From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5316 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: speters@us.oracle.com (Stephen Peters) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Memory usage Date: 26 Feb 1996 10:01:49 -0800 Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA, USA Message-ID: References: Reply-To: speters%samsun@us.oracle.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145938 32463 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:32:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA02196 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:35:49 -0800 Original-Received: from inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com (inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com [192.86.155.81]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:03:32 +0100 Original-Received: from oracle.us.oracle.com by inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/37.7) id KAA07319; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:03:03 -0800 Original-Received: from samsun.oracle.com by oracle.us.oracle.com with ESMTP (8.6.9/37.7) id KAA15080; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:02:55 -0800 Original-Received: by samsun.oracle.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA05757; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:01:51 -0800 Original-To: dhall@illusion.apk.net (d. hall) In-Reply-To: dhall@illusion.apk.net's message of 24 Feb 1996 04:26:58 -0500 Original-Lines: 35 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5316 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5316 dhall@illusion.apk.net (d. hall) writes: Lars> What's MST3K? >Mystery Science-Fiction Theatre 3000 Mystery Science Theatre 3000, but close enough :-) >It's a show that is/was(?) shown on Comedy Central a cable channel here in >the U.S. It's one of those cult-following show, normally stereo-typed to >the "electronically inclined folk". Not quite up there with Star Trek: *, >and I never really got into it. OK, we're way off-topic here, but I'll just put my two cents in with a little more information. It is still being shown, although it may be leaving the airwaves soon. A big-screen version should be hitting US theatres in April, I believe. The basic idea is that they take a movie -- and I mean a really bad movie, ideally with horrendous special effects and dialogue that makes you wince, and they then make a running wisecracking commentary on the film for its entire length. I wouldn't say that it's stereotyped to "electronically inclined" people -- the jokes are fairly reference-heavy, so I would say it probably appeals more to people with a broad knowledge of pop culture and a fairly sarcastic sense of humor. It is, however, definitely a cult show. We'll see if it can translate at all well to the movie theatre in April, I guess... -- Stephen L. Peters speters%samsun@us.oracle.com For PGP key, use keyservers or send email with subject: SEND PGP KEY PGP fingerprint: BFA4 D0CF 8925 08AE 0CA5 CCDD 343D 6AC6 Oracle won't speak for me, so I won't speak for them.