From: colin.randall2@googlemail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 11:53:43 PM UTC, Eli the Bearded wrote:   
   > In alt.ascii-art, colin randall  wrote:   
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   > In my experience, up to 79 columns is safe everywhere. (Anyone reading   
   > news on smaller screens tends to know things will mess up.)   
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   > > a tracing of a relief found on a 5000-year-old ostrich-egg   
   > It's very good.   
   > > i noticed that the horn is somewhat irregular but decided   
   > > the barbarian-slave that carved it was shed-loads better at   
   > > drawing than i am so left it as is   
   > Could be that the animal had a distinctive look and that's why it was   
   > drawn.   
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   > Elijah   
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   > maybe it was a quirk of how the horn twisted   
   i looked-up horned-animal pictures and it seems you are correct   
   the horn cross-section is not regular on animals with a face like that   
   plus they don't always twist the same way ... the nearest match i could find   
   was "long-horn sheep"   
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   cjr   
      
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