Saddie

This is primarily because these older women feel they will soon have to 'give up' or 'let go' of 'raving', so that they don't become what one woman has described as 'saddies'. All interviewees are white, and although they were not asked[…]

I watched Marley & Me last night; it was a real saddie.

The sad smileys were becuase^([sic]) I wouldn't get to speak to Debs. Some of the sentences have more saddies (surely you can't have a sad smiley; it's time they had a word of their own) than others because I wasn't expecting to be enjoying myself on those occasions. As for the single saddie for my night in Cornwall, well...........

Could someone help me out a bit with these little newsgroup symbols? I know about happies :) and saddies :(, but I can tell by this thread that in the future I may need to make use of . . . sarcasm. :) er, I mean :( or maybe @=<:

I do *not* lard my posts with smileys and frownies and saddies, preferring purely textual communication...which can, no doubt, be best read by those with interline reading capacity.

I refuse to use smileys, or saddies or any other kind of squiggle, so I get misunderstood a lot.

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