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From: wlc@vaxine.UUCP (Bill Cobb)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: "smiley face", my foot!
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Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 18:20:15 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  9 18:20:15 1985
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Lest the original (and superior) interpretation be entirely displaced by
the "smiley face" nerd-legions, let us remember that it ( :-) ) used to be
a graphic symbol for "tongue-in-cheek" (last year, anyway).  A small point,
but at least as significant as the bulk of net.jive.


                                              - Bill Cobb


"Act like a dumbshit and they'll treat you as an equal." - J. R. "Bob" Dobbs