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 Nov 1995 15:04:28 GMT .. when you start your Christmas wish list for this year with "a hat". Specifically, the kind of hat Al would be wearing... and you are even prepared to change your hairstyle, since your present hairstyle doesn't allow you to wear a hat... CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: gbtaylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Greg Taylor) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:53:36 GMT when during your CS Midterm... i) You start giggling because the program they gave you to calculate leap years is called "Leaping" ii) You're asked to give an example of a Boolean expression, so you write: if (Calavicci = 'hologram') AND (Beckett = 'leaper') then when during your Algebra midterm... You start hitting your calculator in hopes it'll give you the right answer. (can't wait for Calc. Well, actually, yes I can. :P ) (incidentelly, today's .sig doesn't refer to my state of mind) --Greg Taylor (A rather eccentric trekker, leaper, rider, slider, x-phile guy.) Al: There's nobody home... Sam: Don't look at me, look at him! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 20:33:58 GMT rcoakley@forest.drew.edu wrote: >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. ...you i nquire why it will take so long to get your new drivers license and the clerk says that they are usung new pictures so they will be harder to forge, and you suggest that they start using hologram pictures.The clerk thinks this is a GREAT idea and asks if any state does this and you make a passing reference to New Mexico...I had just seen MI the night before and could not resist !!! One of these days I will actually run into a QL fan and hopefully have a great laugh out loud instead of having to supress them in these kind of situations!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 20:37:12 GMT durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >rcoakley@forest.drew.edu wrote: >>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. >...you i nquire why it will take so long to get your new drivers >license and the clerk says that they are usung new pictures so they >will be harder to forge, and you suggest that they start using >hologram pictures.The clerk thinks this is a GREAT idea and asks if >any state does this and you make a passing reference to New Mexico...I >had just seen MI the night before and could not resist !!! One of >these days I will actually run into a QL fan and hopefully have a >great laugh out loud instead of having to supress them in these kind >of situations!! That was me again, forgetting to sign my name, Aggie NO , I am not named for the beckett milk cow!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: you know your children are obsessed leapers when... Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 20:48:35 GMT durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >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 I am proud to report that J.C. got the award for "Most Original" design for his pumpkin entry!! His teacher grabbed me today in the hallway and told me how much she loved his pumpkin, and in the same breath said I really need to get out more often...should I take this the wrong way??..... 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: 3 Nov 1995 11:20:44 GMT .. when a colleague of yours is fiddling with the company's cell phone and you get a laughing fit because he looks exactly like Al when the handlink gives useless and/or weird information (facial expressions and everything). (And the fact that he was trying to determine if that strange beeping noise we heard every now and then was coming from the cell phone or not didn't help at all... ;-) CU, Julia 8-) (who got the first one of a - hopefully - large collection-to-be of old Dean movies yesterday, and still can't believe how cute he was at age 11 :) -- 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: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know Your an Obsessed Leaper When Date: 3 Nov 1995 21:15:02 GMT On another newsgroup you refer to GTFW when the question is posed why you chose your cats. Your browsing in teh bookstore and everytime you see the words Quantum you stop to read the title on the off chance that it will be a QL book. Your day is blown when you realize that not once but twice you missed seeing Scott on TV( once on Good Morning America, and then on ET) Catherine ****************************************************************************** I got my money to old fashioned way...I inherited it from my father who stole it. ****************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Nov 1995 02:55:49 GMT .. when you pick Halloween evening to reconfigure your UNIX server, and just as you start running the re-installation process a cold-shiver runs down your back as you are reminded of the B episode and you realize what day it is, and what could (what will probably) happen when you try to recover you data. Fortunately I didn't speak the word and nothing bad happened. Hans Cathcart_____________________________________________________ @home in Cyberspace: hans@american.edu on the Web: http://www.eagle.american.edu/~hans/ IRL: American University, Washington, D.C. - USA - Earth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the road of Cyberspace there are authors & there are lurkers. Authors wanted! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Nov 1995 10:02:02 GMT .....while sitting in the optomo...eye doc's office you find the October birthday picture of Scott 5 without a second glance at the receptionist 1 sitting less than a foot away you proceed to tear the picture out. Keep the Change, Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Nov 1995 19:25:19 GMT ... when on the weekend, you wander into a deserted fast-food restaurant sometime after noon, fish into your pockets for some change, pull out (among other things) a weird looking one cent penny... on closer inspection it reveals itself to be a _1953_ penny... you get a creepy-crawly feeling, and you look around for a mirror and a guy cleaning a beer glass... -- Blue C. blue@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 7 Nov 1995 10:14:31 GMT .. when you're walking home from work and see a man in a sort of Navyish colored dress uniform and your first thought is, "Al!" (Wellll... that would have happened in a perfect world. Actually my first thought was "Captain Stubing!", because this man really looked a lot like him, and then I thought, "what a pity he doesn't even *look* like Al.") .. when you manage to have a whole (not in the least QL-related) newsgroup guess what happened on June 15, 1934. (Please tell me I got it right and that really *is* Al's birthday! Otherwise I'd have to correct the information I gave them and start the guessing game all over again... It all started when some of the regular participants in this group read my homepage and thus found out that I'm proud of being born on the day after June 15, but unfortunately in the wrong year...) - BTW, that's the newsgroup where they tried to start a QL thread some time ago in order to make me happy. :-) Unfortunately it died quite young. :-( 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: 7 Nov 1995 15:16:26 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when you're walking home from work and see a man in a sort of : Navyish colored dress uniform and your first thought is, "Al!" : (Wellll... that would have happened in a perfect world. Actually my : first thought was "Captain Stubing!", because this man really looked a : lot like him, and then I thought, "what a pity he doesn't even *look* : like Al.") : .. when you manage to have a whole (not in the least QL-related) : newsgroup guess what happened on June 15, 1934. (Please tell me I got it : right and that really *is* Al's birthday! Otherwise I'd have to correct : the information I gave them and start the guessing game all over : again... It all started when some of the regular participants in this : group read my homepage and thus found out that I'm proud of being born : on the day after June 15, but unfortunately in the wrong year...) - BTW, : that's the newsgroup where they tried to start a QL thread some time ago : in order to make me happy. :-) Unfortunately it died quite young. :-( When you're watching "Nowhere Man" w/ Dean in it, and you begin counting the things that sound like they could have come out of Al's mouth. 1. You gotta squeeze it (the trigger to a carny game) like you squeeze a woman. 2. He wines and dines a hooker, named Tina, and you hear Dean saying Tina this, and Tina that. 3. Gus (Dean) says a line referring to sex. I think about it all the time. 4. Gus mentions an alternative to petroleum he was working on before everything happened. 5. Gus referrs to himself as the invisible man. (and all you can think about is Sam's reference of playing invisible man when the simo leap took place, and you know this referred to the hologram) 6. Gus says it's the first thing he ever won, and he picks from all the prizes he could have from an unmanned booth a skunk, and you wonder if that's a indirect reference to Scott and his white streak, since you know he was called Skunk as a kid. Well you get the idea, once again, I'm hopeless. :-) Nancy nmathews@copper.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spiceof life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TealLeaper@aol.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper... Date: 8 Nov 95 22:58:25 GMT ...when your friends come over and, seeing the TV on, don't ask 'What are you watching?' but instead ask 'What Quantum Leap episode is this?' -Bryce -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 9 Nov 1995 02:10:55 GMT ...when you're in Astronomy class and you learn about how the Stars are classified into different categories, and different scientists have come up with different numonics for remembering them and you come up with: Oh Boy Al Forgot Gushi Killed Me Hans Cathcart_____________________________________________________ @home in Cyberspace: hans@american.edu on the Web: http://www.eagle.american.edu/~hans/ IRL: American University, Washington, D.C. - USA - Earth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the road of Cyberspace there are authors & there are lurkers. Authors wanted! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jjhetts@ucla.edu (John J. Hetts) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you are an obsessed Leaper when... Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 01:34:21 -0800 ... you watch the daily episode of Quantum Leap on the SciFi channel _both_ times its on because its one of your favorites (and occasionally even when its not). ... even when you don't have time to watch an episode on USA or on the SciFi channel, you still turn the TV on to listen to the saga cell because it reaffirms your belief in humanity. ... you catch yourself hoping that the unknown force driving Sam to change history for the better could send Sam to save Rabin and the Middle East Peace process (despite the series general avoidance of altering major world events with the exception of LHO). John Hetts (I just found this group recently - sorry I couldn't remember the abbreviation for the unknown force - on a side note, I haven't seen this discussed here in the past couple of weeks that I have been reading - Is it just me, or did they do quite a bit of (bad) overdubbing of dialogue throughout the history of the show. It seems that I catch about one example per show on average where the dialogue doesn't match Sam's lip/body movements - it may not be that often but it sure seems that way given that it is one of the surest ways to break the whole suspension of disbelief by reminding me that - sob - it's not real) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Nov 1995 16:13:27 GMT .. when you read the following in a newsgroup (translated from German by myself :) : - some guy writes: "Musicians are the best computer experts; they are even better than engineers or physicists." - and some other guy replies: "Just imagine how good physicists who are also musicians must be!" and you think to yourself that in that case Sam must be the world's best computer expert. 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: linnator@west.net (LinnaTor) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 9 Nov 1995 19:22:33 GMT ...when you're reading about Oriental-American opera singer Sumi Jo and you find yourself wondering if her mother was a psychic in San Francisco. Linda -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 10 Nov 1995 11:23:54 GMT .......You include frequent QL refrences in a chat you use. For example my title for a while was "Paddington is a female Sam Beckett"( refers to the fact that both irl and on the chat I always seem to leap around), your room on the chat is called Al's Place and has Ql refrences and your plan has "REVENGE IS MINE DOTH SAYTH THE HOLOGRAM." for a while I had a portion of Fates Wide Wheel. ......You spend your food allowance on a copy of Married to the Mob, one of your first( but hopefully not last) Dean movie. Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: skyhawk776@aol.com (Skyhawk776) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YOU KNOW YOUR AN OBSESSED LEAPER WHEN... Date: 11 Nov 1995 00:25:25 -0500 ...You stare at a map of New Mexico for almost two hours, tring to find a city called Stallions Gate or any city with the word "Stallions" in it because Stallions Springs is where Sam's PO box is. (I had no luck finding either one!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you are an obsessed Leaper when... Date: 11 Nov 1995 22:21:46 GMT John J. Hetts (jjhetts@ucla.edu) wrote: : ... you catch yourself hoping that the unknown force driving Sam to change : history for the better could send Sam to save Rabin and the Middle East : Peace process (despite the series general avoidance of altering major : world events with the exception of LHO). actually, when I heard that after 2 shots hit Rabin, and one of his security guards dived and took the third bulet, I thought - "Oh my god, Sam arrived too late". and BTW, that "unknown force: is usually refered to as GTFW. ilam. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | When my time comes, I'd like to die like my grandfather - | | peacefull in my sleep, 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@math.tau.ac.il | | Homepage: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~ilam | --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you are an obsessed Leaper when... Date: 11 Nov 1995 22:41:07 GMT .... you spend a Friday afternoon watching a QL episode on the Turkey channel, even though it's speaking turkish, and you don't have a clue what they're saying (well, you do have a clue, since you've watched it many times B4) (BTW, they showed LHO on this week, when Rabin was assasianated. coincidence?) ilam. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | When my time comes, I'd like to die like my grandfather - | | peacefull in my sleep, 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@math.tau.ac.il | | Homepage: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~ilam | --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: klschrie@unix.amherst.edu (KAREN LORI SCHRIER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 11 Nov 1995 23:42:06 GMT Hans Cathcart (hans@american.edu) wrote: : ...when you're in Astronomy class and you learn about how the Stars are : classified into different categories, and different scientists have : come up with different numonics for remembering them and you come up : with: : Oh : Boy : Al : Forgot : Gushi : Killed : Me Right Now Sam -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 13 Nov 1995 12:10:06 GMT Hello! CATHERINE ROPER (roper@nevada.edu) wrote: :> ......You spend your food allowance on a copy of Married to the Mob, one :> of your first( but hopefully not last) Dean movie. Hey, that one was one of my first (but hopefully not last) ones too! Unfortunately I'm still in the "my first ones" stage, meaning that I haven't been able to collect as many as I wanted to... And it's one of my favorite movies as well, btw. :-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Obsessed Leaper lists - intro and phony