A Free Sermon for Chris and Sarah

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 TILL
 If you had paid attention, Sarah, you would have noticed that I said that I
 pay no attention to emoticons.  I don't even know what some of them mean. I
 consider them an extremely amateurish way of writing, somewhat like the
 students I sometimes had who would dot their "i's" with small circles or,
 even worse, hearts.  I also agree with Nancy Todd.  They are sometimes used
 by writers who make insulting remarks that they want to be taken seriously,
 but then they put a smily (which should be the correct spelling and not
 smiley) so that they can later say, "Hey, I was just kidding." As for the
 "many exclamation points," I interpreted this as a deliberate dig at what I
 had said in a prior posting.  If you will recall, I pointed out that
 amateurish writers think that using !!! can substitute for precise writing.
 Why, then, would I not have understood your !!!!! to be a deliberate
 exaggeration of my own example as a way of communicating just how much you
 did agree with Chris?
  
SARAH
This is my last post on this subject because we need to get back the the
business of errancy.  I agree with the above statement with the exception of
the spelling of smiley.  "Smileys (also known as emoticons) are human-face
drawings composed of text characters, and they help express emotions online."
That sentence is cut and pasted from an AOL site.  I'm not saying that they
are the spelling experts, but that is an accepted spelling of the word.
Also, if you weren't so hell bent on ignoring the emoticons they would have
clued you into the fact  that I was being scarcastic in my response to the
original post that started this thread.  (I know, I know, good writing should
not need the exclamation points or emoticons but that was the whole damn
point!)
Finally, the holier than thou attitude of yours can be a bit tiresome.  Your
tirade directed at  me was quite out of line and completely insulting.  I
don't understand why you feel the need to attack members of this list who are
trying to learn about the ridiculousness of the bible.  Also, I don't need you
to tell me I'm going to be a failure when you don't even know me.  I can see
why the fundies (and others) run from the list.  

~^~^~^~^~mizmoho(sarah)

Winston Churchill: 
A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the 
subject. 

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