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FORKNI-L Digest - 5 Dec 2001 to 6 Dec 2001 (#2001-365)

Thu, 6 Dec 2001

There are 25 messages totalling 593 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Question for a FK fanfic (5)
  2. Finals (2)
  3. Today's Birthday, December 5 (2)
  4. GWD in two new movies
  5. YKYBW/RTMFKW
  6. Tracker (4)
  7. names: LC (3)
  8. Nick Knight DVD finding.... (4)
  9. St. Nicholas's Day (3)

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Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:14:24 -0800
From:    Aviva Blumenthal <viv11374@y.......>
Subject: Re: Question for a FK fanfic

Well, the Romany word for a half-vampire, half human is Dhampir
(plural dhampir, not dhampirs), if that helps.
--- Emily <emilymhanson@y.......> wrote:
> What is the correct term for a half-vampire, half-werewolf?
> Anyone know?
>
>


=====
Viv

Don't annoy the crazy person

Life's a witch and then you fly

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Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:01:58 -0600
From:    Nichole A Knight <cdisiere@j.......>
Subject: Re: Finals

Depends on what subject the characters are taking:

LaCroix--Military Science, Foreign Language, Government; no studying.
Cosmetology; definitely yes on studying.

Nick--Arts, Piano, Foreign Language; no.  Health Information Management;
yes.

Natalie--Any medical class; no.  Real Estate; yes.

Janette--Cosmetology, Interior Design, Foreign Language; no.  Any
occupational class; yes.

Schanke--Culinary Arts; no (especially the tasting).  Electrical
Technology; yes.

Tracy--Criminal Justice; no.  Chemistry; yes.

Vachon--Music (anything having to do with playing the guitar); no.
Anything else; yes.

Screed--Aquatic Science; no.  English, Speech, and maybe Foreign
Language; yes.

Aristotle--No to any class he may take.  (He could just change the grade
anytime, so what is the point for him to take any courses?)

I would not list any courses for our immortal friends in Aeronautical
Technology, History, Biology, and Physical Education.  They would pass
the courses easily.  If our vampire friends were enrolled in Welding and
Fire Protection Technology, I can see disaster coming.  Fire and vampires
don't mix, or so I'm told.

Well that is my two cents on the subject.

Nichole

"I am what I am, and I don't think Betty Ford takes vampires."
               ~Detective Nick Knight/Nicholas de Brabant "Forever Knight"

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Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:00:22 -0600
From:    eowyn3@j.......
Subject: Today's Birthday, December 5

Hi Y'all!

I got a messages from Cloud that her clouddancer@h....... addy does still
work so go ahead and send your birthday greetings to her there.  Sorry
for the confusion.  Several people I know had to get a new e-mail addy so
I just assumed everyone on home had to do that.

That's all the birthdays for this week!

Terri
eowyn3@j......., eowyn@w.......
GWDFC, G-IV & V Attendee, Knighties Listowner, TKD, FK X-Stitcher,
Proud Survivor of Fk-fic  Wars 8-11, Keeper of the FK Birthday List
She can be taught!  But only in little bytes!

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Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:29:19 -0600
From:    Nichole A Knight <cdisiere@j.......>
Subject: GWD in two new movies

Just the other day I was surfing the web, and visited my favorite movie
information site (IMDb).  There I found Ger staring in two new movies:
'American Psycho II: All American Girl' and 'Hypercube 2'.  Both are
classified as being in production, and should be released in the US
sometime in the year of 2002.  Just thought all of the Ger fans would
like this piece of info.

Nichole

"I am what I am, and I don't think Betty Ford takes vampires."
               ~Detective Nick Knight/Nicholas de Brabant "Forever Knight"

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Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:22:04 -0600
From:    Nichole A Knight <cdisiere@j.......>
Subject: YKYBW/RTMFKW

You know you've been watching/reading too much FK when you are looking at
a message that has been forwarded many times, and find an e-mail address
with LC's radio persona in the identity proportion.  Now you know what he
calls himself over the web, if that is really LC.

Nichole

"I am what I am, and I don't think Betty Ford takes vampires."
               ~Detective Nick Knight/Nicholas de Brabant "Forever Knight"

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Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:00:55 -0500
From:    helen c <hmc@a.......>
Subject: Re: Tracker

Can anybody help me?  I've been trying to find Tracker in Washington, DC.
Does anybody know when and where it airs here?  Please let me know off-line.

Thanks
      Helen

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Date:    Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:25:09 EST
From:    Jeannie Ecklund <Gersknightlady@c.......>
Subject: Re: Tracker

Go to Tracker.com I believe they have a schedule for the show all over the
USA.
I at first didn't like this show much.  It's getting better.  I think it was
becasue I was waiting for Ger to be there a lot and he wasn't.  I caught the
first one this last weekend, again.  It's really much better than I thought.
If this is one way to get Ger on TV every few weeks then I want to support
it.  Eps 6 was a much better role exporsure for Ger. It's not Forever Knight
but it does have Ger. I hope everyone will give the reruns another look.
Jeannie

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:35:33 EST
From:    BJDFKFan@a.......
Subject: Re: Tracker

<<<  Go to Tracker.com I believe they have a schedule for the show all over
the USA.  >>>

I think it's trackertv.com instead of tracker.com.  I tried to look something
up there about a week ago and it seemed to be down again, but hopefully it's
back up now.

Becky -- DFKS, DK, IB, DT, UF, Ravenette, Cousin, FOD
http://members.aol.com/BJDFKFan, http://DKfanfic.tripod.com
We're cut adrift, but still floating.  I'm only hanging on to watch you go
down...my love.  (Bono, U2)
The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night she passed on.
 (paraphrased from Ray Bradbury's F. 451, in memory of Libby M.)

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:31:23 -0500
From:    Tim Phillips <TIMP@d.......>
Subject: Re: Question for a FK fanfic

> What is the correct term for a half-vampire, half-werewolf?  Anyone
> know?
        A vampwolf.
        Such a creature would have a strong attraction to itself.
                :-)

        Seriously, I've never heard of such a creature in any traditional
mythology I've read.  You may want to go with something like
vampwolf just because it is obvious what you mean....

                Tim

 Tim Phillips
 timp@d.......

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:12:40 -0700
From:    Rose Thatcher <dreamerextrodanar@h.......>
Subject: Re: Finals

>I would not list any courses for our immortal friends in Aeronautical
>Technology, History, Biology, and Physical Education.  They would pass
>the courses easily.

Hmmm, I'm not sure about the history thing.  After all, they would tell it
correctly!  (and with a whole lot of personal veiws too.) <G>  I can see it
now.  Nick- No, he didn't die in battle, He was in a tavern, drunk, when
LaCroix walked in and wanted a snack.  <G>
                            'Rose

Rome was not built by holding committe meetings.  It was done by killing all
those who opposed them.

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:28:48 -0800
From:    SLH <jerezfino@y.......>
Subject: Re: Tracker

--- helen c <hmc@a.......> wrote:
> Can anybody help me?  I've been trying to find
> Tracker in Washington, DC.

Tracker is not showing in the DC area.  I sent an
e-mail to Lions Gate Entertainment about a week ago to
inquire about stations in the area that are--or may be
at some future date--showing Tracker.  Their response
was that no stations in the DC area have picked up the
show nor does there appear to be any plans to bring
Tracker to this area.  I was looking forward to seeing
it, but, after reading the comments on the list, I
don't know if I've really missed much.

For those of you who have seen Tracker, how prominent
is Ger's role?  I know it's only a recurring character
but from what I've read, he's a key character to the
show's storyline.

:) Boomer

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 07:39:11 -0800
From:    Lady Ariake <lady_ariake@y.......>
Subject: Re: Question for a FK fanfic

--- Tim Phillips <TIMP@d.......> wrote:
>
>         Seriously, I've never heard of such a
> creature in any traditional
> mythology I've read.  You may want to go with
> something like
> vampwolf just because it is obvious what you
> mean....

That was about my thought as well.  My instinctive
reaction to "what do you call it" was "impossible."
Although vampires and werewolves come from the same
place in mythology, and they do overlap at some points
(see Dracula and his ability to transform into
animals, including a wolf and a half wolf/half man, at
will) if you're referring to the MODERN Bela Lugosi
vampire and Lon Cheney Jr. werewolf, I don't think
they CAN be half and half.  I think to be a classic
werewolf the person has to be alive, and to be a
classic vampire they have to be dead, and never the
twain shall meet.  Unless you count a vampire's
ability to transform itself unrelated to the phases of
the moon, I don't think they ever mix in mythology.

If you want to make up an offspring of a werewolf and
a vampire...uh..."vampwolf" could work, uhm, someone
mentioned dhampir and as that's usually a half-human,
half-vampire child, and the were was presumably in
human form to reproduce, that would work (although the
traditional dhampir is very strange in and of itself,
and also often grows up to be a vampire hunter.)
Were-vamp?  Unluckiest person on the face of the earth?

=====
"If you're going to have delusions of grandeur, go for the really satisfying
ones."  (Marcus Cole, Anla'shok, or my life motto.)

"...In all things trust the Weyrfolk, for their cause is just and true."

http://www.geocities.com/northrangesweyr

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:51:08 -0700
From:    Kyer <kyer@p.......>
Subject: Re: Question for a FK fanfic

From: "Emily" <emilymhanson@y.......>
> What is the correct term for a half-vampire, half-werewolf?  Anyone> know?

A werevampire  or a wereman?  A wamp?

Kyer, kyer@p.......

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:13:57 -0800
From:    "B. Stone" <STONEB@g.......>
Subject: names: LC

Yes, Lucien Lacroix's name is ironic, until perhaps the very last ep. when he
releases Nick from the dark gift he had bestowed on him and lets him
step into the light (Yes, I know there is much disagreement concerning the
final ep, but this is my take on it.)  Give a dog a bad name & he'll live up
to it.  Perhaps the reverse is also true.
        B. Stone
        stoneb@g.......

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Date:    Sun, 2 Dec 2001 22:54:39 -0500
From:    Arletta Asbury <g4akl@c.......>
Subject: Re: Nick Knight DVD finding....

At 10:51 PM 12/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>At 06:17 PM 12/2/2001 -0800, Emily Hanson wrote:
>
>>I've never heard of Big Lots before...can it be found in the Midwest?
>>  Or is it only in the South?

Go to
http://bigbook.com/
and enter the business name and the state.

It shows entries for both Indiana and Illinois. I didn't try any other
midwest states.

Arletta

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:27:07 -0500
From:    Tim Phillips <Timp@d.......>
Subject: Re: names: LC

> Yes, Lucien Lacroix's name is ironic, until perhaps the very last ep. when he
> releases Nick from the dark gift he had bestowed on him and lets him
> step into the light
Mmmm.  Perhaps, Lucien's name isn't ironic.
Consider it from LaCroix's viewpoint - and from the show's which
often portrayed vampires in a sympathetic light.   From this
perspective, LaCroix is the one who brought enlightenment to Nick.
 Who showed Nick the world he - at that time - was dreaming of.  A
world without pretense or the "phoniness" of a "holy war".
        In the often-times upside down world of the vampires, LaCroix's
"dark gift" is the awakening of someone to the light that is
immortality.

                Tim
 Tim Phillips
 timp@d.......

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:35:34 -0500
From:    Lisa McDavid <mclisa@m.......>
Subject: St. Nicholas's Day

Today is St. Nicholas's Day, which would have been of importance to Nick in his
mortal life. Most medieval people celebrated their patron saint's days instead
their own birthdays.

This particular St. Nicholas (of Myra or of Bari, depending on whether you go
with his bishopric or the location of his relics) is the best-known. In the
Middle Ages he was a major patron and via the Netherlands custom of celebrating
his day with gifts for the children, he is the basis for our Santa Claus. Nick
was a Brabantian, which is now mostly in Belgium with a little bit in The
Netherlands, so he was in the center of this.

McLisa
mclisa@m.......

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:42:25 -0700
From:    Megan Hull <mistryder@h.......>
Subject: Re: Nick Knight DVD finding....

I'm getting mine off e-bay, and I'd suggest anyone really interested try
there.  There are a number for sale there, cheap.
          -Megan

"Eternal nights too short,
How quickly melt away,
With all the love we shared once,
Forever in a day."

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:26:53 -0500
From:    Patty Costantino <psmoot43@h.......>
Subject: Re: St. Nicholas's Day

If Lisa doesn't mind, I wanted to add a few more interesting tidbits about
St. Nicholas.  His patronage of children stems from his discovery, in a
butcher's cellar of three murdered boys, pickled in a barrel of brine, whom
he miraculously restored to life.

Along with being the Patron Saint of children, St. Nicholas is also the
Patron Saint of sailors, merchants, and pawnbrokers.  He's known to have
rescued three sailors from drowning, and three falsely accused prisoners
from execution.

I would say that Nick, being or *trying* to be a noble, heroic
figure/character was well named after this Saint.

Patty  (N&N packer, Knightie with  Dark Tendencies and Light Cousin if he
behaves.)

http://www.expage.com/patty43

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:44:23 EST
From:    Kerry Hewitt <Grindlehewitt@a.......>
Subject: Re: Nick Knight DVD finding....

       I looked for mine there as well
       and yes  mine is going to come from
       there as well

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:18:50 EST
From:    Judith Lieberman <JudithL21@a.......>
Subject: Re: Question for a FK fanfic

I thought that dhampir was the term for half mortal, half vampire.  Read it
somewhere.
JudyL

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:20:13 EST
From:    Judith Lieberman <JudithL21@a.......>
Subject: Re: Today's Birthday, December 5

Happy birthday  Cloud;  hope you find a new "home" soon. JudyL

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:23:28 -0500
From:    Portia Eins <portia1@m.......>
Subject: Re: Nick Knight DVD finding....

Big Lots -- FK DVD for $5.99
'Course not everyone has access to a Big Lots, or equivalent

Portia

Forever Knight TV show <FORKNI-L@l.......> wrote:
> I'm getting mine off e-bay, and I'd suggest anyone really interested try
there.  There are a number for sale there, cheap.
          -Megan

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:19:59 -0500
From:    Portia Eins <portia1@m.......>
Subject: Re: names: LC

I rather suspect that "LaCroix" was chosen by the old vampire for ironic
reasons, but in light of what you've written, it is conceivable that it could
also indicate perhaps that he brings people to the "crossroads"....

Portia

Forever Knight TV show <FORKNI-L@l.......> wrote:
> > From this perspective, LaCroix is the one who brought enlightenment to Nick.

                Tim
 Tim Phillips

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Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:24:04 -0000
From:    Barbara Vainio <bevainio@w.......>
Subject: Re: St. Nicholas's Day

Patty wrote:
>
> Along with being the Patron Saint of children, St. Nicholas is also the
> Patron Saint of sailors, merchants, and pawnbrokers.  He's known to have
> rescued three sailors from drowning
>
So Screed would also have celebrated the feast of St. Nicholas?  Guess
that's why he went to all those swap meets - to get gifts for everyone :-)

Barb

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