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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Easily Amused  :-) - (nf)
Message-ID: <456@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 22:37:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 22:37:06 1983
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I'd always thought that the "(-:" (or any of a bunch of similar sequences)
was a shorthand for "tongue in cheek":

			( - :

			| | |
		       /  |  \
		      /   |   \
		     /    |    \
		  cheek tongue  ???