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Post by NewGirl731 on Dec 16, 2003 9:17:31 GMT -5
My first MST experience was in the Dorms at a University in Maine in the early 90's. I was partying, high and/or drunk, and suddenly all my friends were gone! I stumbled into the TV lounge, and there my bud Nancy was, and Gamera vs. Zigra was on. I loved the Gamera movies, so sat to watch, and didn't notice for 10 - 15 minutes the guys riffing the movie. I never stopped watching.
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Post by BigMcLargeHuge on Dec 16, 2003 17:49:34 GMT -5
Hi all!! This is my first post here! In the early 90's, I had heard rumors of this show, comments from my dormmate and others on campus about this great show called MST3K. However, I had no TV and therefore no cable in college so it was not until summer 1995 when I was on vacation at Disneyworld of all places where I finally caught it. The villa we stayed in had cable and I had caught the end of "Gamera vs Guiron". I happened to have some movies on VHS brought with me to watch and I immediately put in the tape with Tombstone, fast-forwarded to the end and recorded the last hour of "Gamera vs Guiron". Loved every minute of it. The next night was "Being From Another Planet" and I got most of that until the tape ran out and this was all I had for a bit, but just two months later I had cable and Comedy Central and have been hooked ever since!  |
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Dec 16, 2003 18:05:01 GMT -5
Welcome to the board BigMcLargeHuge, a damn fine first post. Did you notice I have an award?
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Post by GoldBootGirl on Dec 16, 2003 22:34:33 GMT -5
I think Dangermouse gets an award, for being the person posting, that lives the farthest away from where the show originated.  |
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Post by Dangermouse on Dec 17, 2003 7:49:04 GMT -5
I think Dangermouse gets an award, for being the person posting, that lives the farthest away from where the show originated. Yes !! What do I win ? It's nice being an MST fan this side of the pond. There aren't many of us so it feels like a really select group.  You can chat about MST for hours and no-one else knows what you're talking about. ;D |
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Post by hookemhorns on Dec 17, 2003 12:14:49 GMT -5
My cousin introduced me to MST3K in 1989 at my grandfather's house. We did not have cable back at home those days. The episode was The Crawing Hand. I was in college at the time and it seemed like MST3k was always on CC in the early 90's, the few times I watched TV; anytime you surfed channels, you would see the silhouette at the bottom of the screen. The episode that got me completely hooked was Viking Women and the Sea Serpent because of the Home Economics short that was on that episode; my mom was a home ec major in the 60's and I watched it with her and my father, two fairly conservative people, and they loved it. Anyway ... MST3k was always great to watch late at night after studying or with friends over beer. Good times, good times.
When I went to law school (1992-95), I did not have the money for cable and taped a number of episodes (Turkey Day and others) at home to tide me over back at school ... then I taped over those episodes. I figured the show would always be on.
After I graduated from law school, and the rumors of MST3k getting cancelled began, I started taping religiously. Then I met my wife and got married. My wife was not a big fan (however, she saw Pod People in the theatres in the 80's as a double feature with ... Beaches? She and her friend left the theatre after only 15 minutes or so of Trumpy), but after seing MST3K:TM at the theatres (really fun while she was in her first trimester and everything she smelled made her sick), she tolerated it and indulged me with an occasional episode. I stopped taping, though. I started again when the show moved over to Sci-Fi, but I did not think it was that funny anymore. I did not like Bobo, Pearl, Brain Guy, or Bill's voice for Crow. After our girls were born, I taped only three episodes and stopped watching and meant to watch it again, but never had the time. I was really sad in 1999 to hear the show was ending, but I thought that the show's best years were long past, anyway.
I thought the show was off the air until one August morning in 2001. I was flipping channels after the cable company changed the station order and was pleasantly surprised to see the familiar silhouette at the bottom of the screen ... Devil Fish was on. I found out that the show was still on, but it was supposed to be on for only four more months. I started taping again, particularly after I found out that it was supposed to have gone off the air in January 2002, and was so happy to rediscover the show. I liked the Sci-Fi era changes after giving them a second chance. The CC years will always be the best to me, but I am happy to have gotten back into the show before the show leaves the air for good next month.
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Post by GoldBootGirl on Dec 17, 2003 12:26:00 GMT -5
Howdy Hookems! Your signature line is too cool! I can understand being proud to be a child of the 80's, but proud of being a geek ??  I would consider myself not a geek, but a nerd. A computer nerd. Strange how in the 80's computer nerds were un-cool. Now in the high tech age, computer nerds are very hip, and the smart ones are making a ton of money. Probably the ones that were teased for being nerds in the 80's. |
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Post by Poe33 on Dec 17, 2003 12:36:42 GMT -5
Howdy Hookems! Your signature line is too cool! I can understand being proud to be a child of the 80's, but proud of being a geek ?? |
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Post by GoldBootGirl on Dec 17, 2003 12:46:00 GMT -5
Don't mean to be picky Poe, but for an author, you need to work on your spelling. What's an "anthlete"? I'm just kidding. I know you were just typing too fast and you DO know how to spell it. By the way, what kind of books do you write?
Really there is no difference between a "geek" and a
"nerd" as far as the coolness factor goes. Just heard someone talking about how it seemed more acceptable to admit to being a "nerd" rather than a "geek".
