O'REILLY ANNOUNCES WINNER OF 'BEST NEW SMILEY CONTEST'
From DaviD W. Sanderson <dw...@ssec.wisc.edu>
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· 24 May 1994 00:32 · View full thread
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[For some reason this does not appear to have gotten distributed on
Usenet yet, so I am posting it. My apologies for the delay; the press
release went out April 1. -dws]
O'REILLY ANNOUNCES WINNER OF 'BEST NEW SMILEY CONTEST'
O'Reilly & Associates, the people who put an armadillo on
the cover of a system administration book, announced that Pete
"Ender" Walsh of Falls Church, VA has been named the winner of
the $500 prize for the best submission to "The Best New Smiley
Contest." His winning entry is:
>[:^)
"Watches too much TV"
The contest was judged by David Sanderson, compiler of
_SMILEYS_, a collection of 650 smiley faces published by O'Reilly &
Associates (ISBN: 1-56592-041-4; $5.95 US), and Lesley Strother, a
designer at O'Reilly. People submitting the best smiley not already
found in SMILEYS by October 1, 1993 were eligible for the $500 prize.
In addition to naming a winner, O'Reilly will give the 20
runners up copies of the new edition of Ed Krol's _The Whole Internet
User's Guide & Catalog, released April 1. The runners up entries are:
::-b|d-::
"Person with glasses sticking out tongue at mirror"
Galen Johnson
=[8]-O
"Spaceman Spiff preparing to land"
Greg Boyd
.!!!,
"Lion hand"
Laszlo Drotos
[]:-{o
"Barbershop quartet singer"
Neil Sokolowski
<*(:-?
"Wizard who doesn't know the answer"
Bruce J. Barton
,,,^..^,,,
"Cat peeking over a fence" (note claws)
Ina L. Mehlman
#:o\:o/:o\:o/:o||
"Totem pole"
Michael Maier
(:-O ==>
"Rush Limbaugh" (note loud tie)
Heather Taylor
(Z(:^P
"Napoleon"
Paul Curcio
*-=|8-D
"Clown"
Charles Hannum
:-8p
"Dizzy Gillespie" (puffed cheeks and trumpet)
Michael J Kahlke
IIIIII8^)X
"The Cat in the Hat"
N. Murray
`,`,`,`,`:|
"Mrs. Frankenstein"
Matthew Allen Lewis
`@_____
"Snail mail"
Robert Mudry
`\=o-o=/'
"Eye glasses"
Jose Manuel Pereira
oO:)&
"A grandmother"
Maureen Zapryluk
/\/:/\
"Mummy"
Barry Ackerman
())=(
"Wine glass"
Bonnie Petry
#!^~/
"'Kissy' profile: hair (a la Archie Andrews), shades, nose, smooch, chin"
Alan L. Chamberlain
<0__/\__/\_
"Worm"
Martin Frischherz
--
DaviD W. Sanderson (dw...@ora.com)
"The Noah Webster of smileys is David Sanderson"
- The Wall Street Journal, 15 Sep 1992
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