Re: Christmas cards

On 2020-12-27, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In alt.ascii-art, Harry Mason  <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Alas, my newsreader garbled this. My window is 100 characters wide, how
> wide does it need to be for this one?

135. But here's a tweaked version that fits in 80. The elves won't mind a
high-rise office:

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      \---/  hjm [==]  /_/\_\