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  • Re: ASCII Of? [Economics] *correct*

    From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.art.ascii on Sun Jul 21 18:13:57 2024
    On Mon, 08 Jul 2024, W. Greenhouse wrote:

    PURDHR

    This answer checks out!

    Cheers,
    ~xwindows
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  • From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.art.ascii on Sat Apr 25 19:54:12 2026
    On Fri, 24 Apr 2026, vort3 wrote:

    Just kidding.

    Well, your reaction of reciting that movie catchphrase is actually
    an intended consequence of my framing of this symbolic-puzzle challenge.

    OBAQ

    Correct!

    P.P.S. Yes, this is another ASCII-copypasta challenge;
    I'm not gonna let this one pass.

    What's this? I'm out of the loop.

    I wrote that sort of note on every challenges that reused
    a drawing I had already posted as another challenge;
    mostly to stop people from making non-answer replies
    just to muse about having deja'vu.

    This challenge in particular is copy-pasted from a straightforward Film-category challenge I posted as the first entry of my 2025's
    ASCII-a-Day of New Year's Eve, [1] an ASCII Of? countdown event:

    - "Re: ASCII Of? [Film]" [2025-12-20T03:30:00Z]
    <news:402e866d-d701-444b-a75a-fc2a900e86a3@tilde.club>
    <nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.art.ascii/1265>
    <https://tilde.club/~xwindows/tools/netnews/groups/?tilde.art.ascii/1265>

    Which ~barnold (who answered the challenge back then)
    actually answered with the same movie catchphrase as you did...

    - "Re: ASCII Of? [Film]" [2025-12-20T04:09:22Z]
    <news:10i57hi$1nrtu$1@tilde.club>
    <nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.art.ascii/1266>
    <https://tilde.club/~xwindows/tools/netnews/groups/?tilde.art.ascii/1266>

    And I responded with a confirmation of correct answer
    with a reaction music...

    - "Re: ASCII Of? [Film] *correct*" [2025-12-26T06:08:46Z]
    <news:c72754c4-1dcd-4c63-bff0-fe0030f0b8ae@tilde.club>
    <nntp://news.tilde.club/tilde.art.ascii/1282>
    <https://tilde.club/~xwindows/tools/netnews/groups/?tilde.art.ascii/1282>

    Note that the "I'm not gonna let this one pass" part I additionally wrote
    in my quip, was to just express that reusing part of a film series name
    as another challenge, was being a golden opp{or,un}tunity
    I wouldn't allow myself to miss.

    Cheers,
    ~xwindows


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  • From vort3@vort3@tilde.club to tilde.art.ascii on Sat Apr 25 21:02:19 2026
    Huh, interesting, but why is it tagged as Economics?
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.art.ascii on Sun Apr 26 02:46:01 2026
    vort3 <vort3@tilde.club> wrote:
    Huh, interesting, but why is it tagged as Economics?

    I think he's referencing the OBAQ market.
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  • From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.art.ascii on Tue Jun 23 18:01:51 2026
    On Sat, 25 Apr 2026, vort3 wrote:

    why is it tagged as Economics?

    Because //OBAQ// is an economics tool for nation state (or banks)
    to raise money (or more precisely, raise debt). The main reason
    I paired it with that iconic film series is because the word spelled
    exactly the same as the surname of its titlular protagonist.

    Regards,
    ~xwindows
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