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• BUAF // n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font -- a special form of ASCII art.
  Various programs exist for rendering text strings into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and six character cells on a side...
• warlording: [from the USENET group alt.fan.warlord] v.
  The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly, or derivative {sig block}....
• BUAG: // [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] n. Big Ugly ASCII Graphic.
  Pejorative term for ugly {ASCII ART}, especially as found in {sig block}s....
• warlording v. [from the Usenet group alt.fan.warlord] The act of excoriating a bloated, ugly, or derivative sig block.
  Common grounds for warlor signature rendered in a BUAF, over-used or cliched sig quotes, u original `Warlord' was a B1FF-like newbie c....
• ig block: /sig blok/ [UNIX; often written `.sig' there] n.
  Short for `signature', used specifically to refer to the electronic signature block that most UNIX mail- and news-posting software will {automagically} append to outgoing mail and news....
• BUAG // n. [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Graphic.
  Pejorative term for ugly ASCII art, especially as found in sig blocks....
• plat: n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....
• amper: n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&', ASCII 0100110) character.
  See {{ASCII}} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• plat n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....