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From: bcase@amdcad.UUCP (Brian case)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re:  The new hugging symbol
Message-ID: <4210@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 18:54:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdcad.4210
Posted: Fri Sep 20 18:54:06 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 06:09:23 EDT
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Keywords: Bic Banana

It seems that no one remembers the *TRUE* symbols for hugging and
kissing.  Well, referring to my infallible memory of that un-
impeachable source of all knowledge, television, I can state
unequivocally that 'X' is kiss and 'O' is hug.  My source is the
old Bic Banana commercial (anyone remember just how old?  I think
about 10 years...) in which a mother was writing a boring letter
to her son until she got ahold of a Bic Banana writing instrument.
She immediately wrote a letter:

    Dear Sonny:

        I miss your face!

                Love,   MOM

    PS:  XXX O

And the narrator read:

    Dear Sonny, I miss your face.  Love, mooommmm.  *kisses, kisses,
kisses, HUGG.*  Get the new Bic Banana, and change your....

As he pronounced kisses, kisses, kisses, hug, he said it in a cutsie
voice, and each syllable of the word "kisses" conincided with one of
crossbars of the X's.  Remember???

    Hopelessly haunted by Madison Avenue rubbish,
    bcase
    (XXXO)


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