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From: Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Ye Olde SCARECROW Ascii Art FAQ ( Bob Allison )
Date: 1998/08/25
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In alt.ascii-art.animation Matthew Thomas <mpt26@spamfree.land> wrote:

>Is it just me, or is Colin getting more and more irritable as time goes
>on? Anything seems to annoy him ...

Nope...it's not just you, although you are bad enough with your
nitpicking on my Shafts of Wit and Wisdom <giggle>.  You are
absolutely right that I am very irritable right now due to a fairly
lengthy ongoing period of Pete Casso's HTML propaganda; clueless
newbies continually posting in HTML despite all the warnings,
advice, and help they are given; unsupervised children using the
newsgroup as a kindergarten picture-drawing room and being
encouraged by people here who should know better; Windoze 95 and 98
programs that will not run on my Windoze 3.11; flakey newsfeeds
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

And...look at what has just arrived here in this newsgroup:


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                    � Austin Harkins                  �
                    � Computational Science Student   �
                    �                                 �
                    � Sparkman High School            �
                    � 2697 Carters Gin Road           �
                    � Toney, Alabama 35773            �
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                    � Phone 256-852-5800              �
                    � Fax 256-852-7809                �
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                    � spark02@aspire.cs.uah.edu       �
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Computational Science Student from High School?  Bleah!


You have probably not been a participant in this newsgroup long
enough Matthew to know that these periods of irritation hit everyone
from time to time...it all depends what your particular poisons are.

> Perhaps, Colin, you should go on a holiday to some Pacific Island
> without Internet access for five years or so.

Well I think that one or two other people here should take off there
before I do...and preferably not return. Hah!  :-)

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