From: jlreg@uno.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When..... Date: 1 Oct 1995 05:50:05 GMT .....you're watching Johnnie Cochran's closing arguments (in passing) in the O.J. Simpson case and he makes a comment about making a quantum leap and you just stop and stare, and then you get mad because he's not using the term correctly. (He should've used leap of faith, btw) ....when you're sitting in a class on the postmd trial two (stupid newsreaders!) ....when you're sitting in a class on the postmodern novel, and the professor remarks about how quantum physics is related to postmodernism, and then proceeds to talk about making leaps of faith! (BTW, I was over at the archives glancing over the history of this thread. It's lived a very long time, hasn't it?) What shall we do for the one-year anniversary? Take Care and God Bless, Jennie --Jennie "You know it's guaranteed, plant the seed :) :) :) :) <>< and you get the flower." --Al Calavicci *Alphabet Rap* jlreg@uno.edu ---<--{(@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joerg Weese Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know youīre an obsessed leaper when... Date: 2 Oct 1995 12:52:10 GMT Hi everyone... YKYAAOLW... your girlfriend starts to reply "Oh Girl" every time you say "Oh Boy", because itīs beginning to get on her nerves... =) (For Germans: "Oh Frau" as a reply to "Oh Mann") CU Joerg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When..... Date: 2 Oct 1995 15:53:29 GMT you're watching JAG, and automatically hear a sequence that reminds you of the music in LHO episisode (not surprising because the music is done by Bunch) You're watching Lois & Clark, and notice immediately that Chris Ruppenthal wrote the episode. You're still watching LNC and Lois is recounting her dream and flashbacks of the Alien abduction and she starts with "I was held in a white room........." and you start rolling on the floor laughing, immediately thinking of QL's Waiting Room :-) You're watching LNC and one of the places robbed is called Quantum something or other. Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rcoakley@forest.drew.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 2 Oct 95 00:10:43 EST When in philosophy class, the teacher talks about the theories of God, or a Supreme Being, or a Great Organizer, etc., and you start thinking about Al the Bartender, a.k.a. Bruce McGill. If you walk out of class humming the theme to MacGuyver as a result of this, you may want to lie down for a few hours. Maybe watch "Misfits of Science" or something. Bobby C. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: shea@umich.edu (Shea Schultz) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL When...& QL alums Date: 3 Oct 1995 05:36:04 GMT You know you're an obsessed leaper when you drive your fiance crazy by saying "hey, that person was on QL" whenever you watch anything on TV or whenever you rent a movie. It seems there are very few things I see these days that doesn't have a QL alum on it...including JAG! Did anyone see Will Kidman (Trilogy) as the sonar guy on the submarine (episode aired Saturday Sept.30) or the JAG admiral (has been in both episodes) who played the gay track coach in "Running for Honor? We will be watching something and I must get a certain look on my face because my fiance will say "go ahead, say it 'that person was on QL'" Some other worthy QL alums include Teri Hatcher (the first and better Donna), the oldest brother from Blossom ("Another Mother" episode), Eriq LaSalle of ER who was in "Song for the Soul", Jennifer Aniston of Friends who was in "Nowhere to Run" and K Callan (superman's mom on L&C:TNAOS) who was in "Americanization of Machiko..." I could go on and on but I will spare you unless people are interested...get back to me. Also, YKYAOLW you want to have a son named Sam because to you the name signifies goodness and truth. When you see a tuxedo add (no kidding) with a caption "Quantum...take the leap" and you are offended because it seems disrespectful. When one of your friends is side-tracked admiring the opposite sex you want to yell at them "Al...Al...AAALLLL!!!!" When QL premiered you used to pretend your Teddy Bear was Sam Becket and you of course were his partner because you wanted to be on every leap with him and you put yourself to sleep at night by working out QL stories in your mind (yes, I really did this). Well that is about all I can think of for now, but I am pretty obsessed so I'm sure there will be more forthcoming. Anyway, I am new to this group and it is good to be able to talk QL with other people. My best leap freak friend doesn't live as close as she used to and it has left me to appreciate QL all by my lonesome. While I'm at it one of my favorite phrases is from "Another Mother" Daughter: "But mom, I'm going to miss Magnum!" Mother/Sam: "Don't worry it will be on for another 8 seasons." Also, has anyone ever noticed how a lot of guest stars made more than one appearance (ie. Bruce McGill, Charles Rocket, Olivia Burnette, and Michael Bellasario). Did they think we wouldn't notice or did they like them so much they just had to recast them. Granted the Wierd Ernie/Al the Bartender thing is a little different but the rest were just normal people. But I digress. Thanks for having such a great group. Keep up the great communication. Shea -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 3 Oct 1995 09:03:38 GMT Hello! nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: :> You're watching LNC and one of the places robbed is called Quantum :> something or other. This reminds me of the first time I read "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett... some astro-something pyramid engineer (or whatever he calls himself) in this novel keeps talking about quantum this and quantum that. ;-) Unfortunately there is no quantum *leaping*, but time and all the weird things you can do with it are very important for the story... 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: imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 3 Oct 1995 14:51:15 GMT In article , Karen L Green wrote: >OK, it's been some years since my anthropology classes, but if I recall >correctly, the idea that the presence of an observer changes an observed >situation is extremely old. The phrase "The observer is an integral part of the experiment" comes to mind, and (to change the subject slightly) it is rather an important idea in quantum physics. 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/ . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shira May Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 3 Oct 1995 22:24:03 GMT ..you freak out when you see an article titled "String Theory" in Wired magazine, and you're thoroughly disappointed that it isn't about time travel, not to mention offended that someone borrowed the term. (It's a metaphor used by this photographer, David Byrne, about how emotions are attached to the body by strings.) Shira May, Classical String Theorist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 4 Oct 1995 12:46:55 GMT .. when your Vietnamese Language and Culture lecturer is talking about Vietnamese history, and as soon as he reaches the Vietnam war you curse the fact that you don't have any kind of QL timeline with you because then you wouldn't have had to rack your brains wondering what happened to Al in a particular year (and thus missing part of the class)... .. and after the class you go shopping and just as you're about to leave a store they start playing "Imagine" on their hidden speakers, so you look through their merchandise some more, even though you already looked through it before, until the song is over. 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: Joerg Weese Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 4 Oct 1995 14:19:13 GMT Hi everyone... This belongs to the "Naming Your Computer After Ziggy" thread... I have a Y*m*h* W7 Music Workstation, and every time I switch it on, there is a personal greeting message (which can be edited in a sub-menu)... guess what mine says... Hi Joerg... Ziggy MuSystem ready... CU Joerg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: shea@umich.edu (Shea Schultz) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYALW Date: 6 Oct 1995 05:06:29 GMT One more You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When...from me. I am a pharmacy student and work as a pharmacy intern. By law I am allowed to transfer prescriptions from our pharmacy to another pharmacy or to receive transferred prescriptions. When we give all the information over the phone, the "copy", you have to give your initials to the other pharmacy. Sometimes letters are difficult to hear over the phone so you attach words to them (ie D as in Dog). Anyway, my point is...I give my initials as "S as in Sam, B as in [oh] Boy, S as in Sam." No one has ever said anything to me but I often wonder if a fellow leaper would feel a tinge of familiarity. Shea -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 6 Oct 1995 10:03:30 GMT .. when you hear that they want to make new episodes of one of your favorite science fiction TV shows ("Raumpatrouille", a German show from even before the original Star Trek!) and you wonder if there will be a "Next Generation" or if the original characters will be re-cast... so you start wondering about who *you* would cast as which of the original characters and your first thought is that Scott Bakula would be just perfect for the role of Cliff McLane, the starship's commander! .. and then you despair because you can't find any role to be played by Dean Stockwell. :-( (Unless, of course, they introduce new characters. Now that's a good idea... :-) 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: Joerg Weese Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Oct 1995 14:45:36 GMT Hi... YKYAAOLW... you have to stop with your car at the red lights, and the car in front of you just happens to be called a Volkswagen Quantum. As the lights turn green, you half expect the car to vanish in a flash of blueish-white light. Which never happens of course because this is not Back To The Future... =) What is a pity is that, although Volkswagen is a German company originally, they donīt sell that type of car under that name in Germany. Here, itīs called a "Passat". (The one I saw belonged to a guy from the US army stationed in Bamberg). Keep the leap, Joerg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYALW Date: 6 Oct 1995 14:51:28 GMT Shea Schultz (shea@umich.edu) wrote: : One more You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When...from me. I am a : pharmacy student and work as a pharmacy intern. By law I am allowed to : transfer prescriptions from our pharmacy to another pharmacy or to : receive transferred prescriptions. When we give all the information over : the phone, the "copy", you have to give your initials to the other : pharmacy. Sometimes letters are difficult to hear over the phone so you : attach words to them (ie D as in Dog). Anyway, my point is...I give my : initials as "S as in Sam, B as in [oh] Boy, S as in Sam." No one has : ever said anything to me but I often wonder if a fellow leaper would feel : a tinge of familiarity. Shea Well, at least you didn't say S as in Sam, B as in Beckett, Cas in Calavicci, D as in Donna, A as in Al Z as in Ziggy. Sometimes I work with Library of Congress call numbers in our library, and I find myself doing this over the phone a lot! :-) I do try to curb it though when I hear a huh? on the other end of the phone. Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghawley@ssb1.saff.utah.edu (Gayle Hawley) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYALW Date: 6 Oct 1995 20:43:25 GMT OK, you all got me going with the A=Al stuff. So, here is my vote for the A-Z of QL. This has probably been done before, but what the hey ... Some of these are a bit of a stretch, so if anyone has better ideas for the letters, let's hear them! A=Al B=Beth or Boy C=Calavicci D=Donna E=Elk Ridge F=Fourth, or was it Fifth, no, it was my First wife G=Gooshie H=HOME or Handlink I=Imaging Chamber J=Jimmy K=Ka Ka (ok, I took liberties with the "accepted" spelling) L=Leaper M=Masons or Music (Gotta hear him sing!) N=Neurons O=OH . . . P=Pregnant (love how he waddles) Q=Quantum R=Reading (the newsgroup) S=Sam T=Thelma or Tina U=Underwear (favorite costuming) V=Verbena W=Work (what I don't do when I read the newsgroup) X=eXperiment Y=YKYALW or YKYAOLW Z=Ziggy - Gayle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jenstall@ix.netcom.com (Jennifer) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYALW Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:28:35 GMT In <452dgl$jqu@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> shea@umich.edu (Shea Schultz) writes: > >One more You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When...from me. I am a >pharmacy student and work as a pharmacy intern. By law I am allowed to >transfer prescriptions from our pharmacy to another pharmacy or to >receive transferred prescriptions. When we give all the information over >the phone, the "copy", you have to give your initials to the other >pharmacy. Sometimes letters are difficult to hear over the phone so you >attach words to them (ie D as in Dog). Anyway, my point is...I give my >initials as "S as in Sam, B as in [oh] Boy, S as in Sam." No one has >ever said anything to me but I often wonder if a fellow leaper would feel >a tinge of familiarity. Shea > > This is great...similiar to an occurrence that happened to me the other day. I'd called Continental to get a flight to Philly for Eastleap and the confirmation they gave me ended in the letters QL (a coincidence, you say??). I had to call them back a day later because of some problems with my credit card so they asked me to read the confirmation number back to them...and of course I said Q for Quantum and L for Leap :) The reservationist probably thought I was nuts!! Jennifer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rcoakley@forest.drew.