Telephone Number Damages

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Apr 2 03:11:38 UTC 2002


At 8:11 PM -0500 4/1/02, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Gareth Branwyn wrote:
>
>#"spam," a term used in horror films for the cheap extras who are there
>#simply to be eaten by the monster. I love that!
>
>In sf (science fiction) fandom, "redshirts" are the extras, especially
>from Security, who are the first to die; from (the original) Star Trek.
>
Were they red?  In our family, the kids called them "the orange guys".



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