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....?

ye si think it is
spec on tea room threads

arf

methinks fio is teh queen of crossing out

Thanks Kaishay. Scared now.

Now, I never tried crossing before... bet this doesn't work...

I love the double bracketing and crossing out.

MamaG the queen of brackets IMO

YABU, I do everywhere!!!! and get pissed off when I can't use little faces on my normal emails and facebook posts, just makes everything friendlier!!!

THE CORSSING OUT IS ALL DONW TO ME
i did it
BOW TO ME

i get a face on enriched text on my emails

I like the and faces - no arguments with any of them . Just the >ing

I think the visual picture it gives is funny because I am sure none of us can deny that we have a visual picture in our heads of some of the posters on here and the added adds to that picture.

It's funny to get a mental image of the poster. I can now see a little rabbit hopping off thread right. Ahh, how cute!

i find it a bit irritating tbh and yes overused from what i can tell

yes, stage directions.