Posted by Bill Vermillion on 02/07/06 01:15

In article <slrndufe3f.u2l.random832@random.yi.org>,
Jordan Abel <random832@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2006-02-06, Roy L Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:41:37 -0800, nospam@see.signature (Richard E
>> Maine) Gave us:
>>
>>>Roy L. Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:10:57 +0100, Jan de Vries <my-name@provider.nl>
>>>> Gave us:
>>>>
>>>> >say this out loud before you go to sleep:
>>>> >
>>>> >"I WISH [ ENTER YOUR WISH CONCERNING THIS SPAMMER ]"
>>>> >
>>>> >Go to sleep and your wish will be fulfilled. :-}
>>>>
>>>> You're an idiot.
>>>
>>>Ahem. I won't make similar accusations because even non-idiots do
>>>sometimes make mistakes... such as in this case. I thought Jan's satire
>>>obvious enough (and humorous) anyway, but for those who might have
>>>failed to notice it, Jan *DID* include an emoticon. Those who miss both
>>>the satire and the emoticon aren't necessarily idiots, but perhaps
>>>shouldn't be quite so free with putting the label on others. Something
>>>about glass houses and throwing stones.
>>
>>
>> Ahem yourself!
>>
>> Emoticons are retarded as well. Counting on someone to see them is
>> even more retarded.
>
>Which of colon, hyphen-minus, or right curly bracket, is absent from
>your character set? Or are you saying that just because your newsreader
>doesn't turn it on its side for you, that character sequence is somehow
>invisible to you? There's nothing special about it that makes it less
>likely to be seen than any other character sequence -- other than,
>perhaps, the right curly bracket, which is absent from the invariant
>subset of ISO 646. You should have seen *something*, though.

>Still, if you're smart enough to legitimately be self-important enough
>to call emoticons retarded, you really ought to have gotten the satire.

If someone has trouble seeing emoticons as normally presented,
they could use larger ones. I submit this for your use.



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