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- TEN THINGS...
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here are some rather humerous extracts from various issues of ST FORMAT
- (full acknowledgement is given to ST FORMAT for these - so PLEASE don't
- sue me!)
-
-
- TEN THINGS TO SAY TO AN AMIGA OWNER: (Dave Hackett)
-
- 1) MIDI sockets!
- 2) Did you say only 7MHz?
- 3) Calamus!
- 4) Amiga? That's a bt like Nintendo, innit?
- 5) Sorry, how many viruses did you say you had?
- 6) So, what's your favourite programming language?
- 7) Nothing quite like a hand-cranked operating system, is there?
- 8) What's that hot box for? A foot-warmer?
- 9) Compatability, hah! Now you know what it's like! (This one works
- equally well if you just say "500-Plus!)
- 10) Ooooo, I don't think you wanted to buy that now, did you?
-
-
- TEN THINGS TO DO IN A SCIENCE LAB: (James O'Brien)
-
- 1) Wire those sad guppies from the school fish tank into the national
- grid.
- 2) Project a hologram of the angel of death into Sadam Hussein's living
- room, video what happens and send it to You've Been Framed.
- 3) Service a Lada Riva and recharge the battery by connecting it to the
- hamster's wheel.
- 4) Bring a Welsh cod fillet back to life.
- 5) Train a dog to eat at the sound of a bell - should get rid of the
- Jehova's witnesses.
- 6) Plug your ST into the computer controlling the lab laser and play
- Operation Thunderbolt with those friendly men from the SAS.
- 7) Put the local (dis)honest car salesman on a lie detector and ask him
- if he has ever clocked a mileometer.
- 8) Make a techno video.
- 9) Recycle a car bumper into, well, another car bumper.
- 10) Stop the rotation of the Earth, go outside, proclaim yourself
- master of the entire universe, go back inside and start it again.
- This requires only a small Meccano set and semi-divine powers.
-
-
- TEN THINGS TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE CRAP: (?)
-
- 1) There's something wrong with this joystick.
- 2) This game just isn't pitched corrctly, difficultywise.
- 3) You've played this before, haven't you?
- 4) (Yawn) God, it's so late. I'm too tired for this.
- 5) Ah! I had the auto-fire switched on!
- 6) I shot that! Did you see the explosion?
- 7) Check the port will you? It's definately faulty.
- 8) I was miles away! Dodgy collision detection!
- 9) The light from the window's shining on the screen!
- 10) Look. I'm telling you, this joystick is awful.
-
-
- ELEVEN THINGS TO SAY TO PEOPLE PLAYING SENSIBLE SOCCER: (?)
-
- 1) You should have bent that shot a bit more.
- 2) No, you're playing down the field.
- 3) That would have been a brillient goal...if it had gone in.
- 4) You should have shot then.
- 5) Brilliant bit of passing, is he one of yours?
- 6) What a cynical foul!
- 7) Oh, it's really difficult to tell the colours apart.
- 8) It's a bit like Kick Off 2, isn't it?
- 9) 'Ere, give us a go!
- 10) You know Gazza? That's your mum, that is.
- 11) Have you always been crap at football?
-
-
- TEN THINGS THAT MAKE MY EYES GO ALL RED AND GLOWY AND MY VOICE SHIFT
- DOWN THREE OCTAVES WHILE CAUSING RANDOM OBJECTS WITHIN A 20-FOOT RADIUS
- OF ME TO EXPLODE OR CATCH FIRE, AND GIVING ME A STRONG DESIRE TO BREAK
- THINGS: (Julian van Eyken)
-
- 1) Milk bottles that dribble and end up pouring from the wrong end,
- going all over the table instead of the bowl.
- 2) Lemmings (the game, I mean).
- 3) Neil Kinnock.
- 4) Trying to get the lawnmower out of the shed.
- 5) Trying to get anything at all out of the shed.
- 6) Bruce Forsyth.
- 7) People who at regular intervals place their head on the power pack
- region of their ST and go, "Blimey, it's warm! We've been using it
- for too long again," amd refuse to use it for several days while it
- cools down. Actually, could you nice guys at STF tell everyone that
- this isn't necessary unless you habitually keep your ST under the
- grill with several large pillows over the ventilation slots. They
- might believe you.
- 8) Any form of alcohol.
- 9) People that reckon that RPG games are occult. Where did they get
- that idea from? If Middle Earth Role Playing is occult, then I'm the
- Lord of the Naggert. (Which I'm patently not. Don't look at me like
- that.) Come to that, if Dungeons and Dragons is occult, so's the
- Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Hansel and Gretel, Chitty Chitty
- Bang Bang and Edd the Duck. If it puts anyone's mind to rest I'm
- distinctly against occultism.
- 10) Girls. Every time you say something funny, they think you mean it,
- and then you have to explain that it was a joke and repeat it again
- slowly; after this, they just look at you oddly and walk off. At
- least, that's what they do to me. Perhaps I'm missing something.
- Boys never do it though. Hmmmmmm.
- 11) Friends whoget prizes for their letters in STF.
- 12) Top Ten lists. There's never quite enough places to put everything
- you want in. Still, I don't let small problems like that stand in
- my way.
- 13) Amiga owners.
-
-
- TEN OVERUSED WORDS AND PHRASES IN STF:
-
- 1) Er...
- 2) Somewhat
- 3) <Insert objects here>, eh? Dontcha just love 'em?
- 4) See page 64 if you missed it
- 5) Lovely
- 6) Crap
- 7) (Everything Monty Python ever wrote. And quite a bit of Fry and
- Laurie)
- 8) Well...
- 9) ...but in the end it's just another platform game.
- 10) ST
-
-
- TEN THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR DISCOVERY XTRA BOX ONCE YOU'VE UNPACKED YOUR
- NEW STE:
-
- 1) Keep it in the cupboard under the stairs for three years "in case
- you ever needed it," then throw it away the week before you want to
- pack up your ST to move house.
- 2) Cut out the picture of the horrible child from the front who's
- pretending to know how to use an ST, wave it in front of next door's
- dog and see how long it lasts.
- 3) Line it with polythene, fill it with water and use it as an "opaque-
- look" fish tank.
- 4) Cut two eyeholes in it and sell it as an extremely unusual fancy
- dress costume.
- 5) Write a strong letter to the local newspaper about it, complaining
- bitterly about comprehensive education and suchlike, all because
- Atari missed out the E of Xtra.
- 6) Tear it up into very small pieces and use them to see how many
- interesting anagrams of "Atari" there are.
- 7) Throw it away.
- 8) Use it as a punchbag to ease your frustrations when that !*#!!? cat
- in Nine Lives cops it again.
- 9) Use it to start the world's first (and last) collection of ST Xtra
- Curriculum Family Discovery Fun Learning boxes.
- 10) Put it away and foget about it, and get on with using your ST.
-
- Article: BLACK EAGLE 7/7/93 (well, I just typed it all up!)
-