//-o-\\
____—-=======—-____
====___\ /.. ..\ /___==== Klingons rule OK!
// —-\__O__/—- \\
\\ //
There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the
standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.
+————————————————————————————+ | ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ | | ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | +————————————————————————————+ " A Bee in the Carrot Patch "
Within humorous ASCII art, there is for some reason an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. Four of these are reproduced in the silly examples above, here are three more:
(__) (__) (__)
(\/) ($$) (**)
/———-\/ /———-\/ /———-\/
/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
* ||——|| * ||——|| * ||——||
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
Finally, here's a magnificent example of ASCII art depicting an
Edwardian train station in Dunedin, New Zealand:
.-.
/___\
|___|
|][|
/ I \
JL/ | \JL
.-. i () | () i .-.
|| .^. /\ LJ=======LJ /\ .^. ||
./___\._./___\...._.L_J_/.-. .-.\_L_J....._/___\._./___\..._
., |-,-| ., L_J || [I] || L_J ., |-,-| ., .,
JL |-O-| JL L_J%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%L_J JL |-O-| JL JL
IIIIII_HH_'-'-'_HH_IIIIII||=======H=======||IIIIII_HH_'-'-'_HH_IIIIII_HH_
———-[]———-[]———-[]——\.=I=./——[]———-[]———-[]————[]-
/\ ||\\I//|| /\ [] []/_L_J_\[] [] /\ ||\\I//|| /\ ||\
|__| ||=/|\=|| |__||| _L_L_J_J_ |||__| ||=/|\=|| |__| ||-
|__| |||__|__||| |__[___]__—__===__—__[___]__| |||__|__||| |__| |||
IIIIIII[]IIIII[]IIIIIL___J__II__|_|__II__L___JIIIII[]IIIII[]IIIIIIII[_]
\I/ [_]\I/[_] \I[]\II/[]\\I//[]\II/[]\I/ [_]\I/[_] \I/ [_]
./ \.L_J/ \L_J./ L_JI I[]/ \[]I IL_J \.L_J/ \L_J./ \.L_J
| |L_J| |L_J| L_J| |[]| |[]| |L_J |L_J| |L_J| |L_J
|_____JL_JL___JL_JL____|-|| |[]| |[]| ||-|_____JL_JL___JL_JL_____JL_J
There is a newsgroup, alt.ascii.art, devoted to this
genre; however, see also {warlording}.
:ASCIIbetical order: /as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ /adj.,n./ Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather than alphabetical order. This lexicon is sorted in something close to ASCIIbetical order, but with case ignored and entries beginning with non-alphabetic characters moved to the end.
:atomic: /adj./ [from Gk. `atomos', indivisible] 1. Indivisible; cannot be split up. For example, an instruction may be said to do several things `atomically', i.e., all the things are done immediately, and there is no chance of the instruction being half-completed or of another being interspersed. Used esp. to convey that an operation cannot be screwed up by interrupts. "This routine locks the file and increments the file's semaphore atomically." 2. [primarily techspeak] Guaranteed to complete successfully or not at all, usu. refers to database transactions. If an error prevents a partially-performed transaction from proceeding to completion, it must be "backed out," as the database must not be left in an inconsistent state.