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Family safe chat

I would like to run a chat room just for Sapcote Village. If anyone would like to set this up...and monitor it for abuse... I would be grateful. However until then, I have chosen a site where you can be monitored as you chat to people from all over the world...you can arrange to meet at a certain time or it may be so quiet we are the only ones using it... If you know about chat and can find a better site...no problem....I'll recommend that chat room instead....

    Village IRC

If your children want to use chat rooms, please see the children's chat page

Information
Some things in chat will jump right out at you. First, when there are a lot of chatters in the room, the text will scroll quite fast. Don't let this scare you, just hang in there and you'll learn to follow along in no time. You may also notice that people tend to use abbreviations for frequently used phrases. Here's a few to get you started:

Abbreviations

  • brb - be right back
  • bbl - be back later
  • LOL - laugh out loud
  • ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing
  • gmta - great minds think alike
  • IMO - in my opinion
  • IRL - in real life
  • oic - oh, I see

Basic Smileys

:-) Your basic smiley. This smiley is used to inflect a sarcastic or joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over e-mail.

;-) Winky smiley. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark. More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smiley.

:-( Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset or depressed about something.

:-I Indifferent smiley. Better than a `:-(' but not quite as good as a `:-)'.

:-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. Worse than a `;-)'.

>:-> User just made a really devilish remark.

>;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made.

Emotional Smileys

:-) ha ha

|-) hee hee

|-D ho ho

:-> hey hey

:-( boo hoo

:-I hmmm

:-O oops

:-P nyahhhh!


Widely used Smileys

(-: User is left handed.

%-) User has been staring
at a green screen for 15 hours straight.

:*) User is drunk.

[:] User is a robot.

8-) User is wearing sunglasses.

B:-) Sunglasses on head.

::-) User wears normal glasses.

B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses.

8:-) User is a little girl.

:-)-8 User is a Big girl.

:-{) User has a moustache.

:-{} User wears lipstick.

:-~) User has a cold.

:'-( User is crying.

:'-) User is so happy, s/he is crying.

:-@ User is screaming.

:-& User is tongue tied.

`:-) User shaved one of
his eyebrows off this morning.

,:-) Same thing...other side.

.-) User only has one eye.

,-) Ditto...but he's winking.

|-I User is asleep.

|-O User is yawning/snoring.

:-Q User is a smoker.

:-? User smokes a pipe.

:-S User just made an incoherent statement.

:-D User is laughing (at you!)

:-X User's lips are sealed.

:-C User is really bummed.

X-( User just died.

@:-) User is wearing a turban.

:-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)

:-/ User is skeptical.

:-o Uh oh!

Midget Smileys

A lot of these can be typed without noses
to make midget smileys.

:) Midget smiley.

:] Gleep...a friendly midget smiley
who will gladly be your friend.

=) Variation on a theme...

:} What should we call these? (what?)

:) Happy.

:> What?

:@ What?

:D Laughter.

:I Hmmm...

:( Sad.

:[ Real Downer.

:< What?

:{ What?

:O Yelling.

:C What?

:Q What?

:,( Crying.

[] Hugs and ...

:* Kisses.

|I Asleep.

^o Snoring.

LessWidely Used...But Fun

O-) Megaton Man On Patrol!
(or else, user is a scuba diver)

O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least).

:-` User spitting out its chewing tobacco.

<|-) User is Chinese

<|-( User is Chinese and doesn't like
these kind of jokes.

C=:-) User is a chef.

@= User is pro-nuclear war.

*<:-) User is wearing a Santa Claus Hat.

 

(8-o It's Mr. Bill!

*:o) And Bozo the Clown!

3:] Pet smiley.

3:[ Mean Pet smiley.

d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles
and a hard hat.

E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator.

:-9 User is licking his/her lips.

%-6 User is braindead.

[:-) User is wearing a walkman.

(:I User is an egghead.

<:-I User is a dunce.

K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beenie.

:-: Mutant smiley; the invisible smiley.

8 :-) User is a wizard.

-=* :-) User is a TeX wizard.

{:-) User wears a toupee.

}:-( Toupee in an updraft.

:-[ User is a vampire.

:-E Bucktoothed vampire.

:-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing.

:-7 User juust made a wry statement.

:-* User just ate something sour.

:-)~ User drools.

:-# User wears braces.

:^) User has a broken nose.

:v) User has a broken nose,
but it's the other way.

:_) User's nose is sliding off of his face.

:<) User is from an Ivy League School.

=:-) User is a hosehead.

-:-) User is a punk rocker.

-:-( Real punk rockers don't smile.

:=) User has two noses.

+-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office.

Usenet Smileys

In some Usenet articles you might also find these smileys which form a certain "dialect" developed and used in this most creative environment.

~~:-( Net.flame

O |-) Net.religion

8 :-I Net.unix-wizards

X-( Net.suicide

E-:-I Net.ham-radio

Mega Smileys

C=}>;*{)) A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft, a mustache, and a double chin.

}:^#}) Updrafted bushy-mustached pointy nosed smiley with a double-chin.

...you get the idea...time to design your own....