In this issue:
Re: CHAT: Lord Buckley website
Re: CHAT: Lord Buckley website, WFMT
CHECK OUT DRACTOUR '99 TO TRANSYLVANIA (fwd)
Carroll B.'s parents
Re: OT: WWI specialists out there?
Magic Slippers...
Re: RE: CHAT: Frenchman's Creek
RE: RE: CHAT: Frenchman's Creek
Lionel Bart's _Quasimodo_
Monster of Lake LaMeterie
Re: Monster of Lake LaMeterie
Re: Magic Slippers...
Today in History - April 21
Re: Today in History - April 21
Haunted Lives?
Gaslight's upcoming etexts: <WAS: Re: Haunted Lives?>
Re: Gaslight's upcoming etexts: Mystery Technique
Norwegian stories????
Another little present from no-gooders
Hornblower
Chat: Frenchman's Creek & Others
Re: Chat: Frenchman's Creek & Others
Here we go again
Re: Here we go again---hoax!
Re: Here we go again
Re: Here we go again
Re: Here we go again---hoax!
Today in History - April 23
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jack Kolb <KOLB(at)UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: CHAT: Lord Buckley website
>Ah yes, WFMT--used to listen to it all the time, especially to their
>Saturday night catch-all show called "The Midnight Special." And Terkel
>is a magnificent interviewer. Though I never exactly saw eye-to-eye with
>Studs on political issues, I always liked the fact that he actually knew
>something about the people he interviewed, had read their books or was
>acquainted with their lives, and could talk with them at length (and in
>depth) about the subject at hand. He is the only interviewer I ever heard
>who is absolutely passionate about interviewing, who gets caught up in the
>process and the language, and who communicates a kind of joy in what he is
>doing that is infectious. I remember, too, that he sometimes gives
>readings on his show--around Christmas time. His reading of Faulkner's
>"The Bear" is exceptional (it helps that Studs used to be an actor).
Just one more post, Stephen {grin}.
Yes, Terkel is an unreconstructed radical--a good thing, frankly, to have
around these days, though I agree to disagree with his views. He's one of
the greatest interviewers still alive.
The Midnight Special is still a great show, though to this aging Chicagoan
the older skits and songs seem far superior to the new.
Warm thanks, to Bob and all here, for this indulgence. Jack
Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb(at)ucla.edu
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:23:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jack Kolb <KOLB(at)UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: CHAT: Lord Buckley website, WFMT Sorry, Carroll: I forgot to respond to your kind letter in my earlier response. I was born in Lying-In Hospital (at the University of Chicago), much too early for my mother (who occasionally listens to the Midnight Special) to have heard it. Cheers, Jack (kolb(at)ucla.edu) >Oh, Chicago, WFMT, Studs Terkel! > >I was born at Michael Reese Hospital, and my daughter Kate was born at >Michael Reese Hospital, and I may still have the WFMT program guide for the >night/day I was in labor. I insisted on taking the radio with me, and >concentrated more on the musical offerings than I did on Natural >Childbirth (as it was then) breathing. No wonder I have a musical >daughter. > > > >Carroll > > >
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:57:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: CHECK OUT DRACTOUR '99 TO TRANSYLVANIA (fwd)
I'm not a big _Dracula_ fan or a fan of Bram Stoker, so I was
surprised when this post arrived in my box today. Knowing
that there are fans of both book and author on the list, however,
I figured someone might be tempted.
<<
Your name was referred to us as a Dracula FANatic and someone thought you
would be interested in this TOUR information.............
Should you wish to be removed from this list, simply click "respond" and type
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If you know of anyone who would appreciate being added to this ever growing
mailing list, simply request the addition to DracTour or feel free to forward
this mailing yourself.
DRACULATOUR '99
is the Ultimate VAMPIRE VACATION and you're invited !
Join fellow fans, fiends & friends of all ages on the horrorific one-week
tour package
SEPTEMBER 29-OCTOBER 5
to the "unholy" land: TRANSYLVANIA!!
