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From: mathwft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
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"v0rtEx" <ldw1841@nownuri.net> writes:

|> PS)  who is joan stark?

Sigh - that the world should have passed so long into the future that it comes
to this...  aaa folk can ask "who is Joan Stark?" !

My dear sir/madam: Joan Stark is one of a.a-a's greatest ever artists,
she is the "jgs" appearing at the bottom of many classic pix; you will
see her work reappearing often, especially in Tran Nguyen's fart lampoons.

Here is her self-portrait...

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       {{{{{}}}}}}}.        joan stark
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     `""'"':   :'"'"'`
   jgs      `@`


She was also the subject of some devoted fan's great work of tribute here...


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