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- From: pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel)
- Subject: Re: If you don't mind me asking this.....
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- Keywords: Bacchus, Dionysus
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:12:01 GMT
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- markm@shell.portal.com (Mark M Mavroudis) writes:
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- >Those symbols are called emoticons.
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- First time I ever heard that one. Imho most folk just call them 'smilies'
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- But go read news.announce.newusers for more explanations of common net jargon.
- If you get really interested in smileys there's a program around on an
- anonymous ftp site near you that will expand a lot of them. I think it's
- called 'smiley'.
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