This 2nd annual "Tour of Terror" is hosted by TV's cool ghoul, Zacherley
along with Chiller Theatre. Here are some highlights of this pre-Halloween
travel adventure:
*Professionally Escorted Guided Tour following in the footsteps of
Jonathan Harker's trail from BRAM STOKER's "DRACULA"
*Masquerade Ball (with Scariest & Sexiest Costume Contest)
*Vampire Show & Overnight Lodging at Dracula's Castle in Transylvania
*Scare-You-Out-Of-Your-Wits Bonfire
*Midnight Haunted Graveyard Gatherings
*Visit to Dracula's birthplace and Bran Castle (built in 1377)
*Visit to the "Museum of Torture"
*Shopping at the Gypsy Flea Market
*"Dracula: The Walk" tour
*Monster memorabilia auction and Terrific Trivia competition
plus much much more!
It's open to all ages and includes round-trip airfare, all transfers, ground
transportation aboard luxury coaches, breakfasts, some dinners,
and all events, attractions, admissions and parties.
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Visit our website to read about our last DraculaTour (complete with photo
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click here:
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We are also having a similar Haunted Halloween Holiday Oct. 28-Nov. 3 for
those of you who can't make the first one, or if you'd like to actually spend
Halloween week in Transylvania. Please inquire for more details.
If you have a Dracula or related webpage, or know any cool ones, please ask
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Thank you for your interest and we look forward to providing you with further
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:34:11 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Carroll B.'s parents
Carroll,
I have to ask: who are your parents and what book did they write?
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) on 04/13/99 04:01:28 AM
Please respond to gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
cc: (bcc: Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC)
Subject: Re: Etext avail: five old etexts resurrected and
Wister
Thanks to all of you. I have been looking at all this through
blinkered eyes since my parents wrote a children's book which was
published in 1938 and goes from strength to strength. The copyright
has been well protected, thank the gods and a superb copyright lawyer
whom I met at a critical time.
On the other hand, it occurs to me I or someone could now publish on
the Internet my father's first children's book, which is certainly in
the public domain by any standard. How do you do that if it's not in
the Gaslight period?
Carroll
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:17:28 -0400 From: "James D. Hake" <jdh(at)apk.net> Subject: Re: OT: WWI specialists out there? At 08:56 AM 4/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >Can any of you folks who know a lot about WWI or 20th Century >military history direct me to someone who'd know about the Scots >troops in WWI? I'm trying to find the source and a complete >version of a supposedly offensive quotation about the Jocks >"skiting too much". Kiwi, There is a WWI mailing list and someone there might be able to help. List owner is Steve.Baldwin(at)telematics.com -- I don't have subscribe instructions. Regards, Jim jdh(at)apk.net A Thousand Roads to Mecca - Ten Centuries of Traveler's Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage (Library) (338) Sixteen Short Novels [ ] (259) Rhetoric/Poetics - Aristotle (60) Patriots by A.J. Langguth, (162) Reporting World War 2 - Part 2 (Library of America), 516 What's the Worst that could Happen by Donald Westlake (60) Recent Acquisitions Note -- Most books removed from the reading list available for barter/trade/sale
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:58:03 -0500 (CDT) From: AJ Wright <MEDS002(at)UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU> Subject: Magic Slippers... Greetings Gaslighters...I come to you now to test the knowledge of this assembled brain trust...one of my current research projects involves an itinerant medical/scientific showman who toured the U.S. ca. 1845-48..in newspaper accounts of his show's run in Mobile, Alabama, in March-April 1848 the author refers to the "magic slippers" demonstration which apparently amused the audience a great deal. Unfortunately, the author gives no clue as to the nature of this part of the program...any ideas? Any cites to discussions in the literature? Is this a magic trick or something?? Any help/ hints greatly appreciated..... AJ Wright, MLS Dept of Anesthesiology Library School of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Medical History on the Internet http://www.anes.uab.edu/medhist.htm
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:19:47 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: RE: CHAT: Frenchman's Creek A belated thank you to Michelle for the DuMaurier verification. Patricia A. Teter >>> "Marcella, Michelle E" <MMARCELLA(at)PARTNERS.ORG> 4/16/99 7:33:44 AM >>> it is DuMaurier's. Her son just recently completed a production of it for, I think, British TV.
