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[What word do you use for carbonated soft drinks?]

Could anyone from the UK answer this question for me?
Feel free to answer it if you are from elsewhere but I'm particularly interested in UK results...  it's for a Linguistics exercise.

What word do you use for carbonated soft drinks?

Some people say 'soda', 'pop', or 'fizzy drinks'.
What term do you use? Is it something else entirely?

I'm plotting the results on a map of the UK so could you also please say which county or city you are from.
Thanks in advance guys.

Yeh... sorry... don't mind me... every time I play an old Lucasarts game on a different computer I forget about ScummVM... I think last time it was the sound on Sam and Max... and the solution was the same.  Thanks guys.

[EDIT]
Actually I still have a problem.
ScummVM will let me play Maniac Mansion because it runs straight off the Disc, but to play DotT, I have to install it on my computer first, and that's where the problem seems to be.  It won't let me get that far. Can you remember what you did to get it working Trent?

New question -
I want to play DotT on my Vista, but it says 'This system does not support full-screen mode' and won't let me continue.

Is there a way around this, by any chance?

Thanks guys.
It's nice to learn that my processor might just be able to cope with at least some games.
I'll try and get into the habit of finding demos before I buy games... it's the logical thing to do really, and can save good money.

LimpingFish - I haven't posted on teletext for about 8 years, haha.

If the System requirements for a game say 'Pentium III' surely that doesn't mean that ONLY an exact Pentium III processor will run the game.  Short of buying the game and trying my luck, how do I know if the 'Pentium Dual T2370 1.73GHz' processor on my laptop is going to run the game?

Is it a second-hand sanitry towel?

Damn this thread IS useful.

Nobody's given me an answer to my original question yet :-(
Somebody else must remember, surely?

No one human can make 100 games in a year.  Not half decent ones anyway, and not without recycling the material over and over again... in which case it's 100 parts of one game.

There's always the wayback machine : http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html

Thanks Rick... I spent a while on that typing in the kinds of domain names the site would have used, but I'm not getting any results... does anyone else remember what I'm talking about [Re: first post] ?

I have a question I want to ask but I didn't feel it was important enough to warrant it's own thread clogging up gen-gen.  So I thought I'd create this thread for all those niggling questions which pop up from time to time.

You know when you can remember parts of a film or a song but can't for the life of you remember the title?  Things like that.

So if you think about it in the future and have a niggling question which you don't feel deserves it's own thread (often the query is solved within the first few posts, anyway), then remember this thread lingering around waiting for your posers.  You guys are normally pretty good at these kinds of question.

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So anyway.  Here's my question.

Back when the net was young, you would type in some random website names such as "www.ilovepizza.com" or "www.rhubarbandcustard.co.uk" and it would take you so a website who provided free email addresses based on hundreds and hundreds of such domain names...  I'm assuming they bought the domain names first and then dished out the corresponding email addresses for users... for example I could request "stupot@ilovepizza.com"

I can't remember what the actual website was called, I used to just type in random URLs and i'd eventualy find it...  But this was 10 or so years ago and I havent seen this website for ages...

Can anyone else remember the site that I am thinking of and does it still exist?
If not, what happened to the hundreds of URLs they owened?

cheers

Merry Birthday Misj...
Must suck being old. 

This is a pretty cruel prank phone call with a NASTY twist at the end.
It probably shouldn't even be funny but I defy you not to laugh.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sRmAyyvAcZY

Happy Birthday Sylvr 

Yeh, it'll run continuously and anyone can poke their head it and have a go whenever they feel like, such as the MSpaint thread. But obviously you can't enter twice in a row.

Inspired by Apocalyptic's paintover of Ioanis's sprite I thought we should have a game where we start with one image, and then we take it in turns to add or change a detail so that we might eventually end up with something entirely different... a bit like a visual version of Chinese Whispers.

There will be no rules as to what you can do as long as you keep it to ONE detail, however big or small... but the image should still be easily recognisable as a nothing more than a modification of the previous image... so okay, that's acouple of rules, but they're pretty loose.

Who's up for this, and who would be willing to draw the first image?

If we start with something small, like a character sprite, then this can be added to and might eventually turn into a full blown background image.

This is very funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3lw-eNrFk

This is amazing.
You need to plug your earphones in and close your eyes.
It is basically a surround sound haircut and it is incredibly accurate and even quite scary at one point...
I won't say any more, just let you try it out...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

That's pretty cool man.
Here's one for you LRM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT63YT5UQAg

Happy Birthday Mr Matthew.
Here's a Birthday Present...
It's an Animaniac
I LOVE this video.

Tescos is cheaper...
Hilarious prank

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OIIRmIQVXrE