Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 8 Sep 1998.
The Cowstein Gallery
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· 14 messages · 8 Sep 1998 - 12 Sep 1998
The Cowstein Gallery (Just add yourself to this gallery!)
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The Cowstein Gallery (Just add yourself to this gallery!)
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PeteCowstein SpunkyCowstein Cowlinstein PraseCow59stein
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ShanakaCowstein Your Name Here
Welcome, PraseCow59stein! I gave you bigger, shiny black, and deliciously
kosher ascii eyes that make you look sooo good!
Welcome to ShanakaCowstein too!
(Well, can't say much about the looks here)
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[] (> )><( <) Woodpeckersteins dancing the boogie-woogie []
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>Message-id: <35F...@sympatico.ca> >The Cowstein Gallery (Just add yourself to this gallery!) > > ,, ,;;;, (__) ><>< > ( "> `('v')` ( "> (oo) > ,(> )> <(=@=)> (> )> <( ^) > ( ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ >PeteCowstein SpunkyCowstein Cowlinstein PraseCow59stein > > ,, > __O > _/" \ Your Pic Here > >ShanakaCowstein Your Name Here Welcome all! Just look at the people who considered Colin's post (anninversary of alt.ascii-art #6) to be complimentary of the Stein characters. ie: putting the Stein characters/cartoon at the same level of the classic ASCII Silly Cow genre -- Colin was much more generous than I would ever have been. -joan -- _ (.".) _ joan stark mailto:spu...@juno.com '-'/. .\'-' /_ _\ _...._ ASCII ART GALLERY: (` o o `)---` '. http://www.ascii-art.com jgs /"---"` \
> Welcome all! Just look at the people who considered > Colin's post (anninversary of alt.ascii-art #6) to be > complimentary of the Stein characters. > ie: putting the Stein characters/cartoon at the same level > of the classic ASCII Silly Cow genre -- Colin was much > more generous than I would ever have been. Wow! My old lover Spunkystein is insisting on making more great bows to me! P Enough already! Go away! e / t ,, Spunkystein e ( "> / C ,(> )> o__ o__ o__ o__ o__ a ( ^^ / \_ / \_ / \_ / \_ / \_ s s asciigangsteins making great bows to Pete Casso o 980906 ================================================================ [] [] [] /( )\ Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] [] ( "> <" ) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] (> )><( <) Woodpeckersteins dancing the boogie-woogie [] [] ^^ ^^ [] ================================================================
Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote: >The Cowstein Gallery (Just add yourself to this gallery!) > > ,, ,;;;, (__) ><>< > ( "> `('v')` ( "> (oo) > ,(> )> <(=@=)> (> )> <( ^) > ( ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ >PeteCowstein SpunkyCowstein Cowlinstein PraseCow59stein > > ,, > __O > _/" \ Your Pic Here > >ShanakaCowstein Your Name Here > ROFL, Gee, now that was an unexpected response ! :D :D I do bow to your remarkable unpredictability Peter Kwa :) , , / \/ \ (/ //_ \_ .-._ \|| . \ \ '-._ _,:__.-"/---\_ \ ______/___ '. .--------------------'~-'--.)__( , )\ \ `'--.___ _\ / | Shanaka Dias ,' \)|\ `\| /_.-' _\ \ _:,_ Western Australia " || ( .'__ _.' \'-/,`-~` sdi...@netlane.com |/ '. ___.> /=,| | / .-'/_ ) '---------------------------------' snd )' ( /(/ \\ " Old web address (may no longer exist!): '==' http://www.ece.curtin.edu.au/~shanaka
Pete Casso wrote: > > The Cowstein Gallery (Just add yourself to this gallery!) > > ,, ,;;;, (__) > ( "> `('v')` ( "> Your Pic Here > ,(> )> <(=@=)> (> )> > ( ^^ ^ ^ ^^ > PeteCowstein SpunkyCowstein Cowlinstein Your Name Here > > ================================================================ > [] [] > [] /( )\ Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] > [] ( "> <" ) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] > [] (> )><( <) Woodpeckersteins dancing the boogie-woogie [] > [] ^^ ^^ [] > ================================================================ Ehhh.... Welll.... __ \( ") <" V"-o _/ Y_ Ehm, this I guess is Ojoshirostein... so: (__) \( ") <" V". _/ Y_ this is either Ojoshirocowstein or his satanic majesty. __ (_ Fear the power of my sword! ") ( ") / ,-' "-Y"o' _< \_ -- ____ ,X+. . Always listen to experts. .Xx+-. . They'll tell you what can't be done, XXx++-.. and why. Then do it. XXxx++--.. `XXXxx+++--' `XXXxxx' Lazarus Long ""
