From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #134 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/134 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 134 Today's Topics: [B7L] start one war, other help. Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... RE: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Re: [B7L] one for the weekend Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Fw: [B7L] IMIPAC Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Re: [B7L] The vacationer returns (long) Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault [B7L] Re: Liberator insurance application Re: [B7L]: Drink colours (was Liberator design fault) Re: [B7L] B7-B5 links RE: [B7L]: Drink colours (was Liberator design fault) RE: [B7L] B7-B5 links RE: [B7L]: Drink colours (was Liberator design fault) Re: [B7L] one for the weekend Re: [B7L] IMIPAC [B7L] Ashton Press Zines, Website [B7L] You Wondrous People!!! [B7L] B7 Web Ring Administrator... [B7L] Another new B7 zine [B7L] Well, now... [B7L] [B7] Fandoms RE: [B7L] Well, now... Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Re: [B7L] Well, now... Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) [B7L] Way, way off topic. OS wars related Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 98 02:40:33 BST From: pdbean@argonet.co.uk (Patrick Bean) To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] start one war, other help. Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain It would have been nice to have seen the people from 'space world' involved in the inter-galactic war, after all it was there galaxy as well. A few of the small ships that attacked the Liberator in 'Redemption' could have done a lot of damage. But then again if it had been to easy a win the federation would not have been damaged enough. Just out of interest, has any fan fiction been written involving 'space world'? -- __ __ __ __ __ ___ _____________________________________________ |__||__)/ __/ \|\ ||_ | / pdbean@argonet.co.uk (Patrick David Bean) | || \\__/\__/| \||__ | /...Internet access for all Acorn RISC machines ___________________________/ Web http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/pdbean ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 18:13:48 +0100 (BST) From: Iain Coleman To: Lysator Subject: Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jay McGuigan wrote: > > ---Una McCormack wrote: > > > > OK, here's a nice retentive game for the weekend. > > > > In which episodes of B7 is the *entire* episode title spoken, fully, > > correctly, and without being mangled? > > > Okay, I'll have a go. Off the top of my head here's a few. These are > probably the most blatantly obvious ones, but I only have a few tapes > to work with . > > "Project Avalon" > "Trial" > "Star One" > "Gold" > "Blake" > > And I'm not totally sure about, but I think: > > "Duel" > "Terminal" > "Orbit" > Surely also "Cygnus Alpha" "Deliverance" "Orac" "Redemption" "Shadow" "Weapon" "Horizon" "Countdown" "Volcano" "City on the Edge of the World" "Sarcophagus" "Ultraworld" "Deathwatch" "Moloch" "Power" "Stardrive" "Animals" "Assassin" "Games" "Sand" I'm not entirely sure about "Ultraworld", but I have no intention of watching it again just to find out. By the way, Una, did you mean "rententive" as in retentive memory, or in some more psychoanalytic sense? Iain ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 20:50:10 +-200 From: Jacqueline Thijsen To: "blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: RE: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Message-Id: <01BD79F9.BD3003A0@nl-arn-lap0063> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -----Original Message----- From: Julie Horner [SMTP:julie@ipsys.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 9:46 AM To: abasart@dnai.com Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault ----- Begin Included Message ----- From abasart@dnai.com Wed May 6 15:42 BST 1998 From: "Ann Basart" >Not just seatbelts: where does the crew eat? how do they prepare their >food? ...but I'd love to have the Liberator, nonetheless. ----- End Included Message ----- Difference is we KNOW they don't have seatbelts because we see the effects - though I assume seatbelts were non-standard in Federation ships too as I don't remember any of the crew saying: "Hey look at this death-trap it has no seatbelts, Avon you had better design some" (Though hang on I think they probably did have something of the sort in the London) However, we don't actually know they have no facilities for dining and cooking, just that they are never shown. I guess the writers thought we wouldn't be interested in such everyday matters but I find that strange because for me food is a passion and I like to speculate what they would eat. Does anyone know of fan-fic that covers this subject - apart from the excellent Cheeseboard which I have already read? Julie Horner At the Star Trek convention someone asked one of the stars (Kate Mulgrew) where the toilet was on the voyager. The answer was "I'm still looking for it myself". Do you think all crews of spaceships go on shoreleave all the time just so they can go to the can? Jacqueline Thijsen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 98 18:37:46 BST From: pdbean@argonet.co.uk (Patrick Bean) To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] one for the