Hey Tasha, I LOVED Mystery Science Theater 3000 (aka MST3K, I believe)...  Unfortunately, only have seen a handful of shows, but what I saw caused me to laugh so hard that I had to go change my pants. ;)  "Look, they're doing it clown-style" will forever be seared into my memory... The movie they put out is also equally as funny as the show, if not more.  Based on a crappy police movie called, "Mitchell" or something like that.   Really, really funny stuff. 
 
Ummm. Yello content of this email?  hmmm...  ah...  welll...  erm... nope, sorry, none, this is as off-topic as you get.  Well, except that I always wonder if Dieter did get a chance to read all of our birthday greetings or not (i.e. this past birthday someone was soliciting birthday greetings from listees, so that they could forward them along to Dieter later).  And if he did, did he have any comments?  (I may have missed that mistakenly, if posted to the list).