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- * The Real Pirate's Guide, Volume 2 *
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- Finally! After a few cheap imitations, the second volume of Rabid
- Rasta's Real Pirate's Guide. Since RR has left for the college scene,
- and I worked closely with him on the first version, you'll have to put
- up with me for this installment.
-
- As stated in the first edition of The Real Pirate's Guide, there are a
- lot of pirates; unfortunately, the vast majority of them are morons. For
- this reason, these "guides" have been assembled to aid in the growth and
- maturity of the younger pirate generation. Which brings us to the golden
- rule of pirating: "REAL PIRATES ARE OVER 15 YEARS OF AGE" (exceptions
- are few, like if one was a beta-tester for Broderbund, we could let that
- slide).
-
- What follows is a compendium of all the ideals and morals a Real Pirate
- should possess. Note that some have been taken over from the first Guide
- because of their high value, and because these rules are still widely
- knocked around.
-
- [SOFTWARE]
-
- Real Pirates can appreciate the difference between "Karateka," and
- "Competition Karate".
-
- Real Pirates have long-since deleted "Caverns of Freitag," "Mr. Cool,"
- "Trompers," "Jenny of the Prairie," and still couldn't give a sack of
- dog dicks about anything from Avalon Hill, SSI, and especially Scott
- Adams(AI).
-
- Corollary: Real Pirates would jump at the chance to "help" Adventure
- International go Chapter 11.
-
- Real Pirates aren't obsessed with the never-ending quest of collecting
- all 12 sides of "Time Zone".
-
- Real Pirates respect the programming and creative talents of those
- working for Broderbund, Infocom, and Electronic Arts, and congratulate
- them on a valiant attempt to make money.
-
- Real Pirates didn't get excessively excited upon the release of
- "SoftPorn Adventure," "Strip Poker," or anything of the sort.
-
- Real Pirates respect the efforts of other pirates to sell his or her own
- sofware, but would distribute them at them drop of a hat.
-
- Real Pirates aren't just "learning assembly." Or even worse, "machine
- language."
-
- Real Pirates don't contemplate why their Apple II+ w/48k won't run
- "King's Quest," or "DazzleDraw."
-
- Real Pirates know that the Mail Trading Club, run by The Professor, is
- the biggest mail-order scam/rip-off since X-Ray glasses.
-
- Real Pirates aren't anticipating the release of the follow-up to "The
- Phillistine Ploy."
-
- Real Pirates know that Lord British is not the Monarch of any European
- empire.
-
- Real Pirates know that "Road Pizza" was either a very good joke, or a
- very bad game.
-
- Real Pirates play "Karateka".
-
- [MODEMING/BBS']
-
- When posting a message, Real Pirates can differentiate between: 'z' and
- 's', 'ph' and 'f', '2' and 'two', 'u' and 'you', '0' and 'O', '4' and
- 'for', and 'x' and 'ks'.
-
- Corollary: Real Pirates have long since developed the ability to
- punctuate, spell and construct clear, well organized sentences.
-
- Corollary to the corollary: Real Pirates aren't constantly searching for
- new ways to spell "WARES".
-
- Real Pirates don't use the prefix "k-" (ie. k-k00l, k-awesome, k-mart).
-
- Real Pirates use lower case.
-
- Real Pirates don't use text graphics.
-
- Real Pirates don't use imbedded back-spacing.
-
- Real Pirates don't post "I have" messages, when they really don't have.
-
- Real Pirates aren't to impressed with "spinny" cursors, and turn them
- off upon logging onto such boards.
-
- Real Pirates don't try to impress others with their superior ability to
- add many carriage returns at the end of a message, thus preventing
- anyone from reading the last few lines.
-
- Real Pirates don't brag about people they know, or clubs they are in to
- the point of becoming obnoxious. (ie. "RACKRACKRACKRACKRACKRACKRACK",
- etc)
-
- Real Pirates don't obtain their "phreak" codes from the local Net-Works
- "super-elite hack board".
-
- Real Pirates use the latest version of ASCII Express "Pro".
-
- Real Pirates, when trading with another Real Pirate, are not concerned
- with matching everything the other pirate sends them. Real Pirates are
- happy to send wares to other Real Pirates simply because they are in
- the same business. (ie. no, "I send you 3 sides, you send me 3 sides")
-
- Real Pirates don't wait for BBS's to print-out their "goodbye" message,
- they hang-up.
-
- Real Pirates always have a copy of "Disk-fer" or "Cat-Send" handy, or
- both.
-
- Real Pirates don't end their messages with, "leave e-mail to [xxx xxx],"
- or anything of the sort.
-
- Corollary: Real Pirates don't respond to such messages, and in no way
- use them as a means to get "new wares."
-
- Real Pirates aren't found to frequent the local "Bitch Board".
-
- Real Pirates don't have to "ask" if one has an Apple Cat, Real Pirates
- "assume" one has an Apple Cat.
-
- Corollary: Real Pirates know that a "cat" -- when referred to by another
- pirate -- is not a small, furry mammal in the genus of a tiger (unless
- specificly pointed out as such.)
-
- Corollary to the corollary: Real Pirates couldn't give a bucket of
- hampster vomit about anything pertaining to anyone else's pet.
-
- Real Pirates don't make threats of violence against others through the
- phone lines. After all, how is someone living in Acron, Ohio going to
- "beat the living shit out of" someone in Waco, Texas? Not through Zap
- Mail, that's for sure.
-
- Real Pirates know that the disclaimers often stuck in by BBS sysops do
- little more then waste 20-40 bytes of RAM.
-
- Real Pirates don't post messages telling us what is "old", so they can
- fill some space, thus making it look like they actually had a reason to
- post something relavent.
-
- Real Pirates don't think it's keen to be able to put '/EX' on a line by
- itself, and have it included in the message.
-
- Real Pirates have a "sixth sense" that tells them which board to post a
- certain message on (ie. no "new wares" messages on the "Famous People
- Which I Have Met" board).
-
- Real Pirates can spot a Net-Works BBS miles away.
-
- [GROUPS/NAMES]
-
- Real Pirates names aren't parodies of other respectable pirates (ie. The
- Male Nurse of Magenta Bag, Franklin Bandit, 5 1/4" Jockey, etc.).
-
- Real Pirates names have no association to any type of music whatsoever
- (ie. Green Manalishi, The Scorpion,etc.).
-
- Never is the prefix "Krack", or "Crack" found in a Real Pirates name
- unless they actually can crack, and don't just have one.
-
- Real Pirates know that M.P.G does not stand for 'Miles Per Gallon',
- 'Many Pieces of Gravel', 'My Prick is Green', or anything of the sort.
-
- Corollary: Real Pirates would never think of forming, or joining another
- group with the suffix "P.G.", standing for "Pirates Guild" (three is
- enough).
-
- [MISCELLANEOUS]
-
- when talking with a Real Pirate on the phone, you can be assured of not
- hearing Culture Club or the Pointer Sisters being played stridently in
- the background.
-
- Real Pirates are not offended by articles in NewsWeek simply because
- they make a few derogatory remarks about BBS/modem users, and do not use
- this weak reason for making the author's life miserable.
-
- Real Pirates weren't dissapointed when "Fantasy Island" was cancelled,
- and didn't worry whether or not the Cuban midget would ever get another
- job.
-
- Real Pirates would like to see a final episode of "The Love Boat", where
- Vicky absent-mindedly throws a lighted joint next to a propane tank,
- causing the ship to go up in a terrific display of fire and smoke, while
- seeing the heads and body parts of "your crew" scattered about the
- water.
-
- Real Pirates watch "Late Night with David Letterman."
-
- Real Pirates just don't give a damn!
-
- Well, that's it for now. If you were at all offended by anything in this
- article, that's your que to retire from pirating, because after all,
- Real Pirates aren't offended by things contained in text files.
-
- ASCII: Completed
-