On Tue, 02 Apr 1996 16:29:58 -0500, Gil Graybill
wrote:
>Geoff Spear wrote:
>>
>> In article <4jl78l$nfh@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>, swampwiz@ix.netcom.com
>> wrote:
>> > I agree. Let's get back to the days when the bumpers were only 10
>> > points (OK, I like one extra zero!). To get 100,000 would be a
>>
>> "We used to dream of getting two points for a bumper. When I was a wee
>> lad, to even get to a pinball machine one had to wake up at five in the
>> morning, trudge ten miles each way through the industrial waste from our
>> corregated box outside the sausage factory to the pool hall, battle goons
>> to even get to the pinball machine, and then you wouldn't even get points
>> for hitting a bumper, just electric shocks."
>> - Ted Frank
>You mean you got your electric shocks automatically? Back in the old
>days my little brother had give me the electric shocks when the ball
>hit the bumpers. And my little sister had to turn the turbine to
>generate the electricity. And we had to bring our own plunger!
>
>Gil Graybill
>I have no witty tag line

You think you had it bad. Well when I was young I use to dream of getting those electric shocks. Whenever the ball hit something we had to pretend to get those shocks. For sound effects we didn't have nice bells and stuff, had to shake a paper bag full of broken glass. You actually HAD a plunger?? I had to jam my finger really hard in the empty hole to get the ball up the lane, when there WAS a ball. Sometimes we had to pretend we even had that!! Also we had to keep score on the wall in our own blood. And that was after trudging 40 mile thru 8 feet of snow uphill, both ways, naked. As for battling goons, goons would have been a pleasure. We had to fight off rabid 7 foot aliens from outer space that were dressed in studded leather and had ray guns with only a plastic spork.

Tom
(so poor that we couldn't even afford a last name)