In the dim and distant past (1994) Jimmy Brokaw discovered the common hedgehog and decided to bring them to the common folk, recently a few people have joined him...
Yes, this is the AFP Hedgehog Signature Collection
The original hedgehog signature
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<holyhorns>
Then there were two when Daniel became the first apostle
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\\\\\ Daniel Smart.[+44 (171) 538 8421][dan@F1.telekurs.ch]
\\\\\\\__o dan@hegemon.demon.co.uk "echo f 0:0 FFFF 0 | debug"
____\\\\\\\'/__"If you've got a problem - stuff a worm in it" - Berk.
Worship Jimmy Brokaw. Join us & bring Hedgehogs to the Common Folk.
Others rushed to follow, but just could not get the details right...
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And some are just plain disgusting
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\\\\\\\__o Bringing buggery to the common hedgehog since 1994.
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<http://enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de/~bastian/>
Lies! Lies! You known the ejog can't be buggered.
Here is the proof:
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I say I say I say, 5 hedghogs crossed the road...
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...and two got squashed
This hedgehog is a bit sick really, but Once I've got an idea in my head
I have to go along with it (there's only room for one at a time, you see).
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///! !///__o An Ex-Hedgehog
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The phrase 'Mind that bus, what bus, splat' comes to mind.
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Bringing squashed hedgehogs to British roads since 1994.
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Luckily they reproduce quickly
David Zeraschi <David@zeras.demon.co.uk>
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Introducing families to the common hedgehog since 1995
And when children grow up they avenge the deaths of their parents...
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-- - \\\\\\\__o Bringing vengeance to the common hedgehog since 1995.
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Alan
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Hows about this for a hedgehog, it is the quantum mutated battlefield
hedgehog, evolved to survive on todays modern battlefield.
This hedgehog appears to have regressed to the fifties.
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> unholy trumpets <
And this one is aiming to be the first to die of lung cancer.
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I don't know why I had an urge to insert an '_' and a '/'. Someone had to do
it I s'pose. I plead diminished responsibility m'lud. E'was arsking for it.
Mike.
For the hedgehog who has everything...
David Z. \\\\\ / Bringing laptop computers and \\\\\\\__o / internet access to the common \\\\\\\'/ =====/ hedgehog since 1995. ..and one seen on rec.arts.bodyart (the mind is boggling). >_____________________________________________________________________________ > > Algernon Faust > \\\\\ Algernon's Piercing Pagoda > \\\\\\\__. algernon@netcom.com >____\\\\\\\'/________________________________________________________________
The Mexican hairless:
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,,,,, Don't forget to shave your hedgehog
,,,,,,,__o before buggering it!
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CyberCat <m.lanting@student.utwente.nl>--
(Both varieties)
"You don't like Crew Cuts? OK, I'll just shave off some more then..."
..... Don't forget to shave your hedgehog
.......__o before buggering it!
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CyberCat <m.lanting@student.utwente.nl>
The Sausage hedghog:
\\\\\\\__o Hedgehachsund.
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<wholly horny>
The Raceing hedghog
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Toby Haynes - --- - ----- \\\\\ Hedgehogs on Speed
Somewhere in Cambridge - - - -- ---- \\\\\\\__o Bringing Hedgehogs to
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For further information on this .sig, please contact AFP for enlightenment.
How about the very rare Muraroa Hedgehog?
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Not, of course forgetting the Death of Hedgehogs....
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Feel free to cabbage me if I've copied someone else's unwittingly
Gideon.
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Worship Yourself. And Hedgehogs.
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The extremely rare rotated hedgehog.
BTW. has anyone heard of vampire hedgehogs?
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/Anders/HAndy/aandy
\\\\\ Ok then, in the name of patriotism (for all you ozzie people)
\\\\\\\__o this is an echidna. It is similar to the much-loved hedgehog
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that it has layed some eggs and um... it is not immune to snake
bites. That last is for the *really* observant.
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Madagascar. Tenrecs don't lay eggs. Not sure how they
react to snakebite...
Bringing Spiny Tenrecs to the Common Folk, in a Special, Seasonal Offer...
Bargain basement prices [*] - and that's cutting me own throat...
[*] While stocks last.
The hoghedg (1 mad owner, goes by the name of Dali)
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Yer normal hedgehog:
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Win 95 hedgehog:
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Mac hedgehog:
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Dave
The unix hedgehog:
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/Anders/HAndy/aandy
For that last one think 'end-of-line-characters'...
I think I would prefer to use mice as input periphials rather
than hedghogs, because my hand would always get impaled on the spikes.
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Hedgehog. Flatmate. :)
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[1] Legal Notice: The above refers to bill as in dollar bill, any
similarities to a Mr Bill Gates are purely coincidental.
Or the Aquatic Hedgehog?
