[Bill Riel]

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In article .com,
says...

Thank you for your help. I have known what smiley is intended to mean
for the last few years.

Apologies for assuming too much on my part...

My faux naive comment was meant to illustrate why I refuse to use this
childish notation to warn ALL the readers that I'm speaking tongue
-in-cheek. Basically I refuse to use it because I do not care if my
perverted sense of humour doesn't reach those whom it fails to reach.
Ludovic Mirabel

Understood and fair enough.

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Bill