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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: STUPID QUESTIONS
Keywords: from the Society for the Prevention of Amiga Madness ("SPAM")
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Date: 24 Sep 88 21:50:01 GMT
References: <8809071910.AA03888@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <824@kuling.UUCP> <9076@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <9076@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
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<..Bob
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<	Here it is folks, the last word in smiley faces.  Below we have
<	smiley face...
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<  :-`	smiley spitting out its chewing tobacco
<  :-1	smiley bland face
<  :-!		"
<  :-@	smiley face screaming
<  :-#|	smiley face with bushy mustache

[deleted more smiley faces than you can shake a disk at]

>Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page

Thanks Bob for the catalog of smiley faces. I propose that we form a
Working Group to officially define all possible smiley faces. Once done
we should get to work to develop an IFF standard in anticipation of all
of the object-oriented smiley face programs we've all been waiting for.

We need to specify a whole range of SFs, from 1 to 4 bits deep, expandable
to 8, to support 256 color faces. Furthermore a whole inter-smiley-face
standard needs to be built up with a Smiley.device driving it all.

Of course, SFs will be resolution independent to work on the Hedly monitor.
SFs must also be "hemisphere independent" so we can use " :-) ", while our
friends down under can use " (-: ".

The foreign character set will have to be taken into account. Doing so
will truely internationalize the smiley standard.  This will represent
the first step towards international humor standards.

Soon we'll have to start comp.sys.smiley just to support all of the 
traffic. . .

Nah, forget it. . .     

(Now, just how do we get SFs from Chinese characters?)


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			   *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick ***
"he's braindead Jim. . ."
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