Jim Perrin put an impressive ASCII Christmas tree on Planet CentOS.  This reminded me of my own very old ASCII snowman I used to place in motd of a Solaris workstation during holiday seasons.

-rw-r-----   1 yagi2    yagi         661 Dec 17  1998 holi

$cat holi

                _XXX_      .    .       .  .    .  .   .     .  .
               / """ \    .    .    .   .      . .    .   .      .
              {  0 0  3         .  .     .     .     .        .
              {   <   3    .  .    *** HAPPY HOLIDAYS ***   .   .
               \  V  /      .  .  .  .    .   .    ..   .   . .   .
               &&&&&&&    ..   . .     .     .  .     .     .   .
              /    &  \       .    ..    .  .  .   .    .     .
             /    &    \    .   .     .    .  .  ..    .   .    .
            BB   &    )))     .   .      .     .    .     .  .     .
            \          /
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^