# Screaming "smiley face"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 1, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615 "1999-09-01T23:39:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/1 "1999-09-01T23:39:00Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Mazey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mazey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mazey)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/2 "1999-09-02T01:29:00Z")

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

:o  
😮  
:0  
\> ☹

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**Author:** ![Mazey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mazey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mazey)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/3 "1999-09-02T01:31:00Z")

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OK…now I know… colon and small letter o

:o

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/4 "1999-09-02T01:44:00Z")

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:o Thiswise?

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**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/5 "1999-09-02T05:46:00Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/6 "1999-09-02T13:25:00Z")

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So we could produce “The Scream” (AKA that Macaulay Culkin picture by doing…

:o/?

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/7 "1999-09-02T20:22:00Z")

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Thanx 🙂

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**Author:** ![GregAtlanta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb9ed0/32.png) [@GregAtlanta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GregAtlanta)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/8 "1999-09-17T13:24:00Z")

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🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/9 "1999-10-02T05:46:00Z")

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:

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/10 "1999-10-02T05:47:00Z")

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

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 1999, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/11 "1999-10-05T20:34:00Z")

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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! :& :& :& :&!!!)

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 1999, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/12 "1999-10-06T06:44:00Z")

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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.  
🕶 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.

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/13 "1999-10-26T19:45:00Z")

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

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**Author:** ![kknick34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kknick34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kknick34)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/14 "1999-10-26T20:01:00Z")

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:o  
:.)

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**Author:** ![kknick34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kknick34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kknick34)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/15 "1999-10-26T20:02:00Z")

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🙂  
☹

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/16 "1999-11-08T19:52:00Z")

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🙂  
😉  
☹

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Virtually yours,

J Matrix

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**Author:** ![DW3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@DW3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DW3)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/17 "1999-11-08T21:35:00Z")

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[\<img src=“http://thematrix.acmecity.com/digital/237/smile.gif” border=“0”\>](http://thematrix.acmecity.com)

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I before E except after C. We live in a weird society!

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**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/18 "1999-11-09T03:46:00Z")

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That DW3: what a show-off!

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/19 "1999-11-09T05:26:00Z")

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I think it’s cute as hell.

your humble TubaDiva

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-smiley-face/615/20 "1999-11-09T20:35:00Z")

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So do I, Tuba Diva. How do you _do_that, DW3? 🙂

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