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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 4 Jan 1998.
Re: Smiley-face query

Re: Smiley-face query

Major Major wrote:

> But I am always perplexed by one situation. That is, a smiley at the end
> of a sentence in parenthesis. Such as this:
> 
> (No, I don't mean Bob :))
> 
> (BTW, I was sorry to hear of your Aunt's demise :()
> 
> What is the correct protocol for placing smileys in parenthesis? Thank you
> in advance.


I am so very well aquatinted with this problem...
I can only offer my humble and not entirely satisfying solution:
(it looks something like this :-)   ).
It is still annoying but sure as hell beats sad stuff like this (:-().

Hope we find a better solution to build a better future for our ASCII.


Israel.

      _  
()___( \ 
 (___)) )
()   (_/

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