Hello everyone. I'm new here so I thought I'd introduce myself. My name is Caroline McKenna, I'm 16 and I live near Chicago. I've been watching reruns of Lois and Clark as often as I can for the past two years. You see, it airs at 7AM where I am, and the bus comes at like 7:25 so i rarely get to watch a whole episode. Although, I will admit to being "sick" so I can finish an episode. I am fairly new to the world of L&C fanfic as well. I have written fanfic for another fandom, but as of now not for L&C. I definitely want to start. Looking forward to getting to know you all and to reading some great fic!

Caroline (Calvin is sooo cool!)

Hahaha. That's great.

I'm Jen, hmm what to say about myself. So hard to form logical sentences after midnight LOL. Anywho, I'm 19, and I live in the land of the nothing along the Gulf Coast in Alabama. I guess the most exciting thing we have around here is the hurricane. Ooh look forward to reading some GR-R-EAT fic! Have you found your way over to the Arhive?

Jen

hi caroline. nice to meet you. welcome to the boards. i'm paul. i'm a friendly helpful wierdo nerd who sometimes goes to MIT. i'll be turning 25 in a couple of weeks.

as for l&c, you know that now that they've switched TNT to TBS, they're showing 2 eps a day? one 7-8 and one 8-9. personally, rather than missing the bus or whatever, i'd suggest taping them. have the vcr record both eps for you, and watch them after school.

anyway, have fun, enjoy reading, and good luck writing.

oh, and i agree. calvin (and his alter ego, spaceman spiff) is really cool.

Paul

Hi Caroline

I'm Anna, I'm 21, I live in Seattle, and Jen is right: it is hard to form coherent sentances after midnight.

I'm really glad that you've gotten hooked on the show and found all of us. Good luck getting started with fanfic; I can't wait to see what you come up with.

~Anna

I'm Jose from Spain. Welcome to the boards!

Hey Caroline,

Welcome to the boards. I'm Annie and I'm in Chapel Hill, NC where I'm a senior at UNC. It's not just past midnight for me here - it's past 4am. <G> This is what happens when I get hooked into coversation with other FoLCs (our acronym for fans of lois and clark) who are also night owls.

I'm glad you wandered here, if you're looking for LnC fanfic, you've definitely come to the right place. If you want to read fanfic as it's being written, check out the fanfic and fanfic challenge folders. If you want recommendations for stories that have already been archived (www.lcfanfic.com) or advice on writing your own fanfic, check out fanfic related. Everything else should be pretty self explanatory. We're a friendly bunch, and we're always excited to meet new people, especially younger fans who are discovering the show for the first time.

Annie

LOL, true dedication. You'll fit in well here, Caroline.

Hope you enjoy catching up with all the fanfic and that you'll soon be posting some of your own, too!

Have fun!

LabRat

Hi Caroline,

Welcome to the

You'll have great fun here with us all.

Loriel

Welcome, Caroline!

I'm Irene, and I'm old! (Okay, not that old at 43, but when I was 15, I thought that was ancient.)

We have a lot of fun here, and we hope that you will, also.

Take care,
Irene

Hi Caroline

Welcome to the boards!

Tricia

Welcome, Caroline!

Nice to meet you, Caroline

Irene stole my line about being old so I'll just say I'm thirty-something and leave it at that! But one of the cool things about FOLCdom is that age is fairly irrelevant; I've got friends from 20 to 60

Anyway, have fun!

PJ

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I really appreciate it, it makes a big difference between posting or lurking. I've been reading LnC fic for a little while now, and here, I'm recognizing all the writers! It's like meeting celebrities! Whoo!

Caroline

I just wanted to throw in my welcome, too. It's always great to see a new face.

Just as introduction, I'm Karen, one of the techie types around, and all-around weird person. And I'm not commenting on ages. :p

Hey Caroline, and welcome!! I'm Kaethel, I'm 24 years old (and about this, well, what Jill said ), and I'm French. I hope you're going to start posting your fanfics soon! We always love getting new authors around here; just remember the cardinal rule: once you start sharing your stories with us, we can get greedy and demand more stories and never let you get back to lurkdom.

Kaethel

LOL! That's exactly how I (and most other people, I think) felt not so long ago. You'll get over it soon enough. <G>

Annie

Hey, Caroline, let me add my welcome, too

I'm 22 and in Maryland, and believe me, you'll love it here! There's plently of fanfic and wonderful people

Oh, and about meeting fanfic celebrities ... well, what Annie said [g]. We all went through that! It's a fun time

Hope to see you around!

Tracey

Welcome, Caroline!

Welcome, Caroline!

I'm actually a relative newbie myself... but the newness wears off quickly.

I'm Rivka, age 29 -- which I believe makes me an ice age relic, but not quite as old as dirt.

Hi Caroline,

My name's Alicia and I am 22 years old from Cleveland, Ohio (but I do love Chicago - it's my favorite city).

OMG, that is still how I feel and I've been around for years!

Hope you have fun!

