well, excuuuse me
March 17, 2003
My, you're all a sensitive bunch! I wrote a little ha-ha peevish thing yesterday and now everyone thinks I'm mad. This is what I do for fun, kids. Since everyone's having trouble reading my feelings, I am going to have to resort to emoticons. They're feelings for the Internet!
The first requisite icon when dealing with Anil is the blank-face smiley, depicted with the :| symbol. I picked this up on an online community full of people who can appreciate such things. It can mean a few different things, like dead seriousness, or a straight-faced unwillingness to concede the humor of a moment. Deadpan as an emoticon neatly subverts the will of those who normally use emoticons. Take that, you smiley bastards!
Even better was the new smiley that Jane coined last week, the smiley face in air quotes. Behold:
":)"
Insincerity! Mocking! Sarcasm! Spite! Bile! Everything that smiley-users detest. It's perfectly perfect.
So remember, kids, the next time ole' Uncle Anil's talking about "I hate this and that and blah blah blah" make sure to mentally insert a ":)" at the end of it. Kidding? No, I'm only serious! Let others innovate around FOAF and XML and RSD and other random technologies. I'm working on helping misanthropes express themselves on the web.
:|
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I have to say ":)" is about the worst smily/emoticon thing i have seen in a long time.
I hate text, and I hate you. Go back to Afganistan, commie.
Er, I mean: #:^(
Back when the pipe symbol was broken in two and looked like a long colon, I made Asian smilies. Now I'm forced to make regular, round-eyed American smilies, or the aformentioned "deadpan smily". :|
This would never happen to me!!
I have coldsores! :% Or something!
Sometimes .... you're too cute for words.
Anil, you're a darling. Some of us who 'get you' just don't leave comments! Me, I can't stand to leave a comment just to 'be seen', y'know, 'making an appearance' in someone's comment box just so everyone knows what I read. But just to let you know - I 'get it'.
(at least I think I get it)
Aside from the :| smiley thingy, I like to use -_-
Although I guess it's more of an "I'm not paying attention..." look :/
saucy? ^_~
I stick my tongue out at you:
:}
A man after my own heart.
: \
One could always resort to the more expressive Japanese Emoticons... \(^O^)/
Heh... I like that a lot ":)"
Yeah, but you're forgetting the bestest-ever smiley:
The Shirley Temple smiley.
:{)>
Goatees Rule!
Ah, the days of ASCII art...
your mad, everybody's mad and I hate xml. it solves nothing. there I said it! :%
O.,.O
You all forgot the "blow me" homoticon.
8===> O-:
Of course, the thing about the "smiley face in air quotes" is that, well, they're actual quotes. Literal, actual, on-screen quotation marks. Nothing airy about them.