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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Jun 2001.
Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer

Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer

In article<3b2...@news.ntlworld.com>, Stuart Moore
<stu...@bigfoot.com> writes:
>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:09:49 GMT, stu...@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) enlightened
>us with:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:14:25 +0200, Marion Koslowski <M...@Kasperhausen.de>
>> enlightened us with:
>> 
>> > Markus Gebhard - Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:32:06 +0200
>> > 
>> > >The idea for this project came from Andreas Freise. He wanted to show
>> > >others how Ascii artist draw Ascii art images. The first movie showing
>> > >the creation of "tshilp" is online now and can be viewed at: 
>> > >
>> > >  http://www.jave.de/player/demo1.html
>> > >
>> > >Have a look at it - it is fascinating.
>> > 
>> > You are right! This is great!
>> > (Is there an english sentence like "Shooting with canons on sparrows"? I
>> > thought it's a german phrase...)
>> 
>> Closest I can think of is "Kill two birds with one stone" but I guess they 
>have
>> different meanings
>
>Or possibly, if the original phrase means to use something far more powerful
>than you need for the task you're doing, "to crack a nut with a sledgehammer"

 "Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut", as it's usually put.




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From: Dave Bird <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: New Ascii Movies + open source viewer
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:53:26 +0100
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