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02/11: Elaine and Her Parka: NY Thing?

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Brian Lindsay

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Feb 11, 1993, 10:49:20 PM2/11/93
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So what's the significance of Elaine's refusal to
take off her parka. Signs of an increasingly
obsesive personality? Last week: shoes; this week:
outerwear?
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Elizabeth G. Levy

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Feb 12, 1993, 11:34:00 AM2/12/93
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In article <1993Feb12.0...@bmerh85.bnr.ca> blindsay@.bnr.ca (Brian Lindsay) writes:
>So what's the significance of Elaine's refusal to
>take off her parka. Signs of an increasingly
>obsesive personality? Last week: shoes; this week:
>outerwear?

NYC apartments are generally heated by a very fickle steam system:
either you have virtually no heat, or you feel you're in the tropics.
I suppose Elaine might have been cold from some quirk in the heat, but
then Jerry had no problems.

Interestingly, I'm under the impression that only a tiny minority of
New Yorkers actually wear parkas (dark overcoats being de rigueur). I
suppose that coat would be about as unique as her shoes.

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Robert Talbert

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Feb 12, 1993, 6:20:59 PM2/12/93
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In article <16B73E78...@VM.TEMPLE.EDU> V54...@VM.TEMPLE.EDU writes:
>In article <1993Feb12.0...@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
>blindsay@.bnr.ca (Brian Lindsay) writes:
>
>>
>>So what's the significance of Elaine's refusal to
>>take off her parka. Signs of an increasingly
>>obsesive personality? Last week: shoes; this week:
>>outerwear?
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>Does Elaine refusing to remove her parka remind anyone else of the episode
>in which she refused to take off her basball cap for the opposing team
>when sitting in the owner's box? Maybe exposing herself on her XXX-Mas
>cards has made her obsessive about her clothes again ;).

I didn't think it was a strictly New York thing (like a guy who's never
been further north than Baltimore would know anything about New York) --
doesn't it bug you when you ask someone to take their coat off, and then
they don't? Doesn't it make you feel like they are trying to assert some
kind of DOMINANCE OVER YOU??!? REFUSING YOUR POLITE REQUESTS TO THE POINT
WHERE YOU MIGHT JUST WANT TO SLAP THEM SILLY WITH A CHAINSAW??!

Not that there's anything wrong with that.....


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suerth denise perry

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Feb 12, 1993, 7:03:59 PM2/12/93
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mcl...@convex.com (Mark McLain) writes:

>den...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (suerth denise perry) writes:

>>I remember seeing or reading someplace that Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is pregnant.
>>(She's married to Brad Hall, who directs now, but was on SNL with her.) This
>>must be how they're hiding the baby on board.

>>Denise M. Suerth den...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>>phone: 217-333-0850 d-su...@uiuc.edu

>>"Of course I'm schizophrenic, Doctor, I have two totally different logins!"

>I thought she was married to Christopher Guest (Of SNL and Spinal Tap fame??)
>Also, she just had a baby 7 months ago (according to the Leno interview)...
>is she pregnant again??

I could be wrong about her being pregnant again, but I'm right about her husband
-- Christopher Guest is married to Jamie Lee Curtis.

Denise

Ross Waring

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Feb 12, 1993, 8:37:09 PM2/12/93
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Well that has to be the best, most intelligently written gay humor I have ever seen on TV. As someone who is single, thin, and neat, I am very impressed with the consistently good writing on this program.

I wonder if Jerry was in imminent danger of being outed by a tabloid and so he took the opportunity to defuse the situation with a preemptive program. In any event, I look forward to more classy gay humor (in stark contrast to the crap that "In Living Color" comes out with).

Neatly yours, Ross.

V54...@vm.temple.edu

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Feb 12, 1993, 4:27:35 PM2/12/93
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In article <1993Feb12.0...@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
blindsay@.bnr.ca (Brian Lindsay) writes:

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Does Elaine refusing to remove her parka remind anyone else of the episode
in which she refused to take off her basball cap for the opposing team
when sitting in the owner's box? Maybe exposing herself on her XXX-Mas
cards has made her obsessive about her clothes again ;).

Then again, it IS a show about nothing....

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suerth denise perry

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Feb 12, 1993, 3:24:06 PM2/12/93
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Mark McLain

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Feb 12, 1993, 4:45:38 PM2/12/93
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den...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (suerth denise perry) writes:

I thought she was married to Christopher Guest (Of SNL and Spinal Tap fame??)

Francine A. Evans

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Feb 15, 1993, 1:09:29 PM2/15/93
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Julia Louis Dreyfuss already had her baby. They were covering up her
stomach at the beginning of the season when she was in Europe with her
psychiatrist. They gave her a small role and only shot her from the neck
up. (That was when crazy Joe Divola (sp?) was chasing Jerry). When she
came back she burst in the door and they all started screaming and
hugging her.

PS, not that there is anything blah blah blah....but I don't think Jerry
is gay and I think that was the purpose of the whole show.

PSS, does anyone know the real reason Elaine wouldn't take off the
parka? It's not a NY thing, I live in NY.

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Mike Contento

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Feb 15, 1993, 2:46:36 PM2/15/93
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>From: fe4...@adx.adelphi.edu (Francine A. Evans)

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>PSS, does anyone know the real reason Elaine wouldn't take off the
>parka? It's not a NY thing, I live in NY.

I could be wrong, but I thought it was because she had Jerry's gift
hidden under her coat and had to sneak out of the apartment with
it when Kramer gave Jerry the same present (the telephone).

I'm not sure why she wouldn't take it off in the reporters office ...
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Jan Penovich

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Feb 15, 1993, 3:39:57 PM2/15/93
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In article <39...@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, mp...@pitt.edu (Mike Contento) writes:
> >From: fe4...@adx.adelphi.edu (Francine A. Evans)
> >
> >PSS, does anyone know the real reason Elaine wouldn't take off the
> >parka? It's not a NY thing, I live in NY.
>
> I could be wrong, but I thought it was because she had Jerry's gift
> hidden under her coat and had to sneak out of the apartment with
> it when Kramer gave Jerry the same present (the telephone).
>
> I'm not sure why she wouldn't take it off in the reporters office ...

The same reason she wouldn't take off her baseball cap; she's stubborn?

jan

Francis Maurais

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Feb 15, 1993, 7:16:35 PM2/15/93
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|> I could be wrong, but I thought it was because she had Jerry's gift
|> hidden under her coat and had to sneak out of the apartment with
|> it when Kramer gave Jerry the same present (the telephone).
|>
|> I'm not sure why she wouldn't take it off in the reporters office ...

Bingo. Exactly what I had thought. Especially when she replied to JS' inquiry
as to where she was going, "I've got to go return something..."

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Joe Panfil

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Feb 16, 1993, 9:00:48 AM2/16/93
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I don't normally laugh at anything George says but he was great.
The best two lines were both by George;
"Come on baby, I'll show you I'm not gay. lets go right now."
"I am a very gay man, I'm steeped in gayness."

jon...@ur.msstate.edu

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Feb 16, 1993, 3:58:06 PM2/16/93
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I think people expect others to take their coats off inside and she
just didn't feel like it, which bothered those without coats and
they kept badgering her to take hers off. She probably just wasn't
hot.

Kay Jones


young-sup lee

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Feb 16, 1993, 5:21:26 PM2/16/93
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>hot.
^^^
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>Kay Jones

bite your tongue (er keyboard)!!! laney is always...(ouch) hot!!!

young-sup "typical male seinfeld fan" lee

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