Re: Settling the stein argument -- hopefully

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I find it very difficult to believe that in the 150
years that typewriters have been around, that
noone managed to put the following characters
together:   " for eyes,  ( for back of head,
> for a beak;  ( ) for a body, ^^ for feet,
> > for wings, and a , for tail 
in order to make an ASCII  bird.

Pete's characters are so rudimentary.
I compare it to the classic ASCII stick figure.
Who "invented" them?--  can you prove it??
ASCII pictures that small and that simple to make
have been invented and reinvented by many
people over the course of time.  And of course,
each person created them independently from
one another. There easily could be a long-forgotten
 'birdstein' in someone's attic or in a collection of typed
papers...  So who is right??

I wonder whether any small ASCII- ie 4 lines
and down, should have any initials credited to
them.  Sometimes I don't sign my small pics for
the exact reason...

As for the "Steins"-- the name itself has been
around for many years. (and being from German 
heritage, I always associated Stein as a Jewish  name) 
 but I've haven't heard of any cartoon characters 
named 'Stein".   I believe in the past on a-a-a,,
there have been some stein  joke situations which were
not original (the lawyer jokes) but those were
identified as such (I think.).  But the majority
has been original, albeit not very funny (IMHO).

-joan
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