Wish Jim was still here...

[Franko]

Hi folks

Way back in the mid 70's, There used to be a BBC program Called 'Jim'll Fix It'.
The program for those of you too young to remember or from other parts of the world, went out early evening every Saturday on the BBC.

It was a program where kid's wrote in to this long white haired middle aged hippy guy called Jim, who always had a big fat cigar in his mouth, asking him to make their wish or dream come true. If Jim read out your letter he did indeed make many a kids (and some adults) dreams come true.

Their wishes were anything from a 5 year old wanting to drive an F1 car round Brands Hatch, to a 12 year old little girl wanting to go sky diving with the Red Devils, and anything else their tiny little hearts desired. Jim always made there dreams come true and we all watched with jealous little eyes at all these other kids getting to do things we all wanted to do.

Now what's this got to do with the Amiga you ask. :confused:

Well I've often thought that if 'Jim'll Fix It' was still around then I could send him the following letter and make my dream come true...

Dear Jim'll Fix It

Could you please fix it for me to have the Amiga back on top of the computing world again where it truly belongs. You see since the idiots and greedy people at Commodore ran the company into the ground and destroyed the very foundation of our beloved Amiga, the computing world has been taken over by the horrible and nasty Mickysoft PeeCee's and the overpriced overrated Crapple Macs.

Now Jim if you could fix it so that all the great people who developed and created the Amiga could have a nice new factory and technical facilities and unlimited funds, then  myself and all the other true little Amigan's still hiding in the dark corners of cyberspace, could all rush out and buy brand new up to date world beating Amiga's with all our saved up pocket money and put the Amiga back where it belongs as King Of All the Computer World.

Please Jim, Can You Fix It For Me

Franko, aged 45 and a bit

What would your Amiga related wish be to Jim... :rolleyes:

Cheers :drink:

Franko

[Franko]

Wow !!! thank you Jim I've always wanted a 'Jim Fixed It For Me' badge to show off to all my mates, erm... mate, well imaginary friend...

At my age I'd rather have a new Amiga and a nice cup of tea though...  

Have to go now... Mummy said it's time for beddy byes...

Nighty, Night and fanks for the badge

[Franko]

I used to say my little prayers at beddy bye time to Mr God,
But Mummy said theirs no point as nasty Mr GRAITS bought him out years ago and he now cleans the toilets at MickeySoft.

[Franko]

and just so that everybody knows what we're talking about (and that we haven't gone mad), here's ex-DJ Sir Jimmy Saville:.

Hang, Hang, Just one minute there matey...  :furious:

Speak for yourself, :rant:

 :banana:Some of us here are quite MAD, I've even got a certificate from my Psychiatrist to prove it :rtfm:  :crazy:

(100% Certified...)

Anyway get back to the subject... :roflmao:

[Franko]

I always thought that Amiga people were a little smarter than the rest. Apparently, not always.

TEMPORARY FAULT

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE LOSS OF SENSE OF HUMOR IN THIS THREAD
OUR ENGINEERS ARE TRYING TO TRACK DOWN THIS FAULT
AND GIVE HIM SOME HAPPY PILLS :roflmao:

WE HOPE THIS HASN'T SPOILED YOUR VIEWING

 :banana:NORMAL SILLYNESS WILL BE RESTORED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE :banana:
...

[Franko]

for gawds sake !!!

Dear Jim

I know that I started out this thread by asking you to perform the miracle of all miracles by getting the Amiga back on top again. :lol:

But... Their seems to be a more urgent thing for you to fix regarding our fellow Amigans across the pond.

It would seem from the last few posts that a great depression has descended upon them in the good old U S of A. They seem downright miserable and are rambling on incoherently about doom & gloom and politics. I think they must have had their sense of humor stolen or most likely bought from them by the nasty Mr Graits at MickeySoft.

I know their attention span isn't that great over there (TV ads every 5 minutes during progs) but in the space of just a few posts they have totally lost the thread and gone off on an whole other tangent about things that the rest of the world doesn't have a clue about !!! :roflmao:

So please, please, pretty please can you fix it for our terminally bewildered friends over there, to have an urgent sense of humor transplant, I would be only too glad to donate some of mine. :biglaugh:

Thank you Jim (although even this is a much taller order, than resurrecting the Amiga..) :roflmao:

From Franko, aged 102 now ( and starting to feel depressed ) :lol:

PS: DONT FORGET ABOUT THE MIGGY

[Franko]

@franko
i guess you don't own any bp stock or you would be feeling punished by our abomination and probably joining in too. I didn't think the economy was much better over there either. I guess the government can take all our money but not your sense of humor .

serious mode enabled :rant:

Matthey, I have switched off my sense of humor for a few seconds to reply to you (not an easy thing for me to do ). While I agree with a lot you are saying here, this is not the place to debate it. I started this thread as a bit of fun and to see if anyone else out their would like to join in and express their wishes,hopes and dreams and passion regarding the AMIGA, and all to be taken with a rather large pinch of salt.