weekend Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain > In which episodes of 87 is the *entire* episode title spoken; ok. Sygnes Alpha, The Web, Duel, Project Avalon, bounty*, Deliverance, Orac, Redemption, Shadow, Weapon*, Horizon, Trial*, Countdown*, star one, Volcano, Harvest of Kirios, City at the edge of the world, Ultraworld, Moloc, death-watch, Terminal, animals, stardrive, assassin*, gold, Blake, The ones woth stars. the title was only used only as part of the phrase, as in 'Bounty hunters' -- __ __ __ __ __ ___ _____________________________________________ |__||__)/ __/ \|\ ||_ | / pdbean@argonet.co.uk (Patrick David Bean) | || \\__/\__/| \||__ | /...Internet access for all Acorn RISC machines ___________________________/ Web http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/pdbean ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 14:53:29 -0500 From: "Reuben Herfindahl" To: Subject: Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Message-ID: <008e01bd79f1$cee7aa10$660114ac@misnt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: Taylor, Steve [MIS] To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 4:35 AM Subject: Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault >Julie said: > > ->However, we don't actually know they have no facilities > ->for dining and cooking, just that they are never shown. > ->I guess the writers thought we wouldn't be interested in > ->such everyday matters but I find that strange because > ->for me food is a passion and I like to speculate what > ->they would eat. > -> > >On the same lines - why are drinks in SF programs always silly colours >like green? > >Pan galactic Gargleblasters in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy for >example I think are gree/blue? > It would appear that in most SF's vision of the future, beer doesn't exist anymore. Given that, imagine if bars or clubs didn't serve beer an all you knew about alcohol was what you saw people getting served. Let's also factor the semi-alcoholic bar regulars that just sit at the bar and drink, they seem to rarely exist in televised SF. So what your left with is the maybe once a week or even once a month or less bar visitors. Even in today's bars/clubs this crowd is the one most likely to order a fruity drink (like a margarita) or something colorful, lime Vodka, a weaker mixed drink (sex on the beach, raspberry kamies, etc..). So maybe the presumption is not a bad one (okay, it works for colors, not so much green/blue, etc...) Reuben recovering barkeeper ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 21:10:40 +0100 From: "Kate Gordon" To: "Blakes 7" Subject: Fw: [B7L] IMIPAC Message-ID: <003301bd79f4$601aeb80$7de107c3@doofer> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002C_01BD79FC.970441C0" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01BD79FC.970441C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On the subject of fan clubs... I was a LPF member ( and remember proudly = covering my membership card with a gold stickers saying 'year 1,2,3,4 = etc).But whatever happened to Orac-LE? I never did understand what those = 2 letters meant.Ah... those hazy crazy days of the 80's when there = were more B7 fan clubs than I knew what to do with...and the Beeb used = to send you wad loads of information in huge brown envelopes... Kate Gordon >Was anyone on this list ever a member of Imipac? It was a UK B7 fan = club in the 80s run >by Chris Clarke, I think, I was a member by = correspondence from here in New Zealand.... =20 Lucas=20 ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01BD79FC.970441C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On the subject of fan clubs... I was a = LPF member (=20 and remember proudly covering my membership card with a gold stickers = saying=20 'year 1,2,3,4 etc).But whatever happened to Orac-LE? I never did = understand what=20 those 2  letters meant.Ah...  those hazy crazy days of the = 80's when=20 there were more B7 fan clubs than I knew what to do with...and the Beeb = used to=20 send you wad loads of information in huge brown = envelopes...
Kate Gordon
>Was anyone on this list ever a = member of=20 Imipac? It was a UK B7 fan club in the 80s run >by Chris Clarke, I = think, I=20 was a member by correspondence from here in New Zealand....
 
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------=_NextPart_000_002C_01BD79FC.970441C0-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 13:46:38 -0700 From: Helen Krummenacker To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Message-ID: <35521DAF.1BAF@jps.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reuben Herfindahl wrote: > > > >On the same lines - why are drinks in SF programs always silly colours > >like green? > > > >Pan galactic Gargleblasters in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy for > >example I think are gree/blue? > > > It would appear that in most SF's vision of the future, beer doesn't exist > anymore. Given that, imagine if bars or clubs didn't serve beer an all you > knew about alcohol was what you saw people getting served. Let's also > factor the semi-alcoholic bar regulars that just sit at the bar and drink, > they seem to rarely exist in televised SF. So what your left with is the > maybe once a week or even once a month or less bar visitors. Even in > today's bars/clubs this crowd is the one most likely to order a fruity drink > (like a