HIGHLA-L Digest - 10 May 2003 (#2003-72)
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There are 13 messages totalling 405 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Highlander moment
2. DISCUSS: Future of HLFIC-L and HIGHLA-L (6)
3. Fortean Times
4. Avenging Angel
5. OT: Question on Andromeda (2)
6. Highlander moments (2)
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 14:55:47 -0400
From: Becky Doland <becky@beckyjo.com>
Subject: Re: Highlander moment
Eeeeewwwwwwwwww!!
Can't imagine using that saw ever again to slice ham with. ;-P
> Three days ago a guy walked into a Shoprite supermarket
> (South African chain store) and chopped off his own head
> with a meat saw.
>
> My first thought, of course, was, "So that's how an
> Immortal commits suicide."
Hmmmmm......but where did the quickening go........
Becky
"There are some questions about life that only the dead can answer." Methos
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 15:04:48 -0400
From: Becky Doland <becky@beckyjo.com>
Subject: Re: DISCUSS: Future of HLFIC-L and HIGHLA-L
>And if TPTB were more
> interested in the character of Methos, they should have made a
> show with him instead of Amanda or that awful fourth movie.
Yep, they should have, but then, they never listen to us.
And am I in the minority here because I don't think the fourth movie was
awful? Far from perfect, yes. But awful...no. I actually liked it. Made
we wince a few times. But I still liked it.
Becky
"There are some questions about life that only the dead can answer." Methos
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 15:21:53 EDT
From: Bschep@aol.com
Subject: Re: DISCUSS: Future of HLFIC-L and HIGHLA-L
In a message dated 5/10/03 2:05:37 PM, becky@beckyjo.com writes:
<< And am I in the minority here because I don't think the fourth movie was
awful? Far from perfect, yes. But awful...no. I actually liked it. Made
we wince a few times. But I still liked it. >>
I liked it...I wanted more... more story...
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 20:12:54 +0000
From: beccaelizabeth <r.day@netcom.co.uk>
Subject: Fortean Times
Hi
I mentioned here that I had an article sort of about Highlander published in
Fortean Times 167. well theres a letter in FT171 in response to my article
thats kinda worrying... Immortals are supposed to be fictional... newbie
Immortals shouldnt be finding out what they are from my article...
http://www.forteantimes.com/
to order back issues
http://www.geocities.com/beccaelizabeth/
to read my Highlander Forteana and long version of article (the version I
actually wrote)
later
beccaelizabeth
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 17:28:38 -0400
From: TCBO2 <tcbo2@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: DISCUSS: Future of HLFIC-L and HIGHLA-L
Adam Beberg - beberg@highlander.org - list archivist wrote:
<< I'm seeing very little posting in the last 18 months.
Only 3 stories have been posted to HLFIC-L so far in 2003.
That list is quite clearly dead now.>>
True. Almost all fanfic is posted to a large number of very active lists.
All of the fic lists, esp. the slashfic ones, are Alive & Well and going strong.
Their are several Archivists now, the major one for Highlander fiction of
all types being:
The Seventh Dimension: http://www.seventh-dimension.org/index.html
There are many others and Highlander fiction comes pouring out in ever-
increasing excellence and volume from over 50 well-known writers and
a variety of serious, newer writers.
<<A quick look through the last months HIGHLA-L shows mostly
off topic posts, with some talk of the repeats running on cable.>>
Not to mention the fact that this list has always been the home for a
particularly nasty poster who has delighted in destroying the enjoyment
we all once had (when there were nearly 2200 members of HIGHLA-L)
and causing massive migration away to more carefully monitored, yet
also friendlier, "safer" lists to post discussions of Highlander, its stars,
and ongoing issues and careers of said stars. I've been on HIGHLA-L
since 1996 and have quietly watched a handful of sharp-tongued,
self-designated "geezers" and one relative "PORA" who is living in
a State whose motto is to "Live Aloha" (meaning love & friendship
and helping), but is infamous for her toxic, hurtful, vicious posts.