In article <199...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote: > > >Message-id: <35F...@sympatico.ca> > >The Cowstein Gallery (Just add yourself to this gallery!) [snip] > >PeteCowstein SpunkyCowstein Cowlinstein PraseCow59stein [snip] > >ShanakaCowstein Your Name Here > > Welcome all! Just look at the people who considered > Colin's post (anninversary of alt.ascii-art #6) to be > complimentary of the Stein characters. > ie: putting the Stein characters/cartoon at the same level > of the classic ASCII Silly Cow genre -- Colin was much > more generous than I would ever have been. > > -joan stark mailto:spu...@juno.com > ASCII ART GALLERY: > http://www.ascii-art.com Let me get this straight. Is Pete saying that the following is an insult??? --------------------------begin quote Then we have seen the emergence of Pete Casso with his creation of a new subgenre of "Stein Characters", second only to the well-known "Silly Cows" genre in Ascii Art, and by far outstripping the other known genres of Sheep; Owls; Koala Bears, and Luke the Spook. The two basic characters were Birdstein and Frogstein... _==_ ( "> oo. (> )> (- ) ^^ " " Birdstein Frogstein Followed by an ever growing number of other Steins: 01WW5WWW10WWWW5WWW20WWWW5WWW30WWWW5WWW40WWWW5WWW50WWWW5WWW60WWWW5WWW7072 02 02 03 The 'steins Hall of Fame 03 04 by Pete Casso 970920 04 05 05 06 . + . 06 07 \^|^/ 07 08 .oo 08 09 ( -) Frogstein, King of the Pond 09 10 " " 10 11 11 12 + 12 13 \^^/ 13 14 ( "> 14 15 (> )> Birdstein, Queen of the Sky 15 16 ^^ 16 17 17 18 (\ /) 18 19 (:\oo/:) 19 20 ( -) Pegastein, head in the clouds ... 20 21 " " 21 22 22 23 .oo 23 24 .'''' -) Sphinxstein, feet on the ground ... 24 25 (__)_)__)_) 25 26 26 27 27 28 /( 28 29 /\(oo)/\ Ghostein, a frequent visitor from Heaven 29 30 \ / 30 31 31 32 32 33 ,, 33 34 ( "> w 34 35 ,(> )>| Devilstein, a frequent visitor from Hell 35 36 ( ^^ 36 37 37 38 38 39 /( 39 40 (\( "> Roosterstein, the musician in the barnyard 40 41 `(> )> Often called PeteHovenstein by his fans 41 42 ^^ 42 43 43 44 ,, 44 45 (@@ Owlstein, the wisdom dispenser 45 46 (> )> Often called Onestein by his admirers 46 47 ^^ 47 48 48 49 ,, 49 50 ( "/ Dragonstein, who sired the Loch Ness monster 50 51 )\` 51 52 / 52 53 53 54 _==_ 54 55 ( "> 55 56 (>,)> BrusselsBoystein, who has a cute squirter 56 57 ^^ 57 58 58 59 . . 59 60 .)\ /(. 60 61 .) ,\ @.@ /, (. 61 62 .) - (,-,) - (. Draculstein, appearing as a vampire 62 63 .) '/ \` (. 63 64 .)/ \(. 64 65 ' ' 65 66 66 67 ,()) 67 68 ,( "> Mousestein, who does a great job 68 69 ( " " in scaring evil witches away 69 70 70 71WW5WWW10WWWW5WWW20WWWW5WWW30WWWW5WWW40WWWW5WWW50WWWW5WWW60WWWW5WWW7072 Note: Pete is now marking his Stein cartoon drawings as Copyright (c). end quote--------------------------- / ha |,^%--- ha < \ ha \ > \ ...poor fellow! ejm /\/>^^ \ I can't begin to imagine how this would be an insult to poor befuddled Pete. It claims that his Steins have reached the massive popularity that he imagined they would. It's a shame that I find Pete's cartoons to be so entirely humourless because I think the drawings are quite charming. 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. -- llizard aka ejm cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca __ ASCII-ar+, ASCII & gif anima+ions \<\ www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ < \ ha ^^<_ / ha No thanks, don't add me to the dubious ejm _\/ ^%--- ha gallery. I loathe that 'stein suffix.
<snip long quote> Thanks for the popularity statement, I myself foresee a world wide 'stein craze :-))) On giving each other feedback, there is one pic of yours that I like, the fish that jumps out of the water. But unfortunately, I don't like any of your other pics, in most cases I can't even be sure what your pics are supposed to show. ========================================================= [] .oo Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] [] ( -) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] " " Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes [] =========================================================
The Cowstein Gallery
The 'stein suffix is a compliment, induction to this gallery is an honor.
