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 :).