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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,
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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

[1] "Re: ASCII Of? Unanswered Challenges Roundup [2023-01-29 ~ 2025-12-14] + ASCII-a-Day of New Year's Eve"
[2025-12-19T07:31:04Z]
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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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