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Message no. 1
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:56:00 -0400
OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
SLEESTAKS!

Man did those rotten lizard/insect/crab monsters creep me out when I was
younger!

So I'm thinking about how to bring these slimy devils into SR, and it
strikes me that maybe they could be Awakened Iguanas living in Amazonia?
Better yet, maybe those self same Iguanas are also the predecessors of the
T'skrang?

Yeah! And there could be one really creepy one named Enik too! :-)
EGMLOL!

Skylons, and Pylons and Grumpy! Oh my!

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://www.ncweb.com/users/bluewizard
"I will ride the walrus. I will poke the invisible flowers. I have always
known how."
Message no. 2
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:04:23 -0600
Steven A. Tinner wrote:
|
| OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
| stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
| Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
| SLEESTAKS!

ROFLOL

| Skylons, and Pylons and Grumpy! Oh my!

Don't forget the maze of caves and those talking skulls (*those*
creeped me out).

-David
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Message no. 3
From: John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:34:47 EDT
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:56:00 -0400 "Steven A. Tinner"
<bluewizard@*****.COM> writes:
>OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
>stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
>Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
>SLEESTAKS!


Uh...I'm confused. What is a sleestak (for those of us who managed to
miss whatever it is they appeared on/in:)?


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-Canthros
I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
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Message no. 4
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:11:50 +0100
|
|OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
|stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
|Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
|SLEESTAKS!

I'm sorry? I have absolutely no idea what you're babbling about....
At all....

WTF is a SLEESTAK??????
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Message no. 5
From: "Faux Pas (Thomas)" <thomas@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:19:42 -0500
At 06:11 PM 7/10/97 +0100, Spike whispered:
>|
>|OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
>|stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
>|Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
>|SLEESTAKS!
>
>I'm sorry? I have absolutely no idea what you're babbling about....
>At all....
>
>WTF is a SLEESTAK??????

Creature from "Land of the Lost", Saturday morning live-action children's
show aired in the United States in mid to late 70s.



-Thomas Deeny
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Message no. 6
From: William Monroe Ashe <wma6617@****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:23:25 -0500
> |OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
> |stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
> |Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
> |SLEESTAKS!
>
> I'm sorry? I have absolutely no idea what you're babbling about....
> At all....
>
> WTF is a SLEESTAK??????


I think someone's age is showing, and it is probably me becvause I know
what they were, right along with Wonderbuggy,and Electrowoman and Dynagirl.

Regards

Bill
Message no. 7
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:32:46 +0100
|Creature from "Land of the Lost", Saturday morning live-action children's
|show aired in the United States in mid to late 70s.

Ahhh, that explains it then. We do get it over here (On the new channel 5),
but after seeing one episode, and realising it was so incredibly cheesy, I
didn't bother with it again....

BRING BACK "VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS", that's what I say.....

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Message no. 8
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:34:20 +0100
|I think someone's age is showing, and it is probably me becvause I know
|what they were, right along with Wonderbuggy,and Electrowoman and Dynagirl.

I have a feeling British TV is breathing a sigh of relief of not having
broadcast those.... Am I right?

Speaking of Old TV....

D'you remember "Holmes and Yoyo" or "A man called Sloane"????
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Message no. 9
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:51:05 -0400
At 09:56 AM 7/10/97 -0400, Steven A. Tinner wrote these timeless words:
>OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
>stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
>Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
>SLEESTAKS!
>
>Man did those rotten lizard/insect/crab monsters creep me out when I was
>younger!
>
>So I'm thinking about how to bring these slimy devils into SR, and it
>strikes me that maybe they could be Awakened Iguanas living in Amazonia?
>Better yet, maybe those self same Iguanas are also the predecessors of the
>T'skrang?
>
>Yeah! And there could be one really creepy one named Enik too! :-)
>EGMLOL!
>
>Skylons, and Pylons and Grumpy! Oh my!
>
You are one sick individual, Tinner... Remind me to avoid Amazonia from now
on...:]

Bull
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Message no. 10
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:09:08 -0600
Spike wrote:
|
| |Creature from "Land of the Lost", Saturday morning live-action children's
| |show aired in the United States in mid to late 70s.
|
| Ahhh, that explains it then. We do get it over here (On the new channel 5),
| but after seeing one episode, and realising it was so incredibly cheesy, I
| didn't bother with it again....

But it's so good *because* its so cheesy :) BTW, there is a new 90's
vesion that is indeed crap. Avoid that one.

-David
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which ones to keep."
Message no. 11
From: Drekhead <drekhead@***.NET>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:25:00 +0000
On 10 Jul 97 at 18:34, Spike wrote:

> D'you remember "Holmes and Yoyo" or "A man called Sloane"????

Was Holmes and Yoyo that show with John Schuck as an android?

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Message no. 12
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:29:54 -0400
At 06:11 PM 7/10/97 +0100, Spike wrote these timeless words:
>|
>|OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
>|stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
>|Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
>|SLEESTAKS!
>
>I'm sorry? I have absolutely no idea what you're babbling about....
>At all....
>
>WTF is a SLEESTAK??????
>
They were this race of Dinosaur/Lizard Men in the 70's children's show Land
of the Lost.

