From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW.... Date: 1 Dec 1995 13:54:47 GMT .... in an exam in Calculus you should give names to the vertices of a parallelogram, and the letters you choose are: G,T,F,W. 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: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know You're An Obsessed Leaper When... Date: 1 Dec 1995 20:38:04 GMT Heidi Stanley wrote: > > 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. YKNYAOLW...after writing this you go back to look at it again and see that it actually says: L=KWH. After staring at it for several seconds I couldn't control myself any longer and was just laughing hysterically. Luckily no one was around this tim. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michelle Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL-favorite episode Date: 2 Dec 1995 15:38:10 GMT When there's no possible way you could have only one favorite episode. There are just too many great ones. Michelle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Dec 1995 14:33:40 GMT Hello! Allsortz (aajk1@ukc.ac.uk) wrote: :> ......... you have the QL logo as your Windows backdrop. No kidding! You too? :-) 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: ngener@aol.com (Ngener) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 4 Dec 1995 14:48:27 -0500 When you're invited to a party at a restaurant named "Beckett's" and when you get to the door, your sons say "But where are Sam and Al?" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shira May Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL Date: 5 Dec 1995 00:08:18 GMT ..when you learn in your South African history class that organizations to help women with financial hardships in South Africa in the early 1900's were called "stockvels", and what comes to mind is Sam leaping in and Al checking out all the women. -Shira "I can't leap! Son, I can't hardly walk! I got the rheumatism, you know." -Sam (as Jessie), "Shock Theater" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: bn737@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Janet Coleman Sides) Subject: Re: YKYAOL Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 04:06:19 GMT ...when, working on an advertisement for the "Elmridge Family Restaurant", you *keep* typing "Elk" instead of "Elm" over...and over... and OVER! I think the graphic of the reindeer at the bottom of the ad was contributing to my befuddlement...*couldn't* have been that I just *finally* got a copy of the QL soundtrack today and was listening to it ad droolium on my Walkman...:P Janet (mad howling) -- --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o Pen. Sword. *You* do the math. http://web1.eznet.net/~storybox --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Dec 1995 10:19:59 GMT .. when you want a hat for Christmas because you think Al (resp. Dean) looks soooo good in one. And you know your family does definitely not consist of obsessed Leapers (sheesh, as if I needed *another* clue to come to that conclusion!) when they give comments like "my, what an unusual wish" or "you want a WHAT?!" (Well, I could have understand the second one if I had said that I want an Al hat; but I think they should know what a *hat* is. ;-) CU, Julia 8-) (planning on choosing a dark purple floppy hat, but GTFW only knows what I'll think of tomorrow...) -- 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: 5 Dec 1995 16:09:46 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when you want a hat for Christmas because you think Al (resp. Dean) : looks soooo good in one. : And you know your family does definitely not consist of obsessed Leapers : (sheesh, as if I needed *another* clue to come to that conclusion!) when : they give comments like "my, what an unusual wish" or "you want a : WHAT?!" (Well, I could have understand the second one if I had said that : I want an Al hat; but I think they should know what a *hat* is. ....when you finally find the LIGHTS OUT game you've been spending the last two months looking for, and you get frustrated and whack it a couple of times because the little buttons keep lighting up when you're trying to get them out making little electronic sounds at you. ....when you find above game, and your other half says "Are you going to use it as a handlink, and you emphatically deny it, and he doesn't believe you! (Honest I use my vcr+ for my handlink :-)) ...when you're taping JAG the other night, an episode that has gotten postponed twice already, and you have trouble with the vcr you've nevr had before and you wonder if it's going to be like the infamous b**giem*n episode. :-) Honest this really happened. ....When you're watching Touched By an Angel, and they keep talking about wanting their life to make a difference to others and you can't help think about Sam changing things that are supposed to be changed. I think that's enough for awhile don't you? :-) Nancy nmathews@copper.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: when people know you are an sessed leaper.... Date: 5 Dec 1995 17:46:14 GMT .... my brother has just now called me to rush into his room, because on the TV there was a promo. for tommorrow's "Chicago Hope" episode, featuring Dean Stockwell. 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: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 5 Dec 1995 18:00:14 GMT .. when you watch TV with some friends and they all get very excited when an interview with some guy from BH90210 (which you refuse to watch) comes on, so you start making fun of them until you realize that you behave in exactly the same way whenever Scott, Dean or something in the least QL-related (which in your case means almost anything) is shown. .. when, some days later, you read the following on this newsgroup (excerpt from an article written by rcoakley@forest.drew.edu): :> > In the episode "A Leap for Lisa",who played the young Al? :> Jamie Waters, who showed up recently on 90210 as Donna's nasty :> ex-boyfriend. so you wonder if he might have been the guy from the interview, but then you think, "nah, in that case I would have gone hysterical along with my friends, screaming, 'he was on QL! he was on QL!'" .. when you go shopping with a friend and repeatedly wander off in the wrong direction (thus ending up in the ugly souvenirs instead of the stationery department, etc.), so he has to come after you and sort of steer you in the right direction, and you apologize with "I'm so Swiss-cheesed today" and you're very happy when he replies, "yeah, me too". :-) (Obviously I succeeded in spreading QL idioms - oh boy, swiss-cheesed, etc. - throughout my surroundings.) And then the way you wander off wrapped in your own thoughts and your friend dragging you back into reality (i.e. our shopping list and our limited time) reminds you of the way Al sometimes gets lost in some anecdote he's telling or distracted by a beautiful woman and Sam has to drag him back into reality... BTW, one of the things poor Antti had to drag me away from had nothing to do with my Swiss-cheesed wanderings around... it was an - unfortunately rather ugly - bunch of silk calla lilies that I was looking (OK, staring ;) at out of my own free will :-) and which once again proved that Stockmann indeed sells pretty much anything. And to think they had me worried for a while because they didn't sell anything QL-related... ;-) 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: skyhawk776@aol.com (Skyhawk776) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're an Obbsessed Leaper When... Date: 5 Dec 1995 18:56:13 -0500 .... You buy Tom Clancy's new novel "Mirror Image" because you think it is about QL .... You can type "Sam Beckett" faster than your own name(Ryan Barnes) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Dec 1995 12:04:52 GMT : ....when you find above game, and your other half says "Are you going : to use it as a handlink, and you emphatically deny it, and he doesn't : believe you! (Honest I use my vcr+ for my handlink :-)) You too...I use my television remote as a handlink and it got extra whacked these past few weeks with the television on the blink( Circuit City so graciously decided to come out after a month of waiting and fix it) I was thinking that one of things I had to do when I went home to Virgina was look for this old calculator from about 1973 that would make a great handlink, it it huge(for a calculator) and it has the lights and buttons that match Al's handlink. If it does not work well I am sure that some parts of it could be salvaged and used to make a new handlink. Catherine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: roper@nevada.edu (CATHERINE ROPER) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when....... Date: 6 Dec 1995 12:24:04 GMT Here's another one You wish for Sam to leap in so that he can give your speech for you...on second thought maybe thats a bad idea, he would have less idea what to say than you will. Where's Ziggy when you need her??? 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: 7 Dec 1995 10:06:38 GMT Hello! nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: :> ....When you're watching Touched By an Angel, and they keep talking :> about wanting their life to make a difference to others and you can't :> help think about Sam changing things that are supposed to be changed. That's what I keep thinking while watching TbaA, too... BTW, have you seen the episode where Tess often doesn't appear in person, but on a TV screen or computer monitor where only Monica can see and hear her? :-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know You're an Obsessed Leaper When.. Date: 7 Dec 1995 20:39:12 GMT YKYAOLW... You finally get your own truck and you seriously start contemplating having a personalized license plate saying Oh Boy! Or has that been done already? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 8 Dec 1995 12:09:50 GMT .. when you're discussing a particularly cryptic line of text in your Sumerian class, and the line contains two words that usually refer to different kinds of containers but here are probably used to describe the breasts of the goddess Ereshkigal, and you have trouble keeping a straight face because all you can think of is the list of synonyms for "breasts" Al gives in "Dr. Ruth". CU, Julia 8-) (who hopes that particular line won't be part of the exam next Friday ;) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you watch to much TV when.... Date: 9 Dec 1995 12:30:37 GMT As much QL alumni as I'm seeing on TV these days, it would be easier to say which shows "don't" have a QL person on it. -- Freda whaleyf@mail.firn.edu Founder of IHELCIC (I hate evil leaper concept idea club.) Member of DIGAS (Dean's Impish Grin Appreciation Society) V.P. of RDSAS (The Robert Dean Stockwell Appreciation Society) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW Date: 9 Dec 1995 18:23:02 GMT You know you are an obssessed leaper when.... .... you listen to a "Genesis" CD, and your brother comes into your room and wonders - I don't remember Sam leaping into Phil Colins.... 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: belhai@forest.drew.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL...again Date: 9 Dec 95 18:04:00 EST You know you're an obsessed leaper when you consider naming your newborn baby Sam (if it's a boy). ...Brandon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rebelnite@aol.com (REBELNITE) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL...again Date: 10 Dec 1995 05:21:47 -0500 Name it Samatha and call it Sam if it is a girl Cat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: k086952@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie E. Elsila) Subject: QL -- it's everywhere! Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 01:56:13 GMT Okay, maybe not everywhere. But it sure seems to be popping up in my life a lot this past week. First, I get home from college to discover that our local cable company has added the Sci-Fi channel, so I get to see QL everyday:-) Then a friend of mine uses the word "nozzle" in a sentence, and all i can think of is Al. but the best reference appeared when I was reading The Reduced Shakespeare Company's script for "The compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)." (If you don't know this group, they do all of Shakespeare's plays in a 2 hour performance.) So I'm reading the script, and all of a sudden there's a footnote about the tendency to transpose Shakespeare's plays into modern settings: a habit which,quite frankly, gets this editor's panties in a bunch. Whether it's a production of Shakespeare or Sophocles, today's theater-goer must live in dread of walking into a theater and discovering that some classic work has been given a modern, socially relevant setting. Oedipus gouges his eyes with a spoon at a 1950's malt shop; Macbeth napalms Banquo in Viet Nam, Julius Caesar dies in Dallas in 1963. More and more, American theater in coming to resemble a season of _Quantum Leap_. Oooo, it makes me _angry_! I think that's pretty cool -- it's not often I see QL referred to in the same context as Shakespeare:-) jamie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 11 Dec 1995 13:42:35 GMT .. when you're confronted with the following situation: There is an exam scheduled on Friday, and so you have very little time because this week you have to review everything you learned this semester in that particular class. But suddenly the lecturer tells the class that since he succeeded in talking a student who had wanted to quit the class (and therefore not been there for weeks) into rejoining us, that student now needs the rest of the class to help her in catching up, so she'll be with us again next semester, and if we teach her everything we've learned while she was away, we'll get our credits even if we don't take the exam... (We're only 4 students in that class, so the three of us who were there *will* have lots to do... but fortunately a little less than we'd have to if we took the exam.) .. and you wonder who Sam has leaped into (who has been behaving strangely lately? The lecturer sure hasn't, so who *really* did the convincing work?) and why (to get that student back into the class, or to save the rest of the class from having to take that test? or maybe both?). 