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Alien Eggman wrote:
> I visit a message board to look up cheats & what not fer several of my
> games, I recently actually started surfing the site & posting &
> whatnot...I have got the list of banned words I'll not post it here,
> as most of it does not fit in this new group. But I will share this
> single piece of ascii that DID make the grade.
> 
> "26. &#8249;^&#8250;                          (ASCII Middle Finger)"
> 
> heh, I thought it was kinda funny, so I'm sharing it with you.
> 
> -Zotiel
> 
> look more like the middle finger IMO -->   m!n,    <n!m

�^�

those may look like gt and lt characters, but they are not simple ASCII 
charaters otherwise:

<^>

would use the greater than and less than chatacters

I like this better though:

\v^vv