I (Veronica Karlsson, VK, vk@ludd.luth.se) made these pictures:

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Johan Lekberg wrote:
> Special message to joan and veroica, i have seen that you like to jump
> on all people that doesnt think as you do. This is not something i only
> say to you though i only gave you as exampel. Please jump on my head if
> you like it but remeber who is the childish one first.

you suggested it...


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             ( Hey! this is almost as fun as frogball! )
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----'`-----'


(and I just LOVE to be childish! ;)
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[Mace]


         |\
         | \        /|
         |  \____  / |
        /|__/AMMA\/  |
      /AMMMMMMMMMMM\_|
  ___/AMMMMMMMMMMMMMMA
  \   |MVKMMM/ .\MMMMM\
   \__/MMMMMM\  /MMMMMM---
   |MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM|  /
   |MMMM/. \MM.--MMMMMM\/
   /\MMM\  /MM\  |MMMMMM   ___
  /  |MMMMMMMMM\ |MMMMMM--/   \-.
 /___/MMMMMMMMMM\|M.--M/___/_|   \
      \VMM/\MMMMMMM\  |      /\ \/
       \V/  \MMMMMMM\ |     /_  /
         |  /MMMV'   \|    |/ _/
         | /              _/  /
         |/              /| \'
 VK                     /_  /
                        /  /


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[used teabag, ewww!]

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               |     .#|
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               |#######|

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[working table with lamp]


                  M
                 ' `
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                |  :|`-._`-._
               /   ::\   `-._`-._
              /     ::\      `-(_)
             |_________|      / /
                 `-'         / /
                            / /
                           / /
                          / /
         ________________/ _&_______
        /8P'             `'    Y888/
       /P'        ____________  Y8/
 VK   /'  /\     /           /   /
     /  . \ \   /           /   /
    /  //  \ \ /           /   /
   /  //    \ \___________/   /
  / ///      \ \       __    /
 /8 `'        \/      /_/  ./
/88b.____________________.8/


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[cherries]

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  `8b:!!!:Yb!!!!:::::!d88
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[toilet paper]


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 VK            \\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
                \................\



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[sig sized dog]

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    || ||    - a:f/VK -

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[viking ship]


A certain "PC" posted some American tourists in Venice in 1997.
I responded with these Danish tourists in Venice in 997:


