TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #085: Lore Dump, Part Two

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A Less-Than-Stellar Ending

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Picture Post: Old Tackle Boxes, Part 4: A Few More Odds And Ends

This one's been badly delayed for a few reasons, but it's time to get going on this.

Reflections 2023

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MiSTing Repost: CGYC Upgraded To Buy

I'm finally getting back to reposting some of my old Mystery Science Theater stuff. It's not the Digimon thing that was my big thing from my fan version of the concept, but it's something. All I can say is that it's hardly my best entry on that front, but it does demonstrate why I switched to a fan-character version of the idea rather than full-on fanfic versions with the characters from the show as it was in the late 1990s.

This first went live on a site called Web Site Number Nine, which was an archive for things like this, in late 2000 or early 2001.

Otherwise, I think I'll just let this one speak for itself below the jump.

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Title: CGYC Upgraded to Buy
Era: Season 9+
Category: SPAM/Advertising email
Original Author: MileHigh PR
MiSTing Author: Jesse Shearer; email: ambasosor_lardo@hotmail.com


[Season Nine opening titles]

[SOL waiting room; Mike and the Bots discuss investing]

MIKE: You know, guys, I was just thinking that mabey I should put some cash away into savings or something so that you two don't blow it all before we get back to Earth.
SERVO: Sounds like a good idea.  How about investing it in the stock market?
MIKE: I wouldn't even know where to begin.  Besides, I'd use a broker for that sorta thing, and I don't really want to pay commission.
CROW: Pearl showed me an email about a stock you could invest in all on your own.
MIKE: I don't know.  It sounds kinda risky, taking stock advice from Pearl...
SERVO: So's leaving your money to us, Mike.
MIKE: I guess it's worth a shot.  [Pushes Pearl's light] Pearl?
[Castle Forrester]
PEARL: I heard your little discussion.  I guess I could share one of my little stock secrets with you.  Here goes... [Sets down email message, just off screen]
[SOL, lights and buzzers going off]
MIKE: We've got investment sign!!!
[doors: 6...5...4...3...2...1...theater]

>From: "MileHigh PR (CGYC) Upgraded" <Milehighpr@aol.com>

CROW: Oh, oh!  He's "Upgraded!"

>To: <ambasosor_lardo@hotmail.com>
>Subject: CGYC Upgraded to Buy

SERVO: Well!  Good for them!
MIKE: It is, actually.

>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:40:45
>
>Mile High PR of Westminster, CO has just found information out about this
>wonderful growing company.

SERVO: What is it?

>  This may be one of the greatest opportunities of a
>lifetime to get in early on.  Carnegie International Corporation (OTC BB CGYC)

CROW: What does that mean?
MIKE: It's the stock's market symbol, I think.

> is
>a Company to watch. Since its shares resumed trading on the 9th of May (the
>Company had been on a trading halt for just over one year which it claims was
>due to its former auditors Grant Thornton who it has sued in Maryland. We
>expect the Company to settle this with a winfall of at least $50 million dollars
>next year)

SERVO: What if they fail?

> the Company has announced the following very positive news that
>has not been recognized in its stock price yet.

MIKE: Well, if it's only just been announced, of course it hasn't!

> These significant developments
>should create shareholder value and long term recurring revenues.

MIKE: Well, that is sorta the point of investing.

> They report a
>44% increase in first quarter revenues, from 1999 of 3.5 million to 2000 first
>quarter revenue of over 5.1 million.  With the addition of two new outside Board
>Members, Steven R. Wood, a 14-year former veteran software architect at
>Microsoft and William M. Reffett, president of Reffett & Associates, LTD, a
>Seattle-based executive search and retail-consulting firm.

MIKE: Wow.  A sentence fragment in their advertising message.
SERVO:[sarcastically] I'm sold.

>  The completed
>acquisition of Federation of Associated Health Systems of San Antonio, TX,
>should add $1.5 million dollars in additional cash flow over the next 12 months.
>They have been named an authorized distributor of Ameritech in the Midwest,
>which should generate at least $1 million in revenue in the first year of the
>agreement. The Company also announced another agreement with RoomLinX for
>high-speed Wireless Internet access for Hotels and Hospitals where the
>Company provides billing and clearing services to over 150,000 hotel and
>hospital rooms.

CROW: Oh, nice.  Stiff `em twice. Once for either hospital service or hotel room and then for `Net access.

> The Company expects $15 million in revenue during the first 2
>years of this agreement. We have also leaned that the Company is now beta
>testing its newest release of its voice activated auto-attendant and voice mail
>product with unified messaging called MAVIS.

MIKE: Hey, one of the characters from MTV's MAVIS AND MUTTHEAD show!
CROW and SERVO:[forced laugh]

> This product is the answer to the
>push-button nightmare of business phone systems.

CROW: Is it, now?

> We believe that Steve
>Wood will have very positive impact on this release with his Microsoft
>background. The product, as the speech market grows should have a great
>impact on the Companies revenue and earnings.  We feel this stock is very under
>valued compared to similar companies in the same field.  We wouldn't be surprised
>to see this stock at $3.75 by December of 2000.  Very rarely do we see such a
>strong value in a fast growing company.

MIKE: Boy, they're really hawking those strong points, aren't they?
SERVO: Yeah.
CROW: I'd say.

>  Now you understand why I wanted to
>share this with everybody I could find.

MIKE: Uh, no.  I don't.  But then, fancy words and big numbers never really have impressed me.

>  This pick could make your Christmas a
>Jolly one.  Hey if you don't believe anything you just read, wait a few months
>and watch the stock start to grow.

ALL:[Three Stooges "Men In Black" style] We Will!

>
>
>Slade Laner

CROW: Now *there's* a name I'd trust.

