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I just flicked on the tv and up popped a documentary on BBC2 about direct mail. And guess what I’m faced with? Yes! Vertically scrolling green text! Except, and this is the really clever bit, they’ve used the roman alphabet instead of the Japanese Katakana alphabet and, wait for it? it scrolls up instead of down! Wow!! That was a real leap of imagination boys!
There’s a time and a place for vertically scrolling green text, and it’s not in the middle of tediously dull documentary about spam.
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