From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 1 Apr 1995 00:30:01 GMT griz@cs.tulane.edu (Grizabella) writes: > > *Sigh* Anyway... I've been away from the net for a while, unfortunately, > so I haven't been able to respond to E-mail or News or anything, but I'm > back now and I'm so HAPPY!!! :) It's nice to see you back, GlamourCat! :-) Now to to continue the list of obsessions, you know you're an obsessed Leaper when... ...You tell your computer science professor that you've got a medical appointment at six and that you will have to leave the class at quarter to, to get there on time... And the real story is, you have no VCR, no hope of reruns, and you just _have_ to see what happens to Sam when he leaps into the electric chair. I can tell this story now that I've safely graduated and moved across the ocean ;-) ...You can't keep a picture of Sam & Al in your bedroom, 'coz you get the feeling that Al is leering at you when you get undressed... And your worst fear is not that he'll peek, but that he won't find you to his taste! ...Everyone in your ASL class knows the sign for "Quantum Leap", although most of them only watch Star Trek. ...Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: You know you are when... Date: 1 Apr 1995 11:57:13 GMT I am up at 5:30 A.M. on a Saturday morning when I could be in bed just so I can get on the net and read all the post. -- 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: Hilary Bates Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 4 Apr 1995 20:23:47 GMT And back to the original thread.... You know you're an obsessed leaper when you start considering buying a second VCR to make copies for all those people out there who haven't seen/got particular episodes!!! Hilary hbates@amgen.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: Computer game Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 04:01:33 GMT Well next week I get another computer assignment in C. I have to write with a partner, an adventure game in C. I'm hoping that I can make it QL but from what the lecturer said, it will be a search rooms type of game. I'm just hoping to get some input from everyone. Maybe I'll post the coding here or e-mail it, if it works. :-) ___________ Elwyn Chow | * | "Ain't that a kick in the butt?" Science & Electrical Engineering | * | - Admiral Al Calavicci, University Of Melbourne | O-* | Quantum Leap | |__H | eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au | | | "H, in this precise Engineering eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au | / \ | diagram, stands for handlink!" eydc@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au ----------- - me :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 6 Apr 95 00:46:24 +0500 In article <3ls9sj$3gd@amgen.amgen.com>, Hilary Bates writes: > And back to the original thread.... > > You know you're an obsessed leaper when you start considering buying > a second VCR to make copies for all those people out there who haven't > seen/got particular episodes!!! > > Hilary > hbates@amgen.com > And it also proves what a *terrific* group this is, and what a nice person *you* are! :) --Jennie :) :) :) :) <>< "You know it's guaranteed, plant the seed and you get the flower." Al Calavicci *Alphabet Rap* ---<--{(@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ai530@detroit.freenet.org (Debra Kayann Dahl) Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper . . . Date: 6 Apr 1995 19:37:29 GMT I was at a sports bar for lunch with some friends. They had one of those message boards made out of the scrolling lights. The board kept listing sports scores and jokes and such. Well, I just happened to look up when one of the guys in the group said "They're listing the American League scores." Well, the board simply read "AL SCORES". Needless to say, I thought to myself 'Of course he does, whenever he can." Just wanted to share this with you, especially since I'm going to be away from the group for the weekend. I'm going on a short trip to Indiana. And not to show my geographical ignorance or anything, but is there really an Elk Ridge, Indiana or is it a fictional town? Debby -- ai530@detroit.freenet.