Emoticons !!!

Here's a bit of info that may be helpful to those of you new to surfing the web. So Hang 10 and put a smiley on your space! :-)

Smileys are tiny pictures made from ordinary ASCII characters that are meant to be looked at with the head tilted to the left.

Smileys came about when e-mail correspondents felt the need to convey emotional content such as sarcasm, laughter and other feelings as part of their messages.
Without smileys, simple statements could easily be misinterpreted:

You're an idiot! :-)

The Emoticons

:-) - Humor

:-T - Keeping a straight face (tight-lipped)

:-D - Said with a smile

:-> - Alternate happy face

:-) :-) :-) - Loud guffaw

:*) - Clowning around

:-? - Licking lips

%-} - Silly

:-" - Pursing lips

:-r - Bleahhh (sticking tongue out)

:-f - Smirks

:-p - Smirks

:-1 - Smirks

:- - Disgusted

:-J - Tongue-in-cheek comments

:-! - Foot in mouth

:-$ - Put your money where your mouth is

%&$%& - You know what that means...

:-o - Shouting

:-( - Unhappy

:-c - Real unhappy

(:-& - Anger

:-b - Tongue stuck out

:-p - Left-handed tongue stuck out

>--->---(@ - A rose

:-x - Kiss kiss

[] - Hug

;-) - Say no more; nudge, nudge

:-* - Oops! (Covering mouth with hand)

:-# - Censored

:-X - Not saying a word

:-o - "Oh, noooooo!"

:-< - Forlorn

(:-( - Sad

:~/ - All mixed up

#-) - Another all-night partier

:-' - With a cold

<:-O - Eeek!

:-C - Unbelieving (jaw dropped)


I got all of these emoticons from a cool site called Cool Quiz! There's lots more there to see!