Extended sign-off mnemonics
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
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hugs
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xxx
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kisses
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OOO
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big hugs
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XXX
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big kisses
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oo
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hugs for everybody but you
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OO!
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big, excited hugs
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CCC
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hugs for people you can't quite reach around
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OOQ
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hugging with tongue
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xx@
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kisses and earlobe nibbling
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zzz
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snoring
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yyy
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anything that occurs between kissing and snoring
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H
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handshake
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kkk
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Alternate form of "handshakes for all"
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KKK
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White robes for all
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AAA
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talk-show not-really kissing
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[X]
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kissing in the closet
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XYZZY
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a kiss that moves you
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MMM
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Same as WWW, but from inversion boots
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LLL
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Armwrestles for all
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OOO~~~
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Big hugs and large caterpillars for all
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)))
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Smiles for all
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TTT
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Trees for all
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jjj
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gooses for all
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JJJ
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big gooses for all
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OOOXXXYYYZZZ
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This is illegal before marriage in nine states
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OOOXXXyZZZZZ
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Still illegal, but generally not nearly as well received
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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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