From: olsak@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 1 Aug 95 02:49:39 CDT

In article <not given>, blue@<not given> (Blue C.) writes:
> ...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.

Oh, no! A stunt double???  I was very happy thinking he did them all by 
himself... reality bites.  Another illusion shattered.  
But then, you must be mistaken.  Right?? (just lie, please -- say it's 
not true.)  Scott can do it all.  

 judy

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From: nexus@io.org (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when.....
Date: 31 Jul 1995 23:47:37 -0400

 ...you mention QL enough times that a friend has to borrow one of 
    your tapes to find out what all the fuss is about.

 Also, every time I see that line here about "i was at the april 8
performance of acw" I always misread it as August 8th.
 
 Finally, a week or so ago I was at the mall and I heard someone behind
me say "hi, Al".  Needless to say, my head snapped around on the off
chance that I wouldn't be able to see this "Al".

--Greg Taylor
(Not quite your average trekker, leaper, rider, slider, x-phile guy.)
Sam: Why do you make this stuff up all the time?  Why don't you just say
     to me "Sam, we don't know"?  Why don't you do that for once instead
     of making it up all the time?
 Al: That wouldn't be any fun...
Sam: This is fun?
                            <Moments to Live>

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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: 1 Aug 1995 14:00:09 GMT

.. when you have to proof-read a database containing nothing but first
names, and every time you hit one that's even remotely connected to QL
(i.e. a character's name, an actor's name, whatever) your mind starts to
wander...

Which reminds me, when browsing through the men's names part of the
database I, being an Al fan, at once noticed that "Albert" was missing.
(It's a German database, so "Al"'s not even supposed to be in it. Nor is
"Sam", BTW.)

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? *

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From: capriel@aol.com (Capriel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 1 Aug 1995 21:26:54 -0400

.... when you're packing for an extended trip to visit your folks and the
first question that comes to mind is:  What QL/Scott videos and CDs should
I take?  (The heck with all that trivial stuff like clothes, right? <g>)

Shelley

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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 Aug 1995 11:11:39 GMT

.. when you're looking something up in a German dictionary and suddenly
see an entry for "Al" and at once want to look if "Sam"'s in there, too,
until you realize that this "Al" is the abbreviation for "Aluminium"
(aluminum). *sigh*

Well, I guess I'll have to get rid of yet another nice illusion... ;-(

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? *

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From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 2 Aug 1995 21:21:36 GMT

.. when you come back into the office after lunch to have your
co-worker tell you that you just missed a REALLY interesting person. A
guy who has three ex-wives ... and you immediately know what he looks
like.


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
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From: hood@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Anna Hood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when
Date: 2 Aug 1995 21:30:48 GMT

You know you're really obsessed when you constantly think about leaving 
an instructional note for Sam to help him adjust to your crazy life if and 
when he chooses to leap into your body and put right what once when 
wrong.  

Where should I leave such a note? 


	Anna Kathleen Hood 
	hood@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
______________________________________________________________________________

	To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.
			- Measure for Measure, 2.4 118
   
-- 
	Anna Kathleen Hood 
	hood@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
______________________________________________________________________________

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From: capriel@aol.com (Capriel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 2 Aug 1995 23:11:06 -0400

... when you place a bookmark with a picture of Scott and a postcard of
Ojai on your file cabnet next to your desk (along with various odds and
ends so as not to let your obsession be too obvious) to simply look at and
sigh every now and then.

Shelley

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From: olsak@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: You know you're really obsessed when...
Date: 3 Aug 95 05:31:02 CDT

You know you're obsessed when you're making out your check for Quantum 
Quarterly and think, "Why don't I have QL checks??"
                     "Does anyone have QL checks?"
                     "QL checks would be so cool!"
                     " How can I get QL checks?"
                     "I've got to have them."

[What will I do without RASTQL for the next 10 days (sniffle)?  Help!
I'm beginning to feel the pangs of Leap Deprivation setting in....]

Leap on,
Judy

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From: blue@<not given> (Blue C.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when
Date: 3 Aug 1995 14:09:45 GMT

hood@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Anna Hood) writes:
> You know you're really obsessed when you constantly think about leaving 
> an instructional note for Sam to help him adjust to your crazy life if and 
> when he chooses to leap into your body and put right what once when 
> wrong.  

Now that's a funny idea :-)
 
> Where should I leave such a note? 

Get a tattoo ;-)

Blue.

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From: Karen L Green <klg19@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:23:01 -0400

> > You know you're really obsessed when you constantly think about leaving 
> > an instructional note for Sam to help him adjust to your crazy life if and 
> > when he chooses to leap into your body and put right what once when 
> > wrong.  
> > Where should I leave such a note? 

Leave it in your pocket at all times.  After all, Sam will end up 
wearing your clothes.

I don't think a tattoo would be _quite_ as practical, depending on the 
location, as Sam would only see it if he looked in the mirror.  If he 
looked at his _own_ arm, that's what he would see.

