It’s Friday and I’m all out of chickens
Fortunately, Uncle B sent me this stupid chicken meme.
It amuses me that we can sit at opposite ends of the couch and send each other dumb stuff bouncing off of billion dollar satellites in outer space. Best use of technology.
That’s how the internet works, isn’t it?
We did the long distance thing for 13 years (if I’d known it was going to be that long…). We had to come up ways to stay in communication, with technology that was awfully primitive.
We’re talking, like, 1995. There was no “connected to the internet all the time” in them thar days. We got used to lobbing messages at each other at intervals all day long. It was our normal.
Shall I tell you a secret? Uncle B uses more emojis than a Japanese schoolgirl.
Have a good weekend!
Posted: October 4th, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 18
Comments
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: October 4, 2024, 7:18 pm
Does Uncle B. use the gif type of animated emoji ????
NOT animated…..
๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅฉ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐๐ค ๐คก
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: October 4, 2024, 7:19 pm
Emojis!!! ๐ช๐๐๐คฃ
Have a nice weekend!
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: October 4, 2024, 8:04 pm
Great,
Now I’ve completely forgotten the text emojis.
Next thing you know I’ll forget COBOL syntax.
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: October 4, 2024, 8:24 pm
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I entered text emojis and the system on sweasel end translated the text to image emojis of the MS style.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: October 4, 2024, 8:47 pm
@ExpressoBold Pureblood — I’ve found that if you do the text emoticons backwards from the usual way (“mouth” on the left instead of right), they don’t get translated to graphic emojis.
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Does animated stuff work in the comments here?
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: October 4, 2024, 9:05 pm
Animated emojis might work if wrapped in html code. I could not even paste an animated emoji image onto the blog page.
Comment from Rich
Time: October 4, 2024, 10:13 pm
There should have been a Dead Pool today.
mossomo won with the most deserving pick since Fidel Castro in DP 90, Hassan Nasrallah, whom the IDF rendered exceptionally deceased last Friday.
But it’s good, because now I have a week to compile the entries from the last four DPs and find my next pick.
Uncle B uses more emojis than a Japanese schoolgirl.
Is that even possible?
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: October 5, 2024, 8:30 am
Don’t tempt me, Rich. And you should see my collection of Hello Kitty toys ๐
Fortunately (for my reputation, such as it is) I can only use emojis on Android. If I get ribbed about it, my response is always:’You’d rather I used hieroglyphics?!’
(Edit: I see an actual emoji crept into that! I must investigate further, Damn kids and their new-fangled technology!)
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 5, 2024, 9:01 am
Rule #4, Rich: your first pick sticks. Delighted to see Nasrallah go, anyway.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: October 5, 2024, 5:08 pm
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Something calling the lines of woohoo!
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: October 5, 2024, 6:31 pm
@Uncle Badger — If you use Windows, and depending on what version, you may get a pop-up emoji gizmo if you hold down the windows key (the one that looks like a four-pane window) and then press the . (period) key. It’s an absolutely spectacular time-waster.
Just look at all these cats!
๐๐บ๐ธ๐น๐ป๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐ฟ๐พ๐ฑ๐โโฌ
And FOOD! and DRINK! zOMG!
๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฟ๐ง๐ง๐ฅ๐ง๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ๐ฅจ๐ฅฏ๐ฅ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฅช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ง๐ซ๐ฅซ๐๐๐ฅฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฅก๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ฆช๐ฃ๐ค๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ง๐ข๐ฅฎ๐ฅ๐ซ๐๐ฅฃ๐ฅง๐ฆ๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ฐ๐ง๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ผ๐ฅ๐งโ๐ซ๐ต๐น๐ธ๐ท๐พ๐ถ๐ง๐บ๐ป๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ซ๐ง๐ง๐ฅค๐ฅ๐ฅฅ๐๐๐๐ฅญ๐๐๐โ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ถ๏ธ๐ฝ๐๐ซ๐
๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅฌ๐ฅฆ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ง
๐ง๐ฅ๐ซ๐โ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ซ
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: October 6, 2024, 7:00 am
Ms. Weasel: Rule #4, Rich: your first pick sticks.
Nasrallah was mossomo’s first pick in DP 179.
He also wrote “Iโm removing my obligatory Zelensky”, but I think that refers to his having picked Zelensky in DP 167, apparently thinking the pick carried over (he didn’t pick in DPs 168-178).
Later in DP 179, he tried to replace Nasrallah with Yahya Sinwar, but Rule #4 applied then.
So AFAICT, he wins! (And there was much rejoicing.)
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: October 6, 2024, 11:41 am
Thank you, Uncle Al. Though it occurs to me that you may have sown the wind with emojis! ๐ฆก๐
Why does Microsoft never actually tell you these things?
PS. It turns out that Her Stoatliness knew this all along and never told me. Cant imagine why…
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: October 6, 2024, 4:47 pm
Heh! A smart lady, she is. ๐ง
Comment from Anonymous
Time: October 7, 2024, 2:20 pm
๐ ๐ฆก
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: October 7, 2024, 4:16 pm
Registration of Roast Chickens Gums Up Government
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: October 7, 2024, 5:38 pm
๐ซAnd Microsoft being Microsoft, you get this…stuff.
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: October 7, 2024, 7:58 pm
An unexpected pregnancy !!!!!
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