WELCOME - YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED IN FINDING THE HIDDEN ARTICLE!
...which gives you access to some stuff you might not usually
find in between the confounded article areas of this wholly
remarkable disk magazine by the name of ST NEWS.
Apart from some rather unusual logistical data that we
considered to be quite inappropriate for use within the
confounded article areas meant before, you will also find some
song lyrics (Metallica again, I am afraid) and something that I
considered impossible for at least another couple of months:
Lines concerning the deep shaking sensation us mere mortal humans
refer to as 'love'.
For, YES!, I am in love again in this time the girl in question
also happens to be in love with me - enough to go steady with me,
at the least.
Which, taking everything in consideration, is quite irregular
and which has indeed never ever happened before in spite of what
you may have wanted to read between the lines of various issues
of ST NEWS in the two recent years; I met girls all right, and at
times I even fell in love with them, but something always popped
up somewhere along the line: Suddenly appearing boyfriends,
mainly.
This time, nothing popped up.
Truly nothing.
And therefore I am now the happiest human being alive.
She is called Miranda, has brown hair, brown eyes and an anatomy
that's beyond what I imagined obtainable.
I think this is it. She is just incredibly fuckin' fabulous. I
am in permanent seventh heaven (sometimes even appearing higher),
and I already feel like I've known her for a year.
Which, by the way, I have - she lives on the same students'
floor that I live on and I met her first in August 1988.
We've grown to be pretty close, and when I went to England for
a couple of weeks for this "LateST NEWS Quest", she noticed that
she had truly missed me.
And I?
I missed her like nothing else imaginable. I daresay I even
missed her quite considerably more than my bloody ST and CD
player!
After some initial mishaps in the 'going steady' process,
everything eventually worked out on July 31st - her 21st
birthday.
So now I am in permanent bliss and all I can see, hear, feel,
smell or taste is her body. I have her constantly in my mind like
I have never ever before had a girl in my mind, and every single
word I have typed down during this issue's word processing is
dedicated solely to her (in spite of the fact that the whole
thing, of course, is dedicated to the English).
That's about it for now with regard to love, loveliness and the
embodiment of these two words with such a romantic ring about
them. Now for the song lyrics.
This time, we'd like to present you with the lyrics to the
Metallica song "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (by Hetfield, Ulrich and
Burton).
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On they fight, for the right, yes, but who's to say?
For a hill men would kill Why? They do not know
Stiffened wounds test their pride
Men of five still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
(Sing it fellas)
For whom the bell tolls
Take a look at the sky just before you die
It is the last time he will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of down, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what they will be, blinded eyes to see
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
This song has one of the most complex lyrics of all Metallica
songs, and I am currently trying hard to learn it be heart -
since Metallica will play again in Holland on October 22nd!
Which is great - and Stefan and myself will go there and freak
out completely!
Ooops. I nearly forgot that we also have something to do in this
hidden article: The competition element.
If you QUICKLY send us a postcard (to the correspondence
address) with the word MIRANDA on it, you might win Electronic
Arts' "Zany Golf" original game - just make sure you're the first
we find on the doormat! We might also throw Rainbird's "Weird
Dreams" in it - and maybe even more, for we're in a celebration
mood because of our third birthday and 25th issue!
And:
You have to supply us with a written description of the way in
which you have discovered this hidden article as well: Custom-
written decrunchers DO NOT COUNT (this to discourage specific
smart-ass Norwegians, eh, F-word and Torbjørn?)!!
Yeeaaaacccchhh!!!! (Stefan here!)
VOMIT!!!
During the whole 17 days of the Quest, Richard was nagging me
about Miranda (however nice she is) each time we were not busy.
He told me how lovely she was and how much he missed her and now
he has finally achieved his goal and they are together!
THANK GOD!
No more yearning from him. The above is something that makes my
stomach twist (I am not that much of a romantic) and I will not
tolerate any of it in regular ST NEWS articles, so you won't be
bothered with an endless stream of pseudo-romantic drivel, don't
worry.
By the way, he never mentioned in any of the articles that he
sent her a postcard EVERY FUCKING DAY!!
Every day we had to search for a place to buy postcards, every
day we had to get stamps and every day he had to write and post
the damn thing.
Even when we were in the car of Steve Bak himself, he could not
stop nagging about it and we had to stop especially at a
newsagent to buy one.
BLEH!!!
But I am happy for him because he is radiating with happiness
(which is a grotesque understatement according to Richard) and
that's really nice....
OK. I am back again (Richard, back to stay) for the 'Nasty
Logistical Data' I promised earlier. Well, here they are... (not
that they're much, but they are sufficiently nasty)
492 Total number of farts produced (no shit!)
1600 Approximate number of burps produced
I know it isn't much, but it's the hard truth! By the way, we
also wanted to create a Top 5 of the best and most lovely females
we have seen and that are almost directly connected to the
computer industry (so not the gorgeous one of the Gremlin
Computer Training department - which was no doubt the most
beautiful).
1 Catherine Simon Electronic Arts
2 Ravishing Redhead Finsbury Business Centre
3 Girl in Art Department Ocean
4 Julia Coombs Microprose
5 Judith Hanlon Peter Johnson's girlfriend
The runner-up is the girl who exchanged our last English coin
money back to Dutch paper money on Heathrow Airport- she was
called Stephanie Hazelby and was of rare beauty and spontaneous
indeed.
Disclaimer
The text of the articles is identical to the originals like they appeared
in old ST NEWS issues. Please take into consideration that the author(s)
was (were) a lot younger and less responsible back then. So bad jokes,
bad English, youthful arrogance, insults, bravura, over-crediting and
tastelessness should be taken with at least a grain of salt. Any contact
and/or payment information, as well as deadlines/release dates of any
kind should be regarded as outdated. Due to the fact that these pages are
not actually contained in an Atari executable here, references to scroll
texts, featured demo screens and hidden articles may also be irrelevant.