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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:55 PM
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Hey DVD Owners! I just bought a BETAMAX VIDEO RECORDER! YUM!
Edited on Thu May-06-04 02:56 PM by Screaming Lord Byron
Huh? Huh?

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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:56 PM
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1. what are you going to do with it?
other than use it to prop up your DVD player?
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:57 PM
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4. I'm going to fry it and eat it, to celebrate my freedom, bud.
Let's see those fucks at PETA try and stop me!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:56 PM
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2. Enjoy your horse and BUggy!
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:57 PM
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6. Betamax. It's the wave of the future. I guarantee it.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:56 PM
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3. Mighty big doorstop you got there.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:58 PM
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8. Doorstop? This is sophisticated technology!
Ya Luddite!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:04 PM
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11. You should pick up a LaserDisc player, too.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:06 PM
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12. What is this LaserDisc of which you speak?
Should I buy that over a shiny new Sinclair C-5?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:13 PM
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14. LD info:
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:09 PM
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13. I still own a laserdisc player
and about 75 discs. I haven't used it in about 6 years.

I think I'm keeping it just to show it to my grandchildren. They'll get a good laugh. :)
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:57 PM
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5. Are you in the market for some crappy 8-track tapes also?
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 02:58 PM
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7. YEAH! BRING IT ON BAYBEE!
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:01 PM
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9. Be sure to be careful when you hook it up to the telly....
.... you wouldn't want to ruin any of those vacuum tubes. They can be expensive, ya know.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:03 PM
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10. That's the price of progress, KMLA.
My, what a world of technological wonders I've entered with my BETAMAX!
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:14 PM
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15. COOL! you can record 'n stuff while you play PONG!
welcome to the 18th Century babeee!! :bounce:
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:17 PM
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16. Yeah! I'm gonna line it up beside my VIC-20 and Atari 2600
I'm gonna have myself a little par-tay.
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:18 PM
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17. if you were REAL good
you would get on that Commador 64 of yours and write a program that would automatically turn your Bets ON and OFF!
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:22 PM
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18. I have a Coleco ADAM....
and a Commodore Vic20 you might want to buy.....But I don't deal with anybody from Canadia so fergeddit.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:27 PM
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20. I have this marvellous beast.

and I play this on it

So don't fuck with me.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:38 PM
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21. Well, at least the CPU's not in the printer.
Oooh. S'mantha Fox....."Naughty Girls Need Love - DAH DAH DAH- too." God, I've give anything to have that game nowadays, with improved graphics, on my eMac.....


Well, I learned my lesson today: Don't fuck with the Screaming Lord.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:41 PM
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22. No. Don't fuck with me.
Unless you want me to bore you with mid-80's home computing trivia, that is.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:48 PM
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23. That should be your sig line.....
I can just imagine the dude from Annihilator or Armored Saint shreiking, "Don't fuck with the screaming loooooord!!" at the top of his range right now.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play Zaxxon on my Colecovision.....
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:49 PM
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24. Ah, Annhilator. Where's Randy Rampage now?
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:57 PM
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25. Probably hanging out with that big black dude from Cyclone Temple
Or posssibly he's mopping the floor at some junior high school right now, where the kids all call him "Mr. Rampage."

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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 03:24 PM
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19. Tell Elad
Because we all know how fascist those DVDs are.


:evilgrin:
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