margarita) or something colorful, lime Vodka, a weaker mixed drink > (sex on the beach, raspberry kamies, etc..). So maybe the presumption is > not a bad one (okay, it works for colors, not so much green/blue, etc...) > > Reuben > recovering barkeeper Okay, it depends.... In Red Dwarf they drink beer, well, mostly lager. Pangalactic Gargleblasters, if memory serves are made from fermented garbage among nastier things. Green is perhaps representative of the color a humanoid would turn after drinking it. In Blake's 7, I believe Dorian stocked red wine. (at least in the novelization-- I don't remeber whether it was seen or not). Adrenaline and soma is not alcohol. I have no idea what color adrenaline is, and soma is usually dispensed as white tablets. Sounds like a useful painkiller, I'm not sure if you can absorb adreneline through drinking (anyone know?) and I certainly don't think it would naturally be bright green, but considering we're talking about medical substances, perhaps they've been colored to make it easy to grab the right vial when you've got a first aid emergency on hand. Why anyone besides the crew of the Liberator, who had no alcohol on board, would drink such a concoction is beyond me... who knows what those other green drinks might have been? Maybe Servalan shot Hal Mellanby because she didn't trust his green beverages. --Helen, A.S.K.S. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 21:13:46 +0100 From: "Ian Lay" To: "Jay McGuigan" , "Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... Message-ID: <01bd79f4$a4234d40$f2dadec2@pacific-cc.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jat wrote: >Okay, I'll have a go. Off the top of my head here's a few. These are >probably the most blatantly obvious ones, but I only have a few tapes >to work with . > >"Project Avalon" >"Trial" >"Star One" >"Gold" >"Blake" Alll correct. > >And I'm not totally sure about, but I think: > >"Duel" >"Terminal" >"Orbit" > And also correct. Add these for good measure: Cygnus Alpha, Deliverence, Orac, Shadow, Weopen, Horizon, Hostage, Countdown (I think), The Keeper, Star One, Volcano, The Harvest of Kairos, City at the edge of the World, Ultraworld, Moloch, Deathwatch, Stardrive, Animals, Assassin, Games, Sand. There may be more... but I'd have to double check. Take care, ------------------------------------------------------------- Ian "We are champions, mate" Lay /// :-) \\\ Watford Internet Football Club ian@pacific-cc.demon.co.uk or wifc@wfc.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 21:29:41 +0100 From: "Ian Lay" To: "Iain Coleman" , "Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... Message-ID: <01bd79f6$dd414580$f2dadec2@pacific-cc.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Iain wrote: >Surely also >"Sarcophagus" Not sure about that one. Can't remember the part where it says that. But you may be right. >I'm not entirely sure about "Ultraworld", but I have no intention of >watching it again just to find out. Be sure... it is definately mentioned. Take care, ------------------------------------------------------------- Ian "We are champions, mate" Lay /// :-) \\\ Watford Internet Football Club ian@pacific-cc.demon.co.uk or wifc@wfc.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 10:45:25 +1000 From: Bill Billingsley To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980508104525.006bb8cc@rabbit> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:22 7/05/98 +0100, Steve Taylor wrote: >Julie said: > > ->However, we don't actually know they have no facilities > ->for dining and cooking, just that they are never shown. > ->I guess the writers thought we wouldn't be interested in > ->such everyday matters but I find that strange because > ->for me food is a passion and I like to speculate what > ->they would eat. > -> > >On the same lines - why are drinks in SF programs always silly colours >like green? > >Pan galactic Gargleblasters in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy for >example I think are gree/blue? > Midori's green. Sambuca comes in black, white, green, blue and red. So what's the problem with an alcoholic drink in one of those colours in an s.f. series? -------------------------------------------------------- The Loch Mess Monster (occasionally mistaken as Bill Billingsley) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 02:09:56 +0100 From: "Tom Forsyth" To: "B7 Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] The vacationer returns (long) Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I scribbled: > >He means a Fiat Punto. Sounds like a drop-kick of a car, is a drop-kick > >of a car. Rhonda S obviously went to the Other place: > Thanks for clearing that up. I like your comparison, but perhaps it > would float like a boat and could be used with some poles to race during > spring quarter at Oxford ...;-) I think you'll find they're much better suited to a trip round Dead Man's Corner, down to Grantchester Meadows for breakfast. (student breakfast, of course - a.k.a. a late lunch)*. And you'll need one with a sunroof. Otherwise you'd have to lean out the windows and paddle, and that would be called a Fiat Canoeo. Tom Forsyth. * This joke copyright E. Pringle/Watts. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 02:13:57 +0100 From: "Tom Forsyth" To: "B7 Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] One for the weekend... Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ian Lay writes: > Jat wrote: > > >Okay, I'll have a go. Off the top of my head here's a few. These are > >probably the most blatantly obvious ones, but I only have a few tapes > >to work with . > > > >"Project Avalon" > >"Trial" > >"Star One" > >"Gold" > >"Blake" > > Alll correct. [and then a load of others] Wouldn't it be easier to do this the other way round? I'll start: The Way Back (though "the way back" is said in Rescue) Space Fall Time Squad Seek-Locate-Destroy ("duel" is only mentioned once in Duel, suprisingly) So, that's the first half of season 1 done. It's far too easy with a grepper, of course. With the caveat that if they put a new line between the words I won't spot it - I have yet to reformat a decent number of the transcripts. Tom Forsyth. P.S. No, the word "sarcophagus" is never actually used, since people were asking. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 01:08:28 +0100 From: "Tom Forsyth" To: "B7 Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve had an important question: > On the same lines - why are drinks in SF programs always silly colours > like green? > > Pan galactic Gargleblasters in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy for > example I think are gree/blue? Only till the first slurp. Then they are black with little stars or small tweeting birds. Tom Forsyth. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 21:15:21 -0400 From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: [B7L] Re: Liberator insurance application Message-ID: <199805072115_MC2-3C52-81AF@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The Loch Mess Monster wrote: >Insurer: Good afternoon, Federal Insurance Agency. How can I help you? [etc] I hope there'll be a sequel to this re Scorpio... Harriet PS Good to see you, Christine! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:26:22 +1200 From: Nicola Collie To: B7-list Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Steve T: >On the same lines - why are drinks in SF programs always silly colours >like green? Now that I don't know. Perhaps all the "sensible" colours for juice (like orange) have been banned due to their effect on the behaviour of futuristic children? >Pan galactic Gargleblasters in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy for >example I think are gree/blue? That would be because the drink has a silly name :-) Couldn't give a drink a name like that and have it boring old clear'n'fizzy, now could we? Many exotic cocktails are weird colours. I have a photo somewhere of me at a table in the Hard Rock Cafe in Sydney, with a bright blue concoction in front of me. Shame I can't remember what was in it... ttfn, Nicola --- Nicola Collie Dunedin, New Zealand nicola.collie@stonebow.otago.ac.nz The early bird catches the worm. If you'd prefer something else for breakfast, get up later. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 22:18:54 -0500 (CDT) From: moconnor@escape.ca (Mary O'Connor) To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] B7-B5 links Message-Id: <199805080318.WAA23693@wpg-01.escape.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Harriet wrote: >Sheridan has an ex-wife called ANNA whom he believes to be dead, BUT she >suddenly reappears and turns out to be not quite what she seemed... > This episode of B5 devastated me when I saw it. I had missed an episode here and there and did not know that there was a fleet of White Star ships. So, watching the White Star blow up was was like watching the Liberator blow up. Then the hero (male lead) by the end of the show is as good as dead - or - how does he get out of that one? This one episode of B5 reminded me of: Rumours of Death, Terminal, and Blake. Mary O'Connor moconnor@escape.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:36:57 +1200 From: "Graham, Gregory" To: B7-list Subject: RE: [B7L]: Drink colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-ID: <710458B7BCD3D011897D0000F8003AB791D9ED@invex.agresearch.cri.nz> Content-Type: text/plain > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicola Collie [SMTP:nicola.collie@stonebow.otago.ac.nz] > Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 1:26 PM > To: B7-list > Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink colours (was Liberator design fault) > > Steve T: > >On the same lines - why are drinks in SF programs always silly > colours > >like green? > > Now that I don't know. Perhaps all the "sensible" colours for juice > (like > orange) have been banned due to their effect on the behaviour of > futuristic > children? > > >Pan galactic Gargleblasters in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy for > >example I think are gree/blue? > > That would be because the drink has a silly name :-) Couldn't give a > drink > a name like that and have it boring old clear'n'fizzy, now could we? > Many exotic cocktails are weird colours. I have a photo somewhere of > me at > a table in the Hard Rock Cafe in Sydney, with a bright blue concoction > in > front of me. Shame I can't remember what was in it... > Must have been good if you can't remember :] I used to worry about SF drinks as well, but then I became a University Student and start drinking Advocat. Sickly pale yellow. Water with blue food colouring in a twisty bottle seems alot more sensible. What worries me now is Vila drank Dorian's wine from a frosted milk bottle. Does this mean that Xenon had home delivery?? Nicola's probably right about the PGB colour. Most SF drinks would probably be white spirit with food colouring as a marketing ploy like they do with pebbles/M&Ms/smarties. By stardate XXXX they have perfected the white whiskey and totally clear beer (Aussies leading the pack on this one :]) and the brewers are rushing to market with a spectrum of _NEW_ & _IMPROVED_ versions of Johnny Walker. You could probably chose a Bacardi to match your eyes on Space City :] Amazing! what will they think of next... "Coffee anyone? I've got Stewarts new Golden Roast. It's piping hot, you can tell by the Tangerine color..." > =============================================== > "The facts, though interesting, are irrelevant" > =============================================== > EvangeList, http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/ > ps apologies for the shouting, advertising cliches sort of require it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:40:55 +1200 From: "Graham, Gregory" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: RE: [B7L] B7-B5 links Message-ID: <710458B7BCD3D011897D0000F8003AB791D9EE@invex.agresearch.cri.nz> Content-Type: text/plain > Harriet wrote: > >Sheridan has an ex-wife called ANNA whom he believes to be dead, BUT > she > >suddenly reappears and turns out to be not quite what she seemed... > > > This episode of B5 devastated me when I saw it. I had missed an > episode > here and there and did not know that there was a fleet of White Star > ships. > So, watching the White Star blow up was was like watching the > Liberator > blow up. Then the hero (male lead) by the end of the show is as good > as > dead - or - how does he get out of that one? > > This one episode of B5 reminded me of: > Rumours of Death, Terminal, and Blake. > > Mary O'Connor > moconnor@escape.ca > Wasn't the Titanic part of the White Star Line? Is this another in joke. The original is doomed but the fleet, like the Great Eastern, goes on. (Hmmm some more soma? certainly, make mine a double) TTFN Greg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:51:46 +1200 From: Nicola Collie To: B7-list Subject: RE: [B7L]: Drink colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Greg! you _still_ here? I thought you must've inflicted yourself on dear ol' Blighty by now. :-) me: >> Many exotic cocktails are weird colours. I have a photo somewhere of >> me at >> a table in the Hard Rock Cafe in Sydney, with a bright blue concoction >> in >> front of me. Shame I can't remember what was in it... >Must have been good if you can't remember :] Hmmph. Led with my chin on that one. :-\ >I used to worry about SF drinks as well, but then I became a University >Student and start drinking Advocat. Sickly pale yellow. Water with >blue food colouring in a twisty bottle seems alot more sensible. What >worries me now is Vila drank Dorian's wine from a frosted milk bottle. >Does this mean that Xenon had home delivery?? Sounds jolly good to me. If I recall high school French correctly, it is possible to get home delivered vin ordinaire (and maybe even vin not-so-ordinaire) en France. A most civilized custom. >By stardate XXXX Why's he picked this date, I ask myself ;-) >they have >perfected the white whiskey and totally clear beer (Aussies leading the >pack on this one :]) *cackle* > You >could probably chose a Bacardi to match your eyes on Space City :] > >Amazing! what will they think of next... > >"Coffee anyone? I've got Stewarts new Golden Roast. It's piping hot, >you can tell by the Tangerine color..." Interestingly, the juxtaposition of these two ideas immediately made me think of the Robert Timms Exotic Blends ad. The one with the lass with two different eyes. ttfn, Nicola --- Nicola Collie Dunedin, New Zealand nicola.collie@stonebow.otago.ac.nz The early bird catches the worm. If you'd prefer something else for breakfast, get up later. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 20:55:15 +1000 From: Ross Mallett To: blake7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] one for the weekend Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hewre's my take on it: Episode name Who said it -------------------- ------------------------------------- 03.Cygnus Alpha Blake 05.The Web Blake,Jenna 08.Duel Travis 09.Project Avalon Travis,Servalan 11.Bounty Gan,Jenna 12.Deliverance Avon 13.Orac Blake,Vila,Avon,Servalan,Cally 14.Redemption Blake 15.Shadow Jenna,Blake,Avon 16.Weapon Servalan,Blake,Travis 17.Horizon Zen,Blake,cally,Avon 22.Countdown Blake 25.The Keeper Avon,Travis,Jenna 26.Star One Servalan,Blake,Jenna,Avon,Cally,Vila,Orac 29.Volcano Dayna,Tarrant,Cally,Vila 31.Harvest of Kairos Zen 32.City at the Edge of the World Tarrant 36.Ultraworld Avon,Dayna 37.Moloch Servalan 39.Terminal Zen,Tarrant,Avon,Cally,Servalan 40.Rescue Avon 41.Power Avon,Orac 43.Stardrive Orac 44.Animals Dayna,Servalan 46.Assassin Dayna 47.Games Avon,Orac 48.Sand Avon,Tarrant,Servalan,Dayna 49.Gold Avon,Tarrant,Vila,Dayna 50.Orbit Soolin 52.Blake Vila,Tarrant,Dayna,Avon,Blake In addition there is *one* episode in which the title is spoken but not by a regular character. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 12:30:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Una McCormack To: Lysator Subject: Re: [B7L] IMIPAC Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lucas said: >Was anyone on this list ever a member of Imipac? It was a UK B7 fan club >in the 80s run by Chris Clarke, I think, I was a member by correspondence >from here in New Zealand.... My brother was a member of IMIPAC - I still have many of his IMIPAC newsletters, including one which he transcribed by hand: he was so hard-up at the time that he couldn't afford the membership and actually *wrote out* someone else's copy!! If you have any IMIPAC n/ls, I'm sure Sarah Thompson would like a word with you...! ;) Una -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Judge Institute of Management Studies Tel: +44 (0)1223 766064 Trumpington Street Fax: +44 (0)1223 339701 Cambridge CB2 1AG http://www.sticklebrock.demon.co.uk/una United Kingdom http://www.jims.cam.ac.uk/research/ion/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 07:20:34 EDT From: Bizarro7 To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se, space-city@world.std.com Subject: [B7L] Ashton Press Zines, Website Message-ID: <65ebb37d.3552ea83@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi, all. I've updated my web pages yet again. The link for upcoming BLAKES 7 zines is now live and it contains color pictures of the covers for Southern 7 #11 *and* Southern 7 #12, along with some blurbs about the scheduled contents. Check it out and let us know what you think! I've also added a bunch more Anaheim convention pictures, mainly of Adrian Paul, Jim Burns and Peter Wingfield, but some other stuff besides. I've updated the links page *and* Revelations #1, the all adult, all Methos zine is now available for sale. There's a link to a page for it, like usual. Also, the pages for Then the Night Comes and The Lightning's Hand now have some more color artwork gracing them. Visit us at: http://members.aol.com/ashton7/ashton.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 12:57:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Una McCormack To: Lysator cc: Space City Subject: [B7L] You Wondrous People!!! Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII OK, so I can't remember who first recommended it, but whoever *did* first recommend Green and Black's Maya Gold dark chocolate - you are a God(dess) and I love you! ;) Una -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Judge Institute of Management Studies Tel: +44 (0)1223 766064 Trumpington Street Fax: +44 (0)1223 339701 Cambridge CB2 1AG http://www.sticklebrock.demon.co.uk/una United Kingdom http://www.jims.cam.ac.uk/research/ion/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 07:51:27 EDT From: Bizarro7 To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Cc: space-city@world.std.com Subject: [B7L] B7 Web Ring Administrator... Message-ID: <8d1a5f37.3552f1c0@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Is there some kind of problem getting e-mail to your server? We keep trying to send you an e-mail and it's coming back every time, announcing that the message has gone through too many 'bounces' to be transmitted. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 09:27:58 EDT From: Mac4781 To: space-city@world.std.com, blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Another new B7 zine Message-ID: <4a70694c.3553085f@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Jo Ann McCoy asked me to let people know that Maverick Press will have another new B7 zine at Media West. COMA NIGHTS by Willa Shakespeare is an adult B7 parody that pairs Avon with nearly everyone. Cover by Val Westall. $10 at MediaWest. Available by mail after the con. Contact Jo Ann at tasha@ris.net Carol Mc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:29:28 +0100 (BST) From: Iain Coleman To: Lysator Subject: [B7L] Well, now... Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Another trivia question (this just came up in an email exchange). How many times in the series does Avon use his catchprase "Well, now... "? I don't intend anybody to go counting them all for me, I just thought this must be the kind of thing that somebody, somewhere has been sad^H^H^H dedicated enough to have figured out at some point, and they might still have the answer at their fingertips. cheers, Iain ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 20:32:49 +0500 From: Senaka Rajapakse To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] [B7] Fandoms Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980508202929.006a0a74@sri.lanka.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Here is a list of fiction I'm crazy about! They all have something of that special quality - you know what I mean - that typifies Blakes 7. Blake's 7 (the best and the greatest) and, in no particular order........... Star Wars trilogy Star Trek Star Trek - TNG The A Team The Twilight Zone Shades of Darkness Who pays the Ferryman All Creatures great and small - book and TV series- James Herriot Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Yes, Minister (and Prime Minister) Captain Blood (3 books of historical romance by Rafael Sabatini) The Four Just Men (Book by Edgar Wallace) The Sanders adventures by Edgar Wallace All Sherlock Holmes stories Senaka ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- Dr Senaka Rajapakse Lecturer in Clinical Medicine Department of Clinical Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of Colombo Tel 503333 Fax 689188 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:38:50 +0100 From: "Borg, Peter: IEG" To: Lysator , "'Iain Coleman'" Subject: RE: [B7L] Well, now... Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain I would say: Deliverance (1) Sarcophagus (2) Moloch (1) Star One (1) Terminal (1) Gold (1) Redemption (1) Weapon (1) Trial (1) Rescue (1) Headhunter (1) Games (1) Sand (1) Warlord (1) Peter. > ---------- > From: Iain Coleman[SMTP:ijc@mail.nerc-bas.ac.uk] > Sent: 08 May 1998 14:29 > To: Lysator > Subject: [B7L] Well, now... > > Another trivia question (this just came up in an email exchange). > > How many times in the series does Avon use his catchprase "Well, now... "? > > I don't intend anybody to go counting them all for me, I just thought this > must be the kind of thing that somebody, somewhere has been sad^H^H^H > dedicated enough to have figured out at some point, and they might still > have the answer at their fingertips. > > cheers, > Iain > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:43:51 +0100 From: "Julie Horner" To: Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-Id: <199805081441.QAA03702@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ---------- > From: Bill Billingsley > To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se > Subject: Re: [B7L]: Liberator design fault > Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 1:45 AM > Midori's green. Sambuca comes in black, white, green, blue and red. So > what's the problem with an alcoholic drink in one of those colours in an > s.f. series? > I never knew Sambuca was anything but transparent. I would like to set it on record that one should never ever under any circumstances drink anything blue. I did once, a long time ago... Julie Horner ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:51:02 +0100 From: "Jenni-Alison" To: "Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] Well, now... Message-Id: <199805081450.QAA04263@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter wrote: > I would say: > > Deliverance (1) > Sarcophagus (2) > Moloch (1) > Star One (1) > Terminal (1) > Gold (1) > Redemption (1) > Weapon (1) > Trial (1) > Rescue (1) > Headhunter (1) > Games (1) > Sand (1) > Warlord (1) How do you know these things? And just off the top of your head! I'm impressed! I would say 15 times isn't that many over so many episodes. (51?) It's a lot more common in Fan fiction than it is in the series then! Jenni ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:54:33 +0100 From: "Jenni-Alison" To: Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-Id: <199805081454.QAA04550@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Julie wrote: > I never knew Sambuca was anything but transparent. > > I would like to set it on record that one should never ever under any > circumstances drink anything blue. I did once, a long time ago... And?? You can't leave it like that, enquiring minds want to know! Anyway, there's a blue alcopop which is interesting, and no one who I have seen drinking it has lost their head! Actually, If you want examples of weird colour drinks then you need only look to the alcopops around, which have given us a beautifull rainbow of greens, blues, reds, yellows, and anything in between. They're nice too, if you like sugar! Jenni ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:56:03 -0500 From: "Reuben Herfindahl" To: "Lysator" Cc: "Space City" Subject: [B7L] Way, way off topic. OS wars related Message-ID: <005201bd7a99$da3c6ce0$660114ac@misnt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I know this has nothing to do with Blake's 7, but I notice how many of the list subscribers are either system admins or IS people and I thought those people in particular might get a kick out of this. I sure did. Why Win95 Is Better Than Linux Because all operating systems are written by programmers, I assume that any operating system is much smarter than me. Thus, any good operating system should try to outsmart me by restricting my options at every turn. Linux, like all versions of Unix, is lousy at restricting my options because at the command line virtually any operation can be performed with ease. (For example, ‘rm -rf /win’ could delete an entire mounted directory, with no popup window warnings whatsoever.) I’m proud to say that there is no such danger in 95/NT. Windows pop up when I want to make a change, and then more pop up to ask if I’m sure I want the change. Thankfully, Windows 95/NT operating systems look after my computer’s well-being by occasionally switching configuration settings from the way I want them to what the OS programmers think they might probably ought to be. Boy, I’m just impressed with how smart they are. Once I learned to live with whatever the default settings are on any new hardware I install, I can’t say the number of hours I have saved. I use that spare time to reboot my Windows machine multiple times a day. Technical support personnel recommend that I do it regularly - kind of like brushing my teeth. To help remind me of this necessity, windows pop up to tell me to reboot whenever I make a configuration change. By now my machine is minty fresh, I figure. There is no such useful rebooting in a Linux system. It is as reliable as the sunrise, with uptimes in weeks and months. Virtually no configuration change requires a reboot, to boot. Imagine all that plaque in the computer. Gross! In 95/NT I am prevented from making dangerous