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: 11 Dec 1995 16:12:27 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when you're confronted with the following situation: : There is an exam scheduled on Friday, and so you have very little time : because this week you have to review everything you learned this : semester in that particular class. But suddenly the lecturer tells the : class that since he succeeded in talking a student who had wanted to : quit the class (and therefore not been there for weeks) into rejoining : us, that student now needs the rest of the class to help her in catching : up, so she'll be with us again next semester, and if we teach her : everything we've learned while she was away, we'll get our credits even : if we don't take the exam... (We're only 4 students in that class, so : the three of us who were there *will* have lots to do... but fortunately : a little less than we'd have to if we took the exam.) : .. and you wonder who Sam has leaped into (who has been behaving : strangely lately? The lecturer sure hasn't, so who *really* did the : convincing work?) and why (to get that student back into the class, or : to save the rest of the class from having to take that test? or maybe : both?). Maybe Sam Leaped into the student that needed to be convinced, and that student was in the Waiting Room with Al, and Al went into his understanding and disciplanary mode and reasoned with the student to go back into class, because a lot worse things could happen. I only suggest this, because you said that the lecturer hadn't been acting strange or behaving differently, so since Sam didn't Leap into the lecturer, except maybe briefly to suggest the class to help the student catch up and *not* take an exam, he must have Leaped into the student so the student could meet Al, and Al could have a heart to heart with this student, and the student, though swiss cheesed remembered enough of the experience as a sort of dream, with the only clear thing being that the student needed to get back to class and catch up. :-) Nancy (Just letting her imagination go to work on this scenario) :-) nmathews@copper.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 12 Dec 1995 14:37:27 GMT Hello! nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: :> Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: :> : .. when you're confronted with the following situation: .. so there actually are people who voluntarily follow the twisted ways of my mind... ;-) :> Maybe Sam Leaped into the student that needed to be convinced, and that :> student was in the Waiting Room with Al, and Al went into his understanding :> and disciplanary mode and reasoned with the student to go back into :> class, because a lot worse things could happen. Sounds reasonable. (If I only had the guts to ask her if she remembers anything about Al or the Waiting Room... :-} ) :> I only suggest this, because you said that the lecturer hadn't been :> acting strange or behaving differently, It may sound weird, but actually the only being in my surroundings who behaved any differently lately is my neighbor's dog. And Sam leaping into a dog to convince a student not to drop out of a class would be a little too weird, even for me. ;-) (After all, who would believe a *dog* that it's bad for you to drop out of a class? ;) :> Nancy (Just letting her imagination go to work on this scenario) :-) Thanks for sharing. :-) CU, Julia 8-) (feeling especially weird 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: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 12 Dec 1995 15:41:29 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : Hello! : nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : :> ....When you're watching Touched By an Angel, and they keep talking : :> about wanting their life to make a difference to others and you can't : :> help think about Sam changing things that are supposed to be changed. : That's what I keep thinking while watching TbaA, too... : BTW, have you seen the episode where Tess often doesn't appear in : person, but on a TV screen or computer monitor where only Monica can see : and hear her? :-) Probably, since I have them all taped except the very first one this year, and the one about the cleft mouth children. When Tbaa started out last year, not only was Charles Rocket on it regularly, but Monica would be sent off alone, with scenes of her looking like she was talking to the air, when she & Tess were having a conversation (the pilot and the first few episodes.) And you really know you're obsessed, every time you see Tess, you wonder if she and Al knew each other, and Al influenced her clothes, or was she an angel who influenced his clothes :-) Nancy nmathews@copper.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: goofy@netcom.com (Barb Warshawsky) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 06:36:23 GMT When you're walking down the Hall with your friends and one of them mentions that her grandmother is a Samuel Beckett (playwrite) fan... and your first responce is "Your grandmother watches QL too?!?" This really happened :) When you work at a video/music store and you are the opening clerk. You have to choose a video to play all day and the first tape you pick up to play is the QL pilot... Genisis. (It was great to stare at Scott for that 8 hour shift.