Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: ziggy@netcom.com (Barb Warshawsky) Subject: Re: YKYAOL... Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 01:08:30 GMT ...when you're at work and a co-worker says "BINGO!" when he finds what he's lookining for, and you say, "Bango, Bongo!". He looked at me as if I was nuts, and I just laughed!!! :) -Barb Keep Leaping! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Apr 1996 11:27:56 GMT .. when you're watching "Anchors Aweigh", where a very young Dean Stockwell (it's a veeeery old movie) plays a boy who wants to join the Navy when he grows up, and since it's early on a Saturday morning and you're completely Swiss-cheesed from getting up early you confuse the actor and the role and think, well, he did become an admiral later. CU, Julia 8-) (who has been humming that movie's title song all weekend, and knows she'll be unable to wipe that silly grin she always gets upon watching early Dean movies off her face for at least a week...) -- 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: kebl0036@sable.ox.ac.uk (James Saunders) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW...... Date: 1 Apr 1996 11:40:09 GMT ...you are watching Superman when Superman loses his powers and Lois becomes Ultrawoman, and you think Sam has just leaped in to save everything because just before the opening credits roll, Superman says "oh Boy, Oh Boy!" ...you choose a finals advanced option (in Chemistry) because it has the word Quantum in it ...you read an article that says Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday - a Friday 13th April, but you think no he didn't - he was born on the 8th August. James -- With the compliments of James A Saunders ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mail: www: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~kebl0036/ ______________________________________________________________________________ They could have killed me! They still might. -- Sam and Al, "All Americans" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Judy Board Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOLW...... Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 15:02:07 -0100 Hi!! James Saunders wrote: > > ...you are watching Superman when Superman loses his powers and Lois > becomes Ultrawoman, and you think Sam has just leaped in to save > everything because just before the opening credits roll, Superman says > "oh Boy, Oh Boy!" Hey, I thought exactly the same thing, only you've posted it first!! (It also made me think of The Leap Back when Sam and Al swopped places, like Lois and Clarke swopped super powers!) Also, YKYAOL when you see a perfume oil in the Body Shop called "Leap" (honestly!), and you just have to buy it and wear it all the time!!!!! Bye! Judy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katherine Freymuth Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You Know Your An Obsessed Leaper When Date: 2 Apr 1996 03:15:50 GMT Have you seen the recent ad for W Shatner's Star Trek Memories? There's a great line that Walter Koenig says: "If you're ever going to be on Star Trek, don't wear a red shirt". Something Always happens to them (yes, even Scotty and Uhura). Okay, back to QL stuff, everyone. "You and your Swiss-chees memory would remember Star Trek! I hated that show! Except for that Yeoman Rand! Yumola!" - Al in one of my own stories "A Whale of a Tale". Kat Freymuth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pmchachich@aol.com (PMChachich) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 2 Apr 1996 10:58:34 -0500 simon@cc.Helsinki.FI(Julia a m Simon) wrote: >Julia8-) >(who has been humming that movie's title song >all weekend, and knows she'll be unable to wipe >that silly grin she always gets upon watching >early Deann movies off her face for at least a >week...) Julia, I know just what you mean. In fact, watching any movie with Dean in it has that effect on me! Pat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: muggs@mail.tima.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL... Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 16:11:28 +0105 ...when your mom is complaining about how her pantyhose keep sagging down, and Dad says, "Why don't you try those old-fashioned things to keep them up?" MOM: "You mean a *garter* belt?!" DAD: "Yeah." MOM: "Do you know what it *feels* like to have to sit on garters?! It's an experience you *never* want to have!" ...and all you can think of is Sam in "What Price Gloria": "It's like someone designed a modern-day torture rack you can wear,from the bra, to the stockings, the tight skirts and the shoes from hell..." ...when your history teacher is explaining the need for the line-item veto, saying, "You wouldn't believe the crazy things that the government pays for the study of!" And you think, "Hey! Project Quantum Leap isn't crazy!" ...when you spend an entire month reading "Don Quixote" just because it has something to do with QL (and you haven't even seen "Catch A Falling Star"), and then you're disappointed at the end because Sam wouldn't have given up so "easily." --Kris, the Lonely Leaper -------------------------------------- Kristen Murphy | Do unto others as you would do | unto Sam...because you never know. Leaper, Trekker, & Purple Ranger :-) | -------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************** "You've gotta reach for the stars, not for the ceiling!" --Sam Beckett, "Memphis Melody" ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katherine Freymuth Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re:YKYAOL Date: 3 Apr 1996 03:20:53 GMT Actually, Sam referred to Al as his patron saint of hopeless causes in "Raped" not "Last Dance..." Kat Freymuth You know your an obsessed Leaper when: 1) You hear "Leah" on the radio and you think of "Alia" because they sing "ahh, Leah! Here we go again!" 