                        A_______
                        |______<
                        ||
                  ______||_______
                  \##############\
                   \##############\
                   |               |
                   |               |
                   |###############|
                   |###############|
                   |               |
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                   |###############|
                  /###############/          @@
          /\     /_______________/          (  C
 (@\     ( ")   /\\  /\\||/\\  /\\  /\\    / /'
   \\_   (\_)  ( "))( ")|( "))( "))( "))  / /
    \```--/----/(o)-/(o)-/(o)-/(o)-/(o)--' /
~~~~~~~~~/ ~~~/~~~~/~~~~/~~~~/~~~~/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    - - '  ( ' )( ' )( ' )( ' )( ' )

--

A pitiful attempt at drawing M.C. Escher's endless stairs:


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        .'        .|    `-.|`-._    .'        .'      `-.'`-._
      .'        .' |            `-.|`-._    .'        .'      `-.
      |_`-._   /   |                    `-.|`-._   ..'          /
    .'  `-._`-'    |                            `.' `-._      .'|
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|        |.'         .' |_            .'`-._        /           |
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|             `-._.' /         .'| .'          .|/              |
|                 |.'         / .'`-._        /                 |
|                  `-._     .' /      `-._  .'                  |
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            `-.                     |            .'
               `-.                  |          .'
                  `-.               |         /
                     `-.            |       .'
                        `-.         |     .'
 VK                        `-.      |    /
                              `-.   |  .'
                                 `-.|.'


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For some reason people didn't notice this one when I posted it to
alt.ascii-art with the title "$i$$ling hot $ex!!! don't mi$$!!!
$mall-grown couple in action!!!" as a parody of one of the most
common forms of spam.


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     / 8//=/\=, /
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     |  (  )  | |
 VK  |__'"``__|/


[small couple by unknown]

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[more "impossible" objects]

       ____________
      /\  ________ \
     /  \ \______/\ \
    / /\ \ \  / /\ \ \
   / / /\ \ \/ / /\ \ \
  / / /__\_\/ / /__\_\ \
 / /_/______\/_/________\
 \ \ \______/\ \______  /
  \ \ \  / /\ \ \  / / /
   \ \ \/ / /\ \ \/ / /
    \ \/ / /__\_\/ / /
     \  / /______\/ /
 VK   \/___________/

       ____________
      /\  ________ \
     /  \ \______/\ \
    / /\ \ \  / /\ \ \
   / / /\ \ \/ / /\ \ \
  / / /__\_\/ / /__\_\ \
 / /_/_______/ /________\
 \ \ \______ \ \______  /
  \ \ \  / /\ \ \  / / /
   \ \ \/ / /\ \ \/ / /
    \ \/ / /__\_\/ / /
     \  / /______\/ /
 VK   \/___________/


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[huge tree]

llizard said "touch wood", and I illustrated:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> You have no idea. They upgraded the mail system again and we were
> terrified that we would be required to return to the old stamp licking
> envelope system. But so far, so good... (touch wood)  :^)
>

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How to clean up efficiently
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[Quoted: VK, Unquoted: llizard]



Now I MUST FIND THAT RAKE!

> --  __    ,TOT TOOT TOOOOOT!!!
>-  -[8,]___           #$%                        $%$
> -  [______]_/    #$"$#%&%&/   #"$#%%&%&        #$%#$%#
>-  -(oooooo) \ #$%&&"#$$$%%& &&/&/%#$#"$$"#" "#$%%&&&/$%$%

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ejm97     /

I only just got my head put back on recently! Don't make me laugh it off
aga-i--

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I'm so glad you understand the concept of raking rooms clean. One of my
colleagues looked very puzzled and said, "What's a rake? You mean a rake
like a garden rake? Why do you need a rake for an indoor room?"   :^D


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The Big Hat Discussion
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[Quoted: llizard, Unquoted: VK]

Wide hats are also nice... :)

> But fly off when bicycling. :^D


Not mine:

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   '     `
  |       |
  |_______|_____



(but I had to look in ten shops before I found one that didn't feel  like
it was sitting somewhere on top of my head instead of _around_  it...)

>Does "_around_ it" mean too large or too small?  Most hats I find a way
>to large for my head and I can't see.
>
>            _-'-_
>           /     \
>          |       |
>   _______|_______|________
>            \_O_/
>ejm97      __) (__
>          /  +++  \
>

I have a big head and most hats sort of sit on top of it with nothing
holding them in place, easy victims for the wind... :(


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         | o  o |
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>:^D

Alternative pictures in version 2.0 of the same letter:

I have a big head and most hats sort of sit on top of it, with nothing
holding them there and protecting them from the wind....

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   .'         `.
  /             \
 |               |
 |               |
 |               |
 |               |
  \             /
   `.         .'
     `-.._..-'


>:^D  I can't tell which version I think is funnier.

A good hat should get down far enough to fit _around_ the head:

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     .'         `.
    /             \
   |               |
___|_______________|___
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     `.         .'
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>Quite right. I had the perfect wide brimmed straw hat that I was wearing
>one day last summer when there was an unexpected deluge of rain. It
