The Smiley Dictionary - BLaCK BeaRD
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i’m bringin
yall another internet info phile, this time it’s your
inside guide to all them queer little
smiley faces you see all over
the net nowadays, mainly from lameass aolers 
it’s one of
those
things you just gotta know, despite how much you wish you didn’t.
anyways, i gotta
say this is pretty complete but, then again, i may
have missed a few.
BLaCK
BeaRD
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Happy Wink
Sad :* Kisses
Wow! [] Hugs
Grim :-C Just
totally unbelieving
:= | Baboon :-B Drooling
:-v Speaking :-, Smirk
:-V Shout :-||
Anger
:-w Speak with forked tongue Smiling
:-r Sticking tongue out Frowning
:-T Keeping a straight face Sardonic Incredulity
Said with
a smile %-<|> Drunk with laughter
Kiss kiss :-" Pursing lips
:-[ Pouting
:-# My lips are sealed
:-X A big wet kiss! 
Tongue hanging out in anticipation
:-Y A
quiet aside 8-| Eyes wide with surprise
>-< Absolutely livid!! &-| Tearful
|-{
"Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown?)
:-} "Thish wine tashted pretty good"
8-] "wow, maaan"
"Omigod!!" (done after "rm -rf *" ?)
:-, "Hmmmm"
|~( "Someone just busted my nose"
:^D "Great! I
like it!"
B-D "Serves you right, dummy!!"
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Your
basic smiley This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or
joking statement since we can’t
hear voice inflection over Unix
Winky smiley User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic
remark
More of a "don’t hit me for what I just said" smiley
Frowning
smiley User did not like that last statement or is upset
or depressed about something
:-I Indifferent smiley Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as
good as a happy
smiley
:-> 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
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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
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
:-[ User is a
Vampire
:-E Bucktoothed vampire
:-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing
:-7
User just made a wry statement
:-* User just ate something sour
;-( User is crying
User is so happy, s/he is crying
:-@ User is screaming
:-# User wears braces
:^) User has a broken nose
:<) User is from an Ivy League School
:-& User is
tongue tied
+-:-) 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)
Nyahhhh!
:-S User just made an incoherent statemen!
User is
laughing (at you!)
:-X User's lips are sealed
:-C User is really bummed
:-/ User
is skeptical
C=:-) User is a chef
@= User is pro-nuclear war
*<:-) User is
wearing a Santa Claus Hat
Uh oh!
(8-o It's Mr Bill!
*:o) And Bozo the
Clown!
3:] Pet smiley
3:[ Mean Pet smiley
d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles
and a hard hat
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
K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beenie
@:-) User is
wearing a turban
8 User is wearing a bikini
:-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)
:-:
Mutant Smiley
The invisible smiley
:-c Real unhappy
.-) User only has one eye
X-( User just died
C=}>;*{O) Mega-Smiley 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
smileys
:] - Gleep a
friendly midget smiley who will gladly be your friend
:> - hmm, let me think
-
Laughter
:I - Hmmm, not funny!
:[ - Real Downer
:< - what pretences!
:{ -
oh boy, the headmaster!
:O - Yelling
;( - Crying
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:-` smiley
spitting out its chewing tobacco
:-1 smiley bland face
:-! smiley bland face
:-$
smiley face with it's mouth wired shut
:-6 smiley after eating something sour
smiley
swimmer
:-* smiley after eating something bitter
:-& smiley which is tongue-tied
(:-( unsmiley frowning
=:-) smiley punk-rocker
=:-( (real
punk rockers don't smile)
+-:-) smiley priest
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
g-) smiley with pince-nez glasses
:-\ undecided smiley
:-/ lefty undecided smiley
"have an ordinary day"
smiley
winking smiley
:-< real sad smiley
"my lips are
sealed" smiley
:-c bummed out smiley
:-v talking head smiley
smilely
smoking a pipe
0-) smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)
:< midget unsmiley
:>
midget smiley
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ha ha
~~:-( net flame
|-) hee hee
|-D ho ho
:-> hey hey
boo hoo X-( net
suicide
:-I hmm
:-O uh oh >:-I net startrek
nyah nyah 3:o[ net pets
|-P yuk
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Male :-
Female >-
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%\v
Picasso
smiley
>:) a little devil
%-| been working all night
::-)
wears glasses
}:-( bull headed
:-{) has a mustache
:-# braces
:-&
tounge-tied
big smile
C|:-= Charlie Chaplin
=|:-)= Abe Lincoln
:-W speak
with forked tongue
:-@ "I swear"
:-X my lips are sealed
:-C really
bummed out
C=:-) chef
*<:-) Santa Claus
:-O Mr Bill
*:o) Bozo
:*)
Ed McMahon
[:-) wearing a walkman
:-)) double chin
:-7 smokes a pipe
C:#
football player
:-)8 man with bowtie
:-() I stubbed my toe
) You stepped on my
toe
) You backed your car over my toe
<\\
: *> a cat
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Now here
are some abbreviations you may often see:
BFN = Bye, for now
BRB = Be Right
Back
BTW = By the way
CIS = Consumer Information Service (of CompuServe)
FWIW =
For what it’s worth
FYI = For Your Information
g,d&r = grinning, ducking, and
running
IMCO = In my considered opinion
IMHO = In my humble opinion
OIC = Oh, I
see!
OOTB = Out of the box
OTOH = On the other hand
OTTH = On the third hand
PITA = Pain in the "acronym"
PPN = Programmer Project Number. Ie, a CIS user’s
ID#.
RSN = Real Soon Now
RTFM = Read the Fucking Manual
TSR = Terminate and Stay
Resident program
TTYL = Talk To You Later
WYSIWYG = What you see is what you get
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BLaCK BeaRD
03/03/96
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