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:33:37 -0400 From: "Marcella, Michelle E" <MMARCELLA(at)PARTNERS.ORG> Subject: RE: RE: CHAT: Frenchman's Creek You're welcome Patricia. For all who are interested in DuMaurier, there is a small but wonderful article in March's issue of Victoria magazine that highlights DuMaurier's childhood home in Cornwall. Ferryside in now the family home of her son Christian "Kits" Browning. I don't think its open to the public, but the photos are beautiful. Sigh. By the way, the Frenchman's Creek production will be airing on PBS sometime later this year. Michelle Marcella > -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia Teter [SMTP:PTeter(at)getty.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 3:20 PM > To: gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA > Subject: Re: RE: CHAT: Frenchman's Creek > > > A belated thank you to Michelle for the DuMaurier > verification. > > Patricia A. Teter > > > >>> "Marcella, Michelle E" <MMARCELLA(at)PARTNERS.ORG> 4/16/99 7:33:44 AM > >>> > it is DuMaurier's. Her son just recently completed a production of it > for, I think, British TV. > >
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:11:23 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Lionel Bart's _Quasimodo_
After the late Lionel Bart got over the regret of selling off the rights to
_Oliver_, he tried setting another 19thC novel to music:
_The hunchback of Notre Dame_. The musical was called _Quasimodo_, and I
understand he tried to mount a production of it several times.
Has anyone heard of this play?
Stephen D
mailto:sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:27:04 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Monster of Lake LaMeterie I finally had a chance to look at this a little just for the images, at the least. Is that supposed to be a pleisiosaurus? The head is very, very interesting! (haha) I wonder why all the Legendary lake dwelling prehistoric monsters are usually pleisiosaurs? Not knowing exactly when many of the bones of these creatures were named and deterimined (many of them in the 19th century) I was wondering if pleisiosaurs were just a popular kind of Victorian dino and therefore the favorite candidate since there are numerous kinds of aquatic prehistoric creatures that could fit the bill. Of course we might notice more if Loch Ness or Lake LaMeterie had a pliosaurus, a rather nasty combination of crocodile and dolphin-like body and was also considered one of the fiercest predators of its time. There'd be a few more things...missing...then. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:41:20 -0500 From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu> Subject: Re: Monster of Lake LaMeterie >>> Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> 04/21/99 10:27AM >>> >I finally had a chance to look at this a little just for the images, at the >least. Is that supposed to be a pleisiosaurus? I can't recall for the life of me what sort of dinosaur the story said it was, but I looked them up when I read the story . They were genuine aquatic dinos, and the cryptozoologists try to claim that some of them have indeed survived (some monster in one of the Great Lakes, for instance). I don't think the illustration was quite accurate as to the critter's appearance, though. Kiwi Carlisle carlislc(at)psychiatry.wustl.edu
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:12:45 -0700
From: Robert Birchard <bbirchard(at)earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Magic Slippers...
I can't supply anything on the Magic Slippers, but my old friend Irvin
Willat, who later bacame a film director, had vivid memories of a medicine show
coming to town when he was a boy. The part of the presentati that stuck with
him
throughout his life was the "Doctor" holding up a sprig of parsley and saying
something like: "Ladies and Gentleman, this is a sprig of parsley. Everyone
gets
it on his plate and everyone throws it away. But, ladies and gentlemen, I am
here to tell you that this lowly sprig of arsley is the only known food fource
of
that element that every body needs . . . Copper!"
Irvin told me that he never threw away his parsley after that day.
There was a performer years ago, Earle Hodgins, who made a career of
emulating mdicine showmen in a comic vein. He first gained attention on Los
Angeles radio with his pitches for the imaginary Weepah Indian Remedy. Many of
the phrases we associate with medicine show barkers, like: "Get away, boy, you
bother me," come from Hodgins's routines.
