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We speak oh, what's happened, Vera?
You don't look very happy.
Course I'm not happy.
I've just read the email you sent saying if I don't come to the studio soon,
you are going to present the program by yourself.
That's right.
And then you wrote, with my beautiful voice, nobody will miss yours.
That's a horrible thing to say, Rob.
Well, it would be horrible if it was a serious message.
But haven't you noticed my emoticon at.
The end of the message emoticon?
I have the message printed out here.
Yes, I can see here in the email that you typed a colon followed by a hyphen and a closing bracket.
And when I look at it sideways, I can see a smiley face.
It's an emoticon.
It was a joke after all.
Yes.
Emoticons were created precisely for this purpose, to avoid misunderstandings like the one we've just had.