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New symbol will tell people you're being sarcastic

Someone heard the cries for a sarcasm font and answered them. Behold, SarcMark, a punctuation mark you can download to your phone or computer to indicate sarcasm.

Finally, friends, family and colleagues will understand your wit—and all it costs is $1.99.

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But wait, if you order now, you’ll get not one, but two SarcMarks for absolutely no charge. That’s two SarcMarks for just $1.99.

But that’s not all they're selling. If you call right now, they’ll throw in two SarcMarks, plus an IndiffPoint—free. What’s an IndiffPoint? It’s a symbol that will show you really don’t care about this at all. Why write “meh” when you can say it in a symbol? "Talk to the IndiffPoint," you’ll tell people.

So that's two SarcMarks, one IndiffPoint—hold on! They’ll throw in an extra IndiffPoint for free. So that’s two SarcMarks and two IndiffPoints for just $1.99. Do you have a Visa card? If you use that Visa card today, they’ll even throw in a free Slap Chop: Go ahead, slap those troubles away with a slap chop.

Just kidding, about all of that—except the SarcMark for $1.99. That’s legit.

Comments (5)

Melissa:

Wait, it costs $1.99 for each time you want to use it??

Tim Murphy:

The perfect sarcasm indicator would be a reversing of the italics font treatment.

Michael Sebastian:

Busted!

My apologies. Correction made. Thanks, Gina.

Leotis D:

"Hmmm, that ain't right..."

Gina Flak:

Ummm ... cute article but, "that’s not all THEY'RE selling," please.

Now back to your regular programming.

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