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Pete Casso wrote: > <snip long quote> > > Thanks for the popularity statement, I myself foresee a world wide 'stein > craze :-))) > > On giving each other feedback, there is one pic of yours that I like, the fish > that jumps out of the water. But unfortunately, I don't like any of your other > pics, in most cases I can't even be sure what your pics are supposed to show. Pete, this is all getting very, very childish. Here is the chain of events as I see it : Pete Casso makes some cartoons (steins) Colin pays him a compliment by saying his "stein" sub genre is second only to the "silly cows". Pete Casso takes offence at this compliment and says so. Colin explains that the "silly cows" is the description which he remembers of the "cow" pictures. Others back him up. Pete Casso sees an ideal opportunity to be obnoxious and proceeds to create a load of very childish and unfunny cartoons of everyone who tried to point out that Colin was paying him a compliment in the first place. Typical behaviour of a child who knows he is in the wrong but does not want to admit it. __________________________ ,( ) (Hmm! looks like I was wrong!\ .PC / (I know, I'll take the mickey)_____________ ( -) (out of other people so no-one will notice!) " " """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Alternatively perhaps he is just so big headed that he believes the original statement should have been : "And Pete Casso's stein cartoons easily overshadow every other ASCII sub genre and genre and anything else you care to mention as the most important discovery of all time." @@@@ @@@@ @@@@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@@@ @@ @@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@@@@@ @@ @@ @@@@@@@@ @@ MOOOOO! MOOO! MOOO! * @@ @@ ( ) / @@ @@ OO \/@@@@@'\ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@@ ^ @@ @@ @@ @@ (| |( * Roughly translated : Oh great and powerful Pete Casso, We humbly bow to you in your magnificence. You, whose great stein cartoons do overshadow anything created by Llizard, Joan, Veronica and everyone else. Such mastery of wit and the power to put it down in ASCII characters comes but rarely. Oh how we laugh at your inane pictures of *chortle* Miss Longlegstein, and *guffaw*, MissWellendowedstein and do humbly beg for more of your stein awards for our meagre offerings. Now, read that and tell me that it does not sound extremely childish. I personally do not find the cartoons funny, but I realise that others do, and put up with them without mentioning them. The first time I saw them, I may have thought it was clever to make recognisable pictures out of so few characters but my liking for them quickly started to wear a little thin when I found out what an obnoxious person Pete Casso really is. I would advise anyone who thinks of paying Pete Casso a compliment to think long and hard about it and get used to being called names and being ridiculed in a public forum before they do so. I fully expect to see an extremely humorous picture portraying me as an "asciigangstein" that has not graduated to being a "sillycowstein" form Pete Casso very soon. Of course everyone knows what Pete Casso's pics are supposed to show because he cleverly tells you in the name. ie Miss Longleggedstein Frogstein BirdStein and here is : CowStein : , , -- oo PigStein : __ "..) )@ oo" " Monkeystein : {oo} (_ - /) '( ) " " Snailstein : "\@ Of course none look like what they portray but the name makes you think they do. Phil ,.' PjP - Now I think it's time to get back to ASCII pictures again don't you? > > ========================================================= > [] .oo Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] > [] ( -) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] > [] " " Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes [] > ========================================================= > > oo ( -) Frogstein, who is pointless! " " Mr KnightonHorsebackstein : Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm laughing with Joan! ,;~;, / at P'Casso! /\_ ( / (() //) | \\ ,,;;'\ Philip Powell __ _( )m=(((((((((((((================-------- /' ' '()/~' '.(, | ccx...@coventry.ac.uk ,;( )|| | ~ \ ,;' \ /-(.;, ) I don't get the joke! ) / ) / // || .PC / Nor me! )_\ )_\ ( @) HorseStein " " BabyPeteStein The @ sign is supposed to be a dummy (pacifier to USA etc) Disclaimer : The steins and any variations on them are Pete Casso's. I want no credit for them, I don't even want to hear about them. The cow is mine but it may look exactly like one of the "silly cows". I am sorry for this and take no credit for it. I just did it to illustrate a point. The @ signs were not created by me and nor were any other of the ASCII character signs. However the putting them together into a giant frogstein was my own doing although I copied the smaller frogstein to do it. I hope I have included enough information in there to keep anybody whose pictures I have used happy. I am sorry if I have inadvertantly used any of the 'steins that Pete Casso has created or will create in the future, in this post. I apologise and promise never to do it again. --------------------------------------------- Sorry for wasting bandwidth with this incredibly long (for me) and largely flamish post. I just could not sit back and do nothing anymore.
