Re: Smiley-face query
Major Major wrote: > > I consider myself a rather skilled smiley face maker. I know all the > standard experessions, never get them backwards, and have even ventured to > create my own variations on occasion. > > 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 :)) > > You, see my problem. The closing parenthesis interferes with the smiley, > muddling the picture. It looks as though I was trying to make an > open-mouth-grinning smiley, and did a poor job at it. That was not my > intent, of course. > > Even worse, what am I to do when I need to place a sad-smiley in the same > position? Example: > > (BTW, I was sorry to hear of your Aunt's demise :() > > This looks likes some sort of shocked-smiley, not at all the message I > wanted to convey. > > What is the correct protocol for placing smileys in parenthesis? Thank you > in advance. My ways of useing Smileys and )'s: (Hey! New nose! :s) (Funny thing. :-) (OK thing. :-| ) (Bad thing. )-: (Of course, any smiley/frowney can be used instead! :-) I close the ()'s (Ugh! Ugly mouth..... :-) with the one in the smiley. I think in mainley depends on what you like, and where it's being used. (In other words, don't accidently use the double-chin smiley in a plastic surgery newsgroup.............. :-) At ;-) least ;-) the ;-) person ;-) who ;-) posted ;-) text ;-) like ;-) this ;-) didn't ;-) use ;-) smileys ;-) inbetween ;-) every ;-) word, ;-) like ;-) I'm ;-) doing! ;-) Don't ;-) you ;-) see ;-) how ;-) horribley ;-) annoying ;-) this ;-) can ;-) be?!?!? ;-) You ;-) should ;-) be ;-) glad ;-) I ;-) don't ;-) keep ;-) on ;-) posting ;-) with ;-) alternate ;-) smileys ;-) inbetween ;-) words! ;-) See ;-) how ;-) annoying ;-) this ;-) is?!?!?! ;-) (Hey! 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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,2f550d9d363fdace X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Randy Gardner <ran...@slip.net> Subject: Re: Smiley-face query Date: 1998/01/05 Message-ID: <34B...@slip.net> X-Deja-AN: 313216808 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <--010...@pm2-5-04.cyberspc.mb.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: ran...@slip.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: The large stack method (CEO: Rsoft) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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