C'mon, Spikey... Don;t tell me England didn;t get those wonderful Sid and
marty Kroft shows...:]

BTW: anyone know if there were Sleestacks on the remake of LotL that was
on a few years back? I never did mange to ctahc the show, and heard it was
pretty lame, but...

Bull
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Message no. 13
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:29:57 -0400
At 06:34 PM 7/10/97 +0100, Spike wrote these timeless words:
>|I think someone's age is showing, and it is probably me becvause I know
>|what they were, right along with Wonderbuggy,and Electrowoman and Dynagirl.
>
>I have a feeling British TV is breathing a sigh of relief of not having
>broadcast those.... Am I right?
>

Those were Classic live action kids shows, though. I LOVED WOnderbuggy.
LotL was great, and the other two were so-so (For me, anyways:)).

They rank up there with the Banana Splits. Great when we were kids, but
damned painful to watch now. They were true period pieces.

(And I didn;t recognize those shows you mentions, Spike, though they might
be too old for me. Remember, you're 8 years ol... errr, i mean 1 year
YOUNGER than me...:))

Bull
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Message no. 14
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:16:57 +0100
|But it's so good *because* its so cheesy :) BTW, there is a new 90's
|vesion that is indeed crap. Avoid that one.

Does it start with a crappy song?
I think that's the one I saw. It didn't look very 1970's....

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Message no. 15
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:18:10 +0100
|
|On 10 Jul 97 at 18:34, Spike wrote:
|
|> D'you remember "Holmes and Yoyo" or "A man called Sloane"????
|
|Was Holmes and Yoyo that show with John Schuck as an android?

That's the one....

The bunko squad/the bunko squad/the bunko squad >*thumps chest*<
That's better....

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|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 16
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:19:04 +0100
|C'mon, Spikey... Don;t tell me England didn;t get those wonderful Sid and
|marty Kroft shows...:]

Who and who? Never heard of 'em....


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|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 17
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:23:49 +0100
|They rank up there with the Banana Splits. Great when we were kids, but
|damned painful to watch now. They were true period pieces.

Except for "The 3 musketeers" and "The Arabian Knights" you mean.
They were just as good now as they where in the '70s.
(The actual Banana Splits bits were cringeworthy though.....)

|(And I didn;t recognize those shows you mentions, Spike, though they might
|be too old for me. Remember, you're 8 years ol... errr, i mean 1 year
|YOUNGER than me...:))

Almost had the carp ready then Bull....
Holmes and Yoyo was about a cop who finds out (at the end of the pilot) that
his partner is an Android. (Created by a professor Yoyologist, hence the
name).

A man called sloane was quite a good spy series in the James Bond, In like
Flint vein....

The pilot involved a dehydration machine. I can still see him skiing down a
hill and the snow vanishing behind him as the beam catches up.....
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|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 18
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:02:44 -0600
Spike wrote:
|
| |But it's so good *because* its so cheesy :) BTW, there is a new 90's
| |vesion that is indeed crap. Avoid that one.
|
| Does it start with a crappy song?
| I think that's the one I saw. It didn't look very 1970's....

The original LotL starts off with "Marshal, Will and Holly. On a
routine expidition..." They're in a life raft, with one of the worst
blue-screens onto a fake river that I've ever seen, as an earthquake
changes the course of the river and plunges them into a fog filled
abys. They wake up (still in the life raft) in the Land of the Lost
with a T-Rex checking them out.

The remake starts off with the characters in a cosmetically enhanced
land-rover that gets sucked underground and into another dimension by
an earthquake.

Check out the original if you get a chance. Stick with it and it'll
grow on you :)

-David
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm
--
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
Message no. 19
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:06:25 +0100
|The remake starts off with the characters in a cosmetically enhanced
|land-rover that gets sucked underground and into another dimension by
|an earthquake.

*sigh* That's the one....

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|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 20
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:26:45 -0700
---"Steven A. Tinner" wrote:
>
> OK, I was doing a little surfing down memory lane last night, and I
> stumbled upon a tribute to Sid and Marty Krofft.
> Then it hit me ... finally something even scarier than the bugs!
> SLEESTAKS!
>
> Man did those rotten lizard/insect/crab monsters creep me out when I
was
> younger!

OK, maybe I'm out of touch here, but what is a Sleestak. The closest
I'm coming in memory to what you're kind of describing is a Skeksie
(sp?) from Jim Henson's "Dark Crystal" movie.

Fill me in.

===
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Message no. 21
From: GRANITE <granite@**.NET>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:07:36 -0700
> I think someone's age is showing, and it is probably me becvause I know
> what they were, right along with Wonderbuggy,and Electrowoman and Dynagirl.

You forgot Arc 2, Isis, and Shazam..As for Sleestaks [or however you are supposed to
spell it] they are sort of sentient humanoid dinos..Oh an they
brought back Land of the Lost a few years ago..but naturally it
died..
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Message no. 22
From: John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:42:12 EDT
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:19:42 -0500 "Faux Pas (Thomas)"
<thomas@*******.COM> writes:
[What's a sleestack? snipped]
>Creature from "Land of the Lost", Saturday morning live-action
>children's
>show aired in the United States in mid to late 70s.

