My favorite text smiley.

Before there were emoticons or any GUI-smileys, there was the original thang… :slight_smile:

My favorite silly smiley was the Klingon! {{{:-/ Second only to the :stuck_out_tongue:

What were your favorites? And did you create any yourself?
-RMx
reaper of non beliver’s souls since this morning – Horseflesh

I don’t know if I invented it but I use a pirate smiley at appropriate times.

P-)

I invented the drooley
:-)~~~~~
but others probably did too.

The clown smiley: *<:o)

and of course, the “help, there’s a spider on my head!” smiley: #:open_mouth:

The monkey smiley.

(8-(|)

My favorite has always been the Cthulhu smiley:

(Oo)
/|||\

Man, I hope that comes out right.

@@@:slight_smile: Marge Simpson

((:slight_smile: Homer Simpson

I didn’t invent them, but I enjoy them

~0-( The sad cyclops having a bad hair day…
<(’’<) <(’ ‘)> (>’’)> the kirby dance!
0.o o.0 The twitchy look

The reverse gape smiley always looked cutest to me.

D: !

I’ve always liked

8^)

I like Japanese smiles:

:slight_smile:

A smile!
(^_^)

A more common variation.
(><…)(…><)

Denying strongly (bun bun) (Imagine someone shaking his/her head strongly)

I Never did use them before though, as the OP mentions, we have our GUI-smileys: :slight_smile:

[sub]That last smilie is a pain in message boards like this one, which swallow spaces![/sub]

How about this one… bear with me…

:slight_smile:

I always liked to have a little hair
=:-)

$8-)

Bespectacled smiley with a toupee.

: [)]

Monkey smiley or smiley with goatee.

:~)

I always thought of those as kitty-cat smilies, for some reason.

:=(

Hitler “smilie” - not very useful…

Grim

For all you Pogues fans out there, there’s the Shane MacGowan smilie.

:^#


<alt>0222 for the character.

This is my most often used. Kind of cheeky. Looks a whole lot better in some fonts than others.

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(dead smilie). Never actually had occasion to use it.

Should have hit preview. The dead smiley should have a double obelisk for eyes.