:-)

This article is so asinine that it borders on ridiculous.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20081212/NEWS08/81212034/1025


If you don’t actually want to read the article, which I don’t blame you, here’s the jist. A Russian man wants to put a trademark on the emoticon ;-)!! What actually made me laugh was the whole time I was reading I kept thinking that I was reading a news skit from SNL. I mean really couldn’t you just hear Tina Fey (Yes Tina Fey, she’s the only SNL anchor I have actually liked in the past 10 years.) commenting on this?

“After trying to have said emoticon trademarked, other Russian Internet entrepreneurs reacted to the effort predictably - :-( ”

(Part of that line was actually from the newspaper article.)