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   colonel_hack@yahoo.com to Eli the Bearded   
   Re: dalek   
   13 Dec 16 23:04:56   
   
   On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Eli the Bearded wrote:   
   >   
   > Nice, except for that slippage on the last line.   
   >   
   Don't know where I got the idea to do it or if it catually worked but I   
   used to put dots on the left margin like this:   
      
   .                _____   
   .             .-'     '-.   
   .        /'-./     _     \.-'\   
   .         '_/     (_)     \_'       v^v^v^v  v^   ^v   
   .          /_______________\        v^        ^v v^   
   .           /  |       |  \         v^v^v^     v^v   
   .          /___|_______|___\        v^        ^v v^   
   .          /   |       |   \        v^v^v^v  v^   ^v   
   .         /____|_______|____\   
   .         /    |       |    \         v^v^v^v^  v^v^v^v  v^v^v   
   .        /_____|_______|_____\           ^v     v^       v^  v^   
   .        o+-++-+-+---++-+-+-+o           ^v     v^v^v^   v^v^v   
   .        | / \ | |   | |\|/| |           ^v     v^       v^  v^   
   .        || O || |   | |-o-| |           ^v     v^v^v^v  v^   v^   
   .        | \_/ | +---+ |/|\| |   
   .        =====================            v^v   v^v   v^v^  v^v  ^v   
   .        |    |    |    |    |            v^v^ ^v^v    ^v   v^v^ ^v   
   .        |    |    |    |    |            v^ ^v^ ^v    ^v   v^ ^v^v   
   .       /  () | () | () | ()  \           v^     ^v    ^v   v^  v^v   
   .       |     |    |    |     |           v^     ^v   v^v^  v^   ^v   
   .       |     |    |    |     |   
   .      /  () /  () | ()  \ ()  \               v^v    v^v^v^v^  v^v^v^v   
   .      |    |      |      |    |              ^v v^      ^v     v^   
   .      |    |      |      |    |             v^v^v^v     ^v     v^v^v^   
   .     /  () |  ()  |  ()  | r^2 \           ^v     v^    ^v     v^   
   .    |      |      |      |      |          ^v     v^    ^v     v^v^v^v   
   .    |      |      |      |      |   
   .    =============================   
   .   |_______|______|______|_______|   
      
   And then somewhere along the line I decided something like ``Oh, they must   
   have fixed that by now''.   
      
   The v^v^v^ lettering was supposed to suggest the ring-modulated voice.   
      
   Stacks of boxes   
      
   .           /-/\   
   .  /-/-/-/-/\=\/-/-/=/=/=/-/\   
   .  \=\=\/-/\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\/\   
   .  /-/-/\=\/-/-/-/-/-/o/-/-/\/   
   .  \=\=\=\o\=\=\/=/\=\ \=\=\/    /-/-/\   
   .               \=\/            /-/=/\/\   
   .         /=/\                  \=\-\/\/   
   .  /=/\   \=\/         /-/\/\    \=\=\/   
   .  \=\/                \=\/\/   
   .                       \-\/   
      
      
      
   Schroedinger's Ket (repost)   
      
   .     /|    / |  |\       /| \                .  |  |  |\       /| \  \   
   .      |   /  |  | \.---./ |  \            __ I (|) |  | \.---./ |  \  \   
   .     _|_  |  |  |/`      \|   \    |     /  \   |  |  |/`      \|   \ |   
   .   ------ |  | /   0   0   \   \ --+--  (----'     | /  ><   ><  \   \|   
   .     ___  |  | (     A     )   /   |     \__.      | (     A     )   /|   
   .    / -,  |  |  \ \_/ \_/ /   /                    |  \  _/ \_  /   / |   
   .   /  _|  \  |   |       |   /                     |   |       |   /  /   
   . \/  |_    \ |   |==-L-==|  /                      |   |==-D-==|  /  /   
      
   And so I guess this is Schroedinger's Bra:   
      
   .     /|    /   / |\       /|  |              .  |    / |\       /|  | \   
   .      |   /   /  | \.---./ |  |          __ -I (|)  /  | \.---./ |  |  \   
   .     _|_  |  /   |/`      \|  |   |     /  \    |  /   |/`      \|  |  |   
   .   ------ | /   /   0   0   \ | --+--  (----'     /   /  ><   ><  \ |  |   
   .     ___  | \   (     A     ) |   |     \__.      \   (     A     ) |  |   
   .    / -,  |  \   \ \_/ \_/ /  |                    \   \  _/ \_  /  |  |   
   .   /  _|  \   \   |       |   |                     \   |       |   |  /   
   . \/  |_    \   \  |==-L-==|   |                      \  |==-D-==|   | /   
      
   P'haps a little too ``inside''. See   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation   
      
   .   
   .    /^\   
   .   / C \    "Don't let 'em tear   
   .  /_____\    That little brown building down   
   .   | _ |      Don't let 'em tear   
   .   || ||       That dear old building down"   
   .   || ||   
   .   || ||   
   .   || ||   
   .  """""""""""""""""""   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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