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TooShy wrote: > <_/|\_> _______ > |ooShy How... unexpected! -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
the FAQ in the Hat
a short story
by MikeChat
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I sat and sat, and typed away
to make a picture, its how I play
but then this man, with floppy hat
said to me "Dont you ASCII-Chat?"
"Oh no good sir, I dont do that
never will I ASCII chat."
he smiled at me, and held his hat
and said "Surely you should ASCII chat."
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"No no" said I "And that is that"
"Never will I ASCII chat.
First you have to read a FAQ,
and for VK's rules, have a knack
and Then you have to play her game,
'ASCII chat' is not the same."
"I see" said he, "You aren't a fan."
and then "I do, I would, I can,
you can too, it isn't hard"
with a flourish, he gave his card
he smiled at me, and held his hat
and said "Surely you could 'ASCII chat."
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"Listen stranger" I started to say
"From all over the world, folks read AA-A,
they come to see the ASCII posts,
not to see the flames from VK's roasts.
They do not come for her attack,
They do not come to read her FAQ."
"No no" said I "And that is that, )
never will I ASCII chat." (
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I read on his proffered card 'MJP| |
"Visit ASCII Chat, it isn't hard" ':| |
below that "But don't forget to read the FAQ,
you'll be asked questions, its a test
to see if you're among the best"
His fingers twitched, there on his hat.
"No no" I sighed "And that is that,
never will I ASCII chat.
Listen stranger, listen to me
my friends and I use IRC.
Thats where we are when "online"
Been doing so for quite a time,
making pictures, and having fun,
and then we colored every one.
We posted them for all to see
for all the folks on IRC."
"There we were, 'til one day,
a fine young fellow came our way.
he saw our posts, and had to say,
'You should post your work on AA-A'.
So off we went and got Free Agent
and posted some to see how it went.
We were newbies, plain to see,
that we were not on the IRC."
He turned his hat, in his hand
I there I saw stuck in the band
a worn out copy of the FAQ
edges torn, or folded back.
He looked at me with wary eye
and he said "But won't you try.."
"No no" I sighed "And that is that,
never will I ASCII chat."
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"Look" I said "I will explain,
and save you your sad refrain,
to fuss and fight is VK's fun
she points her finger at everyone
and tells us all what she thinks
'this is bad, eww that stinks'
but show me stranger, where is her art,
her contribution, what is her part?"
"She is just nasty, its plain to see,
she is as nasty as she can be,
newbies post, but dont come back
they must tire of her attack."
He carefully folded up his FAQ,
and in his band he put it back.
"Don't get me wrong, I understand you,
a FAQ is needed, it is true,
but what one gets from VK's mouth,
is not but flaming, north or south.
And if you have a special day,
VK will flame it, its her way."
Or if one who ran away,
comes again to post and play
you know where VK will be,
posting replies, sans ObASCII,
spouting off her nasty hole.
She can't help it, she's a troll."
As he turned to walk away,
he had this last word to say,
"If only at first you had read the FAQ,
VK would have no grounds to attack"
Jauntily he doffed his hat,
with the weathered, plume like FAQ.
I called out, "Just so you know,
my answer still, as always 'no'.
No and no and that is that
Never will I ASCII chat."
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Ooooh! What a nice long troll post! With my name all over it! And it rhymes too! :-) Too bad you seem to have misunderstood something. MJP wrote: <snip> > said to me "Dont you ASCII-Chat?" <snip> > "No no" said I "And that is that" > "Never will I ASCII chat. You don't have to, so what's the problem? It's not like I'm going around *forcing* people to chat. > First you have to read a FAQ, > and for VK's rules, have a knack > and Then you have to play her game, Well, it *is* on my homepage so of course I get to set the rules for it (duh!). > 'ASCII chat' is not the same." "the same"? As what? It is what it is and doesn't try to be "the same" as anything else. <snip> > but show me stranger, where is her art, > her contribution, what is her part?" http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/ASCII.HTML <snip> And further, you seem to have misunderstood what my chat is all *about*. Lets see... Once upon a time, in the land of ascii, somebody requested a chat. Lots of people were enthusiastic and quickly chat rooms dedicated to ascii art popped up all over the net. There were at least a dozen of them, of very varying quality. People went to this chat and that chat and soon everybody who wanted to chat had found a place to chat. Um, that's it. My chat was one of those twelve. If you don't like it, well, go to one of the others... (of course, that was a couple of years ago so some of them may not exist any more, but then there might be other new ones that you could use instead) Here are the fragments of that original chat discussion that I have kept (if Deja hadn't gone and closed down their archive I would have dug up the original thread and posted the link here) %%% BEGIN %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Atkins wrote: > .----- On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:33:52 -0400, Sprout posted: > |http://mercury.beseen.com/chat/rooms/i/6457/ those who like IRC, /server > |irc.dal.net 6000 channel: #ascii-art I will give op's on a first come > |first serve basis. That's two (of which the first only says "192.31.7.244: -Sprout: I'z back", just like it did two days ago). > irc.sorcery.net port 9000 > channel #asciiart And a third. > http://vibes.vossnet.co.uk/i/ighaig/chat.htm and click ascii art chat And a fourth (<learning resistance>I guess I really have to learn this IRC stuff</learning resistance>). And here's a fifth: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ (It doesn't require anything fancier than a browser. Older browsers won't be able to see the text colours, but the text should still be _readable_ and any ascii pictures should come through just fine. I just checked it in xmosaic 2.7b2, which is an *old* browser, and it works quite well there) VK ------------------------- Anyways...I like IRCNet much better... There's no services there, but then again...who needs them? :o) I made #Cyberfriends there for about 2 1/2 years ago...and it has becomed kinda big... :o) Anyways...I made #Asciiart on IRCNet too...for those who wants to visit... :o) And if I'm not there, just ask in #Cyberfriends...cause if I am online I'm definitly in there :o) (Veronika: 6th <G> ;o) Bjorn Bratli (aka DaSmurf) ------------------------- -> From: vjo...