# Let's make some art:  forum art!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517 "2007-03-19T03:18:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/1 "2007-03-19T03:18:11Z")

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Bonjour Dopers,  
Let’s create some art using the forums. If this thread takes off, maybe it should be moved to Cafe Society.

So, let’s try:

MMMMM  
{o}{o}  
V  
|\_\_\_|

Perhaps Bart Simpson? On Preview it looks all screwed up though.  
_i_  
-|o|-  
I  
- - I  
I—  
I

a flower ^^  
Ok, let’s give this a try. Hamsters dont let me down!  
-Auto

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/2 "2007-03-19T03:19:48Z")

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Awwww… fuck.

Le Sigh.

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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/3 "2007-03-19T03:40:54Z")

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Snake:

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**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/4 "2007-03-19T03:42:32Z")

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I \<3 this idea.

Your flower was wonderful in theory.

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**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/5 "2007-03-19T03:56:58Z")

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```auto

         -- KITTY --
     .---.                
   .' `.              
  .' .--._'              
  | | |\ /|     
  | | |\\_.----._//|     
  `. `| / \ |     
    `. |' ____ `|     
     .-| \O) (O/ |-.   
     | | __ | |   
     | `. \/ .' |   
     .' `.`-'`-'.' `.   
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     `| |'   
      `. `:--:' .'    
      ,| , .' `. , |,    
    , .O-O | | O-O. ,  
     O |' `| O   
      `. | | .'    
       `-' `-'   

```

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**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/6 "2007-03-19T04:04:17Z")

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Let me try:  
------(00000000)--------  
----(0000000000)-------  
–(0000000000000)----  
(000000000000000)—  
–(0000000000000)----  
—(00000000000)------  
-------l----------l----------  
-------l----------l----------  
-------l----------l----------  
-------l----------l----------  
------/--------------------  
-----/---------------------

Tree?

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**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/7 "2007-03-19T05:20:31Z")

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**pinkfreud** wins the thread.

But I might as well try for silver.

…:rolleyes:  
…:mad:…–|–  
…–|–…:D…|  
…|…–|–…/.  
…/..…|  
…/..…🙂  
…:eek:…–|–  
…–|–…fnord…|  
…|…/.  
…/.\

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## ------ A CROWD OF DOPERS ------

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/8 "2007-03-19T05:48:04Z")

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[sup]o-[/sup][sub][SIZE=6]8[/sub][/SIZE][sup]-\<[/sup]  
Dolly Parton

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/9 "2007-03-19T05:52:12Z")

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[QUOTE=anyrose]  
[sup]o-[/sup][sub][SIZE=6]8[/sub][/SIZE][sup]-\<[/sup]  
Dolly Parton  
[/QUOTE]

LOL!

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/10 "2007-03-19T06:05:49Z")

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🙂  
I call it “Sideways Man Smiling”

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/11 "2007-03-19T07:47:41Z")

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In the tradition of the sort of chat icons like:

o/ Hello!

\o\ /o/ Yay!

I invented:

o/\*o\_ Stop messing around!

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/12 "2007-03-19T08:04:01Z")

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This is the Tour de France thread, right?

```auto

 -------- __@__ @ __@__ @ __~@
 ----- _`\&lt;,_ _`\<,_ _`\&lt;,_ _`\<,_ _`\&lt;,_
 ---- (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

```

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**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/13 "2007-03-19T08:07:58Z")

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I thought this was clever when I was 12.

```auto

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```

It’s an emoticon of the cheshire cat

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/14 "2007-03-19T08:38:08Z")

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Of course, it’s impossible to do this stuff in color 😉

```auto

 -------- __@__ @ __@__ @ __~@
 ----- _`\&lt;,_ _`\<,_ _`\&lt;,_ _`\<,_ _`\&lt;,_
 ---- (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*) (*)/ (*)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

```

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-some-art-forum-art/396517/15 "2007-03-19T10:40:06Z")

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This one was really popular when I used AOL about 100 years ago . . .

```auto

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..........''...\.......... _.·´ 
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..............\.............\...

```