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Communications Breakthrough
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Because you can't see the person who is sending you electronic mail you
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are sometimes uncertain whether they are serious or joking. Recently,
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Scott Fahlman at CMU devised a scheme for annotating one's messages to
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overcome this problem. If you turn your head sideways to look at the
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three characters :-) they look sort of like a smiling face. Thus, if
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someone sends you a message that says "Have you stopped beating your
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wife? :-) " you know they are joking. If they say "I need to talk to
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you :-( ", be prepared for trouble.
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Since Scott's original proposal, many further symbols have been proposed:
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:-) humor.
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:-> humor variation.
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%-} humor variation.
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:-( sad.
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:-< sad variation.
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%-{ sad variation.
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:_) tongue in cheek
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:-! foot in mouth
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<:-) for dumb questions.
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(:-) for messages dealing with bicycle helmets.
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(8-) for messages dealing with owls.
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d:-) for messages dealing with baseball.
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d :-o hats off to your great idea
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q:-) for those who wear their caps backwards.
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@= for messages dealing with nuclear war.
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o>-<|= for messages of interest only to women.
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~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages.
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oo for somebody's head-lights are on messages.
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;-) say no more, nudge nudge.
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:-$ put your money where your mouth is
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>:-> leer
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;-} leer? (terminal dependent)
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|-<> kissy face
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:-| man playing an harmonica
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O:-) for those innocent souls
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[:|] from a robot (or other appropriate AI project)
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:>) from someone with a big nose
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:<| from someone who attends an Ivy League school
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:-)8 from someone who is well dressed
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#-) from someone who partied all night
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%-\ from someone hungover
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:-* from someone who just ate a sour pickle
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-:-) from someone who sports a mohawk and admires Mr. T
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:-'| from someone who has a cold
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:-)' from somone who tends to drool
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':-) from someone who accidentally shaved off one of his eyebrows
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8:] from a gorilla
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(:)-) from someone wearing scuba mask
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P-) from someone getting fresh
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|-) from someone who is falling asleep
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Miscellaneous:
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(-:|:-) Siamese twins
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:~/ Really mixed up
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the invisible man
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{:\/ sounds like a duck
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.\/ duck variation
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:-0
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|:-O
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%+{ from the loser of a fight
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/ \
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| RIP |
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|_____| from someone who is dead
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So you see, bit-mapped displays are really quite unnecessary :->
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