My image of Jeff is one where every object into his mouth is unwashed and uncut negro dong.

Jeeze, it's freakign hyperbole. It's not supposed to be taken word for word.

Lysander wrote:blah blah blah

I can't decide whether to write "whatever, maggot" (joke, duh) or wonder why you have this idea that every other word out of my mouth is "maggot", which is hardly the case. I'm sorry that you have such an image of me.

I'm glad I just joined at the pinnacle of this forum. Someday I'll look back and proclaim that I was part of something special at it's most wonderful time.

I might throw a sentence or two about some related failure but never would I proclaim; 'that sucks'

I think that the reason that this BBS failed is because everyone hammered the only slightly funny running jokes into the ground with a hammer and nails. ("The joke is *dead*!" "We'll just use Fenix Down! Keep kickin'!") Especially when this is at the expense of other potentially interesting threads, the BBAS has now gone down to where the only topics that can be posted go like this:

topic about a person's social life

Aardvark: that sucks.

Worm: You suck.

Vitriola: Blow me.

Pinback: I suck.

CO: You do suck.

Knuckles: haha larfo dude jew all sux0rz.

Robb: This BBS sucks. I'm sorry!

Lysander: You keep apologizing for everything. You suck. Also, Lysander is blind LOL!!.



Jeff: maggot.

[In the case of Pinback posting a topic about a person's social life, the same steps apply, but in a slightly different order.]

topic about something geeky

Everyone: That's stupid. Shut up.

Jeff: fagot.

Topic about something completely unrelated to BBS life

Jack Straw: Who cares?

Bruce: Your mom.

Knuckles: mY mom was eaten by ermites in a cold, lonely grave but not until after I skullfucked her cold, empty eye sockets!

Pinback: Knuckles is an idiot.

Knuckles: your mom's an idiot.

Jeff: My mom's a maggot.

Vitriola: Blow me.

joke topic

pinback/lyasnder/worm/lex: WTF was that Jesus. Thatwas retarded.

CO/Knuckles: Not as retarded as Lysander not spelling his own name right, stupid fucknog.

Lysander: Oh ya, picking on the blind guy for his spelling, that's really mature. What's next, are you going to go up to a school for the deaf and set off the fire alarm?

Jeff: The fire alarms have flashing lights now, but I suppose you wouldn't know that, you being so fucking *maggot*. And all.

Robb: Jeff, your antics are mildly uncooth. Please cease them.

Jeff: I'll cease my antics when Lysander stops being a fucking maggot.

Nessman: I hate fags! They spread AIDS! As well as several other various Republican talking points!

Jeff: Nessman, why do you have to be so *maggot* on the Republican party? I mean, why is that, really?

Any post by Robb

Lysander: That was a brilliant, hilarious ans awesome post.

Rob: Hey, tha--

Lysander: That said, I am now going to utterly destroy you, with every piece of venomous, cruel hatred I have a capacity to possess. Also, you haven't sent me my fucking masterpieces, asshole.

Aardvark: Hey, yeah, and I'm waiting on my sax!

Rooty: Don't you still have a review of mine to put on the site?

CGG: All of you guys just shut up and wait until Rob finishes teh top 100 games of all time list.

Pinback: This is funny.

Lysander: Hey Robb, you didn't answer my second post. Try getting back to that sometime before you release your next IF game, huh, faggoit?

Chris: How can you post if you can't even see the screen lol LOL LOL!

CO: If you don't stop that I will go down to the daycare center, pick up your kids, and feed each one slowly to a grain thresher, stopping only to cackle maniacally and wipe the excess blood and flying body parts off of my overalls.

Chris:

This BBS is a failure because Ben Parrish is a fucking maggot.

Well, that's constructive.

I think the reason the BBS failed is that CO is a fucking idiot.

even better though was in college using the VAX system to "Finger" other colleges' systems and "ping" chicks who were online.

I still giggle to myself when I remember writing programs that peek and poke.

I am a new computer user, and I'm confused about something I read in your magazines. You often say Save a copy of the program before you run it. I find that I can run a program and save it later if I like the program. Could you please explain why it's important to save first?

John Huda

In most cases, it is possible to save a BASIC program after you've run it. However, some programs modify or delete parts of themselves when they are run. If you save at that point, you may not get the entire program. Other programs POKE a machine language program into memory. If you've mistyped even one number in the machine language portion, the computer may lock up, requiring you to turn the machine off and back on to regain control. Whenever you turn off the power, you lose whatever was previously in the computer's memory. To avoid losing your work by accident, it's always a good idea to save a program before you try it out for the first time.

I found an archive with some scanned articles from the old magazine Compute! I hope I answer the question, "Why does ICJ have to be so negative all the time?".

Compute! was a magazine that hated the IBM PC. Knuckles, back me up here. BACK ME UP! They had articles for the Commodore constantly and loved to smoke some C64 pole. They eventually released a magazine exclusively for the PC/PCjr but it lasted two issues before they cancelled it. Meanwhile, in two thousand fucking five, if you're not using a computer which is based on 8088 architecture you essentially have some sort of social disease. But apparently complete market domination wasn't enough for the editors of Compute! to turn a profit.

... Anyway, they died but they live on in today's Internet (which x86 totally made possible for all of you - you're welcome). There's a link here: http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/index/