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Which was quickly improved upon...
Adrian.
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However, it was pointed out that Adrian was doing a great cruelty to his hedgehog and causing it to drown.
Adrian
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Well, he's getting there... Now if he can just get the snorkel above the surface...
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Much better - And note the exceedingly rare levitated hover-hedgehog
Now, most afpersons will have read postings by the one and only Emmet O'brien. We now present, for your entertainment and enlightenment, Emmet's contribution to the field of hedgehoggery...
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*cuddles*
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Of course, Emmet has a little trouble when it comes to telling the difference between geography and hedgehography...
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I thought we'd _done_ the surrealist hedgehog ?
Emmet
And no commentry on Emmet-Hedgehogs would be complete without Emmets patent applied for modifications to the standard battlefield hedgehog.
You thought Abslom X Z Greyhawk <bk3hargr@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
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>Hows about this for a hedgehog, it is the quantum mutated battlefield
>hedgehog, evolved to survive on todays modern battlefield.
but if we slow the hedgehog down by a factor of 30, you see:
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Be wary of subliminal messages in hedgehogs, people !
Emmet
Your hedgehog may have pets of its own...
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Which can be got rid of by giving the hedgehog a bath.
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John aka Greebo
@@@@@ Hilda Hedgehog
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Or they may have megalomaniacal tendencies
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And they also have an alarming tendency to grow up. You thought you had a cute little baby hedgehog and all too soon they turn into hulking great teenagers...
-- John aka Greebo \ \ \ /\/\\ \\\\\ \\\\\\\__o ///\\\\__o \\\\\\\__o \\\\\__o __\\\\\\\/u___////\\\\/_____\\\\\\\;/_____\\\\\\~/__ "Cars are "Cat food "Brilliant!" "C'mon Guys!" complete rights & bastards!" peace!" The Young Ones - The hedgehog years.
Obviously this one isn't a student (No student could afford that much food).
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<divine deeleyboppers>
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*==== Harrison Hedgehog in
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The Debbee McGee Hedgehog
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The Paul Daniels (alledgedly) Hedgehog
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Mark Burbidge
Note for Ammericans and other aliens... Paul Daniels is a short balding british magician and Debbie McGee is his scantily clad assistant.
i.e. all the stuff that was left at the end...
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Name :Ben Chalmers. \\\> Bringing <\\
Email:ben@bench.demon.co.uk \\\\> Damian <\\\__o
WWW :http://uptown.turnpike.net/B/benchal/Ben.html \\\\> Hirst <\\\'/
To the common Hedgehog
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ооооооо__o A Reghog [2]
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[2] I hope this works, they are supposed to be (R) symbols
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Toby Haynes |||||| Hedgehog for Christmas anyone?
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/Anders/HAndy/aandy [1]
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______________ | Anders Henriksson
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Thomas
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/ \ The Oxford Hedgehog Sanctuary
'| ..... |' (Affiliated to the church of Jimmy Brokaw)
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+ __.......'/___+ Protecting hedgehogs from common folk since 1995
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Making peace between hegehogs \ '\\\\\\
And Koalas everywhere.
Well thats all folks, please mail me any interesting hedgehog sigs that I've missed.
This file will soon also be available from the pratchett archives at ftp://ftp.lspace.org/pub/pratchett/words/misc/
-- Robert R. Collier | The Terry Pratchett Homepage | \\\\\ send subject rob@lspace.org | http://www.lspace.org/ | \\\\\\\__o | "get pgp" InterNIC RRC7 | <holyhorns> |__\\\\\\\'/__| for keys---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Epilogue 13/08/97 by Leo Breebaart: Eventually, the hedgehog signature fad died out, Jimmy Brokaw left a.f.p, and there were no ASCII hedgehog sightings on the newsgroup at all for more then a year.
Until, that is, Gideon Hallet suddenly started using the following sig:
(((( | Gideon_Hallett@3Com.com.========================|
o__))))) | - Bringing permed '70s-retro hedgehogs to the =|
__ \'((((( | common people since he got bored one afternoon.=|
If any more original hedgehogs appear, I will add them to this file. But Gideon's example notwithstanding I still fear that the a.f.p. ASCII hedgehog is an endangered species. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LB: 29/01/98
Endangered perhaps, but not extinct yet! It appears that hedgehogs can also survive *outside* the a.f.p. environment, as witnessed by this signature from a group called oxbridge.tat:
Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ. ##### http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html o__####### Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong. \'####### Knowledge=Power=Energy=Matter=Mass=>Books=Small Black Holes. - T.Pratchett ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LB: 05/02/98
And another one, on a.f.p, even:
Remington Stone Join us in spreading the word of Jimmy!
A.T.A.F.O.T. Mail newbie@Lspace.Org for newbie info.
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