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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 15 Dec 1998.
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[new art] face

[new art] face

alt.ascii-art · 5 messages · 15 Dec 1998 - 18 Dec 1998
msh...@nyu.edu 15 Dec 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
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>                              alt.ascii-art chat
<snip>
>     _________________________________________________________________
>   
>   msh210 [email] [home] 15 Dec. 03:47, from: 128.122.253.154, black
>My next piece of ascii art: a face:
>
>oo
> `,              msh210
>     _________________________________________________________________
<snip>
>   
>   msh210 [email] [home] 15 Dec. 03:49, from: 128.122.253.154, black
>Re: the face I just drew: It looks good in Pico10. I don't what
>font you're using.
>     _________________________________________________________________
<snip>
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>   msh210 [email] [home] 15 Dec. 03:51, from: 128.122.253.154, black
>Pica10 BT
>not Pico10
>sorry
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>   
>   Krogg [home] 15 Dec. 03:53, from: 12.6.67.104, blue
>Msh>>I am using Topaz new2,It looks like a guy smilling while
>      looking over something.
>     _________________________________________________________________
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>   msh210 [email] [home] 15 Dec. 03:55, from: 128.122.253.154, black
>in pica10 it looks like a smirk
>in whatever font Windows95 Notepad uses it looks bad (to me)
>
>maybe i'll post it to aaa and solicit comments ...

Done!

CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 18 Dec 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
In article <75celv$7vl$1...@news.nyu.edu>, Michael Hamm <msh...@is7.nyu.edu> writes
>I posted an article earlier, but in case it was confusing, I'll try again. 
>I drew a face
>
>
> oo
>  `,    msh210 14Dec98
>
>
>and hereby solicit comments thereon. I think it looks in Pica10 like a
>smirk. I think it looks in Fixedsys quite bad. Krogg mentioned that in
>Topaz new2 it "looks like a guy smiling while looking over something". Any
>further comments?
>
[][ hi ... in arial-font it looks like someone receiving slightly surprising
    news ... topaz-new2 12pt its as krogg said ... otherwise in fixedsys mebbe
    they've got their tongue stuck down a straw ... or a fly's face ... but why
    stop there?  do some more ... i've seen many ppl do variations of tiny faces
    and altho' most are same or similar ... there are always some that turn up
    that are very new and different
    here are some examples that many ppl have drawn and redrawn at sometime or
    other

  _ _
  'L'   [ aka Flookster -= AsH =- Andy Hood ]
   -
                                         iso-latin1
                                          +-----+
  _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _  | _ _ |
  'L~    'L'    `L`    'L'    ^L^    'L'  | �]� |<-oops!
   -      =      =      ^      ^     `"'  |  ~  |
                                          +-----+
  i diddled these ... but i cant rem'ber where i saw them 1st ... ages ago ...

  some more ...
           _.-=-._         .      _  _     .         ___
          :_,,_:__:        .      ~{}~     .        []())
          {~(_~}}}}        .       7~      .         ~_~
           \ ~ {{{{
            `=" }}}             
[][ see yuz
[][ colin
-- 
. /\_/\   ( () /_ / /\)   _/   /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_
:( a a(   CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk
' \___")  <>>>oo<<<>X<>>>oo<<<>X<>>>oo<<<>X<>>>oo<<<>

In article <75celv$7vl$1...@news.nyu.edu>, msh...@is7.nyu.edu (Michael
Hamm) wrote:
> 
> I posted an article earlier, but in case it was confusing, I'll try again.
> I drew a face
> 
>  oo
>   `,    msh210 14Dec98
> 
> and hereby solicit comments thereon. I think it looks in Pica10 like a
> smirk. I think it looks in Fixedsys quite bad. Krogg mentioned that in
> Topaz new2 it "looks like a guy smiling while looking over something". Any
> further comments?

When I saw it, I thought it was a fellow smiling while smoking a
cigarette.


And speaking of misunderstood and incomprehensible faces...


NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you
see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e"
to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
--
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/   ha ---%^^^^^^^^^^
ASCII-ar+, ASCII and gif anima+ions            ha  /   "    "

CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 18 Dec 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
In article <75celv$7vl$1...@news.nyu.edu>, Michael Hamm <msh...@is7.nyu.edu> writes
>I posted an article earlier, but in case it was confusing, I'll try again. 
>I drew a face
>
>
> oo
>  `,    msh210 14Dec98
>
>
>and hereby solicit comments thereon. I think it looks in Pica10 like a
>smirk. I think it looks in Fixedsys quite bad. Krogg mentioned that in
>Topaz new2 it "looks like a guy smiling while looking over something". Any
>further comments?
>
[][ hi ... in arial-font it looks like someone receiving slightly surprising
    news ... topaz-new2 12pt its as krogg said ... otherwise in fixedsys mebbe
    they've got their tongue stuck down a straw ... or a fly's face ... but why
    stop there?  do some more ... i've seen many ppl do variations of tiny faces
    and altho' most are same or similar ... there are always some that turn up
    that are very new and different
    here are some examples that many ppl have drawn and redrawn at sometime or
    other

  _ _
  'L'   [ aka Flookster -= AsH =- Andy Hood ]
   -
                                         iso-latin1
                                          +-----+
  _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _    _ _  | _ _ |
  'L~    'L'    `L`    'L'    ^L^    'L'  | ¬]¬ |<-oops!
   -      =      =      ^      ^     `"'  |  ~  |
                                          +-----+
  i diddled these ... but i cant rem'ber where i saw them 1st ... ages ago ...

  some more ...
           _.-=-._         .      _  _     .         ___
          :_,,_:__:        .      ~{}~     .        []())
          {~(_~}}}}        .       7~      .         ~_~
           \ ~ {{{{
            `=" }}}             
[][ see yuz
[][ colin
-- 
. /\_/\   ( () /_ / /\)   _/   /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_
:( a a(   CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk
' \___")  <>>>oo<<<>X<>>>oo<<<>X<>>>oo<<<>X<>>>oo<<<>

I posted an article earlier, but in case it was confusing, I'll try again. 
I drew a face


 oo
  `,    msh210 14Dec98


and hereby solicit comments thereon. I think it looks in Pica10 like a
smirk. I think it looks in Fixedsys quite bad. Krogg mentioned that in
Topaz new2 it "looks like a guy smiling while looking over something". Any
further comments?

Michael Hamm
BA, Math, Jan.'01
msh...@nyu.edu
http://pages.nyu.edu/~msh210/

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