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FORKNI-L Digest - 19 Jun 2002 to 20 Jun 2002 (#2002-182)

Thu, 20 Jun 2002

There are 22 messages totalling 538 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. squirrels & Nick's excuse (7)
  2. Nick's excuses:  Blackwing & Bad Blood (4)
  3. Ben Bass in Night Visions
  4. Nick feeling the weight of 800+ years
  5. Dead at Agincourt
  6. The Women of Forever Knight -- new web site (3)
  7. Hearts of Darkness
  8. Observation
  9. YKYBWTMFK
 10. How well did Nick know Urs? (2)

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Date:    Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:50:12 -0700
From:    "B. Stone" <STONEB@g.......>
Subject: squirrels & Nick's excuse

Libs!  You've seen squirrels at night?!  Wow.  We're over-run with them in
our little town here in the Midwest and I've never seen one out after dark.
There was one crazed squirrel who desperately kept trying to build a
nest in our big maple one evening about ten years ago at twilight.
S/he was quite inept--kept dropping sticks right and left.  But even
that one scampered off to dreamland by the time it was pitch dark.
Your suggestion that they might get chased out of their nests by
another animal makes good sense. Also, maybe city lights confuse them
and keep them up.  In our town, most people turn off their porch
lights by 9 or 10 (assuming they ever lit them in the first place)
and toddle off to beddy-bye.

The opossum has gradually extended its range (see Audubon field guide
for mammals).  They are now quite common in northern Illinois and
central Iowa.  (Maybe farther north, too, but I can personally vouch
for northern Illinois and central Iowa.)  Their little  bald ears and
tail tend to get frostbitten, but it doesn't faze them.  Who knows?
In a few more years, the vampires of Toronto will be able to yell--or
sip--"'possum".

Has anyone else seen a squirrel after dark?  Maybe Nick is better at excuses
than I thought.
        B. Stone
        stoneb@g.......

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Date:    Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:00:51 -0400
From:    Debbie Clarke <dittany121@h.......>
Subject: Re: squirrels & Nick's excuse

>Has anyone else seen a squirrel after dark?  Maybe Nick is better at
>excuses
>than I thought.
>         B. Stone
>         stoneb@g.......

Probably   a coon would    have been a  better  choice.  They are definitely
on the prowl at night  here in Toronto.

As for  Squirrels I don't know.   I have never noticed any around after dark
but then I don't have Nick's keen eyesight.    What I do know  is that
there  is   an endless supply of them and the ones who live in my area even
if they don't wander about all  night,  are most decidedly  up and about  by
the crack of dawn if not earlier.  That way   they can  eat up  the all the
seed in my birdfeeder  not to mention my birdfeeder itself  before the birds
get there.

Debbie   who is ashamed  to admit she has  been  out smarted  by the local
squirrel population  this year.


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Date:    Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:24:20 -0500
From:    Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@a.......>
Subject: Re: Nick's excuses:  Blackwing & Bad Blood

> B. Stone wrote:

> Toronto.  Maybe they have an unusual species of squirrel
> there.  Especially if
> the carouche (carouches?) have been busy....

well, they do have those really neat black squirrels. Maybe they're nocturnal?
<g>

Nancy Kaminski
from a place with only gray squirrels (with a few albinos thrown in)

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Date:    Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:29:15 -0400
From:    jmtof@j.......
Subject: Ben Bass in Night Visions

Yes, it was him.  He played a young med student in that one.

Jean
Pres, BBFC


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Date:    Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:57:07 -0000
From:    Barbara Vainio <bevainio@w.......>
Subject: Re: Nick's excuses:  Blackwing & Bad Blood

Libratsie wrote:

> So it is possible Nick not only has seen squirrels (Toronto seems to have
> a large population of them from what I've observed in the parks), but has
> had them run in front of his car before. Of course Screed may have been
> chasing it at the time <g>

Uh-oh, now you've done it!!  I had a sudden vision of Screed attaching bushy
little squirrel tails to his head gear.  Sort of a Davy Crockett look for
the carouche set :-)

Barb

>

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Date:    Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:23:51 -0400
From:    Brenda Bell <webwarren@e.......>
Subject: Re: squirrels & Nick's excuse

At 04:50 PM 6/19/2002 -0700, Barbara Stone wrote:

>The opossum has gradually extended its range (see Audubon field guide
>for mammals).  They are now quite common in northern Illinois and
>central Iowa.  (Maybe farther north, too,

I've seen them -- or at least road kill that once was them -- in New Jersey
and eastern Pennsylvania.

>Has anyone else seen a squirrel after dark?

