever wonder what Earth looks like from the back of a Chevy van?" (I doubt Al would be caught dead in a Chevy van.) 4. "Wanna join the hundred-thousand-mile-high club?" 3. "How much?" (That's a Hugh Grant pick-up line) (Doubt Al ever used this) 2. "Care to experience some thrust?" 1. "Prepare for re-entry!" [Music: "Telstar" by the Tornadoes] Compiled by Sue Trowbridge ---------------------------------------- LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN 11:35 p.m. ET/PT (10:35 CT/MT) on the CBS Television Network ---------------------------------------- On Monday's show, Dave welcomes ...STUPID HUMAN TRICKS ...musician HARRY CONNICK, JR. [Originally broadcast 7/8/94] WIN a free Miata! Win a FREE Miata! Win a free MIATA! A new game from Yoyodyne Entertainment is free to anyone with e-mail and offers a free Mazda Miata to the winner. For details, send e-mail to miata@yoyo.com. The Top Ten List is Copyright (C) 1995 Worldwide Pants, Incorporated. Used with permission. The latest Top Ten can be retrieved at any time by sending e-mail to TOPTEN@INFOMANIA.COM To leave the list, mail LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CLARK.NET with the message SIGNOFF TOPTEN To join the list, mail same with the message SUBSCRIBE TOPTEN Your Name To retrieve old Top Tens, mail same with the message GET TOPTEN ARCHIVE Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 3 Jul 1995 06:51:40 GMT .. when you're reading an X-Files story with a very nice ending: Sam finally gets home - and while you're still happy at that you realize that part of your mind is thinking of another Sam you'd like to get home too. (Oh, I just realized this last half-sentence has several different readings - come to think of it, I like all of them. ;-) .. and this of course reminds you of the time when you suddenly realized exactly what "Sam never returned home" means... right in the middle of this shamanism lecture last semester... and you wonder if the lecturer, who seems to know a lot of shamans all over northern Europe and Asia, maybe knows somebody who could help Sam get home with some magic... .. when you're daydreaming about getting rich so you can afford a car and maybe even choose your own license plate... Finnish license plates have up to three letters first and then up to three numbers, and I can't decide whether I want my letters to be PQL, SAM or AL. ;-) .. when you hope that one day you'll have your own computer at work, which you would call Ziggy - so you can swear at it in style (QL style, of course) when the network breaks down yet again... (I would call my computer at home Ziggy, but it already has a different name.) I guess I am really, totally, utterly obsessed. This morning on my way downtown my bus passed that "Bingo on Tuesdays" sign I mentioned a few weeks ago... this always cheers me up in the morning (I'm more of an evening than a morning person)... and today something really weird happened: I was listening to a tape by the Three Tenors on my walkman, and one of them (I forgot which one) was singing "With a Song in My Heart", and just as the bus passed the "Bingo" sign he reached the line "Can I help but rejoice". Quite a coincidence, isn't it? Especially since I am an Al fan. :-) 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: arsantos@mtholyoke.edu (Anacristina R Santos) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 3 Jul 1995 17:18:53 GMT ..when you keep having dreams about Quantum Leap (yes, with Al and Sam in completely new stories) that totally make sense to you when you're asleep, but as soon as you wake up you can't remember a thing... :( ..when being in a very formal seminar, after one of the members of the pannel mentions "we shouldn't LEAP to conclusions", you can't help wondering if Sam is one of the people next to you, but you're seeing the Leapee's aura, and of course, only Sam can see and hear Al, but he can be walking through you as far as you're concerned... Oh, boy! Tina -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: arsantos@mtholyoke.edu (Anacristina R Santos) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 3 Jul 1995 17:29:47 GMT ..when you're watching Apollo 13 and keep wondering if Al is there somewhere (NASA 1970, hmmm...) Oh, boy! Tina -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 3 Jul 1995 23:32:25 GMT In a previous article, arsantos@mtholyoke.edu (Anacristina R Santos) says: >..when you're watching Apollo 13 and keep wondering if Al is there >somewhere (NASA 1970, hmmm...) > >Oh, boy! > >Tina > Al was sort of indisposed in 1970 (Vietnam). Besides, if Our Hero had been along, surely there wouldn't have been such troubles... (after all, technology never goes ca-ca around him) ;). -- Barbara E. Walton | The Road goes ever ever on, | Down from the door where it began http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~ah329| Now far ahead the Road has gone | And I must follow if I can... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 4 Jul 1995 07:16:50 GMT Hello! Anacristina R Santos (arsantos@mtholyoke.edu) wrote: :> ..when you keep having dreams about Quantum Leap (yes, with Al and Sam :> in completely new stories) that totally make sense to you when you're :> asleep, but as soon as you wake up you can't remember a thing... :( So I'm not the only one to whom this happens... Phew... ;-) 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) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 4 Jul 1995 23:53:42 -0400 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you're watching the Macy's 4 of July parade and nearly choke from laughing too much when Scott Bakula says"let's LEAP over there now"and when you see him comming on the TV and you get soo excited that you nearly hiperventlate. Kristie P.s First,You know you're an obsessed Leaper post! :^) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... From: jla4268@jackson.freenet.org (Jimmy L. Anderson) Date: 5 Jul 95 01:03:44 -0500 Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when you hope that one day you'll have your own computer at work, : which you would call Ziggy - so you can swear at it in style (QL style, I *did* name my computer at work Ziggy. :) Jimmy Anderson jla4268@jackson.freenet.org http://jackson.freenet.org/jfn/jla4268 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: K.A.Blackwell@massey.ac.nz (Kerry Blackwell) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 12:10:08 When every time you have a thought that qualifies you as obsessed you make a point of remembering it so that next time you're near the computer you can post it!! I saw a series of sequential advertising billboards along the road recently and was surprised when they turned out to be promoting beer rather than shaving cream. Kerry -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: arsantos@mtholyoke.edu (Anacristina R Santos) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Jul 1995 13:49:12 GMT Barbara E. Walton (av214@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote: > >..when you're watching Apollo 13 and keep wondering if Al is there > >somewhere (NASA 1970, hmmm...) > >Tina > Al was sort of indisposed in 1970 (Vietnam). Besides, if Our Hero > had been along, surely there wouldn't have been such troubles... > (after all, technology never goes ca-ca around him) ;). Ooops, my mistake... Thanks for correcting me, Barbara! But with all those astronauts, I just couldn't help it :) ! Oh, boy! Tina -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Jul 1995 13:56:34 GMT Kristie A. Walivaara (kawaliva@mtu.edu) wrote: : You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you're watching the Macy's 4 of : July parade and nearly choke from laughing too much when Scott Bakula : says"let's LEAP over there now"and when you see him comming on the TV and : you get soo excited that you nearly hiperventlate. : Kristie : P.s First,You know you're an obsessed Leaper post! :^) Yeah, I knew I wouldn't be the only one. :). Mark was actually watching part of this with me, and he groaned when Scott said "Let's LEAP over there now...." I just grinned like a cheshire cat. Also when he narated his part about building bridges, I couldn't help but think that Sam would agree with every word, and the part about former enemies being friends, or allies, whatever reminded me of Sam trying to convince the Leapee's family during the Cuban Missile Crisis, about the Russians. But you really know you're obsessed, when you're taping the thing, and every time they stop for a commercial, you switch to USA, to see where they are in Sea Bride and to get a glimpse of Sam and Al while pausing the vcr for the 4 minutes worth of commercials. Thank goodness for the Last Channel button on the remote, for easy flipping back and forth :) Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Jul 1995 15:42:26 GMT When you're at your local fireworks show, and one of the songs they do in the "Patriotic music" before the the pyrotechnics is "Anchors Aweigh" -- and all you can think of is little Dean (age 7), wearing his sailor suit and running away to join the Navy. ("I'm not lost. Lost is when you don't know where you're going. I *do* know where I'm going: I'm going to join the Navy!") -- Barbara E. Walton | The Road goes ever ever on, | Down from the door where it began http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~ah329| Now far ahead the Road has gone | And I must follow if I can... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Jul 1995 06:21:14 GMT ...when you're listening to the QL-CD for hours and hours and hours (CD on repeat) and you keep listening to the Interview with Scott waiting to hear something new. Hans Cathcart___________________________________________________ @lost in Cyberspace: hans@american.edu on the Web: http://www.eagle.american.edu/hans.html IRL: Redwood City, California - USA - Earth - Sol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Must ... get ... to crappy special effect." - MST 3K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Jul 1995 23:01:46 GMT .... when you watch Murphy Brown, and whenever Scot appears you think "where the hell is Al?" .... when you stay up until 3 AM to watch a rerun of QL, because your VCR doesn't work (this is what I'm doing now) .... when you can't listen to "Great Balls Of Fire", "Volare" or "Imagine" without smiling. .... when on your final exam in History you answer a question about the Cuba missile crisis based ONLY on the "Nuclear Family" episode. u -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ ! "You know they say money can't buy happiness. ! ! ! ! Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile!" ! ! ! ! (Bobby-The Brain-Heenan) ! -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ! ilam ! ! Ilan Zilbershtein ! ! Tel-Aviv University ! ! Israel ! ! Planet Earth ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 7 Jul 1995 13:04:09 GMT Hello! I was upset yesterday because I couldn't think of any new obsession to write about in this group (which is an obsession of its own by now - telling the world how obsessed I am), but then, last night, my subconscious struck and presented me a very weird dream... In this dream I was not at home for some reason while QL was on TV so I thought constantly about the episode and about how it's being taped at this very moment by my trusty VCR, and suddenly I was right in the middle of the show myself! (It wasn't any episode I've seen or heard about, so let's congratulate my brain for its creativity. ;-) And I was able to see Sam (as himself) and Al (at all), which made me very happy, since I would have hated it otherwise (especially the part about Al being around and me not being able to see him! :-> ) Then the plot took an unexpected twist... Suddenly Al was there physically, too, and he was in some kind of distress and I was the only one who could help him, but unfortunately I got so excited about that that I woke up at that point. Darn. ;-) And then I spent the next half hour or so first angry because now that I at last had had a really nice and interesting dream this stupid brain of mine has to Swiss-cheese most of it and then laughing my head off when I realized that the German word I had used for "nice and interesting" (I think in German most of the time) has another meaning, "reasonable", and most people outside this newsgroup (let's face the disturbing fact - that's most of humankind) wouldn't connect the word "reasonable" with my behavior around anything in some way QL-related... :-} Which of course brought my train of thought to the fact that in a few weeks my boyfriend from Germany will come to visit me here and he doesn't know about my obsession yet, or at least doesn't realize its extent, since it started after I moved to Finland and we haven't seen each other since then. I still remember his amusement about my Star Trek obsession, which was VERY mild compared to this one... well, we'll see. :-) (Of course *he* is only obsessed with "reasonable" things, such as ancient languages or his bike.) This dream had me thinking about QL all day, even more than I usually do, and the parquet flooring at work, along with the fact that in Finnish houses people often don't wear shoes, had me think one of these "If Sam leaped in right now..." thoughts; this one about how he would at once slip and fall down with these slippery socks of mine. ;-) And then I realized that a certain part of the parsing program I'm working on is there *only* because I want the program to be able to at least guess that strange words such as "Bakula", which aren't in the lexicon, are names. (You can probably guess that this word didn't occur in any of the test texts...) Well, that's all for now. (Phew.) Let's see what happens on the weekend... 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: arsantos@mtholyoke.edu (Anacristina R Santos) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 7 Jul 1995 14:00:19 GMT Zilbershtein Ilan (ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il) wrote: > .... when you watch Murphy Brown, and whenever Scot appears you think "where > the hell is Al?" > .... when you stay up until 3 AM to watch a rerun of QL, because your VCR > doesn't work (this is what I'm doing now) > .... when you can't listen to "Great Balls Of Fire", "Volare" or "Imagine" > without smiling. Add "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" to that list :) ! Oh, boy! Tina -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: opera@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU (Susan Dunn, Susan Dunn) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 7 Jul 95 19:08:00 GMT ...you're half listening to the game show Jeopardy and one of the double Jeopardy answers is: "He is widely considered to be the greatest theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein"... and you shout out "Who is Dr. Sam Beckett?" OK, they got off on a technicality - the answer wasn't quantum physicist! I guess Stephen Hawking can have the title 'greatest theoretical physicist'. Susan ". . .don't look with your eyes, look with your hearts!" - Sam Beckett - A Single Drop of Rain -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tanista@aol.com (Tanista) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're (semi) obsessed when... Date: 8 Jul 1995 05:11:47 -0400 Well, I'm not all that obsessed as you folks are, but I've found the following things happening to me: -find myself muttering "Oh, boy!" whenever interesting things happen -owning a purple velvet jacket (like Al might have) that actually looks good on me -think Scott Bakula's got the greatest singing voice ever -having a voracious appetite for any QL fanfic- crossovers included- & downloading as much of as I can from the alt.creative group & any relevant FTP sites I dunno, do you think I qualify? :) -Tanista@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: mmckean@uoft02.utoledo.edu Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 07:54:50 GMT ..when you finally see the trailer for Lord of Illusions (starring Scott) for the first time and keep expecting to either see Dean or hear Scott say, "Oh, boy!" ..when you call every record store in town five times to find out if and when they'll be getting in the new Anyone Can Whistle recording (featuring Scott). ..when RASTQL is the first newsgroup you read every time you log on to your newsfeed. (Guilty on all three counts!) ----------------------------------------------------------------- mmckean@uoft02.utoledo.edu Some weird guy in Toledo Hapgood: "George, do you ever wonder whether you're real?" George: "No, sir, I know I'm not." -from Anyone Can Whistle ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: eydc@ecr.mu.OZ.AU (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: NEW THREAD: You know people know you're an obsessed leaper... Was Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 13:30:12 GMT In article <3tjelj$gd1@mudraker.mtholyoke.edu> arsantos@mtholyoke.edu (Anacristina R Santos) writes: >Zilbershtein Ilan (ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il) wrote: > >> .... when you watch Murphy Brown, and whenever Scot appears you think "where >> the hell is Al?" This reminds me of when I was watching Necessary Roughness when my sister came in and asked me where Al was. :-) Hence you know when people know you're an obsessed leaper when... Bye Elwyn ******************************************************************************** \ \ \ | / / \ | / / * "Oh Boy!" - Sam and Al, Shock Theatre/The Leap Back \ \ \|/ / \ \|/ / * QUANTUM LEAP \ \ | / \ | / /* Elwyn Chow <>< \ \ \ / / \ / / * O University of Melbourne \ \ O / O / * --+-- O Science & Elec Engineering --- -->-<-- / H_| / --* #####|## H_| eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au / / ##### \ | \ * [ ] | | eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au / / | | \ / \ \ * [__]/ \ / \ eydc@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au Check out my Quantum Leap homepage at http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~eydc ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: 10 Jul 1995 03:00:06 GMT ..when you're watching the Star Wars Trilogy on USA and you wonder if Darth Vader would be able to sense Luke if Sam leaped into Luke as they're flying by the Death Star on their way to the Moon's surface? Furthermore, would Vader be able to sense that it's Sam not Luke & would he be able to sense Al? 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Must ... get ... to crappy special effect." - MST 3K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 10 Jul 1995 07:38:26 GMT .. when, whenever you forget something, you blame it on the Swiss cheese sandwich you had for breakfast. 