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Jaresh Inyo
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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...


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Aethelwer
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Yes. How about %), or &)?

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RB: "'Get a life' is a phrase heard a lot, though I have never known exactly what kind was implied. Seems a lot of shallowness and greed is the rule."
CS: "I guess that it means the kind of life led by the characters of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'The Simpsons'."


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Jedi Weyoun
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*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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RW
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Hm. @) could be a twisted mind?

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Michael Dracon
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That must be it RW!!

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but I'm freaked out, and I intend to stay that way!"

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

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RB: "'Get a life' is a phrase heard a lot, though I have never known exactly what kind was implied. Seems a lot of shallowness and greed is the rule."
CS: "I guess that it means the kind of life led by the characters of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'The Simpsons'."


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

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Aethelwer
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Yeah, but I still came up with it independently.

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RB: "'Get a life' is a phrase heard a lot, though I have never known exactly what kind was implied. Seems a lot of shallowness and greed is the rule."
CS: "I guess that it means the kind of life led by the characters of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'The Simpsons'."


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Kosh
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@)
0-o

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Jubilee
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@) = 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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What it is to be in love and have that love returned"



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Kosh
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:@)

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

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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...


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RW
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Telephone? {o]

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

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


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Kosh
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Answer the phone!!!

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Jedi Weyoun
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:@

a pig, of course. *L*

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