FORKNI-L
Digest - 20 Feb 2006 to 21 Feb 2006 (#2006-54)
Tue, 21 Feb 2006
There are 9 messages totalling 303 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Is This the Latest In Vampire Fashions?
2. FK Moment - 24 (with spoilers)
3. question (6)
4. Janette's costumes
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:19:49 +0000
From: Kezia Hepden <kezia.hepden@n.......>
Subject: Is This the Latest In Vampire Fashions?
There was an article on the London news tonight about a woman who suffers from
severe sensitivity to sunlight, and has a special suit made from material
supplied by NASA. Nick - your troubles are over.
Then again, maybe not.. As you can read in the article (sorry, couldn't find a
picture no matter how hard I tried), it does kinda stand out in the crowd -
think along the lines of a full welding outfit with helmet in white and you'll
have an idea what it looks like. (Janette and LaCroix would have a field day with
this one!)
The article is at:
http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16721448%26method=full%26siteid=93463%26headline=exclusive%2d%2dnasa%2dmade%2dme%2dspace%2dsuit%2dso%2di%2dcan%2dgo%2dto%2dshops-name_page.html
If that doesn't work, try going to http://www.people.co.uk and paging down for
an article on 19th February about NASA.
Cousin Kezia
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:42:28 -0800
From: Amanda Berendt <debrabant_foundation@y.......>
Subject: FK Moment - 24 (with spoilers)
I don't want to give any plot points away but at one point Ger's
character is running through an industrial loft (heh, heh - just
needs to be fixed up a bit) and he jumps behind this large container
that's just about the same size / shape as a coffin.
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When Nathanson get's shot and Jack is talking to him I kept thinking
- hey you're both vampires don't worry... and also that Jack (can't
remember the character's name from Lost Boys) could just bring
Nathanson across.
And when they did that last shot on Ger, I kept expecting the blood
to get sucked back in and for him to get up.
Whaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
-Amanda
"This thing... man... whatever it is...evil may have created it, left its mark
on it, but evil does not rule it. So I cannot kill it." - Gabriel Van Helsing
http://www.darksideoftheglass.com
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:32:41 -0700
From: Angela Gottfred <agottfre@t.......>
Subject: Re: question
>The customs officials will
> usually ask you any of these questions...
..and they will ask the purpose of your visit, of course. In the last couple
of
years, there has been a real crackdown on the requirements for work
visas/permits for all Canadians planning to do work in Canada--even folk
singers
and guest lecturers, no matter how pathetically small the payment/honorarium
might be. (It's okay if you are being provided with free hotel accommodation
and/or meals.) So it's wise to do your homework well in advance, to avoid any
foul-ups.
Your humble & obedient servant,
Angela Gottfred
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:28:26 -0600
From: "Stone, Barbara" <STONEB@g.......>
Subject: Janette's costumes
Weren't a lot of the FK costumes stolen some time between 2nd and 3rd
season? I seem to remember this from some interview with GWD.
B. Stone
stoneb@g.......
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:37:29 EST
From: Judith Lieberman <JudithL21@a.......>
Subject: Re: question
In all the years I have visited Canada, the only questions I was asked wa
whether I
had guns. liquior or tobacco. also purpose, and how long I was staying. I
did see an
elderly man from states argue with customs about wearing his seatbelt. he
finally put it on when threated by his wife and with arrest. At Yarmouth N.S
when crossing
in the Cat. That was interesting. JudyL
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:41:13 EST
From: Libratsie@a.......
Subject: Re: question
In a message dated 2/21/2006 1:38:38 PM Central Standard Time,
JudithL21@a....... writes:
In all the years I have visited Canada, the only questions I was asked wa
whether I
had guns. liquior or tobacco
Same with me, although I've always had to show an official copy of my birth
certificate. However, I think pretty soon you will have to have a passport
to get back into the United States. They've been talking about that on a
message board I belong to.