>Research Investor Specialist

SERVO: OK, so how's that different from a "Stock Analyist?"

>Mile High PR
>Westmister, CO
>
>

CROW: And that's all there is.
MIKE:[picking up Servo so they can leave] I guess.
[All exit theater]
[doors: 1...2...3...4...5...6...waiting room]
CROW: So, what did you think, Mike?
MIKE: I think I'll just pass on this one.  And the whole stock market thing altogether.
SERVO: That's what I'd do.
MIKE: Yeah, I was just thinking a savings account or a certificate of deposit.
CROW: Well, those are good options, too, if you can get the right interest rates, I guess.
[Pearl's light flashes]
MIKE: Pearl's calling. [taps light]
[Castle Forrester]
PEARL:[becoming visibly hurt and then angry as she speaks] So, opting out, are you?  Fine.  Fine!  There goes my commission.  I guess I won't be able to afford better experiments for you.  And there go Bobo's visits to the animal clinic.  But have it your way, Mike.  Don't buy in.  I'll just have to find more SPAM for you.  Have it your way.
[SOL]
MIKE: Sorry, Pearl.  It's just that some other form of savings or investment would be better for me, that's all...
[scene fades to a second of black, then the Season 9 end credits.]

Email Credits:
Original author: MileHigh PR
Email copyright: MileHigh PR
MiST Author: Jesse Shearer
Author's email contact: ambasosor_lardo@hotmail.com
Mystery Science Theater 3000 copyright Best Brains Inc. and Sci Fi Channel.  No copyright infractions are intended or should be infered as a result of this document.  It is intended as entertainment only.


STRINGER:
With the addition of two new outside Board Members, Steven R. Wood, a 14-year former veteran software architect at Microsoft and William M. Reffett, president of Reffett & Associates, LDT, a Seattle-based executive search and retail-consulting firm.

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So yeah, not my best work on this front, but still trying to get some content out here. Have a good rest of your weekend.

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Text Play: EarthBound Beginnings [Mother (Famicom, 1989)/Switch (2022?)] : Issue #005: Missing Something

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Video Collection, October 20, 2023

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The Post-Vacation Post

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TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #084: Lore Dump, Part One

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Picture Post: Lake Alvin Swimming Beach, September 26, 2023

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TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #083: Multiple Attempts

I mentioned this in a previous post.

End Of Summer 2023

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Text Play: EarthBound Beginnings [Mother (Famicom, 1989)/Switch (2022?)] : Issue #003: Two Levels

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Text Play: EarthBound Beginnings [Mother (Famicom, 1989)/Switch (2022?)] : Issue #002: Still Getting Started

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Text Play: EarthBound Beginnings [Mother (Famicom, 1989)/Switch (2022?)] : Issue #001: Getting Started

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Text Play: EarthBound Beginnings [Mother (Famicom, 1989)/Switch (2022?)] : Issue #000: What's This Now? Mother...?

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Yet Another Birthday

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Record-setting Heat

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Feeling Ambitious

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Computer Chair

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Gelatin and Pudding

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TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #082: That Last Synth Shop...

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TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #081: All I'm Gonna

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TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #080: Dragon Warrior Impression

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TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #079: Delayed Excalibur

This is going to be a two-session post, at least.

Picture Post: Old Fishing Tackle Boxes, Part Two: Plugs, Maybe?

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A Little Confusion Here

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Picture Post: Old Fishing Tackle Boxes, Part One: A Quick Look

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Picture Post: Canada Geese In Rotary Park

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Double Video Share

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A Twitch Clip For Reference

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Cycling Things Out

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Another Reminder of Why I Shouldn't Draw

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Thumb(nail) Ideas

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Old Scrap Paper

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Slowly But Surely

Or the beginnings of an online schedule.

Titles Are Hard

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Coulda Sworn...

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The Old Computer Speakers, Part Two

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The Old Computer Speakers

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Compression Of Time

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Looking Forward To Spring

The 2023 Edition.

March Already

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MiSTing: Digimon: Digidefenders: Episode 6, Part Two

After the first part of this one, I suspect it's obvious why I'd forgotten about it for six months after starting it. I'm afraid this part isn't much better, but at least I'm getting it up in a more reasonable amount of time, if you can call a month and a half or so more reasonable.

This time, we're starting right off with a South Park joke and a half-missed Mystery Science Theater reference. The South Park bit hasn't aged well, because if I'm not mistaken, the show and its creators have fallen out of favor, but I'll be damned if I can remember just why. If I'd gone just a bit farther with the “bite me” line, I would have been quoting the toaster strudel sketch from the Devil Doll episode of Mystery Science Theater.

But missed opportunities aside, this is a mercifully short part, so I'll just get on with it and say more at the end.

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A No Good Choices Day

At least for some things, anyway.

A Note On The Upcoming MiSTing Repost

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MiSTing: Digimon: Digidefenders: Episode 6, Part One

Editor's Note: These endcaps were written in July of 2022, when I had intended to have these come out in July and August of last year. While that didn't happen for various reasons, what is said in them still applies. --JMS

So this is probably not the best followup to the previous episode in this series, either in terms of the main feature or the retrospective for it. There's really not much to say about this one. It's short enough that I'll be doing this in two parts rather than three.

This is also a farily middle of the road entry in the series. The story itself features another one of the kids getting their solo adventure. The host segments and jokes are pretty much what would be standard for what would be my own solo work on these. I'll try to say more about this at the very end of this episode in a week or two, but we're at a point where there's only three, maybe four episode of this left, and it's starting to show that it was coming up on time to stop.

Anyway, I'd better just get to this so you can see what I mean.

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TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #078: Three Quarters To Excalibur

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