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Offline phil13

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Useful Emoticons
on: June 04, 2007, 05:14:14 PM
Courtesy of the greatest humor columnist ever, Dave Barry. Enjoy!

https://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m4/philtaylor13/emoticon-1.jpg

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Re: Useful Emoticons
Reply #1 on: June 04, 2007, 07:56:07 PM
:---)
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."

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Re: Useful Emoticons
Reply #2 on: June 05, 2007, 12:00:19 AM
That was hard to read, so here it is and easier to read:

EMOTICON MEANING
:)            Happy person
:(            Sad person
:-)           Happy person with a nose
:-(           Sad person with a nose
:---(         Person who is sad because he or she has a large nose
:(             Person who is sad because he or she has a large fish for a nose
:-D          Person laughing
:-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
;-)            Person winking
.-)            Person who can still smile despite losing an eyeball
:-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 
. ROFL : ROFL:LOL:ROFL : ROFL '
                 ___/\___
  L   ______/             \
LOL "”””””””\         [ ] \
  L              \_________)
                 ___I___I___/

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Re: Useful Emoticons
Reply #3 on: June 05, 2007, 12:03:57 AM
did you say 'giving birth to a squirrel.'  that's natural.  from 0-3 you could actually characterize them as such.

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Re: Useful Emoticons
Reply #4 on: June 07, 2007, 09:24:38 PM
Thank you, Jlh.

I was looking for that on the web but couldn't find it, so I had to scan the one I had in the book.  :)

Phil

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Re: Useful Emoticons
Reply #5 on: June 11, 2007, 08:27:36 AM
lol I found it on the web somewhere... don't remember where.  :)
. ROFL : ROFL:LOL:ROFL : ROFL '
                 ___/\___
  L   ______/             \
LOL "”””””””\         [ ] \
  L              \_________)
                 ___I___I___/
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