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Subject:RE: OT: Pseudo- tags From:jgarison -at- ide -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:29:15 -0500
I was going to observe how wonderfully trained we all are here we are,
having geekish fun and still adhering slavishly to well-formed HTML (or are
these XML?) tags! Maybe Paul or Geoff will create a pseudo-lexicon of these
- including the arcane rules like that of the </lurk> opening tag.
<wry observation> Actually, on one level I find this quite disturbing! </wry
observation>
John
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From: Paul Sinasohn [mailto:sinasohn -at- sendmail -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:59 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: Pseudo- tags
Tasha, I've seen that last one without the 'on'....
I often use: <g,d&rlh> which is <grin, duck, and run like hell>
and <BEG> which is <Big Evil Grin>......those two don't require formal
closing tags (they are closers, themselves, actually)
Another favorite is </lurk> <lurk> .... but you have to use it in that
order (backwards) or it doesn't make sense.
And my sister uses <blonde> </blonde> sometimes, even though she's a
redhead.
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