Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 22 Dec 1997.
why ascii cows?
alt.ascii-art
· 7 messages · 22 Dec 1997 - 17 Jan 1998
I am doing an article for a swedish magazine on ascii art, and I was just wondering, WHY are there so many ascii cows? /bri...@drrling.se
Brita Zilg wrote in message <349...@spray.se>... >I am doing an article for a swedish magazine on ascii art, and I was >just wondering, WHY are there so many ascii cows? > >/bri...@drrling.se > There have to be, to make all that ascii milk. JRO
In article <349ffea2.0@206.103.97.91>, ogl...@fullnet.net-removetoreply (Jonathon R. Oglesbee) wrote: > > Brita Zilg wrote in message <349...@spray.se>... > >I am doing an article for a swedish magazine on ascii art, and I was > >just wondering, WHY are there so many ascii cows? > > > >/bri...@drrling.se > > > > There have to be, to make all that ascii milk. > > JRO Very good!! :) Talking of ASCII cows, I saw in this newsgroup about 2 or 3 years ago a brilliant little cartoon of a cow at a piano titled "EINE KLEINE NACHTMOOSIK" by Wolfgang Amadeus MOOzart. Has anyone got a copy of this to repost? I'd be most grateful. /\/\ark.
>Subject: why ascii cows? >From: Brita Zilg <bri...@spray.se> >Message-id: <349...@spray.se> >I am doing an article for a swedish magazine on ascii art, and I was >just wondering, WHY are there so many ascii cows? It's just an udderly mooooving topic! Here's a cutey-- wish I would've made her! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ G O T M I L K ? ? @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ /~~~~~\ /~~~~~\ | (~' ~~~) | \ \__________/ / /~:::::::: ~\ /~~~~~~~-_| :::::::: |_-~~~~~~~\ \ ======= /| ::A::; A :|\ ====== / ~-_____-~ | _----------------_::| ~-____-~ |/~ ~\| / \ ( () () ) \ ./' ~-_______________-~ /~~~~\ | | | | -Leny Painan- (________) () -joan (gee, not one cow sig to offer you... how about some flying pigs??) -- _____ ____ ____ _____ `----,\ ) ( /,----' `--==\\ / ...when pigs fly... \ //==--' `--==\\/ \//==--' .-~~~~-.Y|\\_ joan stark _//|Y.-~~~~-. @_/ / 66\_ <spu...@juno.com> _/99 \ \_@ | \ \ _(") (")_ / / | \ /-| ||'--' ASCII ART GALLERY: '--'|| |-\ / jgs \_\\ \_\\ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ //_/ //_/
In art<199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, Spunk1111 writes: >>Subject: why ascii cows? >>From: Brita Zilg <bri...@spray.se> >>Message-id: <349...@spray.se> >>I am doing an article for a swedish magazine on ascii art, and I was >>just wondering, WHY are there so many ascii cows? > >It's just an udderly mooooving topic! Try asking on alt.cows.moo.moo.moo.... The real answer is that it was a standing joke on an early network set-up demonstrating the fancy control codes on the DEC terminals used: how to make text bright, flashing, etc (picture of a bright flashing beast "this cow was at Chernobyl") also pictures of cowas at various distances, the furtherst and smallest being a single full-stop. And it just sort of grew from there. -- (__) (__) (@@) XEMoo.moo.moo (@@) _____(oo) #--(oo)_____ /( / \ # <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> / \ )\ * /_x \ / | \ / x_\ * '''''''''''ww'''''''''www.xemu.demon.co.uk/''''''''''ww'''''''''''
Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote: > The real answer is that it was a standing joke on an early > network set-up demonstrating the fancy control codes on > the DEC terminals used: how to make text bright, flashing, > etc (picture of a bright flashing beast "this cow was at > Chernobyl") also pictures of cowas at various distances, > the furtherst and smallest being a single full-stop. And it > just sort of grew from there. I don't know where this came from, but here it is: D'oh!!! Sorry, I can't post my 30k ascii cow collection until I get my new hard drive. >:-[ Tommorow, then. -- --ran...@slip.net (Randy Gardner) --http://www.slip.net/~randyg/index.htm - *New* Download a maze program that lets you actually walk *inside* the maze!!
