The Word "PIE" Kind of Looks Like...

A few months ago, I stated an apparently obvious fact to my fellow Facebookers: "The word bed kind of looks like a bed." Apparently, everybody knew that fact or heard it way before I did.

The other logical things that look like what it means is obviously emoticons. If you show the symbol

:-)

to a caveman, he or she would instantly know that it's a human smiling. In fact, one of the first emoticons ever recorded is in a speech by Lincoln. In the speech, Lincoln put in parenthesis "applause and laughter ;)." There's a people that says that the ;) was actually a typo, and even though that may be true, I would like to think of Lincoln as the champion of racial rights and the inventor of the smiley face.

The modern smiley face was popularized on September 19, 1982 by a guy named Scott Fahlman. In a post on Carnegie Mellon's message board, he said:

19-Sep-82 11:44    Scott E  Fahlman             :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
 
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
        
:-)
        
Read it sideways.  Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.  For this, use
        
:-( 

Then there are those words that require a bit of imagination, such as shark or llama. The shark is pretty obvious, with the 'k' as the tail and 'h' as the fins. The llama on the other hand, requires a picture:

Such a win of a picture of a llama.

I guess I should go back to my title and tell you what the word "PIE" looks like:

3.14
PIE

Flip it.

-runiteking1

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