Re: What's figlet?
From Prospero <tca...@NOSPAM.itis.com>
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· 19 Dec 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <67aos6$r1h$1...@usenet11.supernews.com>, "aardvarko" <*REMOVE ME*aar...@geocities.com> wrote: > >An "equation character" [English name?]: = > > Our over-simplified name for it is... [drumroll please] an "equals sign" There may not be a name for it. The word for & is 'ampersand'. The reason being that school children were once taught that the alphabet ended with this character and, when recited the alphabet, ended it with, "And, per se, and". Might be apocryphal, but it makes a good bit of trivia =) > > -- > thank you for reading my message > __ __ o > please remove *remove me* / \/\/ \/ > from my e-mail address \__/\/\__/\o > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /\ . ./\ > | | > /\| /\| |/ /\| | / /\| |/ |/ /\ > \/| \/| | \/| |/ \/| | |\ \/ aka Turret > > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/2672/index.html > > HEY SPAMMER-BOY, SUCK THIS! > tos...@aol.com > tos...@aol.com > tos...@aol.com > tos...@aol.com > web...@juno.com > web...@aol.com -- __________________ / /\ / P_r_o_s_p_e_r_o /::\ /_________________/:::/_________________ __\ \::/ /\ / \_________________\/ tca...@itis.com /::\ / Where does your /______________________/:::/ / fist go when /\ \::/ / you open it? /::\______________________\/ /_________________/:::/ \ \::/ \_________________\/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,33d92cffc2e5b9b0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: tca...@NOSPAM.itis.com (Prospero) Subject: Re: What's figlet? Date: 1997/12/19 Message-ID: <tca...@a9-24.itis.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 308773303 References: <34953eb9-kwalker@WWIV-BBS> <349...@on.spammer> <67aos6$r1h$1...@usenet11.supernews.com> Organization: United GyzmoDynamics Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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