huge groans of protest against its virulent violation of ideographic conventions.


All over cyberspace, Bobert, the :) and the :( icons are used to represent the first person singular emotional state -- a smile, a sad feeling, and similar. Right.

So lessee.... you come along and pose this great mystery puzzle and we all work our keyboards to thebone trying to decode it....and now, at the last minute, you tell us you redefined those two symbols to represent happy and sad children?? Unilaterally defining common symbols to make a puzzle??

You oughta be horsewhipped, amigo. Here, tell ya what. Decode this one for me:

$!=>**bg**==>*BSEG*+==YMMV<==IMHO-{{{XXX}}}

Give up?

It means "After the dinosaurs went extinct, humanoids shifted from nocturnal to diurnal lifestyles".

Didn't get it, didja?


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