From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW Date: 4 Feb 1996 18:06:37 GMT 1. You're watching JAG and scream when Peach Cobbler is mentioned. 2. A character starts telling someone that Dennis Rodman painted his hair green you know like that boy in the movie, you know the actor was on Quantum Leap. Then another character steps in and says Dean Stockwell If he were here, I'd have him call Ziggy ........ 3. You're watching Touched by An Angel, and two of the characters are Sam Brown, and Al Jareau. And when Al Jareau comes through the door to the blues club, he greets Hi Sam, and Sam Brown answers Hi Al, and they begin to hug each other, and you think of QL's Sam and Al. 4. You're watching Walker Texas Ranger when a Judge makes the staement after a criminal is turned loose because of a technicality that was his accidental fault says. I wish I could go back in time and fix it. and you think Sam! where are you? 5. On top of every thing else you're seeing blurbs of Scott on the Murphy Brown teasers they keep running. Am I obsessed or not? :-) Nancy nmathews@copper.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Feb 1996 10:05:47 GMT .. when you're working on an incredibly tedious assignment and wish for Sam to leap into you in order to do it for you. (With his ancient languages backgroud, I think he might even *like* writing one hundred lines of Sumerian text in Sumerian cuneiform, IMHO one of the least user-friendly scripts ever developed. ;) (Geez, I hope my professor doesn't read this group. But then, he should already know that these signs are not *that* much fun to write anymore after the first few lines.) .. when you notice some ice cream company's new advertising campaign, which seems to consist mainly of posters with scantily clad young men, and you think, "Nah, I wouldn't eat strawberry ice cream even if there's a picture of some guy on it", and then you think, "I wouldn't eat strawberry ice cream even if there was a picture of Scott Bakula on it", and from there you can't stop thinking about possible connections between QL (which you love) and strawberry ice cream (which you hate) and end up deciding that you *would* buy lots of strawberry ice cream if they gave you a tape with a QL episode of your choice for each package, in which case you'd probably cause a nationwide strawberry ice cream shortage by buying that stuff until your QL collection is complete. ;-) (Please donate generously. My collection is far from complete at the moment. ;-) .. when you FTP a post-MI fanfic story you haven't read yet from the QL FTP server because you're told this story has a happy ending (to be precise, it's one of these "and yes, Sam *can* get home" stories) and you figure that's exactly what you'll need after watching MI. (BTW, as Helina already mentioned, MI was aired here in Finland yesterday, and yes, I did need that story to cheer me up afterwards.) 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 6 Feb 1996 11:31:49 GMT .. when your Swedish teacher tells the class about how hard it is to find Swiss cheese in Swedish shops, and you wonder if that means that if Sam leaps into somebody in Sweden, he will remember more than usual... (Yes, I know, that's a bit strange even for me, but I hadn't slept too much the night before that class...) 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joell Wilkins Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know your an obsessed leaper. . . Date: 7 Feb 1996 00:10:00 GMT YKYAOLW You go to the bookstore to get the new QL novel, and while you're there you pass a book in the kid's section titled _Stranger In the Mirror_. Naturally, I stopped to look at the book and I was ROTFL when the name of the main character turned out to be SAM! It had nothing to do with time travel, but I bought the book anyway. -- Joell Wilkins e-mail: samandal@aros.net "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 1996 13:07:17 GMT .. when you want to buy a pair of bright red half-boots because you feel that's exactly the color Al would choose, but in the end (*sigh*) you have to settle for the dark blue ones because the red ones violently clash with every single item in your wardrobe. :-} CU, Julia 8-) (who just came back from the shoe store) -- 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kpmb@christa.unh.edu (Kevin P McBrearty) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 8 Feb 1996 16:51:41 GMT In article <4fa865$f1q@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, Julia A M Simon wrote: >.. when you want to buy a pair of bright red half-boots because you >feel that's exactly the color Al would choose, but in the end (*sigh*) >you have to settle for the dark blue ones because the red ones violently >clash with every single item in your wardrobe. :-} > >CU, > Julia 8-) > (who just came back from the shoe store) > >-- > 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 > > ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) Yeah, like Al would worry about clashing! -- --- Kevin P. McBrearty kpmb@hopper.unh.