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The rest of this message summarizes the most active recent threads in
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SUBJECT: Re: hanging duck

*** Colin Douthwaite:
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*** Clemens 'Gullevek' Schwaighofer:
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Where do you see anything german ?? strange ...


*** joris bellenger:
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Looks more like the langage the Sweddish kook, from
the Muppet show, use to talk.   :)


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SUBJECT: Attn artists:  help...

*** FrEdDo.:
I love the artwork that appears in this newsgroup... it's way kool...
but what I would like to know is how.... how do you do what you do and
how do I learn to do it too??  please help.


*** Matthew Thomas:
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The following is an extract from the ASCII ART Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ). The FAQ is posted to this group weekly; whenever you
visit a Usenet group for the first time it's a good idea to `lurk' for a
while, just reading all the postings, and with luck you will get to see
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*** Hayley Jane Wakenshaw:
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There are quite a few tutorials around on the web which will show
you how slme people make their art. I'll post mine. And Someone will
prolly post some more. :-)
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SUBJECT: pic // unhappy girl

*** Glory Moon:
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     ' / )| aka. Glory Moon |( \ _`.
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_,;/_|'   |   nettaxi.com>  |  `\._\_|gpyy
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*** Glory Moon:
sorry, mistake!
-glory

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      gpyy  ,(\,/ )`-.
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*** Glory Moon:
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here's a variation
-glory

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SUBJECT: [PIC]dutch windmill (was Re: REQ: mill)

*** miK:
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It's not perfect. Anyway...
There ya go!
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                      ,-_                  (`  ).
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*** joris bellenger:
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That's a beauty.   :)


*** Hayley Jane Wakenshaw:
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MiK I love it! I've been trying to do a windmill for ages
and it always came out a mess! Thisone is lovely!


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SUBJECT: History

*** Colin Douthwaite:
In several ways the last 2 years have seen some interesting
developments in the history of Ascii Art and the newsgroup
alt.ascii-art.
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*** Matthew Thomas:
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       ,.  _
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  ,MMMMMMF         ,..___,.      | years,  men  and  women  will still |
  MMMMMMM          MMMMMMMJ      | say, `this was our finest hour'.    |
 JMMMMMME          MMMMMMMML      `. ,--------------------------------'
 MMMMMMM[       ,aJhmmmmmmmmMMM.   |/
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*** Colin Douthwaite:
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I'm intrigued.

Exactly how did you produce that picture of Winston Churchill?

My guess is a scanned photograph from a history book followed
by a GIF to ASCII conversion.
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