Screaming "smiley face"

[dougie_monty]

The red smiley face with the closed eyes and O-like mouth--how to make it, please?

[Mazey]

I don't have a clue, but let me take a stab at it:

:o
:O
:0
> :(

[Mazey]

OK...now I know.... colon and small letter o

:o

[Kamino Neko]

:o Thiswise?

[Babar714]

Yeah, every time I try to draw my smiley face with is colon, small o, end parenthesis, it turns out being :mad:)

[Polycarp]

So we could produce "The Scream" (AKA that Macaulay Culkin picture by doing....

\:o/?

[dougie_monty]

Thanx :)

[GregAtlanta]

:)

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[Polycarp]

:\
:[
:]
:}
:>
:<
:*
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:L
:E
:c
:C
:+
:=

[dougie_monty]

The colon with the asterisk suggests a person who just drannk some straight lime juice. The one with the ampersand suggests a man getting a cystoscopy (I know! I had one once! :& :& :& :&!!!!)

[TubaDiva]

Here's some of my favorites, at this site: Smileys (http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm)

I will reproduce only a few here . . .

(-: User is left handed.
:*) User is drunk.
[:] User is a robot.
8-) User is wearing sunglasses.
::-) User wears normal glasses.
B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses.
8:-) User is a little girl.
:-)-8 User is a Big girl.
:-[ User is a vampire.
:-E Bucktoothed vampire.
:<) User is from an Ivy League School.
=:-) 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.
O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)
O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least).
<|-) User is Chinese.
<|-( User is Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes.
*<:-) User is wearing a Santa Claus Hat.
:-o 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.
%-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.


your humble TubaDiva
who, paradoxically enough, rarely uses emoticons.

[AWB]

:o)
:o)
:o)
:o)
:o)
:o)
:o)

[kknick34]

:o
:.)

[kknick34]

:)
:(

[DrMatrix]

:)
;)
:(

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[DW3]

<img src="http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/smile.gif" border="0"> (http://thematrix.acmecity.com)

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[omni-not]

That DW3: what a show-off!

[TubaDiva]

I think it's cute as hell.

your humble TubaDiva

[dougie_monty]

So do I, Tuba Diva. How do you dothat, DW3? :)

[Strainger]

http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/smile.gif

[Strainger]

Like that.

[krish]

Here's how... it's not UBB but HTML.

< img src="http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/smile.gif" >

It should look like this:

http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/smile.gif

[Minxsmom]

http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/smile.gif I hope this works...

[AuraSeer]

My own trademark smiley: =B^)
The same guy, with his shades off: =:^)

[DW3]

My only suggestion is use it sparingly. It is a small gif but Teeming Millions using it in each post adds up. And it takes up bandwidth not only from The Straight Dope but thematrix.acmecity.com also.

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[Strainger]

Actually, krish, I did it using the [ img ] [ /img ] command. Just testing to see if I could replicate DW3's feat. Feel free to delete the referenced post, TubaDiva.

Can we get any more cute faces? How about a green one for when a topic makes you sick (aka felching)? :D ;) :o :(

[manhattan]

Well, then where’s your smiley?

http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/smile.gif

(In fairness, one shouldn’t use it too often. It steals bandwidth from another site, which is poor form.)

[DW3]

http://www.fishy.com/ubb/free/rollsmile.gif

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[DW3]

ooops... let me see if I can get it right this time. I don't know what felching means though.

http://www.fishy.com/ubb/free/sarcblink.gif

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[TubaDiva]

Okay guys, the smileys are all cute, but we can't keep stealing bandwith from other sites.

Tell you what, get permission for us to copy these by Monday and we'll store 'em here.

Or I'll remove them, one.

(Gotta be fair.)

your humble TubaDiva/SDStaffDiv
for the Straight Dope
(Even if you just find where they can be copied legitimately, if they're fair game, that's enough.)

[dougie_monty]

Your point is well taken, TubaDiva. I won't try to make the moving smiley faces...but I'd like to see a variation or two:
A frowning face with a tear or two--let's face it, in some postings it would be appropriate, if only to express that the poster had something really sad--but necessary--to say... like the frowning face :( with tears...
Something with "angry eyebrows" but a smile, to express a squelch or a whimsical triumph (it'd be similar to ;))
A face with a dopey smile and crossed eyes, to follow a weird statement or funny twist to something...

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[Andy]

:->
>:->
>;->

[Andy]

:>
>:>
>;>

[Andy]

Qu'est-ce qu'il s'est passe?
How do you do accents?

[manhattan]

http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000327.html

[dougie_monty]

I asked earlier about variations on the smiley face, including one or two with tears; granted these may be my own contrivance and would not have enough value for other Dopers to use or want.
I would, however, like to know how to make that funny one with the tongue sticking out. I hope this wouldn't required excessive bandwidth.

[jab1]

The name of this topic is "Screaming 'smiley face.'" Unfortunately, :o isn't screaming, he's embarrassed, as in, "Is my face red!"

And if you wanna know how to make the new smilies, simply click on "Smilies Legend" to the left of the message box where you compose your works of edification and delight.

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[Minxsmom]

The one with the tounge sticking out is made with a colon and a lowercase p. :p

[dougie_monty]

:pThanx :p