# a **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850 "2003-01-25T12:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 199
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3961 "2003-03-07T05:34:29Z")
**T** aking things into my own hands, then. **U** nless someone stops me, I shall monopolize this thread. **V** ery long and self-indulgent posts will be forthcoming! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3962 "2003-03-07T05:36:21Z")
**W** atched a rerun of CSI tonight, **X** tremely gory show at times, **Y** et fascinating. **Z** ero innovation television seems to show, however. Consider: **A** dam-12 was a television show about two L.A. cops who solved crimes. **B** urke’s Law was a television show about a debonaire millionaire police chief who solved crimes. **C** HiPs was a television show about a two motorcycle riding cops who solved crimes. **D** ragnet was a television show about two utterly humorless cops who solved crimes. **E** llery Queen was a television show about a mystery writer who solved crimes. **F** arraday and Company was a television show about an ex-convict who solved crimes. **G** et Christie Love was a television show about a black woman cop who solved crimes. **H** arry O was a television show about an ex-cop turned private eye who solved crimes. **I** ronside was a television show about a crippled police chief who solved crimes. **J** igsaw John was a television show about a police investigator who solved crimes. **K** ojak was a television show about a bald cop who solved crimes. **L** ongstreet was a television show about a blind insurance investigator who solved crimes. **M** urder She Wrote was a television show about a mystery writer who solved crimes. \*\*N.\*\*Y.P.D. Blue is a television show about New York police detectives who solved crimes. **O** utsider was a television show about a ex-convict turned private investigator who solved crimes. **P** erry Mason was a television show about a defense lawyer who solved crimes. **Q** uincy was a television show about a medical examiner who solved crimes. **R** ockford Files was a television show about a ex-convict turned private investigator who solved crimes. **S** haft was a television show about a black private investigator who solved crimes. **T** oma was a television show about a police officer who solved crimes. **U** ntouchables was a television show about Treasury agents who solved crimes. **V** ega$ was a television show about a private investigator who solved crimes. **W** ild, Wild West was a television show about a special agent for the President who solved crimes. _However,_ as far as I can tell: **X** was NOT a television show about anybody who solved crimes. **Y** was NOT a television show about anybody who solved crimes. **Z** was NOT a television show about anybody who solved crimes. **A** nd there you have it, would-be script writers, the perfect opening for a show that is Brand New and yet exactly like everything that has gone before. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3963 "2003-03-07T05:36:58Z")
**U** mm, what’ll happen if I go backwards? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3964 "2003-03-07T05:39:27Z")
**B** TW, that post took care of 31 consecutive letters. I _think_ that’s a record for this thread. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3965 "2003-03-07T05:41:31Z")
**C** an’t do that, Morkfromork! That would make the page count go backwards, too, and we’d NEVER reach 100 pages. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3966 "2003-03-07T05:43:17Z")
**D** azzling! 80 already? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3967 "2003-03-07T05:47:59Z")
**E** ntertaining list of crime fighting nostalgia, **SBS**. May I suggest the X-Files? **F** rom what time zone do you post? You seem to be up late surveying your kingdom (Queendom?) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3968 "2003-03-07T05:56:11Z")
**G** oing to bed sounds good…but…must…keep…posting… ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3969 "2003-03-07T06:01:11Z")
**H** ere I am in Eastern. Vermont, to be more specific. **I** have a terminally screwed-up internal clock – too many years of rotating shifts will do that. (X-Files! D’oh! Now, can you come up with a Y and Z?) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3970 "2003-03-07T06:07:04Z")
**J** elly and peanut butter. Okay is backwards. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3971 "2003-03-07T06:16:00Z")
**’K** , **SBS**. How 'bout **Zorro** and, er… **Yogi Bear**? there was that thing about the pic-a-nic basket theft and all… ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3972 "2003-03-07T06:21:44Z")
**L** ooks kind of dubious to me. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3973 "2003-03-07T06:21:58Z")
**L** et it be known that this is the best simulpost of the thread. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StarvingButStrong \* > \*\*\*\*M\*\*idnight has come, the time when simulposts rarely happen. \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*\*\*M\*\*wee-hah! 80 pages! This is nuts. \*\* **M** ost amusing. **N** ow I think I did 30 for my alphabetical LOTR so you got me beat by one SBS. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3974 "2003-03-07T06:23:51Z")
**O** h, and Yu Yu Hakusho is a Japanese anime on CN about a spirit detective who solves crimes. Spirit crimes. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3975 "2003-03-07T06:26:33Z")
**P** oor Osiris, you’ll just have to try harder. I’m thinking of trying SF titles next. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3976 "2003-03-07T06:28:02Z")
**P** roud am I to inform you that Z Cars was a BBC series from 1968 about cops in cars who solve crimes. **Q** uizzical looks on faces do I see. **R** eally that was nothing. [tvtome.com](http://tvtome.com) just makes this too easy. Of course off my head I know no Z crime fighting shows. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3977 "2003-03-07T06:32:03Z")
**S** imulpost was hilarious, **Osiris** , it made me laugh out loud too. **T** enaciously, I insist that Zorro fought crime! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3978 "2003-03-07T06:35:37Z")
**U** nfortunate coincidence it was. (I giggled, too. Famous last words…) ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3979 "2003-03-07T06:40:29Z")
**V** ery sleepy I’m getting. **W** ow! Closing in on 2 a.m. and I have to be up at, er, 5:30?? **Y** eowch! **Z** od-oN ni kcots yub : pit toH ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850/3980 "2003-03-07T06:46:07Z")
**A** nd now I can toddle off to bed, content that we have compiled a full set of alphabetical crime fighters. 🙂 **B** reakfast! I haven’t placed my order yet… **C** ook’s choice, I think. Watcher, please use your own imagination. **D** on’t disappoint me, now! I’m counting on you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850.md?page=198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a/150850.md?page=200)