He appeared in Westerns for years--first in one of the John Wayne
Monograms--and later in several Gene Autry pictures. Probably his greatest
moment
on scren was in the Hopalong Cassidy picture "Santa Fe Marshal."
At one point he is reading an "unsolicited testimonial" that goes something
like: "I used to have insomnia--couldn't sleep at all--until I discovered
Zerbo.
Now I lie awake nights thinking of how I used to suffer!"
AJ Wright wrote:
> Greetings Gaslighters...I come to you now to test the knowledge of this
> assembled brain trust...one of my current research projects involves an
> itinerant medical/scientific showman who toured the U.S. ca. 1845-48..in
> newspaper accounts of his show's run in Mobile, Alabama, in March-April 1848
> the author refers to the "magic slippers" demonstration which apparently
> amused the audience a great deal. Unfortunately, the author gives no clue
> as to the nature of this part of the program...any ideas? Any cites to
> discussions in the literature? Is this a magic trick or something?? Any help/
> hints greatly appreciated.....
>
> AJ Wright, MLS
> Dept of Anesthesiology Library
> School of Medicine
> University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
>
> Medical History on the Internet
> http://www.anes.uab.edu/medhist.htm
- --
Bob Birchard
bbirchard(at)earthlink.net
http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/Guest/birchard.htm
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:14:08 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 21
1828
Noah Webster publishes the first American dictionary.
1836
General Sam Houston defeats Santa Ana at the Battle of San
Jacinto. Texas wins
independence from Mexico. [According to legend, Santa Ana
was distracted by a
mulatto, or "yellow" prostitute, who came to be celebrated
in song as "The Yellow Rose
of Texas"]
1862
Congress establishes the U.S. Mint.
1865
Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington.
1898
The Spanish-American War begins.
1916
Bill Carlisle, the infamous ?last train robber,? robs a
train in Hanna, Wyoming.
1914
U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico. They will stay six
months.
1918
German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, ?The Red Baron,*
is shot down and killed.
He is replaced with Hermann Goering.
Born on April 21
1782
Friedrich Froebel, founder of kindergarten
1816
Charlotte Bronte, novelist, writer of Jane Eyre
1838
John Muir, naturalist, discovered glaciers in the High
Sierras
1849
Oskar Hertwig, embryologist, discovered fertilization
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:31:37 -0700
From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu>
Subject: Re: Today in History - April 21
Jerry wrote: <<1836
General Sam Houston defeats Santa Ana at the Battle of San
Jacinto. Texas wins
independence from Mexico. [According to legend, Santa Ana
was distracted by a
mulatto, or "yellow" prostitute, who came to be celebrated
in song as "The Yellow Rose
of Texas"]
Jerry, thanks for the Yellow Rose of Texas explanation.
Great legend! <g>
Patricia
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Haunted Lives?
I find that I'm beginning to forget the story. Any more chapters in
sight?
Bob C.
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rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:09:47 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Gaslight's upcoming etexts: <WAS: Re: Haunted Lives?>
Bob,
_Haunted Lives_ is alive and well. The next instalment is at the proofers.
Additionally, Deborah McMillion is preparing more etexts for our annual
Southern U.S. trip.
I am completing some Norwegian stories by Jonas Lie, another dime novel, an
article about Lundy's Lane, and am contemplating Oliphant's _Beleaguered city_
which arrived thru ILL this week.
I have to explain that I have a monumental amount of work 95% accomplished
on a laptop which I was borrowing from the College and which had to be
temporarily given back during the end of semester crunch for students to use in
their presentation. Said laptop will now not wake up.
In limbo are three versions of H.G. Wells' _Time machine_, stories by Grant
Allen, and the excellent novel _Geoffrey Hampstead_ by T.S. Jarvis, among
others.
Stephen D
mailto:sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:20:49 -0600 (MDT) From: "p.h.wood" <woodph(at)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Gaslight's upcoming etexts: Mystery Technique Are we ever likely to get the final nineteen chapters of Carolyn Wells's book, or have I missed them? Peter Wood
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:19:54 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Norwegian stories???? > > I am completing some Norwegian stories by Jonas Lie, another dime novel, an >article about Lundy's Lane, and am contemplating Oliphant's _Beleaguered city_ >which arrived thru ILL this week. > > ERm, Norwegian stories? about salmon or herring? My mother's side of the family is from Norway. They never told stories! Are these ghost stories? (ghostly salmon and herring? <G>) mysteries? anyone from Tvestesrand? My 90 year old mother is visiting me and was surprised to see that Norwegian stories would be soon on the website. Who the heck was Jonas Lie? and is he related to any Jensens? <G> Linda Anderson whose husband is Swedish but she isn't
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:58:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Another little present from no-gooders
The gremlins of the computer world have been at it again, as the above
Reuters article makes clear. Watch yourself on Monday, mes amis.
Bob C. (finishing the evening by listening to Kiri Te Kanawa sing
Puccini. She's great!)
Nasty PC Virus Set To Hit Monday
By Dick Satran
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (April 22) -- A virus that can wipe out all the data on a
personal computer's hard drive and even make it impossible to start
programs up is set to hit next Monday, security experts warned.
The virus is a malicious piece of software code that has been turning up
in PCs for months, but the version that will strike Monday is the
most-feared variation.
The so-called CIH or ''space filler'' virus originated in Asia last
summer and hits on the 26th of each month. The CIH 1.2 that appears only
once a year in April is the ''most prevalent and dangerous'' form of the
virus, said Sal Viveros, marketing vice president for Network Associates
Inc., the largest computer security company.
The CIH virus is far more dangerous to individual computers than Melissa,
the much publicized bug that spread relatively benign problems far and
wide on the Internet last month.
The CIH virus can irretrievably destroy data on a user's computer, and
even make the machine inoperable, while Melissa only really caused
embarrassment, by sending a list of porn sites from a target computer's
e-mail address book, and tied up some corporate e-mail systems with
traffic.
The CIH gets the name ''space filler'' because it uses a special technique
that secretly fills file space on computers and thwarts many of the
anti-virus softwares in place before its arrival. The virus is also called
the Chernobyl virus because it's timed to go off on the anniversary of the
Russian nuclear accident, one of technology's worst disasters.
The virus is designed to hide from view by inserting itself into empty
coding slots on a computer's software utilities. Viruses are often
detected because they use up extra space on hard drives, but the ''space
filler'' helps CIH avoid that traditional method of detection. It can lie
dormant for months before causing damage.
The April version of the virus is particularly damaging because it can
also keep a computer from starting up by infecting the software on which
all the PC's programs depend, the basic input/output system, or BIOS. If
the BIOS is infected, the computer will not start.
Most up-to-date anti-virus software will spot the bug, if it's there, and
many corporate computers have recently upgraded their protection due to
the Melissa scare, said Network Associates' Viveros.
The biggest impact is likely to be on home computers, said Viveros, who
added that computer users can download an anti-virus program free of
charge from his company's site (http://www.nai.com/). The virus is spread
by e-mail over the Internet or in pirated software. It infects Windows 95
and Windows 98 files.
''People should make sure they have the latest antivirus software run on
their computers,'' said Bill Pollak, of Carnegie Mellon's Software
Engineering Institute, which runs the Computer Emergency Response Team, or
CERT. The center has already prepared an ''incident'' note that it will
put on its site (http://www.cert.org).
