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From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sat Feb 6 16:03:14 1999

Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>
> > BTW, " :) " is an extremely rude and nasty way to insult somebody by stating
> > that they are too stupid to know what is or isn't a joke :-)
>
> Well, I used to absolutely hate the stupid things, and refused to use
> them, until I realized that yes, sometimes people ARE too stupid to know
> what is or isn't a joke. See? Now I have to use a smiley :) or else

Quite a number of years ago, I made a statement that would have been
obviously said tongue in cheek to anyone who had been following the
discussion. A flame war was the result even though I said numerous times
the smilely had been left off the statement. Of course having grown a bit
wiser (and probably more opinionated if that is possible), I would welcome
the flame war :).
Received on Sat Feb 06 1999 - 16:03:14 GMT