Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!ucsd!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!jdow From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: STUPID QUESTIONS Message-ID: <6824@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 10 Sep 88 12:31:56 GMT References: <8809071910.AA03888@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 47 In article <8809071910.AA03888@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > >:I HAVE SEEN WHAT APPEAR TO BE GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS OF A SMILE. >:THE MOST COMMON ONE IS -> ;:-0) WHICH I TAKE TO BE A `NORMAL' SMILE >:BUT THERE IS ALSO -> ;-) AND :^0) AND :-> AND EVEN %_-00) . >:ARE THESE TYPOS OR OTHER GRAPHEMIC GRIMACES? IF THE LATERTER, ARE YTHERE >:STANDARD TRANSLATIONS? sardonic grins? sarcasiic tic girnings? > > O O > o > \_/ > > -Matt {@_@} -> Just crusin' {O,o} -> Bill the Cat crazy {o.o} -> who me? {O.O} -> Did I say THAT? {-_-} -> Sleepin' {#_#} -> Blasted {+_+} -> Wasted {~_~} -> Tremendously amused {_^_} -> Head crash <@_@> -> Any <> bixie means not posted from my A2000 The @_@ set is only used from my A1000 or A2000 {`_'} -> angry {\./} -> Er buddy - you better not bug me any further - the Wizardess kills for lesser misdeeds. {\,/} -> ditto with emphasis on distasteful... And the list goes on. I better stop before I get everyone crazy with my bixies. (The story behind those bixies appears on bix in my resume for those who manage to read that far into it.) Thpt! Ack~ {o,O} !tphT !kcA -- Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one. {@_@} jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM the knight. Does the fair maiden ever {backbone}!gryphon!jdow win? Surely both the knight and dragon stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide? Better yet - she should get an Amiga and quit playing with dragons and knights.