[Vision2020] Emoticons?

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COOL!!
Debi R-S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Emoticons?


>
> You can also play around with the eyes a little bit.  For example, the
> big smile :-D looks even more happy like this: XD
>
> You can also run them the other way if you want a more intense frown D-:
>
> And, just for Tom, if you want to emote for your cat, you can use two
> equal signs and a dot with something else for the eyes:
>
> =^.^= happy
>
> =O.O= surprised
>
> =$.$= greedy
>
> etc.
>
> You can also use a variation on the surprised one for humans:
>
> o.O  "I'm shocked by what I just quoted."
>
> Also, if you happen to be Japanese and want to do the traditional "put
> your hands together in front of your face and apologize" because you are
> running late, you can use:   A(^_^;;
>
> Well, anyway, you get the idea.  There are hundreds of them, some people
> just make them up on the spot.
>
> I'm glad my misspent youth (and adulthood) posting on Internet forums
> didn't go to waste.
>
> Paul
>
> Tom Hansen wrote:
>> Here is a collection of freeely accessible emoticons.
>>
>> http://messenger.msn.com/Resource/Emoticons.aspx
>>
>> Are you sure that you want to open Pandora's box of emoticons?
>>
>> There are several websites with openly accessible emoticons that are
>> rather profane (to put it nicely), including a rather artistic "FU*K YOU"
>> emoticon, as well as a wide variety of some sexually suggestive 
>> emoticons.
>>
>> Hey! What am I to do during bad weather days?  Blame it on Sam or 
>> Darrell.
>>  It was their idea.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>>
>> On Thu, December 30, 2010 11:44 am, Darrell Keim wrote:
>>
>>> Emoticons are the way of the future, Don ;^)
>>>
>>> I actually had a student last month turn-in a handwritten test with
>>> emoticons on it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Don Coombs <mushroom at moscow.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sam Scripter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Are there still people out there restricted to "_plain text_"? I mean,
>>>>> of course,
>>>>> V2020 members _other than_ those who post extensively from _hand-held
>>>>> mobile
>>>>> devices_, where fiddling with font treatments is undoubtedly a big
>>>>> inconvenience.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Think what Shakespeare could have accomplished if he
>>>> hadn't been so handicapped!
>>>>
>>>> (I am a fan of Sam's -- I am ! -- but he and I are
>>>> going to have to disagree about emoticons.)
>>>>
>>>> Don Coombs
>>>>
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>>
>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to 
>> change
>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>
>> - Unknown
>>
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