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:34:31 -0500 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Hornblower Since everyone likes the new series so much, I thought I'd pass on this link. A&E has a page up about Horatio Hornblower, with message boards, information, and all sorts of things. Here's the link: http://www.aetv.com/Hornblower/ Marta
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:18:15 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Chat: Frenchman's Creek & Others New Yorker of 4/26 and May 3 (double issue) has ad for Frenchman's Creek on Masterpiece Theatre Sunday, April 25 at 9 on PBS (check local listings) in color on page 179, and facing it, on page 178 the following Mobil Masterpiece Theatre schedule: 4/25 Frenchman's Creek 5/9 and 10 Great Expectations 5/16 and 23 Moll Flanders 5/20 Goodnight Mister Tom 6/6 Tenant of Wildfell Hall 6/13 Wuthering Heights 6/20 The Woman in White ...of which The Woman in White is the one I don't want to miss. What, do you suppose, is "Goodnight Mister Tom"? A version of Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer? Surely not Tom Jones? Carroll
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:40:22 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Chat: Frenchman's Creek & Others >5/16 and 23 Moll Flanders >6/6 Tenant of Wildfell Hall >6/13 Wuthering Heights >6/20 The Woman in White These are all repeats, are they not? >...of which The Woman in White is the one I don't want to miss. I know a lot of list members were disappointed in this version because of the modern 'abuse' elements that were added and Fosco not being nearly so insidious. But it nevertheless captures enough of the creepiness and I think Tara King did a fine job as Marion. She also plays the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and that one was definitely more to the book--a very creepy story. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:10:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Here we go again
My sister e-mailed the following message to me a few minutes ago; it comes
from the company she works for (Ace Hardware):
<<
If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO
NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.
This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about
it. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM;
please share it with everyone that might access the internet.<<
Bob C.
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rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:23:21 -0500
From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: Here we go again---hoax!
Please see www.kumite.com for this and other hoaxes.
This one has been around as an acknowledged hoax for a few months. The CIC one
is real, however, so everyone should
be very careful of what they download. BTW, folks, be
certain to verify ANYTHING you receive that includes the words
"send this to everyone you know on the Internet", as this
phrase appears in nearly all hoaxes, including the Craig
Shergold and Chocolate Chip Cookie ULs.
Kiwi Carlisle
carlislc(at)psychiatry.wustl.edu
>>> Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu> 04/23/99 12:10PM >>>
My sister e-mailed the following message to me a few minutes ago; it comes
from the company she works for (Ace Hardware):
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If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO
NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.
This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about
it. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM;
please share it with everyone that might access the internet.<<
Bob C.
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Robert L. Champ
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Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:36:44 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Here we go again >If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO >NOT open it. I think I'd be able to resist that one, Bob.... Carroll
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:33:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Here we go again
At 01:10 PM 4/23/99 -0400, Bob C. wrote:
>My sister e-mailed the following message to me a few minutes ago; it comes
>from the company she works for (Ace Hardware):
>
><<
>If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO
>NOT open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive.
>This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about
>it. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM;
>please share it with everyone that might access the internet.<<
>
I had thought that this perhaps was another internet hoax, but it
appears that the virus in question (CIH?) is 100% real. At least my resident
CS friends think so. Don't know about the subject header.
James
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:38:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Rogers <jetan(at)ionet.net>
Subject: Re: Here we go again---hoax!
At 12:23 PM 4/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Please see www.kumite.com for this and other hoaxes.
>
>This one has been around as an acknowledged hoax for a few months. The CIC
one is real, however, so everyone should
>be very careful of what they download. BTW, folks, be
>certain to verify ANYTHING you receive that includes the words
>"send this to everyone you know on the Internet", as this
>phrase appears in nearly all hoaxes, including the Craig
>Shergold and Chocolate Chip Cookie ULs.
>
>Kiwi Carlisle
>
Well, I don't think just downloading an e-mail can infect
anything. As I recall one has to actually execute or open an attachment, no?
James
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:11:22 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - April 23
1826
Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1856
Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery
sheriff Samuel Jones in
the back.
1865
Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate
forces in Henderson, North
Carolina and Munsford Station, Alalbama.
1895
Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the
Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896
Motion pictures premiere in New York City.
1915
ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA),
the forerunner of
NASA.
Born on April 23
1791
James Buchanan, fifteenth U.S. president and only president
not to marry.
1813
Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant" who debated Abraham
Lincoln for a seat on the U.S.
Senate and later lost to Lincoln for the presidency of the
United States.
1897
Lucius D Clay, U.S. military governor of occupied Berlin who
promoted German self
government.
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