In article <Pin...@leofric.coventry.ac.uk>, Phil <ccx...@coventry.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Pete Casso wrote: > > > <snip long quote> > > > > Thanks for the popularity statement, I myself foresee a world wide 'stein > > craze :-))) > > > > On giving each other feedback, there is one pic of yours that I like, the fish > > that jumps out of the water. But unfortunately, I don't like any of your other > > pics, in most cases I can't even be sure what your pics are supposed to show. > > Pete, this is all getting very, very childish. Here is the chain of > events as I see it : > > Pete Casso makes some cartoons (steins) > > Colin pays him a compliment by saying his "stein" sub genre is second only > to the "silly cows". > > Pete Casso takes offence at this compliment and says so. > > Colin explains that the "silly cows" is the description which he remembers > of the "cow" pictures. > > Others back him up. > > Pete Casso sees an ideal opportunity to be obnoxious and proceeds to > create a load of very childish and unfunny cartoons of everyone who tried > to point out that Colin was paying him a compliment in the first place. > > Typical behaviour of a child who knows he is in the wrong but does not > want to admit it. [snip of the rest of one of the few... what am I saying?? THE ONLY entertaining thing featuring the 'stein characters] ___ha /\ _/ ha| ---%^^^, |_____|ha / \/ > --- == > [_____] __>,^ ejm | | //| | . /|\ | | Pete, this is a picture of me sitting in front of the computer laughing at you. (I know you can only understand the one with the fish, so I'm explaining it for you.) > I am sorry if I have inadvertantly used any of the 'steins that Pete Casso > has created or will create in the future, in this post. I apologise and > promise never to do it again. > > > --------------------------------------------- > Sorry for wasting bandwidth with this incredibly long (for me) and largely > flamish post. I just could not sit back and do nothing anymore. > Phil, that was not wasted bandwidth at all! Thank you for posting it. ___ _/ | / ha |_____| |,^%--- ha --- == < \ ha [_____] __ \ > \ It's such a relief to see those little ejm | | __| /\/>^^ \ characters attached to something funny. . /|\ | | Pete, this is a picture of me falling off the computer chair because I'm laughing at you. (As I said, I know you can only understand the one with the fish, so I'm explaining it for you.) Pete, in the sig is a picture of me laughing my head right off because I'm laughing so hard at you. | | \|/ ' 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. -- ___ llizard aka ejm cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca _/ | / ASCII-ar+, ASCII & gif anima+ions |_____| | www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ --- == < ha [_____] __ \ > \ / ha ejm | | __| /\/>^^ \ ^%--- ha Poor misguided Pete.
Phil wrote: <snip long quote> Wow, that was a long article! Of course, I endorse the positive parts only! :-) On the rest of the article, well let's just say, that you are too infantile in this newsgroup to really know what has been going on. But you are right, sometimes I do respond, just as you anticipated! ;-)) ============================================================= [] The 'steins - The Catch [] [] Copyright 980910 Pete Casso Revision 980911 [] [] [] [] [] [] . ` [] [] ,, . ' [] [] ( "> . ' [] [] ,(> )>/ ' [] [] ( ^^ ~~~~~ ' ~~~~~~~~ [] [] ' [] [] ( ( ' ) ) [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] / Wow! He caught an [] [] / ' asciigangstein! [] [] / ' Let me catch [] [] / ' one too! [] [] / ' \ [] [] ,, / __o Help! oo [] [] ( "> / _/ \ (- ) [] [] ,(> )>/ <(:<) [] [] ( ^^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^^ [] [] Yaay! [] [] I caught PhilipPowellstein! [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] \ [] [] ' \ Yaay! I caught [] [] ' \ llizardstein! [] [] ' \ \ [] [] ' \ oo [] [] ' \ (- ) [] [] ^^^^^%--- \<(:<) [] [] " \ ^^ [] [] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [] ============================================================= ========================================================= [] .oo Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] [] ( -) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] " " Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes [] =========================================================
OK, the cartoon is not complete, let's fix that! :-) ============================================================= [] The 'steins - The Catch [] [] Copyright 980910 Pete Casso Revision 980912 [] [] [] [] [] [] . ` [] [] ,, . ' [] [] ( "> . ' [] [] ,(> )>/ ' [] [] ( ^^ ' [] [] ~~~~~ ' ~~~~~~~~ [] [] ' [] [] ( ( ' ) ) [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] / Wow! He caught an [] [] / ' asciigangstein! [] [] / ' Let me catch [] [] / ' one too! [] [] / ' \ [] [] ,, / __o Help! oo [] [] ( "> / _/ \ (- ) [] [] ,(> )>/ <(:<) [] [] ( ^^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^^ [] [] Yaay! [] [] I caught PhilipPowellstein! [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] \ [] [] ' \ Yaay! I caught [] [] ' \ llizardstein! [] [] ' \ \ [] [] ' \ oo [] [] ' \ (- ) [] [] ^^^^^%--- \<(:<) [] [] " \ ^^ [] [] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] / [] [] / ' [] [] / ' [] [] ?? / ' [] [] _==_ / ' [] [] ( "> / (___) [] [] (> )>/ (o o) Moo! [] [] ^^ \ / [] [] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [] ============================================================= ========================================================= [] .oo Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] [] ( -) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] " " Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes [] =========================================================
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