The other 8-bit computers of the era such as MSX and Amstrad CPC sold well in certain countries but did not attract the early demosceners in great numbers, presumably due to their lesser popularity and a weaker pirate scene.

He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.

Rule 23: “The stress of love makes it hard to eat and sleep.” To these empirical laws we can add the various other insignia of love.

'You ever hear about the glory hole in Bloomfield's Department Sotre in the ladies' dressing room?' asked Ranatti. 'Where the wienie wagger shoved it through at the old babe changing clothes and she stuck a hat pin clear through it and the son of a bitch was pinned right there when the cops arrived.'