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From: "Anonymous" <guest@guest.net>
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 291
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:04:42 +0100
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Joaquim G�ndara wrote in message ...
>"Anonymous" <guest@guest.net> skrev i meddelandet
> news:aojroe$ktp$1@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk

>> Graeme : "Earlier on, I skrev i meddelandet!!"
>> Colleagues : <blank look>
>
>Yes, nothing like a bit of Swedish to confound your friends and
>relatives. :)

I don't know if I pronounced it properly either...

Do I pronounce it "Skrev eye medal-andet", or "Skrev ee medal-andet" or am I
going completely wrong ?

>> Not quite; the graphical adventure was a point-and-click affair, with a
>> different sense of humour and style.
>
>Not point-and-click. It was "walk around using the numpad and type
commands",
>like all the early Sierra adventures. I read up on it, and according to
this
>they are indeed a bit different:
>http://abandonrom.tagalaxy.net/leisuresuitlarry.shtml
>
>I played some of it on this page:
>http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?game=7&mode=html
>Couldn't get past the pimp. In LSL1, one just turns on the TV with the
remote,
>but in this one the pimp won't let me... :\ Oh well.

Hmm...  The version of LSL was on the Amiga.  I can't be certain it was
LSL1, actually, thinking about it.  I was certain the one I played was a
point-and-click in the vein of Monkey Island (damn cool games, too).

>> >> Round glasses, funny hat, striped jumper...  All you need now is his
>> >> magic stick and his dog (called, appropriately, "Woof").
>> >
>> >A magic stick? He has a magic stick? What can he do with it?
>>
>> Wouldn't YOU like to know ?   <nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more !>

Obscure Monty Python's Flying Circus reference...  Sorry !  :o)

>> Nah; it's what he used to move around the place (in the TV show anyway).
>> It's what Oddlaw was after all the time (he was the bad guy, with the
black
>> and yellow striped jumper).
>
>Woah.. I have no idea what you're talking about.

There was a television series of "Where's Wally" in the UK.  Very weird.

Wally and his dog Woof go about the place helping Wizard WhiteBeard (I think
 that was his name) solve mysteries and riddles.

To go from timezone to timezone and place to place, Wally uses this magic
stick / cane (not a wand, as I recall).

Oddlaw was the bad guy.  He looked just like Wally, except that he wore a
yellow and black striped jumper as opposed to Wally's Red and White striped
one.  Anyway, he wanted that stick real bad.  He could do all sorts of cool
evil things with it.

He never got it, naturally - but always ended up getting hit with stuff.

At several points during the program, Wally goes missing, and someone says
"Where's Wally?" and the screen zooms out to a regular confusing drawing,
like you get in the "Where's Wally?" / "Where's Waldo?" books, and you get
one minute to find Wally in the picture.

Actually finding Wally has nothing to do with the plot of each episode -
it's just fun  :o)



>obascii:
>
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:o)

Is this a LSL1 reference ?

Is W4r3z d00d a weird cyber-pimp ??

obascii:

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--
Graeme Porter
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   / [_][_]_:_  Proud owner of a 1978
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                     know her first name was 'Always'"
                                       -- Anonymous