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obssessed leaper when.... Date: 13 Dec 1995 07:49:28 GMT .... some radio station asks its listeners to call a phone-box and leave congratulations for Frank Sinatra's 80th birthday, and the first thing that pops to your head is:"Franki, you was terific! if I'm liein' I'm diein' " 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: Starr Cooksey Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You Know You're an Obsessed Leaper..... Date: 13 Dec 1995 14:59:35 GMT You hope and hope and hope for a VCR for Christmas, so you can finally sleep more than five hours a night (re: going to bed after QL at midnight EVERY work night) OR....You're husband starts acting like a jerk, and you wish that Sam would leap into him AND STAY. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shira Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.. Date: 13 Dec 1995 19:55:51 GMT ..your friend is singing the Paul Simon song that goes, "you can call me Al" and he quickly realizes what you're laughing so hard about ..your test for finding a new roommate is whether they notice the QL postcards, Scott B. photos, or Lord of Illusions poster on the wall. Not one of them has commented so far, but I'm still waiting for a leaper to come along. Maybe Sam will leap in and be my roommate :) ..you're so brain-fried from studying that you start reading the material out loud in an Al voice, and only notice when your throat is sore from trying to do his raspy voice. Shira -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wms1@ukc.ac.uk (W.M.Stevens) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Leaping dogs. Date: Wed, 13 Dec 95 21:01:21 GMT In article <4ak437$e4@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: >It may sound weird, but actually the only being in my surroundings who >behaved any differently lately is my neighbor's dog. And Sam leaping >into a dog to convince a student not to drop out of a class would be a >little too weird, even for me. ;-) (After all, who would believe a *dog* >that it's bad for you to drop out of a class? ;) Your neighbour's dog was acting strangely? I have a theory...:-) There was a Russian leaper in Mirror Image...before they put a man into orbit, the Russians put a dog into orbit, so they may have done the same kind of thing as a precursor to their equivalent of PQL. RPQLD Will. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13 Dec 1995 21:13:25 GMT Shira (shiramay@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote: : ..your friend is singing the Paul Simon song that goes, "you can call : me Al" and he quickly realizes what you're laughing so hard about : ..your test for finding a new roommate is whether they notice the QL : postcards, Scott B. photos, or Lord of Illusions poster on the wall. : Not one of them has commented so far, but I'm still waiting for a leaper : to come along. Maybe Sam will leap in and be my roommate :) : ..you're so brain-fried from studying that you start reading the : material out loud in an Al voice, and only notice when your throat is : sore from trying to do his raspy voice. : Shira Oh, gosh, Shira, this sounds perriously close to what I was doing last week. I was reading a QL/Mork & Mindy crossover story to a Leaper friend in England, on tape, and I was trying desparately to get Sam's inflexions right, and get that raspy voice of Al's right and get Mindy's perkiness right, and Ziggy's voice patterns correct. Needless to say I had quite a hoars and sore throat by the time I read all 80 pages (She doesn't have computer access, so we send tapes back and forth across the sea. I had to stop after several coughing fits, and could only begin again, after I had gotten several glasses of water down me. :-) But getting back to the thread, you know you're an obsessed Leaper when you think that all this disconfort is worth it! Nancy nmathews@copper.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 15 Dec 1995 11:31:03 GMT .. when you actually consider following your computer magazine's advice to wrap a string of lights around your computer monitor - but not because you want to make your working environment more "Christmasy" (that was *their* point) but because it makes your computer look more like Ziggy, and you'll be able to yell at it *in style* ;-) when it misbehaves. .. when you notice two programmes called "Samuel Beckett" and "Ziggy's Present" in your TV guide and automatically assume they're about QL. (*sigh* A documentary about a writer and a show featuring a cartoon character with bad luck... I guess that's as close to "Leap Week" as we'll ever get here in Finland. :-( But at least they give us one episode of QL on each Christmas day (Dec. 25 and 26). :-) .. when you're discussing computer/domain names and a friend tells you about a department that had one called Alpha and now got some more, and you suggest to call them Ziggy and Lothos. (Of course Ziggy will be the one that's always down, and Lothos the one that we would *like* to be down all the time, or maybe the one from where the sysop kills all your jobs... ;-) .. when, at the company's Christmas party, your boss proposes a toast and you hesitate before even considering to lift your glass because that glogg stuff in your glass looks way too much like red wine and you're reminded of that one scene in "Blood Moon" (but then, I trust my boss a lot more than I'd trust any character played by Ian Buchanan ;) . CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden") Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.. Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 19:51:59 GMT >Shira (shiramay@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote: >: ..your friend is singing the Paul Simon song that goes, "you can call >: me Al" and he quickly realizes what you're laughing so hard about Ever listened to the last verse of that song? 'A man walks down the street, it's a street in a strange world, maybe it's the 3rd World, maybe it's his first time around. Doesn't speak the language, Holds no currency He is a foreign man, He is surrounded by the sounds, the sounds, there's cattle in the market-places, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around, he sees angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity, he says hey now, halleluia! If you'll be my bodyguard then I could be your long-lost pal, I can call you Betty and Betty when you call me you can call me Al...' Place your own interpretation, chaps, but I find the first couple of lines positively spooky in a QL-context! Wolf+ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 15 Dec 1995 21:33:20 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : Hello! : nancy mathews (nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : :> Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : :> : .. when you're confronted with the following situation: : .. so there actually are people who voluntarily follow the twisted ways : of my mind... ;-) : :> Maybe Sam Leaped into the student that needed to be convinced, and that : :> student was in the Waiting Room with Al, and Al went into his understanding : :> and disciplanary mode and reasoned with the student to go back into : :> class, because a lot worse things could happen. : Sounds reasonable. (If I only had the guts to ask her if she remembers : anything about Al or the Waiting Room... :-} ) : :> I only suggest this, because you said that the lecturer hadn't been : :> acting strange or behaving differently, : It may sound weird, but actually the only being in my surroundings who : behaved any differently lately is my neighbor's dog. And Sam leaping : into a dog to convince a student not to drop out of a class would be a : little too weird, even for me. ;-) (After all, who would believe a *dog* : that it's bad for you to drop out of a class? ;) Maybe Sam leaped into YOU, and you're so swiss-cheesed from the leap that you don't remember a thing? (Sam's memory should have merge with yours, so you'd have the feeling you haven't been missing). 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: SHIRA MAY Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.. Date: 16 Dec 1995 01:32:57 GMT nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) wrote: >Oh, gosh, Shira, this sounds perriously close to what I was doing >last week. I was reading a QL/Mork & Mindy crossover story to a >Leaper friend in England, on tape, and I was trying desparately >to get Sam's inflexions right, and get that raspy voice of Al's >right and get Mindy's perkiness right, and Ziggy's voice patterns >correct. Needless to say I had quite a hoars and sore throat by >the time I read all 80 pages (She doesn't have computer access, so >we send tapes back and forth across the sea. I had to stop >after several coughing fits, and could only begin again, after I >had gotten several glasses of water down me. :-) Yeah, Al is sure a tough voice to imitatate! I've been talking like Al more and more lately, and I think I'm getting better, but I'm afraid what it's doing to my poor vocal chords. To get into the feel of it, I first have to say "Sa-a-am! Get up, Sam!" a few times, like he does when Sam is in some impossibly difficult position and the bad guys are about to get away. YKYAOLW...you just get accepted into a new singing group, but you're still not satisfied with your voice because you just wish you could sing like Al. (I especially love the lullaby he sings to Theresa in "Another Mother".) -Shira [My dumb newsreader won't let me send more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: limrag@bu.edu (Ross Garmil) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL Date: 16 Dec 1995 02:08:25 GMT . . . when you get called on in a law school class for a really monstrous case and the first words out of your mouth are a very audible, "Oh boy!" Melissa (not Ross, despite the name at the top!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SHIRA MAY Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW and happy holidays Date: 16 Dec 1995 02:25:09 GMT ..you're taking off for LA for winter break after a long hard semester, but you don't know if you can survive the whole month without reading RASTQL!!! At least I've got cable at home! Happy holidays everyone -- See you in 1996! -Shira -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heidi Stanley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 17 Dec 1995 18:04:55 GMT YKYAOLW... you're watching Toy Story and when those little green soldiers come out the only thing you can think about is when Sam lept into Magic in Vietnam. And your friend turns on the radio and a disco song comes on and you instantly recognize it from Disco Inferno. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 18 Dec 1995 12:46:47 GMT Hello! Zilbershtein Ilan (ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il) wrote: [long discussion about how a fellow student of mine got back into a class] :> Maybe Sam leaped into YOU, and you're so swiss-cheesed from the leap that :> you don't remember a thing? (Sam's memory should have merge with yours, so :> you'd have the feeling you haven't been missing). Hmm... I think not. If Sam leaped into me to convince her not to drop out of class, and my Swiss-cheesed memory merged with his, I should remember at least something about meeting her... but I don't. (We're studying in different departments, so we usually only see each other in that one class.) Shoot, there goes another hypothesis. ;-) 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: 18 Dec 1995 12:54:15 GMT .. when your day is ruined because they actually cancelled (!!! aren't they mean) today's QL episode in order to make room for that documentary about Finnish soldiers in Bosnia they're going to air all afternoon. (Sheesh, who would watch *that* instead of QL?) (OK, I admit, that was not the only thing that spoiled this day: my walkman finally gave up completely, I didn't sleep much last night, and this morning the stamp vending machine at the post office ate 2 marks I fed it. ("It ate my dime" comes to mind, of course. ;) ) .. and then you see your grumpy face in a mirror and think, "Hey, that's the same facial expression Al had in ... heck, which episode was it again..." and you start thinking about happy QL memories, so the day is not so rotten after all. :-) .. when you use quotes from QL novels in order to make a point, in a totally QL-unrelated context, in a discussion among people who probably haven't even heard of QL. (I did this this morning in another newsgroup - I guess the next 100 articles posted to that group will be variations of "Who the heck are Al and Tina?" ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOLW and happy holidays Date: 18 Dec 1995 13:00:54 GMT Hello! SHIRA MAY (shiramay) wrote: :> ..you're taking off for LA for winter break after a long hard semester, but :> you don't know if you can survive the whole month without reading RASTQL!!! At :> least I've got cable at home! That's one thing that bothers me about my post-Christmas vacation (2 weeks, starting on Dec. 27) too - I must find some excuses to hang around at the university every now and then (gee, mom, I simply *must* meet my friends at the phonetics department!) so I can read the news and catch all the Obsessed Leaper posts! 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: <103045.2000@compuserve.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: your an obsessed leaper when..... Date: 19 Dec 1995 00:28:35 GMT When your ten year old sister is having a party and you immediatly go to your room to watch QL instead of The Santa Clause. When you go to school and one of your friends askes you what last night's QL was about because they missed it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tparker@hannibal.wncc.cc.ne.us (Troy Parker) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 20 Dec 1995 04:52:49 GMT Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when your day is ruined because they actually cancelled (!!! aren't : they mean) today's QL episode in order to make room for that documentary : about Finnish soldiers in Bosnia they're going to air all afternoon. : (Sheesh, who would watch *that* instead of QL?) (OK, I admit, that was : not the only thing that spoiled this day: my walkman finally gave up : completely, I didn't sleep much last night, and this morning the stamp : vending machine at the post office ate 2 marks I fed it. ("It ate my : dime" comes to mind, of course. ;) ) : .. and then you see your grumpy face in a mirror and think, "Hey, : that's the same facial expression Al had in ... heck, which episode was : it again..." and you start thinking about happy QL memories, so the day : is not so rotten after all. :-) : .. when you use quotes from QL novels in order to make a point, in a : totally QL-unrelated context, in a discussion among people who probably : haven't even heard of QL. (I did this this morning in another newsgroup : - I guess the next 100 articles posted to that group will be variations : of "Who the heck are Al and Tina?" ;-) : 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 your reading the Quantum Leap newsgroup and watching QL at the same time. "Rebel Without A Clue" BTW. Keep Leaping Troy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: skyhawk776@aol.com (Skyhawk776) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW and "Prelude" Date: 20 Dec 1995 17:09:45 -0500 Every time you watch TV you're not watching the show that's on at the moment, but you're waiting for QL to come on, even if it doesn't come on again 'till the next day BTW I am reading Ashley McConnell's "Prelude" right now and although we don't say many nice things about her books, it's pretty good, although I don't agree that that's the way things "really happened", but who knows? Happy Holidays Ryan Columbia, South Carolina -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 22 Dec 1995 12:18:23 GMT .. when you're going away on a trip for two weeks and, in order not to miss the two QL episodes aired during that time, you not only program your own VCR, but also give an empty tape each to some friends and have them tape it, too. (I figured that at least one of the VCRs should get around all the snowstorms, power failures etc. scheduled during that time. ;) CU, Julia 8-) PS. Happy holidays, to both those of you who actually celebrate Christmas and those of you who "only" enjoy a few days off! -- 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: renee_boileau@mindlink.bc.ca Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOLW and happy holidays Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 04:15:56 GMT YKYAOLW... you're reading your 265th newsgroup article about QL and you don't even have cable TV. *sigh* Dear Santa: If anyone is listening at UTV (Vancouver) or perhaps Red Robinson at KVOS 12... Could you please run QL, even at 3a.m. on a local channel for us poor boat people who don't have cable (ya,ya all 1 of us) That and world peace would be nice for Christmas. yours, (and I've been good this year) "old shoe" renee_boileau@mindlink.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Favorite QL Christmas Gifts Anyone?? Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 20:54:18 GMT Well, I have a WONDERFUL friend, Vicki. She made me another Sam doll(Last Gunfighter version). And she also painted a QL Accelerator Chamber pic on the gift box it came in! What a friend!! Anyone else get any QL related presents this year?? Were you good little boy's and girl's?? HO HO HO Aggie, Ft. Worth, TX. P.S. This wonderful friend also sketched a portrait of the Admiral for me a few months ago, She said she wanted to cheer me up, OH BOY, DID SHE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riskerquin@aol.com (RISKERQuin) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Favorite QL Christmas Gifts Anyone?? Date: 27 Dec 1995 19:16:42 -0500 I received the QL soundtrack CD, all QL videos, as well as a book on Quantum Theory, by David Bohm. - RISKERQuin@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: APJC32A@prodigy.com (Alisa Cohen) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Favorite QL Christmas Gifts Anyone?? Date: 28 Dec 1995 04:17:42 GMT My sister took 5 of my favorite Scott pictures and had a screensaver diskette made for me. Lisa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 19:08:20 GMT ...You torture your kids Christmas morning by telling them you are going to use their new GI Joe dolls to make *NEW* QL dolls. (Tom and Magic, ) Your daughters Barbie could be transformed into Maggie Dawson, etc... ...The kids are SOOOO...impressed that their new game Guess Who has a Sam, Tom, and an Albert... ... The kids are even more impressed when their other new game Karate fighters . The two fighters can both do Flying Noodle Kicks.... Aggie, off to rummage through the Toy Box!! Finally got to see PTK, interesting, very interesting!! Aggie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: eydc@ecr.mu.OZ.AU (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: Re: Favorite QL Christmas Gifts Anyone?? Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 15:04:26 GMT In article <4bt5p6$1kbq@useneta1.news.prodigy.com> APJC32A@prodigy.com (Alisa Cohen) writes: >My sister took 5 of my favorite Scott pictures and had a screensaver >diskette made for me. How did you do that? How about a recipe for all the folks at home? It sounds cool! Bye Elwyn http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~eydc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: gailb18@aol.com (GailB18) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: Favorite QL Christmas Gifts Anyone?? Date: 31 Dec 1995 02:03:40 -0500 >>made a screensaver from scott pics>> just how do you make your own screensaver with scott photos? where do I look to learn how...? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: bn737@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Janet Coleman Sides) Subject: Re: Favorite QL Christmas Gifts Anyone?? Clocks. A weirdly large number of assorted clocks. And a microwave, for that popcorn & lite beer Breakfast of Champions. Janet (mad howling) -- --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o Pen. Sword. *You* do the math. http://web1.eznet.net/~storybox --o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o