@sci.fi (Ville Jouppi) -> Why don't we make an "#ascii-art" -channel in IrcNet? Irc is a lot -> better than any web based chat can ever hope to be. I could maybe -> supply a bot to help keep order. Check out these IRC channels on the undernet: #mirc_rainbow #mirc_rainbow2 #mirc_colors #popinn #ascii They all use the great ASCII art found in here, and created by their own artists! They are a talented lot!' Miss Kitty -------------------------- .----- On Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:49:10 +0200, Veronica Karlsson posted: | |> irc.sorcery.net port 9000 |> channel #asciiart | |And a third. | |> http://vibes.vossnet.co.uk/i/ighaig/chat.htm and click ascii art chat | |And a fourth (<learning resistance>I guess I really have to learn this |IRC stuff</learning resistance>). | '------------------------------ Those two are the same thing, just two different ways in! .------------------------------ |>(but only |> works in activex browsers... I`ll improve that soon I promise!) How many |> browsers support Java? is that a better choice and anyone know of a Java IRC |> client? (with monospaced fonts!) |> | |I don't know. I tried your page but it didn't work (of course). Java? |Well, I found out that my browser works sooooo much better with java and |javascript turned off (it doesn't crash nearly as often as before, and |many web pages load much faster). It would take something _very_ good to |make me turn it on again... 8] | '--------------------------------------- It`s ActiveX and VBScript <g> I will try and do it properly soon, using Java and JavaScript. Martin %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% END %%% -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 22:56:33 +0100, Veronica Karlsson <asc...@hotmail.com> Spake thus: >Ooooh! What a nice long troll post! With my name all over it! And it >rhymes too! :-) > >Too bad you seem to have misunderstood something. > >MJP wrote: >> but show me stranger, where is her art, >> her contribution, what is her part?" > >http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/ASCII.HTML <-- this has NOTHING to do with aa-a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ () if you are bothering to post at me, post new pics () reply with a pic in the spirit of "obascii" at minimum () otherwise, I dont care if you blather on til you are old and lonely on your ascii-chat but since this is a group for posting ascii PICS, maybe you can include some from time to time in your drivel > ><snip> > >-- > (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ > /|__--__ . __--__ > |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ > `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. > / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ > .' /| /|:| \ >.' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' > ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ > .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. > ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, >- `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' - .-. .-. (_ '. .-',%%%%%,'-. .' _) (__.'\ ~'. %�.�% .'~ /'.__) / @(O)\ '._)'(_.' /(O)@ \ | | (_) {_\'.'/_} (_) | | _\__\__= _ /(_).(_)\ _ =__/ /_ ( / \ ) ( ) // ) : ( \\ ( ) ( / \ ) ||| |||(.O')_____________________________('O.)||| ||| c||___|c| (_)PopUps Scripts(_) |c|___||c ||(_(_|||_| | #ASCII_Art | |_|||_)_)|| ((|_|_|())) | irc.bluedwarf.net | ((()|_|_|)) |)) * |_| |_| * ((| |||_)\( )_____________________________( )/(_||| (_(____)\_/ \_/(____)_)
MJP wrote: > Veronica Karlsson Spake thus: > >MJP wrote: > > >> but show me stranger, where is her art, > >> her contribution, what is her part?" > > > >http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/ASCII.HTML <-- this has NOTHING to do with aa-a Sure it does. Just about all the pictures you can find there have been posted here at some point in the past. You asked "where is her art?" and that URL is the correct answer to that question. That is the archive where you will find all my old stuff. "But what about NEW stuff?" Well, it is November, so I really should do another update. Oh, and here's an on-topic observation: Your sig contains non-ascii characters. -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:31:01 +0100, Veronica Karlsson <asc...@hotmail.com> Spake thus: >MJP wrote: >> Veronica Karlsson Spake thus: >> >MJP wrote: >> >> >> but show me stranger, where is her art, >> >> her contribution, what is her part?" >> > >> >http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/ASCII.HTML <-- this has NOTHING to do with aa-a > >Sure it does. Just about all the pictures you can find there have been >posted here at some point in the past. You asked "where is her art?" and yeah, where is your art in posts to this newsgroup, NOW, not THEN, as you are known to point out what was done in the past doesnt count toward what is happening NOW. Nor is your website part of aa-a, specificly. Try posting pics _here_ and talking on your ASCII chat, I think you will find you get less static that way. >that URL is the correct answer to that question. That is the archive not it isnt, you took it out of context. >where you will find all my old stuff. "But what about NEW stuff?" Well, >it is November, so I really should do another update. > >Oh, and here's an on-topic observation: Your sig contains non-ascii >characters. Indeed, you are right, I am so used to having the freedom to use ALT characters, I forgot myself, may I be excused to go shoot a small woodland creature in atonement for my sin, I will be right back after abasing myself with the blood of an innocent creature. OBASCII )\ (__) drop of woodland creatures blood > > >-- > (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ > /|__--__ . __--__ > |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ > `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. > / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ > .' /| /|:| \ >.' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' > ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ > .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. > ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, >- `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' - ________________________________________ __.-~---_ __)/ > O ( you need ) / /|\ )" better bait ) | ^ ^ ^| )_\ ^ ^ ( )\ ^ ^ \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~MJP~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~
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