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[Nick Moffitt]

----- Forwarded message -----
From: kibo at world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.fan.warlord
Subject: Re: I see "calendarization" used all over the place but...
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:23:21 GMT

In alt.fan.warlord, Joe Manfre (manfre at flash.net) wrote:
>
> In alt.usage.english, Jack Slater (jack.slater at cnh.com) sigged:
> > 
> > --
> >                                 o
> >                       _o     <|\
> >                   _ \<_    _\
> >  __ --^o- _ (_)/(_) _  /  __
> > |                                       |
> > |        Jack D. Slater         |
> > |   jack.slater at cnh.com   |
> > |___________________ |
> 
> 
> See, that's what happens when you ride your bike on top of the
> secondary hull.  Scotty pops his head up and trips you, and you
> go right over the handlebars.  Crazy kids.

At first I said, "Ye gods, the natives had never seen such tab damage!"
but then I realized that the parts were misaligned the wrong way.
This .signature was designed to line up in a _proportional_ font --
it looks perfect in Helvetica or Arial (Arial was designed to have
exactly the same spacing as Helvetica.)

It aligns pretty well in Times or Times New Roman, too, but
doing fine art in a roman font is silly 'cause you get too many
thicks and thins that make it all typographic and stuff.

In any case, I think we need to bring in Dr. McIrvin to consult
on an important new project:  We need to design a .signature
that looks like one thing normally, and turns into another
thing when tab-damaged, and turns into a third thing when
viewed in Arial.  And maybe even a fourth thing when viewed in
Arial with tab damage.

I'm not sure what the various pictures should be, but that's not
important.  The important thing is that we need a .signature that
dynamically adapts to the its environment so it can display the
appropriate kinds of ugly egotism and/or stick figures on bikes.

Maybe we should also bring in Scott Kim to make sure it's still
legible if someone accidentally reads it backwards.

                                  -- K.

                                     And we could tell John Travolta that
                                     L. Ron Hubbard wrote it and then he'd
                                     dress up like it in a movie.  Imagine
                                     him with backslashes and bits of
                                     bicycles glued all over his body.
                                    "Wow!  I'd have a hard time telling
                                     that that was John Travolta, if he
                                     weren't overacting!"

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