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>^,,^< Miracle

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> What on earth is a "bobby dazzler"? In your neck of
> the woods. I wonder how widespread slang terms are
> across the pond?

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> What on earth is a "bobby dazzler"?

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> In your neck of the woods.

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> I wonder how widespread slang terms are across the pond?

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> On 31 May 2005 19:27:49 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> Because I can't stand the XXXXer. He annoys the bejesus out of me...
> and he's all over this country like a XXXXing rash. It also helps
> having braindead 'friends' nudging and grinning at you, while flexing
> their grey matter by uttering the drivel Sire Dickenson spouted.
>
> "Eh... cheep az chipz... eh?"

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>
> Ah, the good old bobby... on the beat... ready "t'gi'thee a clip
> roun'th'earole and tell thi'dad". Such creatures are currently sat
> behind desks, wrapped in red-tape.
>
> ... well, those that aren't hassling certain members of 'minority
> commuities'... just because they look different, or because of who
> they are. :/

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>
> Ask the widget, not myself.

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>
> Well, please help the community by killing annoying phrases off. You
> know you want to.

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>
> Well, it'll stop them using the trees, I guess.

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>
> ... and us UK sufferers have nothing better to do? After all, we only
> have an EU thingumiwassit to consider, before the powers that be make
> our minds up for themselves and go ahead anyway.

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>
> That's the spirit.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Ah, I see. But you've given me a whole new set of questions
> with your answer! Why is a *dude* called "Dame"?

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> And I wonder if the "bobby" in the term is a police officer?

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> And why would some widget dazzle only a bobby?

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> Oh well, it's still a cool term, even if it is a puzzler as to origins.

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> Yes, but they carry their own bathroom tissue.

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> Ditto. Which is why I'm asking the UK dwellers in here.

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> Since it's *my* holiday, I can't be arsed either! ;)

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> On 31 May 2005 19:05:14 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> A lump of shite that's being peddled as being something special. We
> have Dame David Dickenson to thank for that 'gem' of slang... as it
> tends to grate once you've heard it being uttered for the tenth time
> in five minutes.

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>
> There's bears there?

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>
> I'd find out, but I can't be arsed in doing something as tedious and
> demeaning.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Well, please help the community by killing annoying phrases off. You know
> you want to.

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> Seems a prat to me. Love to see someone sneak in at night and run some
> electric sheers over that over-large head of hair.

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>Mr K wrote:
>
> Now you've done it! Sometime later I've got to Google
>this guy and see what all the ire is about.

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> Now you've done it! Sometime later I've got to Google
> this guy and see what all the ire is about.

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> There's another similarity between us. Although it's technically
> against the law now, it still happens.

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> <Scarlet O'Hara>
> I'll worry about it tomorrow.
> </Scarlet O'Hara>

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> Oh yes indeed. The one that's made my skin crawl for some
> time now is "these ones" instead of simply "these". Ditto "those
> ones" for "those". Like fingernails on a blackboard.

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> Not to mention stopping the abuse of the plant life!!

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> Just did a google on him, and all I could say is: "Oh, *THAT* David
> Dickenson" I recognize him from some crap show he has on BBC America
> called... er... can't remember. But it has something to do with him
> being smarmy and taking people to auctions or something.
>
> Seems a prat to me. Love to see someone sneak in at night and run some
> electric sheers over that over-large head of hair.

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> He's a minor 'celebrity' (read that as "television personality") who
> became famous after having a 2-bit idea (spun off from a far more
> credible tv programme) and having a dazzling array of catchphrases
> (all three of them, iirc). His mediocre banter between the
> wannabe-famous contestants appears to have hit a chord with certain
> folk.

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> Wha, the "clip round the earhole" or the racist copper?

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> i AGRE WITH THIS POTS

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> Apparently that stuff's good for plants.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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>On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:01:55 -0500, Smeghead wrote:
>
>
>... or stop his supply of fake suntan cream.

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> Mr K <duffstuff@hotmail.com> wrote in news:429cbfe8$0$293
> $cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com:
>
>
> Nah, we Americans want to force the French to use them. They soooo
> "love" our language. ;) Maybe we can get our diplomatic corp to start
> using the phrase every time the French mission is in earshot.

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>ScratchMonkey wrote:
>
> F00KING BRILLIANT!!! Let's start on Fabrice!! ;)

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>On 31 May 2005 21:22:34 GMT, "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net>
>wrote:
>
>
>Just did a google on him, and all I could say is: "Oh, *THAT* David
>Dickenson" I recognize him from some crap show he has on BBC America
>called... er... can't remember. But it has something to do with him
>being smarmy and taking people to auctions or something.
>
>Seems a prat to me. Love to see someone sneak in at night and run some
>electric sheers over that over-large head of hair.

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> Now you've done it! Sometime later I've got to Google
> this guy and see what all the ire is about.

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> Yep, gotta Google him tonight.

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> Both, actually, but more so the racist copper.

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> wH0 4r3 U to Ag33 w1t m3?!?!?

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> After the fact, yes, but not during! They'd have to strip
> off their delicate leaves, eh?

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>On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:01:55 -0500, I heard the following crap spew
>forth from "Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com>:
>
>
>Oh, *THAT* David Dickenson. Man, is he annoying. Bargain Find, or
>Bargain Hunt, or something like that, right? I'm too lazy to even
>look it up beyond the picture I saw of him.

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> He's a saddlebag with eyes and over-done hair. Looks like a used car
> salesman.
>
> You may be right. There's another auction show called "Cash in the
> Attic" or something like that. It's enough to make you think that all
> our English brothers do is go to auctions and nod imperceptibly.

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>^,,^< Miracle, as thoughroughly disgusted as Mr K is.

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> On 31 May 2005 23:06:06 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> Well, good luck... his "cheap as chips" (nngh) website wasn't
> responding last night.

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>
> yOU MISPELD 2!!!11

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>
> Er... if you insist.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Dear bob he's ugly. Not only that, but I assure you he's a
> total sham. It's written all over his heavily-made-up face. We'll
> see him on America's Most Wanted before long, mark my words!

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> This guy made my skin crawl- he lived off his wife, a singer,
> until he bullshat himself into a job spending her money. GAH.
> His website is nothing but a self-absorbed trip into idolatry.
> http://www.david-dickinson.net/
>
> Well, you won't see or hear *me* using "bobby dazzler".

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> Read on, good man..........

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> W0t?!???!?! D4mmmmmit!!!!!!!!!!!111

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> Are you implying that they just take a dump and walk off
> without wiping?!?!?!?!? Gr0ss!!!1

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> Dear bob he's ugly. Not only that, but I assure you he's a
> total sham. It's written all over his heavily-made-up face. We'll
> see him on America's Most Wanted before long, mark my words!

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> On 1 Jun 2005 06:53:08 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> aMATUER

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>
> Are you insinuating that they don't suffer from itchy arses?

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> Miracle Smith's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
> his body were:
>
> As the victim of a crime or the guy they are looking for?

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> d0bby b4zzL3r!!!!1

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> I've never seen a bear scratch its arse. Now, chimps, monkeys,
> and baboons on the other hand........

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> On 2 Jun 2005 06:57:57 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> t4rt

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>
> A bear now pays chimps, monkeys and baboons to scratch its arse...?

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> Ah, you invoked this group's "nazi rule". LOL
> Okay, time for another thread........

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> On 2 Jun 2005 20:58:19 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> corki??/

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> s1|_|T

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> Don't be silly- but if they do, it's to lure them
> into being lunch for the bear! Or dinner, or breakfast....

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> On 2 Jun 2005 21:33:24 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
> Oops/Yay
> Next up... g0atz/dongles. Ladies and gentlemen... and Adrian... place
> your bets please.

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> I try to cut interesting shapes. It's amazing to me how many people
> are hyper-lazy (if such a word can even exist) when it comes to
> weeding.

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>Mr K's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>Who's got the longest dongle? I say Mir's that she keeps in the closet....
>(will probably get slapped for that)
>
>oh, that reminds me. Miracle, I'll probably have my plotter back up next
>week, so was wondering if there was anything cool you'd like decal wise
>(sorry, don't have purple - black, white, grey, green, blue, yellow, and
>red)

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>
> Ah, you invoked this group's "nazi rule". LOL
> Okay, time for another thread........

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>Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>Same here. I try to make things that arent really hard to weed, but still
>stuff with some interesting designs.
>
>Here's a sample page of things that I made that were either inspired by
>something else or I tried to make look as much like the original as
>possible.
>
>http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/sample.png
>
>I'll try to do something soon of my completely original works.

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>Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>Same here. I try to make things that arent really hard to weed, but still
>stuff with some interesting designs.
>
>Here's a sample page of things that I made that were either inspired by
>something else or I tried to make look as much like the original as
>possible.
>
>http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/sample.png
>
>I'll try to do something soon of my completely original works.

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> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 06:11:15 GMT, I heard the following crap spew
> forth from Hellmark <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com>:
> Shouldn't that site be
> http://hellmark.str33tr0dz.com/
> I actually misread it in l33t when I saw the link.

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> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 06:11:15 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
> Now dat's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
> I cut the thundercats logo too. Extremely easy to weed.
> But, yeah... you're no slouch in the detail department. I've known
> people with a plotter that gripe if it's anything more than strait
> text. And even then they might gripe if they have to pick the center
> out of an "o" or an "a".

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> Here's a sample page of things that I made that were either inspired
> by something else or I tried to make look as much like the original as
> possible.
>
> http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/sample.png
>
> I'll try to do something soon of my completely original works.

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---

> I try to cut interesting shapes. It's amazing to me how many people
> are hyper-lazy (if such a word can even exist) when it comes to
> weeding.

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---

> Mr K's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
> were:
>
> Who's got the longest dongle? I say Mir's that she keeps in the
> closet.... (will probably get slapped for that)

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---

> oh, that reminds me. Miracle, I'll probably have my plotter back up
> next week, so was wondering if there was anything cool you'd like
> decal wise (sorry, don't have purple - black, white, grey, green,
> blue, yellow, and red)

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> On 2 Jun 2005 21:33:24 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> Oops/Yay
>
> Next up... g0atz/dongles. Ladies and gentlemen... and Adrian... place
> your bets please.

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> What's weeding? Removing the wee bits in middles?

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---

> I'll put $2 on L'il Alimony to win. She's 2 for 2
> after two starts.......

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> "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in news:429f7b24$1_3
> @galaxy.uncensored-news.com:
>
>
> LMAO

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> I cut the thundercats logo too. Extremely easy to weed.
>
> But, yeah... you're no slouch in the detail department. I've known
> people with a plotter that gripe if it's anything more than strait
> text. And even then they might gripe if they have to pick the center
> out of an "o" or an "a".

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> Here's the last one I did before the computers I had for the plotter
> burned up. I personally didn't think it was that hard to weed.
>
> http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/art/saxon.png
>
> Here's one of my originals. Funky little design I thought of when was
> looking at some pigs (yeah, thats right, and I wasnt on anything
> either) -
> http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/phot...shakespeare.png
>
> Here's another I've been working on. Not done yet, still need to do
> the feet. Got the idea after watching Killbill 1. Think I got it
> pretty close to the KBv1 cover pose -
> http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/art/thebride.png
>
> Another Work in progress, need to touch up the spikes, and give alot
> more detail to the wings -
> http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/art/freakflag.png
>
> Simple little logo some guy wanted. Kinda low detail, but he wanted it
> like that since he uses it as a stencil for painting the logo onto his
> race car -
> http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/phot...acingupdate.png

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> Hellmark wrote:
> How about green cacti? Christmas trees, with ornaments
> to place on them? Round ornaments? Yeah, Christmas stuff-
> they could be decorated with metallic gel pens! What about
> different ornament shapes?

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> I have gig after gig of clipart in my desktop- I could send
> you shapes from there, or send you actual patterns. Yellow
> stars for the treetops would be cool, too.
> See, you could also make up sets to give as presents to
> your friends and family at Christmas!

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> On 3 Jun 2005 20:11:04 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> ... on who??

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> On 3 Jun 2005 20:17:49 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> +----[ Output of "dict weeding" ]
> +----

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> Hellmark wrote:
> I like the pinstriping, and the "Frankenskull"! The flames
> in the card suits are totally cool.

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> Smeghead wrote:
> What's weeding? Removing the wee bits in middles?

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> 4rS3h013.
>
> ;)

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> On 3 Jun 2005 20:53:06 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> I'm impressed... you've remembered the 'r'.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Remember the voice recording you sent? I often hear
> Ross playing it, and then mimicking it.

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> We both make each other laugh by imitating you, as we do such poor jobs
> of it.

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> Ross sounds like an Aussie, and I just sound stupid! LOL

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> Send over anything you think would be cool to do up.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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>Hellmark wrote:
>
> I like the pinstriping, and the "Frankenskull"! The flames
>in the card suits are totally cool.

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---

>Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>Here's the last one I did before the computers I had for the plotter
>burned up. I personally didn't think it was that hard to weed.
>
>http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/art/saxon.png

quote:

---

>Here's one of my originals. Funky little design I thought of when was
>looking at some pigs (yeah, thats right, and I wasnt on anything either) -
>http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/phot...shakespeare.png

quote:

---

>Here's another I've been working on. Not done yet, still need to do the
>feet. Got the idea after watching Killbill 1. Think I got it pretty close
>to the KBv1 cover pose -
>http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/art/thebride.png

quote:

---

>Another Work in progress, need to touch up the spikes, and give alot more
>detail to the wings -
>http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/photos/art/freakflag.png

quote:

---

>Simple little logo some guy wanted. Kinda low detail, but he wanted it
>like that since he uses it as a stencil for painting the logo onto his
>race car - http://hellmark.streetrod3.com/phot...acingupdate.png

quote:

---

>Smeghead wrote:
>
> What's weeding? Removing the wee bits in middles?

quote:

---

> Oh yes indeed. The one that's made my skin crawl for some
> time now is "these ones" instead of simply "these". Ditto "those
> ones" for "those". Like fingernails on a blackboard.

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---

> w00t!

quote:

---

> I'm impressed... you've remembered the 'r'.

quote:

---

> Just did a google on him, and all I could say is: "Oh, *THAT* David
> Dickenson" I recognize him from some crap show he has on BBC America
> called... er... can't remember. But it has something to do with him
> being smarmy and taking people to auctions or something.
>
> Seems a prat to me. Love to see someone sneak in at night and run some
> electric sheers over that over-large head of hair.

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> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:11:13 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
> I like detailed vinyl work. A lot of people, like I said, don't want
> to put the effort in. Glad to see you cut some interesting shapes.

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---

> Well, whatever you weren't on don't smoke any more of it.

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> Very nice. I like it. Perfect for vinyl.

quote:

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>
> Reminds me of Over Kill's mascot. But with a mohawk.
> http://tinyurl.com/bae4h

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> Cool. Stenciling is a pretty common use for a vinyl decal. Produces
> some really cool work when you use it as sandblast mask.

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> On 3 Jun 2005 21:13:54 GMT, Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> Arse!

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---

>
> Jeez, life must be hectic for you lot out there.

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---

>
> Well, you said it.

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---

>^,,^< Miracle

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>Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>I know, it bugs the shit out of me when I see someone selling decals and
>things are boiled down to a point where there is so little details left
>that you can't tell what it is
>
>"What? The description says thats Dale Earnhardt, I thought it was a fat
>Elvis choking on a burrito"

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> On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 06:56:08 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
> Hehehe, the copy of a copy of a copy. Sharp, clear edges becoming more
> rounded, fatter and duller.
> And if they're too lazy to weed, do you think they're going to
> point-edit a vector graphic?
> Hopefully the end buyer knows you're out there. Because I think that
> if you have the same "Dale Earnhardt" graphic as someone else, but
> yours is sharp, clear and well defined and the other guy's has become
> the choking elvis, they'd climb over to you.

quote:

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> Personally, I prefer Bruce Dickinson, as in
> http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/12491/

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> The pinstriping is the entire reason I got into vector images. Works great
> for doing dutchwork, where as usually doing it with raster images are a
> bit of a XXXXX. I have more I am working on of that

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> Hellmark wrote:
> Okay, I've heard of Dutch auctions, Dutch ovens, "going Dutch"... what's
> dutchwork?

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---

> Frank van Schie's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
> his body were:
>
>
>
> Method of pin striping made famous and pioneered by Ken "Von Dutch"
> Howard. (and yes, it makes me upset that his name is being whored out in a
> way that he'd have probably shot someone if he was still living and knew
> about)

quote:

---

> Frank van Schie's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
> his body were:
>
> He was antisocial, hated pretty much anything dealing with society, and
> kinda was a dick. He made a special 23 valve toilet, and he waited outside
> the bathroom with a gun if you didn't get them in the right order. There's
> a story where he had to leave a state under fear of arrest (cant remember
> if it was Arizona or New Mexico) after he was going to attack some place
> with a cannon he made. His pet dog? A wolf he'd captured, and he just
> threw cans of dog food into its cage (dog would rip open the cans). Does
> that sound like a guy who'd want his name and art being whored out by some
> "boutique artist" in Beverly Hills?

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> Hellmark wrote:
> I don't even get that. Take a baseball cap, like any other produced by a
> seven-year-old in a third world country, and stick a label on it. This
> magically becomes 50 bucks.
> There are brand names that are known for *quality* sweatshops, like Nike
> or something. I can understand that people pay a little more to get
> (potentially) a little more quality. But just making up a term to stick
> on clothing?
> I'm fairly sure most folks don't know who "Von Dutch" was.

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---

> Interesting guy alright....
> http://www.letterhead.com/articles/bob_burns/vondutch/