IIRC, there are a couple of squirrel species that are specifically
nocturnal (the red squirrel and flying squirrel come to mind, but I might
be mistaken on both!), though they're not nearly as likely to be city
dwellers as the more common grayish squirrel.


Brenda F. Bell   webwarren@e.......   /nick TMana     IM: n2kye
Arctophile, computer addict, TREKker, stealth photographer...
         UA, PoCBS, FKPagan; Neon-Green GlowWorm
HugMistress of the Ger Bear Project https://members.tripod.com/~TMana/
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Visit the Fiendish Glow at http://home.earthlink.net/~webwarren/glow/

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Date:    Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:27:18 -0700
From:    StormBorn <thestormborn@m.......>
Subject: Re: Nick's excuses:  Blackwing & Bad Blood

Nick's excuses have required a lot of cheese; in the case of the knife in
Blackwing, a limburger sandwich with onions. <g>

But the squirrel discussion has me thinking, "Mmm, squirrel pot pie!"  I
must be channeling my inner carouche...

Molly/StormBorn
thestormborn@m.......
www.voluptuarium.net (I'm working on it, I'm working on it!)
"It's not fair!"  "You say that so often.  I wonder what your basis for
comparison is?" -Sarah and Jareth, Labyrinth


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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 03:08:44 -0400
From:    Dianne Bugg <ladylc@s.......>
Subject: Re: Nick's excuses:  Blackwing & Bad Blood

Nah, cause possums don't run.  They just lay down in the road and pretend to
be dead.  'Course, when the car runs over them, they stop pretending.
Reminds me of the old Southern joke.  Why did the chicken cross the road?
To show the possum it could be done.

Dianne
<grinning in the heart of Dixie>


> If he was in the Southern US, he could yell "'POSSUM!"<g>
>
> Libs

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 03:56:30 -0400
From:    Cecilia Long <celong@m.......>
Subject: Re: squirrels & Nick's excuse

>The opossum has gradually extended its range (see Audubon field guide
>for mammals).  They are now quite common in northern Illinois and
>central Iowa.  (Maybe farther north, too,


I have them up here in New Hampshire.  Possums...that is.. Squirrels too!
But I cant recall seeing any squirrels up here at night, And i camp a lot.

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 03:57:59 -0400
From:    Cecilia Long <celong@m.......>
Subject: Re: Nick feeling the weight of 800+ years

>I wonder why the Great One (LC) didn't see the potential in Schanke and
>make him his favorite Childe.  <jk>


I now the answer to that one...  Too much Garlic in the diet. I'll bet you
Schanke was immune!  ;-)

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:27:28 -0700
From:    StormBorn <thestormborn@m.......>
Subject: Dead at Agincourt

On a totally unrelated bit of research I came across the tidbit that the
Duke of Brabant was one of those who died at Agincourt.  Maybe the famously
incorrect reference to the "Battle of Hastings" was actually the "Battle at
Agincourt".  Cheese, anyone? <G>

Molly/StormBorn
thestormborn@m.......
www.voluptuarium.net (I'm working on it, I'm working on it!)
"It's not fair!"  "You say that so often.  I wonder what your basis for
comparison is?" -Sarah and Jareth, Labyrinth


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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:40:05 EDT
From:    DeanieBTVS@a.......
Subject: The Women of Forever Knight -- new web site

Hi all!  Just wanted to announce that I've created a brand new web site, and
this one is a tribute to those wonderful women of Forever Knight: Catherine
Disher, Deborah Duchene, Lisa Ryder, Natsuko Ohama, Kristin Lehman, Kathryn
Long, and Sandi Ross.

http://www.lisacaps.com/fkwomen/

Please take a look and let me know what you think.  Thanks!

Deanie

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:14:10 -0700
From:    Emily <emilymhanson@y.......>
Subject: Re: squirrels & Nick's excuse

I'm starting to think that a bat would have been a much better excuse for Nick.
At least, a flying bat at night would make more sense.  <g>


=====
Emily M. Hanson
My Home page - http://www.starbase-eprime.com
My Web Graphics - http://www.galaxyofimages.com

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:28:47 -0700
From:    Cloud <clouddancer@c.......>
Subject: Re: The Women of Forever Knight -- new web site

> Deanie wrote:
> http://www.lisacaps.com/fkwomen/
> Please take a look and let me know what you think.  Thanks!

You did a fantastic job, Deanie!

--
Cloud

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:12:01 EDT
From:    DanaKnight@a.......
Subject: Hearts of Darkness

When Tracy pulls back the sheet and sees the fang marks she has to be
wondering what Natalie and Nick thought. The way she looked back at them
right after seeing the bite marks make it somewhat clear that she knows they
saw them too.  It's almost as if she's wondering if Natalie and Nick suspect
or know the truth.

