From:	Quantum <a.hides@*******.QUT.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: [OT] Sideways Smileys
Date:	Thu, 21 May 1998 12:37:53 +1000

> At 01:26 AM 5/15/98 -0500, Alfredo B Alves wrote these timeless words:
>
> >BTW, I realized I was online too much when I saw a smilee shirt and
> >thought it was wwierd that the smilee was side-ways...
> >
> Hehe... I realized it when I was writing an essay for my finals a couple
> months ago and actually wrote in a couple of Bull Smiley Emoticons... Then
> realized how awkward those look when Written :]
>
> We need lives :]
>
> Bull

Ahhh... one of the coolest things that microsoft ever did (hmmm were there
others?) was to change :) into a real (read as right side up) smiley face
in Word - now even non computer literate people can understand me when I
type out letters :)

Quantum