From Newsgroup: rec.bicycles.misc

From a list of smilyes included in a historical document
posted at

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm

:


Since Scott's original proposal, many further symbols have
been

proposed here:



(:-) for messages dealing with bicycle helmets

[snip]

~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages
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