excuses ;) Date: 13 Nov 1995 12:42:33 GMT Hello! Here I am again, with some new lists, after several months of having all these little files saved from this group floating around my harddisk... I'm sorry I couldn't post them earlier. But, for everybody who has been waiting desperately (and of course for everybody else, except for people who don't like me :) , here is something that I hope will make you laugh (or at least smile... pleeeease... ;) ... I once found a list of "Top 10 Reasons Why I Posted Late" somewhere; it referred to some sort of regular posting on a Star Trek group, so it contained "reasons" like having been abducted by Romulans, etc. Well, I decided to make my own Top 10 Reasons Why I Posted Late list... I really hope my "reasons" are as funny to you as they are to me. (I made up most of them this morning on the bus, so have mercy. ;-) When I could think of no more reasons the number turned out to be 13 and not 10, which is quite a nice coincidence, since today is the 13th. :-) Anyway, here they are: ---snip--- 1. Theorizing that I could time-travel within my own lifetime, I stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and vanished. Unfortunately I couldn't find my way back until this morning. 2. Sam Leaped into me, and Al forgot to tell him about the lists. Or maybe Ziggy forgot to tell Al; the existence of a QL newsgroup could have driven her equally mad as the presence of an Evil Leaper... 3. Anyway, from 1. or 2. (whichever :) I was too Swiss-cheesed to compile the lists in time. 4. Sorry I'm late... I had to deal with a government conspiracy on my way here. (Oops, wrong show. See? I really *am* Swiss-cheesed. ;) 5. I met this cigar-smoking guy who wore really cool clothes and got into an endless fashion discussion with him... unfortunately he was called away by some strange electronic device that went "blurp" all the time until he hit it. 6. An Evil Leaper stole my computer *and* my backup copies of the "Obsessed Leaper" articles. 7. Some friends of mine got tired of my constantly trying to explain the string theory to them and tied me up with the string I used in my explanations. 8. I found out about MI and didn't recover until just now. 9. I couldn't pay my online fees because my phone bill was exceptionally high from that QL discussion with my nearest Leaper friend - in the Netherlands! (Finland can be a lonely place. And yes, I really have a Leaper friend in the Netherlands, and I don't know any Leaper who lives closer to me than she does. Boy, did we have fun when she was still living in Helsinki.) 10. I was taken hostage by a guy who obviously didn't really know what he wanted a hostage for - except to have someone whom he could explain quantum physics to (cf. "Killin' Time"). 11. There was a QL marathon on TV, so I couldn't leave my VCR (er, room) for weeks, much less go to some place where I could get into the 'Net. (*sigh* I'd really like to have a QL marathon, but TV1 just won't listen to me. ;) 12. (Actually this could be 11b and 11 could be 11a.) There was a Dean movies marathon on TNT (that Ancient Movies channel), and I couldn't leave Marja and Markku's VCR (er, living room), much less... see above. (Marja and Markku are friends of mine who have a satellite dish and agreed to tape interesting movies on satellite channels for me. - And I'm still hoping that one day TNT *will* have a Dean movies marathon...) 13. I was sent to a mental hospital for talking to my invisible friend, Al; fortunately I could escape during a commotion caused by a guy whose invisible friend got everybody to sing a song about the alphabet (cf. "Shock Theater"). ---snip--- The real reason, however, is that I had a lot to do during the last... er... (counts on her fingers for some time and finds that even if she also uses her toes it's not enough) prolonged period of time. If, some time in the future, any of you works with a hyphenation program for Estonian that was written in Finland, chances are that program is one of the things that kept me. And there also was that spell checker... and of course my classes... and the company computers' backup schedule, part of which they made me responsible for keeping... *whine* Anyway, I'll post the most recent lists right after this. Share and enjoy! 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: 13 Nov 1995 13:10:45 GMT .. when you're learning about the word "gi-gun3-na" (ziggurat) in your Sumerian class, the Akkadian form of which is "ziqquratu", and you're instantly reminded of another word - "Ziggy"! And when the professor explains that the Sumerian word translates to "multi-colored structure", you think that it's quite appropriate... (Actually gi-gun3-na is a loanword from Akkadian, where it means "temple tower", but who cares. ;) 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: jjhetts@ucla.edu (John J. Hetts) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when ... Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 03:45:54 -0800 ... your heart skips a beat (or three) _every_ _single_ time you see the header for the "Wouldn't PQL be destroyed ......?" thread. ... the only hope you hold regarding finishing your dissertation anytime soon is for Sam to leap into your life about two years prior to the current date. ... you post to the "you know you're an obsessed leaper ..." thread at 3:45 AM despite many hours of work ahead of you. - John -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 14 Nov 1995 12:57:22 GMT .. when, every time one of those automatic doors nearly knocks you out (if you don't know what I mean: come to the main railway station in Helsinki some time! :-( ) you want to yell at Gushie and/or Ziggy and wish you had a handlink so you could make them open and close at more appropriate times; and every time such a door behaves properly you murmur, "thanks, Ziggy". .. and additionally, every time you pass or (GTFW forbid!) go through such a door, you start to speculate about what QL would be like if they had doors like these... just imagine: If the IC door would open to the inside, Al could be hit by it, or a holographic door could pass through Sam (or somebody else); and if the door would open to the outside, it could hit whoever happened to pass it at the wrong time. I guess that's why their doors open upwards or sideways instead of to the in- or outside of a room. ;-) CU, Julia 8-) (finally giving vent to her feelings after half a year of automatic doors at the main railway station she has to pass through twice a day) -- 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: jlreg@uno.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when ... Date: 15 Nov 1995 01:21:42 GMT In article , jjhetts@ucla.edu (John J. Hetts) writes: >.... you post to the "you know you're an obsessed leaper ..." thread at >3:45 AM despite many hours of work ahead of you. > >- John ROFTLOL!!!!!! Oh this brings back memories of RASTQL as my stress break from my senior thesis!!!! And I pulled some bizarre late nite/early early morning e-mail/newsgroup times...thank goodness I wouldn't have class til noon the next day!! :) Fond Memories of Freaky Hours of Posting, Jennie --Jennie "You know it's guaranteed, plant the seed :) :) :) :) <>< and you get the flower." --Al Calavicci *Alphabet Rap* jlreg@uno.edu ---<--{(@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Allsortz Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you'e an obsessed Leaper when....... Date: 16 Nov 1995 10:32:23 GMT .....after only reading the newsgroup for a few days, you read all the earliest available items on your news-server instead of doing a peice of undone homework due in a few hours and set two weeks ago. .....you spend the whole of a Christmas day party at a friend's house reading the QL novel your brother got you, and ignore everyone else in the house. -- Allsortz He really thinks it's funny you know, he REALLY thinks it's funny. "TRIAL BY COMBAT - Game Over!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Allsortz Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you'e an obsessed Leaper when....... Date: 16 Nov 1995 10:32:23 GMT .....after only reading the newsgroup for a few days, you read all the earliest available items on your news-server instead of doing a peice of undone homework due in a few hours and set two weeks ago. .....you spend the whole of a Christmas day party at a friend's house reading the QL novel your brother got you, and ignore everyone else in the house. -- Allsortz He really thinks it's funny you know, he REALLY thinks it's funny. "TRIAL BY COMBAT - Game Over!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: gbtaylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Greg Taylor) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when....... Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 04:04:57 GMT .... you offer to write a few little Quantum Leap questions in the biweekly (that every two weeks?) edition of your Univeristy publication. :) (BTW, I actually saw two of the questions posted in here -- this newsgroup is becoming famous!) .... you can find QL references in non-QL books. (see below for possible explanation of swiss-cheese effect? :)) --Greg Taylor (A rather eccentric trekker, leaper, rider, slider, x-phile guy.) "Their bodies were quantum leaps ahead of their minds." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 17 Nov 1995 09:30:23 GMT .. when, while looking through a cat lovers' calendar for next year, you find that it doesn't only give the usual name days, but also features popular (Finnish - it was a Finnish calendar) cats' names - and the two cats' names on Sept. 23 are "Bingo" and "Bongo", so now you feel you know what Finnish Leapers call their cats! (Unfortunately there was no "Bango" in the whole calendar. :-( ) 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: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when....... Date: 17 Nov 1995 11:19:30 GMT ........you find yourself making connections between certain songs and a portion or whole episodes of QL. For example Harry Chapin's Sniper reminds me of the scene in "Black on White on Fire." and Taxi reminds me of "It's a Wonderful Leap." Some other songs remind me of Ql episodes but after having little to no sleep for the past week I am in no state to think of them all. Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: campion7@aol.com (Campion7) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when....... Date: 19 Nov 1995 13:05:45 -0500 You're looking for a tie for Dad for Christmas and you judge the ones you look through by the Al Scale. "Al would wear this one." "Al wouldn't wear this one." "Al would love this one." "Al wouldn't be caught dead in this one." --Andie "Hello! I'm the Doctor! I believe you want to kill me!" --Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor "Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 04:47:34 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: >Hello! >-- > 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? * YKYAOLW........your first thought of the day is "I wonder if Julia is going to change the 1995 in her sig to 1996??"