I'm taking a poll, who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons?
No and hell no. But the Homer one is fabulous!
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jul 30, 2007 6:07:18 am PDT #936 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
tommyrot - Jul 30, 2007 6:09:32 am PDT #937 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also... really? Emoticons in business correspondence? I'm taking a poll, who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons? I'm fascinated by this.
Most of our clients are not very internet savvy, so they'd just be confused....
JenP - Jul 30, 2007 6:10:55 am PDT #938 of 10001
But the Homer one is fabulous!
Innit?? I told him that I'm going to use that one all the time now (I'll find ways!) and that it's completely his fault.
D'oh!
t /~(_8^(I)
(OK, but I won't keep doing it here. Virtual pinky swear.)
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2007 6:18:00 am PDT #939 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have used :) in business emails, but it's to lighten the tone. Takes the place of a stupid face I might have made in a F2F encounter.
shrift - Jul 30, 2007 6:22:45 am PDT #940 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
OK, so my friend sends me this article about how emoticons are becoming de rigueur in some parts of the business world these days
Oh my Jesus. The end is extremely fucking nigh.
Sue - Jul 30, 2007 6:22:57 am PDT #941 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Also... really? Emoticons in business correspondence? I'm taking a poll: Who here either uses or receives serious business e-mail that seriously uses emoticons? I'm fascinated by this.
I might use them in email with co-workers where we're semi-joking, but never ever in email with anyone outside my pod. Part of my job is to do with Freedom of Information requests and we're always trying to educate people to be mindful of what they write in official correspondence, because "embarrassment in not an exemption." That said, I did find a memo once, written to a nun, with the sign-off "May the Force be with you." !!!
tommyrot - Jul 30, 2007 6:25:58 am PDT #942 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That said, I did find a memo once, written to a nun, with the sign-off "May the Force be with you." !!!
Heh.
sumi - Jul 30, 2007 6:26:31 am PDT #943 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I'm listening to The Splendid Table and guess what?
They have truffles in Saudi Arabia!
shrift - Jul 30, 2007 6:29:05 am PDT #944 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have this long, thin bruise on the back of my arm. I keep seeing it out of the corner of my eye in mirrors, and thinking, "What the schmutz?"
Getting the bruise involved leaning to counterbalance a giant bag of ice cream, and overcompensating myself into a doorway.
I am somewhat lacking in grace.
Dana - Jul 30, 2007 6:29:51 am PDT #945 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Ice cream comes in bags?