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:-) Your basic smilie. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or joking
statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Unix.

;-) 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. Worse than a :-).

>:-> User just made a really devilish remark.

>;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made.

Those are the basic ones...Here are some somewhat less common ones:

(-: User is left handed

%-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight

:*) User is drunk

[:] User is a robot

8-) User is wearing sunglasses

B:-) Sunglasses on head

::-) User wears normal glasses

B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses

8:-) User is a little girl

:-)-8 User is a BIG girl

:-{) User has a mustache

:-{} User wears lipstick

{:-) User wears a toupee

}:-( Toupee in an updraft

:-7 User just made a wry statement

:-[ User is a Vampire

:-E Bucktoothed vampire

:-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing

:-* User just ate something sour

:-)~ User drools

:-~) User has a cold

:'-( User is crying

:'-) User is so happy, s/he is crying

:-@ User is screaming

:-# User wears braces

:^) User has a broken nose

:v) User has a broken nose, but it's the other way

:<) User is from an Ivy League School

:-& User is tongue tied.

=:-) User is a hosehead

- - -:-) User is a punk rocker

- - -:-( (real punk rockers don't smile)

:=) User has two noses

+-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office

`:-) User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning

,:-) Same thing...other side

|-I User is asleep

|-O User is yawning/snoring

:-Q User is a smoker

:-? User smokes a pipe

O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)

O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least)

:-P Nyahhhh!

:-S User just made an incoherent statement

:-D User is laughing (at you!)

:-X User's lips are sealed

:-C User is reaally bummed

<|-) User is Chinese

<|-( User is Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes

:-/ User is skeptical

C=:-) User is a chef

@= User is pro-nuclear war

:-o Uh oh!

(8-o It's Mr. Bill!

*:o) And Bozo the Clown!

3:] Pet smilie

3:[ Mean Pet smilie

E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator

:-9 User is licking his/her lips

%-6 User is braindead

[:-) User is wearing a walkman

(:I User is an egghead

<:-I User is a dunce>

@:-) User is wearing a turban

:-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)

:-: Mutant Smilie

|.-) User only has one eye

,-) Ditto...but he's winking

X-( User just died

8 :-) User is a wizard

C=}>;*{)) Mega-Smilie... A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft,
a mustache, and a double chin

Note: A lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smilies.

:) Midget smilie

:] Gleep...a friendly midget smilie who will gladly be your friend