[net.misc] Does :-) have precedence over Re: ? :-)

hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) (01/25/84)

I suspect not.  As everyone knows, :-) is the representation of the
footprint of a Wombat.  In America, at least on all MY terminals, the
footprint shows up as green, and only costs a dollar.  I understand that
the European versions (or canadian, I'm not sure) come in different
colors.  What I want to know is, has anyone out there confused a 20$ :-)
with a mere 1$ :-) on those nasty monochrome black and white Ann Arbor
terminals, where one wombat print looks much like another.  We all know
that Ann Arbor is somewhere Back East, which is that narrow stretch of
country on the wrong side of the Rockies, and where everything is, like
Kansas, all in black and white.  (Was Toto a wombat-figure?  Great questions
in modern literature still remain unanswered :-)

 Hutch
|\_-_/|
| V V |     <- this is a cat-grin, not a wombat.
|     |            THIS is a wombat ------------->  ....^...^^...
 \^_^/             (Note that it is mostly in its tunnel)