Steampunk Emoticons and Abbreviations

From a long running thread at the Steampunk Forum Brass Goggles
Enjoy.

Keep your sightglass full, your firebox trimmed and your water iced.
KJ
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http://brassgoggles.c...
February 26, 2007

If we as a culture wish to truly take off as a sub-culture, we'll need customized emoticons and acronyms.

For example;

A higher-class sophisticate might wish to don his monocle during a chat, like so: -_Q

Whereas BTW means By-The-Way, BTB would stand for By-The-By; which is far more appropriate for gentlemen and women than the former.

Feel free to add your thoughts and ideas!


-_Q
Monocle. (Sir Andrew)
BTW
By The Way. (Sir Andrew)
BTB
By The By. (Sir Andrew)
WC
Water Closet (traditional, mentioned by Rococoboy)
ByJ
By Jove! (initially Sir Andrew, corrected by Heavyporker)
STOP
sentence end (traditional, mentioned by TheClockworkWasteland)
END
post end (traditional, by Kabuki)
JOVE
By Jove alternative. (Daeudi_454)
WAA
We are amused. (RPFolkers)
HP
How peculiar. (RPFolkers)
IS
I Say! (BigGenNickYard)
QS
Quite so. (BigGenNickYard)
WP
Well played. (BigGenNickYard)
HH!
Here here! (BigGenNickYard)
TB
Talking b*llocks. (BigGenNickYard)
WWW
What what what? (BigGenNickYard)
GSOC
Good show, old chap. (MrFats)


WTD
What the Dickens? (MrFats)
VF
Very Flash (TheClockworkWasteland)
BTC
By the cogs! (TheClockworkWasteland)
-O=O-
Goggles. (Sir Andrew)
THOB
Top hole, old bean. (Wilibald)
WATT
What's all this then? (CinnamonAndSpite)
--O-
Monoggle (B. Fugu)
BRAWN
Badly Rendered, And Wanted Not (Replacement for spam (Alderman Simeon)
C|:)
Bowler Derby (Otto Morgan)

There then follows 12 pages of wonderful and creative ideas including this gem:
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By Jove! STOP
There are many wonderous new computational engine system dialect conventions in this forum string! STOP
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