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In current teenage slang and Internet discourse, 233 is sometimes used instead of BFF to abbreviate "Best Friends Forever." The digits correspond to the number keys that would be pressed on a telephone while sending a text message. In Windows live messenger 233 is a commonly used to represent the emoticon of raised eybrows.
The expression "233" is commonly used by Internet users in China to express a meaning similar to that of the Internet discourse LOL. It originated from the 233rd emoticon from the popular Chinese website mop.com, which portrays a figure laughing while banging on the floor.
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“And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)