#000: Shall we continue?

Indeed, let's do just that!

After having lost much of the HMVHumour mailing list
and all the previous jokes as a result of a gradual hard
drive failure, we decided to call this thing quits.

At least, for a while.

The while is over. It's time to start up again.

The HMVHumourList will henceforth continue its intermittently
relentless broadcast of humour, satire, top 10 lists, news of the
weird and bizarre, and anything else that makes us laugh (which,
let me tell you, IS a mean feat).

We get the material. Don't send it to us. Our sources are of no
consequence to you. For heaven's sake, do not send us huge
MPEGs or anything like that, those we pick up and process
elsewhere. All we're going to churn out are readables, with
(small-ish) pictures on rare occasions. The degrees of tastefulness
(or sometimes, the lack thereof) range from the squeaky clean
all the way to... well, you get the idea!

If you feel that you - the recipient - are getting bombarded by
messages whose content does not suit your tastes (or, conversely, 
is too harmless!), let us know, and we'll move you into another 
category.

If you wanna receive nothing from us, that's fine too. Just tell us.
We can handle that. No harm done. Your loss. Whatever.
We don't care... really!

Thanks, folks, shall we kick off then?

HMVH

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Cyberia 5: Blade

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Not unlike its numerical forerunner, “Cyberia 5” was produced in an individually-numbered and strictly limited edition of twenty discs — signifying the end of an established fan base in a brave new world and heralding the beginning of a new challenge in an old world that has lost its own cultural identity by trailing behind the Jones’s — despite some of the broadest information superhighways where charred cadavers lay stranded in the emergency lane.

Blurb: “Yeah! ‘Cyberia 5′ brings with it a new concept, a somewhat radical departure from its predecessors by way of the inclusion of snippets from a certain movie… a theme is born! Although this is a fully-functional prototype of a future concept, we have endeavoured to correlate the added movie snippets with the current selection of music. Blatant copyright infringement this may be, but hell… I should be paid for promoting both the songs and the snippets! Shit, I ain’t gettin’ rich from this…
Gratitude is extended to the usual unnamed DJ for providing the music, and to the missus for painstakingly and perfectly recording the Blade soundtrack while I was out playing DJ elsewhere! Sorry, Babes…
Also thanks to you for your continuous support in the Cyberia concept.”

Originally written November 26th, 2000. First online version posted April 2003. Revised and updated March 2015. See background story here.

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Cyberia Four: Against The Odds

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While digging through old and obsolete technology, the ridding of dated media, leaving behind past passions and hobbies, the reasons and roots of how we came to be where and who we are became apparent. Another time of turmoil began — another period of personal re-invention; the re-definition of borders, responsibilities, and permissives. The sexual messiah had finally been tamed.

The exits had been sealed.

Blurb: “Whew! Six months… six long and bloody arduous months is what it took to produce and eventually release this double album, from initial concept to final completion! It was a real labour of love… blood, sweat and tears – plagued by constant power failures (the substation eventually burnt down), hard drive crashes, memory leaks, corrupted files, scratched discs, a ludicrous workload and personal schedule, the dog chewing up audio cables, car trouble, changing track listings, as well as a restless and tired mind all contributed to the fine result you are now holding!
As usual, gratitude must be extended to the unnamed DJ for supplying most of the music and much of the inspiration, and an apology goes to the missus for putting up with the many hours spent tanning behind her CRT, wearing headphones – and sometimes nothing else.
Enjoy this compilation and keep on raving…”

Originally written November 26th, 2000. First online version posted April 2003. Revised and updated during March 2015. See background story here.

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H-JOKE27.TXT

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Splendid! Hardly one month after H-JOKE26 was unleashed on an unsuspecting public, volume #27 in the series of humour compendiums does pretty much the same thing… Here goes:

And, to top it all off, I need a piss right now. Wait for me, I’ll be back!

<Slash!> <Flush!>

There, I’m back. Bet you didn’t even know I was gone…

This is the last H-JOKE compendium. No more. The end. Stop. Period. Fin.

After more than five years of collecting, assembling and compiling jokes, I’ve decided to call it quits. We sign off with a big bang. H-JOKE27 is unquestionably the largest edition, and possibly one of the best too.

It contains the usual lot: Standard jokes of all natures, satires, strange facts and statistics, the battle of the sexes, Y2k dilemmas, Darwinisms, news of the weird, and South Africa (which is surely in a class of its very own). Add to this some remnants of the HMVH Corporation BBS by way of statistics and some rather interesting log files, you are about to embark on a reading journey that goes to prove that life is often funnier than humour.

Enough waffle – time to sign off: It was great while it lasted. Enjoy!

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H-JOKE26.TXT

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Well, seems that today is another bit of a landmark day (been having quite a few of those as of late): Another compendium of jokes, satires and other humour is complete. Having taken almost 19 months to complete, it is my pleasure to bring you –

Title: H-JOKE26.TXT
File size: 500,656 bytes (unformatted for printing)
Date: 14-05-2000

Why now?
Why so long?
What was the delay?
What has happened since H-JOKE25? Continue reading

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BBS News: SHUTDOWN

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The HMVH Corporation BBS is shut down as of right now!

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BBS News: 850

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This date is of significance to me.

This number is of significance to me.

Disk #850 is the last in my still-increasing collection of image files, except that I am now collecting them for me – not the BBS anymore, and we’re talking about the best of the best of the greatest exclusively. The last significant upload/addition of image files by the SysOp took place just a few hours ago. Do not expect anything more for a while… not to the BBS in its current form, at least. Geez, I’ve done this on a regular basis for so long, it’ll feel really strange to NOT have to go through this routine anymore!

In fact, I wonder if anyone is actually going to read this message.

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BBS News: GROUP 2

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File Group 2 (Hardware Utilities and Information) is no more.

As part of a downscaling and outsourcing operation, Group 2 has been deleted and will, at a personal level, continue to survive on CD-ROM only (under the name of THUD – The Hardware Utilities Disc). Expect other File Groups to follow suit.

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