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about 37 other people.
say, any chance you've had contact with the FL branch of Hell's Tunas?
errare est humanum
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I'm delighted to add my welcome, Hinch. Great to know there's another Floridian aBoard. As far as I know we're the only two.
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I'll keep an eye out for it....."WA" stands for "wait awhile" = so it should be released hereabouts somewhere in the next 5 - 10 years.
FYI, "Hinch" is the surname of one of our louder mouthed journos - first name Derren (sp?). It was also the name of his TV show, a sort of early evening current affairs show during which Derren (a self styled protector of the ripped off etc) bailed up various "entrepreneurs" (read con men) in their doorways, getting into their Merecedes etc. Interviews usually ended with Hinch or one of the intrepid reporting team pursuing a departing car (on foot) shouting things like, "Mr Smith, will you tell the people of Australia why you rip off old ladies" etc etc etc.
A spoof of his show, "Hunch", was even funnier!
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Welcome Aboard, Hinch. Hope you enjoy it here. I was glad stales asked about MST3K--I'd never heard of it, either. Long ago we had a very nice person named Whizzper, whom I think was from Florida, but whom I believe was not yet familiar enough with computering to stay here.
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MST3KWelcome, Hinch! My favorite MST3K is The Teenager from Outer Space. "But...but what about TORture???" 
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Welcome, Hinch.
To expand on MST2K for the unwashed masses:
The premise of the show was that Our Hero, Mike, was imprisoned in a spaceship, sentenced to watch old, bad Science Fiction movies. He and his robot companions watched the shows, and we watched them too, accompanied by Mike and the robots' smarmy, funny commentary. The movies were interrupted by commercial breaks and short episodes of Mike and the guys interacting with the evil forces who imprisoned them.
During the last episode, Mike and the robots finally got out of their prison and returned to earth. There, Mike got a garden level one-bedroom apartment (in Minnesota, IIRC), where he and the robots settled into a life watching old, bad SF movies on cable.
It was the only series I've ever seen with a truly perfect ending.
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Mike got a garden level one-bedroom apartment (in Minnesota, IIRC)
hmmmmm . . . .
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Howdy, Hinch! And welcome to our merry band of word marauders!  I got hooked on MST3K when I was working shift-work in the casinos. Since it came on late, it was the perfect thing for unwinding with its soothing potion of SF and laughter! I have about 75 episodes on tape!!! It took me a little while to get into it, though. I remember flicking around, channel-surfing, and stopping on it for a bout 5 minutes now and then during its first year or so, and saying, "So these guys are ridiculing movies...big deal!" But one of those late nights after a hard shift and over an hour's commute, I hunkedered down and happened to started watching The Attack of the Eye Creatures!...and, finally, I "got" it! I was ROMFL!!! That's still one of my favorites. And the The Rebl Set. One of my favorite quips was during one of the shorts they sometimes showed...a foal was standing under her motherly mare, partaking of her milk, then suddenly walked away, and one of the guys said, "Oops! Sorry Pop!" The "John Banner-o-gram" was another classic bit from the show...(you just had to see it folks, can't explain it). Great material! Good, heady humor...science fiction fans who like to laugh are missing a real treat if they missed this one! And I really liked the chemistry Joel had with the 'bots...when he left and Mike took over it wasn't quite the same for me (though still good...just nothing like it!). Mike always did some great work in the sketch segments, too! (not to mention that he was the head writer)
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It was based on the premise that bad science fiction movies weren't quite so bad if you had someone pointing out to you how bad they were. I had problems with that concept but then de gustibus non carborundum est as I always say.
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My son loves that show. I know its on when I hear him busting a gut first thing on Saturday morning. (It is still on here in Western WI on DirectTV.) Welcome Hinch!
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