Post your short questions here. No need to start a thread everytime.

Emoticons and smilies have zero literary value. They usualy appear as pimples on the face of an already blemished writing. They are the corn dogs of modern web literature, evolving from the covers of Pee-Chees in junior high school to express what nobody needs to or should consume. What if Edgar Allen Poe or Wm Shakespeare had to rely on emoticons to get their literary points across?:...quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'.or...to be or not to be, that is the question.Emotocons are like junk DNA...MHOIAW”HM

Paraphrasing an old proverb:It’s better to keep your emoticons private and let people think you’re an idiot than to make them public and remove all doubt.”HM

emoticons : literature :: saltpeter : sexMHOIAW”HM

Not if your pre-condition already amounts to the same effect.MHOIAW”HM

Yeah, it was a groin shot. Sorry, but you hung 'em out there. Take a knee.”HM

I've returned to this forum after several weeks of absence and discovered it has been taken over by the bicameral mindsets”those who hear godly voices and obey them. Topics are being proposed and discussed that have nothing to do with either natural evolution or religious creationism. Sunday-school topics now seem to prevail. When we have to endure another discussion about the meaning of the Book of John you can be sure that the Voice of God is demanding another hearing. Good grief!Question: Where have all the people of consciousness gone? Have they fled the pews for higher ground?”HM