Line: Hedgehog humor! (Fwd: [alt.fan.pratchett.announce] ANNOUNCE: The Hedgehog Files)

In article <4anp3k$dv...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
Martin Schroeder <m...@dream.hb.north.de> wrote:

 From: Robert Collier <ro...@tanstafl.demon.co.uk>
 Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett.announce,alt.fan.pratchett
 Subject: ANNOUNCE: The Hedgehog Files

(a.f.p.a moderator's note: Some may consider this to be of dubious
relevance to AFPA, but it's a fine documentation of a little bit of AFP
lore, to be cherished in perpetuity, and thereafter... But hey, enough
of my yakkin'. Enjoy.. -Mike)

In the dim and distant past (1994) Jimmy Brokaw discovered the common
hedgehog's and decided to bring them to the common folk, recently a
few people have joined him...

Yes, this is the AFP Hedghog Signature Collection

(46562 lines of afp later...)

The original hedgehog signature

- --
     \\\\\       -------->jim...@juggler.demon.co.uk<-----------
    \\\\\\\__o  Bringing hedgehogs to the common folk since 1994.
____\\\\\\\'/___________________________________________________
                        <holyhorns>

Then there were two when Daniel became the first apostle
- -- 
     \\\\\     Daniel Smart.[+44 (171) 538 8421][da...@F1.telekurs.ch]
    \\\\\\\__o da...@hegemon.demon.co.uk  "echo f 0:0 FFFF 0 | debug"
____\\\\\\\'/__"If you've got a problem - stuff a worm in it" - Berk.
Worship Jimmy Brokaw. Join us & bring Hedgehogs to the Common Folk.


Others rushed to follow but just could not get the details right...

     \\\\\      E-mail Dav...@zeras.demon.co.uk
    \\\\\\\__.  The trouble with doing something right the first time is
____\\\\\\\'/___is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.


And some are just plane disgusting
- --
     \\\\\    ----->bas...@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de<--------
    \\\\\\\__o   Bringing buggery to the common hedgehog since 1994.
____.\\\\\\o__________________________________________________________
                <http://enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de/~bastian/>


Lies! Lies! You known the ejog can't be buggered.

Here is the proof:


   \\\\\           /////
  \\\\\\\__o   .__///////
__\\\\\\\'/_____\'///////___

   \\\\\         \\\\\
  \\\\\\\__o    \\\\\\\__.
__\\\\\\\'/_____\\\\\\\'/___

    \\\\\     \\\\\
   \\\\\\\__o\\\\\\\__.
___\\\\\\\'/_\\\\\\\'/______

       \\\__o *OUCH!*
     \\\\\+/\\\\\
    \\\\\\\\\\\\\\__.
____\\\\\\_\\\\\\\'/________



Emmet brings his own unique outlook to hedghogs with these two signatures...

- --             ##
     \\\\\    ###        -------->eao...@ebi.ac.uk<-------------------------
    \\\\\\\__o_#      Bringing cannabis to the common hedgehog since 1994.
____\\\\\\\'/_________________________________________________________________

           <sacredsuspenders>

- --      ///////    
     ////////      -------->eao...@ebi.ac.uk<-------------------------------
    ///////__o  Bringing the Leningrad Cowboys look to Jimmy's .sig since 12:2
____///////'/_________________________________________________________________

             <holyhugwar>          


I say I say I say, 5 hedghogs crossed the road...

  \\\\\       \\\\\       \\\\\       \\\\\       \\\\\
 \\\\\\\__o  \\\\\\\__o  \\\\\\\__o  \\\\\\\__o  \\\\\\\__o
_\\\\\\\'/___\\\\\\\'/___\\\\\\\'/___\\\\\\\'/___\\\\\\\'/_
Introducing traffic jams to the common hedgehog since 1995.


...and one got squashed
- -- 
                  -------->ala...@doughnut.demon.co.uk<-----------------
              Bringing squashed hedgehogs to British roads since 1994.
____\\\\=====/////____________________________________________________


Luckily they reproduce quickly

David Zeraschi <Dav...@zeras.demon.co.uk>
- -- 
                               \\\\\       \\\\\
   \\\\__.  \\\\__.  \\\\__.  \\\\\\\__.  \\\\\\\__o
___\\\\'/___\\\\'/___\\\\'/___\\\\\\\'/___\\\\\\\'/___
Introducing families to the common hedgehog since 1995


Then there's the special breeds category

The mexican hairless:
- -- 
    ,,,,,       Don't forget to shave your hedgehog
   ,,,,,,,__o   before buggering it!
___,,,,,,,'/_________________________________________
              CyberCat <m.l...@student.utwente.nl>


The sausage hedghog:

    \\\\\\\__o                 Hedgehachsund.
____\\\\\\\'/___________________________________________________
                        <wholly horny>

The raceing hedghog

- -- 
Toby Haynes             - --- -   -----    \\\\\       Hedgehogs on Speed
Somewhere in Cambridge    -  - - --  ---- \\\\\\\__o  Bringing Hedgehogs to 
                      -  -  --- -------   \\\\\\\'/     the common folk!
For further information on this .sig, please contact AFP for enlightenment.


The hoghedg (I mad owner, goes by the name of Dali)

 \/\
\\\\\\/`'     Surrealism, hedgehog. Hedgehog, surrealism
\ //\\/<o     
    \


Of owning a hedghog has its own problems - such as your hedghogs pets...
- -- 
.   .  .
 . . . .. .
 . . \\\\\ .   --------->wat...@anorankh.demon.co.uk<-----------
  . \\\\\\\__o    Fleaing the country since time immemorial.        
____\\\\\\\'/__________________________________________________
                        <holyanorankhs>


Which can be got rid of by giving the hedghog a bath.
- -- 
John aka Greebo


    @@@@@       Hilda Hedgehog
   @@@@@@@__o   with her curlers in
___@@@@@@@'/_________________________________________


And then their's your collection of student hedghogs
- -- 
John aka Greebo


   \ \ \         /\/\\         \\\\\             
  \\\\\\\__o    ///\\\\__o    \\\\\\\__o     \\\\\__o 
__\\\\\\\`/u___////\\\\'/_____\\\\\\\;/_____\\\\\\~/__
  "Cars are    "Cat food     "Brilliant!"  "C'mon Guys!"
   complete     rights &
   bastards!"   peace!"

The Young Ones - The hedgehog years.


Feel free to add your own, I'll add any more I see in afp and stick
the file on the archives.

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