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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 21 Feb 2002.
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alt.ascii-art · 40 messages · 21 Feb 2002 - 26 Mar 2002
  ]    A staple
  *    The North Star
  =    Section of train track
  ^    One of those rice-picker hats like Raiden wears in Mortal Kombat
  +    Rammstein's logo
  "    Beaver teeth
  .    A black hole
  |    A pipe!  ::groan::
  \    Playground slide
  (    Concave mirror
  )    Convex mirror
  L    Comfortable armchair, or a bookend
  P    Large-breasted woman
  0    How much I care about drsquare's opinions

"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
>
>      %
>      .
>     /|\
>      |
>      |
>
>  A tit wank, viewed from
>  an obscure angle.
>

Wanking means masturbating, dumbass.  It's a tit FUCK, not a wank.  Iesu,
boy, can't you even be offensive correctly?

"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> >  ]    A staple

[..........]

> >  0    How much I care about drsquare's opinions
>
> Amazing!
>
> Here's another one:
>
>  #   Hitler's moustache.

I'd have thought that was more of a

"

myself.

"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
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> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:08:59 -0500, in alt.ascii-art,
>  ("Scrounge Weasel" <pir...@microsoft.com>) wrote:
>
> >"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:lj4...@4ax.com...
> >>
> >>      %
> >>      .
> >>     /|\
> >>      |
> >>      |
> >>
> >>  A tit wank, viewed from
> >>  an obscure angle.
> >
> >Wanking means masturbating, dumbass.  It's a tit FUCK, not a wank.  Iesu,
> >boy, can't you even be offensive correctly?
>
> No, it's definitely a tit wank. There's no such thing as a tit fuck. It is
> masturbating, she is masturbating his cock with her tits. Also known as a
> "French wank" or a "sausage sandwich".

Masturbate (v):
stimulate self sexually

Self (n):
one's own person

-jg

"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
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> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:18:15 +0100, in alt.ascii-art,
>  ("Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com>) wrote:
>
> >"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
> >news:sf8...@4ax.com
> >
> >> >Wanking means masturbating, dumbass.  It's a tit FUCK, not a wank.
Iesu,
> >> >boy, can't you even be offensive correctly?
> >>
> >> No, it's definitely a tit wank. There's no such thing as a tit fuck. It
is
> >> masturbating, she is masturbating his cock with her tits. Also known as
a
> >> "French wank" or a "sausage sandwich".
> >
> >Masturbate (v):
> >stimulate self sexually
> >
> >Self (n):
> >one's own person
>
> It doesn't have to be to yourself. You can wank someone else off.

I'll take your word for it.

-jg

Scrounge Weasel <pir...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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|   ]    A staple
|   *    The North Star
|   =    Section of train track
|   ^    One of those rice-picker hats like Raiden wears in
Mortal Kombat
|   +    Rammstein's logo
|   "    Beaver teeth
|   .    A black hole
|   |    A pipe!  ::groan::
|   \    Playground slide
|   (    Concave mirror
|   )    Convex mirror
|   L    Comfortable armchair, or a bookend
|   P    Large-breasted woman
|   0    How much I care about drsquare's opinions
|
|

b  Hitler's genitals
c  Horse shoe
h  Chair
s  Small snake
v  Ohno's beard
w  Young Amazon's tits
H  Goal posts
0  Skating rink
R  Pre-op transsexual
S  Big snake
T  Hammer
W  Old Amazon's tits
Y  Snake's tongue

-�e��N@n�e- <z_r...@hotmail.com> ASCII art 22 Feb 2002 04:00 · permalink · report
drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:08:59 -0500, in alt.ascii-art,
>  ("Scrounge Weasel" <pir...@microsoft.com>) wrote:
>
> >"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:lj4...@4ax.com...
> >>
> >>      %
> >>      .
> >>     /|\
> >>      |
> >>      |
> >>
> >>  A tit wank, viewed from
> >>  an obscure angle.
> >
> >Wanking means masturbating, dumbass.  It's a tit FUCK, not a wank.  Iesu,
> >boy, can't you even be offensive correctly?
>
> No, it's definitely a tit wank. There's no such thing as a tit fuck. It is
> masturbating, she is masturbating his cock with her tits. Also known as a
> "French wank" or a "sausage sandwich".

Drsquare can 'tit wank'........ he doesn't need a woman(or anyone else!)...
he's...
        ____________________________________
    ?  (now, HOW do I get my tiny pecker ALL)
 ?     /\ the way up to my new implants?   /
    O    \________________________________/
    |D
   (|-
    |,

please excuse the crap ascii! I didn't want to waste TOO much time 'drawing'
that loser!

RES
>
> --
> Drsquare
>      '.              .'     .               .
>        '.           :       :            .''
>          :         :       :          .'
>           :       :       : :       .'
>            :     :        : : : :  :
>             :   :' ' ' . :  : : : :
>              : :        :   :  : :
>               : .'''.   :  .    .:
>               : : ` :  : .       :
>               '.'...'.'          :
>                :'''''  '         :
>                :      .         :
>                 :     :        :
>                  '.....:......'

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, drsquare wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:06:04 -0500, in alt.ascii-art,
>  ("Scrounge Weasel" <pir...@microsoft.com>) wrote:
> 
> >  ]    A staple
> >  *    The North Star
> >  =    Section of train track
> >  ^    One of those rice-picker hats like Raiden wears in Mortal Kombat
> >  +    Rammstein's logo
> >  "    Beaver teeth
> >  .    A black hole
> >  |    A pipe!  ::groan::
> >  \    Playground slide
> >  (    Concave mirror
> >  )    Convex mirror
> >  L    Comfortable armchair, or a bookend
> >  P    Large-breasted woman
> >  0    How much I care about drsquare's opinions
> 
> Amazing!
> 
> Here's another one:
> 
>  #   Hitler's moustache.


Others...

   ~   An eyelash. Or a worm. Take your pick.
   x   A little spider
   v   A little bird.
   a   A person sitting on their knees.
   g   A roll of that clear tape.
   {   A bat flying sideways
   }   (Ditto.)
   :   Breast prints in the snow.
   ;   One was longer than the other and it dragged a bit.
   '   A shrunken cabbit.
   `   A shrunken leaping cabbit.

-Tali

8  Olga the Obese - front view
B  Olga the Obese - side view
O  Olga the Obese - top view

|  Anne the anorexic - front view
|  Anne the anorexic - side view
.  Anne the anorexic - top view

2  Swan - floating
?  Swan - sinking
~  Swan - sunk

1  Hole #1 - at tee-off
4  Hole #1 - at 3rd stroke
o  Close-up view of hole #1 just before final putt attempted
8  Hole #1 just after final putt attempted
@  Success at last!

r  Lamp post
*  Suicide
%  Picasso - self portrait

<  Failed skier
>  another
^  another
v  and a fourth
X  Badly failed skier
=  failed, but neat, skier

+  Last thing seen by King Harold

Q  Bust of Kojac

^  Volcano
-  Prairie
~  Ocean

F  Alphabet soup - small portion

Lard Vader <lar...@adderleystreet.co.za> ASCII art 26 Feb 2002 04:46 · permalink · report
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> 8  Olga the Obese - front view
> B  Olga the Obese - side view
> O  Olga the Obese - top view
>
> |  Anne the anorexic - front view
> |  Anne the anorexic - side view
> .  Anne the anorexic - top view
>
> 2  Swan - floating
> ?  Swan - sinking
> ~  Swan - sunk
>
> 1  Hole #1 - at tee-off
> 4  Hole #1 - at 3rd stroke
> o  Close-up view of hole #1 just before final putt attempted
> 8  Hole #1 just after final putt attempted
> @  Success at last!
>
> r  Lamp post
> *  Suicide
> %  Picasso - self portrait
>
> <  Failed skier
> >  another
> ^  another
> v  and a fourth
> X  Badly failed skier
> =  failed, but neat, skier
>
> +  Last thing seen by King Harold
>
> Q  Bust of Kojac
>
> ^  Volcano
> -  Prairie
> ~  Ocean
>
> F  Alphabet soup - small portion
>

|-O-|     <-O->

Tie fighters

   _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ \
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_( o )
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Corn on the cob



