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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 May 1998.
Re: A bird in the hand...

Re: A bird in the hand...

In article <Pin...@sis.bris.ac.uk>,
Flookster <ah7...@bris.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> The idea, my friend, was to use all the legitimate ascii characters
> once, but only once, and still have a picture...  It sort of worked.
> Imagine holding your own left hand out, with the thumb pointing up, and
> a bird resting on the highest (index) finger.
> 
> The last one was supposed to be a 3d stereogram, so you may make more
> sense having seen that.
> 
> ah7...@bris.ac.uk
> www.geocities.com/soho/museum/6090
> Andy Hood aka Flookster

Of course, I understood the rules. I just thought that using those
rules, you should have tried depicting "The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog." (And speaking of that phrase, did anyone ever have one
that used all the numbers and punctuation marks as well?)

       _,                      _,
      {~=:                    {~=:
      [2@!&                   [2@!&
   (d   +*$%^L" .           (d  +*$%^L" .
   wD   / | qc W]           wD  / |qcW]
   <z0M> N- f4 Vt           <zM> N f4Vt
   FHOQ o?d s 3eu           FHOQo?ds3eu
   ZB G } A 8y 9            ZB G} A8y9
   `CEIP )oi vb             `CEIP)oivb
    # R1lT ap'               # R1lTap'
    \JSVjxg                  \JSVjxg
    K rXY                    K rXY>
   7  h 6                    7  h 6
  m  5  n                   m  5  n
                                         AsH

That's a stereogram, you say?
         ___ 
       _/   |===%^,
      |_____|  __\/>
        ---  ==     >
      [_____]     __>,^
       |   |     //| |

        ___  ?!?/\
      _/   ===@@^,
     |_____|    \/>
       ---  ==     >
     [_____]     __>,^
      |   |     //| |

                 \
         ___      \
       _/   |---%^,    I can *ALMOST* can see it!
      |_____|  /  />     Just when I get the images
        ---  ==  /  >       to merge, my eyes uncross.
      [_____]     __>,^
       |   |     //| |

Remarkable! The hand is very good. It's just the bird that is eluding
me.


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        ha     llizard aka ejm   cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca
  ^^^^%---  ha    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/
   "   \ ha           ASCII-art, ASCII and gif animations

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