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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Jan 2000.
John-athon (Was: Re: We are all Americans!)

John-athon (Was: Re: We are all Americans!)

From Ool <Ulr...@t-online.de> · alt.ascii-art · 11 Jan 2000 00:00 · View full thread · report
Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> wrote...

> Hypothesis: Jonathon has a morbid fascination with winding people up,
> taking the mickey out of them, and sparking flamewars.

> As Veronica said somewhere else in one of these flamewars, probably the
> only way we can shut him up is if we *all* ignore him (and at least try
> to get back on-topic for this group - drawing ascii-art) and wait for
> him to get bored because we're no longer playing his game...

SPOILSPORT!

> Jonathon - a word of advice - if you can't say anything sensible, then
> don't say it at all (trust me, I spent a year on the recieving end of
> numerous flamewars in aber.* back in 1996 before I learned to enguage
> my brain before putting my fingers into gear...)

But that would be contrary to his nature!  Don't you know what "John-
athon" means?  It's a sport/event of digestive durability, in which
he who has produced the most bodily waste in the end wins.

(Hi, J.!)  (-:

Anyone care to produce an ASCII illustration of that concept?


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 / _ / _(  )                You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Sinews."
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