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 1996 09:29:03 GMT .. when one of your reasons for attending a class about oral history is that QL has taught you that the most interesting stuff in history is *not* the stuff that made it into the history books. (FYI, "oral history" means you ask sufficiently old people with sufficiently interesting lives about their lives; and what you get is usually very different from what you learn in "normal" history classes (normal history: "Such-and-such was elected president in 19xx"; oral history: "Oh yeah, I remember that guy, he gave a speech in my hometown once [etc.]"), it's also usually very interesting, and it's not about "big" events, but about "small" people. Just like QL. :-) .. when your oral history lecturer asks the class whom each of you wants to interview for the term paper, and you'd sooooo much like to interview Dean Stockwell (even if he's not old, er, ancient enough, he's certainly interesting enough!), but that's impossible since he lives on another continent (*SIGH*). (Now the lecturer is trying to set me up with a Finnish-German writer, or something like that. Well, that's not quite the same thing.) BTW, yesterday I watched a documentary about the German mystery show "Derrick", and I couldn't help thinking of QL all the time: like in QL, lots and lots of well-known (well, in this case, German) actors have been on "Derrick"; one of the things that make the show so popular is that the audience can feel how much the two leading actors enjoy working together; etc. etc. In the end, when the producer talked about how he would the final episode like to be, he said that whatever the final episode would be about, the events in this episode mustn't come as a shock to the audience, but should be able to become pleasant memories for the viewers. This made me wonder if he had maybe seen "Mirror Image" and thought, "Oh no, that's not what a TV show is supposed to end like!"... CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Allsortz Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW..... Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 08:30:37 +0000 ....You're watching a Sci-fi flick called 'Scanner Force', and when you see a guy spin-kick someone taller than him you are reminded first of Sam, then of TLB when Al kicked someone that way __ __ __ __ "They say it ain't over 'til the Fat //\\ || || ___ __ ____ ||__ ___ Lady sings. So, whatever you do, /|==|\ || || (__ | | || |) || // don't get involved in a hold-up || || || || ___) |__| || ||_/ //__ at an opera!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: skyhawk776@aol.com (Skyhawk776) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW... Date: 10 Feb 1996 20:37:28 -0500 ....your lifetime goal(I'm sure this is many of your's), is to see every QL episode. .... you can name every QL episode in order. Ryan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: quinnslidr@aol.com (QuinnSlidr) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOLW... Date: 11 Feb 1996 14:37:38 -0500 As a matter of fact, I have the entire QL series on tape and I've also seen every episode! But, my life long dream now is to build my own Quantum Leap accelerator, which is currently in the design process. And believe me, it WILL work!!!! - QuinnSlidr@aol.com a.k.a. BecketSam@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: quinnslidr@aol.com (QuinnSlidr) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAQLFW......... Date: 11 Feb 1996 14:40:03 -0500 .......you get the ideas to build your own Quantum Leap accelerator which will eventually work. .......you make like Sam Beckett and start taking every class in foreign languages, quantum mechanics, music, in college hoping you'll get seven Doctorates. .......you do everything wrong in your life hoping someday Sam Beckett will leap into you to put everything right that once went wrong. .......you create your own screen name with Sam Beckett somewhere in it and create a profile that matches Sam's exactly. - QuinnSlidr@aol.com a.k.a. BecketSam@aol.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:26:25 GMT Hello! Kevin P McBrearty (kpmb@christa.unh.edu) wrote: :> In article <4fa865$f1q@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, :> Julia A M Simon wrote: :> >.. when you want to buy a pair of bright red half-boots because you :> >feel that's exactly the color Al would choose, but in the end (*sigh*) :> >you have to settle for the dark blue ones because the red ones violently :> >clash with every single item in your wardrobe. :-} [Please don't quote a signature when you don't intend to comment on it.] :> Yeah, like Al would worry about clashing! Hey, he may be in my .sig, but I never said I *am* him! ;-) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi, sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland homepage: http://www.lingsoft.fi/~simon ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 1996 14:24:08 GMT .. when you're doing your Sumerian homework (translate some more lines of "Inanna's Descent") (you will have noticed by now that Introduction to Sumerian is the class that takes up most of my time this semester) .. anyway, and you reach the part where Dumuzi dresses in fancy clothes and is happy etc. even though his bride Inanna has gone to the netherworld (i.e., to put it bluntly, died), and you think, "such a nozzle!" Then you