X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1324188505ac49cc X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-28 16:17:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.multikabel.nl!news.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!not-for-mail From: Leon Planken Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 374 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: ADoMaholics Anonymous Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <3ead3aed$1@dnews0.news.legend.net.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: vulcanus.its.tudelft.nl X-Trace: news.tudelft.nl 1051571863 14383 130.161.36.97 (28 Apr 2003 23:17:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.tudelft.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:17:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:22928 I failed miserably to keep a straight face when I read that on Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:30:46 +0000, Carl W. wrote: > It took me a while to make out the gap between NB and HH in the > original, so I got the urge to diddle it... > >> Give me o Throw me the >> the whip! \ ___ , idol! >> `OO `._(..() >> __________________ j//- _ _ -||. _______________________ >> bb /| ______ |\ /| >> jg/crw / : : \ If you know the reference, I think it's much easier to make out that it's a gap. Anyway, the gap was drawn much more true to the film in the original than in your diddle. But I do like your choice of the 'j' for the idol, though I'm not sure why exactly. Leon (aka Oliphaunt) -- I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much, of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)