Who started the <<adds witty comment in double arrow brackets>> thing on MN? And is it a bit overused?

[PuppyMonkey]

You know what I mean, where there's a thread and someone posts something like..

and someone else replies with a

Is it just me or do you sometimes find it a bit off-putting....?

well it's like how you insert a hyperlink in html when writing web pages so it might come from that

(e.g. putting fab site
would bring up 'fab site' as a link you could click to go to mumsnet)

Fab thread, Puppymonkey

JC you have confused the Devil out of me.

I, being very very clever, do of course know why. But I shall not tell you as I am also socially inept and incapable of explaining anything.

who is this puppymonkey?

I find I want to do that in non-MN emails, and use the little faces as well.

Am I or what?

Oliveoil is the queen of < > imo. Maybe she started it?

And Motherinferior uses initial capitals really well too.

Has this thing kicked off yet?

They're called action brackets.. and were started by people who do MUSH role-play online.

::grins and runs off having shared that random bit of useless information::

I don't have any thing funny to say - just that I mostly really like it when someone does this. It usually creates a picture for me and makes me laugh

Mush my arse! What's MUSH then???

I thought MUSH was what dog sledge runners shouted at their hounds.

Cute little furry paws, waving, waving, waving...

Sometimes you need other things apart from the smileys MN has.

I particularly like the HTML copying of
type arrows.

Also you must remember that they are often posted in jest when a thread has lost its way, you'll rarely see them in a serious thread, it just adds to the atmosphere.

lol

crossings out

you're only bored with it because you've been overdosing

got an entire greek five act play going on over there

stuffit - don't tell them will ya???

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSH