Communicating via E-mail in the 90's Smilie Dictionary :-) Your basic smilie. This smilie is used to inflect a statement with jest or sarcasm since we can't hear voice inflection over the nets. ;-) Winky smilie. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark. More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smilie. :-( Frowning smilie. User did not like that last statement or is upset or depressed about something. :-I Indifferent smilie. Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as good as a happy smilie :-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. >:-> User just made a really devilish remark. >;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made. :-)) User is fat (double chin) :-# User wears braces :-& User is tongue tied. :) Midget smilie :] Gleep... a friendly midget smilie who will gladly be your friend :'-( User is crying :'-) User is so happy, s/he is crying :+) Cannibal :-* Oops, shouldn't have said, or user just ate something sour :-, Smirking :-/ User is skeptical :-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab) :-7 User just made a wry statement :-9 User is licking his/her lips :-: Mutant Smilie :-? User smokes a pipe :-B Buck teeth :-C User is really bummed :-D Said with a smile or laughing :-[ User is a Vampire :-E Buck toothed vampire :-F Buck toothed vampire with one tooth missing :-I Grin :-O Wow... Far out or user is screaming :-P Pppttthhh! - Raspberry sound. :-p Another tongue waggle :-Q User is a smoker or is sticking out tongue :-S User just made an incoherent statement :-T Keeping a straight face :-V Shouting :-W Speaking with forked tongue :-X Kiss Kiss or lips are sealed :-[] What a square! :-o Uh oh! :-v Speaking :-{) Moustache :-{} User wears lipstick :-)+< Little man 8:-) User is a little girl :-)8< User is a big girl :-)~ User drools :-~) User has a cold :<) User is from an Ivy League School :=) User has two noses :B) My what big nostrils you have :C) Nose ring :I) Caveman - Ugg. :o) Silly face :^) User has a broken nose :v) User has a broken nose, but it's the other way :*) User is drunk %-) Alternate drunk or user has been programming for 15 hours straight %-Q User is brain dead (tongue hanging out) %-} Drunk with laughter (-: User is left handed (8-o Oh, no! It's Mr. Bill! (:-) User is an egghead *:o) Bozo the Clown! +-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office .-) User only has one eye ,-) User only has one eye... and he's winking ..-) Sole Fish (Sick Huh!) 3:] Pet smilie 3:[ Mean Pet smilie 3K-) Me - racist? 8 :-) User is a wizard 8+E Nasty monster ::-) User wears normal glasses 8-) User is wearing sunglasses Q-) Glasses w/ windshield wipers R-) Eyeglasses w/ broken lens B:-) Sunglasses on head B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses 8-{) Professor 8<- Mosquito 9-) Monocle 6-) Alternate monocle <:-I User is a dunce <|-) User is Chinese <|-( User is Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes =:-) User is a hosehead C=:-) User is a chef E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! Or... user is a scuba diver or a cyclops O:-) User is an angel (at heart, at least) X-( User just died X-[ Another monster [:-) User is wearing a walkman [:] User is a robot `:-) User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning ,:-) Same thing...other side {:-) User wears a toupee }:-( Toupee in an updraft #= User is pro-nuclear war $-) Very costly |-) Mr. Cool |-I User is asleep |-O User is yawning and, of course C=}>%*{)) Mega-Smilie... A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft, a mustache, and a double chin Non-unix variants (IBM ASCII): ------------------------------ ð:-) User is a punk rocker ð:-( (real punk rockers don't smile) ð:-{ Scared to death øñø Bright eyed and bushy tailed ~ñ~ Mr. Cool ~ñø Not so sly wink