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[hirez]

Brown pinstripe suit w/lionels and Dunlops == Cobol programmer.

Ugh. Bad mojo.

(Though for the full effect, you'd want a knitted tie, real-ale beard and a copies of Practicals Caravan, Computing and Electronics in a 70s Sainsbury's carrier.)

Comments

[sarah_mum]

Well I think he's cute. :-p

Sort of S McCoy put through extreme makeover.

[thegreatgonzo]

The big geek question round here is "if Sarah Jane Smith is coming back, is her toy?"

[sarah_mum]

Well RTD did get him into 'Queer as...' so surely any excuse?

[thegreatgonzo]

Yes mistress

[reddragdiva]

Practical Wireless still ran computing articles that far back.

[hirez]

Ye-es, but the brown-suit brigade would be more likely to follow the writings of Dr. A.A. Berk, rather than the morse-powered blue anorak pilotry of PW.

Full disclosure: While I built a UK101 from bits (and still have it somewhere), and have only recently lost my name badge from the Anorak Pilot Corporation (I was head of PR. It was ironic in 1990), the colour brown has always filled me with existential terror.

Pretentious brown-suit merchants would by Elektor or the other mag that did the Powertran kits.

[reddragdiva]

I used to buy Elektor. Never built anything from it successfully, but ...

[hirez]

:p

[hirez]

That's a rotten trick. You've never felt the lure of a sports jacket in a nice tweed?

[oryctolagus]

Now it's funny you should say that 'cos I used to be a Cobol Programmer (no real ale beard of course) and I distinctly thought 'Jeez, I used to work with guys who dressed like that'. Bad mojo indeed!

[quercus]

Don't forget the peculiar interest in molluscs, the OU-watching specs and the amazing polyness (with a COBOL programmer ?) for that full C*l*nc@cix effect.

[hirez]

AAAAA!

[FX: Runs far away]