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 6 Apr 1995 19:39:48 GMT Rassilon (rassilon@aol.com) wrote: : I thought of another one: : ...when, no matter how hard you try, you can't listen to "Georgia On My : Mind" without thinking of Al and Beth. This happens to me all the time : and it gets on my nerves! : _____________________________________________________ : Coming soon to a theater near you: : HIGHLANDER IV: THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY ONE : _____________________________________________________ Well, I got another one. I was doing what we call a serial title change for some title about Electron and Electronic physics, that's chaning to Advances in Imaging and electron physics. First of all I saw the words Imaging, then the word physics, then I begin pageing through it to try and find bibliographic information, and just for the heck of it look in the index, and find something called Holography history of, so I turn to those pages, and begin to skim, all the while thinking, There's no mention of Dr. Sam Beckett in there! :) Now that's pretty bad! Nancy (just thought I'd share) nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 7 Apr 1995 11:10:07 GMT I was working with my 2nd graders at school yesterday and I was having a problem getting them to calm down. Without thinking I said, "Oh Boy" and then started to laugh. They all thought I was nuts. -- 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: meleslie@scs.unr.edu (Megan E. Leslie) Subject: dreams and obsessions.. Date: 7 Apr 1995 12:35:09 -0500 Hello again! Finally! I think I've mastered it. Took me a while though, didn't it? Anyway, down to business before my class starts... Sam did a lot of Leaping last night- at least in my dream(s). All I remember now is Sam and Al singing stuff from MISS DEEP SOUTH in this 60's or so bar, Sam dressed in a different dress- and no one was laughing. They were singing along! I got a piece of some "rhyming stanzas" out of it. read to the rhythm of a famous christmas story: The alarm sounded At the foot of the bed While Quantum Leap visions Disappeared from my head. -Megan Leslie That's what I get from getting up for an 8:00 Archaeology class. Oh, yeah....The obsessions... You know you are an obsessed Leaper when, in Anthropology class, the professor is giving a lecture on patterns of support groups and, when she mentions that two patterns are addressing addictve behavior and dealing with transitions or some crisis, you immediately think of DIGAS and r.a.s.t.q.l. and the Conless Support Group and smile 'cause they don't know how much they're missing out on. *sigh* It's great to be heard by so many people. I've been a lurker for some time and just figured out how to post right. I'm gonna check again to see who it was who sent me the address ( sorry, swiss cheesed again) and send her a personal thank you. Bye! (Yayy! I can post! I can post!) Megan, The Keeper Of The Lessons (Everything I need to know I learned from watching QL got any more of em? I love lessons!) "Ain't that a kick in the butt!"x3 -Al, The Pilot episode . . . . * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 10 Apr 1995 07:58:50 GMT In <3lfpe0$hc9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) writes: > > ...and when you tell your family about this at dinner, the daughter >mumbles under her breath, "Like Sam Beckett." :) I coulda hugged her (but >she was on the other side of the table and I would've gotten my shirt in >the spaghetti sauce). :) Your daughter sounds great! if I lived by you I would want to Babysit her! Tell her I said "hi!" Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 16:02:45 -0500 Something kind of funny happened today on the bus home. The bus had stopped at the main library to let on a bunch of people. As they were filing by, I noticed one girl with light brown hair with lock of white hair right in the front, hanging over her forehead. My first thought was, "I wonder if her name is Samantha." --Andie -- "This isn't fair. A beautiful body like that and I'm just thinking PURE THOUGHTS! Dammit!" --Admiral Al Calavicci "Quantum Leap: The Leap Back" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 13 Apr 1995 07:18:08 GMT Hello! Hilary Bates (hbates@amgen.com) wrote: :> You know you're an obsessed leaper when you start considering buying :> a second VCR to make copies for all those people out there who haven't :> seen/got particular episodes!!! *grin* This reminds me of how I got my first (and, so far, only) VCR just to be able to tape QL for myself... CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 14 Apr 1995 14:45:53 GMT "A. Stabler" writes: > Something kind of funny happened today on the bus home. I have a bus story too :-) You know you're an obsessed Leaper when... ...You miss your stop because you're too busy thinking out a QL plot. (happened to me yesterday) Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 18 Apr 1995 01:26:43 GMT Todd Kunioka (TTKUHIOK@acd1.byu.edu) wrote: : How about this one? You know you're obsessed when you see that : the local theater company has scheduled "The Man from La Mancha" and : you decide that you simply MUST see the play, even if it means going : by yourself. : Todd Kunioka : TTKUHIOK@ACD1.BYU.EDU Well, how about, you know you're an obsessed Leaper, when you follow a care you've never seen before, just because it has a bumpersticker in the Hatch window that says "Quantum Leaper", You get out of the car when they get to where they were going, and you proceed to