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colin randall

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Dec 16, 2020, 11:32:27 AM12/16/20
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a tracing of a relief found on a 5000-year-old ostrich-egg

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

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Eli the Bearded

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Dec 22, 2020, 6:53:43 PM12/22/20
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In alt.ascii-art, colin randall <colin.r...@googlemail.com> 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.)
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.

Elijah
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maybe it was a quirk of how the horn twisted

colin randall

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Jan 4, 2021, 2:47:55 PM1/4/21
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On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 11:53:43 PM UTC, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In alt.ascii-art, colin randall <colin.r...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > <=- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 7 c o l u m n s w i d e - - - - - - -=>
> > ^
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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.
>
> 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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