Blakes7 March 2001

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Re: [B7L] Lyst Culture Guide (take 4) and lost causes
by Marian de Haan 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Me: >> > I have Volcano :-) Cheryl: >> Me too! I really enjoyed the Liberator scenes in this episode :-) I love Avon's "guided tour". And there's some beautiful suffering. :-) Mistral: >A personal favourite of mine, as well. Maybe it needs a society, too. The Volcano Lavas, perhaps? Please enroll me. Marian

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Re: Re [B7L] Deadly serious stuff
by Deborah Day 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --------------------------------------------------------------- ---> >Q: What is large and grey, has big ears, tusks and a trunk, wears black >studded leather and has a reputation for butchery and mayhem? >A: Bayban the Elephant. > >Q: How do you know if an elephant works for Space Command? >A: By the Federation logo on his black overalls. > >Q: How come the 3rd Season crew never used Avon's detector shield? >A: Because he'd sold it to the elephants. > >Q: Did you ever see an elephant in the 3rd Season? >A: Worked for them, didn't it? >Slightly intoxicated Neil No penguins??? Debbie

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Re: [B7L] Art and the Federation
by J MacQueen 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

>From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner(a)tesco.net> >*a Pingu More penguins. They get everywhere, don't they? Regards Joanne _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re:personality test
by Louise Rutter 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Sorry folks, should have gone to the spin list. Louise

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RE: b7spin: Re: Fw: Grotesquely Huge Personality Test
by Louise Rutter 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Mistral wrote: >But that's still making an assumption that 'average' = 'normal' = >'good'. That's an assumption that _really_ disturbs me. I like variety, >for a lot of reasons, not the least important of which is that people >who make significant contributions to our culture and understanding are >very often decidedly _not_ 'normal' (Einstein, Van Gogh, etc.) But you're taking specific examples I stated and making generalisations out of them. I made it quite clear that I thought being miles away from the norm in some cases (eg on tolerance) was a good thing. The single example I stated where it would probably not be 'good' to be at an extreme was introversion/extroversion. And I stand by that. Anyone who scores 1 on a scale of 1 to 30 (introversion) is probably not going to be a happy, fulfilled person. Maybe they will produce great art that will please the rest of the world, but for _that individual_ life probably isn't going to be a fun romp overall. Likewise, any extrovert scoring 30 is going to have their own set of problems. Louise

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Re: Chicken joke (was Re: [B7L] Light Bulb Joke)
by Ellynne G. 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Avon ran the first recording for the planetary leaders, letting them see what was waiting for their own worlds. It was grisly, a bloodbath. Bored Federation troopers removed the "Slow: Chicken Crossing" signs just to see how many of the birds would make it to the other side of the road _now_. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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Some days are better than others (Travis style)
by Ellynne G. 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

(For those of you who've seen it, yes, this a B7 adaptation of the trailer for Monsters, Inc) There was a pounding on the door. "Open up, in there! In the name of the Federation, open up!" But, before anyone could obey, the speaker threw himself at the door to knock it down. Then he threw himself again. And again. He jiggled the door knob. Finally, a Galactic Express card slid through the crack. The door knob turned. Space Commander Travis and the one mutoid he'd been able to requisition for this mission (Bart) burst into the room. Travis brandished his gun menacingly, ready to shoot anything that moved, gloating. The gloat wavered a little. He looked around a little more carefully. He put a hand over his eyes, shading out the nonexistant glare, and walked back and forth, checking it out. From the corner of his mouth, he told Bart what Bart (lounging back against the wall with his gun resting casually beside him) had already noticed, "There's no Blake." Bart, who knew that tone, said, "Now, don't panic -" "Why shouldn't I panic? Why shouldn't I panic? There's supposed to be Blake! I'm looking around, I'm seeing a serious lack of Blake!" "OK, OK, let's just calm down. Now, check the schedule the double agent gave you. Let's see what it says." Travis pulled out the sheet. "OK, rebel meeting in the front room -" Bart looked around, "Front room, check." "In the little, blue dome -" "Little, blue dome, check." "The dome on Mango -" Travis ran to the window himself. "Yep, it's the dome on Mango Street, check -" "Wait a sec," Bart said, "let me see that." He grabbed the sheet. "Travis, this says _Mongo_. We're supposed to be on _Mongo_." "Huh?" "Does this look like Mongo to you?" "Yeah, well, sort of . . . ." Bart rolled his eyes in dsgust. "Travis, remember back in fifth grade? When you had the crush on Kiera, Servalan's little sister?" "Oh, yeah. Loved her. Until Servalan got upset at her and, you know . . . ." "Yeah, yeah. Well, while you were passing notes, the rest of us were _studying_ astrography." "What are you trying to say?" "This is not Mongo!" "Oh, sure, blame the wounded guy. He must have read it wrong with his ONE EYE!" "I didn't say that." "You were thinking it!" "Look, you stay here and find something to shoot. I'm going back to the ship's breakroom and take a blood break. You come up with another sure fire plan to get Blake, call me. Or, better yet, call Kiera." Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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Cally
by Ellynne G. 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

