# Do you write your smiley with or without a nose? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806 "2014-11-16T21:43:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/1 "2014-11-16T21:43:06Z")
How do you write your smiley emoticons? ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/2 "2014-11-16T22:42:14Z")
(: ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/3 "2014-11-16T23:49:00Z")
Without a doubt, without a nose! If smileys were supposed to have noses, God would have made them that way. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/4 "2014-11-16T23:51:50Z")
With. I often make one without at first, then decide it looks like crap. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/5 "2014-11-17T00:01:20Z")
Either way. Some people try to give me crap when I write it with a nose. My answer is: when you can tell Howard Stern to go w/o his nose (and make him do it) then get back to me. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/6 "2014-11-17T00:02:20Z")
I don’t make smileys. I make frowneys. And damn it, don’t tell me to smile. This is how I always look. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/7 "2014-11-17T00:09:43Z")
Without a nose, anyone who makes it with a nose will be among the first executed when the revolution comes. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/8 "2014-11-17T00:18:09Z")
:~) ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/9 "2014-11-17T00:29:53Z")
:0) or :0}~ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/10 "2014-11-17T00:37:02Z")
My noses are 3-dimensional. ;^) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/11 "2014-11-17T02:17:42Z")
This is my smiley. **\m/\>.\<\m/** There are many like it, but this one is mine. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/12 "2014-11-17T12:21:54Z")
(๑◕ฺ‿ฺ◕ฺ๑) So that would be without a nose. Hold on … (=^▽^=) Now I can’t decide … ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/13 "2014-11-17T12:28:06Z")
Depends on the typeface. Sometimes it needs the nose, sometimes it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/14 "2014-11-17T16:56:43Z")
If not using a smilie: ```auto ** =:^) =:^D =;^P >8^O >8^O(&) ** ``` ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/15 "2014-11-17T17:09:45Z")
Depends: with some letter types it looks better with a nose, with some without. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/16 "2014-11-17T18:15:29Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > If not using a smilie: > > ```auto > > ** > =:^) > > =:^D > > =;^P > > >8^O > > >8^O(&) > > ** > > ``` =(\_8^(1) ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/17 "2014-11-19T10:22:16Z")
With a nose. It’s cruel otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/18 "2014-11-19T11:08:36Z")
If your emoticon has no nose, how does it smell? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RiCu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RiCu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiCu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/19 "2014-11-19T11:18:45Z")
> [@Double\_Foolscap](#): > > If your emoticon has no nose, how does it smell? > > 🙂 Terrible! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Krouget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b38774/32.png) [@Krouget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krouget)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806/20 "2014-11-19T15:58:54Z")
Adding a nose changes the emphasis! Focus on the smile. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-write-your-smiley-with-or-without-a-nose/704806.md?page=2)