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Marion Koslowski <MKo...@gmx.de> ASCII art 26 Feb 2002 07:45 · permalink · report
Laury - Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:43:45 +0000 (UTC)

>2  Swan - floating
>?  Swan - sinking
>~  Swan - sunk

*grin*

>o  Close-up view of hole #1 just before final putt attempted
>8  Hole #1 just after final putt attempted

*grinmore*

>F  Alphabet soup - small portion

*LOL*

Ma�ion


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"Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" <lastfuture@lastfuture.de> ASCII art 26 Feb 2002 14:40 · permalink · report
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:43:45 +0000 (UTC), "Laury"
<gni...@moc.tenretnitb> wrote:

>8  Olga the Obese - front view
>B  Olga the Obese - side view
>O  Olga the Obese - top view

>1  Hole #1 - at tee-off
>4  Hole #1 - at 3rd stroke
>o  Close-up view of hole #1 just before final putt attempted
>8  Hole #1 just after final putt attempted
>@  Success at last!

><  Failed skier
>>  another
>^  another
>v  and a fourth
>X  Badly failed skier
>=  failed, but neat, skier

>^  Volcano
>-  Prairie
>~  Ocean

how come olga looks like a hole after a put attempt and a volcano
looks like a failed skier ;)

nice work :)

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Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel <Joh...@WeB.DE> ASCII art 26 Feb 2002 17:50 · permalink · report
> |-O-|     <-O->
>
> Tie fighters

If you come up with these in this format you also have to add 2 more lines
(otherwise the proportions won't be right):

|   |
|-O-|
|   |

or so:

|o|

I think there also was a complete lust of Starwars ships including their
ASCII-Art on www.ascii-art.de (see Starwars section).

Joey, wondering if TIEs are still one character ASCII art

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Peter:
| >8  Olga the Obese - front view
| >8  Hole #1 just after final putt attempted
| ><  Failed skier
| >^  another
| >^  Volcano
| how come olga looks like a hole after a put attempt and a
volcano
| looks like a failed skier ;)

Depends which  end  of the binoculars (8) you put your eye (^)
to
(to be viewed sideways)

Tie fighters:

x
X  Getting closer
H
I

Lord Gayder <lor...@adderleystreet.co.za> ASCII art 27 Feb 2002 00:55 · permalink · report
whatever.. - i was trying to keep it on one line.......


"Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" <Joh...@WeB.DE> wrote in message
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> > |-O-|     <-O->
> >
> > Tie fighters
>
> If you come up with these in this format you also have to add 2 more lines
> (otherwise the proportions won't be right):
>
> |   |
> |-O-|
> |   |
>
> or so:
>
> |o|
>
> I think there also was a complete lust of Starwars ships including their
> ASCII-Art on www.ascii-art.de (see Starwars section).

thanks.. i will look there...

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>
> Joey, wondering if TIEs are still one character ASCII art

ehehe.. no.. 5 chars

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ASCII character 3, displayed on the IBM PC character set.

Also makes a good Valentine.

Scrounge Weasel wrote:

>   ]    A staple
>   *    The North Star
>   =    Section of train track
>   ^    One of those rice-picker hats like Raiden wears in Mortal Kombat
>   +    Rammstein's logo
>   "    Beaver teeth
>   .    A black hole
>   |    A pipe!  ::groan::
>   \    Playground slide
>   (    Concave mirror
>   )    Convex mirror
>   L    Comfortable armchair, or a bookend
>   P    Large-breasted woman
>   0    How much I care about drsquare's opinions
> 
> 
> 

Nat <n...@century.net> 1 Mar 2002 04:33 · permalink · report
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:51:58 -0500, Tracy Johnson <tm...@exis.net> wrote:

>ASCII character 3, displayed on the IBM PC character set.

I kinda like:

j   a urinal.

Yeah, yeah, I know I got a problem. :) 

Nat


"Joaquim G�ndara" wrote:
> 
> >
> > It doesn't have to be to yourself. You can wank someone else off.
> 
> I'll take your word for it.

:)

Woody Allen said something like:
  "Dont knock on masturbation, it's having sex with someone I love."

joris

joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> ASCII art 1 Mar 2002 09:28 · permalink · report

Sam Blanning wrote:

> >
> > Here's another one:
> >
> >  #   Hitler's moustache.
> 
> I'd have thought that was more of a
> 
> "
> 
> myself.

                            ahrrgnn...!
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                        c` 9\9
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           b'ger( - | '|/o| '|- \

joris

ann...@oal.com ASCII art 2 Mar 2002 00:52 · permalink · report
On 2002-03-01 Joh...@WeB.DE said:

   > > j   a urinal.
   > >     ^
   > > Yeah, yeah, I know I got a problem. :)
   >
   >Yep. Misspelleritis ;)
   >SCNR, won't ever happen again
   >Joey

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 ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
                                     language.

Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel <Joh...@WeB.DE> ASCII art 2 Mar 2002 05:54 · permalink · report
> j   a urinal.
>      ^
> Yeah, yeah, I know I got a problem. :)

Yep. Misspelleritis ;)

SCNR, won't ever happen again

Joey

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"Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" <Joh...@WeB.DE> skrev i meddelandet
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> >  ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
> > ##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
> > ######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
> > ##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
> > ##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
> >                                      language.
>
> Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions in
English
> lessons.
>
> Joey

That rule has no exceptions that I know of. It just goes by pronunciation
instead of spelling. Since "urinal" is pronounced "yurinal", it's as much "a
urinal" as it is "a yak" or "a youngster" et cetera.

-jg

Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel <Joh...@WeB.DE> ASCII art 2 Mar 2002 22:39 · permalink · report
>  ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
> ##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
> ######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
> ##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
> ##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
>                                      language.

Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions in English
lessons.

Joey

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ann...@oal.com ASCII art 3 Mar 2002 00:05 · permalink · report
On 2002-03-02 cla...@lords.com said:

   >"Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" <Joh...@WeB.DE> skrev:
   >
   > > Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions
   > > in English lessons.
   >
   >That rule has no exceptions that I know of. It just goes by
   >pronunciation instead of spelling. Since "urinal" is pronounced
   >"yurinal", it's as much "a urinal" as it is "a yak" or "a
   >youngster" et cetera.

The traditional 'rule' in English is that if a noun begins with a
vowel, then 'an' is used as the article, instead of 'a.'

But this is not a good rule, because there are too many exceptions.

Many English-language computer 'spell checkers' use this rule, and
it causes some hilarious results. :)

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 ####    ####           (((   `\  Your knowledge of English is totally
##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / amazing, Joaquim. Your English is
######  ######          (^  )   )    as good as your Swedish! Hehehe!
##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))
##  ##  ##  ##           /

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:39:25 -0800, "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel"
<Joh...@WeB.DE> wrote:

>>  ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
>> ##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
>> ######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
>> ##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
>> ##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
>>                                      language.
>Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions in
>English lessons.
>Joey

Joey, if they didn't teach you the exceptions, you've missed out on half
of the English language! English has assimilated (shades of the Borg!) so
much from so many other languages, that English is a highly irregular
language compared to most other languages.
=================================================
"Kilted Jedi" quotes J.R.R. Tolkien:
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is 
 has left the path of wisdom."
...Did Tolkien as a boy never take apart a clock 
   to see what makes it work?
=================================================

Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel <Joh...@WeB.DE> ASCII art 3 Mar 2002 03:28 · permalink · report
> That rule has no exceptions that I know of. It just goes by pronunciation
> instead of spelling. Since "urinal" is pronounced "yurinal", it's as much
"a
> urinal" as it is "a yak" or "a youngster" et cetera.

