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A CLEAR CASE OF TAUNTY-FACE PRIORITY
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
A CLEAR CASE OF TAUNTY-FACE PRIORITY

                    

                        From Mike Jittlov <jit...@1stnetusa.com>
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                        · 19 May 1999 00:00                                                    · View full thread
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Gharlane of Eddore <gha...@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu> heaves:
> I was just dumping out a bunch of Ancient Crud on one of our
> old removeable disk packs, and noticed something from an
> old "News" archive whizzing by that looked familiar, to wit:
>
> Newsgroups: rec.humor
> From: swo...@nl.oracle.com (Sebastiaan Wouterse TMG Uitzendkracht)
> Subject: Re: Strange but True Names
> Organization: Oracle Europe
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 07:38:04 GMT
> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
> |  \|/ ____ \|/                                           \|/ ____ \|/  |
> |   @~/ oO \~@    Don't reject others,                     @~/ Oo \~@   |
> |  /_( \__/ )_\        if you don't wont to be rejected.  /_( \__/ )_\  |
> |     \_U__/                                                 \__U_/     |
> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
> Therefore, I specifically yield priority on this particular image to 
> Sebastiaan Wouterse, unless he says he got it somewhere else!
> ( If S.W. did his as a reduced-format version of Mike Jittlov's 
> much-vaunted and earlier 42-character version, then we have a
> clear case of direct derivation and prior publication, leaving
> the whole thing firmly on the Wizard's desk! )

Wizard rummages through virtual desk... <rustle-rummage>

> My only real originality appears to have been the 3-D effect added to 
> the "taunty faces" I was thinking I'd invented.   
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>   \|/ __\/ \|/   \|/ _\/_ \|/   \|/ \/__ \|/   \|/\/___ \|/
>    @~/  Oo\~@     @~/ Oo \~@     @~/Oo  \~@     @~Oo   \~@
>   /_(  \__/)_\   /_( \__/ )_\   /_(\__/  )_\   /_\__/   )_\
>      \___U/         \__U_/         \_U__/         \U___/
>                                                    
>                        +             +
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ( merge the two " + " characters for 3-D effect.  (c) GoE, 1997 )

This Wizard affirms:  The 3-Dimensional Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy Smiley Guy is a true Gharlanean invention!

But as for the HHGTTG ASCII figurelle itself...*that* was
born a little earlier...

1992-3 -- 4 of the many faces of Bill the Cat (none by me):

  _ __/|
  \`O.o'
  =(_ _)=   -- by ?
     U

  _ __/|
  \`O.o' 
  =(_X_)=   -- by ?
     U

<------- ____
  &&&    /    \  __ _____,
    `-- |  o   \'  `  &&/
       `|      | o  },-'
         \____( )__/
         ,'    \'   \
 /~~~~~~|.      |   .}~~~\    -- by ?
  ,-----( .     |   .}--.
        | .    /\___/
         `----^,\ \
                \_/


|\'o.O'=(_/|\'o.O'=(_/|\'o.O'=(_/|\'o.O'=(_/|
)=U_ \U/| _)=U_ \U/| _)=U _\U /|_)=U _\U /|_)
./|\'o.O' o./|\'o.O' o./| \'o.O'o./| \'o.O'o.
\'o=(___)= \'o=(___)= \'o =(___)=\'o =(___)=\
=(___)U =O'=(___)U =O'=(___) U=O'=(___) U=O'=
/|\'o.O'=U_/|\'o.O'=U_/|\'o.O'=U_/|\'o.O'=U_/  -- Jorn Barger



Then, on Dec 13, 1993, at the finale of my "Happy Holidays"
flame-rebuttal, I ASCII-grafted Bill to the anon net-Bat:

*%\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*<*>*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/*%$%*\@/%*
*  X   !   X   !   X   !   X   !       !   X   !   X   !   X   !   X  *
*      O       O       O       O       O       O       O       O      *
*                                                                     *
*                    \|/             ,         \|/                    *
*                 _..-'(        _ __/|         )`-.._                 *
*              ./'. '||\\.      \`O.o'       .//||` .`\..             *
*           ./'.|'.|||||\\|..   =(_ _)=    ..|//||||`.`|.`\.          *
*        ./'..|'.||||||||\`````-. ,U. ,-'''''/||( )|||.`|..`\.        *
*      ./'.||'.||||~||||||||||||.V   V.|||||||||||||||||.`||.`\.      *
*     /'|||'.||||(  >|||||||||||||. .||||||||||||||||||^||.`|||`\     *
*    '.|||'.||||||||||||||||||||||   |||||||||||||||||(  )|.`|||.`    *
*   '.||| |||||||||||/'   ``\||`|(   )|'||/''   `\||||<   ||| |||.`   *
*   |/' \./'     `\|/         \||\   /\V/         \|/'    ~`\./ `\|   *
*   V    V         V           V `||\\ `           V         V    V   *
*   `    `         `           '  || \\  _         '         '    '   *
*                                 ((  \\//                            *
*                                  \\  \/                             *
*                                  /_\                                *
*                                  " "                                *
*                                                                     *
****************************************************************jittlov

And added my name, because I made such a nice box around it.

NOTE:  These all looked a LOT better on my Amiga 2000's
  Commodore monitor and its monospaced font.  So stop
  flaming me about why it's all scrambled on your PCs.

I got email.  I got Fame!  I got the ASCII Spirit unchained!!
I couldn't stop, I tell ya!!!  ASCIInspiration ran rampant!!!

Evolution of MJ's version of the HHGTTG Smiley Guy, Dec'93


 \|/ .-----. \|/ 
  0-/  . .  \-O
 /_( \_____/ )_\
    \ \_-\/ /
     \__\`\/
         \_)

 \|/ .-----. \|/ 
  Y-/  . .  \-Y
 /=( \_____/ )=\
    \ \_ -/ /
     \__) \/
        \__)

.+, ____ \|/
 Y-/ .. \-Y
/_( \__/ )=>
   \__U_/


\|/ ____ \|/
 @'/ -- \~@
<_( \__/ )_>
   \__U_/

\|/  ____ \|/
 @~ /    \-@
 \_( \__/ )_>
    \__U_/

\|/ ____ \|/
 @~/ ,. \~@
/_( \__/ )_\
~  \__U_/  ~   --OK, good enough  (first used on "BIG.MONEY.NOW!!")


For the original BIG.MONEY.NOW! (or the one-day-late April 1st
posting...coulda sworn I also posted Xmas93), see Corgi's Wizdex:

http://www.sff.net/people/Corgi/wizdex.htp

Here it's broken up into 5 parts -- as was its original posting,
done when you could insert an invisible control code (^L) that
stopped a posting's scroll, until the reader hit the Space bar.
Doug Scofield also saved the full version:

http://www.mangonet.com/~doog/kruft/big_money.html

The critical excerpts:

Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.religion.kibology,alt.ascii-art
Subject: BIG.MONEY.FAST!  NEW & IMPROVED!!
Date: 2 Apr 1994 10:27:33 GMT
      {and lotsa stuff erased}
______________________________________________ ___._`.*.'_._ _________
    Mike Jittlov - Wizard etc           .   . +  * .o   o.* `.`. +.
  Church of the Creative Spirit        '   *  . ' ' |\^/|  `. * .  *
     & alt.fan.mike-jittlov         (: May All Your  \$/  Good Dreams
  <Yes, it's a real newsgroup!>     and Fine Wishes  /_\  Come True:)
=================================================== _/ \_ ============
 "By the Profit, Sum, and the Wholly Gross -- Hollywood be thy name!"

Copyright 1994 by Mike Jittlov    \|/ ____ \|/    And to think i could
Like THIS really works, uh huh     @~/ ,. \~@      be wasting all this
Special Thanx to Lirpa Loofs!     /_( \__/ )_\      energy on making
<fnord><fnord><fnord><fnord>         \__U_/          another movie!



NOTE:  I actually got an email from a lass in Australia,
  asking why I thanked her.  Didn't have the heart to say
  that her name spelled April Fool backwards.  Then again,
  maybe she was trollin' the wiz  ;-)


And when the first 3-D sig appeared, in 1994:

_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~
!   Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam   ! "Lawn       !
!Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg!   service!" !
!   Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam   !       -Stup !
!Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg!             !
!   Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam   !  atspragg@  !
!Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg   Spragg! ucdavis.edu !
!   Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam      Adam   !   GO AGS!   !
_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~


I crafted one using a winking HHGTTG + "Bob" + reclining femmes
(you need a Lonely Guy imagination to see those) (or mi Amiga 2K):


4242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424
242424242424242424242424FNORD42424242424242424242424242424242424242424242
                 ___               ___               ___                 
                /_ _\             /_ _\             /_ _\                
               |/ ~ \|           |/ ~ \|           |/ ~ \|               
   \|/____\|/  |'-.-`|\|/____\|/ |'-.-`| \|/____\|/|'-.-`|  \|/____\|/   
    M/ .. \J   (|e|e|? M/ o- \J  (|e|e|?  M/ oo \J (|e|e|?   M/ .. \J    
   /( \__/ )\  `._^_,'/( \__/ )\ `._^_,' /( \__/ )\`._^_,'  /( \__/ )\   
   ~ \__U_/ ~   \\=// ~ \__U_/ ~  \\=//  ~ \__U_/ ~ \\=//   ~ \__U_/ ~   
                U/_/              U/_/              U/_/                 
   \&        @/      \&        @/      \&        @/      \&        @/    
  /\S\      /Y/\    /\S\      /Y/\    /\S\      /Y/\    /\S\      /Y/\   
4242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424242424
242424242424242424242424FNORD42424242424242424242424242424242424242424242


But settled on this, with the Spirit of Showbiz lurking behind:


BOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBfNoRdBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOB
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`::::!
!:::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::!
!:::|/ ~ \|`::::|/ ~ \|  `::|/ ~ \|'   `|/ ~ \|::'  |/ ~ \|::::'|/ ~ \|:::!
!:::|'-.-`|  :::|'-.-`|    :|'-.-`|     |'-.-`|:    |'-.-`|:::  |'-.-`|:::!
!:: (|e|e|?   ::(|e|e|? '   (|e|e|? ` ' (|e|e|?   ` (|e|e|?.:   (|e|e|? ::!
!.  `._^_,''   :`._^_,'..'  `._^_,'`...'`._^_,'  `..`._^_,'.   ``._^_,'  .!
!.   \\=//       \\=//       \\=//       \\=//       \\=//       \\=//   .!
:    U/_/        U/_/        U/_/        U/_/        U/_/        U/_/     :
@/      \&~  @/      \&~  @/      \&~  @/      \&~  @/      \&~  @/      \&
Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S
E$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$E
%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%WiZ


Alas, the ASCII Spirit left me sometime in 1996, and flew to
embrace the astoundingly prolific & creative *Joan Grace Stark*

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/

Now and forever the unquestionable ASCII-Master of the Internet!
(...ASCII-Mistress?  ASCII-Mastress?  Help me out here, JGS! ;-)

As for the the HHGTTG Guy -- hey, *I* copied Douglas Adams' book
cover art.  Everything came from somewhere.  "Imitation is the
sincerest form of plagiarism."  And then again, some things are
just part of the Cosmic Gestalt -- id est, the MASS MIND.

Which Gharlane of Eddore certainly is  @;-)

Re that thot and in honor of today's National Premiere of
"Star Wars, The Reverse Engineered Episode Uno", here's
another interesting example of artistic co-creation:

http://www.wizworld.com/stars/wookylooky.jpg

NOTE:  that webpage is still in the HTML stage -- it's where
  I'm selling the poster I drew for "Star Wars" back in 1974,
  -= Yes!  Star Wars memorabilia that PREDATES Star Wars!! =-
  and the astounding yet marginally True Story of why Some
  say I'm Darth Vader's father.  Check www.wizworld.com/stars/
  over the next week, in case I get this behemoth pictorial on
  net before PR mania wanes and the Lucasfilm Ltd Lawyers call.

Oh.  One more humble bandwidth-bustin 3D sig:

___________________________________________________________________________
[] [] [] | [] [] [] [] | [] [] [] [] | [] [] [] [] | [] [] [] [] | [] [] []
===========================================================================
       * :         *   :       *     :     *       :   *         : *       
     .' `:       .' `. :     .' `.   :   .' `.     : .' `.       :' `.     
ike Jittlov Mike.Jittlov Mike Jittlov.Mike Jittlov Mike Jittlov Mike Jittlo
The Wizard`  The Wizard.  The Wizard . The Wizard  .The Wizard  'The Wizard
   * of  . *   *  of   *   *   of  * . *    of *   *     of*   * .    o*   
\^/Speed . |\^/|Speed  |\^/| Speed |\^/|  Speed|\^/|   Spee|\^/| .  Spe|\^/
\V/ and  .  \V/  and   .\V/   and   \V/    and  \V/.    and \V/  .   and\V/
/_\Time! .  /_\ Time!  ./_\  Time!  /_\   Time! /_\.   Time!/_\  .  Time/_\
/ \_     . _/ \_       _/ \_       _/.\_       _/ \_       _/ \_ .     _/ \
===========================================================================
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

_____________________________/-/;'-./' .'--'.-*^^^*'-`:=-.-/'-
 Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc   (: Mmm:@ll Yyur+//"\\Gggd:Dreams  
      mike@wizworld,com       (: May.All Your ~\V/~Good.Dreams
  http://www.wizworld.com     /n/ F/n/ W/s/e/ '/ \\C/m/ T/u/;)
    alt.fan.mike-jittlov      and Fine Wishes//_/\\Come True:!
==============================================//=//===========
*{PLEASE RETURN YOUR EYES TO THEIR NORMAL OPERATING POSITION}*



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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