Email conventions seeping into handwriting

[Johanna N Franklin]

    This is kind of hard to explain.  It's meant to look like a person
sticking out his or her tongue...  It might be used to respond to a
teasing remark, e.g.

Typist 1:  You know, you sitting there and screaming at ESPN's game
update online won't help your team win...

Typist 2:  Hmmmmph.  :P

Typist 1:  :)

    Johanna, who has had exactly this exchange online before...

Excerpts from mail: 3-Aug-99 Re: Email conventions seepi.. by Victoria
Neufeldt at M-W.CO
> Please, WHAT does ':P' mean?
>
Excerpts from mail: 3-Aug-99 Re: Email conventions seepi.. by Victoria
Neufeldt at M-W.CO
>>
>>     And I know someone who, upon, realizing that someone is teasing him,
>> will say "colon p" - the appropriate emoticon to use in that situation.
>> :P
>>