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From: Bill Buckels on 1 Apr 2008 08:23
On Mar 31, 10:53 am, "David.Watts.Ris...(a)googlemail.com"
<David.Watts.Ris...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>... get a sinclair and find out what treu computing is...
> c

I always wanted a sinclair too and I was always sorry I didn't get one
but in those years the beer and fighting bikers in the bar was
unfortunately more important to me. Since I began driving big trucks I
haven't seen a need to get my hands dirty by going hand to hand
anymore, and amazingly the hangovers stopped when I stopped
drinking.

But the C64 interested me because of its advanced sound, and not so
much the graphics. The IBM-PC had add-on boards like the Targa Board
that I liked better. I can't imagine what little I would have done
with a sinclair except perhaps to hand carve a set of wooden keys for
it.

Cheers!

From: Sam Gillett on 2 Apr 2008 01:46

"Bill Buckels" wrote ...
>
> We are trying hard to keep our own dogs from going into the cat box
> and have erected a baby gate for this purpose. I just thought I would
> mention that to also point-out that it doen't work and we have
> resigned ourselves to just ignoring the problem when it occurs.

Open a Sinclair. Throw away all the junk you find inside. The remaining
shell makes a good scoop for removing soiled litter from the box.

The dogs getting into the cat's litter box will mean you have to use the
Sinclair more often. You can solve this problem by getting rid of the litter
box and letting the cats use the neighbors flower bed. Without the litter
box around it should be fairly easy to house break the dogs. :-)
--
Best regards,

Sam Gillett

Change is inevitable,
except from vending machines!



From: Bill Buckels on 2 Apr 2008 08:50
On Apr 2, 12:46 am, "Sam Gillett" <sgillettnos...(a)diespammergte.net>
wrote:

> Open a Sinclair.  Throw away all the junk you find inside.  The remaining
> shell makes a good scoop for removing soiled litter from the box.

Thank you for the very practical suggestion. If I ever come across one
now I know what they are good for. Sadly, the infatuation of youth
rarely sustains itself and I no longer want one.

Any Timexes that we had were pitched 30 years ago. I didn't have a
sinclair but I had some of their other watches that "take a lickin'
but keep on tickin'". After something gets licked for a while the
tendency for pets and for timex users who have been sittin' there
lickin' is to swallow. Timexes are just too dangerous to have around
pets.

But as for protecting sinclair swallowers from the results of their
actions (and one in particular:) I could care less if they choke on
their timexes.

> The dogs getting into the cat's litter box will mean you have to use the
> Sinclair more often. You can solve this problem by getting rid of the litter
> box and letting the cats use the neighbors flower bed. Without the litter
> box around it should be fairly easy to house break the dogs. :-)

There are many detractors from this working practically. To begin with
we have 6 cats and 3 dogs and a rather large lot in a small town on
the shores of the 11th largest freshwater lake in the world. The dogs
like the children before them who are now Pychologists or Teachers,
are untrainable. The dogs are Basset Hounds.

The house itself is a rather large house surrounded completely by
brick planters between 2 and 4 feet across and the cats regularly use
their own flower beds or some of the large wooded area further out in
the yard. In the winter the ground is frozen. During the summer it is
fine for the cats to be out. The winter is a different story...

Some of the neighbors who we suspect are former sinclair swallowers
and who having suspectedly drunk themselves into a stupor, suspectedly
but regularly sneak into our flowerbeds at night looking for tidbits
left by our cats. These timex users have been rumoured to travel for
miles and even visit internet newsgroups, so great is their desire for
abuse and to eat this stuff. In fact these timex swallowers are
suspected of spending so much time foraging flower beds each night
that they don't even have the time to plant their own flowerbeds and
consequently our cats stay close to home, and the drivers-by do not
stop and admire their homes as they do ours with our home being
surrounded by these wonderful and well fertilized flowers.

During the winters which are long here in Canada when the foraging is
scarce it is not unheard-of for an excited former sinclair user to
actually try to remove the desired substance from a cat by placing
their lips around the rear end of the animal and vigorously and in a
drunken stupour using both a vacuum and tongue action. Although this
seldom if ever works they are rumoured to be so desensitized by things
that don't work that the sinclair user does not notice that this too
does not work, and frankly it scares the beheckin' right out of the
cat. It really is not fair to the cat.

There is even an old Canadian Parody of Jabberwocky that starts
"Beware the Sinclair my cat, the lips that suck, the throat that
swallows..."

I know that the rest of you understand because C64 users like some of
the other really capable vintage computer users are not afflicted with
this kuru-like self-destructive tendency and we have long understood
that there may even be some unknown Might and Magic that timex users
have become aflicted with to cause this awful aberration and to
suddenly appear in newsgroups frothing and making wierd drunken and
loud sounds and lashing out violently.

It is unfortunate but it is a good idea to keep small pets and
children and especially cats out of their reach when they get like
this. Any further suggestions on what to do about the cats, the dogs,
and the flowerbeds are appreciated, but probably OT. Any efforts to
control sinclair users are probably wasted as they always were and are
also probably OT.

Bill


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