Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!bmc1!kuling!jonasf From: jonasf@kuling.UUCP (Jonas Flygare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: STUPID QUESTIONS Message-ID: <824@kuling.UUCP> Date: 9 Sep 88 22:08:49 GMT References: <8809071910.AA03888@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Dep. of Computer Systems, Upsala University, Sweden Lines: 42 > :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 [Couldn't find the original posting..] Apart from the regular ones: (. .) (read: Tongue in cheek) (-: :-) (read: Smiley face, just kidding) (-; ;-) (As above but not just kidding) Variations: <. .> <-: :-> and <-; ;-> Some others: :-----| or :-------) meaning your face should be very long by now, unless you got the joke far earlier. :-O exclaimer. :-E Demonic smile. (The demon himself lives nearby, Hi KPJ! ;-) $-Q Especially designed for our cigar-smoking-and-brandy-sipping club. (Hell, even students need *some* fun..) :-* Oooops. Then again, some fellow hackers here caused some heated diskussions when they invented the symbols (*)(*) and (Y). At least *some* of the females here got upset. ;-) Some others made some pictures I will *not* reproduce here.. ;-) ;-) One page, and I don't even mention my Ami in it, I must be really tired.. -- Jonas Flygare (aka Flax) +------------------------------------------+ email: jonasf@kuling.UUCP | "Never try to hack while a playful ferret | real: Vaktargatan 32 F:621 | is watching your toes. | S-754 22 Uppsala Sweden +-------- I TRIED....... OUCH! ------------+