HIGHLA-L Digest - 26 Jan 2001 to 27 Jan 2001 (#2001-50)
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There are 13 messages totalling 455 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn (9)
2. ap blurb (2)
3. HL:EG box office--SPOILER
4. tell me pl
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:28:33 -0500
From: JoAnne =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bri=E8re?= <jojoann@videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
At 16:12 -0500 26/01/01, jjswbt@earthlink.net wrote:
>1) Scene:
>American:
>Euro:
Canado-euro
Saw them, paid for part of them out of my taxes therefore => they are
Canado-Euro minutes !
Same for Highlander the serie.
JoAnne
jojoann@videotron.ca -
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:57:17 -0500
From: Sandy Fields <diamonique@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
At 10:28 PM 01/26/01, JoAnne Brière wrote:
>Canado-euro
>Saw them, paid for part of them out of my taxes therefore => they are
>Canado-Euro minutes !
>Same for Highlander the serie.
Hmmm... that's an interesting way to look at it. When I bought my videos I
paid for them out of my taxes, too. So does that make them
American-Eurominutes?
I thought the extra minutes were called eurominutes because they are the
scenes that the European television market gets and the American television
market doesn't get because we have more commercials on tv. Now I find that
it's based on whether or not a person paid for their videos out of their
tax money.
What if I saw them on tv in a country that gets these extra minutes when
the show is aired and I never bought them at all? What are they called
then? Free-Eurominutes?
Sheesh!
-- Sandy (I tell ya that woman needs a fresh bowl of cornflakes!)
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:44:16 -0500
From: Marina Bailey <tmar@fast.co.za>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
Sandy wrote:
>What if I saw them on tv in a country that gets these extra minutes when
>the show is aired and I never bought them at all? What are they called
>then? Free-Eurominutes?
Yes! Heheheh... And we got them!!
- Marina, cackling wildly. Actually, I just have one question to ask
Wendy about this: WHY, Wendy? WHY??
\\ "Cast your eyes on the ocean; cast your soul ||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
//to the sea. When the dark night seems endless,|| R I C H I E >> \\
\\ please remember me." - Loreena McKennitt ||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
//======Marina Bailey======tmar@fast.co.za======|| \\
\\============Chief Flag Waver and Defender of Richie=============//
"I'd rather be watching 'The Sentinel'... no, 'Highlander'... wait,
'Stargate SG-1' is on... Oh, hell, make it all and make it so!"
- Tarryn
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:44:10 -0500
From: JoAnne =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bri=E8re?= <jojoann@videotron.ca>
Subject: ap blurb
In TV 7 Jours - edition 3 au 9 février 2001.
Picture - leather jacket, grey tee-shirt.
Text : Adrian Paul, la vedette de Highlander, devient un chasseur de primes
du futur. Il touchera huit millions pour ce rôle. Gil Grant, l'idéateur de
"Sydney Fox, aventurière", produit la série encore sans titre, qui sera
tournée à Vancouver. "Ça fait plaisir de retrouver ses fans de télé, après
trois ans au cinéma" , mentionne-t-il. Paul termine un film policier à
Budapest, A Breed Apart.
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:53:48 -0500
From: JoAnne =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bri=E8re?= <jojoann@videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
At 23:57 -0500 26/01/01, Sandy Fields wrote:
>Hmmm... that's an interesting way to look at it. When I bought my videos I
>paid for them out of my taxes, too. So does that make them
>American-Eurominutes?
I thought you bought them with the money you earn working !
>I thought the extra minutes were called eurominutes because they are the
>scenes that the European television market gets and the American television
>market doesn't get because we have more commercials on tv. Now I find that
>it's based on whether or not a person paid for their videos out of their
>tax money.
I thought they were that here, on account of old list culture and
commercials that advertised the tapes of the serie as "europeans footage
never seen before in america" ....
The shows were made 48 minutes long on account on Canadians & French
broadcasting laws - no more than 12 minutes of commercials per hour in
Canada. Not a whole lot in France.
They get edited in the states because your laws allows much more
commercials.They aired completely, fully, unedited and uncensored in their
producing countries. The minutes are the real stuff. What you do not get
is ... well your "lacune". (lack of stuff). The eurominutes are simply ...
the minutes. Insisting of granting them the single title of euro, again
dismiss the canadian input.