Karen

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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: 3 Aug 95 19:58:55 GMT

...you're on vacation at your sister's and she gently suggests that you
maybe should travel with selected VCR tapes of QL so you won't be so
deprived. (This was after the 30th reference to QL, Sam or AL - poor thing,
she doesn't understand that all roads lead to QL!)

...you're watching the movie Sniper and realize that the main character's
name is Thomas Beckett and start trying to figure out if the dates are
right to make this *the* Tom Beckett. Well, it would answer a lot of
questions about Tom's fate after TLH. (I *think* it's possible - Tom
Berenger might be about the right age in the movie, depending on the actual
dates of the mission.

Susan


". . .don't look with your eyes, look with your hearts!"

                                         - Sam Beckett -
                                     A Single Drop of Rain

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From: Hilary Bates <hbates@amgen.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 3 Aug 1995 22:32:29 GMT

simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote:
>.. when you're looking something up in a German dictionary and suddenly
>see an entry for "Al" and at once want to look if "Sam"'s in there, too,
>until you realize that this "Al" is the abbreviation for "Aluminium"
>(aluminum). *sigh*
>
>Well, I guess I'll have to get rid of yet another nice illusion... ;-(

The closest you could get to Sam in a chemical dictionary would be
Sm (samarium) (one of the lanthanides, if I remember correctly).

:-)

Hilary
hbates@amgen.com
<><

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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: 4 Aug 1995 10:10:23 GMT

.. when you have a self-made paper calla lily attached to your computer
screen at work...

.. and you're disappointed because not a single colleague of yours has
bothered to ask you what it means (I'm not idealistic enough to believe
there's actually another Leaper in this company ;) even though it has
been there for more than a whole day! (I mean, it's not like self-made
paper calla lilies were the most common screen decoration in Finland
these days... :-( )

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? *

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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: 4 Aug 1995 13:29:33 GMT

.. when you read about "Ziggy" in a comics newsgroup and wonder in what
kinds of comics Ziggy, of all computers, would appear, before you
realize that it's a *different* Ziggy they're talking about...

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? *

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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: 5 Aug 1995 14:55:48 GMT

.. when, every time you encounter something that looks in the least
like a difficulty, you sigh and say to yourself, "Where's Sam Beckett
when you need him?" ;-)

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? *

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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: 5 Aug 1995 14:58:38 GMT

.. and other people know it...

.. when you're discussing movies in a newsgroup and someone writes to
somebody else that "Julia will probably love you forever if you send her
some Scott Bakula movies on tape" and you mention that you would love
this person even more if he sent you some Dean Stockwell movies on
tape... on the off chance that somebody reading that group actually
*has* some Dean movies on tape... (I'm missing another one today,
because neither I nor my friends get this !@/& satellite channel. :-( )

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? *

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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: 5 Aug 1995 15:01:23 GMT

.. yet again, and other people know it...

(I'm posting this separately since it is a *bit* long.)

.. when you get e-mail like the following: (published with the
permission of the author; Martin Paegert, map@zenon.prim.ruhr.de)

---snip---

> 	* It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? *

Let's try to find out. First we build a orthonormalized system of base vectors
b of quantum physicists space. This should be related to pure eigenstates 
which we may assume for simplicity as static and discrete:
          b built by  b_i with i out of {newsread, drink_coffee, sleep, ...}

Now we build the statistical operator S for this System with p_b as probability
factor for beeing in the state b_i (one omitts the _i virtually everywhere:
                    S = sum_b( !b> p_b <b! )
Of course
                    sum_b( <b!S!b> ) =  sum_b( <b!b> p_b <b!b> )
                                     =  sum_b( p_b )
                                     = 1
Which does mean that we _have_ a quantum physicist in b-space. We now measure
an observable O im m-space (my space) by appyling
                             <m!SO!m> 
and from the measurement we calculate the p_b's. For my quantum physicist I
find
                    state              probability
                    -------------------------------
                    newsread              0.3
                    newswrite             0.3
                    drink_coffee          0.2
                    sleep                 0.0
                    other                 0.2
                    -------------------------------
                    sum                   1.0     (Good !)

Hmmm, "other 0.2". Where the hell is the guy hanging around ... 

---snip---

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? *

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From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: Calla lilies (was: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 21:56:29 GMT

simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote:

>Hello!

