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Article #309895Re: BC3K - History of Mr. Smart's Flame War
From: Dan Brooks
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:00
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Excellent! Thank you! Bill Huffman <huf...@news.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> wrote in message news:73eonl$rk3@si611.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM... |In article <365a6f64...@news.mindspring.com>, |Jeffrey Willis <jswi...@mindspring.com> wrote: |>Bill, I just have to say this... you are one helluva persistent person. I |>went through some archives I had of various saved usenet posts when I saw |>this one (and it's not the first!). It took me a moment to realize just |>exactly how long you've been after Derek & BC3K. | |The trip is what is fun. Where it is headed is unkown and secondary. | |>I'm wondering if you remember this particular thread? It's dated October |>21st, 1996: |> |>In article <<54gs3k$f...@huffmanpc.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>, |>Bill Huffman <huf...@news.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> wrote: |> |>>In article <5425jj$k...@guyana.earthlink.net>, |>>Silverlock <cro...@earthlink.net> wrote: |>> |>>... stuff snipped |>>> |>>>Thats flat out stupid Todd, Its a game for gods sake!! |>>>Although the idea of respecting a person for standing up for |>>>their product is good you have to choose your targets based on WHAT |>>>they are standing up for. To give you an example I have been |>>>working EXTREMELY hard for the last 7 years building a heap |>>>of dog shit in the backyard. I've toiled over it everyday and I've |>>>stood up to the people in my neighborhood who say its bringing down |>>>property values and its stinking up the area. I'm proud of my heap |>>>and one day it'll be in the Guiness book of world records as the |>>>largest dungpile in the world. Then I'm going to charge people 60 |>>>dollars to get their pictures taken sittingon top of the largest dung |>>>pile in the world. Since I am standing up for what I believe in |>>>will you respect me too and come get your picture taken...I'll |>>>even lower the price to 50 Dollars for you? This isn't a comment |>>>on BC3000, I haven't played the game, don't own it etc. This is a |>>>comment on your statement and its apparent blindness. |>> |>>Oh yea! Well I worked on the pile of dog shit in my back yard |>>for 8 years. I gave up on it when I saw the pile of horse shit |>>the stable down road had. It had to be at least 8 feet tall. |>>They even put a sign out in front of it that you weren't allowed |>>to steal any of it. (That part is true.) Maybe we should exchange |>>shitty stories, for old times sake. :-) | |Yes, the reference to the pile of horse shit was true, it reminded me. | |BTW, the pile is long gone. It was such a great sign in front of that |huge pile. It cracked me up every time I drove by. Do you think they |had security guarding the pile at night?
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From: "Dan Brooks" <dbro...@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: BC3K - History of Mr. Smart's Flame War Date: 1998/11/24 Message-ID: <73g207$8p3$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 415417663 References: <363e9f02.266204539@news.access1.net> <365a6f64.6101238@news.mindspring.com> <73eonl$rk3@si611.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 X-ELN-Date: 25 Nov 1998 04:44:55 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Tue Nov 24 20:45:03 1998 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit