Hi all,

        On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, the digest contained:

> Date:    Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:49:38 -0400
> From:    janet paterson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: nonpd: feline envy / ascii-cats

> i guess we raided the same ascii-art-bank!
> ...
> due to the demise of the 19-year-old-dowager spike,
> my primary share-holders currently are:
>
>
>
>               /^-^\   /^----^\   /^--^\
>               \___/   \______/   \____/
>               /   \   /      \   /    \
>              |     | |        | |      |
>              \_  __/ \__  ____/  \_  _/
> |^|^|^|^|^|^|^/ /^|^|^|^\ \^|^|^|^( (^|^|^|^|
> | | | | | | |/ /| | | | |\ \| | | |) )| | | |
> | | | | | | |\ \| | | | |/ /| | | ( ( | | | |
> | | | | | | | \/| | | | |\/ | | | |\/ | | | |
> #############################################
>               speckles  spud     stubby
> aka           ms priss  fatman   spiderman
> aka                     the      mr
>                         pillow   anxiety
> aka                              curly

        :-)

        That's  great,  janet!  We *may* both have raided (robbed? :-)
     ?) the same ASCII-art bank.  I don't really want  to  sound  like
     the  geeky  'Net old-timer that I really am, but ASCII-art always
     makes me yearn for the old-days  of  24-line/80-column  terminals
     and  terminal  emulators.   Folks  were  oh-so-much-more creative
     then. [G]

        At  the same time, it makes me feel a little sad for the "new-
     timers" (does that make sense?!?) -- especially  our  friends  on
     AOL or any of the Web-based mail systems such as HotMail, Rocket-
     Mail, YahooMail, and the like.  Without some major mouse  effort,
     those  people will never be able to experience the creativity be-
     cause they can't change their mail reader to  use  a  mono-spaced
     (typewriter-like) font.

        Helvetica-shmelvetica, Courier rules!

        And  people  just  don't  understand  why I telnet into a UNIX
     shell account and use Pine/vi to send and read mail.   They  just
     don't know what they're missing.

        Thanks, janet, for sharing your ASCII cats and their real-life
     counterparts.  Take care ...

Bill--
  ...who says "It's not a purse!  It's a bag -- a big, red, magic bag!"
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