<smile>.. Oh, the neuances your can get with words <smirk>.

Ciao,
Graywolf
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Kodak digital vs. 6x7 prints


> I was thinking the same thing. I remember using grins on the
> Micronetworked Apple User's Group back in the early eighties.
> Furthermore, a smile and a grin aren't the same thing. A smile is a bit
> of warmth at the end of a thought. A grin means, "Don't take me
seriously."
> Paul Stenquist
>
> Doug Franklin wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:16:26 -0500, T Rittenhouse wrote:
> >
> > > I think grins are kind of idiosyncratic. I use: <g> = "little tiny
grin",
> > > <grin> = "grin", <GRIN> = "great big grin", and sometimes <chuckle> =
"light
> > > chuckling". Smiley faces :) are kind of outdated amongst serious
internet
> > > users and tend to indicate someone who isn't quite with it.
> >
> > Your comment about smiley faces is kinda ironic to me.  We were using
> > abbreviations in angle brackets (like <g>) on electronic BBS's long
> > before the average computer user had access to the Internet.
> >
> > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
>

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