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From: Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>
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Subject: Re: A gallery of weird s*it.
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On 6/20/12 10:18 AM, Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:53:56 +0100, Daniel wrote:
>
>> Actually, I was having a hard time with it to. The "..." strings got
>> converted to an ellipse ("…"), which is one third the width. I posted
>> into a text editor, did a search and replace, and saw a bird being
>> flipped my way ;-)
>
> Ha, most interesting explanation, thanks!
> Tried your approach and saw nothing like a bird, more like a fist and
> finger (which would be in line with the Enterprise), but not clearly so
> either. Strange indeed.

"Flipping the bird" is a euphemism for giving someone the finger, so 
indeed we saw the same image.