Re: Hand Mafe vs Algorithmic Conversions

T. Max Devlin wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> >Hehe, that was fun!
> 
> Oh, Fuck!!!  That's amazing!
> 
> Very impressive Veronica!

:-)

> We'll have to keep this in archives, I hope you don't mind.  It is
> beautiful, but can't be reduced to a sig.

There's more than one way to "reduce a sig". You can reduce the size,
or you can simply use it less often. Here are a couple of sigs I've
made which were used _all the time_ (OK, those guys are trolls, but...)



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        "Looks like you just found a better class of thug.
        My turn now, spammer and desecrator of Asatru."

                -Dirk Bruere sets the usenet kook highbar in
                 <380...@kbnet.co.uk>
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> --
>        _oo-.=.
>       '^^/_ `-.
>       `""-'`_  `-_.-
>        _o/,-'(('""

I asked somebody who didn't know what that's supposed to be and
his guess was: "a bird sitting on a branch or maybe a squirrel
on a motorcycle".   :-)


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