You see, I am *gulp* an emoticon illiterate!
Having grown up with the IM computing age I have no plausible explanation for the fact that a series of random punctuation and letters that so many can read instantly as a mood or passion is a block of squiggly lines for me. If there are little icons, small green or yellow faces shaking in pixelated fury then I understand but the core essence of greater than, hyphen and colon's and I'm lost.
Here for your amusement is how I read those squiggles when talking to someone across the vast intertubes.
How an emoticon illiterate sees the world:
;) = I lost my contact
;O = I took out my contact and shoved it in my mouth
:) = a banana and two peas
........:P = a man with 8 nails in his head
:[ = space invader
:{ = cookie monster
o:-) = lobotomy
<:-( = lobotomy with a band saw.
|-I = Cylon
|-O = lobotomized cylon
;-> = pac man eating a one eyed ghost
l:-0? = now you're just fucking with me
1 comment:
Just discovered your site today and this very much made me smile ;-) Or lose a contact...
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