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80 lines
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What's Hot...and What's Classic
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By the Silver Ghost
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"The Mac is sexy. The IBM is an orgasmatron."
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Let's face it...I'm tired of getting the things that *I* like pushed
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around because some teenybopper thinks they're not "in" this week. Here is
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THE list.
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What's Hot What's Classic
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II-GS II series
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Friday the Thirteenth, Part n Psycho
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Pink Floyd, The Wall A Clockwork Orange
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NBC BBC
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Wheel of Fortune The Price is Right
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65C816 8088
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos Zork I
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OMNI minidisks Verbatim DataLife
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DeLorean Saab 96
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Lamborghini Countach Saab 99 Turbo
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Audi 5000CS Turbo Quattro Saab 9000 [Get the picture yet?]
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Girls who drive Mustang GT's Girls who drive blue Ford Escorts
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"Under-the-hood" Superhet's Escort radar detector
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The new 65 mph speed law The old 70 mph speed law
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NEW Diet Pepsi Diet Coke
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"Outrageous" Cherry Coke Classic Coke with Cherry syrup
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The Cosby Show Bill Cosby
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Compact Discs Vinyl
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Rogue HACK
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Subscription-password BBS's Begging users for contributions
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Year of the Dragon They Call Me Bruce
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Billy Crystal Peter Sellers
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The Monkees...Twenty Years Later The original Monkees
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The original Monkees The Beatles
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Van Halen, "5150" Black Sabbath, "E5150"
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David Lee Roth Ronnie James Dio
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John Lennon, "Twist And Shout" John Lennon, "Twist And Shout"
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Cyndi "Teenybopper" Lauper Cyndi "Time After Time" Lauper
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Skateboards Off-Road 1/8 RC cars
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"Central Park" mimes Marcel Marceau
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600+ Freshmen not cheering as loudly as 350 Seniors
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CROBOTS Robotwar
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Electronic "silent" typewriters 50 horsepower electric typewriters
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Super Sprint Pole Position
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LaserWriter Toshiba 24-pin
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"Smart" modems Hayes
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"What's Hot and What's Not" "Real Pirates..."
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Yuppies Yuppie jokes
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Punkers Punker jokes
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9th Amendment 1st Amendment
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Ultima XVII Core Wars
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Bud Light Michelob
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Transformers Thundercats
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Steve Wright Marvin ('Hitchhiker's Guide')
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Dave Letterman Benny Hill
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Joan Collins Johnny Carson
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W "94 minute music sweep" KLQ W "24 hour music sweep" IDR
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James A. Michener Robert Heinlein
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Stephen King Alfred Hitchcock
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ADA Forth
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3 1/2 5 1/4
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Slow IBM (4 MHz) spreadsheets Fast Apple II (1 MHz) spreadsheets
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MS-D0S 19.4, Revision XJ-9 Pronto-DOS
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Locksmith 6.0 Pirate's Friend
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Amiga "4096 colors!" graphics Tektronix "65536 colors" graphics
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$80 Macintosh terminal software Red Ryder
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BBS-PC Fido
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In case you still don't understand...something "hot" is a decent little
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hack that performs extremely well under current conditions, but (being
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tailored for today) will likely be of little relevance when the industry
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marches on. Something "classic" is a decent little hack that maybe doesn't
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perform quite so well now, but (being basically well-made) performed just as
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well yesterday and will continue to perform just as well tomorrow--when the
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"hot" items have faded.
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------Q: What was the name of James Bond's custom Saab 99 Turbo?
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---------A: The Silver Ghost. EOF!
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