Randy Gardner wrote: > I don't know where this came from, but here it is: > > D'oh!!! Sorry, I can't post my 30k ascii cow collection until > I get my new hard drive. >:-[ > > Tommorow, then. I know everybody has seen these before..... -- --ran...@slip.net (Randy Gardner) --http://www.slip.net/~randyg/index.htm - *New* Download a maze program that lets you actually walk *inside* the maze!! --==>> THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO COWS <<==-- as you've NEVER seen them before! ________________________ (__) / \ * OFFICIAL EDITION * (oo) ( November 1989 Version! ) /-------\/ --'\________________________/ * WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION * / | || * ||----|| Originally compiled by Eric W. Tilenius ^^ ^^ Cow I am trying to revive COWS If you enjoy this, pass it on to a couple friends Try to think up at least one addition. Please send your submissions to: lng...@uctvax.uct.ac.za Andrew Lange - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (__) (__) (__) (__) (oo) (oo) (oo) (oo) /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/ / | || / | || / | || / | || * ||----|| * ||W---|| * ||w---|| * ||V---|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Cow Cow laden Same cow Nancy Reagan-type with milk after milking cow with milk (___) (___) * (___) (___) (o o) (o o) \ (o o) (o o) /-------\ / /-------\ / \-------\ / /-------\ / / | ||O / | ||O | ||O / | ~#>-+|O * ||,---|| * ||@\--|| ||,---|| * ||,----| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ Bull Same bull after Rotc bull after Red-blooded American Bull seeing above cow seeing other bull shooting the Rotc bull (__) (__) (__) (__) (oo) (oo) (oo) (oo) /-------\/-* /-------\/ /-------\/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ / | || \ )*)(\/* / * / | || * ||----|| * \ |||/)|/()( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \/|(/)(/\/(,,/ \)|(/\/|)(/\ Cow munching Grass munching Cow in water Cow in trouble on grass on cow (__) (__) * (__) * (__) (oo) (oo) \ (oo) | (oo) /--------\/ /-oooooo-\/ \-------\/ \-------\/ * o| || * ooooooooo o o| || / || ||----|| ooooooooooooo ||----||>==/-----|| ooo^^ ^^ ooooooooooooooooo ^^ ^^ ^^ Cow taking Cow in deep Cow getting the doo-doo a poo doo-doo kicked out of her (__) (oo) U /-------\/ /---V / | || * |--| . * ||----|| ^^ ^^ Cow at 1 meter. Cow at 100 meters. Cow at 10,000 meters. (__) )__( vv vv (oo) (oo) ||----|| * /-------\/ *-------\/ || | / / | || / | || /\-------/ * ||----|| / ||----|| (oo) ^^ ^^ vv vv (~~) American Cow Polish Cow Australian Cow (__) (__) (__) (oo) ____ (oo) _---_(oo) /-------\/ /- --\/ /- -\/ / | || / | || /| || * ||----|| * ||___-|| * ||___-|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Freshman Cow at Freshman Cow Freshman Cow start of school After the "Freshman 15" After the "Freshman 20" (__) (__) (__) (OO) (@@) (xx) /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/ / | || / | || / | || * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Cow who drank Jolt Cow who ate Cow who used Jolt to wash psychadelic mushrooms down psychadelic mushrooms /\ __ / \ || (__) (__) \ / (_||_) SooS (oo) \/ (oo) /------S\/S /-------\/ /S /-------\/ / | || / | || / S / | || * ||----|| * ||----||___/ S * ||----|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ This cow belonged Ben Franklin owned Abe Lincoln's to George Washington this cow cow (__) * (__) (oo) \ (oo) /------\/ \-------\/ /| |/ | | ==$ || / | [) || ||----|| * ||----|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Old "One Arm" belonged This cow was given to to Ceasar's Palace Hugh Hefner for his Birthday (___) (__) (__) ( O ) (oo) (oo) /-------\ / \/--------\/ / | ||V | | * ||----|| ||------|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ The cyclops that Jason and This cow lived with the Argonauts met had this cow Dr. Doolittle (__) (__) [##] (@o) /-------\/ /-------\/ /------- (__) / | || / | || / | || (oo) * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|---\/ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ This cow belonged This cow lived with This cow belonged to to Flash Gordon the Little Rascals the Headless Horseman (____) (____) (____) (oo ) (o o) ( O O) /-----------\ / /-----\ /---- /-----------\ / / || | \/ / | | \/ | / || | \/ / || |||| \ | | | | | / || |||| * ||||-----|||| *| | |-----| | | * ||||-----|||| /\/\ /\/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ ^^^^ ^^^^ This cow belonged This was Salvatore No one was sure whether to Pablo Picasso Dali's favorite cow M.C. Escher's cow had four legs or eight O__O \_|_/ (oo) (oo) /-------\/ /-------\/ / | || / | || * ||----|| * ||----|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Cow at Disneyland Cow visiting the Statue of Liberty (__) (__) ^^ (oo) (--) ^^^^ /-------\/ /-\/-\ ^^^^^ / | || /| |\ ^^^^^ * ||----|| ^ | | ^ ^^^^^^^^ ====^^====^^==== | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^/ /----\ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ / \ \ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ * ^ Cow Hanging Ten at Malibu Cow sunning at Fort Lauderdale (What a bod, huh guys?) )\ (__) / \ (oo) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cow swimming at Amityville (Where Jaws was filmed, for those less educated) * (__) \ (DD) \ /-------\/ |\ / | ||_\_/ \ | \ (__) * ||----| \\|| \(oo) ^^ ^ \||\ \\/ Cow chugging brews and staring at ^^ \|| sunbathers at Fort Lauderdale \\ || \\|| \|| ^^ / / / / / / / / / / / \\_ / / / / / / / / / / / / \_ / / / / / _______ / / Cow skiing a Black Diamond at Aspen / / / / | \ / / / / / (__)| / / / / / (oo)| / / ( @@@ ) /-------\/ | ( @@ ) (------------) / | ||^_| @@ (__) ( *>COUGH<* ) * ||----| @@ (oo) . . . ( *>COUGH<* ) ^^ ^ /--UU--\/ (____________) / | || Cow sheltering from English Weather * ||---|| (New) Jersey Cow O O O O \ \ / / \ \ (__) / (__) \ \ (xx)/ (DD) \ +--------+\// /-------\/ \| | / / | || +--------+ * ||----|| ^^ ^^ Cow fantasizing about "Riding the Mechanical Bull" at Gillies in Texas o o |__| (__) (__) (oo) (oo) =(oo)= oo /-------\/ /-------vv /-------\/ / | || / | || / | || * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|| ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ bill bixby bela lugosi boris karloff claude rains male relative cow cow cow cow x xxxx|xxxx xxxxxxx|xxxxxxx | // (__) // (__) (__) (oo)// (oo)===(oo) /-------\// /-------\/ \/-------\ / | |// / | || || | \ * ||----| * ||----|| ||----|| * ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Julie Andrews Cow Siamese cows o o (__) ^ \ / (oo) / \ / _____\/___/ (__) \__/ / /\ / / (oo) _______(oo) ^ / * / /---------\/ /| ___ \/ / ___/ / | x=a(b)|| / | { }|| *----/\ * ||------|| * ||{___}|| / \ ^^ ^^ ||-----|| / / ^^ ^^ ^ ^ Mathematical Television This cow does Disco Cow Cow (That's what comes of (developer of (Cow-thode snorting cow-caine) cow-culus) Ray Tube) o | [---] | | | | |------========| /----|---|\ | **** |=======| /___/___\___\ o | **** |=======| | | ___| |==============| | | ___ {(__)} |==============| \-----------/ []( )={(oo)} |==============| \ \ / / /---===--{ \/ } | ----------------- / | NASA |==== | | | * ||------||-----^ ----------------- || | | / / \ \ ^^ ^ | / ---- \ ^^ ^^ This cow (almost) jumped over the Moon (__) ([][]) "I have this recurring dream __\/_--U about golden arches.".. (__) /\ \__ ^ :..("") /\\\ / / //\ ____\_____\/ // /----^/__/\ /\ // \\/ \___ / // \\\____/--\-- // /-/__________/ // /====== \/ =======/==============// *_/ / \ /^ // / \\ / \ ^ // \\ Psycowlogist and patient (___) \^^^^^^^^\ (__) (o o) \^^^^^^^^\\ (oo) \ / *-----\_______\/\/ \--O--/ ^_______/ --- \______^ // -----\ ^--------\ \S/ /\_____^ \\/_^{} /==V===[] \______/ \_____\\// \__/ It's a bird... //\\ The Boss It's a plane... // \\ (Bruce Holstien) // // ^^ ^^ ================== _____________________________ H H | |-------------| H (__) H | | ________ | H (oo) H __ | COWNTY | | (|__|) | | H / \/ \ H / \ | JAIL | | |oo| | | H | | | | H | STOP | | | |__|\/|__| | H D===b=----- H \ __ / | | o | H^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H || | | ^ | H H || | | ] | H H || | | | H H || |_____________|_____________| H H || ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ Some cows get in trouble... Cattle Guard ( ( ) ( ( ) ) ( ( ) ( / ) ( ( \\ ) ( | // ) | | (__) | | (oo) (__) | | ----\/ ______(oo)_____ | | || ( _)_______(__) ) **| | ---|| \ __________/ ``'---------^^ Cow Hide Cow Pie \ | / ___________ ____________ \ \_# / | ___ | _________ | | \ #/ | | | | | = = = = | | | | | | \\# | |`v'| | | | | | \# // | --- ___ | | | || | | | | | | | #_// | | | | | | | | \\ #_/_______ | | | | | | || | | | | | | | \\# /_____/ \ | --- | | | | | \# |+ ++| | | |^^^^^^| | | | || | | | | \# |+ ++| | | |^^^^^^| | | | || | | ^^^| (^^^^^) |^^^^^#^| H |_ |^| | |||| | |^^^^^^| | | ( ||| ) | # ^^^^^^ | | |||| | | | ||||||| | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^________/ /_____ | | |||| | | | ||||||| | `v'- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | ||||||| | || |`. (__) (__) ( ) (oo) (oo) /---V /-------\/ \/ --------\ * | | / | || ||_______| \ * ||W---|| || || * ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ "Cow Town" \ (__) (__) \\(oo) (\/) /-----\\\/ /-------\/ / | (##) / | || * ||----||" * ||----|| ^^ ^^ ~~ ~~ This cow plays bagpipes. Cow from Beijing (__) (__) (__) (\/) ($$) (**) /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/ / | 666 || / |=====|| / | || * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love (__) (__) (oo) (oo) /-'''''-\/ /-------------------\/ / |'''''|| / | || * ||''''|| * ||----------------|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Cow in Argyle Stretch Cow * ** ** * ** * * * ** * / / \ * * \ \ / \ / / (__) * / / \ \ (__) \ \ /--------(00) / (00) / / / | |( ) \ /-------\/ \ \ * ||---- ||() / / | || / / || || \ \ * ||----|| \ \ ^^ ^^ / / ^^ ^^ / / Cow Chewing Marbles Cow in Heat (___) (o o) /------\ / (__) (__) / ____O (oo) (oo) | / /----\----\/ /-------\/ /\oo===| / || / | || | || *||^-----|| * OO----OO * ^^ ^^ ^^ Cowt in the Act low rider cow (__) \__\ (__) (oo) o (oo) (oo) /-------\/ ____\___\/ *+--------\/ / | || / | || ||_______|| * ||----|| * ||----|| ||-----|| OO OO OO OO OO OO Detroit cow Mustang cow pickup cow (__) (__) \_||_~ (oo) (oo) (*||*) /---------------\/ /----\/ /-------\||/ / | [ ] [ ] [ ] || / || / | || * ||------------|| *-||----|| * ||----|| OO OO OO OO OO }{ li-moo-cow fastback cow teenager's cow ____ (____) .xxxx. (__) '(oo)` (oo) /-----'-\/ ` /-------\/ / | |============> / | || * ||----| (~) * ||----|| ~~ ~ ~~ ~~ Moo-ammar Cowdafi holy cow armed and dangerous (___) (___) (o o) (o o) /-------\ / /-------\ / / | ||O / | O~ ||O * ||,---|| * ||,---|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ A Bull A-bomb-in-a-bull No-bull (---) ( ) /-----\ (___) | | (o o) | | | (-----) \ / | | | / / \ O | * | * | O | ^^ ^^ ----- Coward Phone Bull __________________________ }__{ / Send YOUR cow pictures to \ (00) ( lng...