think that that's exactly what Al would have said, and you start thinking about QL instead of worrying about your translation: that Al would be on Inanna's side (in this case, against Dumuzi) anyway as soon as he would see her, and how Sam would have a hard time trying to draw Al's attention away from her and onto himself, and that so many things went wrong in this whole story that there is a tremendous need for Sam to leap into somebody in this story, and that it's a pity that it all takes place way before his lifetime, and how things would become more complicated than usual because, being divine, of course everybody in the story would be able to see Sam and Al; and in the end you have several alternate endings for the story (with Sam leaping into different people at different points and saving everybody) instead of the translation you need for tomorrow's class. (Don't worry; I did translate enough afterwards. But what I described above was a lot more fun. ;-) 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: goofy@netcom.com (Barb Warshawsky) Subject: YKYAOLW Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:12:15 GMT You know you're an obsessed leaper when... ...You have front roe seats to a Bruce Hornsby bennifit concert in San Jose, CA. The stage set up is a sinlge baby grand piano. When Horsby comes out to play, they put a blue light on him, and you giggle to yourself thinking, DID SAM JUST LEAP INTO BRUCE? while you picture the episode Blind Faith. :) ...You are in a class that requires a group project and one of the choices is to research and presrnt Waiting For Godot, by playwrite Samuel Beckett, and obviously this is the gruop for you! That's it for now. -Keep leaping! Barb goofy@netcom.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Terry Forrester Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 21:43:01 -0700 You know your an obsesses leaper when... ...you hear your teacher say that the class will be watching a movie called Beckett and as she writes the title up on the board, she pauses and says "Oh, boy" and you put two and two together and figure that Sam just lept in and seeing his last name up on the board startled him :) ...you and your friend (who is also obsessed with QL) are walking on campus and you see a cafe called the Oy Vey Cafe and you both look at each other with wide eyes, expecting to see blue-white light come shooting out of the cafe any moment. 8^) -Amelia "I do not want to go on living in a world where fear and hate hide behind a call for justice." -Sam Beckett, Justice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: skyhawk776@aol.com (Skyhawk776) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:25:47 -0500 ....you have a dream that there is finally a QL movie, and when you wake up to find out it was just a dream, your whole day is ruined. ....your favorite song is the Quantum Leap theme song. ....you consider yourself a "regular" to this newsgroup. .... you refuse to speak to someone because they say they they don't like QL. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 1996 13:57:37 GMT .. when you're taping the "Commish" episode "In the Shadow of the Gallows" because Dean Stockwell's in it. (This Finnish TV station announced they'd bought and subtitled three more episodes, and I was soooo happy when I found out this was one of them! Just my luck to get cable on the day *after* it was aired, so now it contains a little more "snow" than it could have.) .. when, while watching this episode, you're waiting for Sam to leap into somebody in order to save Dean's character (who was going to be executed for a murder he hadn't committed) and find the real murderer. .. and in those moments when you're not wondering what the heck is keeping Sam, you find lots and lots of similarities between this episode and "Last Dance before an Execution". CU, Julia 8-) PS. Oh yes, and you know QL is the only thing you're obsessed with when you ask a Canadian friend (one of two native English speakers in your environment) about English spelling and grammar when you're writing something QL-related, but do all the other stuff you write in English all by yourself. :-) -- 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW.... Date: 15 Feb 1996 08:14:39 GMT You know you're an obssessed leaper when.... you watch "Melrose Place", the first episode of the season, when most of the time they're in the hospital. Billy says:"I'm going back to the waiting room" and you think - ye, to check who leaped in. On that same episode, Mat's father was the same actor who was the serial killer on "Temptation Eyes", and when I saw him I shouted:"Stop him! he's a killer!" 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: 15 Feb 1996 09:47:16 GMT .. when you use the phrase "put right what once went wrong" while explaining to a friend how to restore his mailbox file (which he accidentally changed, so the mail program couldn't read it any more). 