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Message no. 1
From: Logan Graves <logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET>
Subject: (OT) Bandit's sig. Was: Re: SR3 HB at GC
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:52:08 -0400
In our last episode, El Bandit wrote:
<Snip some very good points, otherwise wholly overshadowed by: >

> Reason #173 to fear technology:
>
> () () () () () <() <()> ()> ()
> .I. \|. \|/ // X \ | <| <|>
> /\ >\ /< >\ /< >\ /< >\
/<
>
> The ASCII Macarena

That's just wrong, man.

You're sick, Bandit. You need help.

--Fenris, resisting the urge to retch

_______________________________________________logan1@*****.intercom.net
(>) Is it in the "mysterious employer credo" that
these little rendezvous always have to be in exotic
locales? I mean, just *once* wouldn't you like to
sit down at a Denny's and plan an assassination over
a 'French Slam' breakfast?
(>) Deadpool, merc-with-a-mouth
Message no. 2
From: Chris Schilling <chrisjohn@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: (OT) Bandit's sig. Was: Re: SR3 HB at GC
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 23:00:45 -0400
----------
> > () () () () () <() <()> ()>
()
> > .I. \|. \|/ // X \ | <|
<|>
> > /\ >\ /< >\ /< >\ /< >\
/<
> >
> > The ASCII Macarena

*nod* This is definitely why ASCII people should be drug out into
AOL's chatrooms and locked there a year or 3.



Chris
Message no. 3
From: "M. Sean Martinez" <ElBandit@***.COM>
Subject: Re: (OT) Bandit's sig. Was: Re: SR3 HB at GC
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:47:08 EDT
In a message dated 7/17/98 10:58:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET writes:

> > The ASCII Macarena
>
> That's just wrong, man.
>
> You're sick, Bandit. You need help.

Hey, I gotta be me :)

-El Bandit

http://members.aol.com/elbandit/index.html

Reason #173 to fear technology:

() () () () () <() <()> ()> ()
.I. \|. \|/ // X \ | <| <|>
/\ >\ /< >\ /< >\ /< >\
/<

The ASCII Macarena
Message no. 4
From: "Leszek Karlik, aka Mike" <trrkt@*****.ONET.PL>
Subject: Re: (OT) Bandit's sig. Was: Re: SR3 HB at GC
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 01:52:03 GMT
On 18 Jul 98 04:47:08 GMT, ElBandit@***.COM (M. Sean Martinez) disseminated foul
capitalist propaganda by writing:

[...]
>Hey, I gotta be me :)

>Reason #173 to fear technology:
>
> () () () () () <() <()> ()> ()
> .I. \|. \|/ // X \ | <| <|>
> /\ >\ /< >\ /< >\ /< >\
/<
>
>The ASCII Macarena

This ASCII Macarena doesn't work really well when viewed with a proportional
font (like, say, Courier). And this is the only True and Right Way of viewing
ASCII art, so... you'd better fix it. ;))

Leslie
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Message no. 5
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: (OT) Bandit's sig. Was: Re: SR3 HB at GC
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:22:11 +0100
And verily, did Leszek Karlik, aka Mike hastily scribble thusly...
|This ASCII Macarena doesn't work really well when viewed with a proportional
|font (like, say, Courier). And this is the only True and Right Way of viewing
|ASCII art, so... you'd better fix it. ;))

I think you mean NON-proportional (i.e. FIXED) fonts like courier.
I was wondering why it looked so crap....

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Message no. 6
From: "M. Sean Martinez" <ElBandit@***.COM>
Subject: Re: (OT) Bandit's sig. Was: Re: SR3 HB at GC
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:34:47 EDT
In a message dated 7/20/98 9:22:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK writes:

> I think you mean NON-proportional (i.e. FIXED) fonts like courier.
> I was wondering why it looked so crap....

I know, I gotta fix that and just have not got around to it yet.

-Bandit

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