Day: 11 July 2025
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On our family Slack, Ruth and I have a tradition of reacting to one another's messages, where no other emoji seems appropriate, with a "person rowing boat" emoji.
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I can't remember exactly how it started. Possibly one of us was using the text search to find the "robot" emoji (probably in reference to our robot vacuum cleaner, which used to be more-frequently found hiding under the sofa than anywhere else in the world).
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But whatever the reason, the game stuck. And because you can leave multiple emoji responses to a Slack message - and because Unicode permits a diversity of gender and skin tone options for this particular emoji - sometimes this results in a whole flotilla of rowboats parading beneath our messages.
And if an emoji armada isn't an excuse to demonstrate the fact that the <marquee> tag still works in most browsers, for some reason, I don't know what is.