Date   : Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:20:18 +1200
From   : Richard Hobbis <rhobbis@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro amusing stories

I wracked my brains for a bit and then remembered a Beeb story from my 
university days ....

I had been at the local pub for several hours in the middle of the day 
having drinking races with a friend of mine (as you do) and we got 
kicked out because he started doing 'dead-ant' impressions on the floor 
(lying on his back shaking his legs and arms in the air). After 
half-carrying him back to his room where he he flaked out I went back to 
mine to find some other, sober, friends playing Artillery Duel on my BBC 
B. I spent the rest of the evening utterly failing to shoot anything and 
wandering around saying 'Artillery Duel' - instead it came out as 
'Arbitrary Drool', which is kind of appropriate given my inebriated 
condition :) Probably the only reason I remember this event is because 
my 'friends' recorded every word I said on a tape recorder and played it 
back to me the next day!

Cheers
Richard

(anyone know if there's a copy of Artillery Duel online somewhere? I 
fancy a drink ...)

Littlefield Aaron wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Does anybody here have any amusing stories about BBC usage? I might be
>putting a website together at some point in the future and I think it would
>be interesting to read.
>
>I don't have any tales of blowing up BBC's or amusing accidents
>unfortunately, other than getting up to mischief during wet breaks at school
>and writing betting programs! Although there was that time back in the 80's
>when I submitted some work which was supposedly a 'storage database full of
>information' and it was only a View file (!), thankfully the teachers were a
>bit computer-challenged back then. ;)
>
>Aaron
>
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