>shrank when it dried and now it pinches my forehead and leaves a mark
>when I jam it on my head. I, of course, have not found the perfect hat
>to replace it and so continue to wear it. :^D

I have a hat like that, but I found that I have an old saucepan which is
just a little bit wider than my head so I wet the hat and forced it to dry
on the saucepan. It worked =)

             _..--.._
          .'          `.
         (              )
         (      hat      )
          |`--..__..--'|\)
           `--..__..--'  |
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           |          |  |
.-------.__| saucepan |  ()-------.
`-------'  `--..__..--'   \________`.

That saucepan is now no longer a saucepan but a hat size improvement tool.

>That's a great idea. I will search the saucepan drawer and see if there
>is a potential hat size improvement tool.

(I was lucky - I only have one saucepan... well, HAD one saucepan, right
now I don't have a saucepan so I borrow one from somebody else when I
need one... :D )

>:^D  Only one saucepan!! And now no saucepan except a borrowed
>saucepan!!!  You'll starve.

I live in a "student corridor" remember, twelve students, one kitchen...

>Ai yai yai. I'd forgotten. You'll starve for sure!  :^D



Parallell thread:

> >Wide hats are also nice... :)
>
> But fly off when bicycling. :^D
>

Not mine:

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   '     `
  |       |
  |_______|_____



> Oh *that* kind of wide hat. I thought you meant:
>               ___
>             '     `
>            |       |
>  __________|_______|___________
>

They are nice too, but not to use on bike


>
> I have one like yours too that I pin a handkerchief to the back so it
> looks like a Foreign Legion hat.
>
>      ___
>    '     `
>   |       |
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>   || |
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>

:D

I used to have one with mosquito net:

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   |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
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>How excellent! I should look into getting one of those. :^D

I just tried to use it as a "hair clip"...


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That way there should be no risk of it falling off.... :D

>But what if the hat is so securely fastened to your hair that it pulls
>your hair out in a high wind?  :^D

No, what wold happen would be that the front part tries to fly away but is
stopped by the back part and the whole thing would just flop over my
head.... :D

> But what if the wind was so strong that the front part gets flipped back
> and tears the hair out of your head?  :^D

no, all it would do would be to tear the hat away from the head... :D

>along with your hair if the wind was very very strong:
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>

> I actually attach a barette to
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>
> because my hair, even though it is very long, doesn't hold the hat on
> well enough in the wind. (not enough hair?)

???

There is a hole at the back of those things and I pull my hair through
that.... (well, actually I open the clip and then shut it again around the
hair)

>Yes I do the same thing but in a high wind, the hat just slips down my
>hair. If I attach a metal barette to the clip part and fasten it to my
>hair, then the hat stays fixed to my head.

It isn't "tied" to the hair in any way.... If the hair has thickness 1
unit then the opening that it goes through is about 3 units big...

> Yes I do the same thing but in a high wind, the hat just slips down my
> hair.

:D  I suspect the same thing would happen to me, but at least it would
slide down to somewhere near me, not fly away across the road or into a
ditch or something...


> Before I started fastening mine with a barette, I had one slide down my
> hair and then fly in the wind across the road and under the wheel (dirty)
> of a car before I could rescue it.

ok, then that method wouldn't work for me either ..... but it feels nice,
and it keeps my hair out of the way... =)

>:^)


More parallellism:

> If I attach a metal barette to the clip part and fasten it to my
> hair, then the hat stays fixed to my head.

I haven't done that :D  [what is a "metal barette"?]

> Maybe you call it a slide?

????? (picture?)

>back view of head:
>
>             _-|-_
>            /|||||\
>           |||||||||  <---hair
>           |||||||||
>            \|||||/
>             \|||/
> ejm97       [___] <---barette
>             /|||\
>            //|||\\
>           ///|||\\\
>          ((( ))) )))


yes, I got that part, but what does it look like (details)? and how did
you get that to stick to the hat?

>Sorry, I thought you didn't recognize the word "barette". I hook it into
>the loop of the hat.
>
>                           _____
>                         '       `
>                        |         |
>                      __|         |
>barette goes here--> [___]________|_____
>                    / '|| ``  `  _|
>                    || || `  `  <@ \
>
>back of hat:
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>          '       `
>         |         |
>         |  _____  |
>         |_|=====|_|
>
>
>    _____
>  '       `
> |         |
> |  ____/\ |
> |_|===/ /_| <--- barette gets attached to the strap at the back
>       \/         and hair.



a bit of both really (and the little square doesn't really explain any
more than I had already guessed...)

Does it look something like this?


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     (`-._        _.-' .-'|
      `-._`------' _.-'  /
    __    `-------'.-' .'
   (\_\_       _.-' .-'
    \(_ `-----' _.-'
 VK    `-------'

>Yes. (Well done. I gave up trying to make that very thing.)



>                    _.-\\
>   (`-._        _.-' .-'|
>    `-._`------' _.-'  /  _____
>  __    `-------'=========     |
> (\_\_    |  _.-' .-'    |     |
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>          |                    | <---hat
>          |                    |
>           \__________________/
>
>I had to do it upsidedown because I'm too lazy to turn your barette
>around. Does that make it any clearer?

Yes :D
But doesn't that feel a bit uneven?

