Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!amdcad!bcase From: bcase@amdcad.UUCP (Brian case) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: The new hugging symbol Message-ID: <4210@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 18:54:06 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.4210 Posted: Fri Sep 20 18:54:06 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 06:09:23 EDT Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 29 Keywords: Bic Banana It seems that no one remembers the *TRUE* symbols for hugging and kissing. Well, referring to my infallible memory of that un- impeachable source of all knowledge, television, I can state unequivocally that 'X' is kiss and 'O' is hug. My source is the old Bic Banana commercial (anyone remember just how old? I think about 10 years...) in which a mother was writing a boring letter to her son until she got ahold of a Bic Banana writing instrument. She immediately wrote a letter: Dear Sonny: I miss your face! Love, MOM PS: XXX O And the narrator read: Dear Sonny, I miss your face. Love, mooommmm. *kisses, kisses, kisses, HUGG.* Get the new Bic Banana, and change your.... As he pronounced kisses, kisses, kisses, hug, he said it in a cutsie voice, and each syllable of the word "kisses" conincided with one of crossbars of the X's. Remember??? Hopelessly haunted by Madison Avenue rubbish, bcase (XXXO)