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: colorado@crl.com (Scott Matteson) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAAOLW.... Date: 15 Feb 1996 06:16:55 -0800 Zilbershtein Ilan (ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il) wrote: : You know you're an obssessed leaper when.... : you watch "Melrose Place", the first episode of the season, when most of the : time they're in the hospital. Billy says:"I'm going back to the waiting room" : and you think - ye, to check who leaped in. Yup, that brings to mind my own occupational environment.... I work in the Rehab Services department of a hospital in Boston, and our patients literally wait in the Waiting Room before their appointment (of course). Naturally, every day I hear "I'm gonna go see who's in the Waiting Room," "Boy, you should see the weirdo sitting in the Waiting Room right now" and, even worse, "I dunno where he went. He WAS in the Waiting Room but now he's disappeared." This last brings "Killin' Time" to mind. -- Scott Matteson |"Let no one judge themselves by someone else's colorado@crl.com | journey. Find your own way... a great talent Boston, Massachusetts | can only nourish you. It cannot diminish you." Thank God I'm an atheist. -Harvey Keitel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: cz159@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Gregory B. Taylor) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:52:17 GMT ... when someone asks you who your driving instructor is, and you reply "I think his name's Al"; and then it turns out his name was "Dean". (Don't you hate confusing actors with their roles? :) ... on leap days, you set your screen saver so it will scroll the episode title across the screen. --Greg 'hologram' Taylor (A rather eccentric trekker, leaper, rider, slider, x-phile guy. ) cz159@freenet.carleton.ca nexus@io.org gbtaylor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca *-- --* |Sam: I know it's garlic. Why is it around your neck? | | Al: No reason. | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: la095at8@csulb.edu (Michael Ejercito) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 16 Feb 1996 20:33:08 GMT ...when you vote for Bill Clinton in the 1996 election because he supported Project Quantum Leap and he was the President when Sam first leaped. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: drummer@netzone.com (Chris and Tina) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.... Date: 18 Feb 1996 23:49:51 GMT ..... when you name your kids for people or characters on the show (my oldest middle name is Scott and my youngest name is Sam.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: colorado@crl.com (Scott Matteson) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.... Date: 18 Feb 1996 20:53:25 -0800 When you find yourself basing many decisions upon mental calculation of the percentages... i.e. that there's a 75.2% chance you'll actually be able to get to work on time due to the snowstorm and delayed traffic. Or, even better, when you wait until the percentage goes to 100% and envision Al standing there with the handlink counting: "(97, 98, 99, 100%!" -- Scott Matteson |"Let no one judge themselves by someone else's colorado@crl.com | journey. Find your own way... a great talent Boston, Massachusetts | can only nourish you. It cannot diminish you." Thank God I'm an atheist. -Harvey Keitel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 19 Feb 1996 11:07:19 GMT .. when your boyfriend sends you an email in which he tells you (among other things) about a new business acquaintance of his, whose last name is Stockman, and you misread it as "Stockwell"... 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW.... Date: 19 Feb 1996 16:42:29 GMT You know you're an obssessed leaper when.... .... you're watching a basketball game, and every time the broadcaster says the name 'Tom Chambers', you think of the imaging chambers. ilam. -- __________________________________________________________________ | "Time's fun when you're having flies" - Kermit the frog | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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: angela2@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu (Angela Tircuit) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL Date: 19 Feb 1996 12:36:43 -0500 When your mother says she couldn't remember her last name for a few seconds and you wonder if Sam leaped into her. -- A member of the race that knows Joseph Angela email address: angela2@freenet.scri.fsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Hare Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.... Date: 19 Feb 1996 22:43:49 GMT drummer@netzone.com (Chris and Tina) wrote: >..... when you name your kids for people or characters on the show (my >oldest middle name is Scott and my youngest name is Sam.) > I have been planning to name my first boy Dean ever since I became obsessed with the show. I am only 17, so I have quite a wait though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jmthomas@scsn.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAAOLW.... Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 05:26:54 GMT you are watching Touched by an Angel with your wife, and you keep waiting on the imaging chamber door to open. you are watching Murphy Brown, and keep hoping the poor guy can leap OUTA there :) When you realize you are not crazy because you remember the stair scene in the Watergate, BUT you thought you saw Sam and all in Forrest Gump, at the Watergate. You start discussing the String theory with the old drunk college professor that always sits at the bar. When you realize you have more episodes of QL of tape than TOS of ST!