ask if they're Leapers and upon hearing an affirmative reply, hug them both, even though you never met them until that minute. No, I wasn't the one chasing, but Heidi and I were in the car that was being followed, and this happened yesterday aprox, 4PM Indiana time :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pflatt@primenet.com Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 18 Apr 1995 03:48:28 GMT In , TTKUHIOK@acd1.byu.edu (Todd Kunioka) writes: >How about this one? You know you're obsessed when you see that >the local theater company has scheduled "The Man from La Mancha" and >you decide that you simply MUST see the play, even if it means going >by yourself. HAH! This actually happened to me!! Last year, I lived in Portland, Oregon and after seeing Catch a Falling Star, Iwent around school singing Man of La Mancha songs. One of my good friends had season tickets to the Portland Opera and told me it was commuing ot town. Of course, I HAD to See it so I scemed and Scemed trying to find a way to go, to no avail. Then, One day she called me and told me her parents couldn't go, and they gave her the tickets so she could take a friend! Of course, she knew I was DYING to go, so she gave to tieket to me and we went. Oh, it was sooooo wonderful!!!!!! I cannot emphasis that enough!!! Even before I saw it I knew the story becasuse I had read the script and listened to the Sou8ndtrack. But seeing the play was so good! I saw a lot of paralells between QL and MoLM. I cried at the end! I could go on forever. MoLM is my favorite musical, and I am very much into musicals! GO AND SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stacy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nmathews@ucs.indiana.edu (nancy mathews) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 18 Apr 1995 06:41:23 GMT pflatt@primenet.com wrote: : In , TTKUHIOK@acd1.byu.edu (Todd Kunioka) writes: : >How about this one? You know you're obsessed when you see that : >the local theater company has scheduled "The Man from La Mancha" and : >you decide that you simply MUST see the play, even if it means going : >by yourself. [snip] How about you buy King's Four past Midnight, because the cover features a nice picture of Dean Stockwell and the rest of the cast from the Langoliers, and on the back page, there's an add telling that the home video version will be out in Summer of 1995. Now two days ago you got a used copy of this same paperback (the black cover with the orangeish letters) for half the cost at the trade and buy paperbacks store, but you still buy this one because of the things mentioned above, but especially for Dean's picture. (This one's true, I just did this earlier tonight) Nancy nmathews@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu "Imagination is the spice of life" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kchampagnie@marcie.wellesley.edu Subject: RE: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 08:29:26 GMT you know you are an obsessed leaper when its 3:30 in the morning and you have an early class tommorow but you just discovered the quantum leap file and just have to read all 1000 postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu Subject: RE: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 18 Apr 95 00:13:59 +0500 In article <17APR95.08292665@marcie.wellesley.edu>, kchampagnie@marcie.wellesley.edu writes: > you know you are an obsessed leaper when its 3:30 in the morning and you have > an early class tommorow but you just discovered the quantum leap file and just > have to read all 1000 postings I wish my reader kept so many! After a week away my account should have been deluged with posts, but I only have 54 to read (ONLY!) dated from April 16. Stupid machines....... I too have done the 3 or 4 in the morning read....and then gotten up earlier than necessary to see if any new ones were posted while I slept before I go to class. Oh, dear Lord, please let me get an account after graduation so I can wallow in my Leap Obsession! :) --Jennie :) :) :) :) <>< There are no such things as speed bumps... There are only launch pads! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TTKUHIOK@acd1.byu.edu (Todd Kunioka) Subject: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 17 Apr 1995 17:58:20 -0500 How about this one? You know you're obsessed when you see that the local theater company has scheduled "The Man from La Mancha" and you decide that you simply MUST see the play, even if it means going by yourself. Todd Kunioka TTKUHIOK@ACD1.BYU.