2) You write what I just wrote at the top of the screen. 3) You can name all of Al's wives (except for the Hungarian one, of course) and you know that when Maxine and Al would get into an argument, she'd throw kitchen appliances. 4) You buy your best friends Ql books just because YOU like them. 5) Your mother knows you like Quantum Leap so much that she notes "Quantum" on the Discovery Channel and tells you that Quantum Leap might be on. 6) You made the kids you babysit addicted to QL just like you are! 7) You laugh when watching "The Langoliers" because Dean's character calls a teenager character "Dear boy" and THAT character's name is Albert! 8) When your friend helps you find new words for breasts such as "kallarnies" and you can't help think it would go great in one of your QL stories. (By the way, "kallarnies" comes from "Circle of Friends") 9) When you buy a horny dog and you name it "Al" (don't worry. I didn't really do this. Yet.) 10) When you not only name your cash register at work "Ziggy" but you want to hit it just like Al hits the handlink. 11) When you see a picture of Dean on the Internet and print it yup and decide that it's perfect for hanging on the wall in a frame. 12) When you're writing how much of an obsessed Leaper you are on the newsgroup. I can think of a lot more but I think I'll stop there. Kat Freymuth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 4 Apr 1996 13:38:29 GMT Hello! PMChachich (pmchachich@aol.com) wrote: :> simon@cc.Helsinki.FI(Julia a m Simon) wrote: :> >Julia8-) :> >(who has been humming that movie's title song :> >all weekend, and knows she'll be unable to wipe :> >that silly grin she always gets upon watching :> >early Deann movies off her face for at least a :> >week...) :> Julia, I know just what you mean. In fact, watching any movie with Dean in :> it has that effect on me! Well, for me it's not any movie with Dean, because he's been in some with very sad endings, and I usually don't hum when I'm sad. ;-) Besides, there are a few movies where his part is really (and I mean REALLY) small, and when I'm watching one of these movies (usually only because he's in them), I'm too disappointed to hum... :-( (I really don't know which is worse... "Waaaaah, they killed him *again*!" or "Look, that's him over there, his character's name is "twenty-third innocent bystander from the left, take a good look, 'cause you won't see him again in this movie!" ;-) But all the other movies, yes, definitely. :-) But especially the early ones! And QL, which is technically not a movie, but never mind. 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: 4 Apr 1996 15:26:18 GMT (Oh, shoot. I thought I wouldn't need the news program anymore today, so I closed it, and lo, something came up.) .. when your company wants to hire more people, so now everybody's discussing on how to make room for them, and one colleague suggests, as a joke, that you could fit 6 people around the not-quite-so-large table he's pointing to, and you object, pointing out that six normal-size computers would never fit on that table, so somebody would have to invent very small computers, and before you know it you find yourself acting as if you had a handlink. .. when another colleague objects to using computers that small and claims that everybody needs a soundcard, but they don't make soundcards that small yet, and you think, of course, computers that size and shape would have to go "bleeurp" sometimes. 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: ziggy@netcom.com (Barb Warshawsky) Subject: Re: YKYAOLW... Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 07:54:42 GMT I had a YKYAOLW... episode tonight in my Creative Arts Seminar class. We're reading and discussing Jane Smiley's "Thousand Acres" a rather good book. The book is about a family on a farm in Iowa, and while I was reading it I kept imaging the Beckett farm in Elkridge. There is also a character named "Ruthie"! Then while we were discussing the family, my teacher made a reerance to small towns in the late 70's would inveset large sums of money into their farms, then when the price fell under many lost everything. He said it was common for desperate farmers to hold banks hostage to try to get some of their money and land back. And of course I knew exactly what he was talking about, because Sam leapt into this exact senario, when he leapt back to Elk Ridge (Scott's director debut) to help the brothers get out alive. Anyway, YKYAOLW... When the first thing that pops into your head is QL related, even though I'm pretty sure Jane Smiley didn't have QL in mind when she wrote this. Keep Leaping! -Barb ziggy@netcom.