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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Mar 1999.
Re: Colin Douthwaite Ascii Art Collection [HUGE]

Re: Colin Douthwaite Ascii Art Collection [HUGE]


ekv...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Here's what I found when searching for Colins art...mostly diddles
> and stuff, but it shows the great humour this man had.
> There are more posts from on my site, Wicked Ascii Art, but it's mostly
> collections of other peoples art.
>
> His memory will truly live on online.
> (Hope you see this Colin, whereever you are...)

<art & memories gently snipped>

This is excellent!  If memory serves me correctly, he sent me this cow once
during a split debate in 1996:

==
From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Bull request.
Date: 19 Jul 1996 19:09:31 GMT

    /                       \
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    \XXXX    /     \    XXXXX/                \\\
         |   0     0   |                         \
          |           |                           \
           \         /                            |______//
            \       /                             |
             | O_O | \                            |
              \ _ /   \________________           |
                         | |  | |      \         /
   No Bullshit,          / |  / |       \______/
    Please...            \ |  \ |        \ |  \ |
                       __| |__| |      __| |__| |
                       |___||___|      |___||_

Dolores (thinking there aren't enough folks like Colin in Cyberspace)

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