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper When.... Date: 18 Apr 95 09:48:20 +0500 You know you're Leap Obsessed when...... You're on Spring Break and at Universal Studios Florida, and after going on King Kong, Earthquake, and Jaws, you find that you're REALLY excited when you find the Quantum Leap videos in the gift shop. AND, despite the fact that you have to buy stuff for family, you go ahead and shell out thirty bucks to buy yourself Shock Theatre and The Pilot Episode! FURTHER, you can't help thinking how much cooler Universal Studios would be if they came up with some sort of ride or walk-through about Quantum Leap, sort of like where you look in a series of mirrors and see another person, who mimics your every move. (Sort of like the Haunted Mansion at Disney World, where the "ghost" sits in your car with you when you go past the mirror). --Jennie :) :) :) :) <>< There are no such things as speed bumps.... There are only launch pads! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: phykmb@caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Kevin Martin Burt) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:01:15 GMT You know that you are an obsessed leaper when... When asking a female out your first question is "Do you watch QL?" (Unfortunately she said no....but we are going out }}}}}}}}}} ) Kevin SLOTN (Saddest Leaper on the Net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Its amazing what you can do without a brain..... Kevin Burt phykmb@caledonia.hw.ac.uk Optoelectronics and Laser Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Complaints regarding this posting should be addressed to one of your friends who complains that they don't get enough mail. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: meleslie@scs.unr.edu (Megan E. Leslie) Subject: you know you're obsessed when Date: 18 Apr 1995 17:47:56 -0500 You know you are an obsessed Leaper when... you are writing a totally non-QL- related story and one of your newest, and at the time unimportant, characters sees your "other-world" main character and all you can here him say is "Oh, boy." THEN, you start to develop this bit part character into something larger than you'd planned and add mysteries like the use of the word 'handlink' to describe a communicator and the character's name is Sam Beckett spelled backwards (Ltn. Ttekceb Mas). He also has begun to develop parts of Sam's personality. You have to wonder if it really is Sam or not... Megan, who likes run-on sentenses at times ps. Got anymore a those lessons for my "Everything I need to know I learned form watching Quantum Leap" list? I'm up to about 66 now and I'll post'em soon to see what you think. "Ain't that a kick in the butt!"x3 -Al, The Pilot episode . . . . * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 19 Apr 1995 08:27:52 GMT Hello! pflatt@primenet.com wrote: :> In <3m05l7$sl@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI>, simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) writes: :> >Hello! :> > :> >pflatt@primenet.com wrote: :> > :> >:> Oh! I am sorry! =-( I have another nasty cold. I am just very :> >:> sick this year! I hope I don't get a broken heart... as I am asking a guy to :> >:> the junior prom tommorrow. Wish me luck! :> > :> >Well, good luck then, and keep your cold to yourself this time! ;) :> > :> HeHe, in case you hadn't heard, he said yes! YAY! Hey, that's great! :) BTW, I *did* catch a really bad cold last week... but don't worry, I already have something else to blame it on than the Internet. ;) :> Now for the QL part :> of this post... Oops, now you've given me a bad conscience because I don't know anything QL-ish to add to this. :-} Or wait, yes... While I had this really bad cold *grin* a friend of mine from Germany came to see me. (He happened to be in northern Europe and decided to drop by at some Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish friends' places.) Turned out he was interested in QL but had never gotten around to actually watching any episode... so, of course, we showed him some of those I taped (after long explanations about the whole concept and the main characters and some remarkable moments from different episodes and fan-fiction and and and). I hope we were able to "convert" him. (But then, why shouldn't we? After all there's nothing like watching some QL episodes together with some fans... :) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: blue@ (Blue C.) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 19 Apr 1995 16:48:01 GMT kchampagnie@marcie.wellesley.edu writes: > you know you are an obsessed leaper when its 3:30 in the morning and you have > an early class tommorow but you just discovered the quantum leap file and just > have to read all 1000 postings Oh boy! Welcome to the group; you certainly deserve a place here :-) ...You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you'd like to buy a hat like Al's (one day, when you have the money for such frivolities :-) )... Blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hilary Bates Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 19 Apr 1995 21:19:10 GMT tkun@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Todd Kunioka) wrote: >>You know that you are an obsessed leaper when... >>When asking a female out your first question is "Do you watch QL?" >>(Unfortunately she said no....but we are going out }}}}}}}}}} ) >>Kevin SLOTN (Saddest Leaper on the Net) >Ah, but we all KNOW that if she were going to answer "No" to one of your >questions and "Yes" to another, you are probably happier about which came >out which. :-) >TTFN, > Todd Kunioka After all, you can now spend some time introducing her to QL! Hilary hbates@amgen.