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) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 10 Jul 1995 11:13:27 GMT .. when you've been struggling with a certain problem for months and sometimes (OK, I admit, more than sometimes) wishing Sam would leap in and solve it for you - and then suddenly a friend suggests something that looks very much like the perfect solution, and you suspect that Sam leaped into *him* in order to make that suggestion. I'm still somewhat disappointed because I have always wanted to be leaped into the Waiting Room so I could have a chat with Al... ;-) 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: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: NEW THREAD: You know people know you're an obsessed leaper... Was Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 10 Jul 1995 22:02:36 GMT ....When your father start calling you "Son" or "Junior", until you are convinced that Sam has just leaped into him, and he doesn't know your name (remember "How the Tess was won" with Buddy Holly?) -- ===================================================================== | "There are five stages of love: the first is denial, the | | second is sex, then there's acceptance, then there's | | divorce, and then there's more sex, if you're lucky...." | | | | Al Calavici, Quantum Leap | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ ilam - student, soldier, plumber, mind reader, prime minister, ] [ quantum leaper, blind painter, wrestling manager, actor, ] [ soccer player, fashion designer, and dentist. ] [ E-mail: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il ] ===================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: NEW THREAD: You know people know you're an obsessed leaper... Was Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 11 Jul 1995 13:22:47 GMT .. when you're reading that Scott is getting divorced, and immediately you start worrying about those guys in de.soc.kontakte (my other favorite newsgroup :) , since they STILL haven't understood that even though you think Scott's a really great actor etc. etc. you're more of a Dean fan than a Scott fan, and they constantly want to pair you off with Scott... sheesh, I shouldn't have mentioned him on that "Some people look good regardless of what they wear" thread... anyway, I do hope they won't find out or they'll probably pool their money to buy him a trip to Finland! :-} 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) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 13 Jul 1995 13:51:14 GMT .. when you explain the basics of semantics using a "Sam and Donna" universe instead of the "John and Mary" universe which semanticists seem to prefer for reasons unknown to me... (the most commonly used relation being "loves", BTW... loves (sam, donna), loves (donna, sam)... :-) 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: blue@ (Blue C.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 13 Jul 1995 19:14:40 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: > I'm still somewhat disappointed because I have always wanted to be > leaped into the Waiting Room so I could have a chat with Al... ;-) Just chat? ;-) Perhaps you did, but can't remember it. Must've been great, too, because otherwise you wouldn't want to go back! *sigh* Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nancy mathews Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:36:31 -0500 (EST) 1. you receive the Publisher's Clearing House entry documents, and right away think maybe you should send this one in (even though you normally don't) because the winner is going to be announced August 8, 1995, and you think Sam's 42nd birthday :) 2. you're somewhat concerned, because it's the thirteenth day of the month, and tonight at 11PM Indiana time the b**gie (you know what I mean) episode is on, and you want to try once again to tape it, but you're kind of scared too, because the episode won't end until midnight (Indiana time). So you have to try and tape it on a day that is thirteen. Oh boy!!!!!! Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Them that dance with the devil get scortched" --Tulley Quantum Leap "The Hallow'een Episode" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: littlemo@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Michael S Owens) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 13 Jul 1995 22:25:31 GMT : .... when you can't listen to "Great Balls Of Fire", "Volare" or "Imagine" : without smiling. I've got a little hint for the guys, (and it will prove that I am an obsessed leaper) last Valentine's Day I sang the song "Somewhere in the Night" to my girlfriend. She loved it, even though I am not Scott B. by any means. (Bowled her over) -Mike littlemo@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zakharin Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: 13 Jul 1995 22:58:26 GMT nancy mathews wrote: >2. you're somewhat concerned, because it's the thirteenth day of >the month, and tonight at 11PM Indiana time the b**gie (you know what >I mean) episode is on, and you want to try once again to tape it, >but you're kind of scared too, because the episode won't end until >midnight (Indiana time). So you have to try and tape it on a day >that is thirteen. I hear about this all the time, but I've taped the episode 2 or 3 times and nothing happened. However many times I did tape it, I hope nothing happens this time. (I'm so weird, I erase episodes and then tape them again. I think for some reason that seeing them whenever I want is not as fun as seeing them every time they run.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: c-leaper@shooter.bluemarble.net (Jennifer Bohn) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: 14 Jul 1995 00:47:58 GMT Daniel Delisle (cdelisle@ici.net) wrote: : YKYAOLW... : You put sci.physics.accelerators in your subscribed newsgroup list : just because you hope to catch a post coming from sbeckett@pql.gov :) : (You never know, this _is_ the year Sam starts leaping...) Don't forget to check e-mail boxes.... ;) : When you start paying $25 a month for unlimited Internet access just : so you can spend all the time you want on : rec.arts.scifi.tv.quantum-leap (the best on the 'Net). Oh my, this was a definite must for me when I signed up (unlimited time, unlimited e-mails, unlimited newsgroups...) I KNEW I'd be in trouble if I had to pay per hour or pay for anything over 90 e-mails per month. (We're not even halfway through July, and I've already sent out over 150 e-mails.) : And when you start running out of room, you think that you don't : _really_ need that spreadsheet... ROTFL!!!!!!! -- Jenni B. <>< "You gotta believe, when you get down on your RASTQL List Keeper knees, He'll be there to make the sun shine again." - Bdays ("The Song With No Name," from Pool Hall Blues) - E-mail addresses - Geo locations e-mail: c-leaper@bluemarble.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cdelisle@ici.net (Daniel Delisle) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 05:58:28 GMT YKYAOLW... When you're downloading the "YKYAOLW..." thread and the modem stops and you find yourself smacking the side of your new "pocket" modem (about handlink size :) and calling it a "rotten pile of Gummy Bears..." You put sci.physics.accelerators in your subscribed newsgroup list just because you hope to catch a post coming from sbeckett@pql.gov :) (You never know, this _is_ the year Sam starts leaping...) When you start paying $25 a month for unlimited Internet access just so you can spend all the time you want on rec.arts.scifi.tv.quantum-leap (the best on the 'Net). And when you sign up, you make the guy on the phone go check and make sure he gets rastql, even if it _is_ five minutes until closing. When you start archiving every post in rastql, aqc & aqtc just so you'll have something to do between episodes of quantum leap. And when you start running out of room, you think that you don't _really_ need that spreadsheet... (Just my two cents hitting the table) Daniel Delisle cdelisle@ici.net Just another little rastql -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 14 Jul 1995 12:39:27 GMT Hello! Blue C. (blue@) wrote: :> simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: :> > I'm still somewhat disappointed because I have always wanted to be :> > leaped into the Waiting Room so I could have a chat with Al... ;-) :> Just chat? ;-) I refuse to comment on that. ;-) :> Perhaps you did, but can't remember it. Must've been :> great, too, because otherwise you wouldn't want to go back! *sigh* I'm not sure... If I *had* been there, would I have a hole in my memory or would I remember (well, sort of) what happened to Sam while he wore my aura? Or would my brain just fill in the hole with what it *guessed* happened during this time? I know this has been discussed here already, but I can't remember the results of this discussion. I can't even remember if there *was* any distinguishable result. I guess I'm Swiss-cheesed and that's the proof I actually *was* in the Waiting Room during this time. ;-) If I really was there I probably asked Al where he got all those great clothes, and now I forgot it. Life is unfair... :-( CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: 14 Jul 1995 13:22:33 GMT Zakharin (zakharin@omni.voicenet.com) wrote: : nancy mathews wrote: : >2. you're somewhat concerned, because it's the thirteenth day of : >the month, and tonight at 11PM Indiana time the b**gie (you know what : >I mean) episode is on, and you want to try once again to tape it, : >but you're kind of scared too, because the episode won't end until : >midnight (Indiana time). So you have to try and tape it on a day : >that is thirteen. : I hear about this all the time, but I've taped the episode 2 or 3 times and nothing : happened. However many times I did tape it, I hope nothing happens this time. (I'm : so weird, I erase episodes and then tape them again. I think for some reason that : seeing them whenever I want is not as fun as seeing them every time they run.) Well, I think I got the Hallow'een episode this time. However, the weird thing tried to strik again. At the beginning when he Leaped in and all through the beginning credits, my OTR button was stuck, and while I think the episode was recording ok, my status screen kept showing the otr time at the top, along with the recording speed. 