Back in the 70’s I played a computer game on the teletype terminals that existed at the time. It was a game where you input the angle of the gun and tried to hit the target and each shot would give you feedback regarding where you hit. If you shot at 90 degrees, it would say “You shot straight up, the shot went up. It came straight down. You lose.” Also interesting was that if you shot at <=0 degrees you got the feedback of “What’re you trying to do? Dig a ditch?”
Those meat pies in the UK… so gross. Never understood how folks in the UK could tolerate the lameness of so much of their cooking. Heck, there was a local pizza parlor near where I lived, in Chelsea London, and after the first pizza I schmoozed the manager in to allowing me to make my own pizza’s with their stuff and ovens and when they tried my pizza I ended up trading them my knowledge of how to make pizzas (I had worked in a couple pizza places, for years, as I put myself through college) for free pizza a couple evenings a week. Soon they were making “American style pizzas” both round and deep dish round and their business went from being unbusy to having a line out the door on some of the days I stopped in to make a pie. 3 years later I was back in London with my rugby team and they were still selling “American style pizzas” and the owner still knew who I was. By that point he had managed to open a 2nd location a couple of tube stops away and was hoping to open a 3rd soon. Between that and teaching a school there how to properly play American football, I was quite proud of my time living and working in Britain.
Back in the 70’s I played a computer game on the teletype terminals that existed at the time. It was a game where you input the angle of the gun and tried to hit the target and each shot would give you feedback regarding where you hit. If you shot at 90 degrees, it would say “You shot straight up, the shot went up. It came straight down. You lose.” Also interesting was that if you shot at <=0 degrees you got the feedback of “What’re you trying to do? Dig a ditch?”