Judy

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:29:43 -0400
From:    Emily Lacey <laceye@a.......>
Subject: Observation

Is it just me, or do the FK shows seem to be all too short?
Now that I am unemployed, I can watch them...and all of a sudden it's
half over, and it just started.
--
Emily Lacey
laceye@a.......

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:46:29 -0700
From:    Megan Hull <mistrydder@y.......>
Subject: YKYBWTMFK

You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Forever Knight when... you're talking to
a friend with the TV on and the credits of a movie that's ending roll by, and
one says "Design and Construction of Tracy's Loft by..." and you not only notice
it, but you think, "Since when?!?!"
                       -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, 20 Jun 2002 12:18:00 -0400
From:    Paula Newman <ravensfyre@c.......>
Subject: How well did Nick know Urs?

Popping out of lurkdom....
Watching HoD I thought it rather odd that when Natalie pointed out that
Echarts killer was probably a female vampire he went straight to Vachon to
ask about Urs.  Its seemed as if he knew a part of her mortal history as a
victim of abuse and automatically assumed she would use her vampiric power
against someone who would remind her of her abusers.

Anyone have any thoughts why?  Or does anyone else see it differently?

My personal speculation is that maybe she had become his go to person for
sex after Janette had left.  Its just that we were never told about it.

Anyway, back to lurking.

Paula

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:57:42 -0700
From:    Jarvinia <jarvinia@g.......>
Subject: Re: squirrels & Nick's excuse

Actually, I've seen a fair number of squirrels out at night...and a lot of
squirel flavoured road kill.  There are a lot more out during the day, but
I'll also see some at night when I'm driving...almost hit one once, too, so
maybe Nick's excuse is at least possible, even if it is a little weak.  But
then, I'm in the Pacific Northwest, so it mught just be the area I'm in.

Where I am now...well, there's this albino squirrel that's just crazy.  With
all of the mention of Screed and carouches, I can't help but wonder if it's
had a few close encounters... :P

Jarvinia
jarvinia@g.......
http://gryffonslair.com/fk

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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:20:04 -0700
From:    Sunny LaCountess <countessa2000@y.......>
Subject: Re: The Women of Forever Knight -- new web site

Great page Deanie,
It's so nice to see a tribute page for the female
characters after all the sites and shrines dedicated to
males. And they are such talented actresses too. The page
looks beautiful. Thank you.

--Sunny


=====
LaCountess -- Twilight Knightie,IB,DT,UF,Cotk
http://www.lacountess.com/Fkmain.html

"Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and eskimos!"
--Homer Simpson


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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:50:49 -0700
From:    Sunny LaCountess <countessa2000@y.......>
Subject: Re: How well did Nick know Urs?

--- Paula Newman <ravensfyre@c.......> wrote:
> My personal speculation is that maybe she had become
> his go to person for sex after Janette had left.  Its
> just that we were never told about it.

I always wondered about that in season 3 too. I mean, in
seasons 1 and 2 they clearly showed where Nick went to
let some steam off. But what about after Janette left?
Isn't ‘not sharing blood’ for a long period of time for
vampires the equal to sex deprivation for humans? Maybe
that's the reason why he finally snapped in LK?

=====
LaCountess -- Twilight Knightie,IB,DT,UF,Cotk
http://www.lacountess.com/Fkmain.html

"Vampires are make believe, just like elves and gremlins and eskimos!"
--Homer Simpson


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Date:    Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:25:34 +0000
From:    Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@a.......>
Subject: Re: squirrels & Nick's excuse

Jarvinia mentioned albino squirrels, which made me think
about the white squirrels that live in my neighborhood.
THere's a handful of them that live in the oak trees on
the next street.

When I walk Carrie Ann, Warrior Dachshund, she naturally
keeps an eye out for squirrels to chase (as far as her
16-foot leash goes, at least). The squirrels in return
watch out for us, and usually glue themselves to tree
trunks and freeze so as not to draw attention to
themselves as we go by.

Now, this works well with gray squirrels. They're tree-
colored. But the albino ones---there they are, with
millions of years of squirrel survival tactics built
into their brains, glued to a tree, thinking, "I'm a
tree! I'm a tree!"---only they haven't factored in that
white fur. They look like snowballs plastered to the
gray tree trunks! If Carrie Ann could climb those trees
there would be fewer white squirrels in the world. <g>

So, do vampires dress in black so they can't be spotted
easily when flying around at night? Is that what those
opera capes are really for---to cover the blond hair so
they don't stand out while hovering outside windows?

Nancy Kaminski
--
nancykam@a.......
www.nancykam.com

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