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From: rcnortma@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Randy Nortman)
Subject: Re: LINE: THE SMILEY DICTIONARY
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In article <annieh3-080694125019@tmfstaff1.berkeley.edu> annieh3@violet.berkeley.edu (Jui-Yun (Annie) Hsia) writes:
>In article <Cr11yu.Huu@discus.technion.ac.il>,
>c1021351@techst02.technion.ac.il (Gleb Shadeck) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>   What about these ones?
>> 
>>  =^)          open-minded smiley
>> 
>>  |-(     )    yawning smiley
>> 
>>  |-(=   =)       "      "    from Vietnam
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>I may not be Vietnamese, but I still find it offensive.  I don't see why
>the yawning smiley is not the same for people in Vietnam as it is for the
>rest of the world.
>

Perhaps a better title would be "Yawning woodchuck."  I found the racial
abuse a bit offensive, too.  The original poster needs to realize that
his message went all over the world.

-- 
Randall Nortman (aka Bob the WonderClown)
University of Chicago
rcnortma@midway.uchicago.edu
My opinions are just that - my opinions.