alt.ascii-art

I was a bit bored so I wrote this...


alt.ascii-art - By Martin Atkins
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In the alt heirachy of usenet
There`s a group and many people use it.
The group is called alt.ascii-art
And us people love it with all our heart.

Many people hang around and some more than most,
while a lot just lurk there are many who post.
Here is a list of just some of the posters,
and what sort of stuff they tend to post most (ers)      <g>

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   {{{{  }}}}}}}}}    First one of all is Joan G Stark,
  }}}}} _   _ {{{{{   Undesputed queen of ascii art.
  }}}}  6   6  {{{{   Her pictures are absolutely brill,
 {{{{{    ^    }}}}}  her whole gallery shows such skill.
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  |  |           `.   | Next up is Veronica Karlsson, the chat room maker,
  |  |.---.   .---.\  | Hopefully I`ll see you in the chat room later!
  | ||><@> ) ( <@><|` | A FreeBSD user who often gets flack
  |  |     / \     || | from Windows users who`s IQs lack.
  |  |    ((_))    |  |
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{|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||} Colin Douthwaite is a bit of all,
{|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||} his posts really say it all.
{|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||} He`s collector, contributor and artist too,
  |               /~~\      |   And unmunging addresses he don`t want to do.
  =                ;) |     |
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J@@P':..    ..:`W@  Matthew Thomas is the FAQ maintainer,
@@@':;;..  ..;;::@) and more than that, he`s a pic creator!
\@!:<#OK>::<4O#>.@  He`s made a lot of stunning pics, on that you can bet,
|.::"??";  `???.:"\ and a wonderful poem about spam on the net.
`._::..:_ee_...::_/
   \:..______,::/
    \::..  ...:/
     `-:____:-'mt-3


Pete Casso is the inventor of the 'stein'
And his characters are absolutely fine!             oo.   oo.   oo.   oo.
Frogstein and Birdstein are the main ones' names   (-  ) (-  ) (-  ) (-  )
and they get up to all sorts of fascinating games.  " "   " "   " "   " "

    ,-.-"".
  ,//(((((\\.  Flump is an artist who specialises in cute,
 ((( (o O) ))) although a few of her pics were very, er, nute!
 _)))  -   |(_ She has a rainbow coloured ascii website,
._//\-._,-/\\_.which if looked at too long might warp your eyesight!
`-'_/`,-.'\-`-'
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      />  \   Then there`s the artist known as ejm,
  ___/ >      Llizard is her actual name,
 (# o) >      She makes tiny art and animations,
  '-~ /|^^    and these things cause revalations!
      | \ ejm

I`m sorry I don`t have time too write about you all,
it`s just a poem, no hard feelings and all?
If you want to write a verse all about you...
feel free, just send me any thing new.
I`ll add it into the poem just here,
And your name will be remembered year after year.
If you think my poem is slightly silly...
I don`t care, I wrote it willy nilly!

So now you know about alt.ascii-art,
which we all love, each one with our heart.
Please look at the art, and do come back...
Oh yeah, and read the FAQing FAQ!

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  Copyright Martin Atkins 1998
    This poem may be freely
 distributed, so long as this
    message remains intact
  Thank`s to Colin Douthwaite
 for his ascii artists gallery -
 without him the pics wouldn`t
      have been possible.
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I hope those that didn`t get a mention won`t take it the wrong way, a lot of
people I tried but couldn`t think of any rhymes!
If you want to write/rewrite and entry, just gimme an email! :o)

|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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