Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady 
Ah, one of my favorites.
I was never much of an ASCII artist, myself, but I did consider trying the Bennington flag.
(That, by the way, Graphic, is where the asterisks come from. It's how people used to type bold and italics back in text-only days. Still works on some programs. )
Guess I have never seen it before. I was never a typist. I started out as a
typesetter. When we wanted bold or italics or condensed we use to pull the matrices from the correct drawer. (And yes, I set Linotype and Ludlow also) When I started on computerized typesetting we put the correct codes in on 7 bit paper tape and then 8 bit tape. And now, alas I have denigrated myself to graphic design on a desktop computer. Just for the record, you only double space after a period in a business letter. You know how many portfolios I have thrown in the garbage because the "designer" didn't know that basic tenent of design. And back before these stupid keyboards, when we had to actually grab type my spelling was a whole lot better too.