Makes me wonder how many different forms of ID the FK vampires have to have.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing to show a birth certificate saying you were born
70 years ago when you clearly don't look it? <g>
--Libs
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:51:45 -0500
From: Deborah Hymon <debh@e.......>
Subject: Re: question
Nah, they would just fly over the border under the cover of darkness from
the 'knight'. <BG>
Deborah
DeborahAHymon.com
on 2/21/06 2:41 PM, Libratsie@a....... at Libratsie@a....... wrote:
> Makes me wonder how many different forms of ID the FK vampires have to have.
> Wouldn't it be embarrassing to show a birth certificate saying you were born
> 70 years ago when you clearly don't look it? <g>
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:54:27 EST
From: Libratsie@a.......
Subject: Re: question
In a message dated 2/21/2006 1:52:55 PM Central Standard Time,
debh@e....... writes:
Nah, they would just fly over the border under the cover of darkness from
the 'knight'.
Not a wise idea these days if they show up on the ever-increasingly accurate
modern radars. I sure wouldn't want to be an "unidentified aircraft" flying
into the US! (Or anywhere, for that matter)
--Libby
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:55:31 -0600
From: Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@c.......>
Subject: Re: question
> Judith Lieberman
> In all the years I have visited Canada, the only questions
> I was asked wa whether I had guns. liquior or tobacco. also purpose,
and how long I
> was staying.
I generally drive up to Toronto through the Detroit/Windsor crossing.
Since I have a passport I've used that as ID (even after it expired in
2002!--apparently it didn't have to be current to serve, although a US
customs official told me it was good for only two years after
expiration, after which I needed a new one. I do have a current one
now).
My questioning has been mostly along the lines of Judith's, with one
exception---when I was driving back from LCA in October 2001.
Obviously, being so soon after 9/11, the US customs officers were
extremely vigilant. They were searching every single car that went
through the crossing, and subjecting every person to lots of
questions.
So there I was in my Honda Del Sol (2-seat hard top convertible, tiny)
with the trunk stuffed with luggage, laptop computer, 4 large boxes of
green tea from my favorite Toronto tea shop, 5 pounds of extra sharp
Canadian white cheddar cheese, 4 bottles of wine from Niagara, a box
of donuts from the Tim Horton in Windsor, and LCA booty consisting of
a polarfleece crew jacket, a framed drawing of Nick holding his gun
and looking ferocious, a bunch of other bargain knickknacks, and...a
ray gun. It was a rubber, no-moving-parts raygun from "Earth: Final
Conflict" that I had accidentally bought when I made a charity bid of
$10 that no one exceeded, and which I didn't want.
When I got to the customs booth I was subjected to these questions
from an unsmiling officer:
Why were you in Canada?
Who do you know in Toronto?
Are they Canadian citizens?
Who did you meet at the auction?
Who was running the charity auction?
Who benefited from the auction?
How much did you spend?
Are you carrying anything for someone else in your car?
What did you buy at the auction?
At this point he said, "open the trunk" and when I told him I couldn't
do that from inside the car (hey, it was a 1993, nothing was
automatic!) he refused to let me open it but took my keys and opened
it himself. And while another officer poked through the crowded trunk
I listed everything, including of course the ray gun. That stopped
him.
"A ray gun?" He looked alarmed and concerned and well, ready to haul
me in for further interrogation for weapons smuggling.
"Yes, a prop, you know, it's just rubber, it looks like a pipe wrench,
nothing moves, it's just rubber..." by now I was babbling and really
regretting my ill-considered charity bid.
So they took everything out of my trunk and finally found the ray gun,
still bearing its auction tag. After looking at it very, very closely
they apparently decided that it was harmless (and that I was, too) and
allowed me to repack the trunk. They did look underneath my car (no
mean feat, considering it had a ground clearance of about 6 inches)
presumably to make sure no terrorists or contraband were stashed
there.
It all took almost a half hour. I was thoroughly shaken by the time I
drove across the Friendship Bridge into Detroit. I had to stop at a
roadside rest a few miles outside the city and have a few of my Tim
Hortons donuts to restore myself.
And the ray gun? It sat in my desk at home for two years, until I
decided to put it on ebay---and it sold for $150! I guess that charity
bid and Customs trauma paid off after all!
Nancy Kaminski
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