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 20 Feb 1996 12:23:25 GMT .. when you see a car with the license number "618 AL" and you think, "No, that's wrong, it must be 615!" (June 15 is Al's birthday and also happens to be the day before mine. :-) 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: colorado@crl.com (Scott Matteson) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 20 Feb 1996 11:31:17 -0800 Julia A M Simon (simon@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote: : .. when you see a car with the license number "618 AL" and you think, : "No, that's wrong, it must be 615!" (June 15 is Al's birthday and also : happens to be the day before mine. :-) That reminds me; my own birthday is August 8. 8/8/71. I guess the odds on that are .27%. (not that it's something to claim credit for since it's not as if I chose that day myself or anything) I always used to hate having been born in August because I was younger than almost everyone in my class (and didn't get to stay home from school since school was already out), but I guess it has it's benefits! ;-) -- Scott Matteson |"Let no one judge themselves by someone else's colorado@crl.com | journey. Find your own way... a great talent Boston, Massachusetts | can only nourish you. It cannot diminish you." Thank God I'm an atheist. -Harvey Keitel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Organization: Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.... Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:56:39 GMT Michael Hare (hare@inwave.com) wrote: > drummer@netzone.com (Chris and Tina) wrote: >>..... when you name your kids for people or characters on the show (my >>oldest middle name is Scott and my youngest name is Sam.) >> >I have been planning to name my first boy Dean ever since I became >obsessed with the show. I am only 17, so I have quite a wait though. > Hey, I'm 17 too, we can get married and name our kids Dean and Scott and Callista! (Well, Callista has nothing to do with QL; read the Star Wars book _Children of the Jedi_ for the reference.) Sound good? (just kidding! ;) ) Bronwen "The forest would be very quiet if the only birds who sang were those who sang best." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: penguin@HALCYON.COM Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... Date: 22 Feb 96 16:30:13 GMT ....you start recognizing buildings an even specific rooms in buildings from episode to episode (like Max Sullivan's room in STARLIGHT STAR BRIGHT is Katie's room in RAPED! Or like the Sullivan's house is just a front view of the Beckett's farmhouse from THE LEAP HOME.)). And especially when you can point out buildings you saw on the Universal Studios Hollywood tour and where the bus went! (The waterside street in STARLIGHT STAR BRIGHT is the New England town in both JAWS and MURDER, SHE WROTE!) Say, did you know they point out Tom Stratton's jet on the tour??? (Or they used to... made MY heart go kathump-kathump!) Nan Hawthorne -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ilan Zilbershtein Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obssessed leaper when.... Date: 22 Feb 1996 21:13:57 GMT You know you're an obssessed leaper when.... ... you're on your way home from the university, and you're feeling down, because of an unsuccessfull exam you've just experience. Then, you make a turn with your car, and in the sky you see clouds with red light of the sun set. You're starting to smile, because it's exactly the picture from the QL opening clip, and all of the sudden you're in better mood. ilam. -- _________________________________________________________________ |"Time's fun when you're having flies" - Kermit the frog | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |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: 23 Feb 1996 10:22:13 GMT .. when you're supposed to study some computer science stuff with a friend, and at first you do, but when you start Windows on your computer the discussion shifts from programming to theories about time travel, because he notices the Windows background you made from the QL logo, and he turns out to be a Leaper, too. :-) (I knew all this work with the graphics program would pay someday! Finally somebody noticed my desktop background! :-) 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zakharin Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:44:00 -0500 Julia A M Simon wrote: > (Generalization: A world where Sam would leap into everybody the moment > before they would make a mistake would be perfect, I guess. Well, at > least I hope so.) Yes, but if Sam would just leap a moment before, he wouldn't know what to do. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tomstone@unknown.address.com (Tom Stone) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW Date: 24 Feb 1996 05:09:43 GMT Here it goes: You know you're an obsessed leaper when, instead of carrying pictures of your family and friends, you carry around pictures of Scott and Dean in your wallet (and a picture and full history of yourself, just in case...) STEPHANIE (for all of you wondering, Tom Stone is my dad's name- it's his account, but I get to use it.