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From: nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Comments on smileys  (Was Re: Comments on INSERT.c)
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Date: 19 Jan 89 19:06:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)

In article <16580@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, bobmon@iuvax (RAMontante) writes:
>Sometimes you don't really want a smiley.  You want a tongue-in-cheeky.

That's how smileys originated -- to express one's tongue-in-cheekiness.
They've been subverted since then, however.

--woodstock
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