I still remember the giddy excitement the first time this loaded up (took four weeks and 85 cassettes, but boy was it worth it). (Click the image for a bigger version)
Arguably Botham's best test days were already behind him by 1986 - in fact wasn't banned for cannabis that year? So technically I'd question whether he's one of our best test match players of the last 20 years. Last 25, yes, no question.
And you had to learn complex programming like:
10 Write: "Brighton are cool"
20 Goto 10
RUN
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool...
Blimey! Chill out man! He never said it was the worst thing that could happen to anyone, he just had a bit of a cold-induced grumble about how pants it is to feel ill just as a break from work comes round, and whether he was being completely lighthearted, totally serious or somewhere in between...
Disappointing but inevitable. Apart from a decent innings at Adelaide and a reasonable bowl at Australia in the first innings here, we've never really looked contenders at all.
And after two ducks here, Jones has to go.
It's also f***ing plagiarised!! I thought it sounded familiar, and a quick Google search confirms it:
Ode Cologne, by Philip Larkin (1955)
I will tell you.
You.
What they do, like.
They like a Man. Who is a man? A proper man?
That is... you know the type I mean;
The type whom that if he...
Has this thread got confused with "If you could travel back in time" thread?
It seems to have warped into a 40 year old 'joke du jour' thread, back from the days when NSC was like this:
"Hallo, is that Mr Simster? One has a new posting for you to read on North Starned Chit. Would you like to...
thank you very much I have hear that one before too but I think last time it had some punctuation in it so it was a bit easier to read really which made the joke better because then you didn't have to work so hard and concentrate to try and decipher what the person who had written it was trying...