but you cannot possibly turn a blind eye if they use ten lines of sad faces! if so you are a heartless monster!
note, you will need to imagine the ten lines of sad faces.I remember back in the good old days, when chat was just the passing of notes around. why I recall the original version of MSN, why it was just a postcard, it was. you'd write your chat text in the box, and send it to the mail to your buddy.
when you buddy receives it, they would reply. until you have successfully decided to meet last Tuesday. Back in those days we didn't have any fancy shortcuts for making smileys.. well, that's not true, my good friend Gerald had a smiley face stamp, but he used it responsibly! Why he even invented the dancing Banana, he did. I quite recall how it came about, I believe it involved two Elephant seals and a platypus who where living on his porch, they did something or other and he responded with an equal but opposite reaction and over time he came up with a somehow related concept of a dancing banana. The idea was simple- you would draw the Banana frame by frame in consecutive responses, until you have created a short animation of a dancing banana. Back in those days of course we didn't have these fancy gif files or other nonsense, we had to use our imaginations, and his overseas friend would re-construct the animation in his head and have a good laugh, responding thusly with a "haha" on his signature MSN stationery. Well, Then the darned computer was invented, and everybody was hemming and hawwing and having a gay old time over that, and we started to fall by the wayside, Microsoft left their original domain of letter stationery and decided that they would strike it out as a software company. I quite distinctly recall waving my cane at them as they drove off in their mobile campus car, Although I believe I was 22 at the time so I'm not sure if I had a cane... I do recall waving something... ahh yes, I remember, it was a cane, as I had a nasty row with Geralds Platypus over wether his kind laid eggs. He insisted that it didn't make sense as he was a mammal, and I laughingly joked that he was a freak, well, he didn't take to kindly to that and tried to kill me. thankfully all he did was knock me down and sprain my ankle, so I had to use a crutch, which is what I was waving.
And then there was Aunt Martha with her Yahoo stationery, never was quite compatible with our MSN stationery.....
