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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Jan 2001.
Re: Need help with retrieving ascii-art

Re: Need help with retrieving ascii-art



On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Philip Powell wrote:
> Not been around for a long while (possibly a couple of years).  Just
> trying to round up my ascii art from days gone by.  My partition died
> and stupidly I never backed up that stuff.  In particular looking for
> the White Tower as it took the longest to do but woudl be nice to get
> back any other ascii anyone has.  Nice to see some failiar names here
> and a lot of new ones.

Hi yourself, and welcome back!


To the ...



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               | | |
             _,|_|_|,_
            / (_,|,_) \
           /___________\
           |___________|
            | UNKNOWN |
            |  ASCII  |
            | ARTIST. |
           /|_________|\
          /_____________\
          |________b'ger|



here are a few pictures I have saved:



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           |~~~~~~~~~| |
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           || '(;   || |
           ||   ;)' || |
           ||  {;}  || |
           ||   ;)' || |
           ||:a(;   || |
           ||   ;)' || |
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          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~'       _








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I'm not a girl.  I'm a red indian sig.|| \-/
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                                       '






                                       THE
                                     ELEPHANT
                              The   elephant's   got
     ___.---.___             a long trunk, he  uses to
   .'  (     )  '.          get  a   drink. I  can think
   )   /)' '(    )           of one   more use  for it.
   ',_( ';-;'\_,'              To      check     his
         |-|                         /(feet)\
         (")                        (( don't))
                                       stink
                                       !Well
                                       I had
                                       a go!
                                        PjP


  Phil







       ,
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                _________
                  ,-'-.____()
                 (____.--"""
            PjP  -'--'-
      _________________
             _;_               _
         _.-')  '--.__________(/)
        /   /  __.  PjP    ___/
       (__ /-=;==='__.--"""
         ."""""""@"'












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            '











                         /    | |  |  | |
     Have you been playing    | |  |  | |
     on Daddys computer again?| |__|__| |
                              ( ;     ; )
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   qPjPp (\/) Shake!            |  |  |
    (@) ;)'"                    |  |  |
   //v\//                       |__|__|
 (;,;#;,     ,--,_     __    .--&  |  &--.
__(;/";))____-O--o'___('_)-_(______|______)_-[=
###############################################











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             ||   ()   ()      PjP       ()   () /( || )\
             ||   ||   ||       -        ||   ||( '-||-' )
             || ,;.)   (.;,            ,;.)   (.;,(~\/~)/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~








        /      /                    /                          /
                      Coventry, England, 11 December 1998
          __.__                                 /
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   |       `--'     /   ______         .        q|p
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   |    | '(u)    |     ||  |   | | 1-|  |   |    |   |  (u)'   /
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########################PjP####################################
                         -








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            /                '..' ()    /                           /
           /________   o               /    . \     o     _________/
        /|/o ____   / /|"             /    (|==;o        /  o___/|\
       /_|/"'   /  /-, )\       _.--"/"-,   ' "     _.--/  ~|\ / |_\
______/_//)   /  /   :'..'     /    /    :  "/-    /   /  / (\/_/__/____/""|
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    /_|     /  /.-'      o    `._ /_.-'           `. /  /     |_\/
     /-----'  /         /|"     /         / .       /  `-----/
    /--------'          /)     /       o;==|)    __`--------/
   /                   '..'   /          " '    '..'       /
  /__________________________/____________________________/





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           |






      ____________________
     |  |              |  |
     |[]|              |[]|
     |  |              |  |
     |  |              |  |
     |  |              |  |
     |  |______________|  |
     |                    |
     |     ____________   |
     |    | __      |  |  |
     |    ||  |     |  |  |
     |    ||__|     |  |  |
  pjp|____|_________|__|__|











                  ____
                (xXXXX|xx======---(-  Apology accepted Captain Needa
                /     |
               /    XX|
              /xxx XXX|
             /xxx X   |
            / ________|
    __ ____/_|_|_______\_      Red two standing by.
###|=||________|_________|    /
    ~~   |==| __  _  __  /|~~~~~~~~~-------------_______
         |==| ||(( ||()|| |XXXXXXXX| pow...@coventry.ac.uk
    __   |==| ~~__~__~~__\|_________-------------~~~~~~~
###|=||~~~~~~~~|_______  |
    ~~ ~~~~\~|~|       /~
            \ ~~~~~~~~~
             \xxx X   |
              \xxx XXX|
               \    XX|
                \     |
PjP             (xXXXX|xx======---(-  Do or do not, there is no try!
                  ~~~~







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~~|~~~~~~|------_______                   /\__/\_
__|______|------~~~~~~~       ------     ( (__) )
~~;-----)                                 \/__\/~
   \=/|~                  -------    ~=____ || ____=~        _~~=_
   :\=|==--{- pow...@coventry.ac.uk      ~~~~~~~~~~         / /=  ~~= --
     ~~                                                     | , ;` '|--
 




And finally I have attached the magnificent white tower (it wrapped 
during copy in paste, therefor the attachment...)


:)
Andreas


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From: Philip Powell aka PjP




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With thanks to Richard M. Boye' for drawing the fantastic picture I copied.

The original picture can be found on his web site at :
http://www.webspan.net/~waldo/


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