fundamental configuration changes unless I use a special ‘registry editor’. I have found it so useful to have this separate editor that I hope in future versions they go all the way and supply a separate editor for each file on the disk-in that way windows could pop up at every keystroke to warn me that changing any line in the file I am editing could cause the system to not run properly. If this were only the case, people would finally learn that it is best to just stick with the mouse and they would be freed of the need to constantly move their hands back to the keyboard. (If one stops to think about it, the mouse is a much better device to use than the keyboard. Ever hear of someone getting carpal tunnel syndrome from a mouse? No. It’s comfortable and ergonomic. Like Morse code devices. That’s how long distance communication started, after all.) Linux, by contrast, requires no special editor to change configuration files. The fact that there is no ‘registry’ in Linux allows the abomination of using any text editor whatsoever to do the configuration. Can you believe that configuration files are usually stored clear text? Talk about dangerous! I am also happy to report that I have experienced no truth to the rumor that Windows disks become corrupt after improper shutdowns. Indeed, I have been forced to improperly shutdown the machine innumerable times after it locks up, and I have no apparent problems to report regarding the disk. No such claim can be made for Linux. They say something about lack of data points. Excuses are all I ever seem to hear from the Linux crowd. By sheer size alone, Windows 95/NT beats Linux hands down. It is so much bigger, it is obvious that it is better. Why would you want a small OS with the large disks and RAM sizes we have these days? For this reason alone, I heartily recommend Windows as a way to maximize resource utilization. Your CPU and disk will constantly be pegged to the limit, the way god intended. The Linux kernel and drivers accounts for only about 750KB. Why, even the Microsoft Win16 subsystem uses more space than that. It is no surprise that Windows costs $270 on the retail market and Linux doesn’t cost anything. People know what they want, and they want Windows. Because Linux is free, that means it’s basically worthless. The same goes for all the development tools, remotable GUIs, and applications, which all cost money for windows (i.e., are worth something) and free for Linux (worthless!). Installing software is very easy in Windows. I usually slip in CDs without even reading instructions or warnings, and just double click on whatever window pops up. There is no need to read anything or touch the keyboard. (Did I mention that I hate that thing?) Well, OK, I have learned the hard way the the machine locks up if I don’t take the time to close all other applications. Linux, by contrast, requires typing on the keyboard to get anything to install at all. And you always have to know the NAME of program you want to install. For example, in Redhat, you have to type ‘rpm -ivh ‘ to install the program and documentation. Linux needs to get with the ’90s! Windows follows the DOS convention of putting \r\n at the end of every line of a text file. While this is only a mild concern because of the relative rarity of text files on Windows machines these days (thank god) it helps to differentiate between the text files and the other files. Sadly, Linux makes no distinction between text and other files. If I legitimately purchase Windows 95/NT, I can call Microsoft customer support to get help with my problems. After a short hold time of an hour or so, they always help me. Ever since I told them that I was dual booting to Linux, they were able to flag my account and now each time I call even the entry level support personnel I am connected to say that Linux is the source of my problems. Everyone seems to agree that Linux is no good. The more I listen, the more I’m impressed with the knowledge of the support staff there. By contrast, in Linux, all I have is stockpiles of resources and documentation that I would actually have to read in order to understand. Sure, I could obtain Linux support from a commercial organization, but they would probably just tell me I have to use a text editor to fix up my system. In the end, I have no need for that old computer donkey Unix. I don’t need to run big Unix tasks, afterall. I refuse to become one of those a bug-eyed computer users, that’s for sure. As soon as I can keep Windows from crashing for long enough, I’m going to delete my Linux partition, i.e., the equivalent of moving it to the recycle bin, saying that I’m sure, emptying the recycle bin, and again saying that I’m sure. Reuben ------------------------------ Date: 08 May 1998 18:38:41 +0200 From: Calle Dybedahl To: Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-ID: "Jenni-Alison" writes: > Anyway, there's a blue alcopop which is interesting, and no one who I have > seen drinking it has lost their head! If you're referring to the bluish stuff you provided at the SC room party at Deliverance, I'll have you know that the reason that I didn't lose my head may well be that I didn't have any to begin with. -- Calle Dybedahl, Vasav. 82, S-177 52 Jaerfaella,SWEDEN | calle@lysator.liu.se Mediocre minds think alike. -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #134 **************************************