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Post by Poe33 on Dec 17, 2003 13:00:48 GMT -5
Don't mean to be picky Poe, but for an author, you need to work on your spelling. What's an "anthlete"? I'm just kidding. I know you were just typing too fast and you DO know how to spell it. By the way, what kind of books do you write? Really there is no difference between a "geek" and a "nerd" as far as the coolness factor goes. Just heard someone talking about how it seemed more acceptable to admit to being a "nerd" rather than a "geek". Ironically Goldbootgirl, writers tend to be horrid spellers- not due to ignorance of the proper spelling, but rather a brain to fingers synaptic misfiring. My debut novel is a rock&roll scifi adventure. It is hysterically funny (at least the critics think so!) It's called Milky Way Marmalade. Nerds, geeks, misfits- I love them all. They made the world interesting. Better than being some conforming corporate android! |
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Post by hookemhorns on Dec 17, 2003 13:10:24 GMT -5
Hey, GBG... I was a nerd and a geek in middle school and high school. I never wore glasses until my last semester of college, but I have always been shy and introverted. I have always been a computer person. My first was a TI-994A in 1983 ... I spent two whole summers programming my own games in Basic. I liked science fiction and bad movies, played Atari 2600 every day, hung out with other people who did not fit in, got picked on by the jocks and popular people in school, did not wear the latest clothes or date the prettiest girls, etc. Then when I was 14 I noticed girls were not the icky things that liked to play with dolls anymore ... my geek self went dormant. I lost interest in science fiction and liked to tinker with computers, but not as much. I became more extroverted and outgoing, but was never cool or popular.
I rekindled my interest in sci-fi two years ago, when I rediscovered MST3K (and that my Atari 2600 still worked after all these years!). I still love Star Wars and Tolkien is really cool now, but I can't quite bring myself to like Star Trek again. So maybe I am not a total geek. But I still bring my lunch to work every day in my Darth Maul lunch bag -- does that count for something?
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Post by Poe33 on Dec 17, 2003 13:19:03 GMT -5
Hey, GBG... I was a nerd and a geek in middle school and high school. I never wore glasses until my last semester of college, but I have always been shy and introverted. I have always been a computer person. My first was a TI-994A in 1983 ... I spent two whole summers programming my own games in Basic. I liked science fiction and bad movies, played Atari 2600 every day, hung out with other people who did not fit in, got picked on by the jocks and popular people in school, did not wear the latest clothes or date the prettiest girls, etc. Then when I was 14 I noticed girls were not the icky things that liked to play with dolls anymore ... my geek self went dormant. I lost interest in science fiction and liked to tinker with computers, but not as much. I became more extroverted and outgoing, but was never cool or popular. I rekindled my interest in sci-fi two years ago, when I rediscovered MST3K (and that my Atari 2600 still worked after all these years!). I still love Star Wars and Tolkien is really cool now, but I can't quite bring myself to like Star Trek again. So maybe I am not a total geek. But I still bring my lunch to work every day in my Darth Maul lunch bag -- does that count for something? Sound a lot like me! My first computer, 1983 as well, was a Timex Sinclair! It had 1K of memory and a 2K expansion card!!!! I then graduated to the Vic 20 and C-64 and LOVED THEM. Wrote all sorts of games in Basic and Assembly language. I am a pretty decent looking guy but was never great with girls (I am married now. My wife is beautiful). I was lucky in that I never got picked on by jocks, partly because I did track and feild. I have always found refuge in my writing. |
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Post by GoldBootGirl on Dec 17, 2003 14:32:42 GMT -5
The truth about me.... I would have been considered a nerd in junior high. I'm not sure if playing Atari (I was addicted to Pacman) would make you a nerd. It seemed to appeal to nerds and popular people alike. I was shy and unpopular up until my last 2 years of high school when I blossomed I really didn't have interest in being a computer nerd until the Internet came out. I was introduced to it by my highly nerdish boyfriend (and a computer genius), who I have been with for 8 years. So we are computer nerds with networked computers. We both spend so much free time on our computers that we often lose touch with the outside world.... I still associate computer geeks with those unattractive little boys I went to school with. I certainly take better care of my appearence than they did. But I'm still a "nerd" at heart. |
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Post by GizmonicInstitute on Dec 17, 2003 17:32:09 GMT -5
It was actually a bit of both.Some months ago me and my dad had got to talking about TV,and I just remember him saying about the funny show where the robots make fun of movies.I didn't think much of it,until one morning I found the show on Sci-Fi.It was "SoulTaker",and just the early comments of "SouuuuullllTaker!" and "Souptaker?" got me hooked.
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Post by Poe33 on Dec 17, 2003 17:47:03 GMT -5
It was actually a bit of both.Some months ago me and my dad had got to talking about TV,and I just remember him saying about the funny show where the robots make fun of movies.I didn't think much of it,until one morning I found the show on Sci-Fi.It was "SoulTaker",and just the early comments of "SouuuuullllTaker!" and "Souptaker?" got me hooked. I watched Soutaker last night. Hadn't seen it in a while. Funny episode. Cool seeing Joel again. "Why can't we just rock?" Dude: "Led Zepelin was wrong" Servo: "Shut up!" Dude: "There is no stairway to heaven" Mike: "Was Sabbath wrong too?" |
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You can chat about MST for hours and no-one else knows what you're talking about. ;D 
