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From: tag@tty3b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Easily Amused  :-) - (nf)
Message-ID: <186@tty3b.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Aug-83 13:13:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 23 13:13:28 1983
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Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill
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The origin as I recall, was in Reader's Digest *many* years ago, in one of
their little anecdotes:  The aunt of the person who wrote about it used
the sequence -) to denote "Tounge-in-cheek" in typewritten letters.
I guess it means about the same thing on the net.

As long as I've got your attention, what other conventions have sprung up?
Reply briefly by mail, and I'll post if enough of you are interested.
          - Tom Gloger Teletype Corporation (ihnp4|otuxa|we13)!tty3b!tag