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 Sep 1995 13:09:06 GMT OK, this involves some intimate details about the movie "Star Trek: Generations", but I guess that everybody who was going to see it has seen it by now, so I'll just omit the spoiler space. :-) .. when you're watching "ST: Generations" and... .. in the scene where Kirk climbs down to deck 15 (?) to save the Enterprise-B you don't see Kirk climbing and running, but Sam Beckett... .. when Picard and Riker discuss the good and bad sides of life and work on ancient ships on Earth, and one of Riker's "bad" points is "no women!" and in your mind you hear Al adding, "it was hell!" (from "Running for Honor") .. when Picard and Data find that planet in Stellar Cartography and you wait for somebody to say "Bingo!"... .. when Guinan appears to Picard in the Nexus, telling him that everything around him is not real and how Picard can change things for the better, and you (a) are reminded of the Imaging Chamber (where everything isn't real for the person inside, too) and (b) start comparing her to Al: well, she's a lot calmer, but they both wear nice clothes! :-) .. when Guinan tells Picard to go look for Kirk the words "Gushie! Center me on Kirk!" float through your mind... (and the same thing happens when Picard actually finds Kirk) .. when Kirk and Picard set out to change history for the better this concept sounds REALLY familiar to you! Well, that's that... BTW, when I finally got the tapes accompanying my Italian grammar book yesterday I noticed that some of the speakers on the tape have Finnish accents (well, it's a Finnish tape!), and this at once reminded me of Dean's American accent in those Al-discovers-his-Italian-roots scenes in QL... and I thought that if QL wasn't over yet (darn) I'd write a letter to the people in charge, offering my services as an Italian phonetics teacher for Dean Stockwell. Heck, I'd even do it for free! (If they pay for food and accomodation, of course :) (Yes, I know, I don't speak much Italian (yet), but at least I know quite some things about phonetics and I also know how to explain them so that people understand them.) And, has anybody else who has seen "Palais Royale" thought "that sounds like Al" in that first scene with Dean Stockwell, where he comments on that other guy's tie? (Yeah, I forgot his name *again*, even though he was supposed to play the leading role. But I didn't watch that movie because of *him*, after all! ;) 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: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 20:32:27 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: >OK, this involves some intimate details about the movie "Star Trek: >Generations", but I guess that everybody who was going to see it has >seen it by now, so I'll just omit the spoiler space. :-) >.. when you're watching "ST: Generations" and... >.. in the scene where Kirk climbs down to deck 15 (?) to save the >Enterprise-B you don't see Kirk climbing and running, but Sam Beckett... >.. when Picard and Riker discuss the good and bad sides of life and >work on ancient ships on Earth, and one of Riker's "bad" points is "no >women!" and in your mind you hear Al adding, "it was hell!" (from >"Running for Honor") >.. when Picard and Data find that planet in Stellar Cartography and you >wait for somebody to say "Bingo!"... >.. when Guinan appears to Picard in the Nexus, telling him that >everything around him is not real and how Picard can change things for >the better, and you (a) are reminded of the Imaging Chamber (where >everything isn't real for the person inside, too) and (b) start >comparing her to Al: well, she's a lot calmer, but they both wear nice >clothes! :-) >.. when Guinan tells Picard to go look for Kirk the words "Gushie! >Center me on Kirk!" float through your mind... (and the same thing >happens when Picard actually finds Kirk) >.. when Kirk and Picard set out to change history for the better this >concept sounds REALLY familiar to you! >Well, that's that... >BTW, when I finally got the tapes accompanying my Italian grammar book >yesterday I noticed that some of the speakers on the tape have Finnish >accents (well, it's a Finnish tape!), and this at once reminded me of >Dean's American accent in those Al-discovers-his-Italian-roots scenes in >QL... and I thought that if QL wasn't over yet (darn) I'd write a letter >to the people in charge, offering my services as an Italian phonetics >teacher for Dean Stockwell. Heck, I'd even do it for free! (If they pay >for food and accomodation, of course :) (Yes, I know, I don't speak much >Italian (yet), but at least I know quite some things about phonetics and >I also know how to explain them so that people understand them.) >And, has anybody else who has seen "Palais Royale" thought "that sounds >like Al" in that first scene with Dean Stockwell, where he comments on >that other guy's tie? (Yeah, I forgot his name *again*, even though he >was supposed to play the leading role. But I didn't watch that movie >because of *him*, after all! ;) >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? * You KNOW you are obsessed when you are in the book store looking through the sale rack and the first book you see is All About Niagra Falls, and the first thought is MAYBE they actually have a pic of Al and one of his wives from their honeymoon. Then you actually buy the book because while thumbing through it you come across a page with a soldier and a description of his uniform( Red heavy wool jacket w/ royal blue facings, big brass buttons on lapel, and on cuffs, leather stock worn at neck, white breeches, vest,hat, ) Hope my "kids" enjoy the book. Aggie D. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Ziggy is my cat Date: 2 Sep 1995 02:07:59 GMT As a side job I do balloon animals. I go by the name of Ziggy the Traveling Balloon Lady. :-) My cat is names Fred. But then he came to live with us long before QL was on. -- 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: zakharin@omni.voicenet.com (Boris Zakharin) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you are an obsessed Leaper when... Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 12:29:33 GMT You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you find out that you can make your oiwn list of events on your calender program and actually put the leap dates in (I actually finished September allready) and print this month right away. ----------------------------------------- |Boris Zakharin | |I know it doesn't snow in Philadelphia,| |but miracles happen | |I don't even need a mask -- OH BOY | | -Sam | | -Original intro Quantum Leap | |If works, hompage will be posted at | |http://tvnet.com/cgi-bin/utl?card+1010 | ----------------------------------------- TTFN ^ ^ . . | \___/ --- \_/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 2 Sep 1995 13:41:20 GMT In a previous article, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) says: > >BTW, when I finally got the tapes accompanying my Italian grammar book >yesterday I noticed that some of the speakers on the tape have Finnish >accents (well, it's a Finnish tape!), and this at once reminded me of >Dean's American accent in those Al-discovers-his-Italian-roots scenes in >QL... and I thought that if QL wasn't over yet (darn) I'd write a letter >to the people in charge, offering my services as an Italian phonetics >teacher for Dean Stockwell. Heck, I'd even do it for free! (If they pay >for food and accomodation, of course :) (Yes, I know, I don't speak much >Italian (yet), but at least I know quite some things about phonetics and >I also know how to explain them so that people understand them.) Acutally, I live in an Italian American neighborhood, and Al's Italian sounds like most of the Italian I hear down on Hertel Avenue. He might be fluent in the grammar and vocab, but I think it's more realistic for him to have an American accent, since he grew up here, and his Italian-Italian father died when he was pretty young after being away for awhile (thus lessening his exposure to a non-American Italian accent). After awhile, I think American Italian is going to start looking like Quebeci French... -- Barbara E. Walton | "I pass the test. I will | diminish, and go into the http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~ah329 | West, and remain Galadriel." | -- Tolkien, LOTR I -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you are an obsessed Leaper when... Date: 4 Sep 1995 11:36:40 GMT Hello! Boris Zakharin (zakharin@omni.voicenet.com) wrote: :> You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you find out that you can :> make your oiwn list of events on your calender program and actually :> put the leap dates in (I actually finished September allready) and :> print this month right away. I've wanted to do this with my calendar program ever since I finished writing it (some of you may remember... to keep track of my fellow Leapers' birthdays :) . Now I hope reading that someone else already did it will have me do it soon, too. (Talk about herd instinct. ;) 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: kchampagnie@marcie.wellesley.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: RE: Obsessed Leaper Date: 6 SEP 95 23:54:24 GMT ykyaolw you refer to him as sam in every movie he's in and become outraged when his character does something bad because "sam would never do that" keisha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sean P. Garrett" <102132,266> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 9 Sep 1995 03:29:15 GMT When both you and your wife snuggle up at midnight on your anniversary. Sit back on the couch with some champagne to celebrate together. Turn the lights down, and watch Quantum Leap. And not only was the episode being shown was one you missed. It was playing the same day the leap happened only 26 years later. August 17th, 1969. Hurricane. And it was kind of strange to notice that all 3 dates tied in. 1. It played on August 17th 2. The date in the leap was August 17th, (1969) 3. And your wedding anniversary date is August 17th. I may not have a birthday on a leap, but I have one tie-in to the series now. Sean P. Garrett ---> Sig. file to follow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Data/Shaun Aki) smvjaki@gate.