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From: elwin@gamma.std.com (Lawrence E. Brown)
Subject: Re: Best packaging (was Re: Maps in LTOI-1)
Message-ID: <1993Mar17.202932.20264@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 20:29:32 GMT
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The centipede from our lurking horror has endured a strange
oddessy which I must share.  When my wife played the game she
stuck the centipede to the top of the disk drive for our C64.
Well those drives tend to get hot so it fused on and plastic
sort of bubbled out with time, wrapping the shrinking lurking
horror in a frothy purple cocoon.  Well the drive broke and I
took it to the resident C64 guru here at work.  He sent it over
to the campus shop, but so they wouldn't suspect anything funny
(I *was* using my c64 strictly to log in to work on the campus
computers so I didn't feel unethical) we took the remaining
lurking horror off.  

Well, I put the thing up on a mirror at the end of the hall.
While we were away, our charming 60ish neighbor lady was feeding
our cats. She sees the lurking horror, panics and hits it with
her shoe.  

Gosh I loved infocom packaging.

Larry


-- 
Larry Brown                        "Philip K. Dick is dead, alas
elwin@gamma.phys.clemson.edu        Let's all queue up to kick God's ass"
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy      --Michael Bishop in _The Secret Ascension_
Clemson University                  
