Re: test

.----- On 23 Feb 2000 10:58:15 GMT, Ilmari Karonen posted:
|In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002222248010.27965-100000@xena>, Ben Norwood wrote:
|>On Today, Martin Atkins wrote:
|>:      Ode to Pyramid Schemes and Other Assorted Internet Phenomena
|>:                            by Matthew Thomas
|>
|>Hmmm, anyone still got a copy of "The Day That EFnet Died"?
|
|Nope, but a Deja search for "the day the routers died" might turn up
|something interesting.. ;)
|
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There certainly seems to be a lot of variations on this theme. One one of my
many archive disks here I have a similar song "The day my server died".

Ho hum :o)

Here's another poemscii. I forget the name of the creator. :o)

 ODE TO PHILIP POWELL                      ____; \
                                       . ,(     /'
Philip was a lonely chap       ,-,   ;' '  )|"|(      
who tried to be accepted      {PjP} ((./          
but any ASCII that he did      .-._/ /
was sure to be rejected.             

Cries of "Who's Phil?",
were heard afar.                        Who are you?
And also heard quite near.                          \ oo   
Which made poor Phil,                                (-  )
think that he                                         " "
had something bad to fear.                            
                                             |
In a vain attempt he drew a tower,          ,|,
which made people stop and stare.           |||         /WOW!
But when they'd finished praising him,  ||=|||||=||   ;
they went to who knows where.
                                          
Now, even Joan the ascii queen           ('-.o.o.o.o.-')
Can't remember him.                       \___________/
It makes him feel humiliated             {{{{  }}}}}}}}}
and just a little dim!                  }}}}}       {{{{{
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                                        }}}}  6 . 6  {{{{
                                       {{{{{  .___.  }}}}}
                                      {{{{{{\  \_/  /}}}}}}
                                      {{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}}
                                       {{{{{{{)   (}}}}}}}'
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                                      jgs      `@`
This poem is by PjP 
(in the vain hope you'll remember me)


While I'm posting poemscii, here's another...

MIRACLES OF LIFE
                          .         _,       ,
The miracles of life       \ \`.__<' )__.'/ /
Starting anew from old      `.`.._{* }_..'.'
The phoenix rises of ash      `~~..\/..~~'
The greatest stories unfold        ^^

      _ __,~~~/  The origin of birth
,~~`( )_( )-\|   Beautifully they are born
    |/|  `--.    That first breath of air
    ! !  !       Becomes the infant unicorn
                                      .
Since their arrival day          .>   )\;`a__
The young dragon is to know     (  _ _)/ /-." ~~
Opening wings to feel the wind   `( )_ )/
Makes all the world a show        <_ <_
      \/
     ,'\      But the most fantastic miracle of all
    /   \     The greatest birth to see
  _|     \    Was the arrival of our child
~(_\    ) )"  The delivery of our first baby
    `.__.'
Donovan - 1997


I'll spare you the cringeworthy "Welcome to alt.ascii-art" I wrote a few
years back :o)

Kind Regards,
-Martin
The poems and asciis in this message are not by me, they are by the artists
and poets credited. Please respect that this is the work of others and that
they wish their work to be distributed only with credits attached.
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
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