From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #137 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/137 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 137 Today's Topics: [B7L] Re: Hemlock Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Re: [B7L]: Drink colours Blue Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours Blue Re: [B7L]: Drink colours Blue Re: [B7L] Invasion Earth? Re: [B7L]: bye [B7L] Re: B5-B7 in NT Oz [B7L] Fw: alternatives to typing ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 04:54:41 -0400 From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: [B7L] Re: Hemlock Message-ID: <199805110454_MC2-3C8C-6FEC@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Oh hell, pressed button for wrong list. Comes of trying to deal with five digests at once when too tired. Sorry. Harriet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:33:56 +0100 (BST) From: Iain Coleman To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 8 May 1998, Jenni-Alison wrote: > > 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! Does this mean that B7 shows not only the crushing of the individual by untrammelled state power, and the perversion of law into a tool of state opression, but also the final, decisive victory of alcopops over real beer? Talk about dystopia... Iain ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 05:38:18 PDT From: "Don Trower" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink colours Blue Message-ID: <19980511123818.29365.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain >...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 Bols Blue Curacao perhaps ? The following address may assist the search for the right colour drink.... http://www.cucina.iol.it/drink/drink/ingred/default.htm ....sorry its in Italian. Don. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 06:45:47 PDT From: "Don Trower" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours (was Liberator design fault) Message-ID: <19980511134550.16786.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain >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 Ah ! confessions time ! In my student days I once took a long thirst quenching drink from a box of "fresh" orange juice in a student's fridge, only when putting the near empty box down did I notice the green fur floating on the surface. If anyone else shares an equal story I will reveal all about my pasta problem in Milan. Don. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 22:20:02 +0100 From: "Julie Horner" To: Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink Colours Blue Message-Id: <199805112118.XAA21436@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Jenni-Alison > > 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! > It was a cocktail that gloried in the name of Rasputin's Revenge and contained, among other things, blue Curacao. After a long evening alone watching videos of a previous fandom obsession (too embarassing to admit to these days) and drinking inadvisable quantities of said cocktail - well let's just say that the next day I felt so dreadfully ill that I could not even face the sight of anything blue, not even the blue Radox for the bath and to this day (10 years later) I have only allowed green stuff in the bath. > Anyway, there's a blue alcopop which is interesting, and no one who I >have seen drinking it has lost their head! I am afraid I can't see the point of alcopops at all. Why should anyone want their alcohol to taste like a soft drink? These substances were invented while I was enduring the enforced absinence of pregnancy and frankly what I wanted to know was why someone could not invent a soft drink that tasted like alcohol? Now that is what I call a good idea. Julie Horner ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:27:11 +1200 From: Nicola Collie To: B7-list Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink colours Blue Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" me: >>...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... Don: >Bols Blue Curacao perhaps ? Could have been anything from blue food colouring to crayfish blood. IIRC it was one of their long exotic cocktails, not one of their blow-yer-head-off shooter-type drinks. Anyone had a Brain Haemorrhage? ;-) >The following address may assist the search for the right colour >drink.... > >http://www.cucina.iol.it/drink/drink/ingred/default.htm > > ....sorry it's in Italian. Not a lot of use to me then. Hard Rock have a menu of "in-house" cocktails, with names like "Hard Rock Hurricane" and "Shark Repellent" Mebbe a link to the Hard Rock Illustrated Cocktail Recipe book would have been more use :-) arrivederci, 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: Mon, 11 May 1998 22:35:40 +0100 From: "Julie Horner" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Invasion Earth? Message-Id: <199805112133.XAA22664@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Alison Page > Well, what do we think of Invasion Earth? Has it been on SKY or anything > before it was on BBC1? Is the Anton Lesser character going to continue to > be rather Vila-ish? Well sorry to everyone who has replied to this favourably but personally I thought it, if not complete crap, then pretty close. So.. SPOILER (is this really necessary?) 1. The alien space ship landing in 1944 - would anyone in 1944 really have any idea that they were dealing with an alien - surely most of the population still thought the Germans ate babies and would never have seen a foreigner - let alone have any belief in life on other planets. 2. The 'research' that wotshisname and the female lead were carrying out - did we ever find out what this was - it seemed the least convincing technobollocks I have ever come across. 3. The pick up scene in a pub - if a strange man in a pub tried that line how many women would really join him for a drink? Surely most of us would mutter something vague about looking for a friend who obviously wasn't there and beat a hasty retreat. 4. The civilians getting in to the military base and the hospitalised alien prisoner so easily - no I just don't believe this, MOD plod are not that lax. 5. The final scene with the aliens coming through the ceiling - oh please... Sorry but no I don't think it is worth a second chance - I think I will just cut my toenails or something next week. Julie Horner ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 02:01:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: patrick To: B7-list Subject: Re: [B7L]: bye Message-Id: <199805120001.CAA02104@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" UNSUBSCRIBE ---------- >From: Nicola Collie >To: B7-list >Subject: Re: [B7L]: Drink colours Blue >Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:27:11 +1200 > >me: >>>...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... > >Don: >>Bols Blue Curacao perhaps ? > >Could have been anything from blue food colouring to crayfish blood. IIRC >it was one of their long exotic cocktails, not one of their >blow-yer-head-off shooter-type drinks. Anyone had a Brain Haemorrhage? ;-) > >>The following address may assist the search for the right colour >>drink.... >> >>http://www.cucina.iol.it/drink/drink/ingred/default.htm >> >> ....sorry it's in Italian. > >Not a lot of use to me then. >Hard Rock have a menu of "in-house" cocktails, with names like "Hard Rock >Hurricane" and "Shark Repellent" >Mebbe a link to the Hard Rock Illustrated Cocktail Recipe book would have >been more use :-) >arrivederci, 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: Tue, 12 May 1998 15:26:18 +1000 (EST) From: David Henderson To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: B5-B7 in NT Oz Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I will concurr with Narrelle and thank the list for using spoiler warnings on the related B5 discussion. Lisa Darby postulated on the tyranny of distance by saying: > That is if you're talking about southern Australia! In the Territory, > to the best of my knowledge, it has not been shown at all. We've just If you get Ch9 (or one of its affiliates, WIN ?) try very late on thursday night. I mean if they bother showing it in North Qld you would recon it would be on in Darwin. L8r david H. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:30:12 +0100 From: Alison Page To: Lysator Subject: [B7L] Fw: alternatives to typing Message-ID: <894965291.1023995.0@alisonpage.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Judith, and anyone else who has typing problems, might like to read this exchange, from another list I am on > >Excuse my computer illiteracy, but do you mean you can actually > >speak into a microphone and send email messages without > >having to type? > > Yes. I use software from Dragon Systems [www.dragonsys.com], which is > available for Mac and Windows environments. I believe someone in the UK > has a patch which lets the programs run under UNIX, too. I have a > 10,000 word base vocabulary, which I can add thousands more words to as > I go along [and since I write rather odd fiction, this is a _very_ > important feature!] This software sounds like it could be useful. Alison -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #137 **************************************