BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that

Subject: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Peace
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:35 PM

those things people put to show they are winking or smiling or sad are sideways. That's why I could never figure them out. How come people don't TELL you these things?

:( = sad?

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: heric
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:37 PM

I'm told that the Japanese ones are horizontal instead of vertical.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Jeri
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:37 PM

You just need to fall over more.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Jeri
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:39 PM

You got the ass icons? They're vertical. (_|_) (_*_)

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:42 PM

What are you talking about?

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Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: heric
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:43 PM

(>_<)쳌›------(^o^)쳌›

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 May 08 - 05:43 PM

It worked in preview :-(

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Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Azizi
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:09 PM

I like use these icons:

Happy
:0)


Very Happy
:0))

Sad
:0(

Very Sad
:0((

;0} wink


And then there's the hug one, which I've seen but haven't used myself. How is that done?

**

I've also been trying to figure out what could be the icon for "Don't even go there". That body gesture is done by holding your right hand palm up near the side of your face in a stop position and, at the same time, averting your expressionless or stern face away from the person you don't want to address verbally.

Then there's the "Wipe the dirt off your shoulders" gesture that was popularized in a recording by Hip-Hop artist Jay-Z. That gesture was also recently used in a campaign speech by Senator Barack Obama. But how would it be symbolized on the Internet?

For that matter, what icon do you use for hello or goodbye?

It seems to me that the Internet symbols are rather limited.

But there's some creative folks here who may be up to the challenge of inventing some more icons.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Peace
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:11 PM

'I've also been trying to figure out what could be the icon for "Don't even go there". That body gesture is done by holding your right hand palm up near the side of your face in a stop position and, at the same time, averting your expressionless or stern face away from the person you don't want to address verbally.'

'Fu#k off' is easier.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Becca72
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:21 PM

They're called emoticons because they portray emotions, not general greetings and popular expressions...

As for angry, I like to use

>:-O

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Jeri
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:21 PM

Oh... that's the 'talk to the hand' thing. Let's come up with an icon.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:24 PM

_)*%-{*!^

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Jeri
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:25 PM

(_x_) <--there's one 'don't go there' icon, but that's not right...

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:36 PM

Some places online have this for talk to the hand:

=;

I don't think that's very good, though.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Jeri
Date: 02 May 08 - 06:50 PM

If you use a '0' in your icons, I will call it something rude that means the ')' is the chin. Lets not go into details.

I found this on line, but ya gotta use preformatted text"

               
                       /"\
                      |\./|
                      |   |
                      |   |
                      |>~<|
                      |   |
                   /'\|   |/'\..
               /~\|   |   |   | \
              |   =[@]=   |   |  \
              |   |   |   |   |   \
              | ~   ~   ~   ~ |`   )
              |                   /
               \                 /
                \               /
                 \    _____    /
                  |--//''`\--|
                  | (( +==)) |
                  |--\_|_//--|

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Micca
Date: 02 May 08 - 07:10 PM

or more simply Jeri ,,!,

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Azizi
Date: 02 May 08 - 08:20 PM

Imo, "fu*k off" is too hot [angry] an expression & a gesture for "talk to the hand"/don't even go there" [which seem to me to be basically the same gesture/saying]

You're not hot when you this cause being hot takes up energy and gives it to your adversary. Instead of hot, you're cool, or cold as ice. Actually, "icing" someone is what we* would call freezing someone out {not talking to him or her/not acknowleging their existence]

* African Americans teens, grown-ups where I lived when I was a teen {New Jersey, 1960s]

-snip-

Jeri, I'd love to see the don't go there symbol that you've seen. I'm not likely to use such a symbol very much but there's been some times on Mudcat where I would have used such a symbol to indicate that I was through talkin with a Mudcat guest or a Mudcat member. Not having such a symbol, I just said talk to the hand, or just igned [ignored] her or him.

I figure for these symbols [or any symbol, for that matter] to be useful, they not only have to make some modicum of sense, but people have to agree to use them for that specfic meaning and only that meaning. Once people agree on what a symbol will look like, and what it means, then they use it. It either catches on, or it doesn't.

Just playin around with typing keys, what about this symbol for talk to the hand/don't even go there?

x
the x is the person you want to x out [act like there not there. the < [whatever it's called] means that your looking away, and the / [whatever it's called] means that your hand is up in to block their energy from coming to you.

I'm not wedded to this symbol. I'm open to another one for that gesture/saying or none at all.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Azizi
Date: 02 May 08 - 08:23 PM

Well, I see that that symbol didn't even come out right which means it probably won't work. I had an x and then right next to it an < and then right next to it a /

Maybe that's some kind of font cue or something...Well, that's what happens to the best laid plans of mice and men...and women too, though I can do without the mice. Plus no plurals for me, thank you very much.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Azizi
Date: 02 May 08 - 08:27 PM

Corrections,not that it really matters in the scheme of things, but just for the record, I meant to write "You're not hot when say this or use this gesture because being hot takes up energy and gives it to your adversary.


Also, the shortened form of "ignore" that we used was "igged".

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Azizi
Date: 02 May 08 - 08:33 PM

Somehow I left out a "you" in that sentence.

Ooh, I'm really bad tonight. 'Bad' bad not 'bad' good.

I think that means I take a station break [a URL break?]

See ya later, alligators.

Or Mud cats and dogs or Mudcat fish or whatever, man or wo-man.

;o)

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Azizi
Date: 02 May 08 - 08:37 PM

I left out "need to" in that sentence. I meant to write "I think that means I need to take a station break [a URL break?]"

Shucks, I'm gone from bad to worse.

Ooh, I'm really leaving now.

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 May 08 - 10:32 PM

If you want to X someone out, you could always use the strike html to do so as in

Spaw.

(Just picking on him 'cause he knows I love him, really!)

Or, you could do:

XXX

but then I suppose that could just mean "no kisses!":-)

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Amos
Date: 02 May 08 - 10:57 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 03 May 08 - 02:16 AM

Don't even go there

The approximate substitute sometimes seen, for dismissing continuation of an exchange in text messaging, is:

DILLIGAF?

John

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 May 08 - 08:42 PM

IMBARS BIDBIB (I may be a rotten sod, but I don't believe in bullshit) is said by one dictionary to be the longest acronym in the English language.

%^)

Subject: RE: BS: After 10 years it finally struck me that
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 May 08 - 09:22 PM

I'm rather fond of one Liz the Squeak started...KAKSOD.
Killed Another Keyboard Spewing Out Drink. One of her better efforts! LOL