>Yet another update: Yesterday I finally did it! I opened this paper
>flower manufacturing set of mine and (after some practice, i.e. a gingko
>leaf and some horsing around ;) actually made a calla lily, which is now
>attached to my computer monitor. I hope I'll soon be able to take a
>photograph so I can scan it and put it on my homepage... I'm so
>proud... :-)

>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? *
Hi, i'm new here, but can I qualify my kids as obsessed leapers too?
They really are hooked!  Imagine my surprise(and DELIGHT) when they
chose QL episodes on tape RATHER than Lion King!!!
Another example, I have been on a quest for the QL book for weeks.
Finally was able to track one down, got it home and couldn't wait to
dive into it ,alas ,all three of my kids(7;6; and 2) are curled up on
the couch arguing over it!!  The older ones want to include the book
on their "Books I Read over The Summer List"  Oh and the 2 year old
freaks when it comes on  "MOMMY!  SAM, SAM!!"  Oh it is so fun to
think how I can mold them , little brains like a sponge(er, swiss
cheese)who knows , maybe I have a future  quantum phisysist (sp)
on my hands.  
Just want to thank everybody for all these great posts,  I hav been
reading them every night for weeks(after ql of course, I get it on USA
on satellite at 11cst  sci fi too at 8cst)  My laughing gets a little
loud, hope I don't wake anyone.    Actually , sometimes I wish someone
would wake up, a great laugh needs to be shared!!    

Gotta go, the dishes are Beckett, er, beckoning me!!

          Aggie in TX.

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From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when....
Date: 6 Aug 1995 03:46:13 GMT

...    (repeat email subject)

...you actually repeated the Subject line more than 3 times.

...you don't believe QL has actually ended, and that whenever you see
Sam or Al in another TV series you just know it's really QL. Like when
Sam was helping Murphy Brown out with her life, that was a QL episode.
:)

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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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 when....
Date: 6 Aug 1995 08:32:06 GMT

Hello!

Hans Cathcart (hans@american.edu) wrote:

:> ...you don't believe QL has actually ended, and that whenever you see
:> Sam or Al in another TV series you just know it's really QL. Like when
:> Sam was helping Murphy Brown out with her life, that was a QL episode.
:> :)

*grin* This sometimes happens to me with other shows... For example,
there's a German mystery show called "Ein Fall fuer Zwei", which
frequently does this to me. No, I don't think any QL actor ever was seen
in that show... but one of the main characters sometimes wipes his hand
across his face the way Sam does (so I think, "Sam just leaped into him
to help solve this week's crime"), and once they even had an episode
that was a lot like QL: besides catching a criminal they had to help an
ex-convict get a job and reunite him with his family. Well... and the
first scene of that episode was about the burglary this guy got
convicted for... he didn't behave like an experienced burglar at all, so
of course I assumed that was Sam just after leaping in, still confused
and totally clueless about what was going on around him. ;-)

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? *

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From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Shaman and Sam Beckett
Date: 6 Aug 1995 10:13:18 GMT

I was inspired to write this post by a comment that someone had written 
where she mentioned Shamans in it. 

THIS POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE UNLV ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Anthropology students and anyone nuts enough to sign up for Dr. 
Jankowiak's Summer Session Anthropology 447 Class will get this post

Has anyone made the connection between Sam Beckett and a Shaman. Think 
about it for a second. A Shaman is faced with a problem, usually one of 
evil. He transcends his world and goes into the cosmos, where he is 
helped along by a animal helper. There they discover what is missing and 
bring it back to the Earthly realm and make the repairs.

Dr. Sam Beckett is faced with a problem, he transcends his own relam and 
is in the cosmos. He is guided not by a animal helper but by Al and 
Ziggy( ok the theory gets weak here), Sam discovers what is wrong and 
brings it back to the earthly realm, putting right what once went wrong. 

I hope this makes sense, I would really like to hear what others have to 
say about this. Posts are ok, but all personnal replys will be 
acknowledged and responded to.

Catherine
==============================================================================
My contribution for you know you are a obsessed fan when....

When you watch Mercy Mission- The Rescue of Flight 771 and think any 
second Al is going to show up to help guide the plane back to land

You check to see whether Peter Hunt is listed in teh blurb for Murphy 
Brown and decide whether or not to go to class that night based on that 
knowledge.
==============================================================================
Sam Beckett may have been born in 1953 but the most important fact was he 
was born August 8th, which makes him the all powerful sign LEO
==============================================================================
Catherine Roper
roper@nevada.edu
REBELNITE@aol.com
I have no home page but can be found each and every day at telnet 
flames.trentu.ca 4040( ok ok, selfish promotion, but its my friends 
talker, cool place come see it)

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From: imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 7 Aug 1995 12:02:22 GMT

In article <3vnmhb$rmq@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote:
>.. when you're looking something up in a German dictionary and suddenly
>see an entry for "Al" and at once want to look if "Sam"'s in there, too,
>until you realize that this "Al" is the abbreviation for "Aluminium"

Do they not have an abbreviation for samarium in there then?  :-)

Ian Collier - imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk - WWW Home Page:
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.collier/index.html

New to this group?  Answers to frequently-asked questions can be had from
ftp://ziggy.cisco.com/ql-archive/text/ .

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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: 7 Aug 1995 12:55:06 GMT

Hello!

