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This is interesting. If cowsay is installed, Ansible will use it for printing messages like when you start running a playbook. It’s interesting that I never saw this before. If you install Ansible from pip, there is no way that it can bring in the Perl-based cowsay dependency.

cowsay and figlet used to be a pretty popular geek joke in the 1990s, but they seem to have fallen out of favor in modern times. Probably because moderners are more interested in real graphics, vector graphics on high-resolution displays, than ASCII art.

20190702/https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/faq.html#how-do-i-disable-cowsay
20190702/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
20190702/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIGlet