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Hello everyone, today I would like to ask each and every one of you for your help with a very serious problem facing Esato, the overuse of smileys. This year alone more than twenty thousand smileys* have been used to decorate otherwise dull posts, at the rate we are using smileys they will be extinct before the end of 2005.
The damage this is causing to Esato is beyond measure, there are already some species of smiley on the brink of extinction. Poachers are rounding up hundreds of smileys to sell on the black market where they fetch a good price. According to recent Wild Smiley Foundation (WSF) findings most black market smileys are crammed into posts with as many as twenty other smileys, each fighting for room and attention.
Take the case of Happy Face, a smiley caught in the poacher's nets and sold on to be used as decoration in a post. He had wondered the streets for all of his life, overcoming anti-animation prejudice to find work in a broom factory, that was until the broom factory closed after it was discovered that the brooms contained dangerous levels of mercury, arsenic, bromide, asbestos and some other mildly irritant chemicals with long names. Turning to the bottle he found himself hooked on a eight bottle a day habit, forcing him to sell his meagre posessions to buy more Vimto. Alone and destitute he was forced to find work decorating posts with the biggest smiley factory in town Mr J's Smiley Emporium; paid a shilling a month and given lodgings along with eight hundred other smileys, with only one toilet between them.
It was at this point that Happy Face met and fell in love with Projectile Vomit Face, his beautiful girlfriend. With her help Happy Face managed to kick his habit and they were to be married. Unfortunately our staff weren't informed of this change in circumstance when we found Happy Face and we shot him to put him out of his misery.
With your help we can make sure that no other smiley has to endure what Happy Face endured, with your genorous donations we can make sure that posts have adequate facilities for all their smileys and we will bring down pressure on Esato to ensure that no post has more than five smileys.
Pleae make your contribution today** and help put a smile on a smiley!
* Figure is likely made up and should be used for entertainment purposes only.
** Please send cash in a brown paper envelope to:
Corrupt Charities Inc.
1 Fleece Punters Street
Sometown
Somewhere
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[ This Message was edited by: scotsboyuk on 2004-08-24 21:44 ]
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Posted: 2004-08-24 22:41:57
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[reached my quotum......]
[edit] ... now the uni isn't a smilie
[edit2] argh!
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[ This Message was edited by: Vlammetje on 2004-08-24 21:47 ]
[ This Message was edited by: Vlammetje on 2004-08-24 21:47 ]
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Posted: 2004-08-24 22:46:48
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I await @jojo's reply...
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Posted: 2004-08-24 22:49:47
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I blame @JN for his gross overuse of the worlds smiley resources, resulting in a shortage that could threaten the worlds ecology! I believe we should be represented at the next G8 summit, and ask for a law to be passed regarding the rationing of smileys, and in particular i believe we should have Mr. Blix inspect @JN's property for WSD's. I believe it is imperitive, as aside anything else, all those smileys make his posts impossible to read.
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Posted: 2004-08-24 22:50:44
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I think I'll sit on the fence with this one but I am reminded of another smileys thread
Your coolest smiley
and a little repost from me...
and to all you mere mortals out there...
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Posted: 2004-08-24 22:56:25
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Smilys in a forum are intended to be a substitute for body language and facial expressions we use in ordernary conversations face to face.
If they are used the way thay are intended they are a very handy tool but over use of them will only confuse the readers.
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Posted: 2004-08-24 22:57:09
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Do you hear that @jojo?
Someone check his clock - has he clocked in tonight
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Posted: 2004-08-24 23:00:09
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@masseur
Very sporting of you old man.
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Posted: 2004-08-24 23:01:30
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On 2004-08-24 23:00:09, mince-inside wrote:
Someone check his clock - has he clocked in tonight
That tickled my funny bone for some reason
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Posted: 2004-08-24 23:04:49
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sooo...... what do those smileys tell us about masseur.... really??
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Posted: 2004-08-24 23:05:34
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