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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Apr 1995.
Talk: Quote attribute; Ob-ASCII: Line: ARKANOID II

Talk: Quote attribute; Ob-ASCII: Line: ARKANOID II

jp...@ecf.toronto.edu (Jason Pilon) writes:
>Daniel Au <dca...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> wrote:

>>| | jon@raven.    | |     "It's better to burn out than to fade away."
>>| |_______________| |                             - Kurt Kobain
>>
>>Oh, btw, I believe it's 'than' rather than 'then' in order to be grammatically
>>correct.  We want the best for your sig, you know ;)

>Nice work Daniel.  One small thing, in the vein of being grammatically 
>correct:  The quote is incorrectly attributed.  "It's better to burn out 
>than fade away" is a line from a Neil Young song (the name of which evades 
>me at the moment).

It is also a sample in the song "Gimme the Prize" by Queen.  The sample
comes from the movie Highlander, and spoken by the Kurgan.

"I have something to say:  it's better to burn out than to fade away."

Now we're really straying from ASCII art discussion, so...

Ob-ASCII-art:

       /|___    ___         ___    ___           _______        ______
      /  ___\  | _ |       / |\\  | _ |,-------,| _  ___\      | _  _ | TM
     //||   \\ || ||/\    //|| \\ || |' _-----_ '| ||   \\     || || ||
    // || |\ \\|| | /\\  // ||  \\|| | / ,,,,, \ | || |\ \\    || || ||
   //  || | > > | |/ // //  ||   \ | || /#####\ || || | > >>   || || ||
  // A || '' < <|   // // A || |\ \| || \#####/ || || ''.//    || || ||
 // _  ||  /\ \ |   \\// _  || | \   | \_"""""_/ | ||  //'     || || ||
<< < |_|| |/\\ \|_|\ \< < |_||_|  \__|,  -----  ,| || //       || || ||
 \\/___ |//  \\/____\/^\/_______|\____|`-------'||/ |//        ||/ |// 
  \/   | /    \/    \/ \/                       | /| /         | /| /
       |/                                       |/ |/          |/ |/
    ___    __    _   __     __      __  __    _  __    _  _      _
     | |_||_    |_) |_ |  ||_  |\ |/ _ |_    | ||_    | \| ||_| (R)
     | | ||__   | \ |__ \/ |__ | \|\_| |__   |_||     |_/|_|| |   

                         ____ /\.,-()____ ____
                          || / //  || || //  \\
gbe...@cse.unl.edu      ||/_||_\ || || \\__// TM           Apr. 20, 1995

Okay, so I'm not all that happy with the A's or the D.  What do expect
on the spur of the moment?  Perfection?

-- 
----'     http://cse.unl.edu/~gberigan/ (Greg Berigan)
------,
    ,-|-, "Some say he's the devil himself."  "I heard he was            _
----' '-'  a giant chicken!" -- Highlander Boo: The Chickening          d b CC

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From: gbe...@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)
Subject: Talk: Quote attribute; Ob-ASCII: Line: ARKANOID II
Date: 1995/04/20
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