Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

<center>This little yellow thing you see here</center>
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<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)

<center>BUT</center>
(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

>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<

and doesn't even

laugh!
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cecil

I wonder how different the world might be if only the emphasis were randomly moved about to various syllables. Imagine por ejemplo knee-oh-CON, or maybe ob-VYE-us, or that sort of thing. Stick to one syl-LABEL words..

i call them smiley faces. there's one on that-other-site-we-sometimes-go-to that blows pink bubblegum bubbles...i wonder if it would go *pop* if it had a sound...& then there's that one on the very first poetry site i posted on i loved to use: a horse pooping and grinning foolishly while being smacked over the head by it's unamused rider...i always imagined the horse whinnying in some kind of perverse grin.

tnx 4 the

I love this piece! Fun stuff!

Also... lol... I love smilies!


Here, try this.
http://yoursmiles.org/

Yer gonna love it!



.....

just find the one you want and hit on ubb code, copy and paste


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"it came upon me like a winter storm blowing in from

the cold and heartless Arctic"

it was a dark and stormy night?
can't wait to read the rest of it