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Pamela J Mitman) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 19 Apr 1995 17:36:27 -0500 blue@ (Blue C.) writes: >...You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you'd like to buy a hat like > Al's (one day, when you have the money for such frivolities :-) )... >Blue. Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! I've ALWAYS been envious of Al's wardrobe! Especially the red jacket with the black and white polkadot shirt (with which the hat goes very nicely, I might add)! Pam M. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tkun@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Todd Kunioka) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Fri, 21 Apr 95 03:55:07 GMT In <3n3uoe$s4p@amgen.amgen.com> Hilary Bates writes: >tkun@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Todd Kunioka) wrote: >>>You know that you are an obsessed leaper when... >>>When asking a female out your first question is "Do you watch QL?" >>>(Unfortunately she said no....but we are going out }}}}}}}}}} ) >>>Kevin SLOTN (Saddest Leaper on the Net) >>Ah, but we all KNOW that if she were going to answer "No" to one of your >>questions and "Yes" to another, you are probably happier about which came >>out which. :-) >>TTFN, >> Todd Kunioka >After all, you can now spend some time introducing her to QL! >Hilary >hbates@amgen.com As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to try this with my gf. Don't know if it'll work, though. She hasn't been able to turn me into an X-Files fan.... Todd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 21 Apr 1995 04:52:52 GMT Pamela J Mitman (mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: : blue@ (Blue C.) writes: : >...You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you'd like to buy a hat like : > Al's (one day, when you have the money for such frivolities :-) )... : Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! I've ALWAYS been envious : of Al's wardrobe! Especially the red jacket with the black and white : polkadot shirt (with which the hat goes very nicely, I might add)! I kinda go for the purple ensemble myself.... :) Jenni B. <>< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hilary Bates Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 21 Apr 1995 21:26:13 GMT I think it's no coincidence that the masquerade parties etc. which happen at conventions always consist of about 90 percent Al costumes!... Hilary hbates@amgen.com <>< -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "A. Stabler" Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 18:55:02 -0500 as you're listening to a song on the radio, you think "This is Sam." or "This is Al." --Andie -- "This is hard on me, Sam. It's hard on me. Time has taken my best friend and packaged him inside a Goddess of Love." --Admiral Al Calavicci "Quantum Leap: What Price Gloria" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fb696@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Freda Lee Whaley) Subject: You know you may be watching to much QL when... Date: 22 Apr 1995 21:12:26 GMT You know you may be watching to much QL when you buy FUJI vcr tape just because it looks like a picture of the hand link on the front. Check it out and you will see what I mean. :-) -- 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: kchampagnie@marcie.wellesley.edu Subject: RE: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 08:32:21 GMT you know you are an obsessed leaper when someone else calls themself an obsessed leaper for going to see "the man of la mancha" and you actually know what he is talking about. keisha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: L.F.Blackwell@massey.ac.nz (Kerry Blackwell) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 08:47:22 You know you're obsessed when... You're sitting in a history class and the tutor describes Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury to Henry II) as having had a sudden change of personality and your first thought is " that must have been our Beckett arriving". (Your name is Thomas Becket, you're in England and it's 1162. Oh Boy!!!!!) And I finally got a QL .sig. I really am in trouble. (Or in good company anyway.) Kerry -- Kerry Blackwell So, I'm a