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3                               COMMERCIAL BREAK!



2                       "The scene is getting commercial!"

                     Nothing new here, eh? What about this:

2                      "The scene is getting commercials!"

Kinda new, eh?  Not?  Oh, you don't get my point in here.  What's the difference
you ask.  Are you from France?  Anyway...


First we had scrollies.  Mega long scrollies with dozends of adresses to contact
and  zillions  of  greets  to  show  how  known  that  particular was.  Then the
diskmags...   The  first  ones  were  nothing  but  big colour supplements.  Bad
layout,  but  slogans  and  adresses  everywhere  to  adverties - but yet not to
attract.   It  was  informative  but  not the commercials we are use to know.  A
further  example:   Papermags.  Which German scener of some age doesn't remember
the  ASM?   Thousands  of  5,-DM adverts from sceners.  Mostly, people were into
illegal swapping so they had to find out ways to give adresses without any hints
to the police (I won't ever forget the advert in assembler).  Golden days...

But I am loosing my point (again).

The  adverts soon concentrated on diskmags and lateron packmags - bleurk!  - but
got more and more colourful.  In the beginning they looked something like this:

                         I am searching for contacts to
                            swap demos/games/intros.
                                  Contact me:
                         RokDaZone/INFECT (NO NAME!!!!)
                                  Henning Brau
                              Friedr.-Ebert-Str.77
                                26125 Oldenburg
                                   FRGermany


                      Then some slang words had to appear:

                       I am searching for 2hot 3contacts to
                                swap the stuff!
                          Contact the 2fucking coolest:
                         3RokDaZone/INFECT (NO NAME!!!!)
                                  Henning Brau
                              Friedr.-Ebert-Str.77
                                26125 Oldenburg
                                   FRGermany

Then  followed  the  ANSI's  (I  can't  paint  them  so examples here)...  which
nowadays  have  turned out to be an utter pain in ones ass whenever one tries to
depack DMS-files as one has to wait half-a-minute before all those board-adverts
have been displayed if one has forgotten to surpress the output first...

So  much  about  the  usual  stuff.   Some  forewords  to fade over to something
obligatory  very  individual  not entirely special really somehow disturbing but
else  not  so  important  yet  innovative.   It's  time  for  the  scene's first
professional merchandising!

Thanks  to  2FRUIT  OF THE GLOOM (tm)1, 2THE MARVELLOUS(!) LUNATICS BALL 1is able to
present  the  innovation  of  the  year.   Ladies and gentlemen:  Here it is THE
MARVELLOUS(!) LUNATICS BALL-merchandising collection!  Designed by 2KATJA/INFECT1,
scissored out and sewed by infant Indian slaveworkers (wages:  1,- DM per hour),
produced by 2FRUIT OF THE GLOOM - THE LOSERS BRAND.


3"REAL BEAUTY CAN'T BE SCANNED!"
- T-Shirt, black or white, sizes M/L/XL
- TM(!)LB-logo,
- picture 2GARGOYLE/POLKA BROS1,
- Special size: XXXL (for 2GAMEKILLER/INFECT1)
- 40,-DM only!


3"I NEVER WANTED TO BE A CODER - CHRISTINE FORCED ME."
- T-Shirt, yellow or brown, sizes M/L/XL
- TM(!)LB-logo
- picture 2SHAYERA/SPOON
- Special size: XXX (for 2MACNO 1(analphabet))
- 40,-DM only!


3"I AM A NERD."
- T-shirt, plaid, sizes undecided
- TM(!)LB-logo
- picture 2RETEP/Whatwasit?
- Special size: kinda
- 40,-DM only!


3"NOBODY KNOWS ME..."
- Sweater, pink or green, sizes XL/L/M/S
- TM(!)LB-logo
- picture 2ROCKERONIC/OUTLAWS
- Special size: XXS (for 2LONE STARR/SPB1)
- 50,-DM only!


3"GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY!!!"
- Sweater, neurotic-blue, sizes S/M/L/XL
- TM(!)LB-logo
- picture 2ROKDAZONE/INFECT
- Special sizes:  XM (for 2ZEROX/IRIS1)
                 XXM (for 2PLUGSTER/DEFIANCE1)
- 50,-DM only!


Soon  to  come:   Flags,  posters  and used hankies.  Watch out for the next THE
MARVELLOUS(!)  LUNATICS  BALL-collection  from  FRUIT  OF THE GLOOM - THE LOSERS
BRAND.

3                      Eurocheque accepted, cash prefered.