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Oct 95 01:53:52 EST In article <44tvnv$7i6@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: > .. when your Vietnamese Language and Culture lecturer is talking about > Vietnamese history, and as soon as he reaches the Vietnam war you curse > the fact that you don't have any kind of QL timeline with you because > then you wouldn't have had to rack your brains wondering what happened > to Al in a particular year (and thus missing part of the class)... > > .. and after the class you go shopping and just as you're about to > leave a store they start playing "Imagine" on their hidden speakers, so > you look through their merchandise some more, even though you already > looked through it before, until the song is over. > > CU, > Julia 8-) ...You learn about Elektra and Freud's Elektra Complex, and you immediately start thinking all sort of warped thought about "Trilogy." You're one step over the line when you decide to incorporate this into your upcoming QL fanfic, "Plush." Bobby C. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alan Lothian Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYALW Date: Sat, 07 Oct 95 18:02:45 GMT In article <4544dd$bv3@news.cc.utah.edu> ghawley@ssb1.saff.utah.edu "Gayle Hawley" writes: > OK, you all got me going with the A=Al stuff. So, here is my vote for > the A-Z of QL. This has probably been done before, but what the hey ... > Some of these are a bit of a stretch, so if anyone has better ideas for > the letters, let's hear them! > > A=Al > B=Beth or Boy > C=Calavicci > D=Donna > E=Elk Ridge > F=Fourth, or was it Fifth, no, it was my First wife > G=Gooshie > H=HOME or Handlink > I=Imaging Chamber > J=Jimmy > K=Ka Ka (ok, I took liberties with the "accepted" spelling) > L=Leaper > M=Masons or Music (Gotta hear him sing!) > N=Neurons > O=OH . . . > P=Pregnant (love how he waddles) > Q=Quantum > R=Reading (the newsgroup) > S=Sam > T=Thelma or Tina > U=Underwear (favorite costuming) > V=Verbena > W=Work (what I don't do when I read the newsgroup) > X=eXperiment > Y=YKYALW or YKYAOLW > Z=Ziggy > > - Gayle ROTFL!!!!!! Here's what I came up with: R=RASTQL M=Mexico (new) P=Project (Quantum Leap) B=Beckett N=Nozzle V=(in)Viaggio nel Tempo (Italian title: Voyaging in time) Kirsty Lothian Who Loves QL!! (surprised?) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW.... Date: 8 Oct 1995 09:14:11 GMT First an explaination, and than the main thing: At Tel-Aviv University, where I study, there is an institute called "House Of Diasporah", which is a museum documanting Jewish communities all over the world. Its hebrew name is "Beth HaTfutsut", and the clever guys upstairs put a sign with its hebrew name in English letters, just as I wrote it:"Beth HaTfutsut". Anyway, everyday I see this sign, and no matter how many times I've seen it, I always think:"Shouldn't it be Beth Calavicci instead of Beth HaTfutsut? after all, Beth never remaried...." ilam. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jews are what you get from hudreds of generations | | of marriage whithin the family. | _____________________________________________________________________ | 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 | | Homepage: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~ilam | --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: adonaldson@lbs.lon.ac.uk (ANGIE DONALDSON) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW and Happy Birthday Scott Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 09:48:36 Finally I can post again! Something's been seriously wrong w/ our newsreader here at work... My first "you know you're an obsessed leaper when..." goes like this: ...you are browsing in a bookstore, and you just _have_ to pick up a copy of Jack Keroac's "On the Road" because of the "Rebel W/out a Clue" episode, and when reading the liner notes, the author mentions the hero of the book, DEAN Moriarty and compares Keroac (sp?) to F. SCOTT Fitzgerald, and you just have to grin... And not to forget the most important point of all, a big, huge Happy Birthday to Scott! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYALW Date: 9 Oct 1995 13:40:57 GMT Hello! Alan Lothian (Alanl@brush.demon.co.uk) wrote: :> V=(in)Viaggio nel Tempo (Italian title: Voyaging in time) OK... you can add A=Aikahyppy (Finnish title; "Time leap"); T=Tidsspr†ng (Swedish title (at least in Finland's Swedish-language newspapers' TV sections); "Time leap"); and Z=Zurck in die Vergangenheit (German title, "Back to the past"); and I guess we already got Q=Quantum Leap. BTW, if the 'net messes up the 8th bit again: The funny character in "Tidsspr†ng" (between the r and the n) is an a with a small ring above it, and the funny character in "Zurck" (between the r and the c) is a u-umlaut. 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: 9 Oct 1995 13:45:18 GMT .. when you buy a book called "Video-opas" ("Video Guide") in order to keep track of all those Scott and Dean movies you would miss on TV/not find in the video store because you don't know their Finnish titles and the Finns, of course, often don't know the English ones... .. and of course you test it before you buy it by looking up all the Dean and Scott movies you can think of in the middle of the bookstore. CU, Julia 8-) (who thought of suggesting to the woman at the video store that she sort the movies by who's in them, thus creating a "Dean section", a "Scott section", and an "everything else" section, but hasn't had the guts so far to actually do it) -- 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: xxx@yyy.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOLW and Happy Birthday Scott Date: 9 Oct 1995 21:43:49 GMT adonaldson@lbs.lon.ac.uk (ANGIE DONALDSON) wrote: > > ....you are browsing in a bookstore, and you just _have_ to pick up a copy of > Jack Keroac's "On the Road" because of the "Rebel W/out a Clue" episode, and > when reading the liner notes, the author mentions the hero of the book, DEAN > Moriarty and compares Keroac (sp?) to F. SCOTT Fitzgerald, and you just have > to grin... > > And not to forget the most important point of all, a big, huge Happy Birthday > to Scott! Speaking of which, ...you're watching the new movie How to Make an American Quilt when you hear the line, "Look who's here, it's Sam," and you could have sworn it was, "Look who leapt in, it's Sam!" Then it turns out this Sam is a lot like our Sam (and even looks like him) and there's a character named Dean who has the libido of Al. Of course, when asked about the movie, this is all you can talk about! Happy birthday to Scott! (Here's a new idea for Hallmark: October 9, Scott Bakula Day) When's Dean's birthday?! -Shira, forever leaping in without a net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Why I hate AOL and other news Date: 10 Oct 1995 07:58:40 GMT Why I hate America On Line- I hate AOL because not once, not twice, but three times after I had written out a beautiful post did the machine