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HUMOR: Useful Smileys

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Mon Nov 25 10:50:52 1996

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:43:39 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)

From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
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>From braun@sfo.com Tue Nov 19 11:55:26 1996

USEFUL INTERNET EMOTICONS
        -- Excerpted from Dave Barry In Cyberspace, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1996

   Emoticon Meaning

    :)      Happy person
    :(      Sad person
    :-)     Happy person with a nose
    :-(     Sad person with a nose
    :---(   Person sad because he or she has a large nose
    :--%    Person sad because he or she has a large crayfish
            for a nose
    :-D     Person laughing
    :-D*    Person laughing so hard he or she does not notice
             that a large spider is hanging from his or her lip
    :-|     Person unsure which long distance company to choose
    8-0-(&) Person just realizing that he or she has a tapeworm
    ;-)     Person winking
    .-)     Person who can still smile despite losing an eyeball
    :0-WW   Person vomiting a series of Slim Jims
    :-Q     Person who just had cybersex and is now enjoying a
             postcoital cybercigarette
    :-Q-... Person who was enjoying a postcoital
             cybercigarette until he suddenly noticed, to
             his alarm, that there is some kind of discharge
             dribbling from his cybermember
    :-(8    Person who is none too happy with the results of
             her breast-enlargement surgery
    :V:-|   Person who cannot figure out why nobody wants to
             talk to him or her, little suspecting that there
             is an alligator on his or her head
   ~oE]:-|  Fisherperson heading for market with a basket on
             his or her head containing a three legged octopus
             that is giving off smell rays
   :-[-()f  Person who is none too pleased to be giving birth
             to a squid.

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