gravy wrote:At our local computer shop the resident spectrum boy was someone aptly named Dirty John. He was a swarthy incohernt mess of a man who I copied Dark Star off of. Dirty John always mumbled, stank a lot more than a little bit and used to read Razzle on the bus while giggling at nearby old ladies.
This is all true, Snakey will back me up, I'm sure he remembers Dirty John as well.
What does this prove, are all Spectrum owners this way. No. Most of them? Yes.
The ones I know that have struggled hard to become functioning members of society at least have only done so by being ashamed of their youthful catalogue of disgrace. The rest are how I imagine Dirty John to be 22 years on.
Hahahahaha. 'Dirty John'. Now that doesn't sound at all made up, does it? Nice try, Mr... er... L. Forum.
And it's no good invoking your C64 chum Snakey. Would this be the same Snakey who betrayed your flabby, shuffling brethren of bummers by writing a fantastic... Spectrum emulator called Klive?
koworld wrote:I am sooooooo gonna fucking sabotage the Spectrum side of our Spekky v C64 special.
Mostly just because I can, and mainly because the Spectrum was just wrong.
I like this man!
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koworld wrote:I am sooooooo gonna fucking sabotage the Spectrum side of our Spekky v C64 special.
Mostly just because I can, and mainly because the Spectrum was just wrong.
Good man
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My approach will be to do a 'find' and 'replace' on every one of Sickers' lovinly biased edits, where 'find' will = 'Spectrum' and 'replace' will = 'Cavitycock'.
Also I shall be replacing every pro-spectrum graphic with a picture of Andy sucking off Sir Clive in his heyday. And you know what? It's not a photoshop job either.
HellgateFanboy wrote:I'm guessing this is going to be one hell of an edition
It is, and any post-editor editing will just look shit and silly. If anyone wants to stake a claim, write something and send it to me. I don't care what side you're on - if it's good and funny, it'll go in.
It's a scrap, but still a pretty good-natured one. And anyway, I've got a killer punchline to the whole thing.