good guy? L.F.Blackwell@massey.ac.nz - Shock Theater -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 23 Apr 95 15:34:45 +0500 In article <3n7dn4$hka@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu (lisa-anne wooldridge) writes: > Pamela J Mitman (mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: > : blue@ (Blue C.) writes: > > : >...You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you'd like to buy a hat like > : > Al's (one day, when you have the money for such frivolities :-) )... > > : Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! I've ALWAYS been envious > : of Al's wardrobe! Especially the red jacket with the black and white > : polkadot shirt (with which the hat goes very nicely, I might add)! > > I kinda go for the purple ensemble myself.... :) > > Jenni B. <>< Hey, guess what! I have an "Al" shirt. When I was on vacation in Gulf Shores, Alabama a year ago we went to the outlet mall and at the Guess Outlet I found this really great earthy, ethnic patterned shirt that looks really similar to one Al wore in "Ghost Ship." (This same trip we always made sure we were back in the suite in time to watch the PM QL on USA. Acronyms abound!) --Jennie :) :) :) :) <>< There are no such things as speed bumps... There are only launch pads! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: gaikin@flash93.pdial.interpath.net Subject: You Know Your an Obsesses Leaper When... Date: 23 Apr 1995 14:25:21 GMT You totally lose it at work, make a complete spectacle of yourself, and cause your co-workers to question your sanity when you realize two questions in an otherwise long and utterly boring questionnaire your typing are: 1. How many nozzles are there? and 2. Are additional nozzles readily available? How can you explain why you're giggling hysterically to a bunch of non-leapers? -Linda -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:58:22 GMT lisa-anne wooldridge (lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : Pamela J Mitman (mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: : : blue@ (Blue C.) writes: : : >...You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you'd like to buy a hat like : : > Al's (one day, when you have the money for such frivolities :-) )... : : Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! I've ALWAYS been envious : : of Al's wardrobe! Especially the red jacket with the black and white : : polkadot shirt (with which the hat goes very nicely, I might add)! : I kinda go for the purple ensemble myself.... :) I always liked the red outfit and the lemon outfit. I think it would be cool to come to Uni in something like that and freak everyone out. I'd like that jacket he wore in Glitter Rock to freak out my friends. Yes! It's that black one with STOP signs on it and stripes on it like what you see on the road!! Take care, Elwyn (I don't feel like posting my sig this time - it probably makes posting take longer!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when..... Date: 24 Apr 1995 08:04:16 GMT Hello! Todd Kunioka (tkun@troi.cc.rochester.edu) wrote: [much quoted stuff deleted] :> As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to try this with my gf. Don't know :> if it'll work, though. She hasn't been able to turn me into an X-Files :> fan.... *sigh* I know what you're talking about... I guess I won't even try to turn my boyfriend into a QL fan. If he decides to become one on his own account, fine; but I'm definitely not trying anything... the memories of his amusement at my and my father's attempts to turn him into a Star Trek fan are still too fresh. ;) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 20 Apr 1995 08:09:12 GMT Hello! Pamela J Mitman (mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: :> blue@ (Blue C.) writes: :> >...You know you are an obsessed Leaper when you'd like to buy a hat like :> > Al's (one day, when you have the money for such frivolities :-) )... :> >Blue. :> Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way! I've ALWAYS been envious :> of Al's wardrobe! Especially the red jacket with the black and white :> polkadot shirt (with which the hat goes very nicely, I might add)! I think I've already mentioned it a few weeks ago... I've always liked colors a lot, but after I started watching QL my clothes have definitely become a lot more colorful. And one day I'm going to change my hairstyle so I can wear hats again. :) (For those of you familiar with the Moomin stories, at the moment I look a bit like Little My, only a lot taller.) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au (Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW) Subject: Re: You Know Your an Obsesses Leaper When... Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:11:18 GMT nsrow3093@alpha.nsula.edu wrote: : In article <3ndo0h$41f@redstone.interpath.net>, gaikin@flash93.pdial.interpath.net writes: : > You totally lose it at work, make a complete spectacle of yourself, and cause your co-workers to : > question your sanity when you realize two questions in an otherwise long and utterly boring : > questionnaire your typing are: 1. How many nozzles are there? and 2. Are additional nozzles : > readily available? : > : > How can you explain why you're giggling hysterically to a bunch of non-leapers? : > I find myself gigling a lot too, especially when I think of something Al said. Once I came into a Maths 102 lecture (yuk. failed that subject) with a massive smile on my face. A friend asked my why and I did a very bad imitation of Al in Running For Honor when he says "Gooshie, you nutcase! I don't care if it's raining! I'm a hologram, you idiot!" ******************************************************************************** \ \ \ | / / \ | / / * "Oh Boy!" - Sam and Al, Shock Theatre/The Leap Back \ \ \|/ / \ \|/ / * QUANTUM LEAP \ \ | / \ | / /* Elwyn Chow \ \ \ / / \ / / * O University of Melbourne \ \ O / O / * --+-- O Science & Elec Engineering --- -->-<-- / H_| / --* #####|## H_| eydc@ecr.mu.oz.au / / ##### \ | \ * [ ] | | eydc@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au / / | | \ / \ \ * [__]/ \ / \ eydc@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: auslan94@matrix.newpaltz.edu (katie auslander) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 25 Apr 1995 03:38:35 GMT lisa-anne wooldridge (lwooldri@ucs.indiana.edu) wrote: : Pamela J Mitman (mitma001@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote: : : blue@ (Blue C.) writes: : I kinda go for the purple ensemble myself.... :) : Jenni B. <>< i myself have happily drooled over his purple stuff... QL to purple... one obsession to another. -Katie...:) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: auslan94@matrix.newpaltz.edu (katie auslander) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 25 Apr 1995 03:39:44 GMT kchampagnie@marcie.wellesley.edu wrote: : i have an account through my school and when i go away for the summer i won't : be able to check this file. i am already going through withdrawal symptoms!!! : what am i going to do......... arghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! help me!!!!! : keisha as someone with the same problem... i sympathise and withdrawl with you!!! -Katie...:) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed leaper when... Date: 25 Apr 1995 08:25:05 GMT Hello! Before I start my newest "obsessed Leaper" story I guess I should mention that the Finnish name for QL is "Aikahyppy", lit. "time leap". Well... I already knew that "aikahyppy" was among the first Finnish words a friend of mine learned after coming to Finland (guess who taught it to her :) ; but yesterday, when I was helping her with some problems with her mail program, I discovered that she had made aliases for two of my mail addresses, namely "aikahyppy" and "hyppy"! I guess that makes me some sort of an official Leaper, at least in her address book. :) :) Oh boy, did that make me happy. :) Oh, one more thing: maybe somebody remembers that about a week ago I wrote something about how a friend of mine from Germany came to see me and I showed him some of the QL episodes I taped (hoping to make him a fan, too) - well, seems it worked, as today he asked me at what time QL is aired in Germany! :) CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Costello Subject: RE:You know your an obsessed leaper when... Date: 27 Apr 1995 09:49:38 GMT You're having a wonderful time backpacking through Europe and you still have the urge to flip through the t.v. guide and see when QL is on. Who cares if it's in German! I can't go long without seeing Scott smile! ;) Jessica Costello Jecostello@vaxsar.vassar.edu *** The secret of life is the sure knowledge of death. For without it, man would not strive to leave his mark upon the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Megan E. Leslie" Subject: white hair! Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 16:37:20 -0700 The other day I accidentally pulled out a very white hair from my head. You might think that, being all of nineteen, I would have freaked or something to find out I have not one but al least three pure white hairs alive and well on my head. On the contrary, I thought they were very cool. I am a fan of Anne McCaffrey so of coarse white hair is awesome. And it just so happens that one of the white hairs is right on the part like Sam's is. Cool! I think the reason I have them is because of an accident I was in two years ago. Nobody was hurt but you just don't forget a hundred foot roll down a cliff off the highway in the snow in a Chevy. Darn, those are good trucks! * (I'll warn now that this is a post of many subjects to not take up thread space) I just gave a presentation in my pop. culture