These days it's quite common for messages on social-oriented bulletin boards to end with signoffs like "Hi and hugs to everybody." In fact, this has become so popular that as much as 7.5% of the disk space on some BBS's is currently devoted to this particular comment. The International Committee for Relatively Pointless Abbreviations and Badly Misspelled Acronyms (SPUDS) has just released a new, internationally approved list of abbreviated signoffs. These include:

ooo	hugs
xxx	kisses
OOO	big hugs
XXX	big kisses
oo	hugs for everybody but you
OO!	big, excited hugs
CCC	hugs for people you can't quite reach around
OOQ	hugging with tongue
xx@	kisses and earlobe nibbling
zzz	snoring
yyy	anything that occurs between kissing and snoring
H	handshake
kkk	Alternate form of "handshakes for all"
KKK	White robes for all
AAA	talk-show not-really kissing
[X]	kissing in the closet
XYZZY	a kiss that moves you
MMM	Same as WWW, but from inversion boots
LLL	Armwrestles for all
OOO~~~	Big hugs and large caterpillars for all
)))	Smiles for all
TTT	Trees for all
jjj	gooses for all
JJJ	big gooses for all
OOOXXXYYYZZZ	This is illegal before marriage in nine states
OOOXXXyZZZZZ	Still illegal, but generally not nearly as well received

Remember, there is much more work to be done to codify and abbreviate excessively clear and understandable sign-off messages and replace them with efficient and incomprehensible international symbols. Please contribute money, suggestions, and chocolate to this worthy cause, and help make conversation boards a better place for assembly-language programmers.

Thank you,

Trygve Lode,
General Secretary (SPUDS)

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