Bogie Goes Walk-A-Bouts
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By Bogie of E-3
---------------This is a little story of me and my travels around the U.K. I only visited 3 places, but met with 6 speccy freaks.
First of all I went to Kent for a university interview, and here I met with Datasoft and Zack. This is because both of them are already at this university.
After my interview I met Datasoft outside the library. You must know that we have never met before, so as I was standing outside the library desperately looking for someone else who also looked as if they were looking for someone. Then I saw someone walk past, look around, go down to the physics department, come back to the library and carry on looking for someone. So I shouted out "JOHN!" I shouted this because this is Datasoft's real name, and not because I wanted to go to the toilet! This person turned round and I said "John" again, and he came over and I introduced myself. Luckily it was Datasoft and not someone else!! We went to his room in the university and straight away turned on his Speccy. He has a +D with UniDOS. A DOS I was not familiar with, but I soon was using just like I use Beta DOS (which is what I use!). After he showed me what he had done towards his next demo, I put on Inner Universe. While this was on, Zack came in through the door and there was much rejoicing!! After showing each other our latest stuff, we decided to go to the bar!! Zack and Datasoft decided which one to go to first. I didn't put any ideas forward because I didn't know any bars in the area. We ended up going to a place called Woody's Bar!!!
We sat down, and because I didn't have any money (well, it did cost me over £50 to get there!!!) Zack and Datasoft bought me some drinks. We talked about the Speccy and told a few jokes. Then a computer scientist came over to talk to Datasoft; while this was going on, Zack and I sat there taking the piss out of computer scientists. This is because computer scientists, comsci for short, were all sad bastards, and because we are both physicists we were allowed to!! Then we decided to leave because Zack ran out of money. We went to the hole in the wall and now Zack was replenished with some money! We wandered off to a different bar where we had some more drinks!! At the end of the night we had a game of pool for nothing, because the students put glasses in the pockets and the balls don't go down into the table, but stay where you can easily take them out again! I forgot to tell Zack and Datasoft that I'm a bit of a pool demon and went around putting all the balls down. Until I had one ball left which was touching the black ball, and if I hit my ball the black would have gone down the pocket!!! So I hit the white gently, but not gently enough, and the black went down and I lost!!! We were then evicted from the bar because it had gone midnight and we were the only people left in the bar!! Zack went back to his house in the centre of Canterbury, and Datasoft and I went to Datasoft's room in the university. The first thing that Datasoft said to me when we got back to his room was "Do you feel like doing any coding?" I had been up at 4am in the morning to get to Kent and had had a few drinks; I was knackered, so declined the offer. We went to sleep; I was on the floor, which wasn't very comfortable, but I still got a good night's sleep. In the morning we had some breakfast and said our farewells as I went to the train station to catch the train home!!!
I have a few things to say to Zack and Datasoft: when we next meet, it will be my turn to buy all the drinks!!! I feel I must repay you for all the money you spent on me that night, cheers!
About 10 days later L.A. and I went to Glasgow for a whole weekend to visit The United Minds!!! A 10 hour, overnight coach journey to get there, and we couldn't get comfortable on the coach, so stayed awake for the whole 10 hours!! We did however piss someone off by talking and swearing all the way; we were also taking the piss out of everyone else on the coach!! HEHEHEHE!!! When we got off the coach in Glasgow I had my sunglasses on because I was expecting the fabulous weather that you usually get in Hootsmon land!!! I was disappointed because it was freezing cold — this may have been because it was 6am!
We met Dok and Orson (we had met them before so knew what they looked like!!). We went to Dok's house in his dad's car, which I didn't think was going to make it because it kept making funny noises. I'm sure it was going to explode!!!
We had an amazing time in Hootsmon land, especially when Psi-co came!!! He rates PCs more than Amigas, so we spent most of the time taking the piss out of PCs!!! This is very easy because PCs are crap!!! On the Friday night I got into the Scottish feel by drinking loads of whisky and getting totally pissed!!! For more information on this little gathering, see the demo that is called 'Poocake'!!!!
2 days after returning from Hootsmon land I went to Southampton; this is where Icabod is doing his degree!!! After my interview I waited outside the library for him (I had never seen him before either!!). Then suddenly this person walked up to me and said "Alec?" And I said "Yes," and it was Icabod!!! How he knew who I was, I don't know!!! I wasn't even looking for anyone at the time and didn't look out of position because I had a bag with me; I looked just like any normal student!!! But anyway, we went to his flat where we put on Speccy and done basically what I had done in Kent!! Then this other kid came in and asked if we wanted to go to the cinema tonight, we decided to go!! We went to the cinema where we got our tickets, and one of the people we were meeting looked just like David Baddiel, but he refused to admit it, but Icabod and I persisted that he did!!! After getting our tickets we went to a pub/club sort of place near the cinema which said it was always open!! But we walked up to the automatic doors and they didn't open. So we stood there confused until some other people came and went into the place through another set of automatic doors which were open!!! We all felt like a bunch of twats, but we still went in and had a quick drink before the film started!! The film we watched was called 'Stargate'!! After the film most of the 12 people who went with us said it was crap, but Icabod and I said it was pretty good!!! Maybe it was aimed at the Speccy society??? We went back to Icabod's flat in a taxi because it was midnight and the last bus came at about 11pm!!!
Back at Icabod's flat we put Speccy on again and watched a few demos!!! It was about 2:30am when we decided to go to sleep! Icabod, the nice person, let me sleep in his bed and he slept on the floor!! We did not both sleep in the bed!!! In the morning Icabod had a lecture to go to, so he went to it and I stayed in his flat and played on his Speccy!!! When he came back we went into the centre of Southampton, where we went to the train station to find that I had just missed my train and I had to wait 50 minutes for the next one!! So we went to a shop in Southampton that sold bongs!!! There was this huge communal bong that cost £95!!!! There was also several smaller ones ranging from £5 to £95!!! I was tempted to buy one, but I didn't!!! Then we went back to the train station where we said our farewells and I left!!! What I want to say to Icabod is: thanks for the disk box!!!
Well, this concludes my travels!!! I hope to meet these Speccy freaks again in the future and many others as well!!
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