[For the last 2 years I've wondered 'n' wondered WHERE WAS DEBBIE...
to put a stop to Nasty N--a, The Toxic Destroyer of HIGHLA-L, but as
you indicate, Debbie's interest "is nowhere to be found."]
<<So are the lists, and Highlander interest in general pretty much gone>>
Again, "Highlander interest" is THRIVING for those of us who have been
online with HL, PW, DM, et al., for so many years. Of interest to me in
the posts replying to your own today, several people either have never
even SEEN HL:TS and/or don't even know two of the other longtime
staples *other than* the yahoogroups lists, that is:
1) Holyground Forum: http://www.holygroundforum.net/cgi-bin/forum/forum.cgi
and:
2) the HL Newsgroup which is accessed by most of us through our primary
email client, Outlook Express, Outlook, Eurdora, etc. Every email program
that comes bundled with Microsoft's OS and Internet Explorer Browser or
Netscape Navigator ALSO has a NEWS SERVER function that allows one to
subscribe to any of the 1,000's of newsgroups instantly available.
(a) (WEB) http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=alt.tv.highlander
(b) (EMAIL Newsgroups) alt.tv.highlander (Call your ISP if you don't know
how to use/access Newsgroups.)
<<It was a good run tho wasn't it :) >>
Yes, it was, Adam. For a good long while. Then, it got nasty and miserable
. . . and d e s e r t e d . . . .
Happy days ahead for you, Adam. Go smiling for the fun you gave us once
upon a time. Thank you. It *is* time to put to bed, permanently, both
HLFIC-L & HIGHLA-L. R.I.P.
TCBO2
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 17:36:45 -0400
From: Terry Howard <howardtl@muohio.edu>
Subject: Re: DISCUSS: Future of HLFIC-L and HIGHLA-L
The Whip, the whip the list goddess still has the whip!!!!!
At 11:47 PM 5/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Ahem. I have something to say.
>
>HIGHLA-L and HLFIC-L are NOT DEAD!
>
Terrence L. Howard
Network Operation Center
112 Hoyt Hall
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all.
The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all
our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their
place."
--Mark Twain
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:37:59 +0000
From: beccaelizabeth <r.day@netcom.co.uk>
Subject: Re: DISCUSS: Future of HLFIC-L and HIGHLA-L
if fandom has migrated to other mailing lists- which ones? I'm on quite a few
but all with as much activity as here ie zip.
I know theres a newsgroup and forum but email is easier than web stuff and I
cant get my newsgroup bit to work
beccaelizabeth
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 17:51:17 EDT
From: Ashton7@aol.com
Subject: Re: DISCUSS: Future of HLFIC-L and HIGHLA-L
In a message dated 5/10/2003 5:29:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tcbo2@comcast.net writes:
> I've been on HIGHLA-L
> since 1996 and have quietly watched a handful of sharp-tongued,
> self-designated "geezers" and one relative "PORA" who is living in
> a State whose motto is to "Live Aloha" (meaning love & friendship
> and helping), but is infamous for her toxic, hurtful, vicious posts.
>
Me, too. But I've found that simply not reading posts from the toxic sorts
makes life much easier. They obviously so desperately *want* attention and
they are obviously so completely bankrupt of creativity so the only way the
can *get* any attention is by being nasty. They are naughty little children.
They need a spanking but it isn't our place to give it to them since they are
apparently dysfunctional adults.
And you're right about there being many other places that *are* still
hopping. The Holyground Forum is always talking about the show and the actors
as well as going off-topic *and* there is fiction posted there on a weekly
basis from very talented writers.
Annie (still in Australia... we're off to see a live video link with
Elizabeth Gracen and Adrian Paul this morning -- Peter Wingfield, James Horan
and Jim Byrnes were all lovely here at HLDU the last two days!)
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 17:48:30 -0400
From: Terry Howard <howardtl@muohio.edu>
Subject: Re: Avenging Angel
Now Marina you know taking a flag pole to The Wezzel is like teaching a pig
to sing - it can't be done and it will just annoy her. :)
At 09:33 AM 5/10/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Wendy wrote:
>
> >No Richie!
>
>I knew there was a reason I didn't like this episode.
>
> >And, of course, Duncan killing Cahill on Holy Ground!
>
>It was NOT holy ground, Wendy. It was some Templar shrine. I
>have a shrine to Richie in my house. That doesn't make it
>holy ground.
>
> >(This List isn't dead.)(It's just stunned.)
>
>Yes, that's it! Adam stunned it just as it was waking up!
>Remarkable list, this HIGHLA-L. Beautiful listees!
>
>- Marina (who'd better stop before she gets to the part
>about pining for the fjords. I mean highlands!)
>
>\\ "I think somewhere on the road to reality, ||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
>// you took a left turn." - Nowhere Man || R I C H I E >> \\
>\\====Marina Bailey====tmar@sifl.iid.co.za====||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> //
>//===Chief Flag Waver and Defender of Richie==|| \\
>
>"It's Lord of the Flies in there!" - Josh; 'The West Wing'; about
>the forum on his fansite.
Terrence L. Howard
Network Operation Center
112 Hoyt Hall
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all.
The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all
our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their
place."
--Mark Twain
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:41:28 EDT
From: "Michele L. Kirksey" <MicheleShdwfx@cs.com>
Subject: OT: Question on Andromeda
Sorry all but I *know* I will get an answer from somebody here in order to
satisfy my curiosity. Why is Tilque from Stargate on Andromeda? Supposing
it's not him, geez can you say "typecast"? :)
I haven't watched anything religiously since HL (except Angel and I even miss
that once in awhile.) :) :)
MicheleK thanks for any info!!
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:59:11 EDT
From: "Michele L. Kirksey" <MicheleShdwfx@cs.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Question on Andromeda
:) 'k a little patience watching this ep and I would have known - no,
obviously it's not Tilque - but still, might as well have been.
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:51:25 -0700
From: FKMel <sgt_buck_frobisher@yahoo.com>
Subject: Highlander moments
It's probably my luck these have already been
mentioned, but I'll post them anyway on the off chance
they haven't.
I heard that Adrian sometimes puts what looks like
Highlander nods into some of his other work. There was
talk on one of the AP lists that in one of his films,
I think Code Hunter, but I'm not positive, he ends up
in one scene wielding a sword and then there's what I
guess you'd call a pseudo-Quickening. Anyone know
which film I mean?
And in the Tracker ep 'To Catch a Dessarian', there's
a scene where Cole gets locked in an art museum
storage room by a fugitive. When he can't open the
lock with his Cirronian energy, he freezes the lock
with liquid nitrogen, then whacks it with a katana.
But I don't think it had a dragonhead on it LOL. I
can't watch it without thinking things like 'go Duncan
go Duncan' or 'MacLeod rides again...sort of.'
Actually, it seems to me they do have a few things in
common. They both fight the bad guys and they both
take life forces. Duncan absorbs them with his body
and Cole has his handy little collector. (I'm probably
in the minority...I really liked Tracker and was upset
to see it taken off.)
You know you're watching too much HL when you're
watching BtVS (it was just to see Angel...I watch his
show all the time but only watch Buffy if he's on) and
can't figure out why the Watchers are doing so much
stuff besides observing and recording. I actually
always have thought a crossover fic between those two
universes would be interesting and I know there is at
least one out there and a pretty good one at that.
Mel, who'd like to do a Tracker/HL cross and is
struggling presently with a HL/FK cross.
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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:30:50 EDT
From: Dotiran@aol.com
Subject: Re: Highlander moments
In a message dated 5/10/2003 6:52:38 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
sgt_buck_frobisher@yahoo.com writes:
> I think Code Hunter, but I'm not positive, he ends up
> in one scene wielding a sword and then there's what I
> guess you'd call a pseudo-Quickening. Anyone know
> which film I mean?
>
>
Yep, that's Code Hunter
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