FORKNI-L

FORKNI-L Digest - 28 Jul 2003 to 29 Jul 2003 (#2003-214)

Tue, 29 Jul 2003

There are 4 messages totalling 124 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Ben Bass
  2. Pets? (2)
  3. German language PAL FK tapes

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Date:    Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:32:00 -0400
From:    jmtof@j.......
Subject: Ben Bass

Ben will be doing "Othello" from September 26 - October 26 in Vancouver:

http://www.artsclub.com/20032004/onstage/othello.htm

He will be playing the character of Cassio.  Tickets are not yet
available but I thought I'd post a "heads up" for anyone wanting to
attend.

Jean,
Pres BBFC

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Date:    Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:11:36 +0800
From:    ell hase <relliza@h.......>
Subject: Re: Pets?

Hmm - how about this. I see the characters with the following pets:

Nick - definitely a dog guy. Probably has a "sidekick" dog like Rin Tin Tin
somewhere.
Nat - if she didn't have Sydney - she'd have a mongrel cat - fits very much
her urge to rescue.
LC - Big tarantula or bird eating spider- handy for freaking out lesser
beings too...if they weren't already scared out of their minds by The
General.
Janette - a white raven. Ravens are smart, menacing and a white raven is
rather distinctive for Janette.That it gels with her club name is just a
bonus.
Schanke - Jenny's school hamster. It came home one day and refused to leave
- so Schanke's stuck with it.
Capt Reese - has a half-trained pup at home that drives him bananas. Just
like the cooler - leaks when you don't want it to and never does what its
supposed to do.

Cheers,
Ell
I'm in charge of finding myself,
and I make sure it never happens - Adam Pierson

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Date:    Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:31:36 -0500
From:    Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@c.......>
Subject: Re: Pets?

> Megan Hull wrote:

> I can see him secretly keeping an 'attack cat'-- some huge,
> vicious alley cat that took a swipe at him one day.

Yeah! I imagine he'd secretly put out food for some tough old alleycat
that hangs around outside the Raven. I can imagine the two of them
staring each other down out back behind the trash cans. <g>

> Some mutt from the pound.  Yeah, it'd be Jenny's,
> officially.  I can also see Jenny having a cat, and Schanke
> not liking the animal at all.  (That could make a good story)

Absolutely a mutt, a big, shaggy, slobbery goofus of a dog with a tail
that keeps knocking stuff off the coffeetable! But I don't think Jenny
would have a cat, I think she'd have a tank of guppies in her room
that she could watch while she went to sleep. Sort of an animated
nightlight.

> Anything that doesn't require too much attention.  She
> probably had a hamster as a kid.

I'm seeing a cage full of gerbils here. Cut, fuzzy, and you can leave
them alone for a couple of days at a time without hurting them.

Nancy Kaminski
nancykam@c.......

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Date:    Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:23:45 -0500
From:    Amy <amilynh@c.......>
Subject: German language PAL FK tapes

I have a set of PAL tapes of FK that I got from a friend in Germany so I
could see the dubbed versions.  I have an NTSC-converted set so I can play
them on American machines, and would like to find a home for the PAL ones,
as it seems a shame to tape over or toss them, although I'm very close to
doing that.  There are 18 tapes with 3 episodes each--1st and 2nd
seasons.  I know that my NTSC copies of these were beautiful quality, so
the original PAL tapes must be lovely as well, though they are something
like 8 years old.

I checked at the post office and the box of tapes is either $24 or $37 to
mail to Europe.  I'm more than glad to send them for reimbursement of
postage alone, or in a bartering deal; I'd love to have the German DVDs of
Monsters, Inc., and Shrek (I can show them in classes and we have a way to
convert to Region 1).

Please reply to me OFFLIST if you are interested.  I'm at amilynh@c........

Thanks,
Amy (pitching the tapes after a week at this point)

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