From: Sam Gillett on 10 Dec 2006 19:11 "Judge Fishy" wrote ... >> On the western side of the Atlantic, if you show a Sinclair computer to a >> girl she will run away > > Hahahaha! > I'm picturing an American girl running! > I'm told by a very reliable source[1] that girls on the other side of the > pond wobble more than the ZX81's rampack. At least the girls don't totally crash, like a ZX-81 does when it's RAM pack wobbles. >:-) -- Best regards, Sam Gillett If you don't pay your exorcist, will you become repossessed?
From: Tom Lake on 11 Dec 2006 08:22 >No need. Most Americans can't seem >to distinguish between English and >Australian accents anyway. Nor British South African. ((-; You mean you people can tell the difference? 8^) Tom Lake
From: Tom Lake on 11 Dec 2006 08:27 > What I want to know is whether this Babe Magnet effect is restricted to > the UK Spectrums? If I picked up a Timex Sinclair 1000 on ebay, would > that do the trick? Or would it attract Babes as defective as everything > else connected to a TS1000 always seemed to be? When my girlfriend and I were about to make love for the first time, she spied the TS 1000 on my night stand and said, "Oh, Tom! It's so small!" She *was* talking about the computer, wasn't she? Wasn't she??? 8^( Tom Lake
From: agila61 on 11 Dec 2006 10:04 bud wrote: > >No need. Most Americans can't seem > >to distinguish between English and > >Australian accents anyway. > Nor British South African. ((-; Oh, SOUTH African. That explains a lot. I was always curious why all these guys named Seth played on the African cricket team. The Seth's that I've known weren't really sportsmen types.
From: Duncan Snowden on 8 Dec 2006 19:27
Chris Young wrote: > This experiment was done a long time ago. It is already documented > that the ZX81 repels single women: > http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/sinclair_and_the_single_woman.php Ah. Now it all makes sense. The repellent effect of the ZX81 is obviously so strong that it isn't even cancelled out by both a Speccy+ and a 128 together. (Yeah, *that*'ll be it. -Ed.) -- Duncan Snowden. |