From: nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas)
Subject: Re: My first Triangle
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:55:49 GMT

cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
>nsn@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas) writes:
>>Smash your icon of Ciaran with an axe,
>Of course, if/when the Edinburgh party photos make it onto an ftp site
>then it is likely that any icons of me will be digitised images on
>workstation screens. 

With little eensy lettering on the T-shirt: "I'm easy...to take an axe to" :)

>So if you really want to take an axe to the icon
>(and I don't recommend it unless you can afford a new VDU) then make
>sure you unplug the workstation first. 

I was planning on getting a printout first aksherly, dear heart... Possibly
viewing the beast on Messydos Windows too, instead; then I might be said
to be doing a community service :)

>Of course, it would be much
>easier to simply the `quit' button on the image viewer and delete the
>file. Cheaper too.

Yeah. But it doesn't give you the same warm inner glow...

(mwahahaha. Confused *and* wielding an icepick! :)

>>burn your poster of Elf to finest ash,
>>and hurl your Iseult statuette out the window.
>Wha?... You mean that posters of Elf and ststuettes of Iseult are on sale!?  

As soon as I get out the crayons and the plasticine, sure...

ELF-D00D                              ISEULT-(attit)D00D

   /O\   Is this an AMPALANG                _(G <-- gracefully applied lipstick
    |    I see before me?!                    |   _
  `-H-'   /                                  /)---V <-- crutch - doubles as
    U    /                                  / |   Y                 pool cue
   /\                                       |G|b==============) <-- aristopha-
  _||_                                      `/ \  |                 nesque 
                                            /   \ |                 phallus
 OOOOOOO  <-- adulating fans                -L-L- U
 MMMMMMM   o-|-<  <-- trampled Steve "Edified" Franklin

>Why wasn't I informed? 

Because I previously had no great urge to make a f00l of myself in public :)

>Where can I buy them? 

I'll tell you as soon as I set up details with my bankers in Zurich...

>Do they take credit cards?

No, but they wouldn't mind some of them nice calligraphic badges...

>I can just imagine the advertising slogan:
>	The Iseult Statuette---lovingly handcrafted out of a
>	queen-sized, latex didlo. Crutch optional.

Strap-on Aristophanesque phallus sold separately. Invective not included.
Certificate of "No Sillies, Just Sexual!"-hood free with every purchase of
L'Ogresse No 5 lipstick.

>Ciaran.

God I love a man with a palatal plosive in his name :)

(Happy memories of consoling Karina by saying "hey, velar plosives are OK 
too :)

(And I haven't even *started* on palatoalveolar affricates, Joe! :)

"Kai` sa`n swqh~kan t'akriba` piota`,           N N O  nsn@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
 kai` sa`n plhsi'aze pia` [h [w'ra te'sseres,   I I L  IRC:nicxjo RL:shaddupnic
 sto`n e'rwta doqh~kan eutuxei~s."              C C A  University of Melbourne.
  K.P.Kaba'fhs, _Du'o Ne'oi, 23 E'ws 24 Etw~n_  K H S  *Ceci n'est pas un .sig*