Tongue in cheek emoticon?

Subject: Tongue in cheek emoticon?
From: geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:29:09 -0500

JamesPVW said <<There needs to be a smiley or emoticon to
mean "said tongue in cheek.">>

There is, sort of... the official copyediting-l symbol for
this is <Fe> (and end with </Fe> if you're into markup
language). One day we decided there was a need for a symbol
to denote irony, you see, so I came up with... <grin>

--Geoff Hart @8^{)} geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.

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