Forget college -- join the Marines!

[ICantSpellDawg]

Dude: I know it lessens the impact of your irony and cleverness, but ya gotta start throwing in a smiley somewhere, lest folks think you're serious. It doesn't have to be an animated one, just a :) a few lines down, or something.

We avoid a ton of flamewars and mis-directed topics with that one tiny action. I don't mean to pick on you, it just seemed a good time to demonstrate an object lesson, so I apologize for any embarrassment. This 'rule-of-etiquette' applys to everyone, throughout our multinational, multi-lingual forums.

Marine Officer ain't a bad career choice. Command a company of 200 guys who can make a difference, at age 25. Beats the heck outta cubicle life, IMHO. But to each, his own.

I don't know. I got that he was being sarcastic. If anything I think smileys are more irritating than just making a crack. Sometimes they may be good to use, but Hippie doesn't even have a negative connotation to most people on this board. I'm a conservative and wouldn't be offended if someone called me a word meaning drug addled-sodomite-communist. That would be a lie. Mostly.