choose then to go Ca-ca and quit responding. So instead of getting all frustrated and spending more of my dads money trying to post there I will post it here. BACKGROUND- Someone( I think Genessa) had posted a message about the Yankees( this was when they were still in it) and I wanted to respond how cute I thought Scott would be in a Yankees Pin Stripe Uniform( kind of puts new meaning into Pride of the Yankees). The post then went on to say that I thought Scott looked hot the times we saw him in uniform and that it was a shame that DPB never had Scott leap into a Marine, because Marines look fine in their dress blacks. I think though that the reasin that DB did not do this was because all the TVs in the nation would sizzle out at once at the site of Scott/Sam as a Marine, but if you really think about it maybe this would be a boon for the economy. All those televisions have to be made and sold and the sales people would make a fortune in commision. Do Navy JAG's defend MArines. Maybe someone should pitch the idea of Scott apearing on JAG as a MArine pilot( pilots are second only to Marine in coolest in uniform) then have him commit a crime so he goes on trial and has to appear in his dress black, guarantee it would be the biggest draw on Saturday night. YOU KNOW YOUR AN OBSESSED LEAPER WHEN- YKYAOLW- your English teacher makes it an option to do a creative assignment instead of boring papers and your first thought is how do I incorporate Sam and Al into what we have read. So heres my idea. We just finished up with the Enlightment and the work of Alexander Pope. I plan on writing a story that has Sam leaping into someone close to Pope when he is writing his "Essay on Man." for anyone who is unfamiliar with that work, Pope sets forth the idea that whatever happens to us is a part of a larger scheme that is not revealed to us, therefore it is silly to get emotional when bad fortune befalls us because in the end everything is as it was planned, or as Pope says." Whatever is, is right. Basically the essay praises( for lack of a better word) reasoning over emotion. What I plan to do is have Sam leap in as Pope is writing his Essay, and during the course of the leap come to find out that Pope is to be killed in a horse accident and therefore his Essay will never get published. If the essay is never published Voltiare's Candide and Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels are not written( not a bad thought in itself) so Sam is there to see that Pope lives to write and publish his essay and that Candide and Gullivers Travels and the other writings inspired from this essay are written. I need a title, any suggestions? Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOLW and Happy Birthday Scott Date: 10 Oct 1995 12:26:47 GMT Hello! xxx@yyy.berkeley.edu wrote: :> Happy birthday to Scott! :> (Here's a new idea for Hallmark: October 9, Scott Bakula Day) :> When's Dean's birthday?! I don't know (I've got it written down somewhere, though); but I knew I am an obsessed Leaper (yet again ;) when I looked at a package of milk yesterday to find out when the "use before end of..." date is, and when I saw it was Oct. 9 I thought, "Oh, that's Scott Bakula's birthday" immediately, and *long* before I thought, "Oh my God, that's today!" 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: 10 Oct 1995 12:39:18 GMT .. when you plunder your bank account (this month's salary will arrive next week, anyway :) in order to go to a shop called Filmifriikki ("movie freak") in order to buy all those old Dean movies you couldn't find anywhere else. (Unfortunately they only had "Dune", and that's not even a particularly old one, but hey, I got it now! :-) .. when you witness some friends of yours joke about how they want to hire a (male) stripper for your birthday, and you have a laughing fit because this reminds you so much of what Al tells Sam about Tina's birthday in "Leaping of the Shrew", and you can't help but quote one of Al's lines ("Bon Voyage. I've gotta go jump up out of a cake.") at them. (I'll probably find out soon (the conversation took - and is still taking - place in a newsgroup) if they knew what I meant by that... They know I'm an obsessed Leaper, but I don't know if they know QL well enough themselves to recognize the quote, or even guess where it comes from (other than, "If Julia quotes it it must be from QL").) 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: Shira Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Why I hate AOL and other news Date: 10 Oct 1995 21:53:22 GMT roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) wrote: > What I plan to do is have Sam leap in as Pope is writing his Essay, >and during the course of the leap come to find out that Pope is to be >killed in a horse accident and therefore his Essay will never get >published. If the essay is never published Voltiare's Candide and >Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels are not written( not a bad thought in >itself) so Sam is there to see that Pope lives to write and publish his >essay and that Candide and Gullivers Travels and the other writings >inspired from this essay are written. I need a title, any suggestions? > Catherine, this is what I call obsession! You deserve some kind of reward for this creativity! :-) YKYAOLW ...you often stop to think about how things might have turned out if Sam had leaped in to put right what once went wrong in your life. Or maybe he already did.... S.H.I.R.A. - Sam's Happiness Is Rewarding Al (awwww) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Data) smvjaki@gate.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an Obseesed Leaper... ;-) Date: 12 Oct 1995 05:11:37 GMT when you witness chaos (no one is sure of what to do exactly) in Chemistry lab, and you recall a certain unusual alchemy way of getting silver nitrate (white powder mixed with `silver' spoon) when you look up and do at least a half-smile when someone says "Oh boy" when you write down the time and date that this person said "Oh boy" in your journal of random notes when you keep a regular journal of "You're an obsessed leaper when" notes in there when you choose "Somewhere In The Night" as your favorite song (assignment in creative writing class: print lyrics, play song, say something about why it's your fave)--it is! Shaun Aki (nicknames: Data/Ziggy) smvjaki@gate.net Yeah, I know. I wanted something like "trustno1" as my username, but no... Enthusiastic Fan of Star Trek (in general; in specific, DS9), X-Files, Quantum Leap, and MST3K Junior in High School who is fascinated by math, science, computers, psychology/counseling, dolphins, space exploration, & most of all: people If you have any questions, feel free to ask. A Favorite Quote: "Let me help." --The most ___________ phrase in the human language, even over "I love you" (help me out here, folks) ST:"The City on the Edge of Forever" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 12 Oct 1995 09:13:42 GMT Hello! Here I am again, posting followups to my own articles... Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: :> .. when you witness some friends of yours joke about how they want to :> hire a (male) stripper for your birthday, and you have a laughing fit :> because this reminds you so much of what Al tells Sam about Tina's :> birthday in "Leaping of the Shrew", and you can't help but quote one of :> Al's lines ("Bon Voyage. I've gotta go jump up out of a cake.") at them. :> (I'll probably find out soon (the conversation took - and is still :> taking - place in a newsgroup) if they knew what I meant by that... They :> know I'm an obsessed Leaper, but I don't know if they know QL well :> enough themselves to recognize the quote, or even guess where it comes :> from (other than, "If Julia quotes it it must be from QL").) Today I found out I still have to work on my Obsessed Leaper image... they didn't even come up with something so trivial as "if Julia quotes it it must be from QL" or "if she's so excited about it it must have something to do with QL"... I had to TELL them MYSELF! *sigh* :-( 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: TBZY17B@prodigy.com (MS ANNE P PINZOW) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when Date: 13 Oct 95 21:19:31 GMT -- [ From: Anne Phyllis Pinzow * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- You're house sitting for a friend and she leaves a note for you that a new kitten "leaped" into her life and the kitten keeps going to sleep on your chest making a pillow of your breast so you start to call the kitten Al and it looks up at you and purrs. Anne Pinzow - TBZY17B@Prodigy.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: saspeicher@eworld.com (SASpeicher) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: QL alum sighting YKYAOLW Date: 14 Oct 1995 12:06:19 -0700 I finally saw Shindler's List last night. I kept thinking, why does Mrs. Schindler look so familiar? Finally it came to me. She was the Chimp lady in The Wrong Stuff. Sooooo, YKYAOL when you can spot an alum! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Ql Alum Sighting Date: 15 Oct 1995 12:37:05 GMT I don't know what his name is but one of the ball players from Play BAll appears in the movie Angels in the Outfield. I caught what I believe was his name on the uniform. It was Blue. You Know Your an Obsessed Leaper When YKYAOLW- no matter how crowded a shot in a tv show or movie you can pick out the QL alum. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 16 Oct 1995 13:46:10 GMT .. when the clerk in your favorite video store starts giving you strange looks, and starts looking for the movie encyclopedia as soon as she sees you, because you have been there once too often with that loooong list of movies you want to find, that have strange titles such as "Anchors Aweigh" (and the Finnish titles seem to be even stranger - I had to spell some of them, to a native speaker of Finnish!) and are totally unheard-of in most parts of Finland... (OK, that's more like "Dean fan" than "Leaper", but guess how I *became* a Dean fan... :) .. when you're proofreading a file that's supposed to tell a parser how to inflect foreign names in Estonian, and you use this opportunity to check if names like "Scott", "Dean", "Bakula", "Stockwell", "Sam", "Al", ... (you get the picture) will be recognized by the Estonian parser. (Yes, computational linguistics is fun... first I got to check the German files, now it's Estonian, and who knows in what kind of files I'll get to look for all those QL-related names in the future... ;-) CU, Julia 8-) (preparing to leave the 'net in order to hurry home and catch yet another QL episode - this week we get the first Evil Leaper episode here in Finland, AFAIK) -- 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: Hilary Bates Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when Date: 18 Oct 1995 20:50:00 GMT .you are writing back the the UK to register yourself for a postal vote, and you realise that your former local council office's address is: STOCKWELL CLOSE!!!!! and you ROTFL for the next 10 minutes! Hilary hbates@amgen.com <>< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when Date: 19 Oct 1995 12:47:00 GMT Hello! Hilary Bates (hbates@amgen.com) wrote: :> .you are writing back the the UK to register yourself for a postal :> vote, and you realise that your former local council office's address is: :> STOCKWELL CLOSE!!!!! :> and you ROTFL for the next 10 minutes! Sort of reminds me of that day when a friend of mine brought home a map of the London underground system, and the first station that jumped (er, leaped ;) into my eyes was called Stockwell... CU, Julia 8-) (still occasionally misreading "Stockmann" (a department store in Helsinki) for... well, guess what) -- 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: 19 Oct 1995 13:07:44 GMT .. when you use the name "Sam Beckett" when you referring to great talent and/or knowledge, as in "Do you know Prof. Koskenniemi (one of my lecturers)? He's the Sam Beckett of computational linguistics!" .. and, speaking of linguistics, when your favorite class this semester is Introduction to Sumerian, because you feel that if Sam leaps into you during that class he'll feel at home right away, with his ancient languages background and everything... .. when people start grinning at your too-frequent use of "Oh boy"... .. when people ask you if there's anything interesting on TV today and, realizing that it's Monday (QL day in Finland :) they quickly add, "... I mean, *besides* QL", even though you didn't say a thing (but got that dreamy look on your face again). .. when you're contemplating different courses of action in a certain matter and wait for Al to appear, so he can give you some information about the probable outcome of things... 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: Joerg Weese Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 19 Oct 1995 13:23:50 GMT Hi everybody... Hereīs another one that came to my mind recently: YKYAAOLW... .. you get into a taxi cab and tell the driver to "center me on the airport" =) CU Joerg PS Julia, did you get the one with the Volkswagen Quantum ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYALW Date: 19 Oct 1995 14:26:18 GMT You read in the USA Today (Thursday Oct 19, 1995) Life Section that Jack Kerouac's On the Road is no longer regarded as subversive literature, and all you can think about is Sam talking to Kerouac in "Rebel Without A Clue" and how Al and Becky both went on about him. "I gotta move, I gotta groove...." Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:43:00 GMT Joerg Weese wrote: >Hi everybody... >Hereīs another one that came to my mind recently: >YKYAAOLW... >.. you get into a taxi cab and tell the driver to "center me on the >airport" =) >CU >Joerg >PS Julia, did you get the one with the Volkswagen Quantum ? Actually, I should re-name this You know your children are obsessed leapers when.... Everyone is amazed that your 2 1/2 year old knows her alphabet and you sheepishly admit that Al, NOT Barney gets the credit When your son's teacher suggests we sing while traveling on the bus to our field trip, and your 6 yr old starts singing the Man of La Mancha medley( IMPRESSED the heck out of her, it is her favorite musical!!) Your 7 yr. old cracks up at the new librarian when she introduces herself as Sam, and he asks if her husbands name is Al... They regularly "play" Ql instead of cops and robbers etc... When your niece forgoes going to grandmas to come to your house, 'cause you have all the Ql episodes on tape... Both of the school age ones use QL character names in their spelling sentence assignments... Yeah, they ARE warped, but FUNNY!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:56:07 GMT durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >Joerg Weese wrote: >>Hi everybody... >>Hereīs another one that came to my mind recently: >>YKYAAOLW... >>.. you get into a taxi cab and tell the driver to "center me on the >>airport" =) >>CU >>Joerg >>PS Julia, did you get the one with the Volkswagen Quantum ? >Actually, I should re-name this You know your children are obsessed >leapers when.... >Everyone is amazed that your 2 1/2 year old knows her alphabet and you >sheepishly admit that Al, NOT Barney gets the credit > >When your son's teacher suggests we sing while traveling on the bus to >our field trip, and your 6 yr old starts singing the Man of La Mancha >medley( IMPRESSED the heck out of her, it is her favorite musical!!) > >Your 7 yr. old cracks up at the new librarian when she introduces >herself as Sam, and he asks if her husbands name is Al... > >They regularly "play" Ql instead of cops and robbers etc... > >When your niece forgoes going to grandmas to come to your house, >'cause you have all the Ql episodes on tape... >Both of the school age ones use QL character names in their spelling >sentence assignments... >Yeah, they ARE warped, but FUNNY!! I did it again, forgot to sign my name, the holes in my swiss cheesed brain are getting bigger OOOO :] Aggie, Ft. Worth, TX Oh and a P.S. to the previous message of mine YKYCAOLW... your niece asks to play with YOUR dolls, and the BOYZ reply in unison.."But thats my mom's "Baywatch Beckett and X2 Sam"; NO ONE is allowed to play with them, ONLY MOM!!! .. you kids want to rename their 3 legged dog Sam, ' cause Skippy is a dumb name( Jerry wanted to call it ilene, but it is a boy dog... I gotta go and work on the 2 yr. old, Ql Quotes 101 Aggie, "I've got 3 kids, I'm not afraid of ANYTHING" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 19 Oct 1995 17:43:35 GMT Aggie wrote some humerous obsessions by her kids about QL {Sorry it's snipped but my newsreader gets obnoxious at times} ROTFLMBO Nice to know the next generation is being educated in the QL manner. It sounds like your kids and niece are well on the way to being as obssessed with QL as we all are. I understood the reference to BayWatch Beckett (Bay Watch Ken?) but what is an X-2 Al? Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jlreg@uno.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when Date: 19 Oct 1995 17:51:30 GMT In article <465hc4$rbf@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: >Hello! > >Hilary Bates (hbates@amgen.com) wrote: >:> .you are writing back the the UK to register yourself for a postal >:> vote, and you realise that your former local council office's address is: > >:> STOCKWELL CLOSE!!!!! > >:> and you ROTFL for the next 10 minutes! > >Sort of reminds me of that day when a friend of mine brought home a map >of the London underground system, and the first station that jumped (er, >leaped ;) into my eyes was called Stockwell... > >CU, > Julia 8-) > (still occasionally misreading "Stockmann" (a > department store in Helsinki) for... well, > guess what) Earlier this year I purchased a name book so that I wouldn't have to rack my brains quite so hard when writing. Imagine how pleased I was when I discovered the book contained entries for Robert, Dean, AND Stockwell!!! A Serious Dean Drooler and Obsessed Leaper, Jennie --Jennie "You know it's guaranteed, plant the seed :) :) :) :) <>< and you get the flower." --Al Calavicci *Alphabet Rap* jlreg@uno.edu ---<--{(@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 20 Oct 1995 02:07:38 GMT : They regularly "play" Ql instead of cops and robbers etc... Hee hee, this one brought back memories of when my brothers and I used to play Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman, unfortunately there were three of us so Edward always had to be Rudy or Oscar and for a while Drew and I got away with making him Max( the German Sherpard) : : When your niece forgoes going to grandmas to come to your house, : 'cause you have all the Ql episodes on tape... : Both of the school age ones use QL character names in their spelling : sentence assignments... : Yeah, they ARE warped, but FUNNY!! This is ROTFL material. It's cool that your kids like a show like QL, it is better than their watching the other trash that passes for television today. Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 06:28:05 GMT roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) wrote: >: They regularly "play" Ql instead of cops and robbers etc... >Hee hee, this one brought back memories of when my brothers and I used >to play Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman, unfortunately there >were three of us so Edward always had to be Rudy or Oscar and for a >while Drew and I got away with making him Max( the German Sherpard) >: : When >your niece forgoes going to grandmas to >come to your house, : 'cause you have all the Ql episodes on tape... >: Both of the school age ones use QL character names in their spelling >: sentence assignments... >: Yeah, they ARE warped, but FUNNY!! >This is ROTFL material. It's cool that your kids like a show like QL, it >is better than their watching the other trash that passes for television >today. >Catherine Catherine, G*d, you had me crying I was laughing so hard!! My friends and my cousin and I used to play 6 mill. and Bionic woman too!!! Did you guys use all the related sound effects too? Like the wooshy noise when either of them ran or jumped?? My kids are funny sometimes, my younger son started a fight with his big brother and the bigger one pinned him to the floor and was about to stomp him and j.c. says"You can't hurt me Dillon, I'm a Hologram!" My older son fell down and was HYSTERICAL with laughter(really made me see what ROTFL meant) Their antics are great to watch, wish my camcorder still worked, would be great for AFHV. I am gonn try to get some pictures taken of my son in his AL costume I am making him for Halloween, and maybe see if oun *NEW* scanner works. I could write a book with their QL related stuff. You know your mom is an obsessed leaper when... You find her in your toy box looking at all your old action figures with designs on *making* her next Sam doll.... Gotta go!! Aggie, "I have three kids, I'm not afraid of anything!