(yes, I was very tired, it was 5:07am and I had only gotten 3 hours sleep) Aggie, Ft. Worth, Texas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 21 Nov 1995 12:24:18 GMT Hello! Campion7 (campion7@aol.com) wrote: :> You're looking for a tie for Dad for Christmas and you judge the ones you :> look through by the Al Scale. :> "Al would wear this one." :> "Al wouldn't wear this one." :> "Al would love this one." :> "Al wouldn't be caught dead in this one." That's similar to what I do with hats... every time I pass a hat store, or accidentally end up in the hat department of a department store, I inevitably spot at least one "Al hat" and have to run away real fast in order not to buy it (I'd really like to, but I'm just a poor student who can't afford more than just one simple straw hat ;) . That's why I put "a hat (of the variety Al would wear)" on top of my Christmas wish list. My parents keep telling me how good I'd look with a hat, so they can jolly well buy me one. ;-) And sometimes, when I see a really interesting color, I think, "Al would look great in a suit/hat/shirt/whatever that color"! But occasionally I have to give in to my other obsessions; that's why I don't use an "Al scale" but a "Mulder scale" for judging ties. ;-) 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: Allsortz Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when ......... Date: 21 Nov 1995 13:32:14 GMT ....every time BBC2 uses the logo with the flashing flourescent lights, you expect the announcer to say, "And now, Dr. Sam Beckett takes another Quantum Leap into the past." -- Allsortz - Andrew A J Kitching He really thinks it's funny you know, he REALLY thinks it's funny. "TRIAL BY COMBAT - Game Over!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Roger Coan Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper... Date: 21 Nov 1995 16:27:35 GMT In article <951108175824_101517282@mail02.mail.aol.com>, TealLeaper@aol.com says: > >...when your friends come over and, seeing the TV on, don't ask 'What are you >watching?' but instead ask 'What Quantum Leap episode is this?' > >-Bryce How True. I know the feeling. Best show in the world. Obsessed fan. James Smith-Blyth Ridley High School, Blyth, Northumberland ,England. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 22 Nov 1995 08:33:40 GMT Hello! jerry durrance (durrance@iadfw.net) wrote: :> simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: :> YKYAOLW........your first thought of the day is "I wonder if Julia is :> going to change the 1995 in her sig to 1996??"(yes, I was very tired, :> it was 5:07am and I had only gotten 3 hours sleep) No need to apologize. I'm looking for a new .sig quote right now... yes, I've had the same thought... after all, it's *my* .sig, and it assists people in forming opinions about *me* (gasp)... But it's so hard to come up with something good! I guess I'll look through the QL quotes database once again. ;-) 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 when ......... Date: 22 Nov 1995 10:22:02 GMT Allsortz wrote: >....every time BBC2 uses the logo with the flashing flourescent lights, >you expect the announcer to say, >"And now, Dr. Sam Beckett takes another Quantum Leap into the past." So it's not just me who keeps expecting QL after that BBC2 'logo'!!!!!! Also, I walk past a shop every day called "Al's Domestics", and it still makes me grin stupidly every time I see it!!! (It's a small shop selling cookers etc). Bye! Judy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 23 Nov 1995 16:47:08 GMT Hello! jerry durrance (durrance@iadfw.net) wrote: :> Julia, Ithink you are a WONDERFUL PERSON!! Your posts have brought :> many smiles and laughter!! Thank you so much! :-) ObObsession: YKYAOL (oops, that contains the string "aol", I hope I won't end up in anyone's killfile because of that ;) Anyway, you know you're an obsessed Leaper when you choose Al's birthday as the top secret code number for your telephone answering machine. (I'd have liked to have something with Al's *and* Sam's birthdays, but the darn thing wanted a maximum of four digits. ;-) CU, Julia 8-) (proud user of HPY's telephone answering service as of 4pm. today :) -- 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: wms1@ukc.ac.uk (W.M.Stevens) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When Date: Fri, 24 Nov 95 20:20:33 GMT ....every time you use a calculator you read out the first few digits on the display in a confused voice, hit the edge of the calculator with the flat of your hand and make a 'Ziggy squawking' noise under your breath, and then read out the full answer. ....you devote your life to your own PQL so you can go back and watch all the old episodes. ....you keep wondering why you haven't leaped yet. Will -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hans@american.edu (Hans Cathcart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 25 Nov 1995 07:29:16 GMT .. you get to the end of "MicroSerfs" and you wished that Sam had leaped into Dan to save his mother.. :( Hans Cathcart_____________________________________________________ @home in Cyberspace: hans@american.edu on the Web: http://www.eagle.american.edu/~hans/ IRL: The American University, Washington, D.C. - USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the road of Cyberspace there are authors & there are lurkers. Authors wanted! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW Date: 25 Nov 1995 18:48:33 GMT You know you are an obssesed leaper when.... ....you keep listening on-and-on to the QL soundtrek CD, and when your brothers says he's a little tired of it you reply: it's not my fault - no matter which CD I choose, the QL CD leaps into it! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | When my time comes, I'd like to die like my grandfather - | | peacefull in my sleep, 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@math.tau.ac.il | | Homepage: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~ilam | --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:36:04 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: You are having an arguement with your non obsessed husband and you find out that he is actually JEALOUS of Sam and AL and all the attention you pay to taping the episodes!!!The arguement up to that point was rather heated, but when he brought that up I was ROTFL!! He has no life!! Aggie "How 'bout Them Cowboys!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: michael stokes Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 28 Nov 1995 00:51:15 GMT when you start saying "Oh boy", just like Sam does when he's in trouble... Jerry -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: style@ix.netcom.com (Debbie Madsen ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're an Obsessed Leaper When.. Date: 29 Nov 1995 06:49:48 GMT Hey all! I finally get to contribute! I have read this newsgroup for a while and get quite a kick out of it too. Thanks to all of you I became obsessed and bought all the novels too. Oh boy. *smile* Anyway... YKYAOLW.. You start quoting percentage odds on your daily activities. This happened to me too! That's how I came up with it. I started laughing. Happy Leaping! Debbie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:26:45 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? * ...when you don't mind paying your in-laws all that money back for a new fridge they got you because you notice after after 3 months of ownership that they got you an Admiral Fridge.......... or .. ya notice that your husband kinda looks like Al when he curses and hits the vcr remote when it won't do what it is supposed to do... or ... HE NOTICES that he looks like Al while slapping the remote and gives you this sly smile ' cause he knows we are both thinking the same thing..... or ... your friend suggests that you go back to using your maiden name only, 'cause then your initals would be AL......... Aggie, The Yankee, hoping that her broke husband will find it in his heart to send her to EASTLEAP for her oct. 22 B. Day. (Or at least send me home to Jersey so my not- so- broke family would take me to EASTLEAP... It's not THAT far,Sis!!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:26:48 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: >.. 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? * Actually I think I should start a new subject line, You know your children are obsessed Leapers when..... They regularly beg to watch QL tapes instead of a Disney movie You catch them playing Sam and Al instead of cops and robbers/ or Nintendo... Your 2 1/2 year old knows her alphabet thanks to Al and the Pratt Pack...(You ought to see the looks I get when I tell people she didn't learn it from Big Bird on Sesame Street!!) When your Nintendo champ 8yr. old gives you HIS ideas for a QL video game(Very good ideas, Very imaginative) Your niece forgoes going to grandma's house to come to yours so she can have a QL marathon with Auntie. They announce that their mom and the Beckett cow have the same name... They BEG to play with your "Baywatch Beckett" and "Test Pilot Sam" dolls. The list could go on and on,,,,, Oh, they also play obsessed leaper game, try to see who is more obsessed.... Aggie, Mom who is desperately trying to figure out how to have a QL birthday party for the Boy's November birthdaysdon't know if they are printable!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:26:53 GMT nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) wrote: >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" Nancy, I don't have an Al doll, YET. It is my X2 Sam a.k.a. Tom Stratton doll. He and Baywatch Beckett stand in th leap position (arms up) on my kitchen sink window sill ready to leap. It has become quite a conversation piece. The family just used to THINK I was strange, now they have no doubts!! The kids are very good at obsessing and making QL related quotes in their daily conversation. My 2 yr old goes around saying "Sam say OOOHHH BOYYYY!! right mommy, right???" Actually my middle boy severely QL warped. He has these huge lego type blocks that he made into a "handlink" and he wont let ANYBODY(except me) touch it. He also goes around telling people he is a hologram. Now he wants a QL themed B-Day party(11/23). I like to accomodate his requests, but this one may be out of my reach!! I am currently working on some Al looking button covers for his Halloween costume, and using some friendly plastic to fashion an Al looking lapel pin. I am either going to use an old calculator or that new game called lights out for his handlink. He is SO excited!! He also is going to take one of my Ql books along to school(they have a story book parade on Halloween) I just have to come up with a non-tobacco version of a cigar, I don't want to get him suspended!! The list goes on and on, they really amaze me sometimes!! I gotta go, I gotta figure out how to explain Mirror Image to them!!