dolphin (a coming out)

Well, after lurking a while, I've decided to share some stuff.
I am very new to this, so any advice would be much appreciated...

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I had a great deal of trouble with the tail, so finally just gave up and
had him jumping out of the water... I suppose there should be a splash or
something... hmmm...



And since people seem to be posting quite a few alphabets, here's mine,
which I call nifty-large (because it's based on nifty, the fixed-width
font I use)

.------. .-----.  .------. .-----.  .------. .------. .------. .-.  .-.
| .--. | | .--. | | .----' | .-.  | | .----' | .----' | .----' | |  | |
| |  | | | `--' | | |      | |  | | | |___   | |___   | |      | |__| |
| `--' | |     (  | |      | |  | | |  ___)  |  ___)  | | .--. |  __  |
| .--. | | .--. | | |      | |  | | | |      | |      | | `. | | |  | |
| |  | | | `--' | | `----. | `-'  | | `----. | |      | `--' | | |  | |
`-'  `-' `-----'  `------' `-----'  `------' `-'      `------' `-'  `-'

 .-----.      .-. .-.  .-. .-.      .-.  .-. .-.  .-. .------. .------.
 `-. .-'      | | | | / /  | |      |  `'  | | |  | | | .--. | | .--. |
   | |        | | | |/ /   | |      | .  . | | `. | | | |  | | | `--' |
   | |        | | |   [    | |      | |\/| | | . `| | | |  | | | .----'
   | |   .-.  | | | |\ \   | |      | |  | | | |`.  | | |  | | | |
 .-' `-. | `--' | | | \ \  | `----. | |  | | | |  | | | `--' | | |
 `-----' `------' `-' `-'  `------' `-'  `-' `-'  `-' `------' `-'

.------. .------. .------.  .-----. .-.  .-. .-.  .-. .-.  .-. .-.  .-.
| .--. | | .--. | | .----'  `-. .-' | |  | | | |  | | | |  | | \ \  / /
| |  | | | `--' | | |____     | |   | |  | | | |  | | | |  | |  \ `' /
| |  | | |  .---' |____  |    | |   | |  | | | |  | | | |  | |   )  (
| | \| | |   \         | |    | |   | |  | | \ \  / / | |/\| |  / .. \ 
| `--' | | |\ \   .----' |    | |   | `--' |  \ `' /  |      | / /  \ \
`-----\\ `-' `-'  `------'    `-'   `------'   `--'   `------' `-'  `-'

 .-. .-. .------.
 | | | | `---. /
 \ `-' /    / /
  `. .'    / /
   | |    / /
   | |   / `----.
   `-'   `------'    bIt

sort of largish, I suppose... 7 lines by 8 columns...


and, lastly, my ascii ad type dealy...

                 ___                           ___
   ()           /  /|          |              /  /|    *       *
 ()            /  / |         \|/            /  / |       *           *
  o           /  / /         --*--          /  / /    *       ,~~~~.
   ()        /  / /           /|\          /  / /   *    *   / ,~~. \
 ()         /  /  |            |          /  /  |           / /    \ \
  o        /  /   |                      /  /   |     *    (_/      \ \
  lll     /  / /| |     ll              /  / /| |       *    *       \ \
   ll    /__/ / | |     ll             /__/ / | |  *           *      | |
   ll    |  |/  | |   llllll           |  |/  | |           *         | |
   ll    `--'|  | |__.  ll  ll      ll `--'|  | |--.  lllll  llllll   | |
   llllllll  |  | | /|  ll  ll      ll     |  | | /| ll     ll    ll  | |
   ll     ll |  | |/ |  ll  ll      ll     |  | |/ |  llll  lllllll   ' '
 --ll-----ll-|  | | /---ll--ll--ll--ll-----|  | | /------ll-ll-------/ /
   ll     ll |  |  /        ll  ll  ll     |  |  /   lllll   lllll  / /
   llllllll  |  | /          llllllll      |  | /                 ./ /
            /  / /           .            /  / /                ,'  /
           /  / /          ,'/\          /  / /               ,'  ,/
          /__/ /         ,' /  \        /__/ /              ,'  ._/_____
          |  |/         `  /    \       |  |/              (____________)
          `--'           `/______\      `--'    http://pete.enemy.org




well, that's about it... again, any advice would be appreciated...

peace,
-Pete


v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v    ---       
|        Peter Rijks          |   | A witty saying proves nothing.   
|  University of Notre Dame   |              - - - - - -
| http://www.nd.edu/~prijks/  |     I may despise what you say, but I will
|          bItwIse2           |     defend to the death your right to say
^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^     it.    -- Voltaire  (x2)

Coolies!  Love the ad-dealy thing!

mn
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