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#75484 07/11/02 11:34 AM
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...The offending characters were [ ;p ] (excluding brackets). Is that for "laugh?" ...

I think that's supposed to be "a-wink,-while-sticking-your-tongue-out" ?

Not too hard to see how that could be taken as a put-down, I suppose. If you're feeling sensitive.


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The use of smileys is both adolescent and indicative of low IQ.

So is that the definition of having a bit of fun? If so then









Oooooohhh, how adolescent and lacking in IQ am I!!


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No surprise to any who know
and love you, Maverick!!!!!!
This would be an interesting
thread if it was not so manifestly
impossible to read without going mad!!!!!!
Give jopublic credit - this is the
w----i----d----e----s----t post I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What Happened???? what is going on ????? How did it get so wide ????? and how can it be fixed ????? Can it be fixed?????
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last time I took IQ test it was quite high (or so I was told.But then they do not want to upset idiots with truth, do they?)
The newcomer might like to look up the difference between IQ and the ability to discern appropriateness.
Also known as good taste.
Perhaps?



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Can it be fixed?

Yeah, get Rube to edit the occasional space into his smiley barricade!



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No surprise to any who know
and love yoou, Maverick!


Maverick? You're out by about 300 hundred miles, wow. 'Tis the other ---rick (Aye, there's the rub!).

No idea how the thread got so wide. I thought that could only happen with URLs. Perhaps I should delete some of the smileys and regain my IQ.......


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The use of smileys is both adolescent and
indicative of low IQ.
Oh, really? Cite source please!
In the case of the exclamation mark
I encourage members to consult Fowler
on its use.

While you are looking things up, refer to pedant
One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
Obsolete. A schoolmaster.
[French pédant or Italian pedante (Frenchfrom Italian), possibly from Vulgar Latin *paedçns, *paedent-, present participle of *paedere, to instruct, probably from Greek paideuein, from pais, paid-, child.

Perhaps I find myself at the wrong website.
Shouldn't that have a ? at end and not a . (she asked pedantically ?)
pe·dan'ti·cal·ly adv.
SYNONYMS pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic. These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


You are most welcome here !
You will find that a keen sense of the absurd is a necessity.




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RHUBY - How could I be so remiss.(((HUGS)))
and a big smack-a-rino kiss.
Plus apology.

Would a later buncha smiles cause the previous posts to go wide? Because this thread strarted out wide on my screen.

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Very weird. The first time I checked in, this thread was normal. By yesterday afternoon, however, it had gone W-I-D-E.


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>Very weird.

not so; all it takes is one wide post to make the entire thread wide. in this case it was the loooooooong string of unbroken smileys. subsequently, Rubrick broke up the string a bit, although it's still a little wide.


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This has been THE most entertaining thread I've read. Thanks for the laughs!!


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