[pct-l] Bicycle Usage Proposal

[greg mushial]

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> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:47:10 -0400
> From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01 at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bicycle Usage Proposal
> To: greg mushial <gmushial at gmdr.com>
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
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> On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:14 PM, greg mushial wrote:
>> Sorry: but  :-)  means that you'd be happy to de exactly what you
>> said - to
>> promote it where you can... (ie, picking a fight, posting such on a
>> hiker's
>> board), on the otherhand, if you had used  ;-)   (a wink) then you
>> would
>> have been understood, and in all likelyhood would not have provoked
>> the
>> responses you got (I know I wouldn't have posted, but I don't speak
>> for
>> others).
>
> It doesn't surprise me to find that different people interpret emoticons
> differently. The distinction that you authoritatively declare doesn't
> really exist in my mind.
>
<snip>
> Radar

Might I offer a collection of links listing emticons and meanings...  a word 
is a group of letters, with a widely agreed upon meaning...  and so that we 
aren't using "cat" to refer to an animal which barks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/emoticons.php

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://im-gp.com/help/images/emoticonlist.jpg&imgrefurl=http://im-gp.com/help/index.php&usg=__VJjBkMu1FjjK2aui881odAPwyoo=&h=463&w=234&sz=43&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=PaVZTfbqYrnxuM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=65&prev=/images%3Fq%3Demoticon%2Blist%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26tbs%3Disch:1

http://www.labnol.org/internet/voice/full-list-of-yahoo-smileys-or-emoticons-for-yahoo-messenger/764/

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://shareme.com/images/large/ICQ_Emotion_HotKey-15495.gif&imgrefurl=http://shareme.com/screenshot/icq-emotion-hotkey.html&usg=__tDE9lrheI0eQeGQC3wBNU15us5A=&h=612&w=684&sz=38&hl=en&start=20&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=AUSTK5J4Lfks7M:&tbnh=124&tbnw=139&prev=/images%3Fq%3Demoticon%2Blist%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26tbs%3Disch:1

http://www.msgweb.nl/en/MSN_Images/Emoticon_list/

http://mycomputermadesimple.blogspot.com/2009/02/facebook-chat-smileys.html

http://www.facebokemoticons.com/

http://www.fbemoticons.com/

;-)  time to go feed my goats, they're barking  ;-)

put one foot ahead of the other, repeat until done,     :-)
TheDuck