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blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 349
Today's Topics:
Re: [B7L] OT: Lexx
[B7L] Horizon News
[B7L] Christmas...
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:41:26 EST
From: JennaStan@aol.com
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Subject: Re: [B7L] OT: Lexx
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Sorry, that should be Sci-Fi is running the program in January at the
earliest. I haven't heard a month mentioned yet.
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:58:10 EST
From: Mac4781@aol.com
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Subject: [B7L] Horizon News
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The following news is just in from Horizon:
Steven Pacey just finished making a pilot for a Canadian TV Show called
'Pipedreams'.
Jan Chappell will be playing Mme de Volanges in a national tour of the UK of
'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' from Feb to June 2000. Full tour dates & box
office numbers are now on the Horizon website at www.horizon.org.uk
Anyone able to get Sky 1 will be able to see Rob Grant's 'The Strangerers'
which stars Paul Darrow as Mr Seedy (and has Gareth Thomas in ep. 1) for 10
weeks from 1st February at 8.30pm.
Part 2 of the episode of 'A Touch of Frost' in which Sally Knyvette appears
is being shown on New Year's Day.
Carol Mc
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 16:11:58 PST
From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se, B7_Avon@onelist.com, freedom-city@blakes-7.org,
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Subject: [B7L] Christmas...
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For the following burble, I humbly apologise in advance. Blame
the Relatives-Bearing-Gifts this Joyous Morn...
Dear Avalon...
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This is Gan. I'm writing this thank-you note because Blake can't
at the minute - he's organising a Hunt-and-Blow-Up-The-
Communications-Satellite game, and as he pointed out to
Avon, the fact that we're rebel terrorists wading in blood
doesn't mean we should forget our manners.
The Christmas parcel arrived safely through the usual (secret) channels. I
had no idea that Rebel Scum United had such a *large* selection of
merchandise (Avon wanted to know why poor but honest idealists can't go to
gift shops like everyone else. Jenna said
that spending Christmas in Federation prisons tends to spoils the festive
spirit. Cally said the last grateful rebel that
sent us a shop-bought present didn't win any thanks from him.
Avon said that a six-foot herculaneum statue of something nearly completely
unrepresentative of Honour Of The Cause is a damned nuisance sitting in the
middle of the flight deck.)
Blake loves the music blocks; the Death-to-the-Federation Choir
carol selection has been playing all day, and he seems to know
all of them by heart already (we especially like the 'All I want
for Christmas is the President's Head' one. And the risque
version of the FSA's 'Have Yourself an Obedient Little
Christmas'.) It's not your fault that neither he nor Vila can
carry a tune in a dreadnought-sized bucket, is it?
Thanks also for the range of Rebel Recipe books. The Rock Quarry Cookery
(with the handy list of non-poisonous-or-carnivorous-or-
intelligent-and-likely-to-complain plants for each sector) looks
like being very useful in the coming year. Vila - jokingly, I'm
sure - asked Blake why we can't Fight for Freedom in luxury
hotels where they have room service.
The clothing selection left us all...dazzled. (It's nice to see
that other rebel groups are giving up those dreary camouflage
outfits and going in for fur and leather and studs and balloon sleeves.
Sorry that Veron Kasabi broke her ankle trying
Spicy-Jenna 4-inch heels). Especially the ones with Leaders of
the Rebellion printed on them. He and Avon were a bit startled
(oh, Blake says honest revolutionaries are supposed to be honest -
absolutely stunned) by the range with *their* pictures on them, especially
the ladies' underwear. (By the way, Jenna wants to
arrange a bulk order of the entire "Fearless Leader Wants You...
for the Revolution" range). And we were pleased - well, most of
us were - that you were making an honest credit selling so many
of the "I'm Not Expendable, I'm Not Stupid and I *Am* Fighting"
ones to the Secret but Very Highly Placed Admirer.
Vila wants to know why *his* picture wasn't on the ladies'
underwear.
Avon wants to know why his and Blake's were on the *men's*
underwear as well, and you'd better have an explanation and it
had better be good.
The range of hand-painted and decorative Lethal Weapons by
Shivan's group will come in very useful, and the Christmassy
designs were a nice touch, although Vila's already dropped an exploding
bon-bon on Blake's foot, and it's lucky the flight
deck walls aren't carboard, because he didn't realise the candy
cane was loaded.
Cally and I love the 1001-Battle-Wounds-and -How-to-Patch-Them kit. Cally's
planning to practice very hard, and wants Avon to play
injured for her to practice on. I've seen the pages she's
highlighted, and she seems to be think we'll get injured in some
very strange places.
And a special thank you to your Aunt Sophrononia (I liked her
"Never Too Old to Fight Feds" card) for the plastic hand-quilted
Orac covers. The embroidered para-guns round the edges were a nice
touch, and we've found it muffles his voice nicely. Vila wants
to know can she make one big enough to muffle...sorry. Blake
says *that* idea is not in the spirit of peace and goodwill,
though personally I think it has merit, and we could always call
it gift-wrap, if you know any groups that would like a present
of a barely used and (so Cally and Jenna say) rather pretty
computer expert.
Oh. Blake says Avon was *his* last-year's Christmas present
because he'd been very very bad, and you have to keep presents
even from people you don't like (like the Federation). So can
we offer you a gift-wrapped and quite willing thief instead?
Finally, we all thought the 'Where's Blake' game was wonderful,
had a lot of fun (no, I'm sorry, but I don't think Travis wanting
a copy was a sign he's mellowing). Avon snarled something about
why would anyone *try* to find a lost Fearless Leader, and
refused to play at first, then sulked for hours when he couldn't
get it right...
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