FORKNI-L
Digest - 22 Mar 2000 (#2000-86)
Wed, 22 Mar 2000
There are 13 messages totalling 346 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Your Daily Vote & FK's Position
2. Supersonic vamp flight (2)
3. New FK Books - suggestion
4. Nick flies to Hamilton (2)
5. FORKNI-L University
6. Top of the Food Chain Review (Major Spoilers--Beware!) (2)
7. YKYBWTMFKW
8. fanfic question...how fast can vampires fly???
9. Lacroix's age (2)
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 07:49:11 -0600
From: Kristin Harris <kris1228@s.......>
Subject: Your Daily Vote & FK's Position
Hi!
This is just a reminder for you to add your daily vote on the Global 100
Charts.
To vote go here: http://www.global100.com/item.asp?Item=51259
**We could really use the help of those wo have never voted before.**
Currently it remains in the #4 position unofficially.(this is what needs to
increase so it will officially).
Officially it is in the #7 position.
Thanks for participating!
Kristin
P.S. Don't forget I will be announcing this "weekly" soon starting Friday.
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:38:55 -0000
From: Tracy Gooding <Tracy.Gooding@n.......>
Subject: Re: Supersonic vamp flight
Brenda F Bell wrote 22/03/00 12:59 GMT
<<Now wondering... if vamps could fly *hypersonic*, would they heat up so
badly they'd self-combust (fire hazard), or would their self-preservation
skills stop them from reaching the danger level?>>
I think we have to concede that one <g>. At Mach 5-6 the surface temperature
has to be several hundred degrees C, so I hope they'd notice before it reached
that point. Not to mention suffering flight instabilities trying to get to that
speed...did anyone explain compression lift to them?
<snip><<Would that gradient create the same effects in vamps as g-stress
does in humans? Can vamps suffer g-loc?>>
And would female vamps be better able to cope? Do they engage in
aerocryptobatics?
Extra Mature Somerset Cheddar, followed by Idiazabal.
Tracy
Tracy.Gooding@n.......
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:49:24 -0600
From: Carla Martinek <copper6500@y.......>
Subject: New FK Books - suggestion
Here's a suggestion that just occurred to me.
I recently downloaded Stephen King's new e-book, Riding the Bullet, free from
Amazon.
To read this book, you also download the free reader program, Glassbook, which
offers simple navigation tools (similar to Acrobat Reader). However, the books
are e-locked, and you can print, but not copy the pages. While King's book is
offered free, other books are priced at various amounts for purchase/download.
Are any negotiations or deals in the work for more FK books? If so, maybe this
is one more way to add to the reasons why it should/could be done. It's
obviously much cheaper (no actual printing on paper and binding), it's easily
available to a lot of people, and I'll bet it would get a lot more exposure on
the Glassbook site.
If we could just get permission for use of the characters, think of all the Fan
Fiction novels and novellas that could be put out this way!
Comments, anyone?
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:26:00 -0500
From: mclisa@m.......
Subject: Nick flies to Hamilton
8 minutes. One more reason to hate the worst episode (imho) in the whole 3
seasons, Forward into the Past). There are lots more, and I can explain if
anyone's curious. But as to flying, aside from the obvious answer, that the
writers had heard of Hamilton as not too far from Toronto and didn't bother
to look at a map, I wonder if Nick has a helicopter somewhere? :) He does
keep a motorcycle in the loft ...
McLisa, who never met a kind of cheese she didn't like, unfortunately for my
diet :)
mclisa@m.......
Listowner Forkni-l, Fkfic-l, Fkv4s-l
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:00:41 -0500
From: "Brooks, Julia A." <BROOKJU@m.......>
Subject: FORKNI-L University
<after being impressed by the recent discusion topics>
Coming out of lurkdom to say that this list is as good as a university
education! The knowledge of the listees is incredible. Someone asks a
question and usually more than one person has the answer. Whether it be
biology, medicine, history, linqistics, geography, physics, computer,
religion, philosophy, criminology, or anything else - there is no shortage
of knowledge and experience on this list.
I am in awe. <giving a one woman standing ovation>
Julia B. (aka Brooksie) and Allie's Brook
forever Knightie crusader, Les Chevaliers de la Nuit
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:16:15 EST
From: TheLadyT@a.......
Subject: Re: Top of the Food Chain Review (Major Spoilers--Beware!)
Laura wrote:
<< I have the script. If anyone has dialog questions, I'll be happy to
look them up. I haven't actually seen the movie though, so some things
might be different. >>
Don't be disappointed when you see the movie--it's much funnier than the
script. (okay, that sounded wierd!) At the TIFF, they told us that much of
the dialogue was changed by the actors--for example, "The lumpy bumpy hilly
place outside of town" (or something like that); originally it was just
supposed to be "The hilly place outside of town" but one of the actors came
up with that longer thing and they all loved it so much they used it
throughout the rest of the movie!
