"Horn, John" wrote:
> > From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > Blues Clues.
> >
> > I know every word to every song on a kiddie show that was on
> > while I was at
> > work.
> > Sheeesh!!!
>
> I love Blue's Clues! My daughter was really into that one. We have
> multiple tapes
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
> Wheee! Ok, who built pinewood derby cars based on Jason's car from
> "Battle of the Planets?" Hands up! :-)
'Fraid I lacked anything resembling the artistic ability to do that, but I wish I
could have! :)
Jim
Chang
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> >How about the more advanced battleships during the "comet
> >people" episodes? The ones with TWO wave motions guns? >...dual planet
>busters .
>
> Ahh, those ships were wussies. They got their butts handed to them by the Comet
>Empire, and t
> From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Blues Clues.
>
> I know every word to every song on a kiddie show that was on
> while I was at
> work.
> Sheeesh!!!
I love Blue's Clues! My daughter was really into that one. We have
multiple tapes full of episodes of Blue's Clues. My
Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
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> From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Brin-l] Why settle for a minivan, I say...
>
> > Julia
>
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Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Brin-l] Why settle for a minivan, I say...
> Julia
>
> who didn't see Speed Racer as a kid, but who sa
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 3:18 PM
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> "Horn, John" wrote:
> >
> > > From: Julia Thomp
At 11:49 PM 9/20/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> >Nope. Vega is only 26 light years away, so that round trip would
> >only add 52 ly to the trip . . .
>
>Wise guy. :)
It's my job.
>Deneb, then?
That would certainly be far enough: estimates of its distance range from
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From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Brin-l] Why settle for a minivan, I say...
> > From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > Unfortunatel
--- Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
> Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
> > Jim Sharkey wrote:
> >>Well, again IIRC, with humankind's usual ingenuity
> when it comes to
> >>blowing shit up, Earth takes the engine design and
> exponentially increases for use as a weapon.
> >
> >Yeahjust the thought makes me go al
At 07:35 PM 9/20/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> > At 12:26 PM 9/20/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> >>They use the Wave Motion Engine for the first time to get to Mars
> >>from Earth, and in a voice-over, one of the crew says something
> >>like "We've traveled hundreds of light years
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>>Well, again IIRC, with humankind's usual ingenuity when it comes to
>>blowing shit up, Earth takes the engine design and exponentially
>>increases for use as a weapon.
>
>Yeahjust the thought makes me go all warm and tingly
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> At 12:26 PM 9/20/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>>They use the Wave Motion Engine for the first time to get to Mars
>>from Earth, and in a voice-over, one of the crew says something
>>like "We've traveled hundreds of light years in under a
>>minute!" :-)
>
> They took the
At 02:42 PM 9/20/02, Horn, John wrote:
>Personally, I never found the PDSD all that maddening. Maybe that's because
>I never truly grew up. What does drive me crazy is that you can't get the
>stupid songs out of your head. You are at work, slaving away, when suddenly
>you find yourself singing
At 12:26 PM 9/20/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>You know, Star Blazers also has one of the single worst science gaffes
>I've ever seen in something trying to be serious. They use the Wave
>Motion Engine for the first time to get to Mars from Earth, and in a
>voice-over, one of the crew says somethi
Jon Gabriel wrote:
>
> >From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: [Brin-l] Why settle for a minivan, I say...
> >Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:13:38 -0400
> >
> >
> > > They could blow up entire planets, although, IIRC it disab
"Horn, John" wrote:
>
> > From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > >
> > > I don't think there are many 8 year olds watching purple
> > dinosaurs. 3-5
> > > year olds maybe.
> >
> > Or 18-month-olds whose grandmothers think the purple demon spawn
> > dinosaurs are OK, and later forc
>From: Steve Sloan II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Star Blazers Was: RE: [Brin-l] Why settle for a minivan, I
>say...
>Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:26:08 -0500
>
>"Marvin Long, Jr." wrote:
>
> > Mainly I was just imagining Bender at the helm
> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > I don't think there are many 8 year olds watching purple
> dinosaurs. 3-5
> > year olds maybe.
>
> Or 18-month-olds whose grandmothers think the purple demon spawn
> dinosaurs are OK, and later force the parents of said 18-month-olds t
>From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [Brin-l] Why settle for a minivan, I say...
>Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:13:38 -0400
>
>
> > They could blow up entire planets, although, IIRC it disabled
> > the ship for some time and was not 100% rel
"Marvin Long, Jr." wrote:
> Mainly I was just imagining Bender at the helm of the Andromeda.
