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Subject: Stolen property and funny fonts
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 20:24:38 EDT
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From: Les Earnest <LES@SU-AI.ARPA>

This is getting a bit far off the topic, but it has come to my attention
that I misidentified the person who spotted to stolen SAIL terminal.
The eagle-eye was Paul Martin, currently of the SRI AI group.

Mentioning Paul reminds me of a font that he created for the XGP a decade
ago and the fact that the world needs more of them.  I am talking about
typographic jokes.  No, not fonts that were intended to look good but
turned out to be jokes.  I mean intentionally funny.

Paul created a font called "Ransom" that simulated the output of a very
beat-up mechanical typewriter, complete with things like a filled-in "a"
and a cockeyed "e".  He explained that it was for use in preparing ransom
notes.  I had a lot of fun with it during the early period at Imagen when
companies asked us for print samples.

Cheers,
	Les Earnest