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 10 Sep 1995 05:54:03 GMT Hi Julia! It's a weekend (meaning I have a life other than homework, really! :-)! Of course, it is 0102 hours, but that's a minor technicality. Anyway, I didn't say the B-word (never have, actually, and definitely not after I downloaded the QL faq!), though I recall my grandpa saying it a few months ago when I showed him the Halloween episode and told him _not_ to say it! Then, my English teacher said it relating to the devil mentioned in Jonathan Edward's Sinners In the Hands of An Angry God sermon. (Yes, I do have the right thread, Julia. I also read that post too) And I thought of the *B* word and started chuckling when she said that. I think she thought I was a little weird. :-) Also, about a week ago a close friend of mine (who knew nothing of Quantum Leap) who asked me, since I was in the same room but didn't register that she was receiving help on her precalc, if I thought she was "talking to an invisible man punching in numbers on a calculctor". I immediately thought of Sam and Al, the latter punching in data on a handlink. And, in chemistry we were talking about electron movements, electron configurations, Lewis dot diagrams, and quantum numbers. And she said something about the electrons *quantum leaping* to the next energy level, and I almost jumped out of my seat in surprise, my pen swerving over my paper...I learned a few seconds later that she was an avid fan of QL. :) Oh, and something just came to me: when Joel and the 'bots said "Ziggy had Garfield neutered! Now that's funny!", I was confused for a moment until I realized they were referring to the little round character in the comic strip. Y'know, whenever someone in another series looks in a mirror, I half actually expect to see someone else's face reflected back! Diagnosis: Obsessed leaper Treatment: None Prognosis: Definitely terminal Comments: Oh boy! "Dr." Shaun Aki, who doesn't have a doctorate in law either. :) smvjaki@gate.net PS: But I've seen Generations over half a dozen times without seeing Dr. Beckett, Al, and Gooshie reflecting back. Now, they're gonna be everywhere. See what you've done! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 11 Sep 1995 12:04:26 GMT .. when your tram passes several shop windows with clothes, each of which makes you think, "Only Al would wear something like *that*!" and then you realize all these windows belong to that department store that has declared almost all of this year's September "Italian weeks", and then you decide that Al's fashion sense must be something he inherited from some Italian ancestor who probably also happens to be the ancestor of the people who designed these clothes... (And just so that you don't get a wrong impression: I really like the way Al dresses! :) .. when you almost buy Pita bread, even though you have absolutely no use for it, just because the brand is called "Sam"! .. when you switch to a certain ice cream brand and to a certain cookie brand because on the packages they use the QL title font... (If any of my colleagues read this: Now you know why I keep buying Jaffa cookies when I go shopping for the company! ;-) CU, Julia 8-) (just coming back from a sort of "Leapy" shopping excursion) (and, BTW, working on the August 1994 Obsessed Leaper list; and don't you dare think I forgot about the QL Actors' Other Roles list!) -- 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: 12 Sep 1995 06:25:02 GMT .. when, after watching "Lee Harvey Oswald", you feel completely justified in pointing out other people's spelling errors on the Internet, because that's exactly what Al did while reading from Oswald's diary... .. when you notice that many of the classes you want to take this term remind you of QL in some way or another... Introduction to the Vietnamese Language and Culture, of course, reminds you of Al (and you're still trying to convince yourself that's *not* the reason you want to take that class - works a lot better than with that Italian class! ;) , Sumerian makes you think of Sam's ancient languages, and Machine Learning, of course, directly leads to Ziggy... and you hope there'll be no QL references whatsoever in your other classes so you can concentrate at least part of the 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? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: deebee@tiac.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: 13 Sep 1995 02:13:05 GMT when you and your obsessed leaper son (age 10) are watching Home Improvement and you say, referring to "Tim", the main character, "What did Same just say?" b/c the other character is named "Al". Your son, knowing exactly what you mean, answers, then says, "I think we watch a little to much QL." Donna B-- who's in trouble b/c the five year old started acting very babyish today, and explained that she had "leaped" into a baby, and wasn't herself! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: 15 Sep 1995 14:52:21 GMT deebee@tiac.net wrote: : when you and your obsessed leaper son (age 10) are watching Home : Improvement and you say, referring to "Tim", the main character, : "What did Same just say?" b/c the other character is named "Al". Your : son, knowing exactly what you mean, answers, then says, "I think we : watch a little to much QL." : Donna B-- who's in trouble b/c the five year old started acting : very babyish today, and explained that she had "leaped" into a : baby, and wasn't herself! ROTFL :) I know I had the same trouble watching different programs last night. You know you're an obsessed Leaper when 1. You watch Kung-fu the Ledgend Continues, because its snyopsis says that Cain (sp?) trades places with his Grandfather to help him in the past, and you think of Sam traveling along his own DNA String even though you know with Cain, it's some Kung-fu trick. 2. Still watching Kung-fu, and the time traveling finally takes place, you wonder if a hologram is going to show up, but instead he has his grandfather's journal, and even though the grandfather was shot, and there was a bullet lodged dangerously near his heart, this cain doesn't have any bullet wound, thus meaning his body travled through time, you think of Sam bodily Leaping. 3. You find out at the end, that the apparent reason for the time travel switch is not only so Cain's grandson can complete the mission, but so that Cain himself (grandfather) can get the propper medical treatment to remove the bullet, that wasn't available in 1907, and you think of Sam accomplishing his mission, but not apparently Leaping for another reason that wasn't readily apparent. 4. During this same show, a commercial for the next Hallow'een moive comes on, but before you find out what it is, the commercial mentions protecting them from the evil of the B**gieman, and you immediately think of QL's notorious B-man episode, and hope that your television or cable doesn't go out, because the name was said on the commercial. :) 5. You're watching a Murder She Wrote episode, and a Black Mamba is shown, and blamed for the killing of the murder victim, and you immediately think of QL's B-man episode. 6. You notice that Jerry Hardin (Saxon the greedy pesticides plant owner from QL's Roberto) is on this same MSW episode playing another greedy person, and you immediately think but Sam put him in Jail a couple of nights ago and here's the nozzle out already, and wondering what Al's reaction is going to be. 7. You're dividing up the discard list O-R at work because it's gotten too huge, and the title Quantum published in New Mexico jumps out at you, and you immediately think of PQL. 8. You recently realize that the initials of your first and last name is also the same as the abreviation for New Mexico, where PQL is located, and you think you yet have another connection to QL 9. It's time to change your password for work, and you immediately change it from one QL related password to another QL related password. (examples of past ones: samandal to leapcon or indyleap to eastleap). I think that's enough for now, don't you? :-) Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 19 Sep 1995 11:27:41 GMT .. when you're buying a vacuum cleaner and, when you notice that the model you chose has, among other things, a wet and a dry cleaning nozzle, you nearly collapse laughing right in the middle of the shop. .. when you're watching "Married to the Mob" (which, BTW, you only got from the video store because Dean Stockwell's in it :-) and every time those FBI agents say "Bingo!" you (yet again!) have to laugh out loud... .. when you're asked for suggestions on the name for the company's new computer the first (and only) thing that comes to your mind is ziggy, even though you know that this computer, like all computers in the company, will be named after some Finnish writer or another... (Just FYI, they decided to call it kivi, after Aleksis Kivi. I wish there were a Finnish writer called Ziggy something around...) 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: 20 Sep 1995 12:38:26 GMT .. when somebody mentions to you that in his opinion people speaking with an American (instead of a British) accent just sound plain horrible and you object, and the first example for a nice-sounding (at least IMHO :-) American accent is Dean Stockwell's and the second one is Scott Bakula's... (But you are afraid to mention these examples since people already tease you more than enough about your QL obsession, so you have to think real hard before you can find another example. :-( ) 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: Judy Board Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper... Date: 20 Sep 1995 15:41:47 GMT Hi everyone, I'm back from Germany now! + you know you're obsessed when.... 1. The Very first thing you do in Germany (I mean literally in the airport!) is buy a TV guide to see when "Zuruck in die Vergangenheit" (QL in German - it translates as 'Back into the Past'!) is on. 2. You're watching "While you were sleeping" at the cinema - in German, and at the start there is a shot of a road going off into the distance in the same blue coloured nighttime light as at the start of the Pilot episode of QL, and you become convinced you're watching QL, or at least a trailer for a new QL movie. But, it turns out to be just the title shot of the film company (Caravan Pictures, ??