Aaaahh...thought it might be (that was the only thing I could possibly
think of:) I remember a bit of that, I think they ran that show around
here into the early, *maybe* the mid 80's. As I recall, the special
effects were pretty cheesy looking, even when I was 3 or 4:) which is not
to say it didn't give me the willies then:):)


--
-Canthros
I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
--Francis Bacon
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Message no. 23
From: "... ..." <Brother-1@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:10:32 -1000
>Maybe I'm a little out of touch here, but what is a
>sleestak?
S&M Kroft's "Land of the Lost" bad guys (aside from the dinosaurs), who
held alien technology in their main lair that eventually, I think,
allowed the protagonists to escape. They made hissing noises and pinched
the air in front of them. I think they also shed their skins. Other than
that, I don't know.

Brother-1, associate to "The Guild", refuge for Otaku in the Seattle
sprawl.
Message no. 24
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:52:28 -0600
GRANITE wrote:
|
| > I think someone's age is showing, and it is probably me becvause I know
| > what they were, right along with Wonderbuggy,and Electrowoman and Dynagirl.
|
| You forgot Arc 2, Isis, and Shazam.

Arc 2, my god I had forgotten all about that show. The early to
mid-seventies had the best saturday morning cartoons ever! (If you
were in the US)

-David
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm
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which ones to keep."
Message no. 25
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:19:05 +0100
|Arc 2, my god I had forgotten all about that show. The early to
|mid-seventies had the best saturday morning cartoons ever! (If you
|were in the US)

What were the Cartoons? I might remember them....

(Of course, we had THE best Saturday morning show, ever. It's still not been
beaten... And that was..... TISWAS...)
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|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 26
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:07:01 -0600
Spike wrote:
|
| |Arc 2, my god I had forgotten all about that show. The early to
| |mid-seventies had the best saturday morning cartoons ever! (If you
| |were in the US)
|
| What were the Cartoons? I might remember them....

Basically every one that's been mentioned so far. Plus, the original
Scooby Doo, Captain Caveman, Bullwinkle... And then the Smurfs came
along and it went downhill from their. Only recently have cartoons
made a comeback with Reboot, Alladin, Superman, Batman, Darkwing
Duck, and others.

Anyway, I think this thread has gone over the 48 hour limit :)

| (Of course, we had THE best Saturday morning show, ever. It's still not been
| beaten... And that was..... TISWAS...)

Real quick, and then I'm done :) WTF is TISWAS?

-David
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Message no. 27
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:13:04 +0100
|| (Of course, we had THE best Saturday morning show, ever. It's still not been
|| beaten... And that was..... TISWAS...)
|
|Real quick, and then I'm done :) WTF is TISWAS?

I don't have time to answer now.... Got to run, but I'll let some of the
other Brits tell you of the delights that were the "Phantom Flan Flinger",
and Lenny Henry doing some very silly impressions.....


Overall.... a VERY silly program....
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Message no. 28
From: Drekhead <drekhead@***.NET>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:56:05 +0000
On 11 Jul 97 at 14:07, David Buehrer wrote:

> Basically every one that's been mentioned so far. Plus, the original
> Scooby Doo, Captain Caveman, Bullwinkle... And then the Smurfs came
> along and it went downhill from their. Only recently have cartoons
> made a comeback with Reboot, Alladin, Superman, Batman, Darkwing
> Duck, and others.

David, please, how can you forget THE TICK?

For god's sake man....


SPOON!

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Message no. 29
From: GRANITE <granite@**.NET>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:19:34 -0700
> Arc 2, my god I had forgotten all about that show.

I always loved their vehicle ala Damnation alley..

>The early to
> mid-seventies had the best saturday morning cartoons ever!

Well..I wouldn't necessaarily go that far... ;)
Did anyone mention Lancalot Link ?? I used to like all those Chimps..

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Message no. 30
From: Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 07:59:21 -0700
| > Basically every one that's been mentioned so far. Plus, the original
| > Scooby Doo, Captain Caveman, Bullwinkle... And then the Smurfs came
| > along and it went downhill from their. Only recently have cartoons
| > made a comeback with Reboot, Alladin, Superman, Batman, Darkwing
| > Duck, and others.
|
| David, please, how can you forget THE TICK?
|
| For god's sake man....
|
|
| SPOON!

I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the "Little Wooden Boy" action
figure. :)

-Caric

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is he still wrong?"
Message no. 31
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: T'skrang = Sleestaks
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 11:50:36 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-11 03:58:49 EDT, lobo1@****.COM (John E Pederson)
writes:

>
>
> Uh...I'm confused. What is a sleestak (for those of us who managed to
> miss whatever it is they appeared on/in:)?
>
>
>
Rather squattish reptilian humanoid with large eyes, based on the concept
that some dinosaurials did advance in the intelligence department...and DAMN
they were pretty intelligent...I have a vague memory of them coming from
another world even, setting up the Pylons (tall towers with lots of power) to
monitor and do different things..

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