Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110920:09:57:00
His name is scott fallman, and he's a computer scientist at carnegie mellon. and on this day in 1982 he made a modest suggestion that if you don't want to be taken so seriously when you write something he said perhaps add a colon and a hyphen and a closing parentheses and when people read it sideways it will look like a smiley face. >> so cute. i was once anti-emoticons and then i just gave in and now i put little smiley faces and people think i'm annoying. i'm just trying to be happy. >> it's how you get people to realize just a joke, people. >> take it the right way. >> yeah. happy. >> it's ...
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