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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Aug 1998.
Re: Ye Olde SCARECROW Ascii Art FAQ ( Bob Allison )

Re: Ye Olde SCARECROW Ascii Art FAQ ( Bob Allison )

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> 
> In alt.ascii-art.animation Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote:
> > 
> > Is it just me, or is Colin getting more and more irritable as time
> > goes on? Anything seems to annoy him ...
> 
> Nope...it's not just you, although you are bad enough with your
> nitpicking on my Shafts of Wit and Wisdom <giggle>.  You are
> absolutely right that I am very irritable right now due to a fairly
> lengthy ongoing period of Pete Casso's HTML propaganda; clueless
> newbies continually posting in HTML despite all the warnings,
> advice, and help they are given; unsupervised children using the
> newsgroup as a kindergarten picture-drawing room and being
> encouraged by people here who should know better; Windoze 95 and 98
> programs that will not run on my Windoze 3.11; flakey newsfeeds
> etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Well, all I can say is ... get used to it. It's only going to get worse
(for the aforementioned five years or so :-).

>...
> Computational Science Student from High School?  Bleah!

You'll have to excuse me now, I've just got an e-mail saying that
Richard Stallman is giving a seminar here at the University of
Canterbury, and I need to leave the computer and start dancing around
the room with excitement ...

Computer Science students from University? Mad, the lot of them!

:-)
-- 
   .._o  Matthew Thomas
 ..://\/ http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/ (Site for sore eyes)
..:_/\   <-- If this looks a mess, change your font to Courier
  ..:/   Linux. Because life is too short to reboot.

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Subject: Re: Ye Olde SCARECROW Ascii Art FAQ ( Bob Allison )
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