shortcuts in writing

[Grant Barrett]

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 06:57 AM, Frank Abate wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/circuits/
> 19MESS.html?todayshead
> lines=&pagewanted=print&position=top

Below is from a discussion on Metafilter on the topic Frank linked
above. It made me laugh.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/20178#349399

> From the article: "They would be trying to make a point in a paper,
> they would put a smiley face in the end."
>
> Henry the Eighth of England was married six times. :O He chopped off
> the heads of two of his wives, :( he divorced two wives, :( one died
> in childbirth, :( and his last wife, Catherine Parr, survived him. :)


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