Smileys and Emoticons

:-) A smiley is a sequence of characters on your computer
keyboard. If you don't see it, try tilting your head to the left
-- the colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose and
the right parenthesis represents the mouth. Smileys usually follow
after the punctuation (or in place of the punctuation) at the end
of a sentence. A smiley tells someone what you really mean when
you make an offhand remark. They are also called emoticons because
they intend to convey emotion!

A new generation of smileys has appeared on the scene. We consider
these "straight-on smileys" as another form of ASCII ART: those in
which you do not tilt your head but rather look at it straight on,
such as @(*0*)@ for a koala.

And, lest you think that's all, there are also now
assicons...emoticons which use another part of the body! Here are
some of the better smileys...there are loads more.

@>--;--   A rose
O:-)      Angel
0*-)      Angel winking
d:-)      Baseball
:-)       Basic
:)        Basic Little Kid
:~-(      Bawling
: =       Beaver
(:-)      Big Face
(((H)))   Big Hug
:-X       Big Wet Kiss
:-]       Blockhead
:-}X      Bow Tie-Wearing
:-(=)     Bucktoothed
:-E       Bucktoothed Vampire
:-F       Bucktoothed Vampire with One Tooth Missing
}:-X      Cat
8^        Chicken
;-(       Chin up
:-S       Confused
:`-(      Crying
:*(       Crying softly
:-@!      Cursing
O-)       Cyclops
>:->      Devilish
:-e       Disappointed
:3-]      Dog
.\/       Duck
:-6       Eating Something Spicy
5:-)      Elvis
>:)       Evil
>-)       Evil Grin
/:-)      Frenchman with a beret
8)        Frog
*^_^*     Huge Dazzling Grin
:-x       Kid smiley
:-*       Kiss
|-(       Lost Contact Lenses
X-(       Mad
:-{       Moustache
):-(      Nordic
8-O       Omigod!
:---)     Pinnochio
:-C       Real Unhappy
3:*>      Rudolph the red nose reindeer
:(        Sad Turtle
:-Q       Smoking while talking
%-)       Staring at a Screen for 15 hours
:-0       Talkative
:-"       Whistling
'-)       Winking
:-(0)     Yelling
=8-0      Yikes!
$-)       Yuppie





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