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#1 Ted_Ball

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Posted 13 July 2016 - 04:30 AM

 
I was rummaging in my cupboards wondering what junk to throw out so that I could fit more junk in. There was a set of snorkel, face mask and fins. What a joke. A mask! If I'm underwater I don't want to SEE the shark. And there's computer hardware boxes upon boxes full of obscure manuals and CDs and screws and plastic sleaves. Can't throw any of that out. My golf clubs have been shoved up there never to be swung in anger again. And I mean anger. There's a spare set of clubs tied up with a sock?!! (True) Leads. Bloody leads. It's the leads with a square thing on the end that are the problem. You cant just yank them out of the mass. I must have 28 kms of phone cable. But there in the back I came across the old crystal ball I used for the original Tomorrowland thread.
 
I brushed off the cockroach poo and scaped off some melted Strepsils and it polished up pretty well. I put it on the DustBuster charger pad and turned it on. Oh the things I saw in the future. You'll have no idea what happened with Donald Trump. Anyway I quickly scrolled to Jack Nicklaus Perfect Golf.
 
The first thing that surprised me was it is now called Jason Day's Pokemon GO-lf after it was bought out by that global phenomenom. 
 
But it was the new innovations that were the most startling. Controllers were banned outright of course after a Federal High Court challenge overturned their legitimacy. Pokemon GO-lf reasoned that, in line with their policy of promoting healthy living, playing golf from a lounge covered in potato crisps couldn't be tolerated. The new swing method - the only one allowed - (after the "thought process sensor" idea was rejected on grounds of risk to mental health and several instances of "impure thought" were picked up on the National Data Base) was RTS-M. I knew it.
 
The new avatars were androgynous beings of indeterminate origin and wore identical uniforms of some sort of grey/blue material to satisfy the new laws of Sameness. They didn't fist pump or do some victory wiggle either and their emotions were based on Jordan Spieth. 
 
Course Forge had been held back but would be out soon.
 
Pot Bunkers had actually been able to be made in Unity 64.3 but funnily enough were widely despised and rejected by the general public as too hard to get out of and were never seen or heard of again.
 
The best thing as far as I was concerned was the brilliant ELO lobby ladder that had well over 300 matches in progress at any time of the day. It had been accepted by all players as the best thing to happen to JD's PoGO ever. I was also really pleased to see that we were able to play against a recorded round from another player. Bliss.
 
Rightio. Back in the cupboard.

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#2 zmax - sim

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Posted 13 July 2016 - 04:48 AM

Always enjoyed reading your stuff Ted.

 

Btw, our legacy site had a ladder that used the ELO ranking system.  We'll look into building a ladder system on the current site.  But no promises.



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Posted 13 July 2016 - 04:52 AM

Cool Z. Would be great.



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Posted 13 July 2016 - 06:37 AM

I'll have any porno mags you might be chucking out of your cupboard, Ted! :D

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Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:01 AM

Davy, they are in the back shed under lock and key in a metal cabinet with the fold-out of Marilyn Cole taped on the door.



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Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:06 AM

 Trump all the way.



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Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:48 AM

I had a feeling you were going to say that GB


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Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:50 AM

I wonder how many people will swipe 'Marilyn Cole' and hit 'Search Google for "Marilyn Cole"?



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Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:24 AM

I dunno. I go a bit strange when there is a big wait on.



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Posted 13 July 2016 - 08:56 AM

ELO ladder?

Is this open to players All Over the World? Keep us informed if and when it becomes a Living Thing.
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Posted 13 July 2016 - 09:25 AM

Yeah, it's magic.


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Posted 13 July 2016 - 09:57 AM

I wonder how many people will swipe 'Marilyn Cole' and hit 'Search Google for "Marilyn Cole"?

I know who she is... Stranded LP covergirl.

Very nice, always preferred Mary Millington though. *blushes*



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Posted 13 July 2016 - 12:37 PM

There have been very few real 'watershed' 'pivotal' and 'culturaly significant' moments in human existence that had as much impact on me than the Marilyn Cole Playboy issue. It's where it all started. (Well apart from RTS-M). I can't believe Jerry Hall married Rupert Murdoch by the way.

 

I'll give you that Mary is the quintessential British Page 3 girl and if she wasn't on Benny Hill she should have been. Certainly less 'buttoned up' than Linda Thorson.

 

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Posted 13 July 2016 - 10:02 PM

Good read as always Ted!!  So in the future... was Course Forge coming VERY, VERY, VEEEEERY soon or was it still only in the very soon category?


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Posted 13 July 2016 - 10:42 PM

It was downgraded to "soon" as a form of shorthand. As the planet lurched into it's critical stages and oil reserves finally ran dry and solar was our only energy source it was discovered that even each key stroke used valuable energy and, as someone said (once science had been officially banned), we can't keep sucking sunlight and using it all up willy nilly. And after all "soon" does not imply any particular date, time, decade, century or millennia in the past, present and certainly not the future. Apart from that "very" is bad grammar - much like how Marilyn Cole turned out.


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