30, then it changed to 1:00, then 1:30, then 2:00.... It finally got past 8;00, and had to start back over at 30. I finally got the OTR button unstuck, and pushed it again for 1:00, so I could record the episode using the pause button (My vcr won't let me pause if I pre-set the recorder to record, that's why I use OTR so much. The only other time it did this was when I was trying to tape the Langoliers on May 15th this year. so this time I recognized the symptoms and fixed it. As for having them to watch when I want, not necessarily true, when you live with a Trekker :) Besides, I would never miss QL when shown on tv, and contrary to rumor, I don't watch QL all the time, I read fanzines, and write stories about it :) Seriously, I do pursue my life and job outside of QL. I'm just kind of fond of it, OK obsessed with it. :) Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu The you know how tried to strike again! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hilary Bates Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 15 Jul 1995 00:24:54 GMT You know you're an obsessed Leaper, when you download and save all the threads compiled by Julia (thanks, Julia) on this thread, and when you get to the one about the answering machine message you have to add that yours says: "Hi, I'm too swiss-cheesed to answer the phone at the moment, but if you leave a message, Ziggy says there's a 100% chance that I'll call you back as soon as I leap back in. That's what mine says!!! Hilary hbates@amgen.com <>< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chaos@onramp.net (Chaos) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: Sat, 15 Jul 95 13:09:52 GMT You know you're *really* an obsessed leaper when you change your major from CS to Physics on the off chance you can get into whatever type of PQL comes about in the real world. ,=~~~~=. "Be creative - invent a perversion." ,=~~~~=. ( o _--_| "He who dies with the most toys is STILL dead" ( o _--_| |~--~ o ) "One man plus courage is a majority" |~--~ o ) ~=____=~ -My- viewpoints. Blame no school or employer. ~=____=~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 15 Jul 1995 23:09:07 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: > Blue C. (blue@) wrote: {SNIP: meeting Al in the Waiting Room *sigh*] > :> Perhaps you did, but can't remember it. Must've been > :> great, too, because otherwise you wouldn't want to go back! *sigh* > > I'm not sure... If I *had* been there, would I have a hole in my memory > or would I remember (well, sort of) what happened to Sam while he wore > my aura? Or would my brain just fill in the hole with what it *guessed* > happened during this time? I know this has been discussed here already, > but I can't remember the results of this discussion. I can't even > remember if there *was* any distinguishable result. I don't think there was... not that we particularly disagreed, but there are too many tough questions. To what degree is the leapee swiss-cheesed? Worst case: he has no memories whatsoever of the experience, and his physician probably diagnoses it as hysterical amnesia... whatever Sam had to do to get the leapee's life back on track, it probably was stressful enough to warrant such a diagnostic! Or the leapee retains some memories. Which ones? The waiting room ones, or ones he acquired by leaping back in, and somehow merging with Sam? Or a bit of both? I temporarily give up :-) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chaos@onramp.net (Chaos) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: Sun, 16 Jul 95 05:07:07 GMT In article <3uarla$naq@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: <*>Chaos (chaos@onramp.net) wrote: <*>:> You know you're *really* an obsessed leaper when you change your major <*>:> from CS to Physics on the off chance you can get into whatever type of <*>:> PQL comes about in the real world. <*> <*>But they should need some computer scientists too... Yeah, but *I* want to go into the acceleration chamber. ,=~~~~=. "Be creative - invent a perversion." ,=~~~~=. ( o _--_| "He who dies with the most toys is STILL dead" ( o _--_| |~--~ o ) "One man plus courage is a majority" |~--~ o ) ~=____=~ -My- viewpoints. Blame no school or employer. ~=____=~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 16 Jul 1995 09:38:20 GMT Hello! Blue C. (blue@) wrote: :> simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: :> > Blue C. (blue@) wrote: :> {SNIP: meeting Al in the Waiting Room *sigh*] *sigh* I sigh with you... Gee, yet another piece of evidence in the ongoing process of proving how obsessed I *really* am. ;-) But I think I already wrote something like that... CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 16 Jul 1995 10:38:10 GMT Hello! Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: :> Gee, yet another piece of evidence in the ongoing process of proving how :> obsessed I *really* am. ;-) But I think I already wrote something like :> that... .. and here I provide some more evidence: ;-) .. when you want to convince your family that you really, really want to stay in Finland and not return back home to Germany (or at least, not too soon) and get "tactical advice" (or is this "strategic"? :-} ) from watching "The Play's the Thing". .. when the "Happy Days" episode where they want to catch some evil guy called Beckett gives you some really good laughs, because the first name of the actor who played this Beckett is Al... (sort of reminds you of "The Leap Back", doesn't it? ;-) Which, of course, also reminds me of the "Happy Days" episode where Anson Williams (sp?) sang a song with a chorus that seemed to almost totally consist of "Oh boy"... :-) BTW, last week I decided my room needs some brightening up and that I should get some more plants. So I went to Stockmann and bought two potted calla lilies (or something *really* similar) (thereby once again proving that you can get (almost) anything there - no, they're not paying me for giving you this information! ;) because I've read so much about them in this group... Now, could someone please tell me exactly what their connection to QL is? (Not that I *didn't* like them even without a QL connection, but not knowing it still bugs me...) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: 16 Jul 1995 11:03:06 GMT Hello! Chaos (chaos@onramp.net) wrote: :> You know you're *really* an obsessed leaper when you change your major from CS :> to Physics on the off chance you can get into whatever type of PQL comes about :> in the real world. But they should need some computer scientists too... I, however, hope to get there as a computational linguist to take care of Ziggy. :-) After all, I have some experience with neural nets and right now am working in the field of natural language processing, so I hope my chances are quite good. ;) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nexus@io.org (Greg Taylor) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 16 Jul 1995 23:18:23 -0400 In article <3u71sm$jqf@amgen.amgen.com>, Hilary Bates wrote: >You know you're an obsessed Leaper, when you download and save all the >threads compiled by Julia (thanks, Julia) on this thread, and when you >get to the one about the answering machine message you have to add that >yours says: "Hi, I'm too swiss-cheesed to answer the phone at the moment, >but if you leave a message, Ziggy says there's a 100% chance that I'll >call you back as soon as I leap back in. > >That's what mine says!!! > >Hilary >hbates@amgen.com ><>< > Indeed, I just saved and downloaded all that neat stuff I missed... Read it all too, so that when I throw in my two cents here I have some idea of just how I compare... >"Oh boy" becoming a standard part of one's vocabulary Yup. That, and "Fascinating" (ST) >Pretending calculator is a handlink >Trying to make the peculiar sounds handlink makes on the show Oh GOOD. Thought I was the only insane one there. (Of course, sometimes if I say something stupid I slap my head and make the same noise... ) >Calling computer/calculator "Ziggy" Hey, that's a good idea... why not, I've got a bicycle named KITT. Let's see... I also showed part of the "Liberation" episode for a Gr. 12 English project... am becoming more adept at figuring out the plot from a mere episode title (not quite as good as ST on this)... But I think the true sign of obsession came about 4 years ago when I daydreamed that Sam had Quantum Leaped into me. I've never been the same since. :) BTW, nice newsgroup you have here! Finally caught up on the 250 posts and hope to contribute in the future. --Greg Taylor (Not quite your average trekker, leaper, rider, x-phile, slider guy) Al : "Ziggy says that there's a 72% chance that you're here to play with matches." Al&Sam: "What??" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 17 Jul 1995 15:25:47 GMT .. when you accidentally write "Scotland" with two t's unless you watch your fingers very closely... .. and speaking of names, when a friend of yours showed you a book with lots of European subway maps and you looked at the London (if my memory doesn't deceive me) map the first station your eye fell on was "Stockwell"... .. when you notice Nokia now has cell phones in some really weird colors (which of course remind you a lot of Al) and you start waiting for one in lots of different colors and with lots of blinking lights to come out, hoping that then you will have enough money to afford a cell phone... (and you plan to call it "Ziggy" and hit it occasionally) .. when your boyfriend complains about the strands of white hair he's getting (actually it's more like "individual hairs" than "strands", but it made him feel terribly old nevertheless) you comfort him, mentioning that as far as you know Scott Bakula had his strand of white hair when he was a lot younger than aforementioned boyfriend. (That was also a nice opportunity to start transforming him into a Leaper... it didn't work with Star Trek, but then, I am a lot more enthusiastic about QL! ;-) Oh boy, I have to go. I have a headache that cries for being cured with some QL episodes on tape... CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 22:12:36 GMT Hilary Bates wrote: >You know you're an obsessed Leaper, when you download and save all the >threads compiled by Julia (thanks, Julia) on this thread, and when you >get to the one about the answering machine message you have to add that >yours says: "Hi, I'm too swiss-cheesed to answer the phone at the moment, >but if you leave a message, Ziggy says there's a 100% chance that I'll >call you back as soon as I leap back in. > >That's what mine says!!! Cool message! I have a similar idea plotted out for my voice mail at college, if my roommate agrees: You've reached the room of Julie and Kelly. They can't come to the phone right now because Julie has stepped into the Accelerator to hunt through time for Dr. Beckett, and Kelly is serving as her Observer. When and if they ever Leap home, they will call you back. hope it's not to corny. Anyways, here's my contribution to the thread. You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... your wardrobe looks like something Al would be proud to own. you call your friends and relatives "Sam" occaisionally, just in case. you study New Mexico maps looking for Stallion's Gate. you keep the Taboo game card for "leap" because one of the 5 best clues is " Quantum" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zakharin Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 17 Jul 1995 23:19:31 GMT nexus@io.org (Greg Taylor) wrote: >In article <3u71sm$jqf@amgen.amgen.com>, >Hilary Bates wrote: >>You know you're an obsessed Leaper, when you download and save all the >>threads compiled by Julia (thanks, Julia) on this thread, and when you >>get to the one about the answering machine message you have to add that >>yours says: "Hi, I'm too swiss-cheesed to answer the phone at the moment, >>but if you leave a message, Ziggy says there's a 100% chance that I'll >>call you back as soon as I leap back in. >> >>That's what mine says!!! >> >>Hilary >>hbates@amgen.com >><>< >> > Indeed, I just saved and downloaded all that neat stuff I missed... >Read it all too, so that when I throw in my two cents here I have some >idea of just how I compare... I downloaded them too > >"Oh boy" becoming a standard part of one's vocabulary > Yup. That, and "Fascinating" (ST) That's the BEST that could (and did) happen > >Pretending calculator is a handlink My calculater is broken (I think I killed her) > >Trying to make the peculiar sounds handlink makes on the show > Oh GOOD. Thought I was the only insane one there. (Of course, > sometimes if I say something stupid I slap my head and make the > same noise... ) I'm not that tallanted > >Calling computer/calculator "Ziggy" > Hey, that's a good idea... why not, I've got a bicycle named KITT. > > Let's see... I also showed part of the "Liberation" episode for a > Gr. 12 English project... am becoming more adept at figuring out > the plot from a mere episode title (not quite as good as ST on this)... > > But I think the true sign of obsession came about 4 years ago when I >daydreamed that Sam had Quantum Leaped into me. I've never been the >same since. :) I had just 1 dream about QL (before seeing Mirror Image) in which the last episode was shown where Sam died (or was lost in time forever I don't remember which) and suddenly wondered what I'm doing awake at 1am (I always tape them) > > BTW, nice newsgroup you have here! Finally caught up on the 250 posts >and hope to contribute in the future. > >--Greg Taylor >(Not quite your average trekker, leaper, rider, x-phile, slider guy) >Al : "Ziggy says that there's a 72% chance that you're here to play > with matches." >Al&Sam: "What??" > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: 18 Jul 1995 07:00:52 GMT Hello! Chaos (chaos@onramp.net) wrote: :> In article <3uarla$naq@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, :> simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: :> <*>Chaos (chaos@onramp.net) wrote: :> <*>:> You know you're *really* an obsessed leaper when you change your major :> <*>:> from CS to Physics on the off chance you can get into whatever type of :> <*>:> PQL comes about in the real world. :> <*> :> <*>But they should need some computer scientists too... :> Yeah, but *I* want to go into the acceleration chamber. Do as you like... *I'm* going to get some perverse pleasure out of teaching a computer how to be rude instead of risking my life every week... ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: bv693@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Susan H. Neese) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 07:24:07 GMT Zakharin (zakharin@omni.voicenet.com) writes: > nexus@io.org (Greg Taylor) wrote: >>In article <3u71sm$jqf@amgen.amgen.com>, >>Hilary Bates wrote: >>>You know you're an obsessed Leaper, when you download and save all the >>>threads compiled by Julia (thanks, Julia) on this thread, and when you >>>get to the one about the answering machine message you have to add that >>>yours says: "Hi, I'm too swiss-cheesed to answer the phone at the moment, >>>but if you leave a message, Ziggy says there's a 100% chance that I'll >>>call you back as soon as I leap back in. >>> >>>That's what mine says!!! >>> >>>Hilary >>>hbates@amgen.com >>><>< >>> >> Indeed, I just saved and downloaded all that neat stuff I missed... >>Read it all too, so that when I throw in my two cents here I have some >>idea of just how I compare... > I downloaded them too >> >"Oh boy" becoming a standard part of one's vocabulary >> Yup. That, and "Fascinating" (ST) > That's the BEST that could (and did) happen >> >Pretending calculator is a handlink > My calculater is broken (I think I killed her) >> >Trying to make the peculiar sounds handlink makes on the show >> Oh GOOD. Thought I was the only insane one there. (Of course, >> sometimes if I say something stupid I slap my head and make the >> same noise... ) > I'm not that tallanted >> >Calling computer/calculator "Ziggy" >> Hey, that's a good idea... why not, I've got a bicycle named KITT. >> >> Let's see... I also showed part of the "Liberation" episode for a >> Gr. 12 English project... am becoming more adept at figuring out >> the plot from a mere episode title (not quite as good as ST on this)... >> >> But I think the true sign of obsession came about 4 years ago when I >>daydreamed that Sam had Quantum Leaped into me. I've never been the >>same since. :) > I had just 1 dream about QL (before seeing Mirror Image) in which the last episode > was shown where Sam died (or was lost in time forever I don't remember which) and > suddenly wondered what I'm doing awake at 1am (I always tape them) >> >> BTW, nice newsgroup you have here! Finally caught up on the 250 posts >>and hope to contribute in the future. >> >>--Greg Taylor >>(Not quite your average trekker, leaper, rider, x-phile, slider guy) >>Al : "Ziggy says that there's a 72% chance that you're here to play >> with matches." >>Al&Sam: "What??" >> >> > > When I get bored, I sometimes think that Sam has leaped into me, and I look around quickly to see how much information he could gather about the time, place, and person. Garrett Neese -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUE sneese@esd171.wednet.edu GARRETT bn568@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu -or- BTLS4FR@aol.com -or- GLA2335@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Jul 1995 13:29:05 GMT Hello! Susan H. Neese (bv693@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote: :> When I get bored, I sometimes think that Sam has leaped into me, :> and I look around quickly to see how much information he could gather :> about the time, place, and person. So I'm not the only one... :-) Only I also try to imagine how he would react to his surroundings (I mean, apart from "Oh boy" ;-) . CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Jul 1995 15:35:41 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : Hello! : Susan H. Neese (bv693@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote: : :> When I get bored, I sometimes think that Sam has leaped into me, : :> and I look around quickly to see how much information he could gather : :> about the time, place, and person. : So I'm not the only one... :-) : Only I also try to imagine how he would react to his surroundings (I : mean, apart from "Oh boy" ;-) . : CU, Hmm? I'm not sure I've ever done this, maybe I should try it some-time, but I have messed up some things, and then in order to make myself feel better, I imagine that Sam has Leaped into me, or whatever, and Al is there telling him that he has to correct an mistake, that I have made. I recently did this, when I messed up taping Good Morning Peoria for Kerry when it was on Midnite QL recently (a month or so ago) In appology, I sent him the specifics and then wrote out the little senario in which Sam and Al would fix it. :) Does this make me somewhat obsessed even more than I thought? Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Jul 1995 17:41:14 GMT ...when you try to convince your friends that the reason you don't remember yesterday is that Sam leaped into you, not the fact that you drank too much. 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Because the rest of TV is such a bunch of crap." - Bill Maher, as in Politically Incorrect commenting on the success of his show. (not talking, of course, about Quantum Leap!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: buckweat@ecst.csuchico.edu (Paul Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Jul 1995 19:30:58 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : Only I also try to imagine how he would react to his surroundings (I : mean, apart from "Oh boy" ;-) . Glad to hear that you would probably be in the middle of something that would make Sam say "Oh boy." In my case, he'd probably say something like, "This person needs to get a life!" :-) -- Paul Brown -- California State University Chico Computer Science ---------------------------------------------------------------- "This has been a test of the emergency E-Mail system. If this had been an actual emergency, your terminal would be melting before your eyes." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Jul 1995 20:37:17 GMT Paul Brown (buckweat@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote: : Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : : Only I also try to imagine how he would react to his surroundings (I : : mean, apart from "Oh boy" ;-) . : Glad to hear that you would probably be in the middle of something : that would make Sam say "Oh boy." In my case, he'd probably say : something like, "This person needs to get a life!" :-) Well, in my case since I'm a woman, and we all know how Sam reacts to being a woman again. I figured the Oh boy was a given, plus of course he'd be in an akward position when he Leaped into my life, If it wasn't akward, I would have no need for him to Leap in. :) Nancy sorry couldn't resist ;) nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Pamela J Mitman) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: QL answering machine messages Date: 18 Jul 1995 16:37:36 -0500 Okay! New thread! My answering machine message is as follows (with QL theme song in the background!): Hi. I can't come to the phone right now because I'm either travelling in time or putting things right that once went wrong. So leave a message and I'll get back to you--providing, of course, that the next Leap...will be the Leap home. Any others out there? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: buckweat@ecst.csuchico.edu (Paul Brown) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Jul 1995 23:56:14 GMT In article <3uh61t$j2s@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, nancy mathews wrote: > >Well, in my case since I'm a woman, and we all know how Sam reacts >to being a woman again. I figured the Oh boy was a given, plus >of course he'd be in an akward position when he Leaped into my life, >If it wasn't akward, I would have no need for him to Leap in. :) Yeah, makes sense. But, other things equal, assuming he would leap in to me anyway, since I'm male, he would probably not say "oh, boy." I think there have been a few episodes where he said something other than "Oh, boy"... "Leap of Faith" comes to mind, in which he said, "Oh God" (although they are similar). Anyways... I gonna keep on leapin', are you? ;-) -- Paul Brown -- California State University Chico Computer Science ---------------------------------------------------------------- "This has been a test of the emergency E-Mail system. If this had been an actual emergency, your terminal would be melting before your eyes." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: QL answering machine messages Date: 19 Jul 1995 02:45:00 GMT set to Quantum Leap Prologue w/o Voice Over (sorry Deborah) (trak 16 on CD) "Hi, this is Ziggy, (insert your name) stepped into the Quantum Accellerator and vanished. But, there's a 97.851% chance (he/she)'s out leaping in space and time. So if you know where (he/she) is we can send Al to look for (him/her). Assuming we can find (him/her), (he/she)'ll return your call as soon as (he/she) leaps back home." the timing on this works perfectly if you read it normally, Sam leaps just after you say "back home." and then the chime is a nice "beep" :) of course you could have the machine play the whole Prologue.. 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Must ... get ... to crappy special effect." - MST 3K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 19 Jul 1995 07:22:40 GMT Hello! nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: :> Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: [imagining Sam Leaping into me :-) ] :> : Only I also try to imagine how he would react to his surroundings (I :> : mean, apart from "Oh boy" ;-) . :> Hmm? I'm not sure I've ever done this, maybe I should try it some-time, :> but I have messed up some things, and then in order to make myself :> feel better, I imagine that Sam has Leaped into me, or whatever, and :> Al is there telling him that he has to correct an mistake, that I :> have made. Hey! I'm doing that too sometimes... when I have a problem I can't solve on my own, and nobody can help me with it, I try to imagine what Sam would do in order to leap out of me again (i.e. to solve my problem). Apart from being a lot of fun, this also helps me view whatever problem it is from a different angle and some distance, since by switching to Sam's point of view I'm making it someone else's problem and a lot more harmless than it appears to me as its "owner". ;-) :> Does this make me somewhat obsessed even more than I thought? *grin* I just tried to imagine what non-obsessed people around me would say if I told them, "When I have a problem I imagine Sam leaping into me and solving it..." ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 19 Jul 1995 07:27:24 GMT Hello! Paul Brown (buckweat@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote: :> Glad to hear that you would probably be in the middle of something :> that would make Sam say "Oh boy." In my case, he'd probably say :> something like, "This person needs to get a life!" :-) *grin* Living in a country with a main language other than English does help a lot, you know... I guess he would say "Oh boy" as soon as some Finn would say something Finnish to him, or as soon as he realized that all the writing around him (i.e. posters etc.) is in some weird foreign language. ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden") Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:55:19 GMT >>> >"Oh boy" becoming a standard part of one's vocabulary >>> Yup. That, and "Fascinating" (ST) Worrying, isn't it? Yeterday I was sitting at the table and my mum placed a big plate of fish fingers in fromt of me. Completely involuntarily, I said "YUMOLA!" Mum nearly dropped the lot; she's only just got used to 'Oh Boy'. Wolf+ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 19 Jul 1995 17:09:42 GMT hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) writes: > ...when you try to convince your friends that the reason you don't > remember yesterday is that Sam leaped into you, not the fact that you > drank too much. ROTFL! Now that's a good one. Pity I gave up party drinking before I started watching QL -- er, now that didn't come out right... ;-) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: searnold@aol.com (SEArnold) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: QL answering machine messages Date: 19 Jul 1995 14:16:13 -0400 Here's mine: "Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime (and still be back for lunch), Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in my apartment, facing a mirror image that was _definitely_ his own, and driven by an unknown force to change my life for the better. Sorry I can't take your call, but Sam and I are off -er- changing my life. Please leave a message." Sara -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Found the Quantum factory :-) Date: 20 Jul 1995 02:31:16 GMT Thanks to QL I almost killed myself twice while driving to Ohio and back. No kidding. First I just about ran off the road when I was in either Columbus or somewhere close in Ohio (I can't remember which) and there it was. A huge building with "Quantum" on the side. The other thing is, I now have a copy of the tape with you know who sing God Spell and he really says "Oh Boy" in it. I was laughing so hard I did drive off the road. -- Freda whaleyf@mail.firn.edu Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) Member of DIGAS (Dean's Impish Grin Appreciation Society) V.P. of RDSAS (The Robert Dean Stockwell Appreciation Society) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jon@ziggy.gomi.net (Jon Holmok) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 05:27:57 GMT Thank goodness I fit in. My friends constantly remind me of my tendency to say `Oh Boy!!!' and to gesture like Al. Then again I too... ...blamed an inability to remember things to a swiss-cheesed memory ...called my computer Ziggy ...pretend that a calculator is a hand-link( complete with flashing lights ( and the occasional sound-effect)) ...studied both electronics and quantum theories Also I... ...came up with computer programs that I hoped would create a PROJECT: Quantum Leap ...pretended to talk to a holographic friend named Al ...for computer-lit wrote a letter to Scott Bakula about Quantum Leap( and received a reply in which Scott said "Good luck." ...came up with some theories on how to make an Imaging-Chamber complete with a hologram of me on the other side Does anybody else out there think I qualify as an obsessed fan? P.S. Sorry about my current signature-line doesn't have to do with Quantum Leap. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jonathan M. Holmok jon@ziggy.gomi.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ________________________ (____________________][__) _______----_______ \ \__---~~~~~.. ... .... ... ..~~~~~---___ >--============================================== ________________/______/ ~~~~~-------____-------~~~~~ (____________________][__) ~~ U.S.S. POLARIS NCC-1839E -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 24 Jul 1995 20:03:14 GMT jon@ziggy.gomi.net (Jon Holmok) writes: > Thank goodness I fit in. That's a common feeling around here :-) Welcome to the club! [SNIP: A list of classic QL-obsession symptoms] > Does anybody else out there think I qualify as an obsessed fan? > > P.S. Sorry about my current signature-line doesn't have to do with Quantum > Leap. Oh, you definitely qualify! I think it's the first time someone actually _apologizes_ for not having a QL .sig :-) :-) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: acalavicci@aol.com (ACalavicci) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 25 Jul 1995 00:02:02 -0400 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you're having a horrendous day at work and you want nothing more then to club the nearest moving object over the head when "Georgia" by Ray Charles starts playing over the store speakers and all of the sudden, you feel a LOT better. Whew! What a run on! :) --Andie "Let's go get 'em!" "Skippy, no! What are you thinking?!" "Oh, you're right, Aunt Slappy. We need the BIG bombs!" "That's better, kid. C'mon, let's go blow 'em to kingdom come." "YAY!" --Skippy and Slappy Squirrel "Animaniacs: Critical Condition" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 25 Jul 1995 12:40:36 GMT .. when you find out that in Germany they call cell phones "handies" and you think that must be short for "handlink". (One day when I'm rich I'll get a cell phone, and I hope they'll have multi-colored ones with lots of blinking lights by then! Nokia has already started manufacturing them in really weird colors, so maybe one day... ;-) .. when you're talking about long distance relationships and the first example that comes to mind is Sam and Donna... and then you realize that you, too, live in a LDR... (but I must admit, even though the distance between Vantaa and Heidelberg is pretty far it would be a lot worse if one of us were bouncing around in time) .. when you're discussing phonetics with yourself and your example for vowel articulation is the difference between Scott's and Dean's pronunciation of "Oh boy" (did anybody else notice? any phoneticians out there? :-) and then you realize that Dean's pronunciation (at least in QL) also provides a lot of stuff for consonant researchers... oh well... this one is probably only understandable to my fellow linguistics freaks. ;-) .. when you have to choose between a yellow-wrapped and a red-wrapped sweet (last night at the restaurant :-) and you have no idea what kind of sweets they are and when you choose the red one you try to find out why this one looked more appealing to you and that tiny little voice in your head says, "Because Al looks much better in that color." (Welllll... it was very late, and I was half asleep by then. ;-) BTW, my boyfriend arrived yesterday and I guess I have already given him a QL overdose... I haven't shown him a single episode yet, but I found out yesterday that QL will be back on Finnish TV by August 14 and it was difficult for me to talk about anything else for an extended period of time... I guess now he thinks I'm obsessed or something... (sheepish grin) (He already knows Scott as "the actor with the streak of white hair", since I used him as an example to comfort my boyfriend about those white hairs he's getting. ;-) But I do hope that I can at least make him sympathize a bit... he's into weird clothing styles, so I hope to be able to make him an Al fan. ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Your know you're "really" obsessed when Date: 26 Jul 1995 01:48:26 GMT You know you're really obsessed when you turn to the SiFi channel even though you can't get it in because you havn't paide to have it unscrambled yet just so you can hear Scott and Dean. -- Freda whaleyf@mail.firn.edu Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) Member of DIGAS (Dean's Impish Grin Appreciation Society) V.P. of RDSAS (The Robert Dean Stockwell Appreciation Society) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: c-leaper@shooter.bluemarble.net (Jennifer Bohn) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 Jul 1995 09:09:05 GMT ....when you have just finished seeing "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie" with your 6-year-old, and you go into a record store to look for the "Anyone Can Whistle" soundtrack... ...she is ecstatic when she spies the MMPR:TM CD, you are ecstatic when you spy the ACW CD...she wants to know what all of Mommy's excitement is about... ...and all you have to do is show her Scott Bakula's name on the front of the CD cover...she utters an all-knowing "Oh" and gives you one of *those* looks... ...and she happily goes back to her own interest, leaving Mommy to drool in peace. :-)~ -- Jenni B. <>< "You gotta believe, when you get down on your RASTQL List Keeper knees, He'll be there to make the sun shine again." - Bdays ("The Song With No Name," from Pool Hall Blues) - E-mail addresses - Geo locations e-mail: c-leaper@bluemarble.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ecrocke@tucson.princeton.edu (Emily C. Rocke) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when Date: 26 Jul 1995 14:48:44 GMT In article <3v46ta$o0p@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, Freda Lee Whaley wrote: > >You know you're really obsessed when you turn to the SiFi >channel even though you can't get it in because you >havn't paide to have it unscrambled yet just so you >can hear Scott and Dean. I was going to be a nice quiet lurker, but I can't resist---I thought I was the only one insane enough to do this! When I was home on vacation, my parents don't get the Sci Fi channel and I spent an hour listening to "Good night, dear heart," eyes plastered to the colorful rolling zigzags for the occasional blurry glimpses of Sam and/or Al. Yikes! Emily Rocke (newly obsessed leaper at large) -- ************************************************************************* * Emily Rocke * A year spent in artificial * * ecrocke@princeton.edu * intelligence is enough * * http://www.princeton.edu/~ecrocke * to make one believe in God * ************************************************************************* -- ************************************************************************* * Emily Rocke * A year spent in artificial * * ecrocke@princeton.edu * intelligence is enough * * http://www.princeton.edu/~ecrocke * to make one believe in God * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when Date: 26 Jul 1995 17:10:26 GMT Emily C. Rocke (ecrocke@tucson.princeton.edu) wrote: : In article <3v46ta$o0p@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, : Freda Lee Whaley wrote: : > : >You know you're really obsessed when you turn to the SiFi : >channel even though you can't get it in because you : >havn't paide to have it unscrambled yet just so you : >can hear Scott and Dean. : I was going to be a nice quiet lurker, but I can't resist---I thought : I was the only one insane enough to do this! When I was home on : vacation, my parents don't get the Sci Fi channel and I spent an hour : listening to "Good night, dear heart," eyes plastered to the colorful : rolling zigzags for the occasional blurry glimpses of Sam and/or Al. : Yikes! Emily, welcome, post often. Now back to the thread. You think you're obsessed, both you and Freda at least get the Sci-fi channel scrambled. My dumb cable station doesn't even offer it scrambled! Yes, I do get it on USA, but I must be obsessed, if I envy you and Freda because you can get it even scrambled on Sci-fi! What I wouldn't give! :) I need help! Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hilary Bates Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 Jul 1995 20:12:09 GMT I did another one a few days ago; my department had an all-day offsite meeting to plan for the next 5 years (we do this every 18 months) and needed a name for the strategic planning exercise. I suggested Quantum Leap! (someone supported me in this, too!) Hilary hbates@amgen.com <>< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 Jul 1995 20:47:47 GMT ... when you hear about how the top-secret Raiders ticket-draw names are being kept in a top-secret computer at an undisclosed location in Arizona, and you, because you're an obsessed leaper, start to wonder... 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you ever watch Quantum Leap? Do you still watch reruns? Leapers around the world are trying to bring the show back so SEND A LETTER FOR SAM ON 8TH AUGUST for info: check out the QL page on my homepage. Thanx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: av214@yfn.ysu.edu (Barbara E. Walton) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 27 Jul 1995 17:36:25 GMT ...when everytime you pass Admiral Avenue on the way to the public pool, you start looking around for a middle-aged man in really bright clothes... (I'd specify a middle-aged Italian man, but in North Buffalo, that's redundant) -- Barbara E. Walton | "Quarter of a century... | makes a girl think!" http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~ah329| --Marilyn Monroe, | "Some Like It Hot" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when Date: 27 Jul 1995 21:14:57 GMT In <3v5kkc$8k@cnn.Princeton.EDU>, ecrocke@tucson.princeton.edu (Emily C. Rocke) writes: >In article <3v46ta$o0p@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, >Freda Lee Whaley wrote: >> >>You know you're really obsessed when you turn to the SiFi >>channel even though you can't get it in because you >>havn't paide to have it unscrambled yet just so you >>can hear Scott and Dean. > >I was going to be a nice quiet lurker, but I can't resist---I thought >I was the only one insane enough to do this! When I was home on >vacation, my parents don't get the Sci Fi channel and I spent an hour >listening to "Good night, dear heart," eyes plastered to the colorful >rolling zigzags for the occasional blurry glimpses of Sam and/or Al. >Yikes! > >Emily Rocke >(newly obsessed leaper at large) Well, i was crazy enough to do this when my parents were home.. and they thought I was crazy! Well, I am, Crazy for Quantum Leap! Thank God I have them all on tape now! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: capriel@aol.com (Capriel) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when Date: 27 Jul 1995 18:54:57 -0400 You know you're obsessed when you have to buy another vcr cabnet to hold all your QL/Scott videos. Shelley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: p001963b@pbfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Heidi Pimdell) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.... Date: 28 Jul 1995 01:55:30 GMT Pamela Jaye Ashworth (Ashworth@world.std.com) wrote: : c-leaper@shooter.bluemarble.net (Jennifer Bohn) wrote: : >Daniel Delisle (cdelisle@ici.net) wrote: : >: YKYAOLW... : >: When you start paying $25 a month for unlimited Internet access just : >: so you can spend all the time you want on : >: rec.arts.scifi.tv.quantum-leap (the best on the 'Net). Or while you are watching horseshow jumping on ESPN and when a horse named Quantum Leap comes on and you wonder whether his barn name is Sam. (By the way, he finished very well, within the top 7.) -- Heidi Pimdell p001963b@pbfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 28 Jul 1995 15:53:59 GMT Hello! Jon Holmok (jon@ziggy.gomi.net) wrote: :> In an article I read someone wondered what the connection was between QL :> and calla lillies. Well, it refers to "M.I.A." that was Beth's( Al's first :> wife) favorite flower. Oh, great, somebody mentioned it again, so I have something to reply to instead of having to mention it myself... :-) What color are the... er... QL-relevant calla lilies? No, I *still* haven't been able to watch "M.I.A."... remember, Finland is pretty much at the end of the world... so maybe somebody in this group knows... ObObsession: .. when you buy a paper flower manufacturing set just because your first thought at seeing the "example flowers" in the shop is, "Gee, you can make great calla lilies with that!" (That's why I'm asking about the color they're supposed to be. :-) .. when you're watching "Snowy River" every Sunday even though you can hardly stand that kind of almost-but-not-quite soap just because you heard a rumor that Dean appears somewhere in this show. .. when you base your decision to finally learn some more C than "printf" and "getf" on the fact that the computer at work understands only C and some worse things and you just HAVE to write a program that counts down the seconds left till the next QL episode starts... (Yes, it *is* worth counting the seconds, since here in Finland the next episode will be aired on August 14. Lots of seconds to count. *sigh*) And here's also something about how to know that other people know about your obsession: .. when your boyfriend, whom you just gave a tour of your video collection, has a kind of hard time telling you that actually he likes the Moomins better... (he's into animations) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 28 Jul 1995 16:06:20 GMT ACalavicci (acalavicci@aol.com) wrote: : You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you're having a horrendous day at : work and you want nothing more then to club the nearest moving object over : the head when "Georgia" by Ray Charles starts playing over the store : speakers and all of the sudden, you feel a LOT better. : Whew! What a run on! :) : --Andie Don't I know it! You know you're an obsessed Leaper when, you find the Rhino Ray Charles Anthology on CD, and you get it, even though you're saving money to go to a convention because you've been looking for a copy of Georgia by Ray Charles of several years now. And you Yell as you find it causing everyone in the CD section to turn and stare! (Talk about run-ons) You also know you're obseesed, and everyone around you at work knows it, when the person doing mail opening in your department, comes to you with a grin on her face, and hands you the latest issue of the Advocate (Aug 22, 1995) because there's an article entitled " Great Scott", and you immediately take your break so you can copy the article and read it immediately! Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kawaliva@mtu.edu (Kristie A. Walivaara) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 28 Jul 1995 12:55:28 -0400 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you spend two hours making a list to your liking of your QL episodes so that your not confused on where they are because there not in order and then you hit the computer and call it a rotten pile of gummie bears every time a piece of your list is missing. Kristie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 01:42:08 GMT How about when you read Jenni's post about Shaun Cassidy marrying the actress who played Beth and almost immediately run out and buy the People:Celebrity Weddings issue just so you can add that clipping to your QL Scrapbook? If that doesn't work, how about : volunteering at the San Diego ComiCon just so you can see if anyone has any QL merchandise w/out paying to get in...and you actually succeed! having a wardrobe that Al would be proud of. writing three QL fanfic stories within the space of a month suddenly deciding to keep a fantasy novel you were going to give away because you remember that the story is about someone using the identity of another person to travel back in time and set something right... becoming an expert on how to find QL merchandise. The list goes on and on...and everything above is absolutely true! :) JJ "Our Imaginations leap ahead to places we have yet to see." --a poster on my wall (hey, there's another piece of evidence...) :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: acalavicci@aol.com (ACalavicci) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 30 Jul 1995 20:16:14 -0400 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you hear about tropical storm Dean--and you wonder where tropical storm Scott is! :) --Andie "Let's go get 'em!" "Skippy, no! What are you thinking?!" "Oh, you're right, Aunt Slappy. We need the BIG bombs!" "That's better, kid. C'mon, let's go blow 'em to kingdom come." "YAY!" --Skippy and Slappy Squirrel "Animaniacs: Critical Condition" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 31 Jul 1995 14:50:06 GMT .. when you're watching Happy Days and while the end credits scroll by you notice that Deborah Pratt was in that episode and you instantly rewind the tape to re-watch the episode. .. when your boyfriend dumps you at the university's computer lab (with instructions to "have a good time and don't hurry to come back") in order to get you out of the way of his apartment cleaning plans and you wonder for a moment if he's really Sam wanting to change your life for the better... and coming to think of it, my boyfriend really did help me over what could very well turn out to be a turning point of my life (and his) last week, which really makes me wonder... *grin* Maybe I should ask him in a little while how much he remembers of that week. ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 31 Jul 1995 15:48:36 GMT .. when you spend a considerable amount of waking time thinking about such important issues as, "If Sam leaped into me right now, would my earrings fall out of his (probably not pierced) ears or would my aura hold them up?" .. when you're reading a collection of poems by your favorite poetess and LOTS of these poems have you thinking, "that's Sam", or "that's Al", or "that's " or, "that's what the show/the project is all about"... even though you know that this poetess very probably has never heard of QL. .. when reading about Artificial Intelligence (AI) you frequently mistake that capital I behind the capital A for a lowercase l. CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 31 Jul 1995 18:09:42 GMT ...when you pick out the name "Diamond Farnsworth" out of the "Batman Forever" stuntman credits... [Sorry if this was brought up while I was on vacation :-) ] [For those who might not know it, Diamond Farnsworth was Scott's stunt double on QL.] Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fenris@Wolfe.NET (Tracy Lauricella) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 31 Jul 1995 22:14:51 GMT ....When you see the "Beckett's Football Card Guide" at the library, and your first thought is: "All-Americans."... <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> I used to think that | Tracy Lauricella | *** <> <> Beavis and Butthead | is | * | * <> <> were the two stupidest | Fenris Wolfe | * | * <> <> characters on TV- Then I saw | | *---+---* <> <> Howard Stern & Rush Limbaugh | fenris@wolfe.net | * | * <> <>-------------------------------|------------------| * | * <> <> mitakuye oyasin - all of my relations *** <> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------