Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id GAA27310 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:18:22 GMT Message-ID: <000701c1d0a7$136b4ec0$5e2ffea9@oemcomputer> From: "Philip Jonkers" <philipjonkers@prodigy.net> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <20020320233822.E89271FD49@camail.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: Net signs Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:07:32 -0900 Organization: Prodigy Internet Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Wade,
yes I agree `emoticons' would be a far better name than `net signs'.
So it was that I set out to consult our big friend mr. Google about those
cute little memes. A small selection:
:---( Person who is sad because he or she has a large nose
:-D* Person laughing so hard that he or she does not notice that a 5-legged
spider is hanging from his or her lip
:-| Person unsure of which long-distance company to choose
>8-O-(&) Person just realizing that he or she has a tapeworm
:-0WW Person vomiting a series of Slim Jims
:-Q Person who just had cybersex and is now enjoying a post-coital
cybercigarette
>:-Q -... Person who was enjoying a post-coital cigarette until he suddenly
noticed, to his alarm, that there is some kind of discharge dribbling from
his cybermember
:-{8 Person who is unhappy with the results of her breast-enlargement
surgery
:V:-| Person who cannot figure out why nobody wants to talk to him or her,
little suspecting that there is an alligator on his or her head
~oE]:-| Fisherperson heading for market with a basket on his or her head
containing a three-legged octopus that is giving off smell rays
>:-[ -{9 Person who is none too pleased to be giving birth to a squirrel
And the list goes on and on and on and on...
Philip.
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> Hi Philip Jonkers -
>
> >Most of you are familiar with a phenomenon known as net signs.
>
> I first heard them called 'emoticons', and I like that name a whole lot
> better. ;-)
>
> These days, with the advent of the instant messaging softwares so avidly
> taken up by teenagers and preteenagers, the emoticons (also called
> 'smileys') are being replaced by actual small icons or images, complete
> with text at times.
>
> The early ascii email clients did not provide any way to indicate
> sarcasm, or irony, or just plain fooling around, so some indications had
> to be made to indicate such incursions of fancy.
>
> They are still, IMHO, a necessary part of netiquette to learn.
>
> There are probably a few hundred of them in ascii form.
>
> - Wade
>
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