Comments for well, excuuuse me

well, excuuuse me

2003-03-17T20:20:32Z

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.

Comment from Andy on 2003-03-17

2003-03-17T20:48:56Z

I have to say ":)" is about the worst smily/emoticon thing i have seen in a long time.

Comment from ryan on 2003-03-17

2003-03-17T20:49:31Z

I hate text, and I hate you. Go back to Afganistan, commie.

Comment from ryan on 2003-03-17

2003-03-17T20:50:30Z

Er, I mean: #:^(

Comment from Tim on 2003-03-17

2003-03-17T21:06:21Z

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". :|

Comment from Andre Torrez on 2003-03-17

2003-03-17T21:30:08Z

This would never happen to me!!

Comment from nick on 2003-03-17

2003-03-17T21:42:38Z

I have coldsores! :% Or something!

Comment from A. on 2003-03-17

2003-03-18T00:19:08Z

Sometimes .... you're too cute for words.

Comment from Claire on 2003-03-17

2003-03-18T02:05:55Z

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)

Comment from Christina on 2003-03-17

2003-03-18T03:03:13Z

Aside from the :| smiley thingy, I like to use -_-

Although I guess it's more of an "I'm not paying attention..." look :/

Comment from Lucky on 2003-03-18

2003-03-18T14:44:38Z

saucy? ^_~

Comment from Andrew on 2003-03-18

2003-03-18T17:20:59Z

I stick my tongue out at you:
:}

Comment from Fox on 2003-03-18

2003-03-18T19:44:21Z

A man after my own heart.

: \

Comment from Jason Wall on 2003-03-18

2003-03-18T21:55:59Z

One could always resort to the more expressive Japanese Emoticons... \(^O^)/

Comment from j. brotherlove on 2003-03-18

2003-03-19T03:30:55Z

Heh... I like that a lot ":)"

Comment from Joe Clark on 2003-03-20

2003-03-21T03:50:29Z

Yeah, but you're forgetting the bestest-ever smiley:

 *
*-:)
 *

The Shirley Temple smiley.

Comment from Mike on 2003-03-21

2003-03-21T15:34:04Z

:{)>

Goatees Rule!

Ah, the days of ASCII art...

Comment from owen on 2003-03-21

2003-03-21T16:28:47Z

your mad, everybody's mad and I hate xml. it solves nothing. there I said it! :%

Comment from Chris on 2003-03-21

2003-03-21T20:24:21Z

O.,.O

Comment from Jason D- on 2003-03-21

2003-03-21T21:27:12Z

You all forgot the "blow me" homoticon.

8===> O-:

Comment from jcn on 2003-03-23

2003-03-23T06:26:25Z

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.