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From: boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Re: LINE (from GIF) - Flat Wo
Date: 12 May 1994 01:32:43 -0500
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   Frist, matt.fetterley@granite.mn.org (Matt Fetterley) quoted this sig:

     _mm_   _am,   _am,   _g_ag,  _am,   _am,  _g_ag,  _am,   .g,   g,   g,
    qK. " ,gF  @._gF  @  ^ NX  #_gF ,@ ,gF  @,^ NX  #vgF  @_-d8#   g#   g@
     *b,  8Y     8Y   d   dY    8Ew*"  8Y      dY    8Y   d  j#  _j#  _d#
   ,  dN.jK   , jK  ,Z" ,jF    jK   , jK   ,  jF    jK  ,N  jN _*jN _*jN",'
   *h,W"  NbpP   NbpY"V^dF      NbpP   NbpP  dF      NbpP   V#^  V#^  *V^

   And then wrote:

>How did you do this???  Can you do one for me?  My "Handle" is "Shadow"

   I happened to have a 'Shadow' in my files.  It's not the same, but 
maybe you'll like it better.  Here it is:

 /SSSSSSSS   /HH   /HH   /AAAAAAAA   /DDDDDD     /OOOOOOOO   /WW     /WW
/ SS__  SS  / HH  / HH  / AA__  AA  / DD__  DD  / OO__  OO  / WW    / WW
| SS  |__/  | HH  | HH  | AA  | AA  | DD  \ DD  | OO  | OO  | WW    | WW
| SSSSSSSS  | HHHHHHHH  | AAAAAAAA  | DD  | DD  | OO  | OO  | WW /WW| WW
|_____  SS  | HH__  HH  | AA__  AA  | DD  | DD  | OO  | OO  | WW/ WW| WW
 /SS  | SS  | HH  | HH  | AA  | AA  | DD  | DD  | OO  | OO  | WW| WW| WW
/ SSSSSSSS  | HH  | HH  | AA  | AA  | DDDDDD/   | OOOOOOOO  | WWWWWWWWWW
|________/  |__/  |__/  |__/  |__/  |______/    |________/  |__________/

   Then Mostly Harmless <chaos@yar.cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>How does he do it?  Very carefully.  Seriously, I can only think of two
>possible ways the famous Scarecrow makes his sigs.  1) He comes up with
>a good idea (or sees a good idea somewhere else and copies it) and proceeds
>to create the graphic by hand (er, by keyboard?)  or 2) He uses a little
>program called figlet which lets you type in words/phrases and spits out
>large versions in one of the many fonts available.

   Yes, I either get an idea or steal one, then I make the 'Scarecrow' 
sig by hand.  I still use Figlet, but not as often as I used to.  I do 
most sigs by hand now.

>(Of course, my personal opinion is the only way anyone can have as many
>sigs as Scarecrow is to put an infinite number of monkeys in front of
>an infinite number of computers and take anything that vaguely looks like
>Scarecrow.  :-)  

   You caught me.  I have a banana plantation and can hire an infinite 
number of monkeys.  They keep producing King Lear and posting pics to the 
Net of Beavis & Butthead.

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