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Old 08-28-2005, 01:08 AM
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Freethinkers, Romans, Heretics...

Lend me your attention.

It has only recently come to my attention that smilies are being used for commercial gain. Forced to work, slashing price tags and bouncing around advertisements as though they enjoyed screwing their fellow employees, shipping jobs overseas, strangling suppliers and running small business operations out of business entirely. Smilies. Screaming yellow smilies with big, fat and happy smiles on their faces.

Smilies induced into selling our small towns into servitude to commercial stranglehold by a economic predator,the world's largest and richest retail sales corporation. Bah!

This is an outrage. :rant:

Does Walmart own the happy face smiley?

Can we do anything to end this abomination of taste on television airwaves?

Somebody...anybody...out there...tell me it ain't true. Smilies have gone over to "The Man"?

If this is true, then we must go forward together and refuse to give our custom to WalMart, the despicable corporate exploiter. Not only that, we should convince as many others as we know that exploiting smilies for the profits of a powerful international corporation is NOT acceptable.

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Old 08-28-2005, 01:13 AM
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If this is true, then we must go forward together and refuse to give our custom to WalMart, the despicable corporate exploiter.
I think a lot of us already do that. Fight the Power!
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Old 08-28-2005, 01:49 AM
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Shirts should be made, such as,
Smile if you enjoy cheap products made in china by slave labor.


Made in America*

*central and south america only.


Get your government sanctioned dead end job today.
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Old 08-28-2005, 04:44 AM
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Use only alternative smilies.

:fragment: :insomnia: :peace: :jamaica: :larrow: This last one to represent rastafarians.
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Old 08-28-2005, 11:46 AM
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It is an outrage, however there is little we can do about it. I would boycott Walmart if I could, but there isn't a Walmart in my municipality so such a boycott would be a fruitless endeavour.
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Old 08-28-2005, 05:42 PM
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:jamaica: :larrow: This last one to represent rastafarians.
Why not the rastafarian? :joint:

Although oddly, rastafarian doesn't appear to be a keyword for him...
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Old 08-28-2005, 10:38 PM
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We should make giant sticker versions of :mutter: :madrant: :bull: :shakefist: :biting: :madrazz: :fuckyou: to stick over the shellacked, Jokerified faces of our lost brethren.
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Old 08-29-2005, 12:33 AM
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:jamaica: :larrow: This last one to represent rastafarians.
Why not the rastafarian? :joint:

Although oddly, rastafarian doesn't appear to be a keyword for him...
You yourself have answered the question. :\
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Old 08-29-2005, 06:02 AM
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Why not the rastafarian? :joint:

Although oddly, rastafarian doesn't appear to be a keyword for him...
Rastafarian prolly isn't a keyword for him 'cos he be a Jake, Johnny, or Joe*, Bredda!


See ‘ow yu stay?! Naa mek mi vex, mon, or I be puttin Obeah pon ya!


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