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 06:39:45 GMT roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) wrote: >: They regularly "play" Ql instead of cops and robbers etc... >Hee hee, this one brought back memories of when my brothers and I used >to play Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman, unfortunately there >were three of us so Edward always had to be Rudy or Oscar and for a >while Drew and I got away with making him Max( the German Sherpard) >: : When >your niece forgoes going to grandmas to >come to your house, : 'cause you have all the Ql episodes on tape... >: Both of the school age ones use QL character names in their spelling >: sentence assignments... >: Yeah, they ARE warped, but FUNNY!! >This is ROTFL material. It's cool that your kids like a show like QL, it >is better than their watching the other trash that passes for television >today. >Catherine You know your children are Obsessed Leapers when... You get Julie B."s new book A-Z and the kids get a hold of it and read quite a bit of it before you get a chance to... .... Your kids are SO IMPRESSED that the Beckett family named their cow after you... ... They make it a point to tell EVERYBODY ^^ (see previous obsession) Aggie Mom who is trying STILL to convince her brood that Mac Donalds does not, REPEAT, does not have QL Happy meals. (But mom, where did the little baywatch Beckett come from then??) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: ceemjh3@cee.hw.ac.uk (Mark J Hoxley) Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:08:07 GMT When you call your TV remote control a handlink. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when Date: 20 Oct 1995 19:55:23 GMT YKYAOLW you are watching a rerun of Seinfeld (the one where they are making casting calls for his tv show JERRY) and you see a pic of Dean and Scott hanging on the back wall of the room. And you wish it was on tape so you could rewind it and see it again. And when you work with someone you don't really like but you give her some slack because her last name is Stockwell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 20 Oct 1995 19:45:00 GMT Mark J Hoxley (ceemjh3@cee.hw.ac.uk) wrote: : When you call your TV remote control a handlink. ....and when your remote conks out like mine does all to frequently you slap it on the side and call it a worthless glob of gummi bears. Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 20 Oct 1995 20:02:42 GMT Here are several YKYAOLW that I remembered from High School ....when you hear the name Samuel Beckett and your mind thinks Quantum Physist instead of playwrite. .....you learn you have to read Becket in your junior year and are excited till you find out its about a monk. .....get more into the story when you realize that the monk's name was Thomas a' Becket, like Sam's brother ....your teammate makes a Hail Mary half court shot to win an important basketball game, and you could swear that Sam had leaped in to make sure that that shot went in. ....you get caught reading the Quantum Leap comics during Math class and get detention, then realize it is a small price to pay to read about Sam and Al. .....get caught with the same comic book in another class and find out Quantum Leap was the teacher's favorite show so you get her to talk about it till class is over. Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 22 Oct 1995 17:39:40 GMT YKYAOLW You're telling someone about LOI and then you ask them if they know who is in it and they say "I know, I know, Scott Bakula!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 23 Oct 1995 05:55:31 GMT YKYAOLW... you're friend is acting kind of crazy at work and starts giving names to all the objects in the room. So you demand that there be a Sam and an Al and that they have to be near each other. Which she complies. And you choose the blizzard machine as Al because by the end of the night it is so colorful from all the different mixings of the day. And when you choose Sam as the cone dip and she says you're dipping into Sam. Is Sam good. All you can reply is yes, Sam is great. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: foobar@aol.com (poobear) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 24 Oct 1995 00:53:57 GMT >>Actually, I should re-name this You know your children are obsessed >>leapers when.... When it's bedtime, you have to assemble a handlink out of Legos and tell your four-year old that Ziggy gives him a 99% chance his mission is to go to bed and sleep. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michelle Marie Gates Rudd Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 24 Oct 1995 15:13:10 GMT or when you ask your two year old to hold the copy of the Quantum Leap book your buying and he looks up at you hopefully , points at the cover and asks, "Is that Sam?". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: you know your children are obsessed leapers when... Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 22:42:50 GMT ...I figured I better start a new header... ... they can spot QL alumni quicker than you...(Bruce mcGill, and the guy who played Tibby(ST) in Time Cop.... ... Aggie , mom of three obsessed kids -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: barrett@iadfw.net (Paul & Julie Barrett) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: you know your children are obsessed leapers when... Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:27:17 -0700 (PDT) durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >...I figured I better start a new header... >... they can spot QL alumni quicker than you...(Bruce mcGill, and the >guy who played Tibby(ST) in Time Cop.... That's a good one. When my son was 3, he came in after the first airing of "A Leap for Lisa," punching on a calculator and yelling for Gooshie to open the Imaging Chamber door. "I'm Al and you're Sam," he declared. "Okay," I responded. "What am I here to do?" He poked at his calculator for a moment, studied the display and saidk, "You've got to find Lisa!" julie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 1995 11:03:20 GMT .. when you watch a "The Upper Hand" episode which contains the following piece of dialogue: (For those of you not familiar with the show: Laura is sort of a female Al; she's after anything that's male and has passed puberty, and she doesn't dress too mainstream either. Although I must admit, compared to Al's clothes, hers *are* mainstream. - Charlie works for Laura's daughter.) Laura: Well, I bumped into an old friend who gave me a lift home. I hardly recognized him... The last time I saw him he was a very able-bodied seaman. Charlie: And what is he now? A very able-bodied admiral? .. and your first thought is, "I *knew* Laura and Al know each other!", even though it's quite clear from context that they're not talking about Al at all. (But I guess Laura and Al *would* like each other... ;-) 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: kebl0036@sable.ox.ac.uk (James Saunders) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 