>-- Sandy (I tell ya that woman needs a fresh bowl of cornflakes!)
I don't like cornflakes anymore today than I did before.Croissant. Are.
Totally. Fine.
JoAnne
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:29:57 -0500
From: pgannon <pgannon@OPTonline.net>
Subject: Re: ap blurb
JoAnne, my French is very rusty - does this say he has just finished a
movie, "A Breed apart" and will be returning to Vancouver to film a TV
series? Thanks,
Peggie (kids are studying Spanish and so are no help at all!)
;-P
----- Original Message -----
From: "JoAnne Brière" <jojoann@videotron.ca>
To: <HIGHLA-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:44 AM
Subject: ap blurb
> In TV 7 Jours - edition 3 au 9 février 2001.
>
> Picture - leather jacket, grey tee-shirt.
>
> Text : Adrian Paul, la vedette de Highlander, devient un chasseur de
primes
> du futur. Il touchera huit millions pour ce rôle. Gil Grant, l'idéateur de
> "Sydney Fox, aventurière", produit la série encore sans titre, qui sera
> tournée à Vancouver. "Ça fait plaisir de retrouver ses fans de télé, après
> trois ans au cinéma" , mentionne-t-il. Paul termine un film policier à
> Budapest, A Breed Apart.
>
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:51:36 -0500
From: Elaine Nicol <ElaineN@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
>> The eurominutes are simply ...
the minutes. Insisting of granting them the single title of euro, again
dismiss the canadian input. <<
I can totally sympathise with this view. Every time I read about Duncan
coming from England or people saying England when they mean Britain. I
suppose we are all guilty of this kind of thing.
BTW I personally usually call them Missing-Bits, even my disc with them on
it is labelled Missing-Bits, of course it also gives the bits that are
missing from the UK showing that were in the US version.
Elaine.
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:29:30 -0500
From: jjswbt@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
I showed by USA-centrism by saying:
>>American:
>
>>Euro:
JoAnne feels the need to wave her flag:
>Canado-euro
>Saw them, paid for part of them out of my taxes therefore => they are
>Canado-Euro minutes !
>Same for Highlander the serie.
Oh Frell!
Ya know....they've been called Eurominutes for a frelling long time (since I produced the 1st Season bunch way back when)(With Marina's help.)("Hi, Marina".) ...no....it isn't 100% frelling accurate ..I was trying to do a frelling favor for the vast majority of HIGHLA listees who don't have the frelling luck to be living in frellng Canada (or Scotland or France for that frelling matter.)
That's what I frelling get from frelling trying to be frelling nice.
Wendy(Maybe I'll just call them non-existent.)
Fairy Killer
jjswbt@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~jjswbt/index.html
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:03:49 -0500
From: KLZ <zklee@patriot.net>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
> >Canado-euro
> >Saw them, paid for part of them out of my taxes therefore
> => they are
> >Canado-Euro minutes !
> >Same for Highlander the serie.
>
Disclaimer: No political discussion is intended. Any person
referred to is referred to in passing, without comment on
political party, job performance, election results, or any other
politically-oriented subject. YMMV. One to a customer. No
[insert desired name of minutes here] included. Farscape
glossary included.
Harrrumph. I paid taxes to support the persons who created the
Internet. Therefore, I would like this List to be named
"Americo-Highla-L". Furthermore, I would like the name to be
qualified, in descending order, by the percentage of the amount
that those things cost the American taxpayer, that my taxes
represent. Therefore, the name of this list should be
"XX%-Americo-Highla-L".
Now, the *whap* porch *whap* denizens are *thunk* busily *bam*
belaying me *thunk* about the ears with canes and rocking
agitatedly, and giving *bash* opinions that *thunk* the List
should be further qualified by who's *BASH* been here the *OUCH!*
longest, starting with *Thud* Founding Geezers and List
Methusalahs. Therefore (STOP THAT!), the List should be named
"ListGoddessness-FoundingGeezers-ListMethusalahs-GeezerlyPersons-JustPlainGrouches-Lurkers-Geebies-RegularNormalSaneListees-PersonsofRecentArrival(tm)-xx%-Americo-Highla-L".
Hah. Put that on your Sender line!
Personally, I think that the name of the [insert desired name
here]-minutes should be named according to the predominant market
that purchased the tapes. Since the overwhelming majority of the
tapes were probably purchased in the US, they should be called
USMinutesMissingFromTheSeriesButAreOnTheTapes-minutes.
~grumpyandrubbinghead
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:34:13 -0500
From: "Claire L. Maier, Ph.D." <bioaw124@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: HL:EG box office--SPOILER
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Pat Lawson wrote:
> At 01:23 PM 1/23/01, Lance twitted:
> > > >
> > > > I'm driven by passion, not unlike MLK, JFK and Ghandi.
> >
> >The only possible difference might be i have MORE passion than they. I never
> >quit.
>
> Uh Lance? MLK, JFK and Ghandi didn't quit. They were killed.
>
> That reminds me, you know nothing helps a cause like having it's leader
> martyred. How badly do you want your cause to succeed?
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Pat has an excellent point. MLK, JKF and Ghandi were killed. Christ
willingly allowed himself to be sacrificed.
I think that if Lance is truly serious about his cause, he should be
willing to go them one better.
I think Lance should show his solidarity with his fallen leader by cutting
off his own head. Nothing could better demonstrate that it's not reality
that matters, it's *passion.* TPTB would have to take notice.
Well, Lance? It's easy to post on a mailing list or newsgroup how
passionate you are. But when push comes to shove, are you really? If you
are going to compare yourself to Christ, then you should be willing to do
what he did, at the very least. *He* faced death by torture, willingly.
The least you could do is behead yourself-- it would be very quick.
Child's play by comparison.
Aren't you willing to sacrifice your own head to save Connor's?
If not, then your hypocricy will be apparent to all.
--
Claire Maier, Ph.D. bioaw124@emory.edu CLMaier (within AOL only)
To be different is not necessarily to be ugly;
to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong.
The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin
to look and act and think alike.
-- Gene Roddenberry
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:26:57 -0500
From: "Claire L. Maier, Ph.D." <bioaw124@emory.edu>
Subject: Re: tell me pl
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Rita Ballantyne wrote:
> where does the Tessa name come from? diminutive for what?
It probably originally started as a diminuitive for "Theresa" or
"Contessa," but in the US, it's a name in its own right. Although it's
hard to say why a French woman would have been named "Tessa."
--
Claire Maier, Ph.D. bioaw124@emory.edu CLMaier (within AOL only)
To be different is not necessarily to be ugly;
to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong.
The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin
to look and act and think alike.
-- Gene Roddenberry
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:26:17 -1000
From: Geiger <geiger@maui.net>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
Joanne spewed--
> Canado-euro
> Saw them, paid for part of them out of my taxes therefore => they are
> Canado-Euro minutes !
> Same for Highlander the serie.
Joanne, what IS the French for "chip on shoulder" & "ax to grind" & "pissing
off Wendy so that no one gets to enjoy her kindly provided EUROminutes"?
Nina
geiger@maui.net
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:33 -0500
From: Sandy Fields <diamonique@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: EuroMinutes _Raven -Reborn
At 08:53 AM 01/27/01, JoAnne Brière seems to feel that how a person paid
for their videos is relevant to list terminology:
>I thought you bought them with the money you earn working !
Possibly things are different where you live, but here we work for the
money and then pay part of it out in taxes. So taxes *are* money that I
earned by working.
But does it really matter how a person paid for their videos? I was being
facetious, but since you never seem to get my humor, I'll break it down for
you. In the past few days you've let it be known that you have issues with
Americans and with the term "eurominutes". This list has been inhabited by
Americans (among others) since its inception, and the term eurominutes has
been used here and elsewhere for a number of years. Now you seem to have a
problem with both. Since the Americans will continue to hang out here, and
sinice the term eurominutes will continue to be used here, I could suggest
a remedy for your problem; but that wouldn't be neighborly so I'll refrain
from doing so.
<snipped lengthy discussion of why they're called eurominutes>
It's irrelevant. I just hope your personal issues haven't discouraged
Wendy from continuing her research so she can bring us more Raven
eurominutes. They're a lot more interesting than Lance and his
non-existent consortium.
-- Sandy
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