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OK, we've been putting up a couple  of  nominations for Sad Case ourselves, but
if you have a nomination,  then  send   it  and  some "evidence" ie text files,
scrolltext, programs or whatever, to us.
    Now about the winner of this year. I think the readers should decide who it
is, so let me suggest that in  the  last  issue  of  this year, we list all the
nominations, and ask people to vote for  their choice on a single transferrable
vote (ie preferential vote), and the winner of the award should be announced in
the first issue of '94! Fair enough?

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OK, you've seen one nomination already, so time for......


     SAD CASE '93 - NOMINATION NUMBER 2 - APPEARING IN PURE BOLLOCKS #22


This is a  really  obvious  one!  For  PB  #22  we  present  the nomination for
RUTHLESS/EXTREME as Sad Case of the Year '93

    NOMINATION 2 :      RUTHLESS/EXTREME/JAMES.
    NOMINATED    :      EGB'S SMELLY SOX
    SECONDED     :      FLOWERMAN


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OK, we've  decided to  show  you  a  couple  of  articles  he  did when he  was
Ruthless of Awesome. He did them for Toxic disk mag issue 2:

<<  HI YA' LL, THIS IS RUTHLESS OF AWESOME AND I AM GOING TO TALK SOME BULLSHIT
    TO HELP MY GOOD FRIEND, ZINE OF T.S.B, TO FILL UP THIS EPISODE OF THE TOXIC
    DISK MAGAZINE.

    WELL, WE AT  AWESOME AT CURRENTLY  PLANNING  A  MEGA-DEMO OF OUR OWN AND IF
    ANY GROUPS OR SINGLE  CODERS WOULD LIKE  TO  DO  A SCREEN THEN WRITE TO THE
    ADDRESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS DOC.    >>

I wonder whatever happened to the megademo!

<<  WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR HOT SUPPLIERS OF DEMOS, COMPILES, MENUS, ORIGINALS,
    MUSIC OR ANYTHING ELSE, SO IF YOU WANT  TO CONTACT US THEN READ THE BOTTOM.
    I AM REALLY PLEASED AT THE WAY THAT  AWESOME  HAVE TAKEN OFF, WE SEEM TO BE
    DOING BIG BUISNESS NOT JUST IN THE U.K  BUT ALSO IN EUROPE AND ALL OVER THE
    REST OF THE WORLD!        >>

Hmmmm! Awesome have taken off, but they're still looking for "hot" suppliers of
originals, compils, menus, etc.....!  Does  this  mean  they've taken off using
unoriginal ripped stuff!!

<<  WHAT HAPPENED WAS I USED TO BE IN  A  CREW CALLED THE DREAM WEAVERS AND ONE
    DAY I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WOULDN'T IT  BE  NICE  TO HAVE MY OWN CREW WHICH I
    COULD START FOR MYSELF AND MAKE BIG.       >>

Mmmmmm..... His "own" crew. Doesn't that  tell  us anything? Like he's doing it
to boost his ego?

<<  HOW TO MAKE A SUCCESFUL MENU CREW
    =================================

    WELL YOU NEED THE FOLLOWING THINGS:-    >>

OK then, let's see how Ruthless measures up to his own words:

<<  1.) A GOOD CODER!                           >>

Have we seen Ruthless code anything yet?

<<  2.) A MODEM MAN IN THE GROUP!               >>

Well you certainly had one in Awesone and  Quartex ST, judging by the amount of
cracks you've ripped off!

<<  3.) A FAST SUPPLIER OF ALL SOFTWARE!        >>

Ruthless certainly knows a lot about this! After Awesome and Hotline, he was an
originals supplier for the REPLICANTS!!!! It was  basically his job to send all
of the latest titles ONLY to them- so he sent them to every group he knew!

<<  4.) A G.F.X PERSON!                         >>

Bit of an irony there- seeing as you ripped a 3D demo with a text displayer off
the original source code! And what  you  put  in the text displayer wasn't very
nice either!

<<  5.) YOU MUST BE NICE TO ALL  PEOPLE  ON  SCROLLERS, EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE BAD
    ABOUT YOU!                                  >>

Ha ha! This was obviously before he  violently slagged off Genesis for doing an
animated pic of him sheep-shagging! And  before  he did the "Derek MD Telephone
Demo"- which was meant to make Derek  MD  look  a bit stupid! And what was that
you put on your 3D demo/menu?  Something  about  a  couple of well known groups
being informers for FAST & APP?!?!?