(actually I gotta figure it out for myself first!!) Aggie, Ft. Worth, TX. "I've got 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: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:26:55 GMT Heidi Stanley wrote: >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!" ykyaolw..... ... you finish setting up your booth at the big craft show at the local high school and you are facing a sign that says "Hallograms delivered Oct. 31.....and of course youare thinking holograms'cause your so tired... ...your partner is talking to a potential customer and she finds out that they are originally from Indiana, and she inquires: Oh is that anywhere near Elk Ridge?? ( my nachos and diet coke landed across the room, via my nose.} ... you are watching Lois and Clark, and Clark finds a clue in some document and exclaims that you would need an expert in Dead Languages to understand it and you and your not-so-obsessed husband say hey Clark needs Sam Beckett... ...Your partner thinks the sad look on your face is due to the fact that you didn't get your EASTLEAP Birthday wish:( (actually, I was very tired, but I did get sad when she brought it up though (wimper, wimper, sob) ....Your hubby gets you a hologram Mickey Mouse watch... ...You are getting your Drivers Licence renewed and they explain that it is a different kind that I got 4 yrs. ago, (new safety/anti forgeryetc..) and you enquire if it will be a hologram picture... (the dippy DMV clerk asked if there WAS such a thing and where ever did they have them, I vaguely answered oh I think it was New Mexico or some place like that...Yes I kept a straight face!I never would have thought of this if I hadn't seen MI the night before... Aggie, Ft. Worth, TX. no, i am not named after the beckett milk cow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:26:57 GMT durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >rcoakley@forest.drew.edu ... ...You become totally irrational when your satellite receiver goes nuts on you and you realize that you may not get to see Honeymoon Express(the ONLY QL episode you have NEVER seen).... ... Keep your not-so-obsessed husband awake for hours lamenting the satellite problems.. ... Your not-so-obsessed husband gets up out of bed to see if he can fix the receiver, just so you will stop ranting. (Actually, he was laughing his hiney off at me, he always threatens to mess with the receiver just to see what i'll do. Yeah, initally I thought the problem was an attempt at a joke on his part, but he really didn't mess with it. As of 12pm today it is working, but I hope it still works tonight...) ... You grt even MORE IRRATIONAL when you realize that if the satellite IS broken, you won't get FOX, which of course means no Invaders!!! ... Your newly obsessed friend thinks you taped Nowhere Man, 'cause she knows what a Dean fan you are, and she gets very irrational when you say Oh Boy, don't hate me 'cause I forgot to set the VCR. (the satellite problems overshadowed EVERYTHING yesterday!! Aggie, preparing to have a tantrum if the VCR doesn't work -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: g9526329@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA (R.J. Smith) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 30 Nov 1995 00:46:05 -0500 ...when you're having sex and your partner says "Oh boy" and you suspect Sam just leapt in. :-) - Robert Smith? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 30 Nov 1995 09:42:26 GMT .....You are flipping through your literature book and notice that the playwrite Samuel Beckett died in 1989, the same year Quantum Leap started ....you are reading a story and the instructor talks about divergent histories, and each choice making a leap in the future..kind of hard to listen to the lecture after that. .....you are driving on your way to New Mexico and at 3 in the morning, in between a great medley of songs on your CB, you try to get truckers to tell you if there really is a Stallions Gate. ....your mom got you tickets to go home for Christmas, and one of your first thoughts was" I better buy some blank tapes, Cox Cable has the Sci-Fi channel" Dreaming of Sam and a Virginia Christmas, Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 30 Nov 1995 13:16:37 GMT Hello! michael stokes (mstokes@ihug.co.nz) wrote: :> when you start saying "Oh boy", just like Sam does when he's in trouble... How about what I do: I say "oh boy" even during a conversation in another language than English, and even though English is not my native language! (But it is the language I watch my QL in. :-) 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: Allsortz Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when....... Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 18:38:28 +0000 ......... you have the QL logo as your Windows backdrop. Allsortz (A A J Kitching) ----------------------------------------------- "May you live in interesting pants!" - 'Interesting Times' by Terry Pratchett -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 30 Nov 1995 21:09:09 GMT YKNYAOLW... you're reviewing for your math test and you notice for the variable problems your teacher had used KWH and you start laughing out loud and people look at you but you don't care.