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thompnickson2

Oct 12, 2020; 5:18pm

8^D

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OK. I’ll bite. What does it mean?

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Stephen Guerin-5

Oct 12, 2020; 5:25pm

Re: 8^D

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Nick,

You have to be left-leaning to understand it. 8^D

ie, put your left-ear on your left shoulder. :-)

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gepr

Oct 12, 2020; 5:29pm

Re: 8^D

2466 posts

Here's one for Nick: *8^|

Bald but still happy person: (8^)

Mwwuahahahahahahah: >8^D

On 10/12/20 10:25 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Nick,
>
> You have to be left-leaning to understand it. 8^D
>
> ie, put your left-ear on your left shoulder. :-)

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Stephen Guerin-5

Oct 12, 2020; 5:44pm

Re: 8^D

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Though I wouldn't put it past Glen to be also casting a Math.Power(8,13) HEX => 0x8000000000 which just might be be an evil kiss in some dark-art numerology where it is greater than the wildcard >8^*

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:25 AM Stephen Guerin <[hidden email]> wrote:

Nick,

You have to be left-leaning to understand it. 8^D

ie, put your left-ear on your left shoulder. :-)

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OK. I’ll bite. What does it mean?

n

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gepr

Oct 12, 2020; 5:51pm

Re: 8^D

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Gung erzvaqf zr gung V'ir ybfg zl pnrfne pbqr cyhtva! V'yy unir gb erjevgr vg.

On 10/12/20 10:44 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Though I wouldn't put it past Glen to be also casting a Math.Power(8,13) HEX => 0x8000000000 which just might be be an evil kiss in some dark-art numerology where it is greater than the wildcard >8^*

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Frank Wimberly-2

Oct 12, 2020; 5:59pm

Re: 8^D

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I put that during into Google and one of the first hits was "How to fill the magazine of an Airsoft gun with green gas.". Another was about conjugating ir verbs in Irgun.

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Gung erzvaqf zr gung V'ir ybfg zl pnrfne pbqr cyhtva! V'yy unir gb erjevgr vg.

On 10/12/20 10:44 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Though I wouldn't put it past Glen to be also casting a Math.Power(8,13) HEX => 0x8000000000 which just might be be an evil kiss in some dark-art numerology where it is greater than the wildcard >8^*

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gepr

Oct 12, 2020; 6:03pm

Re: 8^D

2466 posts

It's nice to know that Julius' comms might resist Sauron^H^H^H^H^H^HGoogle. Maybe there's hope for cryptography in the Quantum age after all.

On 10/12/20 10:59 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I put that during into Google and one of the first hits was "How to fill the magazine of an Airsoft gun with green gas.". Another was about conjugating ir verbs in Irgun.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 11:51 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
> Gung erzvaqf zr gung V'ir ybfg zl pnrfne pbqr cyhtva! V'yy unir gb erjevgr vg.
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Barry MacKichan

Oct 12, 2020; 6:17pm

Re: 8^D

248 posts

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Nick, just set a bookmark on ASCIImoji.com.

—Barry ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Of course your operating system needs to be Unicode-aware for many of them

On 12 Oct 2020, at 13:18, [hidden email] wrote:

OK. I’ll bite. What does it mean?

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thompnickson2

Oct 12, 2020; 8:34pm

Re: 8^D

1296 posts

Thanks, barry,

Unfortunately, ASCIIMOJI doesn’t know about it either.

Glen IS trolling us, right?

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Nick, just set a bookmark on ASCIImoji.com.

—Barry ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Of course your operating system needs to be Unicode-aware for many of them

On 12 Oct 2020, at 13:18, [hidden email] wrote:

OK. I’ll bite. What does it mean?

n

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gepr

Oct 12, 2020; 8:40pm

Re: 8^D

2466 posts

Did you not see my previous response?

You can use whatever series of characters you want. E.g. (8^) is a happy bald person. >8^D is an evil smile. Etc. It's not trolling. As Marcus mentioned awhile back, it's a way for the author to manipulate *how* a string of words is received by the audience.

My use of Rot13 encoded text *was* trolling, though. 8^D

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> Glen IS trolling us, right?

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thompnickson2

Oct 12, 2020; 8:46pm

Re: 8^D

1296 posts

(}:-(]

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, October 12, 2020 2:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] 8^D

Did you not see my previous response?

You can use whatever series of characters you want. E.g. (8^) is a happy bald person. >8^D is an evil smile. Etc. It's not trolling. As Marcus mentioned awhile back, it's a way for the author to manipulate *how* a string of words is received by the audience.

