From: JRO Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Martians - email Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 07:15:06 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. Lines: 288 Message-ID: <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.226.27.24 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jan 05 07:15:06 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x35.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 216.226.27.24 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtwelfwisp Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7332 Exactly as mailed, originally....                        ___               _______ /__/|              /_____ /||  ||             ||     ||||[]||          ___||     ||||==||_________         /   ||_____||||__||         /        /    /_______\/|__|/        /\       /     _________             /      /     /=========/           /     /   \__/___\__/_/           /    /____(__)___(__)____________/    //  //()\\ //()\\      jro\\   //   \\__// \\__//  \       \\         //\\   //\\    \         ||||   ||||  "Success at last,        (_)(_) (_)(_)  Tvhtyxz! We have                     finally broken into                      the Boss's E-type                     mail correspondence                          program!"   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *        //__________________________ //        || ________________________ ||        |||  ___________________   |||        ||| | ;,.,;, ,;.. ....  |  |||        ||| |.,;,./,;,,.,.;,.,;,|  |||        ||| |...' ..'.,. ,.'....|  |||        ||| |,.,.... ........ ..|  |||        ||| |... '''.... '......|  |||        ||| |...... ''.....'....|  |||        ||| |___________________|  |||        |||________________________|||        ||__________________________||/   "Ahhh.... This looks interesting, Sdzrkt.     Let us examine the content of this!"   & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & &    & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & &    Dear Veronica,       The last time we had occasion to    talk, you mentioned the fact that you    weren't quite the beauty queen I had    believed you to be...\__/  \__/                         (__)  (__)                      / //()\\//()\\           "Whoa, check \\__//\\__//            this out."   ||||  ||||                         ||||  ||||                        (_)(_)(_)(_)                 ...I admit to being   taken in somewhat, by the previous   "Glamour Photo" that you sent me, but   I assure you that I was NOT shocked   a bit when I saw the snapshot of your-   self that you sent me yesterday...                \__/      \__/                (__)      (__)             / //()\\    //()\\  \   "Oh, he was \\__//    \\__//"He had a near    not a bit   ||||      |||| stroke, was all!"     shocked."  ||||      ||||               (_)(_)    (_)(_)                                 ... I    have never been one to be taken in    by mere, physical beauty, but rather,    I look deep into a "person's" soul...                        \__/ /) \__/                        (__)//  (oo)     "Oh, what lies! / //() /  //~~\\ \      He looks about   \\__/   \\__//"True... I do      as deep into a    ||||    ||||  hope we are      female's soul     ||||    ||||  not apprehended      as her cleavage  (_)(_)  (_)(_) at this, however."       will allow."            Why worry? What's            he going to do if            he catches us, dump            us back into the      "Hmmmm."             recycle bin?"           /                  \             \__/                                (oo)                    \__/       //~~\\                    (oo)       \\__//                   //~~\\       ||\\                  //\__/\\      ||//    ...Surely, yo"" //\\ ""mist(_)\_) for    the kind of pers\\// who would be so    shallow as to b(_)(_) taken in by no    more than a pretty face...   ...Beauty, after all, is only skin deep,   and I think that...  \__/     \__/                        (__)     (__)                     / //()\\   //()\\ \ "Yes, and we have     \\__//   \\__// "Indeed." observed conclusively  ||||     |||| that "skin" is about   ||||     |||| as deep as the Boss's (_)(_)   (_)(_)   interest goes!"                   ...However, and I truly hate    to tell you this, but I am afraid that with    all my other responsibilities...           \__/      \__/           (__)      (__)  /)          //()\\    //() \//          \\__//    \\__/\/ \           ||||      ||||  "Here comes the           ||||      ||||     kiss off!"          (_)(_)    (_)(_)                           ... that I fear     I will unable to take on another mistress     at this time. What with my wife, kids,     and three other full-time mistresses, who     are all deserving of my attention...                       \__/            \__/                   (\  (oo)            (oo)                    \\//~~\\       /  //~~\\   "Yes, his poor, / \/\__// "Can you \\__//     deserving         ||||   believe  ||||     mistresses."      |||| this guy?" ||||                      (_)(_)          (_)(_)     ... five children, you know, require a lot     of nourishing and attention...      "Only five? I'll bet       the old bastard has             fifty!"            "Probably. The              /                 fertility clinic         \__/            \__/ / has more of his         (__) (\         (__)   DNA frozen than        //() \//        //()\\ they have chocolate        \\__/\/         \\__//  chip at the ice         ||||            ||||    cream factory."         ||||            ||||        (_)(_)          (_)(_)                                \__/(\            ..... and it is f/) (__)//easons,        \__/and these reasons\\/ () /hat I        (oo) feel our love sha\/\__/ have a       //~~\\hance to bloom...  //||       \\__//                   \\||  \        ||||  \                (_/(_)"But this part is        |||| "Get down from there,    the tear-jerker!"       (_)(_) Sdzrkt. It is only              more waste material              that the Boss has                 typed in."                              ... If, however         there comes a time that I am not so         overwhelmed with obligations, then I         may be able to reconsider...                \__/          \__/                (__)          (__)  /)     "Sure   / //()\\        //() \// \   he would."  \\__//        \\__/\/ "Yes, but only                ||||          ||||   IF she was just                ||||          ||||    dripping with               (_)(_)        (_)(_)  female vice and                                       pulchritude!"       ... but I have come to realize that there       are so many women deserving of affection,       yet there is only one of me...                        \__/             \__/                        (__)             (oo)                   /   //()\\        /  //~~\\     "Can you believe  \\__//  "Uh-oh!"//\__/\\     the egotistical    ||||          (/ //\\ \)    maniac could even   ||||            //  \\    write this stuff?" (_)(_)          (_)  (_) ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !                   \__/           \__/=|_           -)-[(]  (oo)           (oo) [])                \\//~~\\        //~~\\//              /  \/\__//        \\__/\/ \    "You'd better  //\\)      (//\\  "Yes, we will    think again,   \\//           \\//   disintegrate    Boss. We have (_)(_)         (_)(_)  your brainpan    the new XT-4                         nodule, if you     ray-guns!"                          force us to!" jrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojro jrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojrojro        \       ?        |      /        !         /     \       |       !               |       ? /         / \    ____     _____   __      _____   _______   _____     | __ \   |_____| |  |    | ____| |__  ___| | ____|  / __  ||  \ |  ||____  |  |    ||____     | |    ||____     !     ||  | |  |_____| |  |    | ____|    | |    | ____|   __ /   ||__| |  | ____  |  |__  ||____     | |    ||____     |____/   |_____| |_____| |_____|    |_|    |_____| \ /   /         |     ?          !        |         \    \      /      !         |           |         \              \ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *                  ________________                 /_______________/|   "So, here we  |   RECYCLE     ||    are again."  |     ___       || "Yes, I don't think               \ |    // \\      ||  the Boss was very                 |   //   /\     ||  impressed with our                 |   \/   //     ||  new model XT-4's."                 |    \\_//      || /                 |               ||                 |     BIN       ||                 |               ||                 |_______________|/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   "He knows he can't keep   "Indeed... Perhaps we shouldn't       us in here!"            get into his email so often.             \                 Someday, he might actually                 \__/              empty this thing!"                 (oo) (\          /                //~~\\//____\__/__                \\__/\/_____(oo)_/|                 |   RECYCLE  // ||                 |     ___   (/  ||                 |    // \\      ||                 |   //   /\     ||                 |   \/   //     ||                 |    \\_//      ||                 |               ||                 |     BIN       ||                 |               ||                 |_______________|/JRO thatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsall thatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsall -- Jonathon R. Oglesbee oglesbee@ mail.fullnet.net Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. ###### From: "tobias koehler" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Martians - email Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:11:11 +0100 Organization: Siemens AG Austria Lines: 31 Message-ID: <84v1rh$qt2$1@scesie13.sie.siemens.at> References: <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: atv00p4c.sgpvt.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: scesie13.sie.siemens.at 947063473 27554 193.228.250.80 (5 Jan 2000 09:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@siemens.at NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jan 2000 09:11:13 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!news.siemens.at!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7345 JRO schrieb in Nachricht <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... > ___ > _______ /__/| > /_____ /|| || > || ||||[]|| > ___|| ||||==||_________ > / ||_____||||__|| / > / /_______\/|__|/ /\ > / _________ / > / /=========/ / > / \__/___\__/_/ / > /____(__)___(__)____________/ > // //()\\ //()\\ jro\\ > // \\__// \\__// \ \\ > //\\ //\\ \ > |||| |||| "Success at last, > (_)(_) (_)(_) Tvhtyxz! We have Was this originally so distorted or is it just my news reader that deletes all spaces to the left? Is it advisable to start each line with a non-space character to prevent this? (I had the same problem when I was reading news on a IBM 3090 - but I am under the impression that the percentage of mainframe users among those reading this has been going down during the last years ....) ###### From: "Ool" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Martians - email Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:11:22 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 46 Message-ID: <84vg59$clg$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> References: <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <84v1rh$qt2$1@scesie13.sie.siemens.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news01.btx.dtag.de 947078121 12976 320017688798-0001 000105 13:15:21 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.de X-Sender: 320017688798-0001@t-dialin.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!newsfeed.tli.de!newsfeed01.btx.dtag.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.btx.dtag.de!t-online.de!news.btx.dtag.de!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7339 tobias koehler wrote in message news:84v1rh$qt2$1@scesie13.sie.siemens.at... > JRO schrieb in Nachricht <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... > > ___ > > _______ /__/| > > /_____ /|| || > > || ||||[]|| > > ___|| ||||==||_________ > > / ||_____||||__|| / > > / /_______\/|__|/ /\ > > / _________ / > > / /=========/ / > > / \__/___\__/_/ / > > /____(__)___(__)____________/ > > // file://()\\ file://()\\ jro\\ > > // \\__// \\__// \ \\ > > //\\ //\\ \ > > |||| |||| "Success at last, > > (_)(_) (_)(_) Tvhtyxz! We have > Was this originally so distorted or is it just my news > reader that deletes all spaces to the left? It's a combination of non-ascii no-break spaces ( ) being used in rows of two or more spaces, possibly automatically by deja.com or by the Netscape browser, and of Outlook Express failing to display those. (Unless ISO 8859-1 is specified in the header, methinks.) > Is it advisable to start each line with a non-space > character to prevent this? (I had the same problem when > I was reading news on a IBM 3090 - but I am under the > impression that the percentage of mainframe users among > those reading this has been going down during the last > years ....) Press Ctrl+F3 in OE. It'll show you the readable source code. -- ___ __ __ "Muscles of All Limbs, Unite! / _ / _( ) You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Sinews." ( (_( (_))(__ \___\__(____) ©OOL mm ###### From: "Ojosh!ro" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Martians - email Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:25:42 +0000 Organization: lunatech Lines: 41 Sender: luna4@perla.rotterdam.luna.net Message-ID: <947151108.178756@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> References: <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: perla.rotterdam.luna.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news1.xs4all.nl 947151109 19502 194.151.24.32 (6 Jan 2000 09:31:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Jan 2000 09:31:49 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i686) X-Accept-Language: ko, zh-CN, ja, en Cache-Post-Path: perla.rotterdam.luna.net!nntp-user@rock.lunatech.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!carrier1.net!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!teufel.wirehub.nl!xs4all!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7406 [snipsnap] > > "He knows he can't keep "Indeed... Perhaps we shouldn't > us in here!" get into his email so often. > \ Someday, he might actually > \__/ empty this thing!" > (oo) (\ / > //~~\\//____\__/__ > \\__/\/_____(oo)_/| > | RECYCLE // || > | ___ (/ || > | // \\ || > | // /\ || > | \/ // || > | \\_// || > | || > | BIN || > | || > |_______________|/JRO > > thatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsall > thatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsallthatsall > > -- > Jonathon R. Oglesbee > oglesbee@ > mail.fullnet.net > Made me laugh... Ojosh!ro -- Best wishes for .oo. .oooooooo. .oooooooo. .oooooooo. 8888 888P""4888 888P""4888 888P""4888 `888 888. .888 888 888 888 888 888 `888888888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 888 .888. 888 888. .888 888. .888 88888 48P 488888888P 488888888P ###### From: remove_this.lkanga@mbnet.fi (Lauri Kangas) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Martians - email Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:16:41 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <387494d5.14463674@news.kolumbus.fi> References: <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <84v1rh$qt2$1@scesie13.sie.siemens.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: kc143u2hel.dial.kolumbus.fi X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!news.kolumbus.fi!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7390 >Was this originally so distorted or is it just my news >reader that deletes all spaces to the left? Try this JRO's message in Deja.com: http://x32.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=568457912&CONTEXT=947164451.1387921411&hitnum=5 --- ,-lka----------------------------------------. /. _ _ . Lauri Kangas . , \ ; \(.)(.)/ lkanga @mbnet.fi @ : | |+(__)+| http://www.mbnet.fi/~lkanga/ ' ` | | / \ Ascii site: ../~lkanga/ascii | | ' ' Authorize ICQ 39143317 | |------------------------------------------------| : When we talk to God it's called prayer. ; \When God talks back it's called schizophrenia./ `--------------------------------------------' My sig is almost as cool as Krogg's ###### From: "JRO" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <84ur1h$bae$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <947151108.178756@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> Subject: Re: Martians - email Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:52:03 -0600 Lines: 13 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.226.27.49 Message-ID: <3875605c.0@206.103.97.91> X-Trace: 6 Jan 2000 21:41:16 -0600, 216.226.27.49 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-feeder2.wcg.net!WCG!news.good.net!206.103.97.91!216.226.27.49 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7469 Ojosh!ro wrote in message news:947151108.178756@perla.rotterdam.luna.net... > Made me laugh... > Ojosh!ro > Thanks, Ojo. JRO