Ian Collier (imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
:> In article <3vnmhb$rmq@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote:
:> >.. when you're looking something up in a German dictionary and suddenly
:> >see an entry for "Al" and at once want to look if "Sam"'s in there, too,
:> >until you realize that this "Al" is the abbreviation for "Aluminium"

:> Do they not have an abbreviation for samarium in there then?  :-)

Well, haven't you noticed that the abbreviation for "Samarium" lacks an
"a"? :-(

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? *

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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: 7 Aug 1995 13:22:39 GMT

...when you go to Niagara Falls for the day to cool off in the mist, and
there, in the face of one of the great wonders of nature, start thinking
"I wonder what Al and Beth/Ruthie/Maxine saw when they came here..."

(BTW, if anyone is writing a story based on one of those honeymoons, I
*am* right next door to N.F., and can help with any physical details
you might want.)

-- 
Barbara E. Walton 			| "I pass the test.  I will 
<ah329@freenet.buffalo.edu>		| diminish, and go into the 
http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~ah329 	| West, and remain Galadriel."
					|	-- Tolkien, LOTR I

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel)
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 05:56:56 GMT

simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Ian Collier (imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
>:> In article <3vnmhb$rmq@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote:
>:> >.. when you're looking something up in a German dictionary and suddenly
>:> >see an entry for "Al" and at once want to look if "Sam"'s in there, too,
>:> >until you realize that this "Al" is the abbreviation for "Aluminium"
>
>:> Do they not have an abbreviation for samarium in there then?  :-)
>
>Well, haven't you noticed that the abbreviation for "Samarium" lacks an
>"a"? :-(
>
>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? *

Hmm...I sense a story in this conversation...

	Theorizing that a mineral could time travel within its own existence, samarium
stepped into the Accelerator...and vanished....His only guide on this journey is Al(uminum),
an Observer from his own time who appears in the form of a Helium that only Sm can
see and hear....

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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: 8 Aug 1995 08:06:36 GMT

.. when your friends ask you when they can come to your place for a QL
marathon... :-)

.. and your reply is, "Any time". ;-)

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? *

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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: 9 Aug 1995 08:17:36 GMT

.. when, every time you get money from a cash dispenser, you pretend
to be Sam accessing Ziggy (in "The Leap Back").

(Oh boy. That's what happens when you withdraw money from your account
while your head is even more filled with QL than it usually is. It all
started last night when I came up with the right solution to a friend's
riddle and she shouted "Bingo!"; from then on my brain tried to fit
everything that happened and everything people said into some QL episode
or other; and I haven't even seen that many of them... Well, I guess I
should be glad that at least I'm not Swiss-cheesed. Or, come to think of
it, maybe I should? ;-)

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? *

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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 Aug 1995 09:14:21 GMT

.. when the next three major events in your diary are a QL marathon,
the first airing of a QL episode after the summer break, and the airing
of a Dean movie you want to tape.

That's what the next week looks like for 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? *

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden")
Subject: Re: Your know you're "really" obsessed when
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:24:50 GMT

>You know you're really obsessed when you constantly think about leaving 
>an instructional note for Sam to help him adjust to your crazy life if and 
>when he chooses to leap into your body and put right what once when 
>wrong.  
>
>Where should I leave such a note? 

Stuck to the mirror, of course!

Wolf+          'She said the man in the gaberdine suit was a spy,
               I said Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera'

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From: CMOFREDA@VM.TEMPLE.EDU (Freda F.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 95 10:57:23 EDT

In article <4000pk$r2o@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>
simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes:
 
>
>.. when, every time you encounter something that looks in the least
>like a difficulty, you sigh and say to yourself, "Where's Sam Beckett
>when you need him?" ;-)
>
>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? *
 
      Julia,
 
I do that every time I have to take a math test, (it's my worst
subject.
 
tagline
--------
"If you look deep in to my eyes, you'll see another soul."   Sam Beckett
`Star-crossed Lovers"
 
Freda F.

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From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 10 Aug 1995 15:16:14 GMT

Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: .. when the next three major events in your diary are a QL marathon,
: the first airing of a QL episode after the summer break, and the airing
: of a Dean movie you want to tape.

: That's what the next week looks like for me...

Yeah, I know what you mean. You know you're obsessed when
your QL calander includes Aug 13 1995 a Dean movie at 1am in the morning
you've got to tape, Aug 14th 1995 Scott's appearance on Letterman,
and you're planning in the back of your head to watch the first part
of Shock Theater (USA Airing 11pm Indiana time) and *not* to forget to
turn to Letterman in the middle (CBS 11:30pm Indiana time) to check
for Scott then plan to switch back and forth until Scott has been on,
or QL is over whichever occurs first.

Nancy
nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
"Imagination is the spice of life"

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From: Karen L Green <klg19@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when....
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:49:56 -0400

You wish you had just an _iota_ of musical talent, so you could form a 
chamber music ensemble and name it "String Theory"...

