Re: Copyright Notice, blah blah blah

quoted from Colin:
>These threads come around here periodically...you are simply just 
>witnessing the latest outbreak.

You forgot to say that the latest outbreak was caused by Veronicastein and
Spunkystein reacting negatively to the "Text Art Plus" announcement. I
made the announcement for people to enjoy, but Veronicastein and
Spunkystein then began throwing things at me.

THAT poisons the atmosphere.

It would be better if Veronicastein and Spunkystein behave better and
refrain from taking such unsavory alternatives. 

In plain English, if Veronicastein and Spunkystein refrain from throwing
things at me, I will not throw things back at them (there would be nothing
to throw back.) But vice versa, if Veronicastein and Spunkystein begin
throwing those poisonous things at me, I may throw things back at them.

That should be unambiguous, I play with open cards, as I have always done.

quoted from Spunkystein:
> ASCII art was fun when I first started lurking close to 2 years 
> ago...  People enjoyed making the pictures and enjoyed sharing 
> them.  Those who chose not to, didn't.   People on the newsgroup 
> supported one another and built upon other's ideas.... it wasn't 
> considered "stealing"...

I just want to point out that it was Spunkystein herself who coined the
term "stealing" in conjunction with people changing initials on her
artwork. (She is perhaps justified in coining that term.)

I just want to prevent a possible insinuation here (the quote came from a
response from Spunkystein as I opened this thread), that I might have
coined the term "stealing" in the context of ascii art, I did NOT. On the
contrary, I have always encourage people to try their hands on Frogstein
and Birdstein creations.

Or to say things from a different perspective, it was Spunkystein who was
bitching about "stealing" all along (perhaps justified), but I did NOT.

quoted from Colin:
>But...I also remember the Pete Casso bashing which I did not enjoy :-(
>nor did I participate therein or comment until someone called
>for an end to the bashing...and then...I posted this to celebrate
>the end to hostilities...  

You played an ambiguous role in the past ascii war. You indeed posted the
peaceseeking Steinlager cartoon, but before that, you also posted the
belligerent Flamethrower cartoon.

To say it once again, if people (Veronicastein and Spunkystein in
particular) don't start bitching at me, I do my own stuff and there are
enough people who enjoy my stuff.

But if people (Veronicastein and Spunkystein in particular) do start
bitching at me, I may throw things back at them, with or without a cartoon
  :-)

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02                                                    02
03  Frogstein and Birdstein, Languages                03
04  by Pete Casso 970728                              04
05                                                    05
06        Frogstein, what do the French say?          06
07                                                    07
08      /           I rembember! ... in English ...   08
09    _==_         /                                  09
10    ( ">      oo.                                   10
11   (> )>     (-  )                                  11
12    ^^        " "                                   12
13                                                    13
14        Frogstein, what do the Germans say?         14
15                                                    15
16      /           Die Schweinerei! ...              16
17    _==_         /                                  17
18    ( ">      oo.                                   18
19   (> )>     (-  )                                  19
20    ^^        " "                                   20
21                                                    21
22         ... no translation necessary!              22
23        and uhh ... what do the cartoonists say?    23
24                                                    24
25      /           What do you mean?                 25
26    _==_         /                                  26
27    ( ">      oo.                                   27
28   (> )>     (-  )                                  28
29    ^^        " "                                   29
30                                                    30
31         Well, are cartoons funny?                  31
32        /                                           32
33                   Not always!                      33
34      /           They just reflect reality!        34
35    _==_         /                                  35
36    ( ">      oo.                                   36
37   (> )>     (-  )                                  37
38    ^^        " "                                   38
39                                                    39
40             Wow! Profound insight!                 40
41            /                                       41
42         ,,                                         42
43        ( ">                                        43
44       ,(> )>                                       44
45      (  ^^                                         45
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