Believe it or not, but I do follow what goes on in this world especially on your side of the pond. But Matthey, dear dear Matthey, please can we leave this thread as it was intended to be, just a bit of fun and get back to the most serious thing in life, which is of course Having A Laugth...

If you wish to start a new thread in the Politics section, then I shall be more than happy to join you there, to debate, chat and exchange points of view on all that is wrong with this world. :swords:

As Willaim Wallace's (A.K.A Braveheart) great, great, great grandson once said...

'They HAVE taken away our country, but they'll never take our sense of humor' :lol:

5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

SERIOUS MODE DISABLED
RETURNING TO HAPPY MODE... :banana:

Cheers :drink:  

Franko

[Franko]

Sorry, not my thing anymore. Try S. Claus, General Delivery, North Pole. ;-)

Boo, Hiss, Traitor... :biglaugh:

[Franko]

I don't know about that character there!

If I ever have a hot-tub malfunction involving "Chernobyl-ly" energy drink and get sent back into the mid 80's, I'll be sure to fix Commodore.

Strange... :huh:

thats just what happened to me... :confused:

But it was the 1880's that I've got stuck in and the computers here are made of wood and run on steam. Although there's a young Mr A. Bell here who has a crazy idea about something called a telyfone (i think thats what he said) and he reckons when he builds it we will all be able to communicate using our computers over pieces of copper wire with each other. (I thing he's a little bit crazy myself ! :crazy: ).

Anyway who need's it, the pieces of string we use here do the same job... :lol:

[Franko]

Dear Jim'll Fix It

You may recall that I wrote to you some time ago asking you to perform a little bit of a miracle, THE RESURRECTION OF THE AMIGA.

Well it looks like you needn't bother, cos after the inane ramblings of our cousins over the pond it looks like that part of the world has given up, on not just the Amiga but life in general.

The rest of the Amiga community (if you can call it that anymore!) doesn't seem to care less , no hopes, dreams or ambitions, no matter how far fetched they might be. :cry:

I guess that they have all been brainwashed and conned into buying PeeCees (puke) and Crapple Macs (boak) and seem to be sadly under the delusion that running an Amiga emulator makes them a true part of the Amiga community. :lol:

The only hope left is, if you could somehow manage to make all these sad, sad brainwashed fools,   :rolleyes: see the light and chuck their Crapple Macs and PeeCees in the bucket where they belong. :biglaugh: Then maybe, just maybe, they could dig out their real Amigas or try and buy some old ones and then we could all join together and prove that the Amiga is really still alive  and that their is still a market out there for the manufacturers to start producing again for our beloved Amiga.

By the way there are Fairy's and Pixies at the bottom of my garden... :roflmao:

Please Jim can you Fix THEM for me. :biglaugh:

Franko aged 45 and a bit (but feeling much older and more disillusioned by the minute !!!)

[Franko]

Hmm... Just had a thought :idea:

If Jim can't help us, what about that nice, charming, quiet Irish fellow, Bob...

That's It. Good old Mr Geldof, I mean the man who organized the biggest ever charity even in history, Live Aid, if anyone can help the Amiga then it surely it must be him.

If he could organize a world wide event for the Amiga, he could call it AMIGA AID, but wait, if it involves our friend across the pond in the good old U S of A, he'd be better calling it BEYOND ALL HOPE AID... :roflmao:

Better start writing,

Dear Bob...

[Franko]

Never give up my friends...

Theirs an old Scottish saying that goes like this...

'If at first you don't succeed, put in ra boot and then ra heid'

[Franko]

Ther aw dunderheids Franko, haverin on aboot nonsense.  The'll ne'er unnerston ye!

Eye yur no kiddin, a richt bunch o didies ra lot o rum. Whit ra f*@k rur haverun oan aboot ah jist dinnae ken. :lol:

I'ts lik bangun yir heid against a brick waw, tryin tae mak rum understaun it's aw jist a wee bit ae a laff... :roflmao:

ah'm jist gled rur acroas ra watur, or ah'd huv tae stick ra heid in sum o ra numpties... :biglaugh:

see you jimmy, stich rat... :lol:

an here's a glesga kiss tae rum awe... :laughing:

[Franko]

So to summarize, in the US, if you are a poor and lazy CEO, you will be rolling in the money.

Hmm.

Hey runequester... My oldest sister lives in Portland Oregon, both her and her husband are old ageing hippies, and they both seem to be totally oblivious to all this doom & gloom over there, all they ever say is Wow man, that's trippin, yeah and Cooool... :roflmao:

[Franko]

WOW !!! :eek:

Things sure get about fast on this interweb net thingy... :confused:

Try & google this and see what happens... :laugh1:

Jim'll fix it amiga

Spooky eh... :nervous: