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Old 06-11-2007, 05:26 AM   #48
the guy who be short
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I have to attack the prevailing prejudice against verticals, without which such important things as cartography and mechanics could not exist.

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Would be just as good. But let us not forget diagonals, with which Esty could demonstrate the potential trajectory of anybody to be expelled from this thread.

........./.........\
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...../.................\
.../.....................\
./.........................\

And who said a line has to be straight anyway?

./..........................___
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.\.......^...............\__
...\__/....\__^............\
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Is not only just as good, but expresses an unpredictability that, coupled with a threat, would be sure to strike fear into the hearts of those who dare chat.
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