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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Jul 1994.
Re: REQUEST: ascii wrench(spanner)

Re: REQUEST: ascii wrench(spanner)

Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes:

>Richard Kirk (ra...@canon.co.uk) wrote:
>: gre...@bga.com (Dave Fricke) writes:

>: >I need an ascii wrench(spanner to you Brits, Aussies, and Kiwis) to
>: >incorporate into my sig(I'm a mechanic).  It should be horizontal and
>: >not TOO big.  I'm getting flamed too much on my current sig, since it
>: >ain't PC enough.
>: >--
>: >                               ___ ________ ___ ___
>: >The squeaky wheel gets the    / _ `/ __/ -_) -_)_ /
>: >The squawky wail gets the     \_, /_/  \__/\__//__/
>: >The skanky gal gets the      /___/ gre...@bga.com                

>: Awwww! Not PC enough, eh? I can see you need a spanner. A HEAVY one.

>:        /| |\
>: .-wwwww[]w[]
>: `------[]-[]


Yay!!  I love hardware stuff!  It seems so hard to draw, though.  Here's my modification
of rak's "spanner":

               /] [\
 .----------www |w| )
 `-------------_|--'

I would call this a monkey wrench if it were the big, heavy one you use to
twist rusted pipes apart, or an adjustable crescent wrench if it were the 
smaller, all purpose nut-wrench.  Sorry, no spanners in my household!

Misstah Brown

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Date: 25 Jul 1994 08:33:52 GMT
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