Topical xkcd

[hipikat]

Every time I've brought this up with someone they've shot me down saying THEIR WAY IS OBVISOUS. Well, my curiosity has just been validated.

Poll Parenthetical statements with emoticons

Addendum: Yes, obviously I'm missing a 'correct' from the last question, but you can't edit poll questions once you've created the poll (for obvious reasons).

Comments

[hipikat]

The correct/incorrect dichotomy you speak of was formed before we had emoticons hijacking the building blocks of our typographic system! The rules must be reconsidered!

[drackir]

You're acting like we haven't had shifts in English spelling rules within our lifetimes :P

The rules are only rules as long as we all follow them.
So if people are doing the first one then that would become the new rule :P

[loic]

[this way :)]

[ext_109062]

Oddly enough, a long time ago I took to doing the opposite:
(I think a flat-mouth smiley looks more smug, which IMHO befits a parenthetical statement. :-] )
As you can see I also prefer a full stop before, and spaces either side.

hipikat, I think this thread has highlighted both the extreme geekiness of your friends, and also the limitations of the LJ poll system (which is incapable of expressing the necessary permutations of this level of pedantry).

[ataxi]

Nope, that flat-mouth smiley looks like it's got an upside-down handlebar moustache a la the International Tache Competition or something.

[tzisorey]

Invest in malware-filled animated smiling-face images - that's what everyone else seems to do.

[lazarus85]

i refuse to answer on the terms it may incriminate me :3

[craskwolf]

Incidentally, second xkcd comic in a row in which furries are mentioned.

Woo, go us!

[dunq]

Can't believe I'm in the minority!