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  • Re: Dizzy Should/WILL Return !!!!!!!!!!!

    From korax1214@korax1214@mailandnews.co.uk (Robert J Baker) to comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.amstrad.8bit on Friday, July 11, 2003 14:38:12
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    "sentinel" <sentinel@graffitti.net> wrote in message news:<LKCOa.34356$C83.2884689@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
    [Dizzy petition]
    sign please! thanks very much, its very appreciated ...

    http://dizzypetition.members.easyspace.com/
    Bring Back that Loveable EGG!

    Sorry to disappoint you, but it's well known that e-petitions aren't
    worth the paper they're printed on -- they're too easily forged.

    http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html
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  • From amigo@amigo@nada.no to comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.amstrad.8bit on Saturday, July 12, 2003 20:42:18
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    "Robert J Baker" <korax1214@mailandnews.co.uk> wrote in message news:fe420e86.0307111338.4a2495b3@posting.google.com...
    "sentinel" <sentinel@graffitti.net> wrote in message
    news:<LKCOa.34356$C83.2884689@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
    [Dizzy petition]
    sign please! thanks very much, its very appreciated ...

    http://dizzypetition.members.easyspace.com/
    Bring Back that Loveable EGG!

    Sorry to disappoint you, but it's well known that e-petitions aren't
    worth the paper they're printed on -- they're too easily forged.

    http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html


    well if it's good enough for the Oliver Twins, it's good enough for me.


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  • From korax1214@korax1214@mailandnews.co.uk (Robert J Baker) to comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.amstrad.8bit on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:57:38
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    "amigo" <amigo@nada.no> wrote in message news:<Ko_Pa.43651$C83.3464865@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
    "Robert J Baker" <korax1214@mailandnews.co.uk> wrote in message news:fe420e86.0307111338.4a2495b3@posting.google.com...
    "sentinel" <sentinel@graffitti.net> wrote in message
    news:<LKCOa.34356$C83.2884689@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
    [Dizzy petition]
    sign please! thanks very much, its very appreciated ...

    http://dizzypetition.members.easyspace.com/
    Bring Back that Loveable EGG!

    Sorry to disappoint you, but it's well known that e-petitions aren't
    worth the paper they're printed on -- they're too easily forged.

    http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html

    well if it's good enough for the Oliver Twins, it's good enough for me.

    No sorry, you missed my point completely -- did you actually follow
    the link I gave, and read the article? (Mind you, I *did* forget to
    escape it, thus -- <http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html>.)

    My objection was not anything about Dizzy as such, but the
    worthlessness of e-petitions generally. The target of your petition
    (be it the Codies or the Olivers -- and the main flaw of many
    e-petitions is that they don't even *have* a target, multiplying their uselessness manyfold) is very unlikely to do anything with it except
    reach for the "delete" button.
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  • From korax1214@korax1214@mailandnews.co.uk (Robert J Baker) to comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.amstrad.8bit on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:28:01
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    "sentinel" <sentinel@graffitti.net> wrote in message news:<LKCOa.34356$C83.2884689@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
    sign please! thanks very much, its very appreciated ...

    http://dizzypetition.members.easyspace.com/
    Bring Back that Loveable EGG!

    Just had a look at that page, and what do I see at the very top?:

    <quote>- The Dizzy Petition will end in September -

    When this happens a NEW Petition will be created</quote>

    In other words, it's a never-ending petition -- and therefore even
    less worth "signing" than the usual round of worthless e-petitions.

    To quote from the BreakTheChain link I gave:

    ====================>8====================
    Expiration. Does [the petition] give a timeline for the collection of signatures or a target number of signatures? Unfortunately, most
    [email] petitions continue to circulate long after any usefulness they
    may have once had has passed.
    ====================>8====================

    And from their page on the Bonsai Kitten petition:

    ====================>8====================
    Any cause can collect enough signatures if it's allowed to go on
    indefinitely - that's why most officials pay little attention to
    undated ones.
    ====================>8====================

    Not (as I've said) that I've got anything against Dizzy (having never
    played the games), it's just that e-petitions are totally not worth
    wasting one's time on...
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  • From Ythcal@keineGewaehr@nix.de to comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.amstrad.8bit on Thursday, July 17, 2003 23:10:28
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    In <bf6vvl$73m$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk> Patrick Furlong wrote:
    I'm against Codemasters myself - not because of the Dizzy situation,
    but because they won't release games for the Nintendo Gamecube.

    Are there any worth to play?
    They ignored the N64 too, so I wasn't really interested in their games
    since that time...

    It's a shame the N64 and GCN are laughed at as toys for childs... :-(

    --
    dArk greetinX
    Ythcal
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  • From tayles_100@tayles_100@yahoo.com (Tayles) to comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.amstrad.8bit on Friday, July 18, 2003 04:12:17
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    "sentinel" <sentinel@graffitti.net> wrote in message news:<LKCOa.34356$C83.2884689@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...¬


    Can we just drop this silliness? It's making me unwell.

    Russ
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  • From Patrick Furlong@patrick@wych01.freeserve.co.uk to comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.amstrad.8bit on Saturday, July 19, 2003 12:26:51
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    I want to play stuff like Prisoner of War!


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