From: danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: COMMODORE - HERE'S A CLUE
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:03:09 GMT

In article <1amuk9INN8bv@uwm.edu>, bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block) writes:
|> Yup, they'd be doing really neat strobe-effect hypercubes flying
|> around a 256-color superbitmap of a zit magnified to 10^26 power, with
|> a super-scroller that says "Look, Ma!  I just learned how to say
|> @*$&!!!" with full refraction...

Yes, but would it run on the A1000?  9)

|> By the time we'd know that pirates had their hands on 4.0, they'd have
|> 4.1.  :)

Some of them are still probably saying .... "1.3??? WE don' need no steekin' 
shell!"

|> Or paw.  Gould's got more animals than my priest has altar boys.  ;)

<Rowan Atkinson voice...>

...which is a LOT.

|> >Davie's been playing Jello-boy lately. He's looking to buy another Yugo or 
|> >something... 8)
|> 
|> Yup.  I heard he was looking at a used Yugo just the other day.  They
|> wanted $250 for it, but he wanted one with seats and at least ONE
|> working brake.  :)

My god! What is this world coming to???? 

Maybe he'll want to buy my Seagate drive. I got the broken one - it has, like,
no errors or anything!   (I almost passed out when I saw the [blank] error list
...)

|> >Or even onto paper. I heard Commodore had all of the toilet paper and napkins
|> >removed from their facilities to cut down on those nasty "idea" thingies.  8)
|> 
|> Not to mention how many paper cuts that saved the management guys, who
|> used to have problems tearing off the little squares from the roll of
|> toilet paper.  One of the management team slit his wrists while drying
|> his hands, and Gould said that was it--no more paper for these fools.
|> You know, that reminds me...  I thought those guys' hands looked a
|> little funny.  Kind of makes you wonder what they're using in place of
|> toilet paper, these days.

Well, you've got to give them credit. It's hard trying to decide what to do
with your $3.25 advertising budget when the local "Roadkill Cafe" is having 
that cool $2.99 lunch special...

|> Of course, they'll all say they're using Marc Barrett to wipe
|> themselves for lack of a better use for him.  :)

Hmm... never tried that one. Better than a rabbit?  

(Sorry... old scatological in-joke, dating back a looong time....)

|> Agreed.  Those dim-witted hicks (And I know a hick when I see one,
|> stuck out here 50 miles from Chickenmilk, Wisconsin.  When Garth
|> Brooks came to Milwaukee, they had state-wide warnings to watch out
|> for the pickup trucks.  Three highways were shut down by 13.8 million
|> rusty, red Chevy S-10's.  Suffice to say that there were a whole lot
|> of rifles, roadkilled dogs, and rednecks.  You knew they were hiding
|> somewhere, didn't you?) wouldn't know a good marketing decision if it

PHEW! The LONGEST middle-of-a-sentence interjection on record! Three cheers 
for GRB.

|> sat on their (collective) lap, wiggled on their face, and crushed
|> their genitals with a high heel.

EWWWW. Didn't I see you at the Garth Brooks concert?   9)

|> >Jack Tramiel for President, Commodore International!   
|> 
|> Yeah, right.  Who, of course, will decide that the machine would sell
|> better if it came without graphics.  After all, people don't need that
|> anymore.  And then we'll take out the bus, people can always buy a new
|> system...  Hell, it worked for Apple, those architectural juggernaughts.

Graphics? Who needs graphics? I sold my monitor a long time ago to pay for my
new digitizer. I just drew a 640x400 grid on the table, and now I can just 
sorta "feel" where the pixels are. That's actually why I'm so against the A4000
... if I get one with an 800x600 resolution, I'll need a bigger table!
 
|> >I still like "AOOOOOOGA"    9)
|> 
|> Agreed.  It has that "Let's all jump off of the lighthouse tower and
|> hang ourselves by the spandex straps on our thong-backed leopardskin
|> underwear as a protest and statement to US companies sending their
|> jobs to foreign countries and thusly causing an increase in production
|> which eventually causes our entire ozone layer to the size of a small
|> city on an unknown continent named Metropolis, where a little boy has
|> just realized how much fun it is to inject liquified kryptonite into
|> the man with the funny suit and decides that he'll try it himself"
|> appeal to it.

Don'tcha just hate that?

8-p

(I like Zebraskin better, myself... but to each his own.)

|> >There has to .... BE ....a better WAY.
|> 
|> There is.  Unfortunately, it involves knowing both the question and
|> the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything, as well as having a
|> pocket calculator and a good, working Grand Unification Theory for the
|> universe.
|> 
|> A few black holes in your pocket wouldn't hurt either.

Nice for those harmless college practical jokes.  8)

(Somehow, pennying a door shut pales in comparison...)

|> --
|> (: (: (: (: Have you overdosed on smileys today?  Why NOT!?! :) :) :) :)
|> (: 	"Yeah, if improving the system is screwing the user base,     :)
|> (:	 you all need to be screwed more often." -Dave Haynie	      :)
|> (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

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