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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 Jul 1994.
The Sig that Ate My Amiga

The Sig that Ate My Amiga

Brian Wilson  <STV...@MUSIC.CC.UGA.EDU> wrote:
>decloakes once again to add my voice to the growing chorus of those
>who have written to those four shows detailing the Save.the.Wizard
>thingee.  Yhippee.  I'd email a copy to Mike FYI, but it's on
>WordPerfect at home.  Hope everyone stuck to a one-page letter... :-)

INSERT AD-SIG HERE:                                     Please WRITE!!
                                                        ~~~~~~ ~~~~~
___________________________________________ __ ._`.*.'_._ ____ ____
  Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc         .   . +  * .o   o.* `.`. +.   
  Hollywood, California, USA        '   *  . ' ' |\^/|  `. * .  * `
 jit...@gumby.gg.caltech.edu    (: May All Your  \V/  Good Dreams 
   <& alt.fan.mike-jittlov>      and Fine Wishes  /_\  Come True:) 
================================================ _/ \_ ============
Yes!  ^It's an actual newsgroup (over 67,500 subscribers worldwide),
haven to hyper-creative mega-crossposting -- plus the very historic
"*SAVE THE WIZARD MOVIE*" Write-In Crusade!  Tune in and lurk on!!


WE RETURN YOU TO OUR QUESTION, IN-PROGRESS:

>Mike, if I may, what exactly does Kibo mean when he says "This is the
>part of my .sig that broke Mike Jittlov's Amiga"?  :-)

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov, alt.politics.kibo,
            alt.religion.kibology, alt.fan.warlord, rec.humor
Date: Sept 23, 1992
Subject: The MEGA-SIG. of KIBO explains *Everything*
Summary: Impossible! Just look at it!! Down there!!!

(After James "Kibo" Parry - UseNet Personality Extraordinaire - posted
 his typographical avalanche in alt.fan.mike-jittlov:)


JAMES KIBO PARRY...

        ...I am struck agape in abject senseless awe... 8@ <a gape

Truly, You have created a WORK of creative Genius, of landmark
Originality and unparalleled Daring, which demands to be
completely printed - nay, EMB0SSED in G0LD - upon a million
million yards (or however many are required) of purest virgin
silk, and dr?Fed and swaddled around both the Ripley's Believe
It-Or-Not Museum _and_ The Guinness Hall of World Records!!


          A teeny-tiny excerpt from the *Mega-Sig*:

*****        *****    *****    ***************          **************
*****        *****    *****    ****************        ****************
*****        *****    *****    *****************      ******************
*****        *****    *****    ******************    ********************
*****        *****    *****    *****       ******    ******        ******
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****    My    *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****   name   *****
*****       *****     *****    *****       *****     *****    is    *****
****************      *****    ****************      *****   short  *****
***************       *****    ***************       *****  'cause  *****
****************      *****    ****************      *****   it's   *****
*****************     *****    *****************     *****   only   *****
*****       ******    *****    *****       ******    *****   four   *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    ***** letters! *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
-- 4:21 -- alt.fan.mike-jittlov -- PREVIEW+next --help:?--8669% --
                                                --RAM is filled --
                     <<<<<-- END OF SCREEN -->>>>>
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****        *****    *****          *****
*****        *****    *****    *****       ******    ******         *****
*****        *****    *****    ******************    ********************
*****        *****    *****    *****************      ******************
*****        *****    *****    ****************        ****************
*****        *****    *****    ***************          **************


My modem is fried, it took three extinguishers to put it out,
but it was all WORTH IT if your entire -*!MEGA-SIG!*- has been
successfully transferred into my still-convulsing Amiga 2000.

I am sure that downloading It had NOTHING to do with Caltech's
Gumby central computer diving into a core-dumping frenzy, claiming
it hadn't been updated for 199,273 hours - then killing its own
daemon three times and outright vanishing from EtherNet existence,
requiring its database to be rebuilt & repatched from scratch.

There was certainly NO connection with the past week of my being
virtually Incommunicado (which is pretty tasty with a twist of
lemon), with every NewsGroup including My OWN blocked to my access
and posting anywhere, and My Name still being phantom-logged on
and sitting in ghostly idleness throughout that time...
ALL of this occuring immediately after I downloaded the MEGA-SIG..

                   "COINCIDENCE" happens.                     ;D


And it's all obviously been fixed, since I'm posting this myself
And it's all obviously been fixed, since I'm posting this myself
And it's all obviously been fixed, since I'm posting this myself
And it's all obviously been fixed, since I'm posting this myself
And it's all obviously been fixed, since I'm posting this myself
And it's all obviously been fixed, since I'm posting this myself
And it's all obviously been fixed, since I'm posting this myself

Plus... I am CURED!  I no longer feel self-conscious about my
own sig. challenging the three-line limit!  I don't even feel
self-conscious about any of the articles I'm about to post!!
As a Matter of Fact, I don't feel Conscious At All!!!!!!!!!1

/^^^^^^\  """"  ======================================  K   /BBC\
|(o)(*)|  <LO!  ||~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~||  i  C  B  S
(  ++  )  THEE  || RAD NBIFF 4REVR!!!!1  KN0T!!!!!2 ||  l  PBS ABC
| ____ |  ANTi  ||jittlovWIZARD@gumbyMEISTERcaltech!||  l   $NBC$
= VVVV =  BART  ======================================  er   IBM
 \____/   xxxx  -+ i am so proud that ive framed it +- `B's  FBI

>>>>>>>>>>>> "A sane man never argues with an Artist!" <<<<<<<<<<<


     *SPOILERS*   MY DEEP-THOTS ON THE MEGA-SIG   *SPOILERS*

  I liked the peanut-butter brownie recipe - reminds me of the
       Society for Creative Anachronism's Kitty Litter Cookies
  Nice moon.                    ^"Presentation is Everything"^
  BTW: Majel Barrett was married to Gene Roddenberry (I don't
       think she even fooled around with Shatner's hair)
  "kibo" is alpha-cryptically 11+9+2+15 = 37 (a prime number!) 

(Uh oh...You can't be a SubGenius!  That last revelation & this
  MEGA-SIG. automatically upgrade you to Mensa Warp-10+Alte!)


But don't let any of this criticism dissuade you from The Goal:

       The UseWorld anxiously awaits the next *KIBO-SIG*
       in 1000k PostScript & Renderman-morphed 3-D Anim &
       Music-X with exploding BIFF heads! 0boy0boy0boy!!!


o===============================o:; ,::::,*.:::::.*.::::::::::::
|   Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc  |';* ';;'..`::::'   `:*`:;::::::
|  902 Maltman, L.A., CA 90026  |;.;+,  '* ```:'o   o `,  `::;::
| jit...@gumby.cs.caltech.edu  |,',.::.. .' .' |\^/|:. `*:.. `*
|    (&alt.fan.mike-jittlov>    |...May All Your \Y/ Good Dreams
| all flames cheerfully ignored |and Fine Wishes /_\ Come True:)
o===============================o===============_/ \_===========

"You may look, but do not touch" - Seven Veils Restaurant (1973)

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