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<<< </center><center>in cyber-parlance is called an emoticon.
Not just this one. No. Every time
you see a yellow circle with what appears
to be eyes with eyebrows and a mouth
then you have come across
an emoticon.
Let's say that word together :
e-mo-tuh-kon.
(note the emphasis is being placed on the 'mo' instead
of the 'tuh' which is probably the British way of saying it)
The reason i have brought this to the reader's attention
is actually a two-fold explanation, but the first explanation
doesn't really need an explanation so i will continue forward
and say a bit about the second explanation (which technically
should be renamed the first explanation as the original first
was dismissed by myself as being a little too contrite and useless)
which is why i began this brilliant piece of writing in the first place,
and that is :
"it came upon me like a winter storm blowing in from
the cold and heartless Arctic"
bringing a sudden realization that this emoticon...
this one right here
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<<<is appropriately called
'the laughing emoticon'
which cyber-written in code is
colon el oh el colon,
for those who are unable to read my own code,
it is deciphered to be a shortcut in saying
'laughing out loud'....
but
(make that a bigger 'but' please)
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(thank you very much.. or tyvw), and this is where the inspiration
to write this came from:
this little emoticon actually is laughing in complete and total silence.
Not even turning up the volume of my dated
harmon/kardon made for computers speakers
reveals even a hint of any laughter which I find to be
extraordinarily disappointing
Why would The Emoticon Congressional Authority (TECA) not be
inspired to put sound, preferably a kind but totally meaningful
sound of laughter when using this particularly lone and silent
emoticon... the only emoticon that symbolizes sound, unlike
a smile,
a wink,
the look of astonishment,
or even the 'cool' look
amongst all the other emoticons that are in the public arena
free to use at the discretionary want or need of the cyber-writer.
You (yes, Y-O-U !) are most likely (as I was) to have this sudden
realization thrust upon you when, in all innocence, you clicked
on this post because of the (now) misleading title, and for that
I, the author of this stunning piece of originality, must offer you
(yes, Y-O-U!) a heartfelt and sincere apology for misleading you
into the deft and clever writing that you have found yourself in
up to and including the singularly end point in time which I will identify
for the reader who has gotten that far by
highlighting that singular end point in the color 'dark blue' which
I'm sure you are getting very impatient to finally end this
absolutely ridiculous writing that verges of idiocy
not necessarily for the content as much as it is for the
audacity to go on and on and on about a friggin'
emoticon
that looks exactly like
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laugh!
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