Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!ig!agate!pasteur!ames!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!page From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: STUPID QUESTIONS Message-ID: <9076@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 13 Sep 88 18:10:59 GMT References: <8809071910.AA03888@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <824@kuling.UUCP> Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 108 From about 3-4 years ago: [btw, ;-) is a smiley winking, not half a smiley, as somebody said] Don't expect everyone to know all of these in everyday communication... ..Bob ----- Here it is folks, the last word in smiley faces. Below we have smiley face... :-` smiley spitting out its chewing tobacco :-1 smiley bland face :-! " :-@ smiley face screaming :-#| smiley face with bushy mustache :-$ smiley face with it's mouth wired shut :-% smiley banker :-6 smiley after eating something sour :^) smiley with pointy nose (righty) :-7 smiley after a wry statement 8-) smiley swimmer :-* smiley after eating something bitter :-& smiley which is tongue-tied :-9 smiley licking it's lips :-0 smiley orator :-( un-smiley :-) smiley standard smiley invisible man (:-( unsmiley frowning (:-) smiley big-face ):-) " ):-( unsmiley big-face )8-) scuba smiley big-face =:-) smiley punk-rocker =:-( (real punk rockers don't smile) +:-) smiley priest :-q smiley trying to touch its tongue to its nose :-e disappointed smiley :-t cross smiley :-i semi-smiley :-o smiley singing national anthem :-p smiley sticking its tongue out (at you!) :-[ un-smiley blockhead :-] smiley blockhead :-{ smiley variation on a theme :-} ditto {:-) smiley with its hair parted in the middle }:-) above in an updraft :-a lefty smilely touching tongue to nose :-s smiley after a BIZARRE comment :-d lefty smiley razzing you g-) smiley with ponce-nez glasses :-j left smiling smilely :-k beats me, looks like something, tho. :-l y. a. s. :-: mutant smiley :-\ undecided smiley :-| "have an ordinary day" smiley ;-) winking smiley :-< real sad smiley :-> y.a.s. :-z y.a.c.s. :-x "my lips are sealed" smiley :-c bummed out smiley :-v talking head smiley :v) left-pointing nose smiley :-b left-pointing tongue smiley :-/ lefty undecided smiley :-? smilely smoking a pipe .-] one-eyed smilely ,-} wry and winking 0-) smiley cyclops (scuba diver?) :-=) older smiley with mustache :u) smiley with funny-looking left nose :n) smiley with funny-looking right nose :< midget unsmiley :> midget smiley This hardly expended the list but it's most of what one can come up with on a vt220 keyboard. There are many variations, like swapping around noses, eyes, mouths, etc. Also there are many VLSF (very large smiley faces), for example: }:^#}) mega-smiley: updrafted bushy-mustached pointy nosed smiley with a double-chin Hope this list will spur people to use a larger variety of faces to more accurately describe themselves and what they are saying. From the keyboard of: =:-#} smiley punk with a mustache.... "We just get by the best that we can, we all gotta duck when the shit hits the fan" -- =============================================================================== Joe Szep Boston University Academic Computing Center UUCP: ...!harvard!bu-cs!jts ARPA: jts%bu-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Pony Express: 111 Cummington St. Boston, Ma. 02215 617-353-2780 =============================================================================== -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such a trifling investment in fact." -- Carl S. Gutekunst