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in thread Larger profile pic than 80KB?

I have been trying to think of one for myself. The closest I came (which also included a bed/cot; although unoccupied) was:

👌🏻🛏️🫖

Which I think is pretty lame. 😢

— Ken

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Re^7: Larger profile pic than 80KB?
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Oct 23, 2023 at 11:47 UTC

    Which I think is pretty lame

    I really like it for the inventive way you made it pure pictorial via the ok hand for the letter k and the teapot for the letter t.

    Googling for "ott" revealed that Ol Chiki script contains a letter with the name ott ... and it's shaped like a camel hump! ... leading to:

    👌🇨

    To make it pure pictorial we might try:

    👌🌊🐪

    👁️🍾👍🦟

      ++ Very inventive!

      At first glance, I thought the middle character was a shrimp (jumping out of the water). This led to my initial attempt at a translation:

      "OK, don't come the raw prawn with me, Perl!"

      After some research:

      • 🦐 U+1F990 SHRIMP
      • 🌊 U+1F30A WATER WAVE

      Another thought was the minimalistic Unicode (but not emoji) replacement of the current Ken with Kensp; — but that would just look like:

      — K 

      and the cleverness would be lost in the rendering.

      Post-preview footnote: Although HTML5 allows named character references without a leading ampersand, it would appear that PM does not. The markup "Kensp;" renders here as "Kensp;". I needed to change that to "K " to get the "K " you see above. Further loss of cleverness. :-(

      — Ken

        Although HTML5 allows named character references without a leading ampersand

        Are you completely sure about that? I don't see how it would work in practice as there are enough genuine words in many languages which might precede a semi-colon and then would be ambiguous, eg. baring; would get parsed into bå which would be surprising to say the least.


        🦛