My use of Rot13 encoded text *was* trolling, though. 8^D

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> Glen IS trolling us, right?

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gepr

Oct 12, 2020; 8:57pm

Re: 8^D

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That's not how it works. B^O <=== mansplaining

A qualifier with nothing being qualified is like a metaphor with no referent or a sign without an object, dangerously close to the dreaded ... wait for it ... QUALIA. Is your emote supposed to represent *you*? Me? Is it supposed to modify the content of the thread as a whole?

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> (}:-(]

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David Eric Smith

Oct 12, 2020; 9:01pm

Re: 8^D

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I think it is a grand metaphor, meant to bring in the whole of one of the briefest postal correspondences in the literature of science.

Boltzmann to his publisher: ?
Publisher back to Boltamann: !

What did Churchill say? The two things that modern man would worst miss were a classical education and the horse.

Eric

> On Oct 12, 2020, at 4:57 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> That's not how it works. B^O <=== mansplaining
>
> A qualifier with nothing being qualified is like a metaphor with no referent or a sign without an object, dangerously close to the dreaded ... wait for it ... QUALIA. Is your emote supposed to represent *you*? Me? Is it supposed to modify the content of the thread as a whole?
>
> On 10/12/20 1:46 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
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gepr

Oct 12, 2020; 9:44pm

Re: 8^D

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Ha! Yes, the question always boils down to whether or not one gives the metaphor-maker the benefit of the doubt and assumes they don't foist targetless metaphors upon us. The tragic mistake of a modernist is to think other people are NOT zombies, absent of any content at all. "He can't possibly be as empty-headed as he seems. So there must be some deep structure we could tease out if we had the energy."

I've never heard the Chruchill quote, where's it from?

On 10/12/20 2:01 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> I think it is a grand metaphor, meant to bring in the whole of one of the briefest postal correspondences in the literature of science.
>
> Boltzmann to his publisher: ?
> Publisher back to Boltamann: !
>
> What did Churchill say? The two things that modern man would worst miss were a classical education and the horse.

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Steve Smith

Oct 13, 2020; 2:05am

Re: 8^D

2671 posts

In reply to this post by gepr

I started trying to pronounce this, and the stuff that started emerging
from the twisting shadows as I did was too creepy, so I stopped...

On 10/12/20 11:51 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> Gung erzvaqf zr gung V'ir ybfg zl pnrfne pbqr cyhtva! V'yy unir gb erjevgr vg.
>
> On 10/12/20 10:44 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>> Though I wouldn't put it past Glen to be also casting a Math.Power(8,13) HEX => 0x8000000000 which just might be be an evil kiss in some dark-art numerology where it is greater than the wildcard >8^*

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jon zingale

Oct 13, 2020; 3:12am

Re: 8^D

628 posts

"Ghat reminds me that V've lost my caesar code plugin! V'll have to rewrite
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thompnickson2

Oct 13, 2020; 3:27am

Re: 8^D

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Yes, and I also have to read noses like late Picasso, no?

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-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] 8^D

Here's one for Nick: *8^|

Bald but still happy person: (8^)

Mwwuahahahahahahah: >8^D

On 10/12/20 10:25 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Nick,
>
> You have to be left-leaning to understand it. 8^D
>
> ie, put your left-ear on your left shoulder. :-)

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David Eric Smith

Oct 13, 2020; 9:49am

Re: 8^D

385 posts

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I don’t actually have direct sourcing on the Churchill quote.

That is one of Cormac McCarthy’s favorite attributions, so I have heard it a few times over the years. I should find out in what context it was said.

E

> On Oct 12, 2020, at 5:44 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Ha! Yes, the question always boils down to whether or not one gives the metaphor-maker the benefit of the doubt and assumes they don't foist targetless metaphors upon us. The tragic mistake of a modernist is to think other people are NOT zombies, absent of any content at all. "He can't possibly be as empty-headed as he seems. So there must be some deep structure we could tease out if we had the energy."
>
> I've never heard the Chruchill quote, where's it from?
>
> On 10/12/20 2:01 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
>> I think it is a grand metaphor, meant to bring in the whole of one of the briefest postal correspondences in the literature of science.
>>
>> Boltzmann to his publisher: ?
>> Publisher back to Boltamann: !
>>
>> What did Churchill say? The two things that modern man would worst miss were a classical education and the horse.
>
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