king foo

Before king foo's indulgent, orgiastic banquet, he cries out, "tonight I will dine like a king who dines like a pauper!" and then with much fervour he opens a can of Progresso Clam Chowder soup and a pack of crackers. king foo, as the name may suggest, is also a marshall artist, that is, he paints soldiers and other millitant characters. But that's beside the point. Okay, he paints them blue with a splatter of green and mauve. Very pretty. king frequents the countryside disguised as a pauper. He had spent his entire royal fortune on putting up such a convincing disguise (hiring alibis, pauper friends and buying junk cars) that he is now truly a pauper. He can now be found lurking behind internet newsgroups, disguised as royalty.

the beret

His beret: a virtual crown made up of escaped ascii characters. This allows him to pass his head through most internet protocols. Unfortunately the rest of his body is filtered out or disfigured since it is made up entirely of "forbidden" characters. His royal robe, for instance, made up of a single dot on a line by itself, was ripped off at a mail gate. In desperation, he replaced it with a uuencoded version of some picture flying around in alt.binaries.tasteless.

Submitted by Jim Grass , on Wednesday, November 27, 1996