Re: The Cowstein Gallery

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Pete Casso wrote:

> <snip long quote>
> 
> Thanks for the popularity statement, I myself foresee a world wide 'stein
> craze :-)))
> 
> On giving each other feedback, there is one pic of yours that I like, the fish
> that jumps out of the water. But unfortunately, I don't like any of your other
> pics, in most cases I can't even be sure what your pics are supposed to show.

Pete, this is all getting very, very childish.  Here is the chain of
events as I see it :

Pete Casso makes some cartoons (steins)

Colin pays him a compliment by saying his "stein" sub genre is second only 
to the "silly cows".  

Pete Casso takes offence at this compliment and says so.

Colin explains that the "silly cows" is the description which he remembers
of the "cow" pictures.

Others back him up.

Pete Casso sees an ideal opportunity to be obnoxious and proceeds to
create a load of very childish and unfunny cartoons of everyone who tried
to point out that Colin was paying him a compliment in the first place.

Typical behaviour of a child who knows he is in the wrong but does not
want to admit it.

         __________________________
       ,(                          )                    
      (Hmm! looks like I was wrong!\             
 .PC / (I know, I'll take the mickey)_____________
(  -)  (out of other people so no-one will notice!)
 " "    """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

Alternatively perhaps he is just so big headed that he believes the
original statement should have been :

"And Pete Casso's stein cartoons easily overshadow every other ASCII sub
genre and genre and anything else you care to mention as the most
important discovery of all time."


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  @@                                 @@
 @@                       @@@@@@@@    @@
 @@                       @@@@@@@@    @@          MOOOOO!  MOOO! MOOO! * 
  @@                                 @@     (  ) /
   @@                               @@       OO
                                             \/@@@@@'\
        @@  @@             @@  @@               @@@@@ ^ 
        @@  @@             @@  @@              (|  |(  
                                            


* Roughly translated :  Oh great and powerful Pete Casso, We humbly bow to 
                        you in your magnificence.  You, whose great stein
                        cartoons do overshadow anything created by
                        Llizard, Joan, Veronica and everyone else.  Such 
                        mastery of wit and the power to put it down in
                        ASCII characters comes but rarely.  Oh how we 
                        laugh at your inane pictures of *chortle* Miss
                        Longlegstein, and *guffaw*, MissWellendowedstein
                        and do humbly beg for more of your stein awards
                        for our meagre offerings.
                        

Now, read that and tell me that it does not sound extremely childish.

I personally do not find the cartoons funny, but I realise that others
do, and put up with them without mentioning them.  The first time I saw
them, I may have thought it was clever to make recognisable pictures out
of so few characters but my liking for them quickly started to wear a
little thin when I found out what an obnoxious person Pete Casso really
is.
 
I would advise anyone who thinks of paying Pete Casso a compliment to
think long and hard about it and get used to being called names and being
ridiculed in a public forum before they do so.

I fully expect to see an extremely humorous picture portraying me as an
"asciigangstein" that has not graduated to being a "sillycowstein" form
Pete Casso very soon.


Of course everyone knows what Pete Casso's pics are supposed to show
because he cleverly tells you in the name.

ie

  Miss Longleggedstein
  Frogstein
  BirdStein
  and here is :

  CowStein :
   ,  ,
    --
    oo

   PigStein :
      __
   "..) )@
    oo" "
 
   Monkeystein :

    {oo}
  (_  - /)
    '( )
     " "
   Snailstein :

   "\@


Of course none look like what they portray but the name makes you think
they do.

Phil

 ,.'
 PjP 
  -
 

Now I think it's time to get back to ASCII pictures again don't you?
 
> 
> =========================================================
> []   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
> []  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
> []   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
> =========================================================
> 
> 

     oo  
   (  -)  Frogstein, who is pointless!
    " "


Mr KnightonHorsebackstein :

                       Ha! Ha! Ha!  I'm laughing with Joan!
             ,;~;,   /  at P'Casso!
                /\_  
               (  /   
               (()      //)
               | \\  ,,;;'\           Philip Powell
           __ _(  )m=(((((((((((((================--------
         /'  ' '()/~' '.(, |      ccx...@coventry.ac.uk
      ,;(      )||     |  ~  \
     ,;' \    /-(.;,   )      I don't get the joke!
          ) /       ) /     
         //         ||        .PC / Nor me!
        )_\         )_\      (  @)
      HorseStein              " " 
                                  BabyPeteStein


The @ sign is supposed to be a dummy (pacifier to USA etc)



Disclaimer :

The steins and any variations on them are Pete Casso's.  I want no credit
for them, I don't even want to hear about them.  The cow is mine but it
may look exactly like one of the "silly cows".  I am sorry for this and
take no credit for it.  I just did it to illustrate a point.

The @ signs were not created by me and nor were any other of the ASCII
character signs.  However the putting them together into a giant 
frogstein was my own doing although I copied the smaller frogstein to do
it.

I hope I have included enough information in there to keep anybody whose
pictures I have used happy.

I am sorry if I have inadvertantly used any of the 'steins that Pete Casso
has created or will create in the future, in this post.  I apologise and
promise never to do it again.


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Sorry for wasting bandwidth with this incredibly long (for me) and largely
flamish post.  I just could not sit back and do nothing anymore.

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