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   Daniel Pitts to Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch   
   Re: A gallery of weird s*it.   
   20 Jun 12 10:35:49   
   
   From: newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net   
      
   On 6/20/12 10:18 AM, Martin 'Martinland' Schemitsch wrote:   
   > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:53:56 +0100, Daniel wrote:   
   >   
   >> Actually, I was having a hard time with it to. The "..." strings got   
   >> converted to an ellipse ("…"), which is one third the width. I posted   
   >> into a text editor, did a search and replace, and saw a bird being   
   >> flipped my way ;-)   
   >   
   > Ha, most interesting explanation, thanks!   
   > Tried your approach and saw nothing like a bird, more like a fist and   
   > finger (which would be in line with the Enterprise), but not clearly so   
   > either. Strange indeed.   
      
   "Flipping the bird" is a euphemism for giving someone the finger, so   
   indeed we saw the same image.   
      
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