-or something!). 3. You buy a German QL CD, even though you haven't got a CD player!!! (not even at home in England). I did stop short of buying a CD player to play it on though!! Then you're going mad for 2 weeks waiting to get home to borrow your brother's CD player to record it onto a cassette so you can finally listen to it!! Well, that's enough of that, oh I've just thought of something else.. When I bought the A-Z of QL in Manchester at the start of the summer, I was given a free bookmark from the bookshop (Waterstone's I think). The quote on the bookmark struck me as very appropriate: "We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives" (!!- I haven't got it with me so that may not be accurate, and I can't remember who said/wrote it originally). Well, bye! Judy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Data/Shaun Aki) smvjaki@gate.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 20 Sep 1995 22:21:14 GMT (Jaffa brand bread? Where? ;-) ..when a friend asks if you realized she was being helped in precalculus, asking "Did you think I was talking to an invisible man punching in numbers on a calculator?", and you burst out laughing (at least for an instant) ..when all you can think about is a distinctive burst of pure light as the Chemistry teacher talks about electrons leaping from one state to another, later explaining quantum numbers ..when your English teacher (yes, I'm a high school student) talks about The Crucible by Arthur Miller (about mass uprising-type persecutions and hangings out of the norm of Puritan society, focusing on the witch trials brought on by hatred and fear), and mentions that one of the main characters is Abigail..."Her last name doesn't hapen to be Fuller, is it?" (Does "Trilogy" have anything to do intentionally with Miller's play, by any chance?) ..you listen to the QL soundtrack at least twice a day while working (plus an audiotape of "The Leap Back" recorded off the set) ..you record a show just because Scott or Dean is in it (Langoliers & Chicago Hope last season; I'm afraid I didn't get Murphy Brown because...Langoliers was on :-) ..you nickname yourself Ziggy because the person sitting behind you is going out with a person with the same first name as you (Shaun) (I also have another nickname which I use a little more often: Data) ..you start talking to yourself and realize how people looking at Sam might have seen him ;-) Oh, right ..you say "Oh boy!" or respond "Yessssssssssss?" several times a day until people start looking at you funny ..you recite all 3 versions (were there 3?) of the QL Prelude just for fun, or say some irrelevant dialouge in a crowded bus Diagnosis, Dr. Beckett? Data/Ziggy/Shaun Aki smvjaki@gate.net "Revenge is mine, thus sayeth the hologram!" Sam Calavicci to Al "You think I've forgotten my own last name?!" Beckett :-) The Leap Back -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 21 Sep 1995 06:30:55 GMT Hello! Data/Shaun Aki (smvjaki@gate.net) wrote: :> (Jaffa brand bread? Where? ;-) Umm... the bread brand's name was "Sam". "Jaffa" (the stuff with the QL font on the package) is a cookie brand. And both can be found in Finland, along with "O'boy" cocoa. :-) 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: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:00:39 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: >.. when you're buying a vacuum cleaner and, when you notice that the >model you chose has, among other things, a wet and a dry cleaning >nozzle, you nearly collapse laughing right in the middle of the shop. >.. when you're watching "Married to the Mob" (which, BTW, you only got >from the video store because Dean Stockwell's in it :-) and every time >those FBI agents say "Bingo!" you (yet again!) have to laugh out loud... >.. when you're asked for suggestions on the name for the company's new >computer the first (and only) thing that comes to your mind is ziggy, >even though you know that this computer, like all computers in the >company, will be named after some Finnish writer or another... (Just >FYI, they decided to call it kivi, after Aleksis Kivi. I wish there were >a Finnish writer called Ziggy something around...) >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? * ....you don't mind so much paying your in-laws back for the new fridge, 'cause they got you the Admiral model...or ..start thinking that your hubby looks a lot like Al when he slaps the uncooperative VCR remote..or ... friend points out that if you use your maiden name, your initals are AL...or ...another friend points out that your 6th grade teachers nickname was Ziggy(yours was Iggy)...or ...you "borrow' your 2year olds Ken from her Barbie Happy Meal so you can have your own "Bay Watch Beckett" doll, then you pay h*ll trying to convince your 7 & 8 year olds that they really don't have QL Happy Meals... ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 23:09:36 GMT durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: >>.. when you're buying a vacuum cleaner and, when you notice that the >>model you chose has, among other things, a wet and a dry cleaning >>nozzle, you nearly collapse laughing right in the middle of the shop. >>.. when you're watching "Married to the Mob" (which, BTW, you only got >>from the video store because Dean Stockwell's in it :-) and every time >>those FBI agents say "Bingo!" you (yet again!) have to laugh out loud... >>.. when you're asked for suggestions on the name for the company's new >>computer the first (and only) thing that comes to your mind is ziggy, >>even though you know that this computer, like all computers in the >>company, will be named after some Finnish writer or another... (Just >>FYI, they decided to call it kivi, after Aleksis Kivi. I wish there were >>a Finnish writer called Ziggy something around...) >>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? * >....you don't mind so much paying your in-laws back for the new >fridge, 'cause they got you the Admiral model...or >..start thinking that your hubby looks a lot like Al when he slaps the >uncooperative VCR remote..or >... friend points out that if you use your maiden name, your initals >are AL...or >...another friend points out that your 6th grade teachers nickname was >Ziggy(yours was Iggy)...or >...you "borrow' your 2year olds Ken from her Barbie Happy Meal so you >can have your own "Bay Watch Beckett" doll, then you pay h*ll trying >to convince your 7 & 8 year olds that they really don't have QL Happy >Meals... >...Um, let's see, I"m still not good at this computer stuff, but to forget to sign MY name??? Aggie, the yankee in Texas who is trying to convince her poor hubby to send her to East Leap for her Birthday on the 22 of Oct...(actually, I am to the point of telling him he NEVER has to get me anything forb-days anniversaries,etc.if he would just send me this once!!)Well, actually maybe I have already been(another time line?) 'cause I HAVEN"T gotten any presents for the afore mentioned celebrations, oh well, swiss cheesed and all, did I have a good time?? AL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 25 Sep 1995 11:02:37 GMT ....Whenever a dog barks at you, the first thing you think of is: Oh boy, the dog can see me. -- ===================================================================== | "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 Calavicci, 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: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 25 Sep 1995 12:43:35 GMT .. surrounded by non-Leapers *sigh* ... .. when you're having the following conversation with a friend whom you asked to tape a movie for you from a channel you don't get (but he does): Him: What's the movie about? You: I don't know; I want to watch it because I'm a fan of the leading actor. Him: (delighted) Oh, Clark Gable! You: (sigh... he's confusing "my" movie with the other movie that night) No, Dean Stockwell. Him: (very confused) Who!? You: Never mind; just tape the movie. (smile) At least the name "Quantum Leap" did sound sort of familiar to him. CU, Julia 8-) PS. BTW, for anybody who's interested: That's the taping that went wrong some weeks ago. :-( -- 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: 25 Sep 1995 15:08:06 GMT Zilbershtein Ilan (ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il) wrote: : ....Whenever a dog barks at you, the first thing you think of is: Oh boy, : the dog can see me. Whenever you watch Lethal Weapon 3, and you see the part where Rigs is trying to stare down the dog, and make friends with it, and you immedediately think of Sam staring down the dog in the pilot of QL when you're watching Lois and Clark, and immediately notice in the credits, Michael Watkins, and Michael Stern, and immediately think of QL When you're watching JAG, and you see all the Navy officers being called to the White house, you immediately wonder where Al is, and when they show the shots of Bosnia, you immediately wonder where Peter Hunt is (OK so the last is MB, but it's still Scott). Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jlreg@uno.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When..... Date: 26 Sep 1995 04:12:26 GMT ....when you're watching a Frigidaire commercial about contours in their appliances, which features an extreme close-up of a calla lily, and you can't stop thinking about the calla lilies, which of course reminds you of Beth, reminding you of Al and *M.I.A.* --Jennie :) :) :) :) <>< "You know it's guaranteed, plant the seed and you get the flower." Al Calavicci *Alphabet Rap* ---<--{(@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 26 Sep 1995 07:51:31 GMT .. when your bus passes through an Indian Summer landscape (well, as Indian as you can get in Finland ;) and, while looking at all those multi-colored trees, you think, "Oh, Al would look great in that color... and that... and 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: bskatz@ibm.