Well, if so, I don't care. I know not one case of writing "urinal" in my
whole lifetime (actually not much) so far.

a yoey? no better not - Joey

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Timofei Shatrov <gru...@mail.ru> ASCII art 3 Mar 2002 13:16 · permalink · report
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 02:22:14 GMT, mew...@softhome.net (JamesDad) tried to
confuse everyone with this message:

>On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:39:25 -0800, "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel"
><Joh...@WeB.DE> wrote:
>
>>>  ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
>>> ##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
>>> ######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
>>> ##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
>>> ##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
>>>                                      language.
>>Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions in
>>English lessons.
>>Joey
>
>Joey, if they didn't teach you the exceptions, you've missed out on half
>of the English language! English has assimilated (shades of the Borg!) so
>much from so many other languages, that English is a highly irregular
>language compared to most other languages.

Russian is worse.

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Michael Schierl <sch...@gmx.de> ASCII art 3 Mar 2002 21:12 · permalink · report
"Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" <Joh...@WeB.DE> wrote:

>> j   a urinal.
>>      ^
>> Yeah, yeah, I know I got a problem. :)
>
>Yep. Misspelleritis ;)

Wrong, sorry.

My dictionary says:


urinal /'j(u)er(ie)n(e)l, j(u)'ra(i)- || 'j(u)r(ie)-/

So it is pronounced not to begin with an vowel, but with a consonant. 
And because of that it is *a* urinal (think of a unit or a union...)

(u)  an upside down omega 
(ie) an i w/o dot and an upside down e below it. 
(e)  an upside down e
(i)  an i w/o dot

HTH,

Michael

obAscii: 

