Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca>
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· 10 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <O6w...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>, Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net> wrote: > > Premise Checker wrote in message <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net>... > >And why not go through the whole keyboard? > >! exclamation point > > Also called a "bang". (Especially in typesetting, I think. There is a > character called an "interbang" which is an ! superimposed over a ?, useful > for saying things like WHAT?! <g, but I'm serious>) Also a "not" sign. > > >@ [snip] > ># octothorp [snip] > >% percent sign > >^ caret, roof [snip] > >& ampersand [snip] > >* asterisk > >( left parenthesis > >) right parenthesis [snip] > >\ back slash [snip] > >] right bracket > >; semicolon > >: colon > >' scare quote, apostrophe [snip] > >" quotation mark [snip] > >, comma [snip] > > >>BKNambo I've been looking at this randomly, just skimming and have noticed a number of birds: >@ robin (\ "\ ># (\ "\ >% head tilted (\ "\ >^ some sort of tufted thing (\ "\ >& (\ "\ >* (\ "\ >( cardinal (\ "\ >) (\ "\ >\ (\ "\ >] something bad happened to its head (\ "\ >; (\ "\ >: (\ "\ >' (\ "\ >" too much mascara (\ "\ NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ / www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ _/ | \,^%--- cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca |_____| <_ \ I clearly have llizard aka ejm --- == >/ \ / /\ \ / [_____] __>,^ \^/ /--\ | | | //| | too much time on my hands!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d8ba9ee032dffd44 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols Date: 1998/01/10 Message-ID: <34B...@freent.toronto.on.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 314647355 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> <01bd187e$68352060$LocalHost@atkins> <696gls$p0...@clarknet.clark.net> <O6w...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 5 (or is it 6A?) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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