dnk@primerd.UUCP (12/02/87)
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Subject: What do those :-) and :-< things mean, anyhow?
Netter-Folk: I thought that the enclosed notes posted on Prime Computer
Inc.'s internal Bulletin Board might amuse more than just ourselves. I will
leave some of the original Prime bulletin-board item numbers, subjects, and
authors, to add to the flavor of the adoption curve of this idea within this
community... I know you are already familiar with the earlier :-)
incarnations of the smileyface, but you may like some of the later variations
on this theme!
As ever, "Your Emotions May Vary" depending on your screen font, ASCII
character set equivalences, and YOUR receptivity...
#4285 11/19/87 9:46 PM Dan Kalikow (dnk@enx.prime.com)
[FUN] What do those :-) and :-< things mean, anyhow?
Some background on the weird :-) constructions I used in some of my previous
notes, for the curious:
These are "shorthand expression markings" which seem to be in current vogue on
the nationwide computer BBoards. Hint: Look at them sideways!
:-) means (smile), same for 8-) but with wider-open "eyes"
;-) means (smile) plus (wink)
:-< or :-( mean (sad face)
... and my own extensions ...
:-} means (wry grin)
:-{ means (sarcastic displeasure)
Current usage has it as permissible to balance an open parenthesis with a
"smiling close parenthesis" (despite the mixed semantics bound to amuse any
LISPer ;-).
I just can't wait to see all the creative smiley-faces and other body language
that will undoubtedly be posted in response to this.
8-),
Dan
#4288 11/20/87 8:42 AM Dan Kalikow (DNK) Expires 12/19/87
[FUN] Yet newer faces seen on the nets
B-) a smileyface with glasses
:^) making for a more noticeable nose
... and my own rather more fanciful extensions ...
:~| an ex-prizefighter with a cauliflower nose?
Depending on the screen or printer font used, 8-) can have asymmetrical eye
sizes, perhaps an unintended effect of this shorthand...
B^},
Dan
#4296 11/20/87 9:51 AM Steve Rehrauer (rehrauer@s55.prime.com)
[FUN] 8^)
Let's also not forget:
:-)> (for us bearded types)
and
|^P (ack!)
#4305 11/20/87 1:39 PM Dennis Kosakowski (DJK)
[FUN] silly faces, etc.
?:^) Cutsie/boy-ish
?8^P An 8 yr-old just handed an ice-cream cone
>:-] Sinister
>:-P Sinister with a dirty mind
>B^P PPFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTT!!
<:^} Sheep-ish
<8^O Disbelief
8 O Disbelief but with the lights out
3B^) Lucy in disguise with glasses
)/-L Picasso/Dali/Surrealist-of-your-choice
... and a more recent flurry of other faces from many different
quarters within the company ... no attribution given here ...
How 'bout Groucho? {B^{
What, and forget about Bork?? B-)=
Jimmy Durante? :@)
... This next one done by a (presumably) loyal British subject:
38-) Her Majesty, with crown
How about... {:@)= Frank Zappa??
Frank Zappa: more like {:@(=
O-| A stern Cyclops
/:^=( Adolf Hitler
Ho Chi Minh (|^<>=-
Buddy Hackett {%-^)
{O=((X<8)?U%7:4)} Totem pole of faces or...
... C programming statement?
{.^) Sammie Davis Jr. (Pardon the vitreous humor! :-)
0 Ronald Reagan
00 Mike Dukakis
...The good, the bad, and the tired:
]:( "Stay in bed."
8^|
O:) "Go to work."
The totem pole posted earlier is unfair to APL.
Why pick on C, when there's APL?
(Insert funny face made of APL character set here: )
Now take that funny face, and try to figure out what it does, as
an APL one-liner.
In a similar vein, a totally different subject:
{:+ Yes, I _do_ play the oboe. Why do you ask?
o<8^)> We glyph you a merry Christmas...
Cheers,
Dan B^)> Kalikow
Prime Computer, Inc.
(dnk@enx.prime.com)langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) (12/03/87)
In article <63000002@primerd> dnk@primerd.UUCP writes: >I just can't wait to see all the creative smiley-faces and other body language >that will undoubtedly be posted in response to this. Please, not again. The big list of smileys has been posted three or four times in the last two weeks on rec.humor. Just search for Subject: smiley. There are scores of constructions in the list, including "submitter is an elephant". Be seing you... --Lang Zerner langz@athena.mit.edu ...ihnp4!mit-eddie!mit-athena!langz "No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the only misfortune is to do it solemnly" --Michel de Montaigne
roy@phri.UUCP (12/04/87)
No! Please, not again! Not another round of funny faces.
Please folks, we've all seen all the funny faces before, we don't need
to post them again (this seems to crop up a couple of times a year, along
with lightbulb jokes).
--
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016hdunne@amethyst.UUCP (12/05/87)
In article <63000002@primerd> dnk@primerd.UUCP writes: } }I just can't wait to see all the creative smiley-faces and other body language }that will undoubtedly be posted in response to this. } Aaargh!! No! Please! This subject has already been worked to death in rec.humor, with everybody and his dog posting their 157 favorite smiley faces. Hugh Dunne | ...{cmcl2,ihnp4,seismo!noao}!arizona!amethyst!hdunne Dept. of Math. | Phone: | {amethyst.ma.arizona.edu} Univ. of Arizona | +1 602 621 4766 | hdunne@{ arizrvax.bitnet } Tucson AZ 85721 | +1 602 621 6893 | { rvax.ccit.arizona.edu }