little, yellow, different

Apparently, Yahoo! would like you to be more effusive in your online interaction:

These emoticons are actually super-secret bonus emoticons - just in case you weren't able to express a suitably wide range of emotions with the fifty-odd emoticons that are already available to the Yahoo! chat community. You know, for all of those times when nothing really says "I'm sorry" like an animated chicken.

Now, I realize that it is VERY EXCITING to be able to insert moving pictures into our chat windows, but please: don't. It's bad enough that we have, like, as a culture decided that we can justify any asshole comment we want by following it up with a semi-colon and a parenthesis, but if I start seeing yin yangs in work emails, I'm going to have to pull a Dark Phoenix and just, really, obliterate the planet.

Here's an idea: use WORDS. After all, we've spent enough time coming up with them. And, hey, who knows, you might even like them.

However, on the plus side, this does mean that I'll finally be able to finish my chat-based adaptations of great literary and cinematic moments.

Like Hamlet's soliloquy.

Hamlet:

Or Marlon Brando's speech in On the Waterfront.

Charlie:
Terry:
Charlie:
Terry:

Or the final, explosive confrontation in Brokeback Mountain.

Ennis:
Jack:
Ennis:
Jack:
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