Made you look!
Inside joke. URT knows.
:dubious:
:rolleyes:
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Alright, now I wanna see “Pukey”. I miss Pukey the most.
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This thread should be stickied.
After the last one, it’s certainly become sticky.
How does elmwood keep making those???
It is apparently a Black Art. :eek:
Heh. Tell me about it. Ironically, I based the design on my misunderstanding of the English word, bemused, which I thought (for many years) meant “Pensive amusement”, but which actually means, “bewildered or confused”. Yes, I was bemused about the word bemused. I still think a variant of winky or big grin might be somewhat useful, though I should probably give whatever-the-heck-I-made a decent burial.
But on the topic of emoticons-as-softeners, I’m sticking to my guns. Here’s a citation, though really, this idea was almost conventional wisdom at least in the early days of www/email. Emphasis in original: According to Goleman, there’s a negativity bias to email –* at the neural level*. In other words, if an email’s content is neutral, we assume the tone is negative. In face-to-face conversation, the subject matter and its emotional content is enhanced by tone of voice, facial expressions, and nonverbal cues. Not so with digital communication.
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- Heed the negativity bias.** …
3. Consider emoticons. Until keyboards can actually perceive the emotional content of our digital messages (not so far off!), emoticons may be the simplest method of clarifying tone. I’ve had to let go of my own perception that emoticons are silly. They may currently be our best tool for elevating the emotional clarity of digital messages. Another cite: http://www.businessemailetiquette.com/293/emoticons-in-business-e-mail
There’s nothing plausible about you, smoochypuffs 
(aaaaand I predict the next post will be carnivorousplant asking, “what does it mean, smoochypuffs”?)
Just push the “quote” button, you’ll see how he does it. It basically comes down to " too much time on his hands". Or "“all day to kill, and not much to do to kill it”. It’s easy to do, but incredibly time consuming.
And to all you people who replied to this:
You people, you know who you are, but just in case, here’s a list:
Here’s my reply:
:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p My snookums knows who I’m talking to, and unfortunately, now the rest of you do, too. I hate you all. I’m permapissed!
BTW, OMG, That other thread, I should have bolded URT’s name. Now I’m forever a perma-asshole. I’m going to hide in my closet.
Now, now, muffincakes, remember what happened the last time you hid in the closet. The talking lions and all…?
Lord, spare me.
Too much clap clap time on my hands
SHIT! You just had to remind me, didn’t you. Just for that you’ll have to wait til tomorrow for me to call you “my lovely cupcake”. I’m punishing you like my cat does me. Laughably.