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 Sep 1995 18:35:46 GMT You know you're an obsessed leaper when... You're directing Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along", which you describe as 'An American Tragedy', and you come up with the concept that it would fix everything if Sam leaped into the life of the main character and set the plot right. What's worse is, when you mention it to your Stage Manager and Musical Director, they're not at all surprised, but they've known you for 2 years, so they shouldn't be. What's even worse is when you mention it to cast members, who have known you for less than a month, and only in a professional capacity, and THEY'RE not surprised!! Later, Karnell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 28 Sep 1995 06:57:47 GMT .. when you read "Special thanks to Scott B." in the end credits of some movie and your brain immediately appends "akula". 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: 28 Sep 1995 08:51:25 GMT .. when you're proofreading an AWK script that's supposed to deal with German morphology and catch a glimpse of "sam" and start wondering how *he* got into your script, before you realize it's the German adjective suffix -sam (as in heilsam "curative")... .. and then you suddenly realize that there's also a German adjective suffix -al (as in marginal "marginal") and start browsing through the script in order to make sure you included that one, too! (And you're really disappointed there are no such suffixes as -ziggy or -gushie or the like.) 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: 28 Sep 1995 16:00:24 GMT I just come from a really fascinating lecture about ethnomethodology, and there I heard some things that probably belong here, so here goes: YKYAOL... .. when your lecturer talks about what it means to be an observer and you automatically listen up... .. then she goes on some time about observing and being observed and what it does to people and she comes to the conclusion that "you can't be an observer without changing the situation" - to which you totally agree, 90+ episodes of QL being proof enough for that in your opinion. (OK, I know, it is Sam who changes things, but where would he be without Al?) .. and finally (still speaking about observers) she says something about how regardless of what you do, as soon as you step into some situation you start changing it, and at this point you start to suspect that she's not talking about *observers* here... (I even wondered if she's a fellow Leaper for a short time, but decided that if she were she probably wouldn't have said "*step* into a situation". ;-) 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: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 28 Sep 1995 23:17:45 GMT YKYAOLW... you call someone at work with bad breath Gooshie behind their back. When you talk on-line you use Sammy Jo as your handle because you think it makes you closer to Sam. And when you find out you have a photographic memory you can't help but smile 'cause you're one step closer. Heidi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 29 Sep 1995 08:16:10 GMT Hello! jlreg@uno.edu wrote: :> ....when you're watching a Frigidaire commercial about contours in their :> appliances, which features an extreme close-up of a calla lily, and you can't :> stop thinking about the calla lilies, which of course reminds you of Beth, :> reminding you of Al and *M.I.A.* *grin* This reminds me... I almost bought a Spanish dictionary because it had a picture featuring lots of calla lilies on the front cover. 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 When..... Date: 29 Sep 1995 17:55:14 GMT lobocop387@aol.com (LoboCop387) writes: > you people are sick obsessed maniacs. Im so proud to be associated with > you. Besides, every time I meet someone new and they introduce themselves > as Sam I have the urge to ask if their last name is beckett :) :-) YKYAOLW... ...You stifle an urge to burst out whistling each time you go by a car that has the letters ACW on its plate. Actually, I would do so if the car wasn't parked at the top of a steep hill that I only just manage to bike over :-) [For the newbies: ACW=Anyone Can Whistle, a show Scott performed in.] > "I want to talk to you about my penis" > -Kryten "Electronic appliances shouldn't be giving you double polaroids!" -Lister Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jkstier@mtu.edu (Jeffrey K. Stier) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 30 Sep 1995 02:57:47 -0400 YKYAOLW... Every time you go into a new situation (a.k.a. a test, class, etc.) the first words out of your mouth are some variation on the phrase "Oh, boy." I'm new here, so be gentle. -- ________ ___ | | / | | | /--------/ | ******** ____/---/ IVCF,SCA \--------^\__ ____ \ \__/ __ \ \ ____________________________ =====/ __ \ [ | / \ | \----_____/Jeffrey K. Stier ==== | / \ |----\ [___| \__/ | EBS,Theater(jkstier@mtu.edu) [ | \__/ || |___ \____/--------------------------------^^^--\____/-|_________\