<<  6.) YOU MUST DEAL WITH LOTS & LOTS OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING LAMERS!    >>

Well, you certainly know about that!!!!


The other article is a sort of "Awesome news" column:

<<  Ok I will start with the group  status.   This week I have kicked Zelda out
    of the group and Techno has informed  me  that  he will leave us in the new
    year.  More members of Awesome will be kicked  out very soon and just to be
    fair to these people I will  say  who  they  are... Onixus , please do some
    constructive work instead of  destructive  work  on  Raton and please start
    doing more distribution... Editman, please  upload the menus correctly with
    out leaving bad tracks in the middle  of an m.s.a. file... Phoenix, are you
    dea?  Come on do some more work... Jolly Roger, what happened?  All of this
    stuff you were going to do  and  nothing  has  turned  up!  At this point I
    would like to welcome our new member to  the  group who goes by the name of
    Dominion.  He is a fantastic coder and a  top class cracker/filer etc.  >>

You can hear the whips cracking,  can't  you?  He's  not very nice to the other
people in his group, is he?  Especially  slagging  off Jolly Roger and Editman,
who have probably done more than Ruthless  will  ever  do! I bet you don't know
what happened to Dominion.

<<  If I do decide to kick the 4 lazy  members of the group out then there will
    be 6 members left and so I will be  looking for maybe 2 new members.  So if
    you can crack, file, code, do  good  gfx,  do good music, supply originals,
    offer me a hard drive or anything else  that  we might find useful then can
    you please write to the address at the bottom of the file.         >>

Sigh.... You can dream on! I  notice  he's again putting this desperate "please
write to me" tone in again!  I  mean,  what  with Jolly Roger, Editman, and The
Bald Eagle in his group,  you'd  think  everybody  would  WANT to be contacts!!
Perhaps there's a good reason for this lack of contacts!

<<  We are currently on menu 15  and  still  seem  to be getting a nice welcome
    not  just in Britain and the rest of  Europe but in the whole of the world!
    We did manage to kill off old Automation by recruiting The Bald Eagle too.
                        >>

What? And you're proud of  that,  are  you??  You  actually wanted RUTHLESS and
AWESOME to be known as the group  that  killed off Automation, the best ever CD
crew on the ST!
     <<I mean there are one or  two  small  time  crews who think that they can
match us but no real the group, but we still have no real competition. Now that
there is no more Automation, Medway  Boys,  The Pompey Pirates quitting on 100,
B.B.C doing demos there are not a great deal of British crews left. >>

You must have been  pig-sick  when  Cynix,  De-Bug,  Pure Energy (including ex-
Ruthless Frosty) just HAD to come along  and spoil the show! And really annoyed
when the Pompey Pirates didn't die!

<<  Below is a quick top ten of who I  think are the top ten menu crews around,
    I have not included Awesome because I should not be fair!

    1.  Superior
    2.  Pompey Pirates
    3.  The Syndicate
    3.  Fuzion
    5.  Impact
    6.  Orion
    7.  Mad Vision (Factory)
    8.  Now 5
    9.  Clockwork Orange
    10. The Evil Force

    Well do you agree with my top ten?  No, you think you should put Awesome in
    third place and move everyone else down a slot!  I agree totally...    >>

Hold on, that's not fair!

<<  If you would  like  to  contact  me  then  please  write  to  the following
    address:-

    RUTHLESS OF AWESOME
    20 CAMBRIDGE DRIVE
    LITTLE LEVER
    BOLTON BL3 1XG
    ENGLAND
    GREAT BRITAIN.

    Please do not delay and write today!!!        >>

Oh no, not the pleading again!!!! Er..... Hang on a mo! What does it say at the
end of the other article?

<<  CONTACT US
    ==========

    YOU CAN WRITE TO A FIREND  OF  THE  GROUP WHO WILL PASS ALL CORRESSPONDANCE
    ONTO ME, SO WRITE TO:-

    JIM,
    254 CYNCOED ROAD
    CYNCOED
    SOUTH GLAMORGAN
    CARDIFF CF2 6RT
    WALES
    GREAT BRITAIN

    WHOEVER YOU ARE PLEASE WRITE TO US, BECAUSE WE LOVE CONTACTS....>>

....er yes, that's quite enough, but look at this!!! 2 different addresses! And
given that we know Ruthless' first name is James..... Wellllll......!

<<  GOODBYE from

    R U T H L E S S  O F  A W E S O M E ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    P.S  PLEASE WRITE TO ME!!!     >>


Wanna write back to us, Ruthless???


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