          =Oo
        ---------  (someone lying at the beach)
~~~~~~~~'

Joaquim Gândara <cla...@lords.com> ASCII art 3 Mar 2002 21:49 · permalink · report
"Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
news:a5u3ko$a4023$1...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de
> "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" <Joh...@WeB.DE> wrote:
>
> >> j   a urinal.
> >>      ^
> >> Yeah, yeah, I know I got a problem. :)
> >
> >Yep. Misspelleritis ;)
>
> Wrong, sorry.
>
> My dictionary says:
>
>
> urinal /'j(u)er(ie)n(e)l, j(u)'ra(i)- || 'j(u)r(ie)-/
>
> So it is pronounced not to begin with an vowel, but with a consonant.
> And because of that it is *a* urinal (think of a unit or a union...)
>
> (u)  an upside down omega
> (ie) an i w/o dot and an upside down e below it.
> (e)  an upside down e
> (i)  an i w/o dot

    / |   o                                     _        /
   /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |      /
  /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |     /
 /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |    /
/         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
       |__|                     \_/

Anyone else want to do the rest?

-jg

Joaquim G�ndara writes
>"Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
>news:a5u3ko$a4023$1...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de
>> "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" <Joh...@WeB.DE> wrote:
>>
>> >> j   a urinal.
>> >>      ^
>> >> Yeah, yeah, I know I got a problem. :)
>> >
>> >Yep. Misspelleritis ;)
>>
>> Wrong, sorry.
>>
>> My dictionary says:
>>
>>
>> urinal /'j(u)er(ie)n(e)l, j(u)'ra(i)- || 'j(u)r(ie)-/
>>
>> So it is pronounced not to begin with an vowel, but with a consonant.
>> And because of that it is *a* urinal (think of a unit or a union...)
>>
>> (u)  an upside down omega
>> (ie) an i w/o dot and an upside down e below it.
>> (e)  an upside down e
>> (i)  an i w/o dot
>
>    / |   o                                     _        /
>   /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |      /
>  /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |     /
> /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |    /
>/         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
>       |__|                     \_/
>
>Anyone else want to do the rest?
>
>-jg
>
i have this:

           o                                 /    \  _
           _  __  __ | _ __   __    _ _ __  / __   \  |
           |   /  \    |/  \  /\    | |/  \ |    \  | |
           |  (    )   |     /  \   | |   | | .---) | |
           |   \__/    |   _/_  _\_ | |   | \ \__/ / _|_
        |__|                                 \    /
(a 'posh' way perhaps?)

           o                              /    \  _
           _  __  __  __   _ __  _ _ __  / __   \  |
           |   /  \     \  |/  \ | |/  \ |    \  | |
           |  (    ) .---) |     | |   | | .---) | |
           |   \__/  \__/  |     | |   | \ \__/ / _|_
        |__|                              \    /
(a more common way)

oxford university press:
isbn 0-19-860259-6
isbn 0-19-860287-1
-- 
    __ ___ __
:::/  |_  | .`)::
::( (-| | |  <:::
:::\__|___|_|_\::

Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel <Joh...@WeB.DE> ASCII art 3 Mar 2002 23:45 · permalink · report
> >Joey, if they didn't teach you the exceptions, you've missed out on half
> >of the English language! English has assimilated (shades of the Borg!) so
> >much from so many other languages, that English is a highly irregular
> >language compared to most other languages.

Well, they did, but not everything. We had loooong lists of irregular verbs
to learn (what I never did, because I knew most of them already). But
exceptions to certain rules were a rather unimportant topic. But since I
learned most of my English myself and not in school, by reading, playing
English computer games and so on, that wasn't so bad. But due to several
games with speech I got a rather good speaking for myself, though I was only
two times in England, which was when I was rather young (nine and ten, I
think).

> Russian is worse.

Yep ;)

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On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:37:07 +0000 (UTC), drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk>
wrote in message <kou...@4ax.com>:
>On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 00:52:39 -0000, in alt.ascii-art,
> (ann...@oal.com) wrote:
>>   >Yep. Misspelleritis ;)
>>   >SCNR, won't ever happen again
>>   >Joey
>>--
>>Annie Ascii -- budding 15-year-old ASCII artist
>>                         _____
>> ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
>>##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
>>######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
>>##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
>>##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
>>                                     language.
>It's not an exception at all. It's pronounced "Your-eye-nal", starting with
>a 'y', which is a consonant, so a is correct.

'she' likes to think 'she' knows it all...

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I am your father
www.adderleystreet.co.za/atjfaq.php

The simplest to learn and speak....STILL SPEAK BETTER THEN THE ENGLISH ;)

There are many "English" people who cannot speak the language for two bits

?:)

"JamesDad" <mew...@softhome.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:39:25 -0800, "Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel"
> <Joh...@WeB.DE> wrote:
>
> >>  ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
> >> ##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
> >> ######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
> >> ##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
> >> ##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
