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- From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (73)
- Message-ID: <BzMsxt.8K@world.std.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:53:53 GMT
- References: <WORDS-L%92122109472074@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- >15) QT Moovie (Aaron)
-
- QT is an abbreviation for QuickTime, a format for displaying video, sound,
- and animation on the Apple Macintosh computer (and soon to be available
- for the old IBM PC too). Essentially, it lets you play little movies in a
- window on your screen without any extra technology (no extra circuit
- boards to plug in, etc). Sometimes the files are called MooVies instead
- of "movies" because the code identifying a document as a QuickTime file
- is "MooV". Just nerdspeak in action.
-
- MATCH GAME/Gene Rayburn
-
- A wonderful game show from the seventies that relied on double entendres
- and other varied sexual references for entertainment. (Gene Rayburn was
- the host of the show.) There were two contestents, and a panel of six
- celebrities. Gene would read from a card that contained a line like,
- "Slutty Suzy is soooo fat..." ("How fat is she?" goes the audience.) "She's
- so fat that in order to get her out of her chair her husband had to use a
- <blank>." Then the celebrities would write the word they thought best fit
- in the blank on cards, and the contestant had to give his own guess. The
- more times he matched what the celebrities said, thfurther ahead he would get.
-
- One can't really bring up "Match Game" without mentioning Charles Nelson
- Reilly, but I'll leave it to someone else to describe HIM.
-
- --Aaron
-