Karen

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel)
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 02:17:33 GMT

..when you nearly have a heart attack after reading SB's bio because
	he grew up in your father's hometown (Kirkwood)
	attended the same high school as your dad (10 years later)
	and did some early dramatic work at your grandparents' church!

and decide it means you were meant to be a Leaper.
	Now if I can only convert my dad....

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From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 12 Aug 1995 04:05:05 GMT

You know you're an obsessed Leaper when your cable has been
out for over a week due to hurricane Erwin and you are
frantic because you know the only way you are going to
get to tape Letterman is if you cable comes back on in
time because your old black and white set doesn't have
cable set-up and you have lost all the antennas to your
color portable and.........

Ranting and raving over now.  (I feel so much better now)

Freda
-- 
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)

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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: 12 Aug 1995 10:33:48 GMT

....(or maybe this qualifies more as a Scott-obsession, but here goes 
anyhow)...

...you visit Texas for a week, and the only souvenir you *really* care 
about bringing home is a stuffed armadillo (re: Necessary Roughness)...

...the two "projects" you take along to fill time are your QL 
cross-stitch you're working on and your prayer journal you're trying to 
update with C-leaper prayers and answers...

...and you go nearly BONKERS when you find out your friends don't have 
cable, after you'd been looking sssooooooo forward to a week of QL (which 
you usually don't see because that's the same time you're usually on IRC 
with other Leapers)...

Enforced separation from QL-dom is NOT fun!

Jenni B. <-- VERY glad to be back home

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: mmckean@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when....
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 11:03:20 GMT

In Article <40i02c$1fg@catseye.bluemarble.net>
c-leaper@shooter.bluemarble.net (Jennifer Bohn) writes:
>....and you go nearly BONKERS when you find out your friends don't have 
>cable, after you'd been looking sssooooooo forward to a week of QL (which 
>you usually don't see because that's the same time you're usually on IRC 
>with other Leapers)...
>

You mean you don't have the TV sitting right next to the computer like the rest 
of us, Jenni? :)

Hapgood (who can watch QL, listen to ACW, and talk on IRC all at the same 
time!)
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Some weird guy in Toledo          |  is likely until it exists,
ENTP and proud of it              |  and then it's certain.
..itsumade mo matte-iru no yo... |   --Orson Scott Card, "Xenocide"
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel)
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when....
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 00:51:30 GMT

>
>....the two "projects" you take along to fill time are your QL
>cross-stitch you're working on
>

QL CROSS STITCH?  Where?!  How can I get a copy of
the pattern?!  I love cross stitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!  and, obviously, I
am obsessed with QL, so I really desperately want to know.
Please email me or something, Jenni.  :)

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From: blue@<not given> (Blue C.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when....
Date: 14 Aug 1995 14:53:22 GMT

c-leaper@shooter.bluemarble.net (Jennifer Bohn) writes:

> ...you visit Texas for a week, and the only souvenir you *really* care 
> about bringing home is a stuffed armadillo (re: Necessary Roughness)...

Hmmm... That reminds me of John Irving's "A Prayer For Owen Meany" more
than anything else :-) I'm quite a John Irving fan (appropriate .sig 
follows)

ObObLeap: I was so glad I missed a movie last week, because I went  
          browsing in the video store next to the movie theater, and 
          found 2 QL videos on sale for $4.99 each (previously viewed)!! 
          I wish I could miss a movie next week too :-)

> Jenni B. <-- VERY glad to be back home

Welcome back! :-)

Blue.
-- 
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'_Everything_ has really happened, sometime!' he fumed.  'The only reason
for something to happen in a novel is that it's the perfect thing to have 
happen at that time.'       -- John Irving, "The World According To Garp"
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From: rjinks@reed.edu (Lia )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 14 Aug 1995 18:56:59 GMT

> You know you're an obsessed Leaper when your cable has been
> out for over a week due to hurricane Erwin and you are
> frantic because you know the only way you are going to
> get to tape Letterman is if you cable comes back on in
> time because your old black and white set doesn't have
> cable set-up and you have lost all the antennas to your
> color portable and.........

   And you really know you're an obsessed leaper when you watch
Friday's Letterman show just to hear the audience reaction when Scott's
name is said.  And not only that, you tape only that part of Friday's
show, ignoring Patrick Stewart's presence, in order to show said
audience reaction to loving leap roommate who won't be back in Oregon
until Monday.  And you both rearrange your entire schedules so that the
first thing that you can do together after she's been gone for three
months is to watch the ever so nicely timed appearance of her favorite
leaper on the Letterman show... (Now if Dean could just do something to
get himself on Letterman, all my urges would be fulfilled as well....
*swoon*)

Lia - rjinks@reed.edu
************************************************************************


  "Yes Sam IS sexy, tash, but the Admiral's grin turns me into lime
jello!"
  "Tell me something I don't know."
  "Tina is having an affair with Gooshie."
      - actual conversation between myself and other leap nut roommate

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From: olsak@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper....
Date: 15 Aug 95 02:35:28 CDT

You know you're an obsessed leaper when.....     Part I
the $50 perm you just got at a new beauty shop goes straight after 3 days. 
As you gaze into the mirror, feeling ripped off, you console yourself with
the fact that you now look just like Sam in Glitter Rock (without the makeup, of
course).  