One thing I've noticed about Cally, the woman had a woefully underdeveloped sense of selfpreservation. It's not just a sense of selfsacrifice, a willingness to lay down her life for something else. Blake and some of the others have that but they give the impression of seeing their lives as something they are willing to exchange for a goal, a coin to be well spent. Cally, OTOH, gives the impression sometimes as not placing any particular value on hers at all. She's not suicidal (except maybe in her first episode). Within the context of the series, I'd say she was too used to the sense of the group on Auron. Connected to that, she valued her life in an altruistic way. That is, she (and most other Aurons) were taught to put a high value on the lives of others and on self-sacrifice. As part of the group, she felt the altruisitic value others put on her life and valued it in context of the group (am I making sense?). Cut off from that, she had an undeveloped sense of self, at least in this respect. So, Blake could come up with a risky plan and she might criticize it for its risks to others or its overall wisdom but never for its risk to herself. That didn't even enter the calculations. I have no idea where the writers were coming from. I got to thinking about this because, in various stories I work with, Cally always seems to be getting into trouble. She avoids offensive tactics on her own behalf and seems inclined to wait too long before getting to defensive ones. Any thoughts? Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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Re: [B7L] Art and the Federation
by Ellynne G. 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:01:52 -0500 jacquispeel(a)netscape.net writes: > There does not seem to be much art in Federation areas - public or > private (and dictatorships tend to go in for monumental art) > Perhaps, they're a little like Pakistan or some of the more uptight regimes history has cranked out now and then who demolished all the old monumental art and the artists so that, by the time they got around to wanting to build some of their own, there weren't any artists (or the surviving ones considered it too risky to identify themselves) and nothing significant left to take the old name off and put a new plaque on ("Yes, children, this is Travis Square. No, the stories that the statue resembles, in any way, an ancient by the name of Nelson are completely false, the kind of lies constantly circulated by people like Blake." [I am tempted to add something about "The Big, Bad, Blake will get you if you don't watch out," but that seems tasteless since, given the crimes he was accused off, that might have been a threat they really used in the Federation, Blake the Bogeyman (which may have accounted for some of his popularity, the thing where parents try to connect something to 'evil, bad, stay away,' and kids/teens connect it with 'powerful, tough, things the wimps can't handle,' that they then want to be associated with)]). Then again, maybe I'm just missing the true significance of Servalan's wardrobe. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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Re [B7L] Deadly serious stuff
by Neil Faulkner 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Culled from AltaZine #5: Q: What is large and grey, has big ears, tusks and a trunk, wears black studded leather and has a reputation for butchery and mayhem? A: Bayban the Elephant. Q: How do you know if an elephant works for Space Command? A: By the Federation logo on his black overalls. Q: How come the 3rd Season crew never used Avon's detector shield? A: Because he'd sold it to the elephants. Q: Did you ever see an elephant in the 3rd Season? A: Worked for them, didn't it? I also tried to think up some B7 Mummy Mummy jokes, but alas in vain. Slightly intoxicated Neil

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