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Amazing ASCII Guide To Hippos, With Additional Notes On Alertness Levels
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· 1 message · 26 Jan 1998
^oo^
(..)
() ()
()__()
Wide-awake Normal Hippo (Reasonably alert)
^--^
(..)
() ()
()__()
Sleeping Hippo (Not remotely alert)
^**^
(..)
() ()
()__()
Cool Shades Hippo (Very conscious of street-cred level)
oo
Invisible Hippo (Doesn't need to be alert.)
^xx^
(..)
() ()
()__()
Drunken hippo (With grazed knee from falling into gutter)
^ o o ^
( . . )
( ) ( )
( )___( ).....[]
Inflatable Bouncy Hippo (For endless hours of altitude-altering
amusement)
n__n
|oo|
=\ /=
()\/()
()__()
Hippopota-mouse (Always alert to cheese-related stimuli - e.g. Primula,
Ritz crackers)
/
/
[======]
| |
| ^oo^ |
| (..) |
[______]
Hippopota-mousse (Chocolate flavoured. Not very alert at all, being as
it's a pudding.)
+--------------------------------------------------+----------+
| | |
| X W i z a r d | ^oo^ |
| | (..) |
| | () () |
| s s p e c k @ b t i n t e r n e t . c o m | ()__() |
| | |
+--------------------------------------------------+----------+
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