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Subject: Re: Strange symols - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Aug 20 06:32:00 1983

I'll certainly get flame-by-mail for replying publicly, but anyway:

	(:-) == "I'm being funny", a really stupid thing to use because, if
		you ARE being funny, you shouldn't need to point it out.
	
	( 2 * :- )
		only *seems* to be "I'm being REALLY (or "twice as")
		funny, but only if you are confused about operator
		precedence.  Actually, this is "I'm being funny with
		glasses on", since the "2*:" == "four eyes", with the
		nose operator ('-') binding less tightly than '*'.

I'm taking this opportunity to introduce a netation of mine: "{~" and "~}".
These stand for "FLAME ON!" and "FLAME OFF!", respectively.  They look sort
of like wide-open mouths with a little jet of flame emerging from them.

Of course, in this newgroup, they would be miserably redundant.

There's also "{_" and "_}", which are "what I'm saying will no doubt fall
flat", and "{-...-}", which are "I'll tell you straight out".  As opposed
to "{<" and ">}", which say "speaking out of both sides of my mouth...".
Equivalently: "{=...=}" (I am being equivocal).  And "{$...$}" (I'll put
my money where my mouth is).

I could go on.  But by now, you are thinking "{*...*}".  ('*' == "splat",
for the meaning of that one.)

	Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner :-)