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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE: Walker ][ Fall '97
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 12:10:29 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
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- Summary: GONGS
- Keywords: Ha!
-
- In article <4jjnti$4b2@sinsen.sn.no>, Odd H. Sandvik <oddhs@sn.no> wrote:
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >
- >: I have seen the Walker pics now and in my opinion, it gets a big GONG!
- >
- >Eh ? GONG ? what's that ?
-
- It was a reference to "The Gong Show" shown back in the '70s and was
- highly popular here in North America. It was a comical variety show where
- people got on stage and sang, danced, told jokes or whatever they were
- good at and the panel of judges would either reward them or if they
- didn't like them, one of them would get up and hit a huge chinese gong
- (that is the noise it makes when you hit it with a huge hammer type
- thing) and they would be taken off stage and booed by the audience.
-
- Someone said people could put a paper bag over the Walker if they didn't
- like it which I said would make it "The Unknown Computer" - a reference
- to a regular comic (The Unknown Comic) on The Gong Show who wore a bag over
- his head and no one knew who he was.
-
- The one picture I saw of the Walker, I didn't like but like the idea of
- the look of the bottom of it, the color and the placement of the drives,
- keyboard and mouse/joystick connections on the front.
-
- >--
- >% Odd H. Sandvik %% email: oddhs@sn.no + member Team AMIGA +
- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >% Acceleration into temporal space continuum now begins...
- >% Alpha 7, acknowledge... Alpha 7, acknowledge...
-
-
- -=*George*=-
-
-