@uctvax.uct.ac.za ) :****** \/ ==='\___________________________/' : # ## ##****## "" "" | | | | * | | (__) | | \ (__) | | (oo) | | \ (oo) | | /-------\/ | | -----------\/-- | | / | || | | ----| |--- | | * ||----|| | | -------- | \______^^____^^___ | \_________________ | _________________ | _________________ | / | / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / \ / \ Cow perched on a tree. Cow attempting to fly off tree. | | | | | | | | | | | \_________________ | _________________ | / | | | | | | | | | | | | (__) | | *---------(..) / \ ^^----^^\/ Cow that has failed miserably in the attempt. . /\ . . : (__) . / \ . . : (xx) / \ . . * : __------\/ / \ * : * ||____|| | (__) | . . ** : / | |\ . /| (oo) |\ ** : / | /\/\ | \ . . * : Hamburger . / |=|==|=| \ . * : . / | | | | \ . : / USA | ^||^ |NASA \ . : * (__) |______| ^^ |______| . : \ (oo) . (__||__) . . : \-------\/ . /_\ /_\ . . . : 8-| || !!! !!! : ||----|| : ^^ ^^ The cow that jumped over the moon. : Flying Cow ...---... ../ / | \ \.. ./ / / | \ \ \. / / / | \ \ \ / / / | \ \ \ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | / \ | /(__) \|/ (oo) /---++--\/ / | || || * ||-++-|| ^^ ^^ Cow surviving attack by Red Baron ..---.. (__) / \ (oo) | RIP | /-------\/ | | / | || | | * ||----|| | | ^^ ^^ | | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////// Elvis's Cow... ...Or is it alive and living in tax exile??? (__) (oo) /---+ +--\/ / | | | || * ||-+ +-|| ^^ ^^ * David Copperfield's Cow David Copperfield's other Cow (__) (oo) /-------\/ / | || * ||----|| ^^ ^^ (__) (__) (oo) (oo) /-------\/ \/-------\ / | || -^^- || | \ * ||---- -^^- || * ^^ ^^ (__) (__) (oo) (oo) /-------\/ \/-------\ / | || || | \ * ||----|| ||----|| * ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ Barnum's Troupe of performing cows (__) _--------_ (oo) |__________| BIG /-------\/ XXXXXXXXXX MAC / | 007 || __________ * ||----|| |_ _| ^^ ^^ -------- Cow licenced to kill Enemy Cow after having met previous cow (__) (oo) /'^^^-m (__) / '' ` ) (oo) o /| /|/|_ | /| / \/ / / _ / | | | | / _\===^ ___\_____/___ |_____|_| ___|__/ |/\ (___________(_) //|| || * ^ ^ * ww ww Mrs. O'Leary's Cow Cow'nt Dracula ____ ____ |+++++| |++++| ___ |++++| ____ |+++++| |++++| |++ ______________________ |++++| |+++++| |++++| |++/ /( )\ \ |++++| |+++++| __ | | |+| |-oo- | \______ |++++| |+++++| |++| -----(__)--| \__\/ _(__)_ \ ---------------------------------- o ( oo /_______________________| (oo) \ | __ | _/\_| | M O O - B U S T E R S|__\/\ /| | /oo| - Bleaurgh! |-| \\____ ------ )_ /| /\ -|_ \_|-_|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 0 _| * \/ * \ | __________________________________/ | W| \ \_/ /----------------- \ \_/ / / /\ \ \___/ \___/ / / \ \ ^^^ ^^^ Who you gonna call...? (__) (__) (__) (----------) (00) (-o) (--) . . . ( *>YAWN<* ) /------\/ /------\/ /------\/ (----------) /| || /| || /| || * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|| Cow w/ Glasses Flirtatious cow Cow after pulling an all-nighter * (__) (__) (__) (__) \ (oo) (oo) (oo) (oo) \-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/ /| |\ / / \ / \ / / \ \ //||----||\\ * //------\\ * \\--// * \\----\\ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Cow walking Cow jogging Same cow Cow breaking (__) (oo) (__) o * (__) \/ (oo)/ " | (oo) ____| \____ /-------\/(__ o=o=o=|------\/ ---/ --** / | / | | *____/ |___// * ||----|| ||----|| //--------/ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ //__ Cow Cow pooing standing Cow marching Side Front Side back (___) Where's all the bulls! (__) (__) (__) (__) (O O)/ ( oo (oo) oo ) ( ) ^ _/\ /\_ ^ /\_| /\/\ |_/\ / \ \\/ O \// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (___) ( OO \_ | - Got some cows that aren't in here? Add yours to the official \O collection! Send them to: lng...@uctvax.uct.ac.za (___) ( -- \_ | - G'nite, and thank you for your support. Zzz z z z z z z z \O
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