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Subject: Re: April Fool{'s|s'} Day

Ian Collier wrote:
: Looks a bit like an elephant though.  Although not as much as ('(') .

Superb! We've had ASCII faces for hundreds of years [1], I've been sent
some junk mail with ASCII arses, and now we have ASCII elephants.

<'/') elephant with trunk fully stretched out

<'!') elephant stretching trunk down to pick up bun from floor

('|') elephant with broken trunk [depending on how your character set
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Kate Pugh (I think) provided these 3:
<,l,> elephant lying on its back

<^l^> elephant that didn't sleep very well last night

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The following is a depiction of one market day in India when a parade
of elephants (one ridden by a man who was singing loudly through a
megaphone), an ornately garlanded large truck, an impossibly bad (so
bad it was great) brass band marched in the opposite direction right
down a very trafficky road.

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My parade is too long to show both directions of traffic. So here is
the rest.I also should explain that to add to the confusion, there
were several cows milling about. The noise was spectacular - brass
band honking, cars beeping, people shouting and/or singing depending
on which direction they were going and the market stalls on the sides
of the road still doing a booming business selling vegetables, bolts
of cloth, pots and pans, etc. etc.

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Many thanks to Marijn Kampf
for the truck and cars.


Other parades:
Macy's Thanksgiving parade
Caribana parade 


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