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Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :

I've started to see these things popping up around the board, and, frankly, what is it? I mean, I can see how a semi-colon followed by and end bracket can mean wink, or how an eight followed by an end bracket can be a smile.

But what is @)? Is this "I'm a happy cyclops who's been startled by something"?

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Josh: I think they're getting to know each other a bit too well, if you catch my drift.
Me: Oh, I agree. I think they're spending too much time together, that is of course, if you catch my drift.
Asher: I think he's *ucking her, and he's cheating on his wife, and he's risking his marriage, and if his wife finds out about it she'll leave him and take their son, and his life will be ruined. If you catch my drift...

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Yes. How about %), or &)?

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CS: "I guess that it means the kind of life led by the characters of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'The Simpsons'."

Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

*L* I think %) is one of Jeff's....if i'm not mistaken its a 'dazed' smiley...or something to that effect.

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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Hm. @) could be a twisted mind?

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

That must be it RW!!

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"Calm may work for Locutus of the Borg here,
but I'm freaked out, and I intend to stay that way!"

- Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Hey! I invented %). And the telephone, but no one believes me there either.

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

%-) and its variants have been around since the early days of the internet and bulletin boards.

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"I do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do."

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Yeah, but I still came up with it independently.

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

@)
0-o

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

@) = o_O or @_*

Basically it's a "I'm BUGGING OUT at what you just said"

Or..... another varient is "I'm going nuts" or just plain "I AM nuts"

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"Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned
What it is to be in love and have that love returned"

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

:@)

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Posted by Jaresh Inyo on :

I still prefer my cheerful, but startled, cyclops theory.

Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Telephone? {o]

No, doesn't look like a telephone. So how did you do it?

BTW, what about this one? :-)0=888=8

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Answer the phone!!!

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

:@

a pig, of course. *L*

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

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