# more fannish frivolity *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 Jun 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan Parmenter *24 Jun 1999, 08:40* While we're at this rather "fannish" practice of finding parallels between comic strip characters and the cast of BotNS, I'm reminded of the fact that at the last SF convention I attended (Arisia in Boston last winter) a fellow (whose name I never caught, one of those people one sees at these sorts of things without necessarily registering names) in the con hospitality suite held forth on the idea that the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" with its "differently clued" protaganists and haphazard time tripping could be seen as essentially the same story as BotNS. There were several amusing specifics, but I can't remember them. I suppose the movie is really more "By His Bootstraps" but so is BotNS at one level, eh? Lex ---