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Laeper... Date: 6 Apr 1996 13:24:42 GMT .. when you're watching The Lucy Show, and Lucy mentions that Mr. Mooney (sp!?) grew up on a farm in Indiana, and you wonder if he knows the Beckett family. 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: kitkin@aol.com (Kitkin) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW Date: 6 Apr 1996 08:48:44 -0500 I was sitting in my car in line at the bank's drive-thru, when I looked up at the vehicle in front of me. It was a Bronco, and on the back glass written in the dust was"Dean Rules!!!" and I found myself saying,"yeah, he does!" ----Kitkin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know you're an obsessed Laeper... Date: 6 Apr 1996 14:42:30 GMT (I've got another one!) .. when you're watching a documentary on the Leningrad Cowboys, and they show the video to their song "Where's the Moon Now", which contains some old shots of rockets taking off, or sometimes malfunctioning, and this whole thing reminds you of Al's time as an astronaut as well as (especially the malfunctioning rockets!) Sam's fears in "The Wrong Stuff". 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: opslsn@unisource.ch (Valérie Badan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL... Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:04:10 GMT ... when you are watching Time Tunnel and you always expect Doug or Tony to say "Oh boy" after they leap. Valerie Save a tree : eat a beaver ! "More missadventures ?" "Adventures, old friend." - Al and Sam - Catch a Falling Star - opslsn@unisource.ch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: muggs@mail.tima.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL... Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 18:25:04 +0105 ...when you read the 4/8/96 "Peanuts" comic strip, and you immediately think Sam has Leaped into Peppermint Patty. (For those who haven't seen it, Peppermint Patty is looking in a mirror and Marcie comes up behind her. MARCIE: "Admiring your face in the mirror again, huh?" PATTY: "No, just trying to get used to it.") ...when you're in church singing "Amazing Grace" and you get oddly choked up at the 3rd verse. (I had never noticed before how well it fit in!) --Kris --------------------------------------- Kristen Murphy | Do unto others as you would do | unto Sam...because you never know. Leaper, Trekker, & Purple Ranger :-) | --------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************** "You've gotta reach for the stars, not for the ceiling!" --Sam Beckett, "Memphis Melody" ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: YKYAOL Subject: tajuddin@fit.edu Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 20:05:23 GMT I'm gonna change this slightly and say that You Know You've Spent Too Much Time Contributing to This Chain When...... --you are watching "A Wonderful Leap" and you see a neon sign in the show for Admiral Appliances and the show reminds you of the CHAIN, when everyone was talking about the refigerator, I believe it was, that was from Admiral Appliances. tajuddin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pslandma@prairienet.org (Pamela S. Landman) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL... Date: 9 Apr 1996 01:03:40 GMT ...when you're processing paperwork and you discover that there's a company called Magnaflux. Leaping back to lurk.... -- Pam in Champaign (IL) e-mail: pslandma@prairienet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katherine Freymuth Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper... Date: 9 Apr 1996 23:08:08 GMT simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) wrote: >Hello! > >PMChachich (pmchachich@aol.com) wrote: > >Well, for me it's not any movie with Dean, because he's been in some >with very sad endings, and I usually don't hum when I'm sad. ;-) > >Besides, there are a few movies where his part is really (and I mean >REALLY) small, and when I'm watching one of these movies (usually only >because he's in them), I'm too disappointed to hum... :-( > >(I really don't know which is worse... "Waaaaah, they killed him >*again*!" or "Look, that's him over there, his character's name is >"twenty-third innocent bystander from the left, take a good look, 'cause >you won't see him again in this movie!" ;-) > >But all the other movies, yes, definitely. :-) But especially the early >ones! And QL, which is technically not a movie, but never mind. I know what you mean. When I first saw Beverly Hills Cop II, I was upset because they killed off Chip Cain, Dean's character in the movie. (At least he died cool!) Kat Freymuth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katherine Freymuth Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL Date: 9 Apr 1996 23:14:11 GMT You know you're an obsessed leaper when you're in your Communications class and someone gives a speech about selling phone time through the Excel Company and you notice the kit he put on display says "EXCELerator kit". I don't think I have to tell you that the Accelerator came to my mind and I thought of the saga sell. Also, when you frame a black and white photo of Dean that you got over the Internet simply because it's a wonderful picture and you really don't care if you ever