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- *** Pirate Magazine Issue IV / File 8 of 10 ***
- *** BBS Symbols ***
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- Good users are informed users, and informed users know the symbols that are
- used in messages.
- The following was sent via BITNET by Ruth Hanschka (RHANSCHK@HARTFORD)
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- "THE IMFAMOUS SYMBOL LIST" {With Additions}
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- :-) humorous, joking
- :-( sad, this is no joke even though it looks like one
- :-') tongue in cheek
- :-0 shout
- ;-) say no more, nudge nudge
- =:-0 scares me too
- :-! foot in mouth
- :-$ put your money where your mouth is
- 0:-) don't blame me, I'm innocent
- %-/ don't blame me, I'm hung over
- <:-) don't blame me, I'm a dunce
- C:-) don't blame me, I'm an egghead
- [:-|] sent by a robot
- :-)8 sent by a gentleman
- 8:-) sent by a little girl
- (8-) sent by an owl
- (:\/ sent by a duck
- :-)=== sent by a giraffe
- (-:|:-) sent by siamese twins
- d:-) I like to play baseball
- q:-) I am a baseball catcher
- :-| I play the harmonica
- :-8 I just ate a pickle
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- "In printed communications (in this case bulletin boards), it is tough
- to get the idea across that you are being sarcastic etc. Scott Fahlman, with
- the help of other participants on FIDONET, might just have the answer..." This
- appears at the top of the original. There are probably more of them by this
- time, but I do not have them. The original notice asks FIDONET contributors
- to send more in. My copy of this came from a photocopy of a printout in the
- University of Hartford Computer Resource Library, so blame them :-') not me.
-
- And now the additions. These came from a VAX discussion line.
- these really were [:-|].
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- :-) joking or sarcastic face
- :-} fiendish grin
- ;-) wink
- :-( sad or angry face
- |-( late night
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