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And now, back to the drawing board...
with apologies to Magritte,
"This is NOT an artist"
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Arjan Kenter wrote one day in the newsgroup
"This raises the question, though, how we could put our
signatures on the backsides of our ascii art..."
My reply:
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/|\ '-~ /|^^ (That pose really does work
/ | \ ejm98 | \ in ASCII-art!)
.:|Pencils & Brushes|:. (03-Aug-02)
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