Emoji #09 //O-O\\ Lennon
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THE SERIES
The typographical expression of emotions have been around for a very long time. The first evidence of this is a clay pot that was unearthed on the border between Turkey and Syria. It has a primitive emoji painted on the pot... a curved line for a smiling mouth, and two dots for the eyes - a smiling face decoration on the pot. The astonishing part is this : the clay pot dates back nearly 4,000 years to around 1700 BC!
Chronologically, here are some other dates of significance where smileys were discovered :
1741 : the first use of an emoji in text where Bernard Hennet drew a smiley in his signature
1900 : poet Johannes V Jensen wrote a letter and included a happy face and a sad face
1919 : a very detailed smiley was used as a sticker on customers' receipts
1953 : smileys are used on movie posters as promotion
But thereafter, the smiley got a makeover when the smiley as we know it today was finally registered in 1963 by Harvey Ball as a promotion for a client. It was used on 50,000,000 buttons and was an instant worldwide hit. Since then there have been a monumental rise in the use of, and additions to, the basic Smiley
EMOTICONS
With the advent of the personal computer, people used plain text characters to express their emotions, and across the available alphabet characters, there are literally tens of thousands of these emoticons. With the development of graphic art as a medium, these emoticons became pictures and the name changed to emojis. Much easier to click on a pic of a snake than having to type out ~>°)~~~~~~ for sure. Yes - the first emoticons were viewed at right angles to the horizontal, but there are also those viewed normally. Then there are one-liners, two, three, four and more liners!
Merry★* 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
•。★Christmas★ 。* 。
° 。 ° ˛˚˛ * _Π_____*。*˚
˚ ˛ •˛•˚ */______/~＼。˚ ˚ ˛
˚ ˛ •˛• ˚ ｜ 田田 ｜門｜
(\_/)
(o.o)
(____)0
Because this is such a fascinating piece of text history - largely unknown - and the prequel to today's emotion pictures, this series is dedicated to some of these text based emojis. Some English, some Japanese, some Chinese... If you have time, feel free to search Asian Emoticons and be amazed at the thousands of these that are today mostly forgotten
THIS CACHE
This cache is dedicated to the John Lennon emoticon and is depicted as
//O-O\\
The cache is hidden is a place where it will not be MOST uncommon to find John Lennon, so take care when investigating this cache :-)
The Story.....
John was not feeling well at all. In fact, he was feeling terrible. Not being medically inclined, he went - like we all do eventually - to see the Doc. John was linked up to a multitude of machines to test this and that with the occasional lifting of the eyebrows from his doctor whilst looking at John's results. This made poor old John very nervous....
The doctor asked John to come see him every Monday morning for a few weeks so that he could conduct some tests and chart the results. Hopefully this would allow the doctor to eliminate some suspicions and prescribe a lasting solution for John
John was devastated. The doctor could not tell him what was wrong..... He went home, stayed in bed until the next Monday and went straight to the Doc. After a few tests, the doctor exclaimed "EXCELLENT John!" and recorded the first week's results on the chart. Looks like you have been a good boy! I will see you next week" and John went home. He was so delighted - although not knowing what was wrong (or right) that he invited his friend Raymond over and told him the story. Raymond listened intently and the two had some pizza and whisky........ John was so elated, that every night he invited another mate over and the same happened.... pizza and whisky. Came the following Monday, the doctor was absolutely distraught and sat looking at the results in absolute disbelief. The results had gone through the roof! Eventually - after listening to John's revelations of the week, John was to lay off the pizza. Which he did
Came week 3, there was a significant change in John's results after leaving out the pizzas and living on chicken soup. And whisky, of course.... That Monday the doctor was pleasantly surprised at the dramatic drop in the results and commended John on persevering with the absence of pizzas in his daily diet. "Although chicken soup is good for you, " the doctor told John... "your body still need some other nutrients to function as well" and suggested that John stays away from all the soup stuff for a while
Well... that was it! Just what John wanted to hear, and the next week he foraged on hamburgers! And - BOY! - did he eat! Needless to say (to shorten the story a bit here....) came the Monday of week 4 it was disaster again! and the charts were off the wall.
Doc was not happy and suggested John changed from hamburgers to Toasted Ham, Cheese and Tomato and see what the difference would be
And, yes, came the next Monday, the charts looked a bit better, but not at all that good either. Doc gave John the usual story and by this time John was getting fed up with all this boo-ha and did not believe the doc OR the results. He went back to his beloved pizzas and just could not get enough. Meanwhile the whisky was flowing and John was in 7th heaven again!
Yes, so it was that the Monday of week 6 came and John was not impressed with himself. Not to mention the doc! Oi, vey!! What a tongue-lashing poor old John got that day.... Doc warned John that if he does not obey orders and drastically improve his chart by the next week, he will surely have no need for a doctor anymore but rather an undertaker. John was severely reprimanded and felt like a naughty little boy. Went home and for the next two weeks tried to live off water alone
Needless to say, one cannot survive of water alone, but over the next two weeks John's chart results showed a remarkable decline and the doctor was most impressed with John
Sadly, during week 9 John collapsed at home and was hospitalised and remarkably - even with all the food at the hospital - his results showed an astonishing ZERO on the charts!!! The doc was flabbergasted at this.....
Doc went into his medical reference books and searched for HOURS on end to find any correlation.... and whilst sipping on his favorite tipple that evening, the doctor came up with a surprising revelation...... John was drinking whisky, and not whiskey
He rushed over to the hospital and discharged John and told him to eat whatever he wanted, but to change from whisky to whiskey and come see the doc the next week
Well... over the next 5 weeks, John's charts stabalised with John still scoffing down hamburgers, pizzas and whatever he wanted and the doc was very happy that his patients' life was no longer in any danger
Moral of the story? how important a little thing like an "e" can be in one's life.....