You finally discover that your sister is also an obsessed leaper when.....
    (the very next day)
she says to you, "Hey!!  What happened to your hair?  (and with a chuckle)  Did
you know your hair looks just like Scott Bakula's in that QL Kiss episode."
You look at her in amazement and realize just how much you have in common.....

Leap on,
Judy     

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From: barb.luongo@wolverine.com (BARB LUONGO)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an ob
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 23:11:00 -0500

 -=> Nancy Mathews said this to All on 08/10/95  15:16<=-

 NM> Yeah, I know what you mean. You know you're obsessed when
 NM> your QL calander includes Aug 13 1995 a Dean movie at 1am in the

 Do you have a QL calendar?

 I had seen one at a bookstore and told my husband that I wanted one for
 Christmas. He said he'd get it, but by the time he went to get it, they
 were sold out. I was really upset and decided that I won't wait for him
 next time!

 No wonder my Mom buys her own Christmas and birthday gifts and puts my
 Dad's name on them! :)


    +-+        |         barbluongo@aol.com
    +-+++-+ +-++-+             barb.luongo@cmail.com
    +--++-+ +  +-+        or...    barb.luongo@wolverine.com



... "I have kind of an unusual lifestyle." -- Sam Beckett

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel)
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper....
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 01:41:25 GMT

..When you listen to the QL soundtrack while reading
the posts on RASTQL.  (The interview with SB is on
right now.)

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From: barb.luongo@wolverine.com (BARB LUONGO)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an ob
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 03:15:00 -0500

 Hi Jennifer!

 -=> Jennifer Bohn said this to All on 08/12/95  10:33<=-

 JB> ...the two "projects" you take along to fill time are your QL
 JB> cross-stitch you're working on and your prayer journal you're trying

 Is this counted cross stitch or printed? Where'd you get the pattern,
 and how can I get it?!?


                                 Barb
 barb.luongo@cmail.com  barb.luongo@wolverine.com or  barbluongo@aol.com

... "Ziggy says this one may be a little tricky." -- Al Calavici

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20

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From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an ob
Date: 16 Aug 1995 13:59:19 GMT

BARB LUONGO (barb.luongo@wolverine.com) wrote:


:  I had seen one at a bookstore and told my husband that I wanted one for
:  Christmas. He said he'd get it, but by the time he went to get it, they
:  were sold out. I was really upset and decided that I won't wait for him
:  next time!

:  No wonder my Mom buys her own Christmas and birthday gifts and puts my
:  Dad's name on them! :)

Yeah, I originally ordered mine from Startech in the the middle of 1993
It's by Antioch, and as far as I know 1993 is the only year they made
them.  I keep buying other calanders and gluing the current year dates
on the appropriate month, so that I keep using it over and over again.
I saw someone have a few for sale at Leap Con '95 this past Feburary,
and of course Leap Time Inc, has there own Leap Con calander that begins
in February or March.  At the recent Indy Leap one was auctioned off
with autograph.  That's probably why your husband couldn't get you
a QL calander for Christmas.  I've never seen them in the stores.

Nancy
nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
"Imagination is the spice of life"




: ... "I have kind of an unusual lifestyle." -- Sam Beckett

: ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: k086952@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie E. Elsila)
Subject: More obsessions
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:53:32 GMT

Okay, I haven't seen Quantum Leap in a couple of months because I don't have
cable at college, but I think I'm more obsessed now than I was before due to
reading all of the stuff posted here!

For example, today in analytical chem our prof was talking about
spectroscopy and he showed us spectra of some of the rare earth elements,
including Samarium (abbreviated Sm).  This is an element I'd never thought
about before a couple of weeks ago, when people started posting about Sm and
Al for Sam and Al.  Of course, QL was the first thing that popped into my
head when I saw the spectrum.

It didn't help that the next thing he talked about was charge-transfer
compounds, where (in his words) an electron "leaps" from the ligand to the
metal.  

I had a hard time keeping my mind on the lecture after that:-)

jamie

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From: mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Pamela J Mitman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an ob
Date: 16 Aug 1995 14:42:38 -0500

> Do you have a QL calendar?

> I had seen one at a bookstore and told my husband that I wanted one for
> Christmas. He said he'd get it, but by the time he went to get it, they
> were sold out. I was really upset and decided that I won't wait for him
> next time!


WHAT BOOKSTORE???  (and, yes, I *am* shouting!)

Pam M.