>No, you can adjust the hat and/or barette. There is no rule that says a
>barette has to be at right angles to the hair.

What about the rule that says that it is uncomfortable when something is
uneven...

>:^D  Is this an aesthetic or a physical judgement?

Very physical! (I can't see the back of my neck but I can *feel* it and I
go crazy if something feels uneven...)

>:^D  It can be adjusted so that it all fits. Did I say that you do not
>put your hair through the loop of the hat? Only the barette is used to
>hold the hat to the hair.

hmmmm....????

>     _____
>  .-'     '-.
> |           |
> |   _____   |
> |__|===[__]_|
> )||||||||||||
>/ )|||||||||||
> /|||||||||||)
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>     / ))
>      //
>
>No need to take all that extra time to gather hair together to put
>through hole in hat. You can just jam the hat on your head and fasten
>the barette to some of the hair on the back of your head.

:D (didn't this whole thing start with the hair going through the loop?)

> :^D Oh, didn't I mention that I find it incredibly uncomfortable to put
> my hair through the loop and that's why I devised the barette method in
> the first place?

No, I don't think you did, :D (I think it is very comfortable, especially
when I should have washed my hair yesterday and want a reason to keep
wearing the hat indoors....)

>:^D


:)
I'm bad!

>It's supposed to be very good for the health of your hair to let it stay
>oily....
>Sometimes, I'm bad too. It gets really scary if someone asks me if I
>have just washed my hair because the comb lines are so visible.  :^D


Forking off again:

> No need to take all that extra time to gather hair together to put
> through hole in hat. You can just jam the hat on your head and fasten
> the barette to some of the hair on the back of your head.

hmmmm.... maybe..... but it would still be uneven....

> No, not so much that you notice. :^D

I think I would probably notice.... :D

>Then you are like the princess and the pea?
>
> ___________________________
>| *    .  .     *    ..     |
>|.   (       .      *      *|
>|        *     *       *  . |
>|___________________________|
>
>       ! _                 _____
>       |(@} sigh       !  [03:01]
>       |(_/--________..| =========
>       | ||:o::::::::::|  |     |
>       | ||::::::::::::|  |     |
>ejm97  |               |  |_____|



:P

I WOULD notice! There is not twelve, and twelve more, mattresses
between my head and my hat! :D

>:^D





--

A coupe of superllizards:


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--

A friendly discussion with Kishan
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>... though you would prob. hit me w something
>> really cruel and really sharp for saying so.
>you are quite right!

:-(  <:-O

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OWWW!!!


Ouch, my little Swedish meatball!  Don't hurt me ... (too much).


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Princess Diana

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--
[Veronica with knife, Veronica with sword, Veronica with motor saw,
 Veronica sleeping]


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  ||__________\  /________\__/_______||
  || #$%% &    \/               #"$  ||
  ||#VK%&$#%$&%&&%/#  #$$%$#%&%$%#$#"||


--


Joris Bellenger wrote:
>
>DON'T ASK AROUND!!! curosity might have killed your cat.  ;)
>
>
>>              ||||          ||||
>>         ____ ||||__________||||
>>       >/     <_________________'-------
>>        \ XX /                  `"""""""
>>         \/\/


I'm sure you wouldn't let that happen to my very own cat! :-o

You would pick him up...

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           >/    /\______________/\_'-------
            \ XX \_/     |       \_/`"""""""
             \/\/        |       |


...and take him to the vet...

                            /\
                          \/ /
                          /\/
                         / /\
                        / /
              ||||      \/  ||||
         ____ ||||_____/____||||
       >/     <_________________'-------
        \ XX /                  `"""""""
         \/\/

...and the vet would cure him...

                                       .--------------------.
                                      ( WOW! I'll never play )
                                     / \ with snakes again! /
                               /\/\ /   `------------------'
      ________________________/ OO \
      -------.   _________   > ____/<
             ||||         ||||
             ||||         ||||


...and everybody would be happy again :)

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 -------.   _____\/|_   > ___/<  |
        ||||         |||||       |
        ||||         |||||       |

--



 
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--
[fist]


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--
[boredom pattern]


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--
[a piece of cake, sig]


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( OO .O. O  O  OO............| ThePieMaster@thepieeater.demon.co.uk
|___________.---------------'


--
[Yorkshire terrier, "yorkie"]


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--
[computer trouble]


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--
[axe and log]





                                                      _.---------._
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--
[bike]


                                                      __
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                          / _____________________\ ._._.'.'(
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          """"""                                          """""""



--
[mountain climbing]



                                                 /
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--
[decorative flower pattern]





                            .od88bo.
                          dP       Yb
                         dP         8
                 d88b   dP   d888b  8
                 Y888  d8    88888 .8
                   88 d88    Y88888P
                   8P 888     Y888P
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