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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Jun 2000.
Re: Starting at ascii art

Re: Starting at ascii art

On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 20:46:57 GMT "Nick Andros" <fro...@Adelphia.net>
wrote:
>Have you been following me around or something?

Duh =)

>I am seriously 12.  I have hung out with adults quite often, because I don't
>get along with kids.  The good grammar isn't always so.  If you've seen my
>webpage you will see my picture, and that's as much proof as I can give you.
>I have no idea where my birth certificate is, and I wasn't really ready to
>go that far to prove my age.
>
>I can give you as much of an explanation as I can, however.  Who said kids
>don't use grammar?  I like using it.  It's almost a habit!  I spammed
>alt.kids-talk, yes..  I went on about my Kids' Community.  I am a HelpOp on
>chatarea.net along with being an interview, and of course the Kids' CM.  I
>didn't read "The Stand" all through.  I started reading it but when I got
>halfway through when Larry was starting to unfold his beginning, I decided
>to skip around in the book.  I started following Nick Andros and still
>haven't finished the book.  I know most of what I do about it by the movie.
>With HTML, HTML is very simple.  It doesn't take a genious to learn it.  If
>a person can take a foreign language in 7th and 8th grade, why not a
>computer one?  Not that I learned HTML in school (Even though there are
>clubs that teach it.)  I have used a computer since 5th grade, and have grew
>quite fond of them.  I have a rather fast typing speed and am good at art
>and literature but not everything.  I am terrible at math and science.  Not
>to mention getting all of the homework in!  I don't quite understand you
>when you say I make jokes about how browsers/news readers interpret links.
>I usually don't fake anything.  I am 12 and I can't be perfect.  Even if I
>were older I could not be perfect.

But a change from this ^^^^^ to using words like "supposobly" and little
grammar is a bit suspicious.

>I actually spell better than my dad.
>The terms I use are to make me sound professional.  If I am going to be a CM
>for a kids chatroom I have to seem older to them so they won't misbehave and
>not care when I warn them.  Also, I learn a little 'fancy talk' from some of
>my favorite movies, such as "Interview with the Vampire".  (Yes I've seen
>the movie, If you want I'll give you a report on it!)  I'm not 30+, and
>believe me, you're not the first person to think I am older than I really
>am.  Now, I would like to know who you are and how you know so much about
>me.  It seems like you're following me around.  Perhaps you got the
>information from my page but either way, as far as I know I have only lived
>on this planet (as well as any other) for 12 years, plus how ever many more
>months/days it has been since September 4th.

Nono, if I read your page all the way through I'd probably have many
more reasons to think you're not 12. Who's Nick Andros anyway?

>Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote in message
>news:b+I...@4ax.com...
>| On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:37:02 GMT "frog" <fro...@Adelphia.net> wrote:
>| >Hello, I am starting some ascii art and was wondering if anyone out there
>| >wanted to make any suggestions.. I am placing it on a site
>| >http://members.tripod.com/EgyptianVampiress/asciiart.htm but theres not
>much
>| >yet and I'm only 12  yrs. old so don't be too harsh on me.  Suggestions
>and
>| >improvements are welcome, though.
>|
>| You know I don't believe you're 12 at all. You spam groups about your
>| kids' irc network, you use grammar, you read "The Stand", you're
>| supposedly good at HTML, you make jokes about how browsers/news readers
>| interpret links, you actually FAKE bad spelling and grammar occasionally
>| to appear young, you use terms like "federal information restricted from
>| the public", sometimes the way you talk makes you seem like you're 30+
>| (especially when you joke),
>| So what's with this? Do you think you're not good enough to be judged as
>| an adult or are you sick in the head or what?
>| --
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>| ^  ~^~~^~    (_~_/     ~^~~^~     (_~_/           ~~        ICQ:11367619
>| ~      ^~^   ~^~~^~         ~^~   ~^~~^~   email:bateau at jupiterio.net
>

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~    _            ~   . ` '  ,    ^~         ______
^  >(')_, ~~   _           __,      _       '.___  ; *BANG*
~  (_~_/     >(')_,   ` (_~_/     >(')_,       `'\ \
^  ~^~~^~    (_~_/     ~^~~^~     (_~_/           ~~        ICQ:11367619
~      ^~^   ~^~~^~         ~^~   ~^~~^~   email:bateau at jupiterio.net

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