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From: nexus@io.org (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: More obsessions
Date: 19 Aug 1995 02:38:26 -0400

In article <1995Aug16.185332.10289@hobbes.kzoo.edu>,
Jamie E. Elsila <k086952@hobbes.kzoo.edu> wrote:
>
>Okay, I haven't seen Quantum Leap in a couple of months because I don't have
>cable at college, but I think I'm more obsessed now than I was before due to
>reading all of the stuff posted here!
>

   You too? It's odd... I really liked Quantum Leap... then I came here
and suddenly I'm obsessed. :)

  Recent sign of my obsession:
      On a MOO that I often telnet to....
        i) My home is an "Imaging Chamber"
       ii) I created a handlink for an object - and use it on
            occasion to open wormholes ("Sliders" reference)
      iii) To teleport myself, I type "centre handlink on <person>"
            at which point Gooshie whisks me out of existence :)

   I need to get out more....

--Greg Taylor
(A rather eccentric trekker, leaper, rider, slider, x-phile guy.)
"What are you gonna do with that... PIE, Sam??"
                        --Al, <Stand Up>
                      (insert Jaws music)

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel)
Subject: Re: More obsessions
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 02:13:40 GMT


>      On a MOO that I often telnet to....
>        i) My home is an "Imaging Chamber"
>       ii) I created a handlink for an object - and use it on
>            occasion to open wormholes ("Sliders" reference)
>      iii) To teleport myself, I type "centre handlink on <person>"
>            at which point Gooshie whisks me out of existence :)

Hmm...could you teach me how to do that?  :)

	My name on one MUSH is Ziggy, and I describe myself
as a parallel hybrid computer...go figure!  :)

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: bv693@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Susan H. Neese)
Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper....
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 06:04:00 GMT

	when you're at a Trenchcoats concert (best a cappela group I've
ever seen, BTW) and the kid sitting in front of you turns around and says
"Oh boy" and you spend the rest of the concert wondering if he is Sam and
waiting for him to start talking to Al.

Garrett

"I don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine." - Common Sense
--
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SUE  sneese@esd171.wednet.edu   GARRETT  bn568@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu 
     -or-     BTLS4FR@aol.com		 -or-    GLA2335@aol.com

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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: 21 Aug 1995 10:43:51 GMT

.. when friends tell you about what they did "after the movie last
night, you know, the one with Dean Stockwell", and you have a really
hard time suppressing this sudden urge to hug them - they know him! they
noticed! etc. (Of course *they* sort of happened upon the movie while
channel-hopping, while *you* have been planning for weeks in advance to
tape it. - BTW, now I, too, have had one of these experiences, you know
what I mean: Why is Al wearing these boring clothes? And why can
everybody see him? I even briefly sort of toyed with the idea that maybe
Sam and Al have switched places again, so Al has leaped into that guy in
the movie... which, of course, left me with two questions: 1. Where is
Sam, and 2. Why does Al use so many four-letter words all of a sudden
and why doesn't he say "nozzle" even once? ;-)

.. when a friend of yours is telling you about what he used to do "on
Mondays... or was it Thursdays? No, Mondays... no, must've been
Thursdays... well, or maybe..." etc. and your brain cuts him out at that
point, so all you hear is Al telling about "my second wife always used
to... no, actually it was my fourth, no, it *was* my second... or was
it?" ...

.. when you find out that your parents are very proud of the way you
now organize your life - well, they call it "Julia is organizing her
life so well now!" and I call it the "what would Sam Beckett do to leap
out of that mess?" method... ;-)

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? *

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
From: jekel@cts.com (Julie Jekel)
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper....
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 01:50:19 GMT

When you, on a whim, look through your phone
book for people named 'Beckett', 'Calavicci', 'Bakula',
'Stockwell' and 'Bellisario'.  I found 'Beckett', 'Stockwell'
and 'Bellisario.'  One of the Becketts was SJ, which got
me wondering if that could be Samuel John or something...
What is Sam's middle name anyway?

When you can't wait for your Dad to get his alumni
directory from Kirkwood high school just so you can see
if Scott Bakula was crazy enough to actually let them
put his address in there where QL fans could find it.

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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: 23 Aug 1995 11:29:52 GMT

.. when you and a colleague are compiling a list of military ranks for
the company's German parsing program and you (as the big Al fan you are)
feel compelled to make sure you include "admiral" in this list. (Can you
believe that the original list had *only* army and air force ranks until
I came along!?)

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? *

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From: kawaliva@mtu.edu (Kristie A. Walivaara)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Ziggy is my cat
Date: 24 Aug 1995 11:49:13 -0400

I just got a new kitten and guess what I named.......ZIGGY!
I was going to name it Sam but I thought Ziggy sounded better for a kitten
name.

Kristie

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From: mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Pamela J Mitman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:02:17 -0500

...when you're doing a crossword puzzle and 52 Across is "Swiss cheese 
feature" and you're bummed because  "memory loss" won't fit into the 
four-letter space.

...when you drive an extra block every time you visit a certain relative 
just so you can turn on "Albert" street.

...when you had trouble watching Sci-Fi Channel's "Making of the Lord of 
Illusion" but you still made plans to see LOI *twice* on opening day.

