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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Punky pop ideas for a teenager with awakening ears |
| Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:06:57 -0500 |
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At 12:40 AM 11/25/2003 -0800, Greg Cagle wrote:
>I kept looking for a few 8^)s here. Then it occurred to me that you
>may actually TRYING to be an asshole. If so, good job.
I considered using an emoticon or two, but:
1. It seemed to me that the tongue-in-cheekness of said post was
self-evident, which apparently wasn't actually the case, and
2. I couldn't figure out the proper arrangement of typographical symbols
to concisely express the idea of "Oh for godsakes, Old Mr. Wilson's going
on again about how much cooler everything was back in his day and how
everything that's come down the pike since is just a pale imitation of that
golden halcyon era." I thought about going with &(@&$#)$*@>@~~~~~~*#^%,
but I realized that if you look at that backwards in a mirror, it
translates into the ancient Luwian for "So the butler stuck his dick in the
mashed potatoes," and I didn't want to spoil the punchline of that joke for
any scholars of extinct Anatolian languages who might be lurking about.
S
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