Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns
From: tlode%nyx.uucp AT nike.cair.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Extended Sign-Off Mnemonics
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 97 19:20:04 EST


These days it's quite common for messages on social-oriented bulletin
boards to end with signoffs like "Hi and hugs to everybody."  In fact,
this has become so popular that as much as 7.5% of the disk space on
some BBS's is currently devoted to this particular comment.  The
International Committee for Relatively Pointless Abbreviations and
Badly Misspelled Acronyms (SPUDS) has just released a new, internationally
approved list of abbreviated signoffs.  These include:
ooo              hugs
xxx              kisses
OOO              big hugs
XXX              big kisses
oo               hugs for everybody but you
OO!              big, excited hugs
CCC              hugs for people you can't quite reach around
OOQ              hugging with tongue
xx@              kisses and earlobe nibbling
zzz              snoring
yyy              anything that occurs between kissing and snoring
H                handshake
kkk              alternate form of "handshakes for all"
KKK              white robes for all
AAA              talk-show not-really kissing
[X]              kissing in the closet
XYZZY            a kiss that moves you
MMM              same as WWW, but from inversion boots
LLL              armwrestles for all
OOO~~~           big hugs and large caterpillars for all
)))              smiles for all
TTT              trees for all
jjj              gooses for all
JJJ              big gooses for all
OOOXXXYYYZZZ     this is illegal before marriage in nine states
OOOXXXyZZZZZ     still illegal, but generally not nearly as well received


Remember, there is much more work to be done to codify and abbreviate
excessively clear and understandable sign-off messages and replace them
with efficient and incomprehensible international symbols.  Please
contribute money, suggestions, and chocolate to this worthy cause, and
help make conversation boards a better place for assembly-language
programmers.

Thank you,

Trygve Lode,

General Secretary (SPUDS)

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