26 Oct 1995 15:24:48 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when you watch a "The Upper Hand" episode which contains the : following piece of dialogue: Yes but you probably haven't seen an episode near the end of the series where the episode is called "Quantum Leap" and the whole thing is a rip-off / parody of QL. The hologram is a real hologram (in a dream) and is a kind of Christmas Carol type thing - it cracked me up when the hologram who smokes cigars, disappeared just like Al does ! James -- With the compliments of James A Saunders ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mail: www: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~kebl0036/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime... ______________________________________________________________________________ Sam - what are you doing? You're throwing away a perfectly good fan sandwich. -- Al, "Glitter Rock" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ngener@aol.com (Ngener) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: you know your children are obsessed leapers when... Date: 27 Oct 1995 18:05:39 -0400 When every piece of scrap wood in your shop has magic-marker numbers written on it - "It's my handlink, Mom!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: gbtaylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Greg Taylor) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 06:27:43 GMT ... if, when you lose something, you mutter to yourself, "Gooshie, where's the umbrella?" or "Gooshie centre me on my socks..." ... when each "Bingo" is followed by a "bango" and "bongo" ... when despite the lack of sleep you've been getting and the bad weather, you STILL ride out to the University so that you can log in and get onto #ql (not to mention catch up here) {well, it'd been a while since I contributed here...} --Greg Taylor (A rather eccentric trekker, leaper, rider, slider, x-phile guy.) Al: Do you have any Sweet & Low? Or Equal? Kelly: Sweet & Low? Equal? Sam: Oh, no, no, no, they didn't have any artificial sweetner in 1945! ... but boy did they have women with big kazooms... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RVVP76F@prodigy.com (Michelle Meltzer) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 29 Oct 1995 00:27:38 GMT .. when I was watching the new movie Three Wishes and I couldn't stop thinking if that was the same house that was involved with "Another Mother". .. I buy a tape just because I see the words Quantum Leap on it and pictures on the cover but it turns out to be various TV theme songs. Michelle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW Date: 29 Oct 1995 00:38:58 GMT YKYAAOLW.... .... you don't have to think twice before figuring out the meaning of the above initials. ilam. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | When my time comes, I'd like to die like my grandfather - | | sleeping and peacefull, and not terrified like his passengers. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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 | | Homepage: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~ilam | --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rjinks@reed.edu (Lia ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 30 Oct 1995 21:04:16 GMT In article gbtaylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Greg Taylor) writes: > ... when each "Bingo" is followed by a "bango" and "bongo" Which is especially amusing when eventually the entire room starts chanting it along with you and your roommate at a bingo game at a church! :) (Good to see you on here again, Greg.) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: you know your children are obsessed leapers when... Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:44:38 GMT durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >...I figured I better start a new header... >... they can spot QL alumni quicker than you...(Bruce mcGill, and the >guy who played Tibby(ST) in Time Cop.... >... >Aggie , mom of three obsessed kids ...5 minutes before bedtime your son informs you he needs a project for Halloween pumpkin contest. You being the wonderful mom, oblige him by making Dr.Sam Buckett, complete with hair and the trademark white streak, and a small bucket for a hat... Theorizing that a pumpkin could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr Sam Buckett stepped into the Pumpkin Patch Accelerator.. and VANISHED.......(I was VERY tired) ....Your kids allmost make you have an accident when they see the word Quantum on a new building on the main drag(Quantum Nail and Body works) I DO need a manicure, and G*D knows my body needs work!!) Aggie, The Al costume was a no go for school, I was informed that The Admiral was not "appropriate" for the story book parade. the principal is a NOZZLE!!!!!!!!!! Aggie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 31 Oct 1995 09:46:26 GMT .. when, while watching a movie or reading a book, every other minute or so you catch yourself wondering about what would have been different in the plot if Sam had leaped into one of the characters at some moment... .. and especially when this gets so bad that you actually start developing plots for QL crossovers with all your favorite TV shows/movies/books/... .. when you have difficulties typing words that start with the letter Q because they all automatically turn into either "quantum" or "QL". CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 31 Oct 1995 11:40:41 GMT .. when people on your other favorite newsgroup *still* believe you're madly in love with Scott Bakula (heck, all I ever did was writing that I think he looks good!) and sometimes try to justify this belief by pointing out that, after all, he plays one of the main characters in your favorite TV show... But now at least they have started wondering about who that Dean Stockwell whom I mention so often (especially in discussions about what movie tapes I want people to get me for Christmas/my birthday/whatever [yes, I'm greedy ;)]) might be... ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 31 Oct 1995 17:48:04 GMT When you immediatley think of a halloween costume that is QL related you spend money for a white lab coat, fix your vcr+ gizmo to look like a hand held terminal, cover it with pink, yellow, green, blue check pattern to go along with Ziggy's color scheme, even though you maintain this is not a hand link, just a hand held terminal which operates by numbers only, because that's the way Ziggy wants it. and you wear your QL grey polo shirt, complete with QL Patch on your Lab coat, and grey pants, and carry around your greay and Blue Project Quantum Leap mug, and explain by pointing to your Imaging Chamber Access Badge, that you're an Assistant Research Coordinator scrambling madly to imput historical data not converted to computer code, because it's your job. :-) actually the party and the costume went very well. Nancy nmathews@copper.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life"