- Alicia

Hi Caroline, welcome to the boards. I'll ditto what the others have said about the great fic here.
However, I *am* older than dirt. But I'm not sure that's made me wiser.
I live in California, halfway between LA and Las Vegas (aka Lost Wages).
Lois and Clark is now on TBS as Paul noted, but they have only one feed. So you have to do the time conversion from EDT to CDT to figure out when it is on. There are 2 episodes a day. We just finished the first season after starting - what May 12?
Since mine comes on at 5 a.m., I record both episodes each day and play them while I'm doing housework.
regards
Artemis

Hello Artemis! I did notice the change to TBS. I turned it to TNT one morning and it wasn't on and I was like "What the...." and so I immediately turned to TV guide channel! LOL And then it very graciously informed me of the change. Videotaping is a good idea! LOL I wonder why it didn't hit me before...

Caroline

It can run into massive amounts of tapes, though. Someone suggested that since we are unlikely to ever get DVD's of the whole series and Columbia House stopped their tapes of Lois and Clark, we might be well advised to start taping to preserve the episodes. You can get 2 episodes on standard play on a tape. That will mean a total of 88 tapes, which is a large investment. On standard long play you can get 6 (don't buy the 8 hour tapes if you want to keep anything, they don't last as well). So that would be 30 tapes.
I taped the original ABC run, which sometimes did not have a great picture because it was on a broadcast network. Cable is usually a better picture and TBS has been good. Except for the day of "Green Green Glow of Home."
Have fun!
Artemis

Welcome Caroline! It's always wonderful to see new people.

Anyway, I'm Saskia (just forget about the pronounciation ) and I live in the Netherlands. I'm 21 and so glad if I'm a bit older. And yes, I recommend taping. Since the BBC won't play the series very often and over here we have subtitles... the stupidest invention ever. :p

Saskia

hey Caroline!

Welcome aboard! I'm Carole from Paris, France.

Like Kaethel ( de Paris à Chatelleraut) I hope you'll be posting fanfics soon. I'm litterally devouring fics these days!

Hey, count your blessings, Saskia - could be worse. It could be dubbed. <g> At least with subtitles you get to hear Clark's voice.

LabRat

Okay, dubbed is worse, I've never heard that before for Lois and Clark. But the people here just can't translate the things that are said into decent sentances that do justice to what's really said.

For instance: "Clark, I think I love you since I was so devestated over your supposed death" would become "Clark, I love you and don't die on my again." I'm making it a bit worse, but really, it's very bad and you can't turn the subtitles of, really frustrating.

Saskia

Sas!

how about hiding them behing a large piece of paper instead?

And you're so lucky to be able to watch the serie in original version! I so hated the french dubbing... it wasn't that bad, but it's so frustrating to listen to french sentences when you already lipread the character's answer in english...

Carole

Caroline, and anyone else who would like to have copies of all the episodes: Annette Ciotola, our terrific boards host, will make copies of all 88 episodes for the price of tapes and shipping for anyone who asks. See this thread for more details. Caroline, perhaps your parents might be persuaded that it would be the perfect birthday present?

I'm not sure whether she's able to get around the NTSC/PAL thing, for those of us outside the US and Canada, but it's worth asking.


Wendy

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by rivka:

I'm Rivka, age 29 -- which I believe makes me an ice age relic, but not quite as old as dirt. )

So i'm not that old, in fact I'm part of the young ones!!
(me wipes my forehead in relief)

Carole

Hello, Caroline! Welcome to the party!

My name is Malu, I'm almost turning 25 (I think Paul is just over one month older than I am; just found out) and I am currently living in Arlington, Texas. I'm originally from Brazil, but I came over for a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. It's been less than one year since I've been here, but it's been fun so far.

I joined the FoLCdom about two years ago, when I found Zoom's message boards. Have been reading all those wonderful fics ever since.

Hope you enjoy your time here, just like I do everyday!

malu

Hi Caroline! I'm new here too. My name is Jen, and I'll be 19 in September, which I guess makes me one of the younger ones. See you around!

Jen

Hi Caroline,



Guys! Please don't talk about age.



MAF

Welcome!

I, too, have recently de-lurked after having hung around for about 6 months. I watched the series from its original broadcasts on ABC and hung around the chatrooms briefly at the time. After a few years hiatus, my sister got me to watch again. Since then, I've been reading quite a bit of fanfic and reading these message boards.

Maybe someday I'll write some fanfic myself if I have the time. I have one story half written but then got writers block.

I'm 36, seemingly among the older ones here, working as a software engineer.

Welcome Caroline, I live in a ghurb for city. Anyways, and I am the youngest of the folcs, 16, maybe I am. You wanna know what I get for my 17th b-day, back surgery . Sorry to burden this thread with my physical baggage, oh yeah, Welcome if I didn't say it before,did I say before?


Ja-10

Hey! Nice to meet you.

I'm 25ish and *definately* older than dirt. <vbg> Actually, *all* of us are older than dirt because new dirt is created every day.

BrightFeather