Lora
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:28:46 -0800
From: "Tiffiney A. Petherbridge" <gugenhoffen@c.......>
Subject: Re: Top of the Food Chain Review (Major Spoilers--Beware!)
>Laura wrote:
<snip hack>
>Don't be disappointed when you see the movie--it's much funnier than the
>script. (okay, that sounded wierd!) At the TIFF,
<snip hack>
What about me?!?
Heheh. I know I came out of lurkdom for a stupid one line joke... you are all
welcome to thwap me at will.
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:35:26 -0000
From: Tracy Gooding <Tracy.Gooding@n.......>
Subject: Re: Nick flies to Hamilton
McLisa wrote on 22/03/00 16:26 GMT
<<8 minutes. One more reason to hate the worst episode (imho) in the whole 3
seasons, Forward into the Past.>>
But that's only Mach 0.5. <g> That was the first ep I ever saw, which might be
why I have an affection for it.
<snip><< I wonder if Nick has a helicopter somewhere? :)>>
Was it left over from 'Airwolf'? Sorry, I couldn't resist that. :)
Tracy
Tracy.Gooding@n.......
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:18:24 EST
From: Laudon1965@a.......
Subject: Re: YKYBWTMFKW
In a message dated 03/21/2000 7:36:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
agottfre@t....... writes:
<< ...you repeatedly watch a promo for a different TV series, in which a
Native man says, "500 years of BS does tend to tick you off"*, and you
start to wonder who would agree more strongly with that: Nick or Lacroix?
>>
500 years sounds more like Vachon, but I can't figure out who would be BSing
him.
Laurie of the Isles
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:01:53 EST
From: Laudon1965@a.......
Subject: Re: Supersonic vamp flight
In a message dated 03/22/2000 5:10:27 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
Tracy.Gooding@n....... writes:
<< Tracy
Physicist at large
>>
LOL Is that a title or a warning? I can see it now, kind of like Monty
Python's Blanc Mange that ate London "Look out! Physicist at large!" and
"The Physicist that Ate Tokyo". Or the little Taco Bell dog with the box
trap saying "Here physicist, physicist physicist." <g>
Laurie of the Isles
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:29:00 -0500
From: Marg Yamanaka <mytoronto@h.......>
Subject: Re: fanfic question...how fast can vampires fly???
KnghtWtch@a....... wrote:
The speed of sound is actually determined by the size of the
> 'aircraft.' A MD80, Boeing 747, and an F14 all have a different speed to
> break the sound barrier because of their size and weight. So if a human
> could fly, the speed would be a lot different.
Which begs the question, what fast would Nick be going when he broke
the sound barrier? Care to dig out your calculator and interpolate
for us?
BTW, if anyone needs help in completing their FK tape collection,
contact me off-list.
--
Marg, in Toronto, the City of the Knight <mytoronto@h.......>
Please visit the Upper Canada Connection -
A Canadian Tribute to Geraint Wyn Davies:
http://members.home.net/gwducc/index.htm
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:52:57 EST
From: Iamatchr2@a.......
Subject: Re: Lacroix's age
<< I do not believe we knew how old LaCroix was or anything about his origins
until 'A Fate Worse Than Death' in the second season. As a matter of fact,
based on the flashback scene in 'Dead Air', I was nearly convinced that he
*was* Oedipus and Janette had been with him from day one. I think the only
reference in any season that LaCroix made to his *ahem* well-preserved
status was in 'Killer Instinct' >>
Didn't Natalie reinforce the opinion of 2000 year old vampire in Ashes to
Ashes, when she spoke to Nick about Divia? Something to the effect of her
age, going after her father and no one being closer to him than Nick. (sorry
about the vague quote)
Is there nothing in canon?
That one sparked my interest.
Rosemary
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:07:38 EST
From: Libratsie@a.......
Subject: Re: Lacroix's age
My view is that LaCroix is "2000" as in the sense that we tend to round off long
numbers to make them more impressive, less impressive, or just easier to say.
Saying LaCroix is 2000 doesn't mean he's quite there yet, it is just easier to
say than, for example, LaCroix is 1951 (just going on the totally random age of
35 in 79 AD and using 1995 as the year his age was stated).
--Libs
**A Ratpacker is always ready for a game of CHEESY rationalization as long as
there's plenty of cheese left fer munchin'.**
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End of FORKNI-L Digest - 22 Mar 2000 (#2000-86)
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