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Jul 3, 2003, 8:35pm

Hi everyone:

The following is an account of a true story. Hiccup bags are STRONGLY
advised. :-) |*ROTFLMAO!*

Once upon a time yesterday as I was busy working on my new pub in the Old
Cedar Town District of Hamsterville, I suddenly got a SURPRISE visit from
Syntax. His reason was that he "got lost".

Now KNOWING that the Syntax I *thought* I knew would know hot to get back to
SW City from practically ANYWHERE, I was thinking "Hmm..." and eventually
told me to follow me. The first time around, he heard Comit calling him and
he left. I went back to what I was doing.

TWENTY MINUTES LATES, he comes back but THIS TIME he had a friend with him.
He tells he he "got lost AGAIN" and needed help in getting back to SW City.

After getting MY OWN bearings straight (afterall I *was* working on getting
the TV stations set up in the pub), I *finally* managed to get as far as
Intertown Highway 55 at Retsmah Road East. I told him he'd eventually run
into the Riverside Expressway which will take him to Syntax Road going into
SW City. So I sent him on his way and | went back to the pub.

A few minutes after I got back to the pub, I he telegrammed me asking which
way should he turn. IN MY OWN SELF-ADMITTED STUPIDITY, I said "Hang a
right" thinking that if I was wrong he'd just turn around. I then told him
that he'd be taking the scenic route back. He responded with something to
the effect that he thinks he's lost AGAIN. I thought to myself THREE
TIMES - IN ONE DAY??? IMPOSSIBLE. So I asked him which direction he was
going. He said NW.

I told him that doersn't sound right and asked to let me join him (I
remembered later on that if you were to hang a right at Intertown Highway 55
& Riverside Expressway, he WOULD be headed back to the place HE WAS TRYING
TO LEAVE). When I joined him, guess where he was...

WAY OVER on the WEST side of town in the EMBASSY PARK DISTRICT.

By THIS time, I was asking myself HOW is it that this guy could get himself
SO LOST that he couldn't even get back to SW City by highway - EVEN IF HE
WAS ON THE RIGHT ONE?? It just seemed like it was a weird dream!!

Anyway, I get him turned around AGAIN (this time we WERE on the Riverside
Expressway) when I get a telegram from BlankaM announcing her return.

Knowing that I had to catch her while she was online so she and I could
discuss the building of her hotel at Hamsterville GZ (she's online like once
in a blue moon), I didn't have time to help poor Syntax find his way back to
the city he calls home, so I took him to where he could find a teleporter.

I took him to the Bus Station on Harborview Avenue.

I even rode my bike right on up to the stop and told him he could POSSIBLY
miss THIS. He didn't. He was back in SW City and I was, after a few
minutes, on my way to Hamsterville GZ where I would meet up with the
virtually lovely BlankaM to discuss her hotel. :-)

I telegrammed him later reminding him that he was ON HIS OWN when it came to
finding his virtual private residence from the SW City Bus Terminal as I
know how to navigate my way around SW City about as well as Syntax quite
obviously knows how to navigate through Hamsterville. :-) *LOL!*

Now mind you, I'm NOT angry that this happened. But I was a *little*
perplexed. I later realized that this would get quite a few laughs once
posted to message boards and newsgroups. :-) So Syntax....Don't say I
didn't warn ya. :-)

Enjoy the laughs everyone :-)

Cheers for now :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 3, 2003, 9:28pm

That's our mayor =P

P.S. - `,' at you mentioning me. I wasn't there.

Jul 3, 2003, 9:34pm

Don't you people have teleports remembered?

Jul 4, 2003, 12:22am

It was my brother on my account. He's new. :-P
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Jul 4, 2003, 4:28am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Uh huh. Yeah right. IF this is true then HOW is it you were still able to
remember the event in our conversation some 24 hours LATER?!?!? :-P :-)

And to answer your question Baro, 1). I don't typically keep the Bus Station
in my TELEPORTS section because I generally don't go anywhere that I can't
get to via road and 2). We were actually CLOSER to the highway which runs
all the way up syntax Road going into SW City via the ocean than we were to
the Bus Station, which is why I pointed him in that direction (BTW
Vornox....Did you FINALLY build a bridge from there and string it across the
ocean so road travel into SW City proper would be possible or is that still
a WIP? Just wondering... :-)). 3). I usually don't encounter "lost"
people on an everyday basis (thank goodness!) :-)

Cheers for now everyone :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 4, 2003, 8:39am

Hamster maybe he was SPYING on your builds


*spluttering* i love all you guys :o))


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Jul 4, 2003, 2:36pm

It just makes me laugh (and appriciate) how 'realistic' you make AlphaWorld
and SW City sound when you refer to it with such implicable and specific
directions.

I wonder though, if yall could give such precise directions of your own RL
home towns ;)

LF

Jul 4, 2003, 3:45pm

That's Hamster for ya. Sometimes I worry that he may be treating AW as a
little *too* real...

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Goober King
A little too real
awnews at awnews.org

Jul 4, 2003, 5:03pm

We all do sometimes...

*looks around at the person who does 'in-depth' reporting on AW*

LF

Jul 4, 2003, 9:10pm

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] Yeah! PLUS....Look who runs UTN. Look who has a town on AWTeen
(AlphaWorld's sister world). Need we go on?? :-)

In short Goober, to some of us, AW resembles what ALL OF US who build there
like to believe is real. It also gives us to "relive" our childhood by
building a town based on the more simpler times of our childhood years. :-)

Someting to think about :-)

PC Hamster
Mayor - City Of Hamsterville
pchamster at comcast.net
Denver, Colorado (my REAL city :-))


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Jul 4, 2003, 9:27pm

Err, what town in AWTeen?

And you're right, Light, we all do *sometimes*. It's when you do it
*all* the time that it becomes worrisome...

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Taking a break from doing nothing
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