Reject Embrace
modernity tradition
@pentaro @FirstProgenitor
Despite growing up with it, I never really got the :$ and (despite the dollar sign) always thought of it as some anarchist version of :S.
@cornflower @pentaro oh yea same
@FirstProgenitor @cornflower It was the default shortcut for the blushing emoticon on MSN Messenger.

@pentaro @FirstProgenitor Oh, that makes a lot of sense! (And explains your previous post!) Thank you!
But I got to admit, I can't really see the blushing in the dollar sign, still. ":-$"
:-D

I wonder whether I just can't see it (if you really can see the meaning in the emotes) or whether it just came to be by convention.

@FirstProgenitor - Guess what is **==?
Hint: was common in Yahoo Messenger!
@FirstProgenitor if a vampire is telling me to embrace tradition, is that just peer pressure from undead people?