There's a particularly nasty worm/virus going around at the moment, and some people on the board may have received an email containing it with my return address. However, it's not from my computer.

When this worm infects a computer, it not only sends itself to everyone in the infected user's address book, it inserts a random address from that address book in the FROM field. You have to look at the extended headers to determine where the mail actually originated.

I know at least one or two members of this board got infected and had my email address in their address books; so even though I didn't send the mail, it looks like it came from me.

Here's a little info about it:

McAfee identified this worm as W32/Klez.h@MM. The subject line varies; can be "Hi, honey," "KLEZ virus removal instructions," "Meeting reminder," "Microsoft security update," and many other randomly generated subject lines.

This one will automatically execute itself using the Microsoft IE vulnerability in Outlook Express versions 5.01 - 5.5 unless you have installed Security Patch 2. That means if you have an older version of OE, you don't even have to download the attachment; it will open itself and infect your system.

More info on the virus can be found at http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99455.htm


Anyway, to anyone who might think I sent them a virus, I did not.

Hopefully forewarned is forearmed.

[shadow=green,left,300]--Mark[/shadow]

Actually he ran The Pennock Supper Club that had its own opium den in a back room behind the cocktail lounge! Judah ran the HEAD  shop!

Someone stop this woman...please...before it's too late....

In my old hometown there are lots of large, Victorian homes in the neighborhood where I grew up. I used to pick out the houses that I figured would be most suitable for the characters on DS. There's one that would make a great Old House; it doesn't look that much like the Spratt mansion, but the setting is perfect and the house itself certainly looks old enough. And there was a smaller, rustic brick home with a steep roof, narrow gables, and an exceptionally tall chimney with an "S" monogram on it. If that wasn't Prof. Stokes's house, it ought to have been.

[shadow=purple,left,300]--Mark[/shadow]

The most immediate observation that comes to mind is that Midnite and MB have been hanging out with Nicholas Blair for perhaps one spell too many.

[shadow=orange,left,300]--Mark[/shadow]

Did anyone else have this link reroute them to rcn.com?? weird

Yes; whether I click the link, copy & paste it into the address window,  or just type it in, I get redirected to the rcn.com site. I think the /n-cut part of the URL must be incorrect. The site http://www.ultranet.com/mfmiozza/ is certainly valid.

Darren, you might want to retry the URL and see if there's an error in the link here.

--Mark

In The Uninvited topic, there was a discussion of Ray Milland's other films, and I mentioned Dial M for Murder being one of my favorites. Well, if anyone gets the Plex movie channel, it's on at 11:10 p.m. Eastern tonight (Friday). Short notice, yah, but I just discovered that it was coming on.

--Mark

As for Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, I remember a scene where the jolly green dragon curled up his tail and  - using his radioactive breath as a jet propellent - took off in the air to chase the Smog Monster.  At that point, my friend stood up, pointed at the screen, and started to shout:  "That's impossible!  Godzilla can't fly!"

Silly gaijin. Godzilla is actually charcoal gray, not green. The labeling of Godzilla as green has always been a gross misnomer.

However, for the first time in his history, he is a dark shade of green in his next-to-latest movie, Godzilla vs. Megaguiras (2001).

But yer reaction to Godzilla flying was the same as mine. Big lizards should not fly. Monsters like Rodan fly.

Ya know, speaking of Ray Milland, I always thought that when Luke Skywalker removed Darth Vader's helmet, the guy inside looked an awful lot like Ray Milland (the actor's name is Sebastian Shaw, of all things).

--Mark

Darren -- I recall being at my grandparents' in Atlanta and seeing the original TV spot for HoDS during DS one afternoon; I got so excited by the prospect that I started running around the house and got soundly chastised for waking my grandmother from her nap.

I was supposed to go on a boy scout campout the weekend HoDS opened where I lived in Virginia. It was coming to the local drive-in, so I begged my folks to let me skip the camping trip and go see Barnabas. It took some doing, but they finally relented, and my mom drove my best friend and me to the drive-in -- after taking us to Hardee's, which in those days was a rare treat. (Now it's rare, but not quite the same treat.)

I don't think I'd ever been so excited to go to a movie since the double feature of WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS and MONSTER ZERO. After the movie, my friend came over and spent the night, and he couldn't go to sleep for being scared. So consequently, I was up most of the night with him.

HoDS came around again on a double-feature with MUNSTER GO HOME, also at a drive-in; this time my dad took me. The excitement had not waned. And it came again in '73 on a double-bill with NoDS at the local moviehouse. However, the matinee I went to was jam-packed with kids, and it was so noisy you couldn't hear a word of dialogue in either film. Finally, about halfway through NoDS, the theater manager put on a "warning" reel that some of you might have seen in those days:

A stern-looking gentleman in a suite and tie, sitting in a chair with his arms crossed, looks at you and says gravely, "What if your parents brought you to the theater and, instead of the great picture you came to see, you got this.... <Insert sounds of children screaming and hollering.> This is what you sound like. If you are caught being disruptive, the manager will expell you from the theater. Furthermore, those asked to leave today will be refused admission to this theater in the future."

And on that grave note, NoDS continued... as did the noise, unabated.

[shadow=blue,left,300]--Mark[/shadow]

Never seen a version of NODS cut down even further than 93.5 mins. I know there was one of those 70+ mins ones for network (ala HODS) but have never come across it. What was cut from it when it was last broadcast RAINEYPARK?

Darren -- Wrong Rainey. Raineypark's the other one with the good name.

Don't recall specific edits from NoDS; in fact, I don't think I've watched the whole thing on TS for fear it might have been similarly hacked and slashed. HoDS did have several other scenes missing, some that I expect were to make room for more commercials rather than due to content.

--Mark