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On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:30:17 +0000 (GMT), chika wrote:

I S P: Incredibly Stupid People.

Then again, maybe that's just mine.

(Hi, people in this new NG I've stumbled into!)

On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:19:36 +0000 (GMT), chika wrote:

Of course. They would appreciate it so much, they might sue me for libel. Fortunately, I have nothing for them to win from me.

After which that 'ISP' joke increases in funniness by about 300%.

Sugar cubes? I prefer blotter. It has prettier designs.

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:47:31 +0000 (GMT), chika wrote:

Woopsie ... I'm a new Dariaphile, I've only seen about 10 episodes yet, all on The N. I'll probably miss most of the references for a while.

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:23:13 +0000 (GMT), chika wrote:

It would be a bit more joyful if they showed all the episodes, uncut, on a *good* channel.

But one works with what one gets. ;) (And yep, I've already signed the petition.)

chika wrote in news:[email]:

I am starting to think that crossing our fingers and hoping a network is going to run Daria is futile. Why not just get copies of Daria from the underground and watch them at our leisure? About two thirds of the eps are out there in hi res unedited form. I would be willing to bet that some people in this group have the remaining eps on cassette, if they would only post them. The rest are in lower res RM. I havent heard any really promising news from the networks and I think that they probably regard these petitions as little more than background noise. If they wont publish the DVD's and take your money that is their problem. Lets make the full series of Daria available by finding those missing eps and posting them to a.b.m.a And whats more, you wouldnt have to support The-N, who beats the meaning out of Daria's plotlines. Get Daria on WinMX and that will be the end of Noggin complaints! Screw Noggin, Screw the system. "We have to go outside the system", as Daria or Jane once said in Arts N Crass.

Logan

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 03:16:45 GMT, anonuser wrote:

However, if I may be Devil's Advocate here, ... I like Upchuck. No, that's not what I was going to be a devil's advocate about. Errr, what I *meant* to say is, a lot of people have a low-speed modem Internet connection and a pretty slow computer, and are simply not physically capable of downloading even lo-fi video clips of more than about 2 minutes at the very longest. The posting of episodes in downloadable form would help some, but those people, of which I am an example, would still be left out in the cold.

There's always the idea of setting up a tape-tree or something, though, so that people can send copies of episodes to one another directly through the mail or something. That has worked well in several other fan communities I have been in, although I have never really taken extensive part in such activities. But then, most of the shows I was in the fandoms for, I could record myself from the TV, because they were not heavily edited and none of them were missing from the runs. That's the runs of the shows on TV, not 'the runs' in the nasty sense.

I probably wouldn't have said that if it weren't 1:46 in the morning and I hadn't just watched old episodes of _Whose Line Is It Anyway?_ and laughed so hard I went mad, but it's too late for regrets now.

Where am I again?

anonuser wrote in news:[email]:

More like about 10 of the eps are in high res unedited. You should know this as you have the same collection I do.. There may be another 10-15 floating around, but that still isn't two thirds =/