> >>                                      language.
> >Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions in
> >English lessons.
> >Joey
>
> Joey, if they didn't teach you the exceptions, you've missed out on half
> of the English language! English has assimilated (shades of the Borg!) so
> much from so many other languages, that English is a highly irregular
> language compared to most other languages.
> =================================================
> "Kilted Jedi" quotes J.R.R. Tolkien:
> "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is
>  has left the path of wisdom."
> ...Did Tolkien as a boy never take apart a clock
>    to see what makes it work?
> =================================================

Michael Schierl <sch...@gmx.de> ASCII art 4 Mar 2002 20:40 · permalink · report
"Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:

>"Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
>news:a5u3ko$a4023$1...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de
>> urinal /'j(u)er(ie)n(e)l, j(u)'ra(i)- || 'j(u)r(ie)-/

>
>    / |   o                                     _        /
>   /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |      /
>  /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |     /
> /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |    /
>/         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
>       |__|                     \_/                 /
>
>Anyone else want to do the rest?

Great font!
I tried to finish it (and added a top serif to the (i):

|
|        / |   o                      _              _
|       /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |
|      /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |
|     /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |
|    /         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
|   /       |__|                     \_/                 /
|  
|  
|        o         |                   | |  |   o                 _          /
|        _  __  __   _ __   __   _     | |      _  __  __  _ __   |         /
|        |   /  \    |/  \ '  \  |  __ | |      |   /  \   |/  \  |  __    /
|        |  (    )   |     .---) |     | |      |  (    )  |      _       /
|        |   \__/    |     \__/\ |     | |      |   \__/   |     __\     /
|     |__|                             | |   |__|                \_/    /
|


Michael

"Lord Vader" <vad...@empire.starwars.com> wrote in message
news:11i...@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:37:07 +0000 (UTC), drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk>
> wrote in message <kou...@4ax.com>:
> >On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 00:52:39 -0000, in alt.ascii-art,
> > (ann...@oal.com) wrote:
> >>   >Yep. Misspelleritis ;)
> >>   >SCNR, won't ever happen again
> >>   >Joey
> >>--
> >>Annie Ascii -- budding 15-year-old ASCII artist
> >>                         _____
> >> ####    ####           (((   `\  Actually, Joey, in English,
> >>##  ##  ##  ##          _ _`\   )  / "=a= urinal" is correct.
> >>######  ######          (^  )   )    This is one of the many
> >>##  ##  ##  ##           ~-((,,,))   'exceptions to the rules'
> >>##  ##  ##  ##            /          that plague the English
> >>                                     language.
> >It's not an exception at all. It's pronounced "Your-eye-nal", starting
with
> >a 'y', which is a consonant, so a is correct.
>
> 'she' likes to think 'she' knows it all...

whereas you do think you know it all, but in fact know nothing....

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"Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
news:a60m3b$afq3i$3...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de
> "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
>
> >"Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
> >news:a5u3ko$a4023$1...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de
> >> urinal /'j(u)er(ie)n(e)l, j(u)'ra(i)- || 'j(u)r(ie)-/
>
> >
> >    / |   o                                     _        /
> >   /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |      /
> >  /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |     /
> > /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |    /
> >/         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
> >       |__|                     \_/                 /
> >
> >Anyone else want to do the rest?
>
> Great font!

Thanks. :)

> I tried to finish it (and added a top serif to the (i):
>
> |
> |        / |   o                      _              _
> |       /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |
> |      /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |
> |     /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |
> |    /         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
> |   /       |__|                     \_/                 /
> |
> |
> |       o         |                    | |  |   o                 _
/
> |       _  __  __   _ __   ___   _     | |      _  __  __  _ __   |
/
> |       |   /  \    |/  \ '   \  |  __ | |      |   /  \   |/  \  |  __
/
> |       |  (    )   |     .---|  |     | |      |  (    )  |      _
/
> |       |   \__/    |     \__.|_ |     | |      |   \__/   |     __\     /
> |    |__|                              | |   |__|                \_/    /
> |

Nice. :) I attempted to improve the 'a'.

-jg

Oops.

> |
> |        / |   o                      _              _
> |       /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |
> |      /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |
> |     /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |
> |    /         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
> |   /       |__|                     \_/                 /
> |
> |
> |       o         |                    | |  |   o                 _          /
> |       _  __  __   _ __   ___   _     | |      _  __  __  _ __   |         /
> |       |   /  \    |/  \ '   \  |  __ | |      |   /  \   |/  \  |  __    /
> |       |  (    )   |     .---|  |     | |      |  (    )  |      _       /
> |       |   \__/    |     \__.|_ |     | |      |   \__/   |     __\     /
> |    |__|                              | |   |__|                \_/    /
> |

Michael Schierl <sch...@gmx.de> ASCII art 5 Mar 2002 20:52 · permalink · report
CJRandall <col...@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Joaquim G�ndara writes
>>"Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
>>news:a5u3ko$a4023$1...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de

>>> urinal /'j(u)er(ie)n(e)l, j(u)'ra(i)- || 'j(u)r(ie)-/
>>
>>    / |   o                                     _        /
>>   /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |      /
>>  /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |     /
>> /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |    /
>>/         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
>>       |__|                     \_/
>>
>>Anyone else want to do the rest?
>>
>>-jg
>>
>i have this:
>
>           o                                 /    \  _
>           _  __  __ | _ __   __    _ _ __  / __   \  |
>           |   /  \    |/  \  /\    | |/  \ |    \  | |
>           |  (    )   |     /  \   | |   | | .---) | |
>           |   \__/    |   _/_  _\_ | |   | \ \__/ / _|_
>        |__|                                 \    /
                            ^^^^^^^^^^ 
>(a 'posh' way perhaps?)

Oh, right, now i see that the (e) before the last l was printed in
italics.

And in the "pronunciation table" there is 

   __                              __
     |                               \
 .---)  described as "means that  .---) may or may not be used."
 |_.'                             \__/


 And the "diphthong" I underlined in your example is not there in my
dictionary at all.

  __   _
 '  \  |   is described as "as in the word lie"
 .---) |                                    ^^
 \__/\ |


So I think this is equivalent to 


      /     o         |                           _         /
     /      _  __  __   _ __   __   _ _ __    __   |       /
    /       |   /  \    |/  \ '  \  | |/  \     |  |      /
   /        |  (    )   |     .---) | |   | .---)  |     /
  /         |   \__/    |     \__/\ | |   | |_.'  _|_   /
 /       |__|                                          /

in my dictionary


>
>           o                              /    \  _
>           _  __  __  __   _ __  _ _ __  / __   \  |
>           |   /  \     \  |/  \ | |/  \ |    \  | |
>           |  (    ) .---) |     | |   | | .---) | |
>           |   \__/  \__/  |     | |   | \ \__/ / _|_
>        |__|                              \    /
>(a more common way)

except the 
   _
   |                                _                 __
   |                                |                /  \
   _  means that some speakers use  |  and some use (---'
  __\                               |                \__
  \_/

equivalent to my form above:

      / |   o                      _              _        /
     /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __    __   |      /
    /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \     |  |     /
   /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |    /
  /         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | |_.'  _|_  /
 /       |__|                     \_/                 /


And the American spelling right of the || seems not to be present in
your "oxford" dictionary.

>oxford university press:
>isbn 0-19-860259-6
>isbn 0-19-860287-1

Langenscheidt-Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
3rd Edition 1995
ISBN 3-526-50808-9 (Hardcover)
ISBN 3-526-50809-7 (Softcover)

(The cover is in German, but inside it is English only...)

Michael

"Joaquim G�ndara" wrote:
> 
> "Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
> news:a60m3b$afq3i$3...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de
> > "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
> >
> > >"Michael Schierl" <sch...@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet
> > >news:a5u3ko$a4023$1...@ID-39741.news.dfncis.de
> > >> urinal /'j(u)er(ie)n(e)l, j(u)'ra(i)- || 'j(u)r(ie)-/
> >
> > >
> > >    / |   o                                     _        /
> > >   /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |      /
> > >  /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |     /
> > > /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |    /
> > >/         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
> > >       |__|                     \_/                 /
> > >
> > >Anyone else want to do the rest?
> >
> > Great font!
> 
> Thanks. :)
> 
> > I tried to finish it (and added a top serif to the (i):
> >
> > |
> > |        / |   o                      _              _
> > |       /      _  __  __   __  _ __   |  _ __   __    |
> > |      /       |   /  \   /  \ |/  \  |  |/  \    \   |
> > |     /        |  (    ) (---' |      _  |   | .---)  |
> > |    /         |   \__/   \__  |     __\ |   | \__/  _|_  /
> > |   /       |__|                     \_/                 /
> > |
> > |
> > |       o         |                    | |  |   o                 _
> /
> > |       _  __  __   _ __   ___   _     | |      _  __  __  _ __   |
> /
> > |       |   /  \    |/  \ '   \  |  __ | |      |   /  \   |/  \  |  __
> /
> > |       |  (    )   |     .---|  |     | |      |  (    )  |      _
> /
> > |       |   \__/    |     \__.|_ |     | |      |   \__/   |     __\     /
> > |    |__|                              | |   |__|                \_/    /
> > |
> 
> Nice. :) I attempted to improve the 'a'.
> 
> -jg


Wow... An entire thread devoted to urinals. *grin* And with art, at that
(c=

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