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Emoticons
June 10th, 2008 by witherow
Emoticons. We all know what they are—those little faces made of colons and parenthesis and lower case p’s and all sorts of other symbols that don’t really look what like they supposedly represent, but we all pretend. Becky and I, in our many emails back and forth, have started experimenting and inventing our own system of creative emoticons, usually competing with one another to come up with the best. Here is a very small sampling of what we’ve created. (For those of you accessing this blog through JAWS, I’m not sure exactly how to describe the emoticons, but the comments we make about them should keep you entertained nevertheless.)
Typical email 1:
BECKY: -{( 
)
that, my friend, is the face of the queen of england saying “so what?”
ME: Cl:-p}
That is the face of a portly English gentlemen in a derby hat sticking his tongue out at you. That or licking crumbs off his chin. It’s hard to tell.
BECKY
Which chin?
ME
All of them.
Typical email 2:
ME: 
/ (that’s a guy with a big round nose)
BECKY: :*o (that’s a guy who is lamenting the fact that his nose is not centered)
ME: :@/ (that’s a guy who has a pig snout and isn’t sure how he feels about it).
[Becky then draws a very elaborate picture in punctuation that is quite impressive]
BECKY:
v
(¨) I
\/:\_I
[:] I
/ \
_/ \_
(that is a roman soldier who is kind of bored)
[I respond with a single hyphen]
ME:
-
That is the Amazing Mr. Imperceptible. He is completely invisible except for his bottom lip. It’s too bad you can’t see the rest of him, because he is very impressive.
BECKY:
cheater.
and my roman soldier was more impressive before i sent him. but in cyberspace he must have fought in some sort of mortal combat, which explains his now out-of-joint hip and broken legs.
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on June 11th, 2008 at 7:46 am
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on June 11th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Wow. That looked a lot different before I submitted it.