smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | Greg Cagle <gregc@gregcagle.com> |
| Subject | Re: Punky pop ideas for a teenager with awakening ears |
| Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:42:57 -0800 |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (1.2 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
Stewart Mason wrote:
> 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
It's a tough thing to get across sometimes.
> 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.
LOL!
--
Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.