tlode%nyx.uucp@nike.cair.du.edu (trygve lode) (10/31/90)
Extended sign-off mnemonics These days it's quite common for messages on social-oriented bulletin boards to end with signoffs like "Hi and hugs to everybody." In fact, this has become so popular that as much as 7.5% of the disk space on some BBS's is currently devoted to this particular comment. The International Committee for Relatively Pointless Abbreviations and Badly Misspelled Acronyms (SPUDS) has just released a new, internationally approved list of abbreviated signoffs. These include: ooo : hugs xxx : kisses OOO : big hugs XXX : big kisses oo : hugs for everybody but you OO! : big, excited hugs CCC : hugs for people you can't quite reach around OOQ : hugging with tongue xx@ : kisses and earlobe nibbling zzz : snoring yyy : anything that occurs between kissing and snoring H : handshake kkk : Alternate form of "handshakes for all" KKK : White robes for all AAA : talk-show not-really kissing [X] : kissing in the closet XYZZY : a kiss that moves you MMM : Same as WWW, but from inversion boots LLL : Armwrestles for all OOO~~~ : Big hugs and large caterpillars for all ))) : Smiles for all TTT : Trees for all jjj : gooses for all JJJ : big gooses for all OOOXXXYYYZZZ : This is illegal before marriage in nine states OOOXXXyZZZZZ : Still illegal, but generally not nearly as well received Remember, there is much more work to be done to codify and abbreviate excessively clear and understandable sign-off messages and replace them with efficient and incomprehensible international symbols. Please contribute money, suggestions, and chocolate to this worthy cause, and help make conversation boards a better place for assembly-language programmers. Thank you, Trygve Lode, General Secretary (SPUDS) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Unnatural Enquirer, (C) 1990 by Trygve Lode (tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu) May be reproduced and distributed freely in unmodified form on a noncommercial basis provided this notice remains intact. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Please use looking.on.ca and not just looking or looking.uucp.