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- - REAL PIRATES VOLUME III -
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- - -WRITTEN BY THE WHIP- -
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- The following is a list of what a
- pirate is or isn't. In many cases,
- you will find similar experiences in
- your own pirate life. As you see,
- this text is formatted in 40 columns,
- which brings us to the first instance:
-
- REAL PIRATES do not care what the
- width of a text was formatted in. They
- can handle anything. Therefore, all of
- you 80 column owners, bare with it.
- The Apple II/II+ will be around for
- long time.
-
- Real pirates realize that piracy
- is not a crime; it is the only solution
-
- Real pirates do not get paranoid
- of Sierra On-line's copy violation
- warning: $50,000 fine and/or
- imprisonment.
-
- Real pirates don't worship hires
- pictures.
-
- Real pirates can't afford a Hayes
- modem because they know it's not worth
- the money.
-
- Real pirates never made the
- mistake of buying a Hayes modem.
-
- Real pirates don't try to use
- Disk-fer with their Hayes modem.
-
- Real pirates don't pick 'answer'
- mode in Disk-fer simply because they
- know that they will get their disk
- first.
-
- Real pirates can send without
- recieving. (Give without taking.)
-
- Real pirates don't get I/O errors
- on half their disks.
-
- Real pirates don't use generic
- disks.
-
- Real pirates don't use their
- apples for testing plant growth and
- temperatures.
-
- Real pirates don't replace their
- fish tank with "Fishies."
-
- Real pirates know what they have
- in their library.
-
- Real pirates don't delete
- something for everything they get.
-
- Real pirates don't buy software so
- they can be the first to crack it.
-
- Real pirates don't waste their
- money on software because they know
- it's not worth it.
-
- Real pirates know that Pole
- Position for the Apple will never come
- out.
-
- Real pirates don't make prank
- phone calls.
-
- Real pirates don't advertise their
- bbs/ae/catsend lines without keeping
- them up.
-
- Real pirates run a bbs/ae/catsend
- line 24 hours a day or they don't run
- one at all.
-
- Real pirates have two phone lines.
-
- Real pirates realize that they
- asked for it when they get a call for
- their bbs/ae/catsend line at the wrong
- time of the day.
-
- Real pirates know that the South
- Pole is located in the U.S.A.
-
- Real pirates don't put their names
- and numbers on other pirate's wares.
-
- Real pirates don't put their
- friends names on a crack just to make
- him/her/it well-known.
-
- Real pirates do not pollute their
- wares with numerous names, groups and
- numbers.
-
- Real pirates do not update their
- whole system and collection to Prodos.
-
- Real pirates never run out of disk
- space.
-
- Real pirates don't trade their
- Apple II/II+/IIe in for a IIc.
-
- Real pirates don't bug other
- pirates for "new wares."
-
- Real pirates don't freak out when
- they meet a female pirate.
-
- Real pirates are not conceited.
-
- Real pirates don't make mommy buy
- the blank disks.
-
- Real pirates know how to spell.
-
- Real pirates don't play Stickybear
- ABC.
-
- Real pirates are not racists.
-
- Real pirates do not hang out on
- homo-sexual based bbs's.
-
- Real pirates can find in their
- collection what they know they have.
-
- Real pirates are not in a hurry to
- collect all of the Trillium shit.
-
- Real pirates have alternate ways
- of copying Time Zone other than by
- modem.
-
- Real pirates don't turn a file
- into a full disk so they can slap their
- tacky title page on to it.
-
- Real pirates don't join groups so
- they can become well-known.
-
- Real pirates don't need a reason
- to have access to a certain board or
- bbs.
-
- Real pirates do not brag to
- computer illiterates that they can
- break into banks, etc. now with their
- new modem, when they know they can't.
-
- Real pirates don't waste their
- time and money driving miles to see
- other pirates.
-
- Real pirates do not brag of their
- alcohol/drug use; sexual desires and
- experiences; and or suicide attempts.
-
- Real pirates do not know how many
- disks they have, and do not care to
- hear the notion of how many disks that
- another pirate has.
-
- Real pirates don't make obnoxious
- noises, sounds, moans, groans, and
- tones while on a conference line.
-
- Real pirates don't get other
- pirates in trouble.
-
- Real pirates don't bill other
- pirates. (Unless he/she/it has done the
- same to you.)
-
- Real pirates don't spend their
- life typing in text-files. (Which is
- why this one is almost done.)
-
- Real pirates do not have to read
- files like this one, they know what
- they are already.
-
- And finally, Real Pirates are not
- pirates at all; They don't kill for
- their reputation...they earn it.
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- Written by: The Whip 02-10-85
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- Call these hang-outs:
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- Homer Bros. Catsend: 312-665-0264
- The South Pole: 312-677-7140
- The Outpost: 312-441-6957
- The Greek Inn: 312-774-2035
- Apple Manor: 716-654-POOF!
-
- Leave me E-mail at the Greek Inn
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