> Which is rather scary, actually, so I shan't do it again. !:-0
It could be worse. What if Bender and Rommie the ship's avatar
had a "thing" together...? ;-)
___
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Julia Thompson wrote:
> Does that mean you *won't* be buying the Death Star ornament from
> Hallmark this year? :)
Mainly I was just imagining Bender at the helm of the Andromeda. Which is
rather scary, actually, so I shan't do it again. !:-0
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
"
"Marvin Long, Jr." wrote:
> ROU Death Star can bite my shiny metal ass
Does that mean you *won't* be buying the Death Star ornament from
Hallmark this year? :)
Julia
who just yesterday bought the latest Star Trek ornament that plugs into
the light string, keeping the collection comple
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> >Wasn't the wave motion gun basically a matter of taking the ship's
> >main drive - the wave motion engine - reversing and focusing its
> >output on a target?
>
> Well, again IIRC, with humankind's usual ingenuity when it comes to blowing shit up,
>Earth
"Horn, John" wrote:
>
> > From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > Unfortunately, not many eight year olds would get the
> > reference to the Wave
> > Motion Gun. They would rather watch Power Rangers or talking
> > purple demon
> > spawn dinosaurs. :-)
> >
> I don't think there are ma
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>>It wasn't a toy. The Space Cruiser Yamato in _Star Blazers_, in
>> addition to its gun turrets and fighter bays, was essentially a
>>giant cannon reverse-engineered from alien star drive technology.
>>They could blow up entire
> From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Unfortunately, not many eight year olds would get the
> reference to the Wave
> Motion Gun. They would rather watch Power Rangers or talking
> purple demon
> spawn dinosaurs. :-)
>
I don't think there are many 8 year olds watching purple dinosau
Gary Nunn wrote:
>Jim rote
>>Who needed a life? I had those three little words that could
>>warm any eight-year-old boy's heart: Wave Motion Gun. :-)
>
>Unfortunately, not many eight year olds would get the reference to
>the Wave Motion Gun.
True. But suppose you were to expose that sam
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> It wasn't a toy. The Space Cruiser Yamato in _Star Blazers_, in addition to its gun
>turrets and fighter bays, was essentially a giant cannon reverse-engineered from
>alien star drive technology. They could blow up entire planets, although, IIRC it
>
> They could blow up entire planets, although, IIRC it disabled
> the ship for some time and was not 100% reliable.
Very true. It must have been made by the same people that make the single
most unreliable piece of hardware in known space - the "Warp Core Ejection
System".
Gary
"Captain, we n
Jim rote
> Who needed a life? I had those three little words that could
> warm any eight-year-old boy's heart: Wave Motion Gun. :-)
Unfortunately, not many eight year olds would get the reference to the Wave
Motion Gun. They would rather watch Power Rangers or talking purple demon
spawn d
Deborah Harrell wrote:
> --- Jim Sharkey wrote:
> > Who needed a life? I had those three little words
> > that could warm any eight-year-old boy's heart: Wave
> > Motion Gun. :-)
>
> ???
> I'm not familiar with that toy.
It wasn't a toy. The Space Cruiser Yamato in _Star Blazers_, in additio
--- Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
> Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> > But I Swear I _Did_ Have A Life Maru
>
> Who needed a life? I had those three little words
> that could warm any eight-year-old boy's heart: Wave
> Motion Gun. :-)
???
I'm not familiar with that toy.
Debbi
___
Deborah Harrell wrote:
> But I Swear I _Did_ Have A Life Maru
Who needed a life? I had those three little words that could warm any eight-year-old
boy's heart: Wave Motion Gun. :-)
Jim
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--- Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
> Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
>
> > If I'm gonna drop some change on a vehicle, I want
> the best, and there's nothing better than the Mach
5.
> >
> > http://www.speedracer.la/
> >
> > "And when the odds are against him
> > and it's dangerous work
> > you bet your life Spe
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
> If I'm gonna drop some change on a vehicle, I want the best, and
> there's nothing better than the Mach 5.
>
> http://www.speedracer.la/
>
> "And when the odds are against him
> and it's dangerous work
> you bet your life Speed Racer
> will see it through
> Go Speed R
If I'm gonna drop some change on a vehicle, I want the best, and
there's nothing better than the Mach 5.
http://www.speedracer.la/
"And when the odds are against him
and it's dangerous work
you bet your life Speed Racer
will see it through
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer, Go!"
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