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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 389
From: ABCGi <abcgi@codemonkey.com.au>
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"Lupino" <_lupin85_REMOVE@libero.it> wrote in
news:pan.2003.06.03.16.14.47.404498@libero.it: 

> ABCGi wrote:
> 
>> Surely some person can write a program to convert our text into
>> blocks so that it fits perfectly. Then the Nintendo kids can do it
>> too. The program would replace words using a Thesaurus in varying
>> ways to try and make the text fit. This in itself would lead to
>> hilarious words cropping up which, I think you'd agree, would add to
>> the sadly wanting dictum and vocabulary displayed on many USENET
>> pages. It might end up in a loop replacing words such would not with
>> wouldn't and can't with can not who knows? Who cares? 
> 
> Maybe I can try doing this fancy text box thing, but I'm not
> sure that I will do it, because I don't know lots of english
> words and I'm not patient. Ehi, if you want to do a nice box
> you must have lots of things to say! So I'm going to write a
> long series of words that maybe have no sense, but they will
> be nice to see. Maybe. Until now, I had to change four words
> in order to achieve this box, but I might need to change two
> or three times other words. I'm saying nothing. I should try
> to say something interesting, but it's funny looking at this
> long post that says nothing. I should go back to my studies,
> because I'll have an exam this month. I love my studies. Bye
 
That was great but I wonder if
cant get stuff too b alignd in
down and upity dir e ctions so
that itt looks soo v pretty.

Clearly that  was       awful.
See     also  something now
that    reads on        some
way     as    the       crap
reads   both  up        then
across. .     ?         .
.

Oh I found something I really suck at.

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