Originally Posted by
BobG
I took the original post to be humorous. Perhaps we need an emoticon for "tongue in cheek"?
:^J
John Ciardi suggested using -) to represent "tongue in cheek" back in the early 1970s. That was before emoticons were a thing -- I think it even predated the original smiley face, so as I remember he had to take half a column to explain the dash was the tongue, and the parenthesis represented the cheek bowed out by the tongue pressing on the inside of the cheek.