[comp.sources.d] Comments on smileys

nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess) (01/20/89)

In article <16580@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, bobmon@iuvax (RAMontante) writes:
>Sometimes you don't really want a smiley.  You want a tongue-in-cheeky.

That's how smileys originated -- to express one's tongue-in-cheekiness.
They've been subverted since then, however.

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