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Post by Paulie on Feb 8, 2005 13:45:37 GMT -5
Talking with BJ brought all the memories flooding back... Remember when Fossil was learning 68000 and decided to port HOH to the ST - he was still using the spectrum graphics and IIRC BJ wrote a program one weekend to convert the spectrum sprites to EDSPR (the in house ST Based sprite editor) and then Ivan "coloured them in".
The look on Fossil's face in the morning when a disk was myseriously left on his desk with all the new sprites on it - I'm sure he thought some form of miracle on par with the parting of the red sea had just occured.
"Look everyone, I came in this morning and all the sprites where done. How's that happened?".
Pure class.... I'm sure he thought the pixel pixies had done them!
- P.
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 8, 2005 13:47:55 GMT -5
Didn't 'someone' leave an old Stanley knife blade lying flat on Fossil's seat one morning, and when he came in he claimed someone was trying to kill him?
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Post by Paulie on Feb 8, 2005 14:02:38 GMT -5
Oh yeah!
Then there was the
"I'm on strike - there's no coffee" Falling out with Lee and Kane because they refused to go and get chips and fish for his wife! Burning his head on his angle poised lamp every morning
...and of course the day when a block of soap "mysteriously" appeared ontop of his computer!
Those were the days ;D
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Post by JamesHiggins on Feb 8, 2005 14:05:01 GMT -5
Damn - skeletons in the closet. Actually that was me. Although it wasn't deliberately done. Larking about - forgot with who - one Sunday (double-time - right ) and jokingly thought I/we'd puncture the smelly old wind-bag (with all due respect) and completely forgot that it was left there. Actually felt really bad about it, because I never had any issue with fossil at all. Just a stupid youthful prank that luckily didn't backfire too badly. Completely forgot about the sprite conversion. So I guess I wasn't all bad My favourite Fossil moment though was when Gary had to tell him he had a hideous odour. Next day Fossil turns up wearing sandles sand shiny white socks. Priceless!
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Post by Paulie on Feb 8, 2005 14:11:33 GMT -5
ROFL - Thanks for that line - it made my day! ;D
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Post by Ringostarr on Feb 8, 2005 17:44:52 GMT -5
I seem to remember that Gary had rather a lot of dutch courage before he tackled that odour problem! Hideous. I never forgave fossil for ratting on me when we had a party in Gary's office while everyone was down at the show enjoying themselves. (oops, sorry Gary) That was when I had my first lesson in Shotgunning!
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 8, 2005 17:47:58 GMT -5
Was this when the ceiling to Gary's office got covered in Bud?
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 8, 2005 18:00:07 GMT -5
Ha ha ha ha ha I remember that! There was drink sprayed ALL over the walls, big streaks of it, and on the ceiling too. What happened? I remember the state of the room after but can't remember how it GOT into that state. Wasn't me though, I'm teetotal.
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 9, 2005 11:55:28 GMT -5
I remember only too well... We had all gone to Brannigan's to get pissed because those-who-must-be-obeyed were off at ECTS or somesuch... We drank ourselves stupid and then decided that for appearance' sake we would go back to the warmth of the office. On the way we stopped off at an off-license where I found a policeman's helmet on the counter and proceeded to wear it...only to turn around and find a smiling, bare-headed bobby smirking at me. Quick thinking turned it into a harmless prank as I said I'd always wanted to join the policeforce and why was the border of the badge of his helmet different from that of Liverpool coppers? He informed me that each city has a different colour...I then decided to stop inflicting my beer sodden breath on him and we all wobbled off to the office. Gary's room being the biggest was chosen as the party room...and it was here I started initiating the children into the wondrous delights of shotgunning small cans of budweiser. Some galoots couldn't hack it though and rather than aim the fountains of beer at their mouths or in an emergency...the bin...they stood flapping like f***wits while the amber nectar plastered the walls and ceiling. Being very much the worse for wear...none of us thought anything of it...it's a liquid...it'll dry. We forgot about the stains and the smell. Gary...on the otherhand...noticed both immediately upon his return. The culprits could have closed ranks, claimed insanity and ignorance but for the loose lips of Lee "Supergrass" Cowley who blew us all up...and me in particular. Yet another drubbing for Butler. Happy Days!
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Post by Ringostarr on Feb 9, 2005 14:59:38 GMT -5
Nah it was definately Fossil who dobbed me in, I seem to remember he phoned Jon Woods on the Ocean Stand and complained and I got threatened with the sack. Some mutterings about me not running a trade union by pleading the cause of the dev staff who weren't invited to the ocean show party. Ho hum, how naive I was in those days.
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 9, 2005 15:12:52 GMT -5
Ah so it was...
Mr Porch. I'd forgotten. Cheers Lorraine.
Another thing came to mind a few days ago...a certain party your threw in a moment of insanity at your house.
What on earth possessed you to allow the Ocean crew to be on your property in the possession of alcohol?
Jeez...that's like giving guns to monkeys.
Great party though...
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Post by Brian on Feb 9, 2005 15:13:39 GMT -5
Yet another drubbing for Butler.
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Post by Ringostarr on Feb 9, 2005 15:23:04 GMT -5
You are right Simon, I must have been stark raving barmy. the main things that stick in my mind about that episode was people sleeping all over the house and a piercing shriek first thing in the morning when Elmer awoke to find that John had crawled into bed next to him, and secondly me driving in to work the next morning feeling the worse for wear and you Simon opening a can of beer in the car for breakfast. I also remember my entire kitchen being covered in beer stains from yet another shotgunning episode. Everything else about that night is somewhat blurred ;D
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Post by LeeT on Feb 9, 2005 18:40:34 GMT -5
I'm amzed that any games were actually finished with all the partyign going on!
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 9, 2005 19:02:33 GMT -5
I remember geting BLADDERED at the Sq. Albert. I was living in Chorley at the time and when we was done somehow I got to Victoria Station, got on the train, spent most of the journey in the footwell next to the door (when i wasn't being sick in the sink on the train, all drink and mashed up crisps!) Someone moaned at me cos i hadn't even rinsed it all away! I couldnt see a thing! Ick
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