Pam M.  (giving the *illusion* than she's a normal person...)

"Hey, Harry, wanna see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?  Oops.  Musta got 
the wrong hat."  Bullwinkle meets Harry D'Amour...

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From: ecrocke@tucson.princeton.edu (Emily C. Rocke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 25 Aug 1995 17:31:16 GMT

In article <mitma001.809362528@maroon.tc.umn.edu>,
Pamela J Mitman <mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>...when you're doing a crossword puzzle and 52 Across is "Swiss cheese 
>feature" and you're bummed because  "memory loss" won't fit into the 
>four-letter space.

ROTFL!!

I was doing a crossword puzzle the other day and there was a clue
about calla lilies... my boyfriend had to come over and see what I was
grinning about so much :-)

Emily

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From: fenris@Wolfe.NET (Tracy Lauricella)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper...
Date: 26 Aug 1995 03:11:10 GMT

....when you see the following sign at the gas station:

"Nozzle problems? Call the Department of Ecology at 555-555-5555"

and the obvious thought that "leaps" to mind is, "Oh-Boy, someone should 
give Al that number.."

--FW

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From: jamiew@atlas.axiom.net (Jamie Walker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: obseessed leaper
Date: 26 Aug 1995 20:44:16 GMT

You know you are an Obssessed Leaper when you hear the sliding glass
door in the room above you open, and it sounds like the imaging chamber
door opening and shutting (im not joking here!!) i used to hear it all the
time and then look around thinking about ql or thiking "where is Al?"

:)

Jamie
jamiew@axiom.net



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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: 27 Aug 1995 08:27:39 GMT

Hello!

Tracy Lauricella (fenris@Wolfe.NET) wrote:

:> "Nozzle problems? Call the Department of Ecology at 555-555-5555"

:-) I just had a laughing fit when I read that line... I'm glad it's
Sunday and I'm alone in the computer lab, so at least the number of
people who think I'm crazy didn't increase.

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? *

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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: 27 Aug 1995 21:42:39 GMT

Julie Jekel (jekel@cts.com) wrote:

: When you can't wait for your Dad to get his alumni
: directory from Kirkwood high school just so you can see
: if Scott Bakula was crazy enough to actually let them
: put his address in there where QL fans could find it.

So, Julie...was he? ;)

Jenni B. <><
(Whose two majors in college were journalism and counseling, which gives 
her license to ask anyone anything...heheheh.....)


--
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

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From: tdf@workserv.zynet.co.uk (Wendy Duffield )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: You know you're an ob
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 03:07:58 GMT

barb.luongo@wolverine.com (BARB LUONGO) wrote:


> Hi Jennifer!

> -=> Jennifer Bohn said this to All on 08/12/95  10:33<=-

> JB> ...the two "projects" you take along to fill time are your QL
> JB> cross-stitch you're working on and your prayer journal you're trying

> Is this counted cross stitch or printed? Where'd you get the pattern,
> and how can I get it?!?

I know this is the QL group,  and there is a needlecraft group, but i
too would love to know where i can get a pattern from. I can't thinkof
anything nicer than to sit and stitch a picture of SB and DS mmmmm!! I
could combine 2 of my fave hobbies.

 By the way, I never thought of myself as obsessed  until i started to
read these posts, and realise that I too, whenever see 'swiss cheese'
at the Shops, think 'Oh Boy', or some other QL style thing.
 Actually, i don't think being obsessed is such a bad thing, If we are
having such fun with it!!
 Kath

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From: Heidi Stanley <heidi@neta.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Obsessed Leaper
Date: 29 Aug 1995 20:31:08 GMT

YKYAOLW... you read these threads and say I know out loud!  Also when 
you see a promo for a new t.v. show (American Gothic) where a door with
a light behind opens and you can only think of the episode Dreams.  Or 
you watch a movie with Scott in it and you keep waiting for Al to appear.
Or you read a book that Sam mentions in any episode.

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From: blue@<not given> (Blue C.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
Subject: Re: Obsessed Leaper
Date: 30 Aug 1995 12:26:58 GMT

Heidi Stanley <heidi@neta.com> writes:

> YKYAOLW... you read these threads and say I know out loud!  Also when 
> you see a promo for a new t.v. show (American Gothic) where a door with
> a light behind opens and you can only think of the episode Dreams.  Or 
> you watch a movie with Scott in it and you keep waiting for Al to appear.
> Or you read a book that Sam mentions in any episode.

Talking about books mentioned on QL, I never managed to find anything
on "Brigadoon" mentioned in Trilogy III. The musical, yes, but the book
was unheard of in the book stores. Then again, lots of old books seem
unheard of in book stores. Frank Herbert's early stuff. Richard Hooker's
M*A*S*H that first inspired a movie, and then a TV series...

I haven't looked it up at the library yet. That's next, when I get 
around to biking there (no car :-( ).

Blue.