english class and I used QL as my specific example of pop. culture-tv. I brought in merchandise, e-mail, and a few clips to express the power, humor and variety of the series ( I used the leap into "LHOpt1", the intro/theme, the end of "LHOpt2", maint title, "Another Mother" leap in, and the clips of "AM" that say that Teresa can see Sam and Al, how, and why). I think it went pretty good. That's what everyone says when I ask them. The only problem was that I went over time. It was only supposed to be 10-15 min. long but whenever you talk about QL it has to be for an hour just to explain the story! You know how it is. I wore my dark green silk shirt, reminiscent of Al, and had a toy calculator in my pocket but I don't think anyone realized the connection. I'm the only one in my class that's even a fan of QL. I hope I changed their view and opened their eyes with that presentation. That was one of the reasons I did it on QL. next order of business... Sad to say but I hafta leave the 'net game for a while, too. I don't have a computer so I can't read, look, or touch unless I'm on campus. But I'll be back in the fall for sure, eager to read all the posts and such. I do have one request. E-mail isn't the only form of conversing. Please send me mail, or send me your address so I can mail you. Freda? Stacy? Jen/n/i/e/ B.? All a you guys out there. Please? I love tangible mail! I have about three weeks left (Boy, this is starting to sound like I'm dying or something!) so please send me your addresses. I'm making a list of those,too. And hurry with the e-mail address list so I have it fresh for this fall. I can no longer lurk but it's not because I don't wanna. Don't forget to send me info on the shirts. Nancy, you out there? Good luck, all. Megan, The Keeper Of The Lessons and always a fan of Quantum Leap and of the best darn newsgroup there ever will be. I'll miss ya even in that short time. And remember... 'Never' is an obscurity with as many possibilities as time itself. my solution to the last episode. "Ain't that a kick in the butt!"x3 You can say that again, Al. "Ain't that a kick in the butt!"x3 -Al, The Pilot episode . . . . * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christine Finecy Subject: Re: Everything I need to know...QL Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 21:05:39 -0500 On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Elwyn_Ying_Dak CHOW wrote: > Don't forget my personal favourite (because I found it): > > Al is the patron saint of hopeless causes. (Where are you Al?) > (from Raped) Definitely a must for the "Everything I needed to know..QL" list. And my personal addition to the list: When all else fails, consult your holographic companion for advice. Also...whenever you need your holographic companion, he's always off boffing Tina. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christine Finecy | | "Sam...What's a D-Worf?" e-mail: cf3@evansville.edu | -Teresa to Dr. Sam Beckett snail mail: 400 S. Rotherwood, Rm219 | (Quantum Leap) Evansville, IN 47714 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: simon@cc.Helsinki.FI (Julia A M Simon) Subject: Re: You know your an obsessed leaper when... Date: 28 Apr 1995 08:15:20 GMT Hello! Jessica Costello (E0190267@brookes.ac.uk) wrote: :> You're having a wonderful time backpacking through Europe and you :> still have the urge to flip through the t.v. guide and see when :> QL is on. Who cares if it's in German! I can't go long without :> seeing Scott smile! ;) .. and I thought I was the only one... Even though here in Finland I get the original (i.e. undubbed) episodes I have my mother back in Germany tape me the German (dubbed) episodes every week... I guess I'd do almost anything to get more episodes... :-} Usually I hate dubbing, but then, this is QL, this is something entirely different. CU, Julia 8-) -- Julia Simon Hypp"a"aj"at"ar Sprachen-Freak vom Dienst email: simon@cc.helsinki.fi (preferred) also simon@ling.helsinki.fi and sileas@coli.uni-sb.de snailmail: Akanapolku 2 L 401, 01370 Vantaa, Finland * It's 1995: do you know where your quantum physicist is? * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: You know you're an obsessed Leaper when From: epling3@muvms6.wvnet.edu Date: 28 Apr 95 10:32:11 EDT Well here it goes.... I saw this one on my mothers' calender. You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats are Gushie and Ziggy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: leeja@delphi.com (Julianne Lee) Subject: Re: You know you're an obsessed Leaper w Date: 29 Apr 1995 18:24:47 GMT > You know you're an obsessed leaper when you name of your two cats >are Gushie and Ziggy. *here's Julianne, decloaking* My dog is named Ziggy, but my cat is Spot. Am I semi-obsessed? Julianne --------------------------------------------------------------------------------