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(...) Um, could you provide a sentence diagram for the above? I got lost in a maze of twisty little negations, all different, and now there's a dwarf throwing an ax... (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you throw the axe back, the dwarf might disappear into a cloud of greasy black smoke... Man, does *that* bring back memories!! JohnG, GMLTC fut off-topic.fun (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, in the interest of lack of imagination, I let the eye-biting monkey sit down at the keyboard, and...well, you know how he is... (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) O.k. so I'm familiar with the ‘Eye-bitin’ Monkey!’ (Cause he’s a facet of my delusionary schizophrenic psyche.) But what’s going on with this “ dwarf throwing an ax” who can “disappear into a cloud of greasy black smoke...” What’s that?!? (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, the youth of the world... This is a reference to the granddaddy of all computer RPG games: 'advent'. This game possibly predates your birth, it's a text adventure and it first ran on mainframes, although it was ported *everywhere* (1). The (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) MAN LARRY! YOU *ARE* DATING YOURSELF! YOU ARE *OLD*! 8?D Seriously, I figured he was talking about Gauntlet, at the most... "The wizard needs food!" Hee-hee! Matt (Oh! the rabid eye-biting monkey makes his first appearence here: (URL) . The (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I bet these young whippersnappers never had to write a program with &^%$#@! punchcards. In the snow! Uphill! Both ways! :-) Bruce (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Bruce & All, (...) I never had the "priviledge", but I had enough programming teachers in my high school and college days to tell us the stories, either funny, sad, and horrific, from the usual spilt the cards on the way to the final, to the too (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, the C64. I hear C64, and I still think "Stay a while. Stay forever!" :) James "C64's did something other than play cracked games?" Brown (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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James & All, (...) Heh. I still have my C64, somewhere. I wonder if it still works? I wonder if the 5-1/4 floppies still work. I am pretty sure the cartridges do. My Atari 2600 still does. Now I just a PC emulator so I can download all my C-64 and (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, the tale of the ‘eye-bitin’ monkey’ may not have the illustrious past of 'advent,' but I'll be happy to direct you towards the path of mayhem. (URL) the bottom of this ^ post there is an outline of his adventures.] (...) BTW, I'm 21, is (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) We have a bunch of old Namco classics on our N64. I *still* love DigDug... but I'm not any good at it any more. but I can top that. There is an active hobby around ROM emulators... you can download an emulator that will turn your high end PC (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The first version was done in 1972 i think. (...) The PET and the Apple and the TRS/80 model I all predate 1980, so ya. (...) When you see some, let us know. No enfeebled here. (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I bought my Apple ][ in either 79 or 80 (it was the first week the ][+ was out, so I suppose I can date it from that). The Sol 20 and Exidy Sorcerer were also out around that time. I remember playing Star Trek on the mainframes at Long Beach (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! To, to funny Bruce! Matt (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hee-hee! I used c64s in high school typing class...I've got a C128 in mothballs somewhere, and my prize computer collectable: A Tandy 1000, the original laptop computer, complete with Lucid spreadsheet cartridge and thermal printer! (My family (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Given how recently you were in school and had English lessons, it's baffling(1) that you would get this wrong... it is "Too, too funny, Bruce!" unless you were giving someone directions and were using a "funny Bruce" as a landmark, that is. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dagnabbit! You're right...I try to keep those two (to, too) straight by remembering that the primary usage of too is to mean "in addition, also", so it looked funny when I typed it "too, too funny" (also, also funny?), so I went and changed (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What, no Pong? <GD&R> James (who doesn't have pong, but did, once upon a time) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No need to...darned if I didn't have a Pong clone (forget who made it, but it was a yellow boomerang, with sliders on either arm to move the paddles)...I destroyed it to make a prop for an early video production... For some reason, when I was (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) :) Ha! You were lucky! All I had was a Vic-20 with FIVE WHOLE KB of RAM. Actaully I upgraded it later to 32KB. Wow! Kevin (who also wrestled with punched cards and paper tape in earlier days) ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmmmph. Beaten by a VIC-20. My Apple ][+ had 16K, 10K of which was ROM. But then I had my TI-59 calculator with magnetic card reader and a whopping 960 (floating point) bytes!! Nyak, nyak!! Like to see *you* write a micro-chess (5x5) game on (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My own contribution is at (URL) not history). (...) I've only played it on PDP 11/70, IBM PC, and Sun workstation 8?( ROSCO (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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