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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Jan 2000.
Re: dubious victory (was "Re: We are all Americans! (WAS: Re

Re: dubious victory (was "Re: We are all Americans! (WAS: Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?)")

llizard wrote:
> Ben Norwood wrote:
> > Hypothesis: Jonathon has a morbid fascination with winding people up,
> > taking the mickey out of them, and sparking flamewars.
> 
>   o=(=(=(=(=(=(=)=)=)=)=o
>     !-'-'-'-/_\-'-'-'-!
>     ! !  , /___\`  ! !!
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>     !!  ,|___|___`  !!!
>     !_,| |_______|` `_!
>     !-`| |       | |,-! Bet you didn't think
>     !!!! |       | ! !! I could do that!
>     !!!! |____/__| !!!!
>     !!!!_____,^%---!!!!    ________
>     !!!!_ejm_<__\__!!!!   /     _  \
>     !!!!    / <    !!!!  /   (_| )  \
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>     !!!!     ^^| \-------|   (___)  |
>     !!!!      /    !!!!  \   ---,   /
>                           \____`___/
> 

Of course you could do that! I've seen you do that (and worse) many
times in the chat!  :-P

> All of this nonsense has worn me down. I have decided to take my
> incomprehensible sticks and

"Incomprehensible"? Not at all!

http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/temp/llizard.gif

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>          ,^^%---
>          <\  \ posting any more replies for a while.
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>   ejm    //
> 

I hope you're not talking about not posting to aaa?  :-O

> I blame myself for allowing
> myself to become angry at one poster's insistance at using the name I use in
> private correspondence. (Yes, my name is indeed llizardbreath, but I have
> expressly asked people never to use that name in a public forum. There has
> been only one person that I have contacted who has blatantly refused to honour
> that request.)

His tactics seem to be to blackmail people into not arguing against him
by threatening to hurt people by posting information that was told to
him privately.   :-(

> See? It is true. Whoever yells louder wins.
> 

My experience is that in newsgroups it's "Whoever stays quiet wins".  
8-)

> P.S. To the rest of the Americans in this group, I apologize. Remember that
> one cannot judge all Americans by one or two idiots who happen to have
> American passports.

Of course not!

> I'll return when I have regained my composure and when aaa has a higher
> proportion of ascii-art to ranting text.

:)


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