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)
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