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From: Taliszanna <taliszanna@usask.ca>
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Subject: Re: What name should I use? A Pole (fishing or otherwise)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:50:52 -0600
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, drsquare wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:49:31 GMT, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
>  (Michael Vester <mvester@v-wave.com>) wrote:
> 
> >You have earned some respect and appreciation for your cartoon work. You 
> >are humble when receiving praise for your work.  You claim it is easy or it 
> >is not that good. The fact that you do find it easy indicates that you have 
> >a real talent. 
> 
> No, it really is easy. Try it, it is very easy to do simple ascii-art
> drawings, as anyone in alt.ascii-art will testify. And it's even easier to
> come up with a load of crap jokes.

	Oof! "Load" of "crap" jokes... punny!  But not puny!

> However, for the second one I intended to make it someone longer, and more
> of a complete story. Whilst doing this, I completely forgot that Flatfish
> was supposed to be in an aquarium! By the time I'd realised he'd been out
> of water for the whole episode, it was too late to go back. I had to
> completely stretch the story out as well, introducing pointless characters
> like Aaron Kulkis and the people at the airport. Without them padding out
> the story, it would've been much more obvious how weak my material was.

	But it was crazy and silly and left-field -- all of it, unexpected
and the unexpected is often humourous.


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