Web Class - Emoticons Are Fun!

If you are a right thinking human of sane proportions, or even one of those freakish crazy types with elongated torsos, legs or arms, you should enjoy Something Awful.

If you don't enjoy Something Awful, then there's a good chance it has just gone over your head.
Don't feel bad. If everyone got to be of superior stock, then being "a cut above" would quickly get devalued, and we would all become one bland grey mass of similarity. Your inability to appreciate clever-yet-evil humour helps promote diversity.

Today, a new update about the impending emoticon race war was posted at Something Awful which, sadly, wasn't as funny as expected. The good news is, the reason it wasn't so funny was that it didn't measure up that well to the previous articles about emoticons "Your Eyes Are Like A Sideways Colon" and "The Passion Of The Emoticon" and the GREAT news about that is that it reminded me to direct anybody reading this towards those two articles.

The former has this to offer:

"I soon learned that even though the Internet was a cold and distant apparatus designed to isolate people and destroy them systematically, it was also capable of displaying "emoticons," which put little graphic faces on the feelings of the amorphous blobs populating this new digital universe."

While the latter sets the world alight with statements like:

"But more importantly, there are thousands of emoticons, far more than I hinted at or reviewed. In an event so rare that it's probably about as common as a polar bear giving birth to a lobster made out of pure titanium, that article also garnered some positive feedback and requests for more"

Go and look. Tell me on your return that you don't now believe emoticons are fun.