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- From: ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
- Subject: Re: VALUABLE LESSONS LEARNED FROM TELEVISION
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:45:28 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1h7nsmINNhpb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <sysop.349.724603331@elan.glassboro.edu> <18238@mindlink.bc.ca> <Dec.15.15.58.49.1992.23270@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <1992Dec16.144427.16924@b15.ingr.com>
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- The proper thing to do with a several-hundred-dollar handgun that
- has run out of ammo is to throw it at your enemy or pursuer.
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- A perfectly-reliably-functioning weapon will jam exactly when the holder
- has the hero in an unescapable position. They then are obligated to
- have a fistfight (instead of one of them simply drawing a backup weapon
- and wasting the other guy... :-).
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- Computer terminals make a sound like a mechanical printer when displaying text.
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- 80-character by 24-line terminals always display characters in
- much larger formats.
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- Text-only display terminals will display high-resolution graphics
- upon demand by the resident computer genius.
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- Mainframe computers burst into flame when presented with conflicting input data.
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- There are always convenient parking spaces. Main characters who park in
- obviously-no-parking zones (like directly in front of the courthouse steps)
- will never get towed or get tickets. (Corollary = the only people who DO
- get parking tickets are murder suspects, who get tickets at the time of the
- crime, which either serve as alibis or proof for conviction.)
- --
- Will Martin
- wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil OR wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil
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