get an autograph from him --- you just like to display the picture. Kat Freymuth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: larsont@s-cwis.unomaha.edu (LARSON) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL Date: 10 Apr 1996 01:01:11 GMT Katherine Freymuth (krfreymu@mail.uccs.edu) wrote: : You know you're an obsessed leaper when you're in your Communications : class and someone gives a speech about selling phone time through the : Excel Company and you notice the kit he put on display says "EXCELerator : kit". I don't think I have to tell you that the Accelerator came to my : mind and I thought of the saga sell. : : Also, when you frame a black and white photo of Dean that you got over : the Internet simply because it's a wonderful picture and you really don't : care if you ever get an autograph from him --- you just like to display : the picture. : : Kat Freymuth : YKYAOL-when you actually take the time to read through all of these postings just because you're afraid that you're going to miss something new about the show even though it's been over for a few years. Tom Larson larsont@s-cwis.unomaha.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: muggs@mail.tima.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL... Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:38:19 +0105 ...when you're watching a movie in history class and one character says to another, "You don't eat! You don't drink!" and the first thing you think of is Angela in "It's A Wonderful Leap." ...when you see a poster entitled "The 50 Best Ways To Approach Life" and #40 says, "You see your life's mission as that of helping and loving others," which immediately reminds you of Sam. ...when someone is reading in English class and they accidentally say "what it is" instead of "what is it." Instead of following along in the story, you start thinking of Al in "The Leap Back": SAM: "Ask him how she is. There's always a she; ask him how she is." AL (to Mike the milkman): "How she is?" Obsessions last forever! --Kris --------------------------------------- Kristen Murphy | Do unto others as you would do | unto Sam...because you never know. Leaper, Trekker, & Purple Ranger :-) | --------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************** "You've gotta reach for the stars, not for the ceiling!" --Sam Beckett, "Memphis Melody" ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paula Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW... Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:24:49 -0400 (EDT) ....When you happen to overhear a little snippet from your husband's soap opera (He watches EVERY night! HELP!) where someone says, "Ain't that a kick!" and, without missing a beat, you reply, "In the butt!" The husband then rolls his eyes, understanding the QL reference, as there isn't a way possible for him to get away from your obsession. (Husband: She watches it over and over! HELP!) ....When your office manager steps into your office with a BRIGHT red pants suit (baggy pants ala Al even!) with a yellow tropical print lining the cuffs and lapel of the jacket, BRIGHT yellow shirt underneath, and a pineapple pin (I swear this is true!), and you say, "Where's your handlink at?" Giving you the oddest look, she says, "What did you say?" to which you reply, "Do I smell a cigar in here?" **************************************** * Paula (PHarper@PigsEye.Kennesaw.edu) * **************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eowyn@Glue.umd.edu (Susan G. Rehwinkel) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL... Date: 11 Apr 1996 11:58:28 -0400 YKYAOL when you have trouble rooting for your favorite show jumper (Gem Twist) when Quantum Leap in the same class. FYI, Quantum Leap was awarded Show Jumper of the Year Eowyn eowyn@glue.umd.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tealleaper@usa.pipeline.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOLW... Date: 11 Apr 96 23:01:28 GMT ...You ask the date and your teacher says 'April the 8th' and you say 'The day Tom was killed' without even thinking, drawing strange looks from the class. (I know this was 3 days ago, but I've been away from my computer) Keep leaping, Bryce -------------- "I love the theatre! The roar of the grease paint, the smell of the crowd!" "I think that's the other way around." "Well, you never did Summer Stock." -Al Calavicci and Sam Beckett, "Catch A Falling Star" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pmchachich@aol.com (PMChachich) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAOL... Date: 12 Apr 1996 01:34:11 -0400 When you start watching the cartoon show "Captain Planet" because you find out that Dean does the voice of one of the bad guys named Duke Nukem. Actually, my kids love this show and we were watching it the other day when Duke was on and he was singing a song: My name is Duke Nukem I'm a nuclear shark I'm hotter than Elvis And I glow in the dark. Picture this in Al's voice, only raspier. I was rolling on the floor. Pat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap From: ziggy@netcom.com (Barb Warshawsky) Subject: Re: YKYAOLW... Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 23:24:52 GMT . . .When Today is your Birthday, and you don't have any class, so insted of doing homework, you watch a QL marathon, staring with _Gliter Rock_ because the leapdate is your birthday too. :) (I'm going out tonight, but It was a fun way to spend the afternoon) :) . . .When you have too many favorite quotes from the show, that you can't decide on a fav. for your sif file, so you rotate them. :) Keep Leaping! -Barb ziggy@netcom.com ____ "It's bad enough I have to give Dick and Jane explanations to the president, now I have to give one to you." -Al Calavicci, "Genisis" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jerryd@why.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: You know the kids are obsessed when... Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 05:41:24 GMT durrance@iadfw.net (jerry durrance) wrote: >...Their music teacher requests that they bring in their favorite tape >and they both choose the QL soundtrack... >...Your youngest son decides to be creative like mom and make his OWN >QL doll by stuffing tissue under GI Joe's shirt and calling him Billie >Jean(8 1/2 mo.) >...You are in the local thrift shop and your youngest son finds the >*PERFECT* Al outfit, complete with hat and suspenders, and BEGS you to >buy it!!(No I didn't buy it ...yet!! >Aggie I hit the send button too soon ...They check out a book from the library titled "Hey AL!!" Every one cracks up when you read the dedication page and one of the names is Bongo...(Hey Ma, what happened to Bingo and Bango??) ...Can't just yell bingo when they win.... 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: 15 Apr 1996 13:07:15 GMT .. when you busily browse through all your Terry Pratchett books because there are allusions to practically everything in there, and you figure somewhere there must be one to QL, and you only have to find it... .. when (in "Guards! Guards!") you find a scene where somebody called Samuel introduces himself and what happens next is, "My father was a Sam," said Brenda vaguely. "You can always trust a Sam, he said." and you spend the rest of the weekend wondering if that's supposed to refer to "our" Sam or not. 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: 16 Apr 1996 12:12:53 GMT .. when you get a laughing fit right in the middle of a very serious scene in an "Outer Limits" episode, because one of the characters (who, btw, looked remarkably like Young Al from "A Leap for Lisa", but was played by a different actor) just said "Wouldn't that be a kick?". .. when your spell checker marks the word "Bakura" (which incidentally is a city in the Near East) as misspelled (because it doesn't know about Near Eastern cities), and you think, of course it's misspelled, you spell "Bakula" with an l. 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: muggs@mail.tima.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: Re: YKYAOL Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:59:11 +0105 ...when you're in history class and the teacher is talking about the advent of nuclear warfare: all the drills and bomb shelters they used to have when he was a kid. Of course, I instantly thought of Eddie Ellroy. Just when I thought I had my obsession under control, the kid next to me whispered, "Duck and cover!" I thought I was going to laugh out loud at that one. Keeping the obsession alive, *Kris* -------------------------------------- Kristen Murphy | Do unto others as you would do | unto Sam...because you never know. Leaper, Trekker, & Purple Ranger :-) | -------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************** "You've gotta reach for the stars, not for the ceiling!" --Sam Beckett, "Memphis Melody" ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kat Freymuth Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: You know your an obsessed Leaper when: Date: 19 Apr 1996 01:44:35 GMT When you and your best friend are "talking" (exchanging notes) in history class and she mentions that she saw an episode of Quantum Leap and asks you about it since she only saw the last fifteen minutes of it. Of course you know the title, "Dr. Ruth", and the plot and you tell her. She then tells you that Dr. Ruth/Sam is one touch bitch and you crack up --- OUTLOUD! --- because it reminds you of Al calling Dr. Ruth "one touch cookie" (She hushes you on paper) This really happened! Honest! And what's worse, it happened IN COLLEGE! Big time embarrassment at laughing in class --- Professor Wunderli looked at me very strangely but didn't stop lecturing on religion in the medieval era (I think. Heck, I wouldn't have been trading notes if I had been paying attention.) Kat Freymuth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ilam@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Zilbershtein Ilan) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Subject: YKYAAOLW Date: 19 Apr 1996 06:43:20 GMT u know you are an obssesed leaper when.... .... whenevr someone you talk to says that something is about to happen, even if it seems impossible, you give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe Sam leaped into him and he KNOWS it's gonna happen this way (the example is about the Israeli soccer league, so I won't bother post it) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 | ------------------------------------------------------------------