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From: agnew@cae.wisc.edu (Eric Agnew)
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rak@canon.co.uk (Richard Kirk) writes:
>
>I've still got a first edition Felix Lee 'Spam' complete with its
>original jacket.  It must be worth quite a bit, now...
 [all but last line of image deleted]
>=====================================(FL)= 
>image from flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
>
>
>...seing as it's signed by the author :^)

That's odd, mine doesn't have the ()'s in it. I also added a bit of text on the
side, which makes it quite useful to email back to spammers (note the C&S 
reference sneaked in there :> ):

 
==========================================  "Well, there's egg and bacon;
| ,dP""8a "888888b,  d8b    "888b  ,888" |   egg, sausage and bacon; egg
| 88b   "  888  d88 dPY8b    88Y8b,8888  |   and spam; egg, bacon and spam;
| `"Y8888a 888ad8P'dPaaY8b   88 Y88P888  |   egg, bacon, sausage and spam;
| a    Y88 888    dP    Y8b  88  YP 888  |   spam, bacon, sausage and spam;
| `"8ad8P'a888a  a88a;*a888aa88a   a888a |   spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon
|                ;*;;;;*;;;*;;;*,,       |   and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg
|        _,---'':::';*;;;*;;;*;;*d;,     |   and spam; spam, spam, spam,
|     .-'      ::::::::::';*;;*;dII;     |   Canter, spam, Siegel and spam;
|   .' ,<<<,.  :::::::::::::::ffffff`.   |   spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam,
|  / ,<<<<<<<<,::::::::::::::::fffffI,\  |   tomato and spam; spam, spam,
| .,<<<<<<<<<<I;:::::::::::::::ffffKIP", |   spam, spam, spam, spam, spam,
| |<<<<<<<<<<dP;,?>;,::::::::::fffKKIP | |   baked beans, spam, spam, spam,
| ``<<<<<<<dP;;;;;\>>>>>;,::::fffKKIPf ' |   and spam; or lobster thermidor
|  \ `mYMMV?;;;;;;;\>>>>>>>>>,YIIPP"` /  |   aux crevettes with a mornay
|   `. "":;;;;;;;;;i>>>>>>>>>>>>>,  ,'   |   sauce with shallots, garnished
|     `-._``":;;;sP'`"?>>>>>=========.   |   with truffle pate, brandy, and
|           --..._______...|<[Hormel |   |   a fried egg on top 'n spam."
|                          `========='   |
======================================FL==

At first, I thought "Why is that FL there? It looks kinda dumb..." and was
about to replace it w/ =='s, when I realized- "Oh, that must be the signature!"
BTW- does anyone know how to spell [oh-vi-zheez]? It's on the MP sketch, but on
the Final Ripoff version, not the original (i.e. it's not the same in the book,
either...) -it says that after "shallots" at the end... <shrug>
L8er...
                                        -Eric