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As Microsoft are involved you will see a "please register now" message every time you boot up and the machine will sense who is holding the controller and automatically choose which game you want to play. This facility can fortunately be overridden by typing ™$&*oik.dogbone% into any officially licenced peripheral keyboard (extra).
This machine is complete with Microsoft House Invader, consisting of spy camera and microphone, but this can of course be confused by re-wallpapering your room with lifesized pictures of yourself and playing the menu music from Sky.
The ADBCS2 as it is affectionately known, will be shaped like a jelly mould and finished in translucent puke green. It will include a tilt facility and a coin activated Microsoft Ice Dispenser (mandatory since the launch of WALLS 2002).
Pay as you go Internet, Pay on Demand Movies, Pay per view Sports, Pay to Leave the Room and Pay per Pay, will all be included.
The machine will not play DVD movies or music CD's and there is no means of achieving a royalty. To buy games you simply connect to Premium Pay Internet which downloads a PDF file of the box and the manual which you can print out on licenced paper via any official peripheral printer. The manual carries a 19 digit decipher code which is typed in in addition to your credit card number to enable even the largest game to be downloaded via Premium Pay in under three hours.
To apply to buy your ADBCS2 console you will need an Official Order Form. These are promised to be under 36 pages and will put you in the retail queue, to join the official UK queue, to join the worldwide queue.
The machine is expected to be the defacto standard for homework thanks to new NOEXCUSE technology with DOITNOW 2.0 and has already been adopted as the mandatory platform for the next Millenium by all Tesco Schools (public sector). Private schools are said to be holding out for a more lucrative deal.
Good grief, Penfold!
Sorry I won't say that any more
STILL NO EYED DEER (as above with no legs)
Tony, I don't suppose you'd know if Ali got my fax?
Word is a dirty word on my Mac. So is Excel!
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Well - if I had a beard I would shave it off for charity - as Ali is such a great bloke 'an all