From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:48:04 -0400
Subject: Alarishi sanity, was Re: Name Changes
The NRE Office of Barbarians said:
> "Half the reason we deal with them is the humor value"
Are you thinking of Jack Old Ron, or GeekSoft?
Jack Old Ron is of course the renowned author of the classic children's series
Silly Sheep. It used to be that children at bedtime would go to sleep by
counting sheep jumping over a fence; however, Silly Sheep never quite manage
to make it over the fence. They waterski, they tie themselves to kites, they
pole vault (more difficult than you'd think, with hooves),
they fire themselves from circus cannons--one even disguised himself as
an artichoke and, when last seen, was inching down the hill in an attempt to
take the fence by surprise. The Silly Sheep series has been translated into 38
languages; over three billion copies have downloaded. Jack Old Ron is also
known for his visually stunning trideo epics (To Ride a Painted Dragon; Lance
of Light; The Colour of Her Name), and for the fact that he is the sole
population of an Alarishi sovereignity.
GeekSoft is known to programmers as the producer of GeOS, and to shipping
lines for the SkyNet traffic management system, but most consumers know them
as the producers of the Max Hyrax games. Originally intended as a
children's game, the ridiculous antics of Max and his bumbling gecko sidekick
caught on among adult gamers; even twelve years after the game's debut, Max's
trademark observation ("Crud!") often reduces Hyrax addicts to