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It's late and I'm waiting for a certain NFS server to come back from the dead so I can save the file I was working on when it died... There follow the X-Report nominations I've had lying dormant in the dark recesses of ~/XREPORT for quite some time, because they (according to a superficial check with the aid of Dejanews[1]) haven't appeared in an X-Report. [I may have sent them to xreport@thepentagon.com, in which case if they weren't lost y'all might see some duplicates one day.] I couldn't allow my appreciation to be repressed any longer. ===== The first Repressed Award goes to quokka for her helpful interior decorating hints: ~Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 01:22:41 +1000 ~From: quokka <quokka@speednet.com.au> ~Subject: Re: TAN: NatGat mascot Annette Fraser wrote: > > Robert Whyte wrote: > >Kenneth Alexander Finlayson wrote: > >> Lynne wrote: > >>> > >>> As $teve has volunteered to be the Official NatGat Mascot, does this > >>> mean we can get him stuffed? > >> > >> Lynne: I want to stuff him. > >> Ken: I can tell. > > > >Lynne: I want to mount him on a wall... > > Been there, done that ;-) Then you can't have used nearly enough nails. ===== Next, Demosthenes leads us on a terrifying journey inside the minds of Fox executives, uncovering a plans for an XF spin-off series: ~From: "Demosthenes" <demosthenes@cybergal.com> ~Subject: Re: EX-FILES FANS GET FREE MONEY ~Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:32:57 +1000 Meerkats Rule wrote in message <01be83d9$65ec9d20$382e11cb@default>... >DWill21348 <dwill21348@aol.com> wrote in article ><19990409211624.02129.00000834@ng-fr1.aol.com>... > >> I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it. A little >> while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, >> and came across an article similar to this that said you could make >> thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of >> $6.oo! So I thought, "Yeah right, this must be a scam", but >> like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading.... > etc.....etc.....yadda.....yadda....yadda.... > >The Meerkat is a little confused... >What is an EX-FILE? An XF fan? An ex-XF fan? Is Ex-Files a new show? A >satire of XF? A mispelling by a sad individual who wants to suck us into >another get-rich-quick scheme? The EX-FILES: A XF/Melrose Place crossover. M&S fight constantly over Diana Fowley, Ed Jerse and the alleged contents of Mulder's video collection. Scully goes off with Alex Krycek in a huff and Mulder eventually comes to terms with his repressed attraction to Walter Skinner and AD Kersh. Frohike becomes a porn king, making megabucks from a skin flick starring CSM, Diana Fowley and Marita. When his erstwhile colleagues attempt to blackmail over his past life as a hacker, he sells them out to the MMBH (who is actually Samantha). Does this help your confusiuon at all? ===== The third Repressed Award goes to Ken for taking all the fun out of research: ~From: kaf03@uow.edu.au (Kenneth Alexander Finlayson) ~Subject: Re: x-files fan needs help! ~Date: 23 Apr 99 02:35:27 GMT Dear "Who" (if that is your real name), I also have some questions. Does your university have an ethics committee, and did they authorise this survey? How will your survey be representative, when with a little effort people can respond multiple times, giving contradictory answers, under false names? What assurances can you make regarding confidentiality of results, seeing you ask some reasonably personal questions? Do you expect people to give honest answers about sexual attraction to DD/GA when the answers will not be anonymous? Why did you send this request to aus.tv.x-files? Are you aware that this is an Australian X Files group? Why not send this message to alt.tv.x-files instead? And finally, a spot of advice: I have a very limited statistical knowledge, but I would say this is a very poorly designed survey. What constitutes `a lot' of merchandise? Two items? Five? Ten? You say you seek the reasons people watch the show, but you only ask about one (sexual attraction to the stars), unless you expect people to generously supply other reasons in the `What do you get out of watching the X-Files?'. And so on. This is very important for my continuing trouble-making, so if you could help me out, I would really appreciate it! ===== (Hmm. Only three awards.) This is a test of the X-Report publishing system. Had this been a real X-Report, I would have complained about the lack of nominations. But since there's noone to blame except me, I won't. The important thing is that the server's up now Good night to you all. [2] [1] The new layout of which didn't suck as much as I expected after all the comments I've seen on the subject. [2] This would make more sense if you're Quokka or Demosthenes and remember a comment I made in #atxf on Tuesday night. (But it would still be stupid.) -- Adam Fitzpatrick