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: colorado@crl.com (Scott Matteson) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOLW Date: 24 Feb 1996 15:45:45 -0800 You know you're an obsessed leaper when you get a haircut that looks weird to you, but perfectly normal, and probably better, to other people, and tell yourself that they don't see you the way you do, in the mirror, (i.e. unused to your haircut whereas all they see is a normal look) and pretend you've Leaped in to compensate for the change. -- Scott Matteson |"Let no one judge themselves by someone else's colorado@crl.com | journey. Find your own way... a great talent Boston, Massachusetts | can only nourish you. It cannot diminish you." Thank God I'm an atheist. -Harvey Keitel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Hare Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.... Date: 25 Feb 1996 01:13:02 GMT wrote: >Hey, I'm 17 too, we can get married and name our kids Dean and Scott and >Callista! >(Well, Callista has nothing to do with QL; read the Star Wars book _Children >of the Jedi_ for the reference.) Sound good? (just kidding! ;) ) Hey maybe you have something here, because nobody else in the world except for a QL fan would let me name our children Dean and Scott. Just kidding also. Hey who is Callista. Sorry im not into Star Wars. Michelle D -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 26 Feb 1996 16:06:35 GMT Hello! Zakharin (zakharin@omni2.voicenet.com) wrote: :> Julia A M Simon wrote: :> > (Generalization: A world where Sam would leap into everybody the moment :> > before they would make a mistake would be perfect, I guess. Well, at :> > least I hope so.) :> Yes, but if Sam would just leap a moment before, he wouldn't know what to do. Hmm... one could carry this a little farther (further?) and assume that it's OK if he makes a mistake, because then *he* is one of the people who make mistakes and he could keep leaping into himself in the same situation until he does the right thing. ;-) But I think that wouldn't be very nice for Sam... the same bloody two minutes over and over again, and he *still* doesn't know the correct thing to do and is probably running out of ideas... 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when.... Date: 26 Feb 1996 17:52:54 GMT In article <4god2u$562@homer.alpha.net>, Michael Hare wrote: >Hey maybe you have something here, because nobody else in the world except >for a QL fan would let me name our children Dean and Scott. Incidentally, in the last edition of "Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge" (which I don't suppose you get in the USA, so I should tell you that it is a spoof chat show with a fictitious host and guests) he introduced two brothers who were child prodigy film directors. It just so happened that they were called Scott and Dean! Ian Collier - imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk - WWW Home Page: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.collier/index.html New to this group? Answers to frequently-asked questions can be had from ftp://ziggy.cisco.com/ql-archive/text/ . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 28 Feb 1996 11:00:18 GMT .. when there's a guy in one of your classes who can find a connection between Star Trek and virtually everything (thereby often triggering a discussion between you and him about some ST episode or other, while the rest of the class looks sort of embarrassed at having to share a classroom with two weirdos ;) , and every time he points out one of these connections in class, you wish you were that good at finding connections between QL and everything else (easy) and making them sound relevant to whatever the lecturer is talking about (not so easy)... .. when this guy points out a connection between the class and the ST episode "Darmok" (the one where they meet aliens who communicate in metaphors, allusions and proverbs, and in order to communicate with them Captain Picard has to quote from classical mythology, Shakespeare etc.) and you find that while everybody else would express the concept of love with a reference to "Romeo and Juliet" (or something similar), *you* would use a phrase like "Donna, never giving up hope that Sam will get back home one day". 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 ('-: ... and remember: 1996 is a Leap year! ,:-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: colorado@crl.com (Scott Matteson) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 28 Feb 1996 09:34:08 -0800 You know you're an obsessed Leaper when you find yourself talking with Buddhists, trying to convince them that reincarnation is merely nothing more than Leaping from life to life, and that the span of one's lifetime consists of the dawn of man to the end of creation. -- Scott Matteson |"Let no one judge themselves by someone else's colorado@crl.com | journey. Find your own way... a great talent Boston, Massachusetts | can only nourish you. It cannot diminish you." Thank God I'm an atheist. -Harvey Keitel