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Article #309893Re: BC3K - History of Mr. Smart's Flame War
From: huf... Bill Huffman
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:00
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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: huf...@news.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM (Bill Huffman) Subject: Re: BC3K - History of Mr. Smart's Flame War Date: 1998/11/24 Message-ID: <73eonl$rk3@si611.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> X-Deja-AN: 415218884 References: <363e9f02.266204539@news.access1.net> <365a6f64.6101238@news.mindspring.com> Organization: AT&T Global Information Solutions, San Diego, CA Reply-To: Bill.H...@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM 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