I write what /----G-A-M-E-S---I-N---T-E-S-T-I-N-G----\ ...and I like I like... /| ESI GGAMESINT NGGAMESINTE |\ what I write /-------------/ | ESINT GAMESINTE GGAMESINTES | \-------------\ | Volume No.: 1 | ES ES SIN SIN |Chris M DICKSON| | Issue No.: 07 | ES INT INT |42 Arlington Rd| | Deadline date | SI STIN NTE including NTE | Middlesbrough | | for GIT no. 8 | IN IN TES train TES | T S 5 7 R E | | as for OMR 23 | TE NG EST EST | 01642 821929 | \-------------\ | STING ME TESTINGG ES STI GA | /-------------/ **COeA** \| ING ES ESTINGGA SI TIN AM |/ **COeA** **COeA** \- E-mail to chris@dickson.demon.co.uk -/ **COeA** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks for all your kind comments last time about my rather downcast editorial. At the moment I'm feeling a bit aimless and am probably not making the best use of my time, but am confident/hopeful something will eventually turn up. I've made two job applications to date: one with the BBC for a researcher's position on that bastion of top TV, "Noel's House Party", and one for a position on the editorial team of a puzzle magazine. Still, I've had lots of time to write up a good fat GIT, not that I haven't let it all slip to the Wednesday after the deadline and beyond. As usual! Bullet points which don't fit anywhere else: Now I'm no longer in Oxford, I'm not collecting Sainsbury's Reward Points any more. Together with my flatmate, we collected 7006 points before cashing 7000 of them in for 28 Reward Vouchers. I surrendered my half to my flatmate, who now lives in Kidlington, in return for cancelling debts accrued to him for my half of the shopping bills over the last couple of months. He intends to change them for 1,120 Air Miles. Speaking of Kidlington, I note that Stretchy is thinking of moving out and into a bigger, better house. Rumours that he's moving in the direction of Basildon and is going for a 3-bedroomed house with the intention of a certain Shil, er, someone moving in, are probably entirely true. Will the HouseCon excuse wash with the public? Remains to be seen... Speaking of houses, ours isn't very tidy, which is mostly my fault. A tape containing two episodes of Interceptor (my favourite game show ever - pushing Wanted into second place) had gone missing in our house since I last saw it back in 1993 when I had a cold. In tidying out the smallest of the three bedrooms we found a big bag of video tapes, which it was among. This was great, and would have been even better had I not got a copy of one of the two episodes on the tape from another friend some weeks previously. Speaking of game shows, don't you think Danny Duncan would be an excellent name for a game show host? It trips off the tongue with the greatest of ease, though Dan Duncan follows the Bob-Monk-house Bruce-For-syth Paul-Dan- iels Bob-Hol-ness syllable pattern rather better. For that matter, Jenny Duncan would work almost as well (though the DD alliteration did help). Speaking of names, Huddo (or Andrew Huddleston, former treasurer of the OxUniDipSoc) deserves congratulations on his much-better-than-mine class of mathematics degree. Comparing his lot in life with Stretchy's will give a good indication of what the difference between getting a 2:1 and a 2:2 is when you go into accountancy. Hopefully this will give Huddo the money to be able to afford to games cons. He missed ManorCon due to cycling/boozing in France. Speaking of former committee members of DipSoc, I have read with some concern that secretary-before-me Steve Massey is returning to do teacher training at Wheatley campus. I have a fear that the sort of training he gets may concern mastery of the pun and the gag, rather than of the board and the unruly pupil. Congratulations to Tony on having a campus named after him! Speaking of jokes of various sorts, I can't decide whether Harry Hill is funny or not. I wonder if he writes all his own material? "The English language. How contradictory! Dalziel and Pascoe, Baddiel and Skinner. Who says you can't have it both ways?" "It's a good job people don't name countries when they're thinking about lunch. A man, a flan, a canal - Fanama!" Speaking of being funny, I wonder why no-one's been topical enough to suggest a Dip variant based on the Mir space station situation? Mir would be a thirty-fifth supply centre connected to all the others (or, perhaps, only to one in London and one in Moscow), but it would take a full year for a unit to reach there from the Earth, and there's a chance that the space station goes flying off into the wide black yonder that is the spacial void, stranding any unit left there and losing its supply centre status... That's all. I hope you enjoy the rest of the subzine!