Post by francisca on Aug 15, 2005 9:42:36 GMT -5
For those of you who avoid ENW, I thought I'd pass this post along, made by EGG, speaking about Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, the founders of Games Workshop (not Steve Jackson of Gurps fame):
As a matter of fact I met Ian and Steve in the UK back in the 1970s, personally selected them as the exclusive distributors for the TSR game line thereafter. Those two worthies stayed with me in my home in the early 1980s, and I still get Christmas cards from Ian. (I have lost track of Steve, sadly.)
When at my place they both helped me clear poison oak from the trees around the house. I didn't realize that I was virtually immune to the irritant sap, but bith of the poor chaps got back to England and suffered the itchy red bumps in profusion, and gave me what for BTW, John Edwards of Jedko in Australia was there too, and he could mimic my American and Ian's and Steve's British accents and made jest of the lot of us.
As an historical aside that has never been mentioned before, I wanted TSR to merge with GW, that enterprise getting a quarter interest in the new enterprise formed from merging the two companies, but Ian and Steve were charry of the Blumes. I couldn't come right out and say that I would surely vote with them against my erstwhile partners, so there went that.
Cheers,
Gary
As a matter of fact I met Ian and Steve in the UK back in the 1970s, personally selected them as the exclusive distributors for the TSR game line thereafter. Those two worthies stayed with me in my home in the early 1980s, and I still get Christmas cards from Ian. (I have lost track of Steve, sadly.)
When at my place they both helped me clear poison oak from the trees around the house. I didn't realize that I was virtually immune to the irritant sap, but bith of the poor chaps got back to England and suffered the itchy red bumps in profusion, and gave me what for BTW, John Edwards of Jedko in Australia was there too, and he could mimic my American and Ian's and Steve's British accents and made jest of the lot of us.
As an historical aside that has never been mentioned before, I wanted TSR to merge with GW, that enterprise getting a quarter interest in the new enterprise formed from merging the two companies, but Ian and Steve were charry of the Blumes. I couldn't come right out and say that I would surely vote with them against my erstwhile partners, so there went that.
Cheers,
Gary